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 this innings, watched by a crowd of 20,000, <mask> hit a six into the top tier of the Ryder Stand. A man stood to claim the catch and dropped it – it was <mask>'s father. Over the course of England's record-breaking summer, he hit a half-century in all seven victorious Tests against New Zealand and the West Indies. On returning to the one-day game as an all-rounder in September he fell agonisingly short of a third one-day century, caught on 99 against India, though he went on to hit a further century in the ICC Champions Trophy 2004 pool match against Sri Lanka two weeks later.At the end of the season he was named as the inaugural winner of the ICC Award for one-day player of the year, and the Professional Cricketers' Association player of the year. He also became a father when his fiancée Rachael Wools gave birth on 6 September. They now have a second child who was born during the series in India in 2006. <mask> briefly returned home from the tour to see his son for the first time. 2005: Ashes winner

Following the Test series in South Africa in December 2004 and January 2005, <mask> flew home for surgery on his left ankle, leading to worries he might not regain fitness in time for The Ashes. In fact, following a rehabilitation programme of swimming and hill-walking, he recovered ahead of schedule and was able to return to action for Lancashire in April. In the Second Test against Australia at Edgbaston in August 2005, he broke Ian Botham's 1981 record of six sixes in an Ashes Test Match with five in the first innings, and a further four in the second innings: he scored 141 runs in total.In the same game he took a total of seven wickets (across both

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 innings), including the wickets of Langer and Ponting in his first over in Australia's run-chase. He managed all this despite a shoulder injury early in the second innings. England won the game by just two runs, and saved their hopes of regaining the Ashes. <mask> was named 'Man of the Match' and captain Michael Vaughan subsequently dubbed the match "Fred's Test" in honour of his achievement. <mask> scored a century during England's crucial win at Trent Bridge. He took five wickets on the fourth day of the final Test match, enabling England to go off for bad light and helping them eventually to secure a draw and regain the Ashes. For his achievements throughout the 2005 Ashes series, he was named as "Man of the Series" by Australian coach, John Buchanan.His achievement also won him the inaugural Compton-Miller Medal. He was also awarded the Freedom of the City of Preston. In October 2005, <mask> shared the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC player of the year award with Jacques Kallis of South Africa. In December 2005, <mask> was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2005, the first cricketer since Botham in 1981. In the New Year's Honours List for 2006, <mask> was appointed an MBE for his role in the successful Ashes side. In January 2006, <mask> was presented with the Freedom of the City award for Preston, Lancashire. The award was presented to <mask> by the mayor of Preston.Other recipients of the award include Sir Tom Finney and Nick Park. England captaincy

In February 2006 following England captain Michael Vaughan and vice-captain Marcus Trescothick becoming unavailable for the first Test match against India, <mask> was named

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 captain of the England team and subsequently announced that he would be staying in India for the entire Test series, although he and his wife were expecting their second child. His wife gave birth to a son, Corey, shortly before the second Test on 9 March. On the field, <mask> was seen as a great success during the drawn series with India, with a 212-run victory in Mumbai. His contributions with both bat and ball ensured that he was named as the player of the series, with many commentators seeing <mask> as someone who not only worked better under the responsibility but was also viewed as a great influence of an inexperienced side, which included many debutants, such as Alastair Cook, Owais Shah and Monty Panesar. <mask> amassed four fifties in the series, and took 11 wickets, on unfriendly surfaces for seamers. <mask> continued to captain England during the seven ODIs in India, although he was rested for two matches.Sri Lanka toured in May and England drew the three-Test series 1–1. The series took a heavy toll on Flintoff physically, and journalist David Hopps remarked

A recurrence of his long-term ankle problem in the Test series meant <mask> missed both the ODI series against Sri Lanka, and the first Test against Pakistan. It was later announced in July that <mask>'s rehabilitation had not been sufficient to quell the injury, and that further surgery would be required. He was thus ruled out for the entire series against Pakistan. Despite injury concerns, <mask> was later named for the ICC Champions Trophy, where he played as a specialist batsman, not as an all-rounder. 2006–07 Ashes series
After his previous stint as captain in the Test series

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 against India, <mask> returned as captain of the England team for the eagerly anticipated 2006-07 Ashes series in Australia. The series turned out to be a humiliating one for <mask>, leading his side to five straight losses and thus losing the Ashes after having held them for the shortest time in history.In addition, he presided over England's worst ever defeat in an Ashes series, equalling the 1921 whitewash at the hands of the Warwick Armstrong-led Australian team in the wake of World War I.

<mask>'s own play in the 2006–07 series, both bowling and at the crease, was generally deemed disappointing. He made only two scores over 50 in the series, his best bowling figures were 4–99 in the first innings of the First Test in Brisbane, and he failed to take five wickets in a match. <mask> played in only one first-class game in the lead up to the series. He was initially undone by Australia's excellent seam bowling but his batting improved throughout the series as he got more match practice. A persistent ankle injury prevented <mask> from bowling long spells at full pace and Australia's batsmen took advantage of this. According to Nasser Hussain during the tour he also had three or four warnings for inappropriate behaviour and binge drinking, including arriving hung over for a training session. <mask> also captained England for several of the subsequent 2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series One Day International matches.Michael Vaughan's return from knee surgery was cut short by a hamstring injury and he was only able to play two matches, leaving <mask> in charge for the remaining games. England qualified in the last game of eight group matches for the


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 best-of-three finals against Australia, but reversed their poor form on tour with a 2–0 series win in the finals. <mask> contributed significantly with the ball in both matches, taking three wickets in the first match and allowing only 10 runs off five overs in the second as Australia chased a reduced total in a rain-hit match. 2007 Cricket World Cup
With Michael Vaughan returning from injury for the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, <mask> was replaced as captain but appointed England's vice-captain. In the opening match of the tournament against New Zealand, <mask> was out first ball in England's innings and, although conceding only 17 runs in eight overs, he failed to take a wicket. He did, however, take a one-handed catch at slip to dismiss Ross Taylor for a duck. On the evening of England's defeat <mask>, along with some other players and coaches from the England squad, indulged in some late night drinking in a night club, only two days before their vital match against Canada.In the early hours of the morning, he reportedly had to be rescued after falling off a pedalo – this quickly became known in the media as the "Fredalo" incident. <mask> and the others involved were reprimanded and fined, with <mask> being stripped of the vice-captaincy. In addition, he was suspended for the match against Canada. It was revealed by England coach Duncan Fletcher that <mask> had had a number of previous warnings about his behaviour. <mask> has since issued a public apology, and later also clarified that he didn't actually "fall off" a pedalo, but rather failed in an attempt to board one. <mask> returned to the England team for the last group match against

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 Kenya, taking two wickets. In the Super 8 matches, <mask> often excelled with the ball but failed to recover his batting form.Against Ireland he took 4–43 and scored 43 runs; against Sri Lanka he took 3–35 but was out for 2 and against Australia he took 1–35 but was out for 4. In the next match against Bangladesh <mask> took 1–38 in eight overs and scored 23 runs off 21 balls. Ultimately, he failed to influence an ailing English side and had a poor tournament. Michael Vaughan later commented that <mask>'s pedalo antics had adversely affected team morale. 2007–09: Injuries, comeback, and retirement
<mask> returned for a couple of games with Lancashire, in preparation for the West Indies tour of England but he re-injured his ankle and was ruled out for the first Test which started on 17 May 2007. Having undergone another operation on the troublesome ankle, he missed the whole Test and one-day series against the West Indies, and was also ruled out for the subsequent Test series with India. Following several games for Lancashire, <mask> returned for England in the first of seven ODIs against India on 21 August 2007.He bowled seven overs and ended with figures of one for twelve in England's 104-run victory. He hit an eventful nine runs during the second ODI; however, while fielding, he injured his knee and sat out England's 42-run victory in the third ODI. He returned for the fourth ODI on 30 August. <mask> missed England's two narrow defeats to India in the fifth and sixth ODIs before taking 3–45 in the seventh, helping England to win the series four-three with a seven-wicket victory. <mask>'s ankle injury recurred during the end of the 2007 season, and,


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texts: although he played in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, he did not accompany the England squad to Sri Lanka, and a fourth operation made it highly unlikely that he would play again before the summer of 2008, missing both the Sri Lankan Test Series and the 2008 tour of New Zealand. <mask> remained "upbeat" about his career, however. <mask> was back in action for Lancashire early in the 2008 season, but a side strain ruled him out of contention for the home series against New Zealand.After again returning to action in county cricket he was recalled to the England squad for the second Test against South Africa, where he missed the last 17 Tests prior. He took his 200th Test wicket in the Third Test, trapping Neil McKenzie lbw for 72. <mask> bowled consistently against the South Africans, but South African coach Mickey Arthur felt that he was too defensive. His batting also began to show promise as he consistently made starts, before being moved back up to bat at six when Kevin Pietersen took over as captain. In the following one day series, <mask> was an important player for England, leading Pietersen to describe him as "a superstar". <mask> scored 78 in both the first and the third matches – he was not required to bat in the second – as well as 31 not out off 12 balls in the fourth, whilst taking three wickets in the same match. This led many pundits to speculate that <mask> might just be back to his best.He won Man of the Series in the ODI home series against South Africa, where England won four-nil: the last match was washed out. He was both the top run-scorer and the top wicket-taker of that series. Still, though, his want of consistency frustrated the

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texts: pundits. "<mask>," wrote Peter Roebuck some time later, "is a fine cricketer who has never quite worked out how he takes wickets or scores runs. Torn between hitting and playing, pounding and probing, he has performed below his highest capabilities." On England's tour of India, <mask> started the series well. In the first warm-up match against the Mumbai Cricket Association, he scored exactly 100.It was his first century for England since the Fourth Test of the 2005 Ashes. His batting did not follow with similar successes in India and the West Indies, but his bowling remained strong, with a dozen wickets in the Caribbean at under 30 apiece, followed by a hat-trick in the final ODI series, becoming only the third English bowler ever to do so. In February 2009, the Chennai Super Kings of the Indian Premier League bought <mask> for US$1,550,000 – $600,000 above his base price of $950,000. This makes him the highest-ever-paid IPL player, alongside compatriot Kevin Pietersen, and surpasses Mahendra Singh Dhoni's $1,500,000. But <mask> did not find success at the tournament, held in South Africa due to General Elections, as after a difficult first few matches he was sent home for surgery following another knee injury. However, speculation over <mask>'s form ahead of the much-awaited 2009 Ashes series died down as he took six wickets in his first match back for Lancashire and left "several county batsmen...nursing bruised ribs and fingers". He also collected a half-century against Hampshire, although he was still yet to register a century in either domestic cricket or any form of the international game since that Trent Bridge instalment of the last home

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texts: Ashes in 2005, which year also accounted for his most recent Test five-for."It's always been an Australian trait to over-rate players who have done well against them (just ask VVS Laxman)," wrote Lawrence Booth. "But in the case of <mask>, this phenomenon is getting so out of control you wonder whether Steve Waugh has returned to orchestrate a cunning mind-game. ... In any case, does anyone honestly think a player with his fitness record will make it through a five-Test series condensed into less than seven weeks?" <mask> did offer some hope with the willow in the Twenty20 Cup, however, hitting 93 off 41 balls for Lancashire against Derbyshire in June. On 15 July 2009, <mask> announced he would retire from Test cricket at the end of the 2009 Ashes Series. He said that "Since 2005 I have just been plagued with injury so I've got the opportunity now to finish on a high by helping England to win the Ashes and it will give me great pleasure if I can play my last Test at the Oval and we can win the Ashes – it doesn't get any bigger than that."He was man of the match in England's victory at Lords in the Second Test Match, taking 5 wickets in the second innings after a fine display of fast bowling and achieving the rare feat of making both Lord's Honours Boards. On 23 August 2009, England defeated Australia at The Oval to seal a 2–1 series win, with <mask> notably running out the Australian captain Ricky Ponting, ensuring Flintoff ended his England career on a high. On 16 September 2010, <mask> retired from all forms of professional cricket, having consulted medical advisers. He continued to play recreationally for Penwortham Cricket Club alongside his

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<mask> came out of retirement in May 2014, returning to Lancashire to play Twenty20 only. He featured in the final of the competition, dismissing Ian Bell with the ball and hitting two sixes in the penultimate over as Lancashire fell just short against Birmingham Bears. After this season he was signed by the Brisbane Heat in the Australian Big Bash League for the 2014–15 season.Flintoff disappointed on the field, ending the season with a high score of 46, with only one other score in double figures (15), along with three wickets at an average of 45.33. He had an on-field microphone for most matches and memorably sang In the Ghetto by Elvis Presley during one game while on air. He also began commentating matches for Network Ten. These experiences endeared him to Australian crowds, a far cry from his England days. After the 2014-15 Big Bash League season, he finally retired from cricket. He returned to Australia for the 2015-16 Big Bash League season as a commentator for Network Ten. His newfound popularity in Australia enabled him to win the first series of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.Records and achievements
 <mask> is the third highest English wicket-taker in one-day international cricket with 168 wickets, and the 13th highest in Test cricket, with 219 wickets. These figures include wickets taken for the ICC World XI. He is also the ninth highest English run-scorer in one-day internationals, with a total of 2,975. <mask> was Lancashire's winner of the NBC Denis Compton Award in 1997. <mask> holds the record for the most sixes scored for England

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 in test cricket, beating Ian Botham's record of 67 with a six off India's Piyush Chawla in Mohali on 11 March 2006. <mask> is only the seventh player to have batted on all five days of a Test match, achieving this feat at Mohali, in the same match in which he broke the sixes record. He is one of only ten players to be on both the batting and bowling honours boards at Lord's.Media career
In March 2010, <mask> became a team captain on the Sky One television sports panel show A League of Their Own, hosted by James Corden. In December 2010, <mask> became a guest commentator during a number of matches in the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship event. He returned to commentary during the 2012 World Matchplay, where he called Michael van Gerwen's nine dart finish against Steve Beaton. He also currently hosts a radio show on BBC Radio Five Live on Monday nights. As of 2011 <mask> was named as a brand ambassador for big men's fashion brand Jacamo and had his own range produced in 2012. In early 2011 he also became the face of Morrisons supermarkets. <mask> also produced a documentary entitled <mask>: Hidden Side of Sport, about his and other sports stars' suffering of clinical depression.This was first aired on BBC1 on Wednesday, 11 January 2012. He was a judge on the ITV talent show Let's Get Gold in 2012. In 2014, <mask> made a cameo appearance in Sky TV series, Trollied. In the same year, he also appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Deal or No Deal. On 15 February 2015, <mask> entered the first Australian series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, held in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Entering on Day 17 of the series, he was crowned "King

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texts: of the Jungle" after winning the series on 15 March 2015 after spending 29 days in the jungle. He was also a commentator for Network Ten's Big Bash League coverage and appeared as a regular panellist on their current affairs show The Project.In 2014, <mask> started the TV series Flintoff: Lord of the Fries, touring around the UK exploring the places, people and food with co-host Rob Penn. The series was aired from 2015, the second series (2016) was titled "Freddie fries again". In December 2016, <mask> and Penn took the series to Australia titled "Freddie Fries Down Under" AKA "Freddie Down Under" with challenges along the way. Along with close friend and former Blackburn Rovers captain Robbie Savage and journalist and former table tennis professional Matthew Syed, Flintoff hosts a BBC Radio 5 Live podcast called <mask>, Savage & The Ping Pong Guy in which hot sporting topics are discussed. The podcast won two categories at the 2017 Radio Academy Awards – Best Podcast and Best New Show – and <mask> himself was awarded the Best New Presenter category. <mask> is a co-host for Australian Ninja Warrior, which first aired on the Nine Network in July 2017. Currently on its fourth season, he had to leave after the quarter finals due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.In September 2017, <mask> was the main presenter for Cannonball on ITV with Frankie Bridge, Radzi Chinyanganya, Ryan Hand and Maya Jama as poolside reporters. He appeared in the BBC drama Love, Lies & Records. In November 2017, <mask> made his musical theatre debut as Kevin Mergatroyd in Kay Mellor's Fat Friends The Musical (based on the ITV series) in Leeds before touring the UK in early 2018. He also


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 hosted All Star Musicals for ITV in December 2017. In October 2018, it was announced that <mask> will be the new host of Top Gear alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris. Filming for the 27th series of the BBC Two show began in early 2019, and first aired in June 2019. On 11 February 2019, it was reported that <mask> had crashed into a market stall in Mansfield while filming for the show.He remains a host into July 2019. On 10 September 2019 <mask> crashed while riding a head-first trike at 124 mph during one of the car show's signature competitions. He was not injured and resumed filming afterwards. Real estate
In 2018, it was reported that he was involved in a development to build a new tower block in Castlefield, along Mancunian Way. The two buildings were dubbed the "Flintoff towers." After the original was rejected for being too tall, in June 2019 <mask> continued seeking permission for a 23-storey residential tower in Castlefield. A shorter version was approved in July 2019, with the tower designed by SimpsonHaugh.The new development will be 23 storeys, not 35. Personal life

<mask> married Rachael Wools in March 2005 at Knightsbridge, London. He has four children. He has the names of his wife and children tattooed on his left shoulder. <mask>, once a Liverpool FC fan in his youth, is a supporter of Preston North End. In his 2005 autobiography, Being Freddie, <mask> admitted he had little or no interest in football at the time and only visited the Etihad Stadium for the social atmosphere. <mask>'s father, Colin, and his brother, Chris, both played cricket, with Colin still playing for Whittingham Cricket Club near Preston.During his


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 innings of 167 against the West Indies at Edgbaston in July 2004, one six off Jermaine Lawson was hit high into the Ryder Stand and was almost caught by his father, who fumbled the ball and dropped it. <mask> remarked "If I'd taken it he'd have been the first Test batsman to be caught out by his dad!" In 2011, <mask> was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Preston-based Myerscough College. <mask>'s cousins include John-Paul <mask>, an author, broadcaster and journalist. "Flintoff Way" in Preston is named after John-Paul's grandparents, Tom and Alice. Autobiographies
<mask> has written several books:
 Being Freddie
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 <mask>, My Life in Pictures
 Ashes to Ashes
 Good Times, Bad Times

Documentaries
His career has been subject of a number of TV films and documentaries. In Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side of Sport broadcast on the BBC One in 2012, he talks candidly in moving interviews with Steve Harmison, Vinnie Jones and Ricky Hatton and others about the serious effects of depression.He confronts his own issues as captain of England under pressure and under fire at the top of his game. Freddie reveals the stigma attached to talking about depression in the face of an often unforgiving public. In the documentary <mask>: From Lord's to the Ring in 2012 broadcast on Sky 1, the cricket champion is followed in a 3-episode series while pursuing a possible career as a professional boxer under the guidance of trainers Barry McGuigan and his son Shane McGuigan. "Biggie", Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson make appearances in the documentary where <mask> is preparing for a boxing match. In 2020, <mask> presented a documentary that aired on the BBC One called

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<mask>-<mask> (April 3, 1860 – January 5, 1916), known as <mask>, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer and illustrator. He used both impressionistic and academic techniques, and mainly painted historical subjects. Biography

He was born in Colmenar de Oreja, Spain, and exhibited a talent for art when he was a young child. At thirteen, he met Don José Ballester, the husband of a neighbor in Colmenar, who owned the Cafe de la Concepción in Madrid. Ballester was impressed with his work and, after consultation with Luis Taberner (1844–1900), a recognized and popular artist in Madrid, Ballester decided to bring <mask> and his family to the capital to begin his art studies. In 1873, he entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, followed by study at the , where he would paint Invasion of the Barbarians (since lost in a fire) which won the gold medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1887. Early career

During his formative years, Checa was directed by Alejandro Ferrant, Federico de Madrazo, , and Paul Gonsalves.He was an outstanding student, which led him to get two grants for painting, and a position as assistant professor in the subject of perspective. During the years 1880–1881, he left school to begin work as an artist. He worked as an assistant to Manuel Dominguez in the decoration of the Palace of Linares and the Basilica San Francisco el Grande, two of the largest decorative projects in Madrid during the last decades of the century. To mark the bicentenary of the death of Calderón de la Barca, he made his first contribution, an illustration, to La Ilustración Española y Americana. Interested in current artistic trends, he moved within the cultural circles of Madrid,

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 and served as a founding member of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid. In 1884, he obtained a pension that enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. A year later, during the final year of his pension, he travelled to Paris and participated in the Salon of the Champs Elysees with his version of The Rape of Proserpina, causing dissent within the Spanish Academy.After completing his studies, he applied for another pension for the Academy in Rome, but it was awarded to Mariano Benlliure. Move to Paris

<mask> fixed his gaze upon Paris, which was by then the cultural center of Europe. In 1889, he settled there and participated in the World's Fair, held in Paris that year, with his painting In the Church, which was awarded third prize. He met Matilde Chayé (1864–1945), herself a painter, from a prominent Gascon family of Argentine origin, and in 1890 they married. <mask> now split his time between Paris and Bagnères-de-Bigorre, the small town in the Hautes-Pyrenees where his wife's family lived. He never forgot his origins, and returned to Spain on several occasions to spend time resting and visiting friends and relatives in Colmenar de Oreja. His restless spirit and their economic position allowed him to travel around the world and this made him an artist of international fame.In 1890, he had his first critical triumph in the Salón de Paris, the annual exhibition of the Academy of Arts in Paris; presenting his painting of a chariot race and winning third prize. His name became well-known in art circles and he was considered to be one of the most promising Spanish painters who worked in the French capital. A year later, the Spanish government awarded him the Order of Charles III. <mask>

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 he extended his stay for several months. He exhibited in major galleries in Azul, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.There, he met Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, who suggested that <mask> illustrate his new book, Tabaré, which was published in 1904. The following year, he traveled to Italy, where he painted a great number of works, and a year later returned to Buenos Aires to paint the portrait of the recently deceased General Bartolomé Mitre. Algeria was one of his favorite destinations. He continued to travel there frequently until 1910. In addition to his Orientalist paintings, he documented and participated in various exhibitions. In 1908, he was one of the illustrators for another book by Astruc called Les Alhambras. Two years later, although ill with uremia and continuing to work, his production began to decline.He also continued sending paintings to the Salon in Paris and, in 1912, staged a solo exhibition at the Gallerie Imberti in Bordeaux. That same year, the Tunisian government awarded him the Order of Glory. After World War I broke out, he left Paris to settle in Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Soon he moved to the nearby town of Dax where he died on January 5, 1916. Following his wishes, as expressed in his will, his remains were transferred to  Colmenar de Oreja, where he was buried. His wife was later placed there beside him. See also

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<mask> (born <mask>, 15 February 1940 – 24 January 2007) was a Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual and journalist who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from 1997 to 2002. Background
<mask> finished high school at Robert College in İstanbul in 1959 and graduated from the Law School at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1963. He had his master's degree in sociology of politics at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in 1983, Paris, France. He was an exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs at Piedmont High School, Piedmont California for one year during his high school years. A member of one of the most prominent families in Turkey, Cem was the cousin of murdered liberal-leftist journalist, intellectual and human rights activist Abdi İpekçi, the editor in chief for then centre-leftist Milliyet newspaper. Cem was the son of İhsan İpekçi (1901-1966), who was one of the pioneers of the Turkish cinema industry, as the founder and partner of İpek Film, and several popular Istanbul movie theaters including Yeni Melek and İpek. <mask> was an avid photographer, and held four photo exhibits, and published a book Mevsim, Mevsim

Journalism
Returning home in 1963, Cem started his professional career as a journalist.He worked in some major newspapers who published articles and became a columnist for Milliyet, "Cumhuriyet" and Politika, where he served as the editor in chief for the second newspaper from 1964 until 1966. Between 1971 and 1974, he served as the chief of the Istanbul office of the Turkish Newspaper Workers Union. In 1974–1975, he acted as the general manager of the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) under the 37th and 38th governments. <mask>'s tenure as the general manager of TRT, then the only TV station in Turkey, created some controversy. The conservatives and prominent

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 2002. He was the fourth longest-serving minister of this position in Turkey. Relations with the European Union
He negotiated candidate status for Turkey's bid to join the European Union as foreign minister.He was largely credited with Turkey's declaration as a full member candidate during the Helsinki Summit Meeting in 1992, after much negotiation with the EU and a night trip by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and the then European Commissioner Günter Verheugen to Ankara to iron out the last details. Relations with Greece
İpekçi and his Greek counterpart George Papandreou worked to improve Turkish-Greek relations. It is during his tenure as foreign minister that a confident, albeit a step-by-step approach was taken towards a rapprochement between Turkey and Greece. The relations were actually at an all-time low after the Abdullah Öcalan affair, whereby Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos and some officials of the Greek Foreign Ministry were involved in hiding organization PKK leader prior to his arrest by the Turkish police. İpekçi and Papandreou picked up the historically hostile relationships initially starting with some confidence measures. Later political career and illness
After a dispute with the party leader Bülent Ecevit, he resigned from the Democratic Left Party (DSP) ahead of 2002 parliamentary elections and formed the New Turkey Party (YTP) on 20 July 2002 together with his former party colleague Hüsamettin Özkan and Zeki Eker. <mask> <mask> was elected leader of YTP, which did not do well in the elections.Returning from the United States, where he was due to medical treatment of cancer, he closed YTP on 24 October 2004, joining the CHP. <mask> <mask> was acting as the chief advisor to Deniz Baykal, the leader of CHP, and lectured in Applied Foreign Politics of Turkey at the Istanbul Bilgi University until his death. He was

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 married to Elçin <mask>, and the couple had a daughter, İpek <mask> Taha, and a son, Kerim <mask>. Funeral
<mask> <mask> died on 24 January 2007 in İstanbul after suffering for two years from lung cancer. He was honored with a state funeral, at which Speaker of the Parliament Bülent Arınç, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, current and former leaders of the political parties, his close friend former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, George Papandreou and Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Theodoros Kasimis attended. He was interred at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Papandreou laid on his grave a branch from the olive tree they both had planted 2000 in Greece as a symbol of peace.Legacy
<mask> <mask> was especially admired by young people in Turkey during his time as a foreign minister. Some polls indicated that young people desired to see <mask> as President of Turkey. <mask> <mask>'s biography written by Turkish political scientist Ozan Örmeci, "Portrait of a Turkish Social Democrat: <mask> <mask>" and its Turkish version "Bir Türk Sosyal Demokratı: <mask> <mask>" found many readers among Turkish intellectuals and showed <mask>'s unique place in Turkish social democratic movement. Bibliography
 Türkiye'de Geri Kalmışlığın Tarihi (History of Under Development in Turkey), 512 pp, Can,
 Türkiye Üzerine Yazılar (Articles on Turkey)
 12 Mart (12 March) (Referring to 12 March 1971, the date of military coup)
 TRT'de 500 Gün (500 Days at TRT) (TRT is the Turkish state television)
 Siyaset Yazıları (Notes about Politics)
 Geçiş Dönemi Türkiye'si (Turkey in a Period of Transition)
 Sosyal Demokrasi ya da Demokratik Sosyalizm Nedir, Ne Değildir? (What is, What is not Social Democracy Or Democratic Socialism? ), 311 pp, Can,
 Türkiye'de Sosyal Demokrasi (Social Democracy in Turkey)
 Engeller ve Çözümler (Obstacles and Solutions)
 Yeni Sol,

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title: Rod Carrillo

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<mask> is a Panamaian electronic dance music record producer and the CEO of Carrillo Music. Originally hailing from the Republic of Panama, Carillo specializes in dance music with a Latin influence. He founded Carrillo Music in 2007 and has consistently worked as a remixer, DJ, and producer. Career
<mask> discovered his passion for music when working as a DJ at just 15 years of age. After he got the ball rolling in his DJ career, everything snowballed. He regularly worked the nightclub circuit and played various sets on local radio stations. He also performed at corporate events while attending law school.He also regularly collaborates with a diverse array of artists. He has worked with Ralphi Rosario, Eddie Amador, Danny Howard, Futuristic Polar Bears, Terri B!, Rosabel and Eric Redd, Warp Brothers, D.O.N.S., Kissy Sell Out among many others. In 2019, he worked with Ralphi Rosario and Abel Aguilera executive producing and spearheading the duo's first studio album under their alias Rosabel. Rosabel's studio project was named The Album. Rosabel's 14 song album featured singers Jeanie Tracy, Terri Bjerre and Tamara Wallace. The Album was released in April 2019 to positive reviews. Upon its release, The Album ranked in the top 10 Billboard Dance/Electronic Sales in United States.Shortly after, Rosabel announced shortly after a tour in support for their new music. In May 2019, artist Eric Redd released his single "Push", which was produced by <mask>. The collaboration with Eric Redd garnished overwhelming success from the House Music

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 community. "Push" earned positions in the Top 20 Soulful House Sales Chart, Top 100 Overall Sales Chart on the music download site Traxsource.com. "Push" was chosen as Weekend Weapon Pick and as a pick for Traxsource.com's Essential House Playlist. <mask> released his second studio album, Los Sonidos, in 2019. The 10 song album includes collaborations with Terri Bjerre, Hoxton Whores, Ralphi Rosario, Lisa Williams, Kid.a, Claras "Beefy" Brown, Eric Redd and Reiss Harrison.Los Sonidos was produced and composed while <mask> was in between projects in England, Panama, Canada and Spain in 2018/early 2019. The project was kept the project under wraps up to the time of release by <mask> and his collaborators. Upon its release, Los Sonidos received very favorable reviews from Electronic Music publications and blogs. The first single from Los Sonidos was "You Got What I Need" which is a collaboration between <mask> and vocalist Terri Bjerre. "You Got What I Need" charted in the top 25 dance club chart for Billboard Magazine. (Executive Producer, composer, arranger)
2013 - "Stronger" (album) - Bouvier & Barona (Executive Producer)
2013 - "What Cha Feelin'" - Liam Keegan feat. Julissa Veloz & Kae Lou
2013 - "Hurts" - Kelsey B (Carvelo production with Julissa Veloz)
2013 - "Need You' - Kelsey B.2013 - "I'm Dancin'" - Eric Redd
2013 - "Surrender" - Bouvier & Barona feat. Abigail (singer)
2013 - "See Dis" - Kelsey B
2012 - "Different" - Trevor Simpson and Julissa Veloz
2012 - "Don't Care - Eric Redd
2012 - "2 of Us" - Jesse McFadding feat. Julissa

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 Veloz
2012 - "Be With You" - Kelsey B
2012 - "Zimme (Give It All)" - Julissa Veloz
2012 - "Overload" - Julissa Veloz
2012 - "It Would" - Julissa Veloz
2012 - "Very Brady Day" Julissa Veloz
2012 - "Status" - Carvelo feat. Kelsey B
2012 - The Noise EP - Matt Fox
2011 - "Yes No Maybe" - RCDM feat. Candace Sames
2011 - "Boy If You Only Knew" - Kelsey B
2011 - "54" - Eric Redd
2011 - "Another Day" - Eric Redd
2011 - Mayhem - Julissa Veloz
2011 - "Rave Juice" - Matt Fox feat. LsDub
2011 - "Pressure" - Matt Fox feat. LsDub
2011 - "Downtown" - Matt Fox feat.Kelsey B
2011 - "Eat It" - Matt Fox feat. Natalia Flores (US Dance #23)
2009 - "Moonshine Rising" - <mask> and Ronnie Sumrall (US Dance #25),
2009 - "Here We Come' - <mask> and Shefali (US Dance #25),
2009 - "Big Mama's House" - Capretta (Big Mama Capretta)
2009 - "Gringa Quiero Baila" - <mask> Presents: Bodega Charlie feat. Fulanito
2008 - "Dale Mami" - Mula
2008 - "Save Me" - Carrillo & Amador feat. Ronnie Sumrall
2008 - "Oye Party" - <mask> Presents: Bodega Charlie (US Dance #13)
2007 - "Arizona Bump" - <mask> (US Dance #23)
2007 - "Green Tea" - Big J
2007 - "Nonsense Words" - Attorney Client Privilege feat DBL
2007 - " I Wish You Well" - Carrillo & Amador feat. Nina Lares
2007 - "Spotlight" - Carrillo & Amador feat. Georgia Nicole (US Dance #8)
2007 - "Work It" - DJ Kilo
2007 - "Free Your Mind" - Kario

Los Sonidos track list

References

External links
Carrillo Music
Carrillo Music Youtube
Rod Carrillo Website

Remixers
Panamanian record producers
Living people
Year of birth missing

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<mask> (; born 9 October 1957) is a Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist. He lives in Ghent. He is one of the best-selling authors in Flanders, but controversial at the same time for his profane language and offensive comedy. Life and career
<mask> studied Germanic philology at the University of Ghent. In his early twenties he was a football player. He played as a left winger for Vigor Hamme and Sporting Lokeren. He now has his own football team called "De Woody's", after his late dog Woody.Brusselmans married Gloria Van Iddergem in 1981 but divorced from her ten years later. He married his second wife Tania De Metsenaere in 2005. Their relationship ended in 2010. In March 2016 he met his current girlfriend with whom he now lives together in his home in Gent. Although it's known her given name is Lena, her family name remains undisclosed up until this day. Their relationship generated a lot of media attention in Flandres because of their age difference of almost 34 years. Brusselmans gained widespread popularity in the early 1980s as part of the new generation of young Flemish novelists that included Tom Lanoye and Kristien Hemmerechts.Although <mask> once stated in the Flemish magazine HUMO that he would stop writing about existing people and situations, his work kept on being highly autobiographical. Alcohol, sex and boredom are recurring themes throughout his work. Not only his work contributed to his stardom, but also

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title: Léon Riesener

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<mask> (21 January 1808 – 25 May 1878) was a French Romantic painter. Enchanted by the play of light and reflections which transformed the appearance of matter, <mask> began a new aesthetic that made him one of the precursors of impressionism. He was a passionate colourist and researched all the nuances of colour. He studied techniques from ancient Greece and the Renaissance, including Titian, Veronese and Correggio. Impressed by Rubens' research into colour, he considered him the Shakespeare of painting and was greatly inspired by him. Very early in his career <mask> studied tonal divisions, well before the physician Chevreul discovered their scientific basis. His tactile taste led him to look for the most perfect expression of matter and particularly of skin.He put poetry into his painting by the play of shadow and he passionately admired nature, life and all the beauties they produced. He researched the subject of life in the countryside and, liking to paint reality, said he wanted to express "the heat of the day, the melancholy of the evening, meadows, flowers as they are in nature". His study of the elements caused him to paint a series of skies which varied according to the light and time of day – the subjects were ahead of their time and <mask> had to fight hard against the Salon juries and the Institut. Using pure colours, he excluded the blacks and whites which had been used for shadows and light before him. His material science of colour was the opposition which gave birth to contrasts from juxtaposed pigments. He did not portray faces by contours, but by shadows and modelling. Life

Early career
<mask> was born  in Paris.He came from an artistic family – his father Henri-<mask> was also a painter, whilst his paternal grandfather Jean Henri <mask> was a

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 noted German-born cabinet-maker. <mask> had his first artistic training from his father while still a child and, on leaving collège, his father gained him a position in Antoine-Jean Gros's studio. Passionate about beauty and researching new techniques in colour, <mask> struggled against the prevailing taste of his time from his youth onwards. Relations with Delacroix
After his father's return from Russia in 1823 <mask> got to know Eugène Delacroix better. Ten years older than <mask>, Delacroix was his first-cousin – they shared a grandmother, Marguerite-Françoise Vandercruse, whose daughter by her first marriage was Delacroix's mother and whose second husband Jean-Henri <mask> was <mask>'s grandfather. Delacroix quickly recognised <mask>'s talent and originality and he supported his early career by recommending him to civil servants he knew. On trips to the countryside they met at Valmont, near Fécamp, the home of their cousin Bataille, owner of the abbaye from 1822 onwards.<mask> devotedly attended Pierret's salon (Pierret was a school friend of Delacroix), where he met Mérimée, Viel-Castel, Sauvageot, Feuillet de Conches, Viollet-le-Duc, Lasus and Guillemardet. Later, <mask> became friends with Fantin-Latour, Ernest Chausson and the Morisots (the Morisot family was very friendly with the <mask> family, with Rosalie <mask>'s friend Berthe Morisot researching <mask>'s opinions, listening to his advice and copying out about 135 pages of his writings). His friends were artists and he preferred a quiet life rather than the high life favoured by Delacroix. From childhood, <mask> and Delacroix were friends and confidants. So different in life and character and so independent, they were preoccupied by the same artistic problems and enjoyed exchanging ideas, both having

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 been formed by the 18th century and its neo-classical culture. They discussed their study of the classical world and they were both colourist painters searching for new techniques in tonal division. The difference in their temperaments expressed itself in their ways of looking at nature – Delacroix thought of drama, <mask> thought of sensuality.Delacroix bought <mask>'s painting Angélique as an exemplar for all painters and put it in his studio. On his death in 1863, Delacroix left <mask> his country house at Champrosay. Later career
From 1830 to 1839 <mask> began exhibiting important works, such as The Education of the Virgin. He painted religious subjects and portraits – he was attracted by naturalist subjects, such as a child-shepherd, a child orphan, a peasant returning from Mass, a bohemian, a still life and nudes such as Venus, Flora and Erigone. In 1839 he received his first state commission, from France's Ministry of the Interior, a copy of The Scourging of Christ by Titian. On 8 October 1839 he married the young middle-class Laure Peytouraud and they had three children: Thérèse (1840–1932), Rosalie (1843–1913) and Louise (1860–1944). His absorption in his family and his art allowed him to live outside of political events.<mask>'s output was highly diverse in subject matter, while his favourite media were oils and pastels. From 1839 to 1848 he received important mural commissions – the five ceilings of the library of the Chambre des Pairs (1840–1843) and the decoration of the chapel of the hospital at Charenton (1843–1849). During the same period he received further commissions from the Ministry of the Interior – Jesus amongst the Doctors and various versions of The Birth of the Virgin and Niobe. He continued to exhibit at the Paris Salon, with Leda

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 (1841) and The Magdalene (1849). He painted a series of portraits, several of which featured in the 1850 Salon, including those of Pierret and Théophile Gautier. In Normandy
<mask> had first travelled to Normandy as a child. Later he also painted at the château de Valmont and on the Côte d'Albâtre beside Delacroix.<mask>'s main Normandy period came in 1857, however, that year, feeling a need for solitude and new impressions, he bought a mill at Beuzeval, a town later re-attached to Houlgate. There the spectacle of nature, which had always enchanted him, allowed him to forget the hubbub of Paris and the injustices of the Salon juries. <mask> was deeply involved in research into colour, which was for him "the expression of visible things by the poetic effect that light imposes on them". His stays at Beuzeval produced a series of works on solar effects, seascapes, sunken lanes and open-air landscapes. Several artists came to the mill, forming a circle around <mask>. He explored the rocky coast nearby with his friends Constant Troyon and Huet and talked about art and literature with Jouvet, Delisle and Jules Paton. After two consecutive summers, he left the mill to the Morisot family.Final years
From 1860 he exhibited A Bather, The Muses and Jupiter and Juno at the Salon. In 1871 he received a state commission in Antwerp and left for there. He also travelled around the Netherlands from Antwerp, admiring the works of  Rubens and Rembrandt. He returned to Paris on 1 July 1872 and – fired up by his trip – decided to realise one of his dearest desires, a trip to Italy. He left on 12 May 1875, aged 68, and visited Geneva, Milan, Como, Parma, Rome, Turin and Naples. However, after climbing mount Vesuvius during a storm, he fell ill and had to cut his journey short. He

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 returned to Paris and died there two years later.He is buried in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise. On his death, the Impressionists paid tribute to him as the forerunner of their movement – Auguste Renoir drew a portrait of him "carried off in a whirlwind of nude bacchantes and flowers" (evoking one of the features of <mask>'s art) for the frontispiece of la Vie moderne (17 April 1879). Fantin-Latour surveyed <mask>'s paintings and drawings and organised two exhibitions of them, one of which was at the galerie Georges-Petit. At the sale of <mask>'s studio, Degas bought 75 drawings. As for Duranty, after evoking "this ardent companion of all seekers and of all innovators" and "the precursor of the family that came later", he stated his conviction that "in the history of painting of this era, his name remains inscribed with the beautiful, delicate and strong colours of his palette". Extracts from <mask>'s writings
"What is beautiful is what is allowed – our senses know their laws without them needing to be explained to them. In this regard, they never trick themselves – they perfectly know beauty, and when we are led into the currents of artificial seductions, by fashion and the appetite for their novelties : it is our mind alone which does battle..."
"Studying drawing fixes the way of truth in the mind, in despite of the diversions which throw the prejudices of a jaded and distorted civilisation against it.Studying drawing and the physical laws is the only thing in our time which gives us consistency of ideas, which without this support remain in a cloudy state or seem like soap bubbles." "The artist and the poet are not always right. They are always above or below it, even. People who see things as they are maybe superior, but they are not artists." "The beautiful

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 is not synonymous with beauty – the antique, always beautiful, is often without beauty. Art must always remain young, even savage. Science, civilisation, law kill it.""Beauty, graces, all perfections are placed in nature in such a simple and usual way that most men would not be sensible of them if the artist's imagination did not awaken them to them. The artist tracking these beauties admires them with passion – this passion translates itself into his works - by a poetic exaggeration which is more understandable than nature herself." Main works
Some works he produced as a young man have disappeared. The most important public collection of his works is that at the château de Saint-Germain-de-Livet, owned by the commune of Lisieux after being left to it by his grandson Julien Pillaut. The musée du Louvre and musée national Eugène-Delacroix also own a large number of his drawings and pastels. The Virgin enthroned with the Christ Child on her knees, chapel of the hôpital Esquirol, Charenton

Bibliography
  Geneviève Viallefond, Le peintre <mask> Riesener, sa vie, son œuvre, sa pensée, Éditions Albert Morancé, 1955
  Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Les Trois Riesener, 1954
  Eugène Delacroix, Journal 1822-1863, Librairie Plon, 1996
  Raymond Escholier, Eugène Delacroix, Éditions cercle d'art, Paris, 1963
  Jacques-Sylvain Klein, La Normandie, berceau de l'impressionnisme: 1820-1900, Éditions Ouest-France, 1996
  Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Lisieux, Delacroix-Riesener, du romantisme à l'impressionnisme, 2005

External links
 Le Projet Riesener - blog on <mask> and his era

1808 births
1878 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
French romantic painters
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Painters from Paris
Pupils of

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title: Sonny Montgomery

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Gillespie V. "<mask><mask> (August 5, 1920 – May 12, 2006) was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997. He was also a retired major general of the Mississippi National Guard who served during World War II. Early life
Born in Meridian, Mississippi to Emily Jones and <mask>, <mask> graduated from McCallie School and Mississippi State University in Starkville in 1943. While in college, <mask> joined the Beta Tau chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. Military service
A 1943 Reserve Officers' Training Corps graduate, Gillespie was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He served with the 12th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He served on active duty again during Korean War, this time as a member of the 31st Infantry Division.<mask> was a member of the Mississippi Army National Guard until 1980, and retired as a major general. For his military service, <mask> received the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with "V" for Valor device, Army Commendation Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge. Business career
Before running for Congress, he owned his own insurance company, the Montgomery Insurance Agency. In addition, he served as vice president of the Greater Mississippi Life Insurance Company of Meridian, Mississippi. U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments
Chairman, Select Committee on Military Involvement in Southeast Asia (Ninety-first Congress)
Chairman, Select Committee on Missing in Action in Southeast Asia (Ninety-fourth Congress)
Chairman, House Veterans' Affairs Committee (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Third Congresses)

Elections
<mask> represented part of Meridian in the Mississippi State Senate between 1956 and 1966. He was elected to Congress from what was then the 4th District in 1966. Prentiss Walker, the first Republican elected to either house of Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, had given

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 up the seat after one term to run for the United States Senate against James O. Eastland.<mask> defeated Lewis McAllister, also of Meridian, who had been the first Republican elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives since Reconstruction. Walker ran again for the seat in 1968 but lost to <mask>, who received 70 percent of the vote. <mask> was re-elected a total of fourteen times from the majority-white district, serving for thirty years until 1997. His district was renumbered as the 3rd District after the 1970 census, when Mississippi lost a district in redistricting. <mask> was one of the more conservative Democrats in the House, and was known for being more "hawkish" than other members of his party. He was very popular in his district, usually winning reelection by some of the highest margins in the country. Although the district's voters were increasingly willing to vote Republican at the national level (it has only supported the official Democratic candidate for president once since 1956), at the local level <mask> usually faced "sacrificial lamb" opponents on the few occasions he faced any Republican opposition at all.<mask> ran unopposed from 1970 to 1974, in 1980, and from 1984 to 1990. In four elections—1972, 1980, 1984 and 1988—<mask> ran unopposed even as the Republican presidential candidate carried the district in a landslide. Observers assumed that <mask> would be succeeded by a Republican after he retired, given the crossover of conservative white voters from the Democratic Party to the GOP in the second half of the 20th century. As it turned out, when <mask> retired in 1996, the district was taken by Republican Chip Pickering in a landslide. The Democrats have only put up a candidate in the district four times since then, and have only won more than 35 percent of the vote once. Tenure

During his time in Congress, <mask> was one of only three Representatives who voted to reject the Judiciary

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texts: Committee's report on the Watergate scandal following Nixon's resignation; <mask> joined Earl Landgrebe and Otto Passman as the three opposed compared to 412 in favor. He was the author of the G.I.Bill of Rights that gives members of the service money to pay for college and was a lead sponsor in establishing the Veterans Affairs cabinet-level position. <mask> gave a speech on the House floor in April 1975 in which he spoke against foreign aid to South Vietnam and said, "The South Vietnamese can blame only themselves for their present situation." <mask>'s greatest legislative victory was the enactment of the bill that bears his name: the Montgomery GI Bill . In 1981, he came to the forefront to lead the fight for passage of a new G.I. Bill. As a World War Il veteran, he believed that the country should provide educational benefits to its service members and that the combination of military service and a college degree would make these individuals valuable assets to the country. He also wanted to reverse the Department of Defense's declining recruitment efforts, which had dropped sharply in the 1980s, and improve the overall quality of the volunteers.Nearly half of those recruited during that time lacked high-school diplomas and the basic skills needed in a modern military. Congressman <mask> saw that educational shortfall as a direct threat to America's military readiness and national security. As Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman, <mask> led opposition to the Kerry-Daschle bill (Agent Orange Disabilities Act of 1987, S.1787) that would have required the VA to begin compensating veterans who contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and lung cancer a presumed service-connected disease. <mask> asserted that "further studies were needed to prove a connection between various diseases and Agent Orange before the government should be held liable for disability benefits" despite several such JAMA published studies by the National

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 Cancer Institute and the VA and one by the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission. Subsequent scientific studies made connections between Agent Orange and Vietnam Veterans illnesses and the increased birth defects of their children. In 1991 <mask> stood behind president George H.W. Bush at the signing of the Agent Orange Act.He had opposed a similar bill the previous year. After years of opposing Vietnam Veterans receiving disability for exposure to Agent Orange, he now appeared as their champion. In the same year he authored the Montgomery Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987, which effectively transferred control of the National Guard away from the states and to the Department of Defense by prohibiting state governors from withholding National Guard forces. On September 13, 1988, <mask> became the first congressman to lead the U.S. House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a permanent part of its daily and morning business operations. The day prior to his death, Congressman Gene Taylor introduced an amendment to a House Defense Appropriations Bill to rename the bill the Sonny Montgomery National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Following his death, James F. Webb Funeral Home in Meridian, Mississippi performed the funeral services. President George W. Bush ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half staff.In addition, the U.S. House of Representatives canceled non-suspension votes on the day of his funeral. <mask> was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi. He was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi in 1996. On November 10, 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest American civilian honor, by President George W. Bush. <mask> had played paddleball with Bush's father, George H. W. Bush. Memorials

 A statue of <mask> on the campus of Mississippi State University where he was Student Association President for the

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 1942–43 school year. A bust of him is located in the campus library and a duplicate bust is located at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby alongside Congressman <mask>'s personal effects from his military service in the Second World War and National Guard.A number of public projects have been named in his honor, including:
 The VA Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi
 The G. V. Montgomery Lock on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
 The G. V. "<mask>" Montgomery Naval Reserve Center at NAS Meridian in Meridian, Mississippi
 The G. V. Montgomery Airport in Forest, Mississippi
 A Mississippi Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III was named “The Spirit of G.V. ‘<mask><mask>.<mask> became the third person in the United States to have a military fleet named in his honor. The G.V. "<mask>" Montgomery Center for America's Veterans at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. The G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Advisement and Career Services Center at Mississippi State University's Meridian, Mississippi College Park campus. The G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery Conference and Special Events Room at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office building in Washington, D.C.

References

External links
 Retrieved on 2009-5-13
Bio
The G.V.Sonny Montgomery Foundation
The Montgomery Institute
Associated Press obituary
NY Times obituary
Meridian Star Article

1920 births
2006 deaths
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
Mississippi state senators
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
United States Army generals
Politicians from Meridian, Mississippi
Mississippi State University alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
National Guard of the United States generals
Recipients of the Order of the Sword (United States)
Mississippi Democrats
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
20th-century American

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<mask> AM. is a concert pianist and composer, recording artist and editor. Born in the United Kingdom of Australian parents, she is a citizen of both countries. Thwaites is best-known for her interpretations of the music of Australian composers, particularly Percy Grainger. Biography
She grew up in Melbourne, Australia, attending Tintern Grammar and taking a degree in Music from Melbourne University (B.Mus Hons, 1966), where she won the Ormond Exhibition and was placed first in her final year. Following a period of working internationally as musical director and composer of music for the theatre, she continued orchestration studies in London with William L Reed and piano studies with the Swiss pianist Albert Ferber, a pupil of Walter Gieseking and who often played for Sergei Rachmaninoff. Her debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in 1974 was followed by concerts and broadcasts in the UK and tours worldwide, both as solo recitalist and concerto soloist.In 1993, she appeared in the Australia Day Gala at the Royal Opera House in the presence of the Prince of Wales. <mask> has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Concert Orchestra and leading orchestras in Australia, Europe and America. Repertoire and recordings
Her concert repertoire encompasses a wide range of classical composers, some represented on her 2008 CD Travelling Between Worlds (LIR). Her Bach recording (2014) for the same label was described in one review as "classic Bach keyboard works enlivened by some exquisite playing...Bach's music becomes here in one of Busoni's adaptations, richly expressive and soul searching, raptly played...an impressive survey of some wonderful good-to-be-alive music" (Sinfoni September 2014). Beginning in 1975, <mask> has made a point of including music by Australian composers such as Malcolm Williamson, Margaret Sutherland, Arthur Benjamin, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Jennifer Fowler, Alison Bauld, David Worrall, and many more, whether in solo

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 recitals, concertos and chamber works. Her pioneering LP Australian Piano Music (Discourses 1980) was broadcast worldwide as something of a novelty at the time. <mask> found a special affinity with the music of Melbourne-born pianist and composer Percy Grainger.She has now recorded more than 260 tracks of his music: first for Pearl records (most of the four-hand repertoire with John Lavender). Her first solo discs were for Unicorn Kanchana and Regis. Most notably, <mask> is a featured solo, chamber and orchestral artist on eight of Chandos Records' 21-CD Grainger Edition (re-issued in 2021). In 2016 Heritage Records released a box set of the complete Grainger music for two pianos four hands, featuring the three earlier recordings by Thwaites and Lavender together with a fourth CD recorded in 2016 by <mask> with Timothy Young. BBC Music Magazine (February 2017) commented "passion undimmed, along with dexterity, the playing’s flair and precision are unchanged...Listening again only makes the heart grow fonder...I can't think of another composer who so quickly and quirkily enhances life." Other activities
Her lectures and broadcasts on the composer and detailed research into his life and work led to her editing The New Percy Grainger Companion (Boydell & Brewer 2010, paperback edition 2016). She was Artistic Director for two major Grainger Festivals in London (St John's Smith Square in 1998  and a four-day celebration at King's Place in 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Grainger's death.Her interest in promoting Australian composition led to her founding and chairing the international Performing Australian Music Competition which took place in London in 2001 and 2008, attracting young musicians from 20 countries who chose and performed music of 80 Australian composers. The competition still awaits a long-term sponsor. From 2013 to 2019, she served as Chairman of the Order of Australia Association UK/Europe. Composing work
In the same year that she gave her second

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 Wigmore Hall recital (1976), her musical (with Alan Thornhill) Ride! Ride! (based on an incident in the life of John Wesley) premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London's West End, following a nationwide tour. The musical has had more than 40 productions since then – both amateur and professional - and a concert version was recorded in 1999 on the SOMM label, starring the legendary actor, Keith Michell.Thwaites's compositions include songs, organ and piano works, chamber music, film and ballet music. She is published by Bardic Edition, whose catalogue is now distributed under the Schott Music imprint. In 2020, SOMM recordings released "From Five Continents", a CD of twenty-four of <mask>'s choral works and songs, with Ex Cathedra under Jeffrey Skidmore and soloists Carolyn Sampson, James Gilchrist and William Dazeley. The CD has been featured on the BBC, ABC, Classic FM, Scala Radio, and on YouTube. Recognition
<mask> received the International Grainger Society's Medallion in 1992 and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2001 "for service to music through the performance and promotion of Australian compositions in the United Kingdom and internationally". She is a Steinway Artist and a represented composer with the Australian Music Centre. Personal life
In 1981 she married Edward Jackson CBE (1922-2009), a barrister, cricketer, and coach.She has a son, Matthew and a daughter, Lucy. Further reading

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External links
"International Percy Grainger Society"
"Chandos Records"
"Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - University of Melbourne"
"Bardic Edition"
"Somm Recordings"
"Interview with Mike Lowe for ‘For a Change’"

1944 births
Australian classical composers
Australian classical pianists
Australian women pianists
Australian women classical composers
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Members of the Order of Australia
Women classical pianists
University of Melbourne alumni
21st-century classical pianists
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<mask> of Poland (; ; 1 September 1288 – 19 October 1335), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast and by her two marriages Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland and Duchess consort of Austria and Styria. She was the only child of Przemysł II, Duke of Greater Poland (since 1295 King of Poland) and his second wife Richeza, herself a daughter of ex-King Valdemar of Sweden and <mask> of Denmark. Life

Early years
Born in Poznań, Ryksa was the only child born from her parents' marriage. She was named after her mother, who died after her birth, although the exact date is unknown (probably between 1289-1292). During her first years of life, she was raised by her paternal aunt Anna in the Cistercian monastery in Owińska, where she was the abbess. It was probably there that Ryksa received the news of her father's failed kidnapping and murder on 8 February 1296 in Rogoźno. The death of the Polish King completely changed the geopolitical situation in this part of Europe, and also clearly influenced the fate of the now orphaned young princess, who was now placed under the care of her stepmother Margaret of Brandenburg, member of the House of Ascania (who took part in the conspiracy to kill Przemysł II).During the marriage ceremony of Przemysł II and Margaret (bef. 13 April 1293), Ryksa was betrothed to Otto of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (Margaret's brother), so her stepmother was also her future sister-in-law. Although Margaret received parts of Greater Poland as her dower, shortly after her husband's death, and for unknown reasons, she returned to Brandenburg, taking Ryksa with her. Otto's unexpected death on 11 March 1299 ended the betrothal and Ryksa returned to Greater Poland. Engagement and marriage with Wenceslaus II
The death of Otto of Brandenburg complicated again Ryksa's situation, because as

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 the only child of the last male member of the Piast Greater Poland line and the first King in almost two centuries, she was the perfect match for every contender to the Polish crown. For this, when King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (a widower since 1297) received from the lords of Greater Poland the offer of marriage with the princess, he didn't think too much, and even before his own coronation as King of Poland on 25 July 1300 in Gniezno, Ryksa was sent to Prague. Because of her youth, Wenceslaus II decided to delay the wedding until Ryksa was fifteen years old.During this time, she was placed under the care of Gryfina of Halych, widow of Leszek II the Black and aunt of the Bohemian King. The marriage between Ryksa and Wenceslaus II took place on 26 May 1303 in Prague Cathedral. During the ceremony, Ryksa was crowned Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland, and at the request of her husband, she adopted the name Elisabeth, because her name was not used in Bohemia  and seen as strange. The ceremony was performed with the consent of the Archbishops of Mainz and Gniezno and the Bishop of Wrocław, Henryk z Wierzbnej. Two years later, on 15 June 1305, Queen <mask> gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Agnes. Only six days later, on 21 June, King Wenceslaus II died in Prague, probably of tuberculosis. The seventeen-year-old <mask>, now Queen Dowager, received several lands as her dowry and 20,000 pieces of fine silver.Short government of Wenceslaus III and marriage with Rudolph of Habsburg

<mask>'s stepson Wenceslaus III (also a claimant to the throne of Hungary) succeeded to the thrones of both Bohemia and Poland but was murdered on 4 August 1306 in Olomouc, and with him the Přemyslid dynasty became extinct. The Kujavian branch of the Piast dynasty ascended to the Polish throne. With the death of

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 her stepson, the position of <mask> again changed considerably, because as Queen Dowager, she was involved in the fight for the vacant Bohemian throne. Duke Rudolph III of Austria and Styria, son of King Albert I of Germany, finally could take the crown thanks to his father's help. In order to strengthen his position, he arranged his marriage to <mask>, both widow and stepmother of the last two Premyslid Kings. The marriage took place in Prague on 16 October 1306; however, <mask>'s second time as Queen consort was short-lived: King Rudolph died on 4 July 1307 of dysentery after becoming ill during the siege of the fortress of a nobleman in revolt. In his will, Rudolph acknowledged <mask>'s dowry towns and left her an additional 20,000 pieces of fine silver.Rule over Hradec Králové

After her second husband's death, <mask> left Prague and settled in Hradec Králové, one of her dower towns, which became the center of her domains. However, soon after, she was again involved in the civil war for the Bohemian crown, this time between Henry of Carinthia and Frederick I of Austria, Rudolph's brother. In the fight, <mask> strongly supported her brother-in-law; for this, she was forced to flee from her lands, which were occupied by Henry. It was only in August 1308 when the Dowager Queen was able to return to Hradec Králové, which she transformed into a center of culture and art. Relationship with Henry of Lipá and conflicts with John of Luxembourg

In 1310 John of Luxembourg became the new King of Bohemia, thanks to his marriage to <mask>, daughter of King Wenceslaus II and his first wife. John's rule faced substantial opposition from Bohemian nobles, who decided to support <mask>a. One of the main reasons for <mask>'s opposition was her wounded pride, for now she was degraded in status because of the new

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 Queen consort, her own stepdaughter.The second important leader of the anti-Luxembourg faction was the powerful nobleman Jindřich of Lipá (Henry of Lipá), who was the Moravian Hetman and Governor of the Bohemian Kingdom in the absence of the King. Soon a romantic relationship developed between <mask> and Henry of Lipá, which, for political reasons, never led to marriage. (This was not only due to the difference in their status, but also because a marriage with the Dowager Queen would give Henry of Lipá claims to the throne.) In order to weaken the position of the powerful nobility, in 1315, King John deprived Henry of all his offices and imprisoned him. However, the position and popularity of the Dowager Queen was so strong in Bohemia that John, fearing a civil war, released him in April 1316. Alliance with Henry I of Jawor, peace with King John of Bohemia and sale of Hradec Králové

Despite her conciliatory gestures toward King John, <mask>a continued to dictate her own independent policies, as was evidenced in 1317, when she arranged the betrothal of her only daughter, Agnes, to the Piast Silesian Duke Henry I of Jawor, who in order to secure his future mother-in-law's patrimony and with her consent, entered Hradec Králové with his army and began expeditions in support of rebels against King John. However, one year later, and thanks to the mediation of Emperor Louis IV (Henry I's brother-in-law) a peace treaty was signed in Domažlice, which restored Henry of Lipá in King John's favor and regained for him all of his previous offices.In addition, the Dowager Queen sold her dowry towns to King John and settled with her lover in Brno. Afterward, the relations between the Bohemia King John and <mask>a were peaceful, to the point that a certain weakness could be interpreted by King John's actions,

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 made evident in his approval of grants to the Cistercian convent in Moravia in response to the request of the Dowager Queen. The formal marriage between Agnes and Henry I of Jawor took place in 1319; after a miscarriage some time later, the couple remained childless. Death of Henry of Lipá, becoming a nun and last years

Henry of Lipá died in Brno on 26 August 1329. After his loss, <mask>a took the veil in the local convent, which she had generously endowed, and turned her attention to culture and religion, building churches and Cistercian convents, and financing the crafting of illuminated hymn books. Four years later, and together with her daughter Agnes, she went on a long pilgrimage to the shrines of the Rhine, returning a few months later. <mask>, Dowager Queen of Poland and Bohemia (known in Bohemian literature as a "beautiful Polish girl"), died on 19 October 1335 in the local Cistercian monastery at Brno and, according to her wishes, was buried under the floor of her cloister church - Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, Brno, next to her beloved Henry of Lipá.In her will she made several donations to ecclesiastical institutions in both Bohemia and Poland (especially in Poznań, her birthplace). Ancestors

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<mask> (豆盧革) (died August 24, 927?) was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms state Later Tang (and, briefly, Later Tang's predecessor state Jin), serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Later Tang's first two emperors Li Cunxu and Li Siyuan. As a chancellor commissioned by Li Cunxu, he did not fit in with the officials trusted by Li Siyuan, and was eventually exiled and forced to commit suicide. Background and service under Wang Chuzhi
It is not known where or when <mask>e was born. His family was from a prominent aristocratic line, but all that was recorded in historical accounts about his immediate ancestors were that both his grandfather <mask> () and father <mask> () served as prefectural prefects — although the biography of the Tang chancellor <mask>an indicated that <mask>an was a younger brother of <mask>an's and thus <mask>e was a nephew to <mask>an. In <mask>e's youth, due to the late-Tang Dynasty disturbances, he took refuge, successively, at Fu Prefecture (鄜州, in modern Yan'an, Shaanxi) and Yan Prefecture (延州, also in modern Yan'an), before ending up in Zhongshan (中山, in modern Baoding, Hebei). Wang Chuzhi, who was then the military governor of Yiwu Circuit (義武, headquartered at Zhongshan), treated him with respect and invited him to serve on staff, and it was said that he was good at writing and bookkeeping.Once, when at Wang's request, Doulu wrote an elegant poem about mulberry trees, and thereafter became more respected and promoted to be an assistant to Wang. However, it was said that he did not have upright

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 behavior; for example, on one occasion, when he requested meeting Wang alone, Wang thought that Doulu had important suggestions to correct his governance, and came out of the mansion to personally welcome Doulu in. Instead, Doulu only had requests for military commissions for people he favored. Service under Li Cunxu
The historical records do not clearly indicate whether <mask> Ge continued to serve on staff of Wang's adoptive son Wang Du after Wang Du seized the circuit from Wang Chuzhi in 921. However, he was still described as assistant to the military governor of Yiwu as of 923, suggesting that he did. That year, Li Cunxu the Prince of Jin, to whom Wang Du was a vassal, was preparing to declare himself emperor of a new Later Tang, and was trying to find officials from Tang aristocratic families that he could make chancellors. He initially wanted to make an assistant to himself, Lu Zhi (), chancellor, but Lu declined, recommending Doulu and Lu Cheng instead.Li thus summoned <mask> and Lu Cheng to his provisional imperial government and made them chancellors of the provisional government. In summer 923, Li formally declared himself emperor of Later Tang at Xingtang (興唐, in modern Handan, Hebei). He gave both <mask> and Lu Cheng designations as Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (), making them chancellors, and Doulu was also given the post of Menxia Shilang (門下侍郎, deputy head of the examination bureau of government (門下省, Menxia Sheng). It was said that both he and Lu Cheng were frivolous and lacked talent to serve as chancellors, but Li commissioned them

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texts: on account of their aristocratic backgrounds and (in Lu's case) having long served on his staff. (Lu was removed later that year, leaving Doulu as the sole chancellor at that time.) Subsequently, as Li was about to launch a surprise attack on archrival Later Liang's capital Daliang, he left Doulu, Li Shaohong, Zhang Xian (), and Wang Zhengyan () in charge of defending Xingtang. After the attack was successful (causing Later Liang's emperor Zhu Zhen to commit suicide as the Later Tang forces approached, ending Later Liang), Li, after he entered Daliang and took over the Later Liang governmental structure, summoned Doulu to him to continue to serve as chancellor.It was said, though, that the actual governmental authorities were in the hands of Li's chief of staff Guo Chongtao (who was also given a chancellor designation), leaving <mask> with little to do. Further, it was said that in drafting regulations on governmental structure, Doulu, due to his lack of talent, was making many mistakes, requiring corrections by his subordinate Xiao Xifu (). Later, Guo recommended Zhao Guangyin to also be chancellor, and Doulu recommended Wei Shuo to also be chancellor, so Li made both Zhao and Wei chancellors as well. Doulu himself was also given the post of director of salt and iron monopolies, as well as acting director of material pricing. He resigned the director of material pricing responsibilities in 924, after he was discovered by his deputy Kong Qian, who coveted the post, of an improper expenditure, as Kong then revealed it to Guo, who in turn informed him of the


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 discovery. (Kong's design on the position was, for the time being, fruitless, however, as Guo recommended Zhang for the post instead, although, then, as Kong's urging, Doulu recommended Wang instead.) Meanwhile, both Doulu and Wei developed poor reputations as chancellors, as Wei was said to be frivolous, and the people blamed Doulu for recommending him.Further, both Doulu and Wei commissioned their sons <mask> Sheng () and Wei Tao () respectively, as governmental advisors serving below them, which was considered improper — and after this was exposed, they removed their sons from those posts but each other's sons to serve as imperial scholars in the imperial institutes that they oversaw — Doulu Ge was overseeing Hongwen Pavilion () and Wei was overseeing Jianxian Institute (), respectively, further hurting their reputation, as this was considered an improper exchange of favors. Further, Doulu was said to be not interested in finding talented people to serve in the imperial administration, but spending his time on alchemy, seeking to extend his life. On one occasion, after he took some allegedly life-extending medications, he vomited blood for several days and nearly died before recovering. Trying to ingratiate Guo, he intimated to Guo that Guo might be a descendant of the great Tang general Guo Ziyi, leading Guo to arrogantly assert so from that point on. Service under Li Siyuan
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texts: <mask> (born September 10, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is regarded as a premier penalty-killer, both for his strong defensive skills and ability to score and set up shorthanded goals. In 2007, he became the youngest player (18 years and 153 days) to score a hat trick in league history. <mask> grew up playing minor hockey for the Thunder Bay Kings AAA organization. After his minor midget year, <mask> was selected in the first round (2nd overall) by the Peterborough Petes. He was the second <mask> in the NHL, after older brother Eric was drafted second overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. After a two-year Ontario Hockey League (OHL) career, in which he won a J. Ross Robertson Cup and appeared in the 2006 Memorial Cup with the Peterborough Petes, <mask> was drafted second overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.He made the immediate jump from junior to the NHL after being drafted and set several NHL records in his rookie season, including youngest player to score on a penalty shot, to score two shorthanded goals in one game, to score a hat trick and the most shorthanded goals by a rookie in one season. <mask> was also a Calder Memorial Trophy nominee and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team. Among his former Penguins teammates, <mask> was known as "Gronk." The nickname, a reference to a Marvel comic book supervillain, was given to him by former Penguins teammate Colby Armstrong, because of his strong on-ice presence. <mask> won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Penguins in 2009, scoring two goals and an assist in the seven-game series against the Detroit Red Wings. One year prior, he lost the 2008 finals against the same Red Wings. <mask> is one of three brothers currently playing professional hockey in the NHL.The eldest, Eric, who is currently an unrestricted free agent, also played for (and captained) the

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 Hurricanes until February 28, 2016. The youngest and fourth brother, Jared, made his NHL debut on April 25, 2013, on a line together with <mask> and Eric before retiring in 2017. The second-eldest, Marc, plays defence for the Detroit Red Wings. Playing career

Junior

Peterborough Petes
Staal played major junior in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Peterborough Petes for two seasons, beginning in 2004–05 after having been selected third overall in the 2004 OHL Priority Draft. In his second year with the club, he produced at a point-per-game pace with 28 goals and 68 points in 68 games before adding 16 points in the playoffs to help lead Peterborough to the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions. Earning a berth in the 2006 Memorial Cup, the Petes did not, however, make it past the round-robin. During the course of the 2005–06 season, <mask> was also selected to play in the 2006 CHL Top Prospects Game.Going into the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> was ranked second among North American skaters by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau, behind Erik Johnson of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. He went on to be drafted second overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins, behind Johnson, who was selected by the St. Louis Blues. <mask> became the third among the four <mask> brothers to be drafted into the NHL after his older brothers Marc and Eric, who was also selected second overall. Professional

Pittsburgh Penguins (2006–2012)
<mask> was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract by the Penguins on October 2, 2006, and made the immediate jump from junior to the NHL in 2006–07 at the age of 18. He scored his first NHL goal on October 12, a shorthanded breakaway marker against New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist in a 6–5 win. Later that month, on October 21, <mask> set a pair of NHL records with a two-goal effort against the Columbus Blue Jackets. In addition to becoming the youngest player to record a two-goal game since Bep

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texts: Guidolin of the Boston Bruins did so at the age of 18 years and 12 days on December 21, 1943, <mask> also scored both his goals on the penalty kill, becoming the youngest player to record two shorthanded goals in one game (surpassing Radek Dvořák of the Florida Panthers, who did so at 20 years and 278 days on December 12, 1997).Having scored his second shorthanded marker on a penalty shot, <mask> additionally became the youngest player to score on a penalty shot, surpassing Nathan Horton, who scored with Florida at 18 years and 224 days on January 8, 2004. Early in <mask>'s rookie season, however, there was still speculation that he would be returned to his junior team before playing his 10th game to avoid allowing him to accrue a full season under the NHL's collective bargaining agreement. Due to his strong play, however, particularly on the penalty-kill, the Penguins chose to keep him for the remainder of the season. <mask>, along with fellow rookie Evgeni Malkin joined superstar Sidney Crosby, who had himself only entered his second NHL season, and goaltender Marc-André Fleury to form an effective young nucleus that revived the Penguins franchise. In January 2007, <mask> participated in the NHL YoungStars Game during the All-Star festivities, along with teammates Ryan Whitney and Malkin. Shortly thereafter, on February 10, 2007, <mask> scored his first NHL career hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs and set yet another NHL record by becoming the youngest player in league history to score a hat trick at 18 years and 153 days. His first goal came at 19:22 in the first period, the second came at 3:32 in the second, and his third was the game winner, as he beat Toronto goalie Andrew Raycroft stick-side at 3:54 in overtime.The previous mark had been held for over sixty years by Jack Hamilton, who achieved a four-goal game at 18 years and 185 days old with the Maple Leafs against the New York Rangers on December 4, 1943. Then, late in

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texts: the season, on March 6, <mask> scored his league-leading seventh shorthanded goal of the season to break the previous league record for shorthanded tallies by a rookie, set by Gerry Minor of the Vancouver Canucks in 1980–81 and matched by John Madden in 1999–2000. The goal cued a late third period comeback for the Penguins to win 5–4 in a shootout against the Ottawa Senators. <mask> completed his rookie season with 29 goals, second in rookie goal-scoring to teammate Malkin, and 42 points for a Calder Memorial Trophy nomination. The award was given to Malkin, while <mask> finished third in voting, behind first runner-up Paul Stastny of the Colorado Avalanche. <mask> also joined Malkin and Stastny on the NHL All-Rookie Team. The next season, in 2007–08, however, Staal's production suffered a setback, managing just 12 goals and 28 points.Regardless, he was an integral part of the Penguins' 2008 playoff run to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Detroit Red Wings. Playing in the semi-finals against the Philadelphia Flyers, <mask> briefly left the Penguins to attend his grandfather's funeral during the series, but returned for a two-goal game four effort, in which he cued a near-comeback in the third period to cut the Flyers lead to 3–2. The Penguins were eventually defeated 4–2, but managed to eliminate the Flyers the following game. As the Penguins made their first Stanley Cup Final appearance since 1992, the last time they won the Stanley Cup, they were defeated in six games by the Red Wings. <mask> contributed 6 goals and 1 assist during the playoff run. Early in the 2008–09 season, the Penguins and Red Wings met for the first time since the Stanley Cup series on November 11, 2008. With the Penguins down by three goals in the third period, <mask> notched his second career NHL hat trick to tie the game, then set up Ruslan Fedotenko's overtime winner to defeat the Red Wings 7–6.On December 2, 2008, he was named to the rotating position of

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title: Jordan Staal

texts: alternate captain for the Penguins for the month of December. The following month, on January 8, 2009, the Penguins announced that they had extended <mask>'s contract through the 2012–13 season. Terms of the contract were for $16 million, payable as $3.5 million for the first two seasons, and then $4.5 million for the last two years, resulting in a $4 million salary cap hit. He completed the season bouncing back from the decreased production of his sophomore year with a career-high 27 assists and 49 points. On June 12, 2009, <mask> and the Penguins won the Stanley Cup when they defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2–1 at the Joe Louis Arena. <mask> had two goals and an assist in the seven-game series, and scored a shorthanded goal that was a pivotal point in Game 4 of the series. At the end of the regular season, <mask> was named as one of the three finalists for the Selke Trophy along with Pavel Datsyuk and Ryan Kesler, awarded annually to the best defensive forward in the league.On April 30, 2010, <mask> injured his right leg after his foot was sliced by Montreal Canadiens defenceman P. K. Subban's skate. He had to undergo surgery to repair a torn tendon on top of his big toe. During this injury, <mask> ended up missing Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semi-finals against the Canadiens, the first game <mask> had missed in a Penguins uniform since his rookie season – a streak of 358 consecutive games played including the playoffs. <mask> missed the entire first month of October, still recovering from foot surgery. Then, on November 1, just two days before he was to make his season debut, he was struck by a puck in practice, fracturing his hand and sidelining him again for surgery. <mask> finally made his season debut at the NHL Winter Classic on January 1, 2011. On April 18, 2012, <mask> registered his first playoff hat trick against the Philadelphia Flyers in a 10–3 victory at the Wells Fargo Center.He would finish the series with six goals

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