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 stomach surgery in Columbia University Hospital. 1967(37y)
Presented his first music composition, Septet for flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, cello and two percussion parts. 1971(41y)
Graduated from Mannes College of Miusic. 1972(42y)
Entered City College of New York to study music composition and electronic music with Mario Davidovsky, at the same time worked in Seesaw Music Corp. Started writing song Long Tao Sha with lyrics by an American poet, which was re-written in 1976 with Lee Houchu (李後主)’s poem.This is the first work in <mask>’s Ancient Chanting Series. 1976(46y)
Invited by colleague composer  () to teach in Taiwan's Soochow University's Music Department as a visiting professor for one year. 1977(47y)
Entered University of Pennsylvania graduate program, studying with George Rochberg and George Crumb. 1979(49y)
Received a master's degree from U.Penn. In the same year, he returned to Taiwan and taught at Soochow University Music Department as a lecturer. Reflection and Heart-Searching

1988(58y)
Received Taiwan's Golden Tripod Awards with the publication of his Piano Four-Hand, recorded by Lina Yeh and Rolf-Peter Wille. 1993(63y)
Received Taiwan's Miniarey of Education's 18th National Award for Arts of Taiwan with his Fantasy for Orchestra I – Sea Winds and a Singing Voice.1994(64y)
Presented works at Taipei Theater in New York on September 4 with fellow Taiwanese composers. 1995(65y)
 Beyond the Smoke/A Bird Flies By-<mask>n’s Musical World, a concert featuring <mask> <mask>'s music, was held in Taiwan's National Concert Hall on October 26, presented by Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei, conducted by Chun-Fung Lee(). 1996(66y)
Retired from Soochow University and continued to teach as an associate professor. Maturity and Freedom

1998(68y)
Received Taiwan's Second National Arts and Cultural Medal. 1999(69y)
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 on June 6 at Music Forum Musique Theatre, his Septet, Long Tao Sha, Duet for Flute and Piano, Moon, A Postcard for Messiaen, and Piano Prelude were performed. 2000(70y)
Concert Parnassus from <mask>n featuring Yen’s 10 art songs was held to celebrate his 70th birthday on January 5, performed by Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei, conducted by Chun-Fung Lee. 2002(72y)
Received the honor of Chair Professor of Soochow University.2003(73y)
Received TECO Award’s Music Composition Medal. Song Album of Yen Lu, which contains Four Luofu Songs, Tower in the Woods, and Furniture Music, was published in March, sponsored by Department of Cultural Affairs of Taipei. Tower in the Woods were performed and discussed in Contemporary Music Forum of Yen Lu’s Music at Music Forum Musique Theatre. 2004(74y)
Presented My Artistic Journey in Ethno Music Composition Forum in March. 2005(75y)
Yen Lu 75 th Birthday Concert was held on November 20th at Music Forum's Recital Hall, in which Four Preludes for Piano (1979), Piano Four-Hand (1987), Two Preludes for Piano (1999), Impromptu for Piano (2005), and Song for Cello (1997) were presented along with students’ music compositions as gifts. Pianists Daming Zhu (諸大明), Lina Yeh (), Rolf-Peter Wille, Mei-Ya Lo () Hsin-Jung Hsieh (), and cellist Hsien-Liang Lien () joined this concert. 2007(77y)
Married for the first time in life, with Ms. Ya-shih (a.k.a.Alice, Su-Chih, Shih-Ya) Cherng. Diagnosed with oral cancer by the end of 2007. 2008(78y)
Died of oral cancer on October 1. References

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title: Karen Cockburn

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<mask> (born October 2, 1980) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the individual event. She won a gold medal at the 2003 Trampoline World Championships in Hannover, Germany in the same event and a bronze in the team event. At the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the individual event. <mask> was born in Toronto and grew up in North York, Ontario. She began trampolining at age 11, and is a student at York University. She is a member of the Skyriders Trampoline Place and is coached by Dave Ross.Following the Lake Placid and Quebec City World Cup competitions that took place in April 2007, the FIG World Rankings were updated. The women's ranking saw four time World Champion and five time World Cup Final winner Irina Karavaeva of Russia retake top place from <mask> in Women's Individual Trampoline after Karavaeva won the gold medal at both of the World Cups. <mask> and her partner, Rosannagh MacLennan, were ranked first in Women's Synchronised Trampoline following their two winning performances in 2007. Career
After winning the Canadian National Trampoline Championships seven years in a row, <mask> made an error in her second routine (of three) and came in 6th place in the 2005 finals on June 1, 2005. She was beaten by her partner in synchronized trampoline, Rosannagh MacLennan. Later in June, she competed in the Trampoline World Cup and came in 3rd in the individual competition and won gold in synchronized trampoline with Rosannagh MacLennan. In September 2005 at the Trampoline World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the pair came 2nd in synchronized trampoline and <mask> came 6th in the individual event.In the 2006 Canadian National Trampoline championships

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texts: in Quebec City, <mask> regained her title beating MacLennan into second place, on May 20, 2006. On November 25, 2006, <mask> won both the Individual gold medal and, with MacLennan, the synchronized gold medal at the Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup Final competition in Birmingham. In April 2007 at the Lake Placid Trampoline World Cup, the <mask> and MacLennan achieved a new female synchronised trampoline routine world record for difficulty with a DD of 14.20. At the 2007 Canadian Trampoline Championships in Regina, Saskatchewan, <mask> took first place, edging out MacLennan by 2.5 points with a score of 106.90 in the Women's Senior Individual trampoline category. In the category of synchronized trampoline, <mask> and MacLennan won the gold with a score of 131.70. On November 3, 2007, at the 2007 Trampoline World Championships in Quebec City, <mask> and MacLennan won the synchronised event, maintaining their unbroken string of nine first-place finishes in World Cup and World Championships. In the individual final, <mask> did not complete her routine and finished in 8th place.However, her and MacLennan's rankings in the preliminary round earned two women's places at the 2008 Olympic Games for Canada. On June 7, 2008, <mask> won her 10th Senior Women's Trampoline Canadian Championship in Calgary, beating MacLennan into second place. Both women, however, with Jason Burnett were named to compete for Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. <mask> qualified for the finals in 4th place, and on August 18, 2008, she won a silver medal in the women's final at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was the only trampoline athlete to have won a medal at every Olympic Games at which the event has been competed until her 4th-place finish in the 2012 London

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texts: Olympics. She was selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Following the 2008 Olympic Games, <mask> did not compete again until the 2009 Canadian National Championships in Hamilton, Ontario.She came in second place after Rosannagh MacLennan. In the synchronised competition, she paired with MacLennan but they did not complete one routine and came in second place. She regained the Canadian National Championship in 2010 at Kamloops, British Columbia with MacLennan coming in 2nd place. In the 2009 Trampoline World Championships in St Petersburg, Russia, <mask> won the Bronze medal in Individual trampoline in her first international competition since the Beijing Olympics. She also won a silver medal in Synchronised Trampoline with her usual partner Rosannagh Maclennan. In 2011, <mask> did not compete in the Canadian National Championships and was sick for the Finals of the 2011 Pan American Games. In the 2011 Trampoline World Championships in Birmingham, England, <mask> and MacLennan secured two places for Canadian women in the 2012 Summer Olympics and <mask> won a Silver medal for the synchronised trampoline event (with MacLennan) and a Bronze medal for the Team competition.In 2012, <mask> finished in 4th place in the 2012 Summer Olympics's individual trampoline. In 2014, <mask> resumed training after giving birth to a daughter in 2013. She is attempting to qualify for the 2015 Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. She stated that she wanted to compete in a major international event before her hometown crowd before she retired. She competed in the 2014 Canadian National Champuionships in Ottawa and was third. While training at the Trampoline World Championships in Daytona Beach, Florida, in November

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 2014, she landed badly and broke her ankle forcing her to withdraw from the competition. <mask> received the honour of being selected to pronounce the athletes' oath in front of her home crowd in Toronto during the opening ceremonies of the 2015 Pan-American Games.Competing at these games, she placed third in the women's individual trampolining event. On July 16, 2017, at the 2017 Canadian National Trampoline and Tumbling Championships, <mask> officially retired at a ceremony held to honour her contribution to the sport. As of 2019 she was the National Team Director for Trampoline Gymnastics at Gymnastics Canada. Personal life
<mask> married her fellow-Olympian and former training partner Mathieu Turgeon on December 22, 2007. In September 2013, she gave birth to a daughter. Her autobiography, called <mask>: Soaring High, was published in November 2007. References

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<mask> (born 14 April 1948) is a Polish lyrical abstraction painter and neofiguration painter and performance artist. Early life & family
Karwowski was raised in a small town in Eastern Poland near Biebrza National Park. His father, Jozef Karwowski, was a social worker and promoter of culture and his mother Larysa (maiden name Zub) was a hairdresser. He has one younger brother, Maciej. Karwowski grew up in a multigenerational family under the strong influence of his father and Russian grandfather, Szymon Zub. His father gave him his first drawing lesson, and his grandfather was also creative, writing poetry and singing old Russian songs. His later work was influenced by Polish and Russian culture and traditions, as well as a childhood surrounded by the wilderness that encouraged his sensitivity and strong feelings of individualism.Painting and performance art

After graduating high school Karwowski started painting more and experimenting with different forms of art. He changed homes and universities several times while looking for a place where he could fully develop his talents. He worked as a miner while conducting his search, and later joined the Fine Arts Faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he became a professional artist. In early 80s Karwowski and Zbigniew Oleszynski started a Polish performance group known as "Group A". From that time on, Karwowski has been heavily engaged in performance art, both as an organizer and a participant. Since 2003 he has organized the International Performance & Intermedia Festival in Szczecin. Throughout his career Karwowski has created his own style of which a Berlin art critic said, "From his images comes colorful light, which is created by perfection in his workshop.Metaphor of this light gives magical, surreal meaning to figurative elements in his paintings. The power of his paintings, aside from illuminating colors,


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 comes from the richness of symbolic meanings and certain multilayer by which Karwowski ’s paintings are far from simple decorative function." Karwowski's paintings focus on color and light. His paintings are housed in various private collections in Europe. He has also been commissioned by compound corporations and institutions, such as the Clinic in Dortmund (Germany) in 2005. For the clinic, he created 53m long wall panels that have received attention from a wide audience. Zwijndrechts echtpaar ijvert voor Oost-Europese kunst, De Zwijndrechtse Kombinatie, 04.02.1987.Lillemor Svensson, Polska målare i Vänersborg, Trollhättans Tidning, 26.03.1988. C.F.Garde, Kvindelighed på flere måder, Politiken, 25.02.1992. Polska abstraktioner hos Några Målare, Ela, 11.02.1993. Kulturen blomstrar på landet, Svenska Dagbladet, 26.02.1993. Ingeborg Schwenke-Runkel, In die Wiesen längs der Oder, Kölner Stadt – Anzeiger, 05.03.1996. Wolfgang Cassel, Vielfalt der polnischen Kunst, Lübecker Nachreichten, 22.06 1996. Vier Künstler aus Stettin, Ostholsteiner Anzeiger, 28.06.1996.Licht, Dunkelheit und flammende Energie, Hamburger Abendblatt, 12.04.1997. Zwei Künstler aus Stetin, Altländer Tageblatt, 12.04.1997. Karin M.Erdtmann, Mit Tauchsieder und Toilettenfrau- Neue Galerie zeigt <mask> Karwowski, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 28.05.1997. Im Tabakspeicher Kunst erleben, Schwedter Stadtanzeiger, 25.06.2000. Marita Poschitzki, Ausstellung auch in Stettin geplant, Uckemärker, 03.05.2001. Sprache der Natur, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 19.04.2002
Performance polsko-niemiecki, Karwowski i Deimling, Głos Szczeciński, 13.06.2003

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 68Elf Gallery, Cologne
 Galerie Anders, Luenen
 Klinikum Dortmund
 ArtNews.org
 AND - Artist Network Database
 rhiz.eu

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title: Guy Warren

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<mask> of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008), was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and as a member of The Tempos, alongside E. T. Mensah. He also inspired musicians such as Fela Kuti. <mask>'s virtuosity on the African drums earned him the appellation "The Divine Drummer". At different stages of his life, he also worked as a journalist, DJ and broadcaster. Biography
He was born <mask> in Accra in the then Gold Coast on 4 May 1923 to Richard Mabuo Akwei, founder of the Ghana National School, and Susana Awula Abla Moore. Named by his parents after <mask>, the 29th president of the United States, he changed his name in 1943 to <mask>. When he was in the U.S. it became "<mask> of Ghana".He changed it to "Ghanaba" on 1 July 1974, Ghana's Republic Day. He was educated at the Government Boys' School, Accra, from 1928 to 1939. During this time, he developed his interest in music by playing for the school band. After passing with distinction, he enrolled at Odorgonno Secondary School in 1940. During the same year, he joined the Accra Rhythmic Orchestra under Yeboah Mensah as a drummer. He won a government teacher training scholarship to Achimota College, Accra, in 1941 with the intention of becoming a teacher at his father's school. While at Achimota, he participated in sports.He dropped out of the college in 1942 because, as he later said, "I was bored stiff with my studies and the stern discipline of the college, which attempted to change me into an Englishman." In 1943 <mask> enlisted in the Office of Strategic Services, a branch of the United States Army that dealt with overt and covert operations in World War II. He returned to Accra in the same year and joined the Spectator Daily as a reporter under the editor Robert Wuta-Ofei. He was editor of the Daily Echo, Gold Coast Independent, and Star of West

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 Africa between 1950 and 1952. In 1944 he began broadcasting jazz programs while working at the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service under the name <mask>, which he continued using for the next three decades. In 1951, he did a series of jazz programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), becoming the first African to host programs with the service. He also acted in the 1951 film The Boy Kumasenu, playing the role of Yeboah.He worked at Station ELBC, the National Broadcasting Service of Liberia, as assistant director and disc jockey between 1953 and 1955. He joined E. T. Mensah and others to form the jazz band The Tempos but left the band in 1951. In 1955 <mask> left for Chicago and joined the Gene Esposito Band as co-leader, percussionist, and arranger. With them he recorded his first album, Africa Speaks, America Answers (Decca, 1956). African music was popular, but it had not been integrated with world music until <mask>. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Osibisa popularized Ghanaba's music. During his stay in America, he worked with Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Charlie Parker, and Louis Armstrong.By 1974 he had returned to Ghana, where on 1 July 1974, Republic Day, he changed his name to "Ghanaba". He later said: "After the United States disillusioned me, I wanted to resurrect the African component of jazz. African interpretations of jazz were different than African American version I heard in the U.S. I discovered Africanness in the U.S. ... I wanted to do African music." In the 1990s, he played a role in the film Sankofa (1993), written and directed by Haile Gerima, who was working in the United States. It was filmed also in Ghana and Burkina Faso.Ghanaba continued to make music until his death on 22 December 2008. He was buried in a coffin designed as a drum by Eric Adjetey Anang of Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop. Family
Ghanaba's parents were Susana Awula Abla Moor and Richard Mabuo Akwei, founder and first headmaster of Ghana

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 National School in Accra. As a child Ghanaba was a boisterous free spirit who found little peace and comfort with the strictness of his father. Richard Akwei, a disciplinarian, was an educationist and founder of the Akwei Memorial School in central Accra; also a sports administrator, he is credited with being the first Ghanaian Chief Executive of the Central Organization of Sports (COS), later known as the Sports Council. Ghanaba was married twice and had six children. His first son, <mask> Jr., a.k.a."Odinga Oginga", is an artist specialising in sculpting, painting and carving. His second child, Glenn Gillespie <mask>, also called "Ghanababa" (the son of Ghanaba), is a jazz drummer who played on the album That Happy Feeling (Safari, 1979). He recorded Bomdigi (Safari, 2008), the last album featuring Ghanaba. Glenn was chosen by Ghanaba to carry on his work, which was formally marked when Ghanaba handed Glenn his drumsticks. Ghanaba's third son, Gamal Abdel Nasser <mask>, a.k.a. The President, was named after president Nasser of Egypt. His fourth son, Gamaliel <mask>, inherited his father's musical talent as a jazz drummer.In 1976, Ghanaba met and married Mrs Felicia Ghanaba, a Togolese living in Ghana. She bore Ghanaba a daughter whom they named Medie ("mine"); she is known as Medie Ghanaba Lemay. In 1982 the couple had a second daughter named Gye Nyame Hosanna Ghanaba. Music career

1940–80
He began his career under the name <mask> as a disc jockey in 1944 with several jazz programs on the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service (later Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) and Z.O.Y. Accra. He described his performance on the drums as love-making, seeing the African drums as a woman who could not be satisfied. While the punch and power of his playing easily tore the vinyl covering on Western-made drums, the animal skin covering the African drums remained intact.Nii Anum Telfer describes climbing on stage with Ghanaba as a feeling he would

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texts: always remember. A firecracker would announce their entrance. As Seth Paris notes, "With fellow musicians, like saxophonist Joe Kelly and bassist Oscarmore Ofori, <mask> was part of the generation to bring the influences of African-American musical styles into mainstream Ghanaian culture. During 1948, <mask> worked with Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists in the UK, and when he returned to Ghana, helped introduce Afro-Cuban rhythms to the country." Travelling to the U.S. in 1954, he spent some years working there although he found little commercial success. Once before a U.S. show <mask> appeared backstage in authentic African wear. But the owner of the club (African Room) was trying to force him to wear what he considered an "Uncle Tom" outfit with a tattered straw hat, which was the norm for Calypso and African musicians at the time.Ghanaba adamantly refused to change, beginning a trend that was copied both on and off stage. Ghanaba said in a 1973 interview with John Collins, "I had to make a choice between being a poor imitation of Buddy Rich or playing something they couldn't. I could play jazz well, but I possessed something nobody else had, so I started to play African music with a little bit of jazz thrown in, not jazz with a little African thrown in." In 1956 his first album, Africa Speaks, America Answers, was recorded for Decca. It confirmed Ghanaba's reputation as a credible musician. It cross-fertilized African and Western rhythms and introduced authentic instrumentation into the music. In 1964, Decca and German musician Bert Kaempfert released an orchestral version of "That Happy Feeling", the most popular song on Africa Speaks, America Answers, under its original title "Eyi Wala Dong (An African's Prayer)" on Kaempfert's 1962 album A Swingin' Safari.A year later, Ghanaba worked on the release of Themes for African Drums (RCA Victor, 1958), on which he wanted to use voices, drums, and trombone, with an African influence.

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 Dubois Centre in Accra. On 18 January 2008, Ghanaba handed his drumsticks to his son Glenn "Ghanababa" <mask> at a ceremony at the National Theatre in Accra. Ghanaba died on 22 December 2008. On 21 June 2009, a tribute was held at the Jazz Gallery in New York with Randy Weston, Obo Addy, and Kwaku Martin Obeng. Africa first
On 1 July 1974, the anniversary of Ghana's Republic Day, he adopted the name Ghanaba.From a young age he wanted to remain true to his African roots. His pride in his African heritage was revealed in his music and the clothes he wore. His goal was to make the African presence felt in world music. Max Roach said in 1974 that Ghanaba wanted to strengthen "Afro-American music" by turning to African music for inspiration. He was disturbed by the desire of many Ghanaians for material goods manufactured outside the country. Ghanaba was among three people picked by Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah to give advice on political, spiritual, and personal matters. He repeated the same service to Jerry John Rawlings when he became head of state.In the 1970s Ghanaba joined African Obonu (later known as the Ghanababii) and others to perform the monthly Free South Africa Shows. These were organized at the Accra Community Centre in solidarity with Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa in the fight against apartheid. Other shows were organized to commemorate important dates in African history, such as Namibia's Independence Day, and also to honor Africans such as boxers Azumah Nelson and Ike Quartey. He was an avid reader who had a sign in his house that read "I would rather read". He collected books, newspapers, and other material that he hoped could be catalogued. New York University expressed interest in his collections. A professor of African Studies at the school established the African Heritage Library in Accra with most of the material coming from Ghanaba's collections.Decades earlier, he had wanted to donate it to the


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 government of Nigeria because of its commitment to the second edition of the World Festival of Black Arts in 1977. A supporter of Pan-Africanist, he opined that if political and economic developments do not go hand in hand with cultural developments no progress would be made. The Ghanaba Afro-Jazz Gallery is an independent art project "dedicated to honouring, and preserving, the legacy of the legendary Kofi Ghanaba" and to promoting Afro-Jazz music and culture. The title of Robin D. G. Kelley's book Africa Speaks, America Answers (2012) is taken from Ghanaba's 1956 album of the same name. Hallelujah! a film by Steven Feld about Ghanaba, was screened at the 6th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival, Albuquerque, followed by a post-screening discussion with Randy Weston and Steven Feld. Publications
 I Have a Story to Tell …, by <mask>, Accra [Ghana]: Printed by the Guinea Press, c. 1962.Tells the story of <mask>'s sojourn in America as an African jazz musician. Hey Baby! Dig Dat Happy Feelin''' – A biographical retrospective; produced by Roger Davies, Chelmsford, UK, 2003. Discography
 Africa Speaks America Answers (Decca, 1956)
 Themes for African Drums (RCA Victor, 1959)
 African Rhythms (Decca, 1962)
 Emergent Drums (Lansdowne, 1964)
 Afro-Jazz (Columbia, 1969)
 Native Africa (KPM Music, 1969)
 The African Soundz of <mask> of Ghana (Regal Zonophone, 1972)

 References

Further reading
 Steven Feld, Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana, Duke University Press, 2012. . External links
 Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music
 GhanaWeb
 "Ghanaba and the Heritage of African Jazz", Hartigan, Royal. pp. 145–164."Kofi Ghanaba: Ghanaian drummer and bandleader", The Times'', 13 February 2009. 1923 births
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<mask> (March 14, 1804 – July 31, 1842) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as a counselor in the bishopric in Kirtland, Ohio, from 1835 to 1838, then as bishop in Adam-ondi-Ahman in Daviess County, Missouri, from 1838 to 1839, and finally as bishop of the Lower Ward in Nauvoo, Illinois, having been called by Joseph Smith through revelation to that office in January 1841. <mask> served as bishop in Nauvoo until his sudden death at age 38. Early years

<mask> was born March 14, 1804, in Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Doctor <mask> and Rizpah Lee (daughter of American Revolutionary War Captain Sherebiah Lee). Following his father's death when he was five years old, his mother moved the family to upstate New York. Here <mask> married Martha McBride, daughter of itinerant pre-Campbellite minister Daniel McBride and Abigail Mead, on July 26, 1826. They ran a farm in Perrysburg, New York and had seven children: five sons and two daughters.Starting in 1833, members of the McBride family began converting to the Latter Day Saint church. <mask> was baptized into the church in 1834 in Perrysburg, after having been taught in his home by church founder Joseph Smith. Kirtland and Missouri period

In June 1835, <mask> moved his family to Kirtland, Ohio, to gather with other Latter Day Saints. They resided in a \home on the corner of Cowdery and Joseph Streets near the Kirtland Temple. (This home is still standing.) <mask> was called as a counselor in the Kirtland bishopric. <mask> and Martha received their patriarchal blessings on June 24, 1835, at the hands of Joseph Smith Sr. Martha gave birth to one son in Kirtland, <mask>, in 1835 (for whom the name was selected by Joseph Smith Sr.); he died on October 31, 1836.<mask> was ordained an elder and a high priest earlier that year. In January 1837, <mask> joined the Kirtland Safety Society. He also saw the completion of the

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 Kirtland Temple and the dedication of the School of the Prophets. In September 1837, <mask> left for Missouri with Joseph Smith and was away for two months. Deep apostasy and persecution took hold in Kirtland during that period. The <mask> family moved with other faithful Latter Day Saints in the spring of 1838 to Missouri, arriving at the end of May 1838 at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. They settled in Adam-ondi-Ahman in Daviess County, where <mask> was appointed bishop on June 28, 1838.Very quickly persecution again descended upon the <mask> family and others. Within a very brief period, <mask> and his family, suffering greatly, were driven from their home by a mob. <mask> later executed an affidavit in October 1839 itemizing a bill of damages against the State of Missouri for $10,000 in compensation for property lost and expenses incurred during the expulsion—one of the largest claims made by a Latter Day Saint family for damages suffered in Missouri. Forced to flee Missouri following Governor Bogg's Extermination Order, <mask> and his family found refuge with some friends in Pike County, near the Mississippi River, where Martha gave birth to Martha Abigail <mask> on February 9, 1839. Nauvoo period

In April 1839, <mask> traveled to Iowa to purchase land on which the Latter Day Saints could settle. He and his family moved to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois. Here, on land that <mask> helped select, he constructed a two-story red brick home on Main Street, said to be the first brick house in Nauvoo, on the same block as the homes of apostles Brigham Young and John Taylor.(This home is still standing.) In Nauvoo, <mask> was actively involved in community and religious affairs. Soon after arriving in Nauvoo, <mask> was designated aide-de-camp to Joseph Smith in the Nauvoo Legion. In January 1841, <mask> was called as bishop of the Lower Ward in Nauvoo. He also served as a member

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texts: of the first Nauvoo city council and as Regent of the University of the City of Nauvoo. During the April 1841 general conference, apostle Ezra T. Benson stayed with the <mask> family. The story is told that <mask>'s wife, Martha, knew something was worrying her husband and he could not seem to tell her about it.One evening, as Martha was sitting in the grape arbor behind the house, <mask> returned home carrying a basket. He explained to Martha that he had taken some fruit and vegetables to Philindia Clark Eldredge Merrick (Myrick), widow of Levi N. Merrick, whose husband had been killed in the Haun's Mill Massacre. <mask> explained to Martha that he had been told to enter plural marriage and that, if he had to, this Sister Merrick would be the one he could help best. Martha's reply is said to have been, "Is that all?" Because the conversation at the grape arbor apparently occurred in the fall of 1841, it is possible <mask>'s initial activities related to plural marriage were not authorized by Joseph Smith. As Helen Mar Kimball would relate, "Before my father [Heber C. Kimball] ever heard that such a principle had been revealed to Joseph Smith he said to some friends in my hearing that if 'all things were to be restored again as they were in the beginning,' as the scriptures declare them, the principle of a plurality of wives must also be restored". However it appears that by the spring of 1842, <mask> <mask> had repented of any unauthorized plural marriage activity he may have been engaged in.This is seen in the minutes of the Women's Relief Society of Nauvoo, of which <mask>'s wife, Martha, was a founding member. The organization meeting was held on March 17, 1842, in Nauvoo, which also happened to be Martha's 37th birthday. The founding purpose of Relief Society was "not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls." <mask> was possibly present on March 31, 1842, when Emma Smith read a letter warning

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 the women of Relief Society about seducers. The letter was signed by <mask> <mask> along with Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, and Heber C. Kimball. An excerpt reads:

"...such men... say they have authority from Joseph, or the First Presidency, or any other Presidency of the Church; and thus, with a lie in their mouth, deceive and debauch the innocent, under the assumption that they are authoriz'd from these sources? May God Forbid!"there are those, and we therefore warn you, & forewarn you, in the name of the Lord, to check & destroy any faith that any innocent person may have in any such character; for we do not want any one to believe any thing as coming from us... you are authoriz'd on the very first intimation of the kind, to denounce them as such, & shun them as the flying fiery serpent, whether they are prophets, Seers, or revelators; Patriarchs, twelve Apostles, Elders, Priests, Mayers, Generals, City Councillors, Aldermen, Marshalls, Police, Lord Mayors or the Devil, are alike culpable & shall be damned for such evil practices..."

Death and legacy

Just when he was increasingly involved in the affairs of Nauvoo, <mask> suddenly took ill and died on July 31, 1842, in Nauvoo. Joseph Smith preached at the funeral, stating that <mask> was the "best friend he ever had on earth." One month later, on September 3, 1842, Martha lost her and Vinson's youngest child, Rodolphus Elderkin <mask>, who was less than one year old. After Vinson's untimely death in July 1842, Martha would enter into covenant with Joseph Smith. In 1843, William Clayton documented a conversation he had with Joseph Smith discussing "delicate matters." The 23 June journal entry reads in part: "Also <mask> he [Joseph Smith] gave him one but he [<mask>] went to loose conduct and he [Joseph Smith] could not save him." As one other men mentioned in the 23 June journal entry had died and another had suffered a heart attack, the

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 reference to saving may refer to the fact that Vinson died despite likely attempts to prolong his life via faith healing, rather than asserting that Vinson was damned for the "loose conduct."When it became possible to solemnize eternal marriages with deceased spouses in the Nauvoo temple in 1845-1846, Martha chose to be eternally united or sealed to Joseph Smith rather than <mask>. Heber C. Kimball acted as Joseph's proxy in the ceremony, and thus became Martha's husband "for time". The woman traditionally considered to have become <mask>'s plural wife in 1841, Philindia Clark Eldredge Merrick (Myrick), also declined to unite herself with <mask> in eternity. Notable descendants of <mask> include Francis M. Gibbons and Larry W. Gibbons, both of whom became general authorities in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Possible first Presiding Bishop

According to an analysis by D. Michael Quinn, <mask> could be considered the first Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church. Edward Partridge, the first man called to be a Mormon bishop, died in 1840. This was before <mask> <mask> was called "to preside over the bishopric" (See D&C 124:141).Though the office of Presiding Bishop arguably didn't exist until 1847, Edward Partridge, rather than <mask> <mask>, is recognized by the LDS Church as the first Presiding Bishop. See also
 Belnap Family Organization

References

External links
 Belnap Family Organization: Histories and Documents: <mask> <mask> (1804–1842)

Vinson Knight account book, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Gilbert Belnap papers, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

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American Latter Day Saint leaders
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John Edward "<mask><mask> (born December 4, 1951) is an American sports columnist, commentator, and television personality. He is well-known for his work as a commentator on the ESPN2 show First Take with Stephen A. Smith, a show which he left in June 2016. <mask> debuted his new show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe on Fox Sports 1 on September 6, 2016. Early years

<mask> was born as <mask> II in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His father, John Sr., immediately began calling him Skip – his father also had called his mother "Skip", as in "skipper of the ship". The name instantly stuck, and <mask> was never called John by his parents, to the point that he eventually had his name legally changed to <mask>. His parents owned and operated the Hickory House restaurant in Oklahoma City, which specialized in barbecue.<mask> worked in the restaurant in his youth, but never considered it as a career path. His younger brother <mask> carried on the family tradition and became a chef, restaurateur and television personality. He also has a younger sister. <mask>'s interest in sports began at an early age and he played baseball and basketball <mask> was the salutatorian of Northwest Classen's graduating class of 1970. He was a two-year member of the National Honor Society and president of the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. He was also an officer in the letterman's club. At the urging of one of his English teachers, <mask> became the primary sports columnist for the school newspaper his junior and senior years.Prior to his senior year, <mask> represented Northwest Classen at Oklahoma Boys State. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Grantland Rice Scholarship (named for the sportswriter of the same name) to attend Vanderbilt University (Rice's alma mater). While at Vanderbilt, he majored in English and history, and graduated cum laude in 1974. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, serving two

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 years as the chapter's "rho" (sports director). He was also the sports editor of The Hustler, the university's student newspaper, and spent the summer of 1969 interning under sports editor Frank Boggs at The Daily Oklahoman. Career

Print journalism

<mask> went directly from Vanderbilt to The Miami Herald, where he wrote sports features for a little more than two years. He then took a position at the Los Angeles Times in August 1976.There, he was best known for investigative stories on the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse resentment of "golden boy" Steve Garvey and his celebrity wife Cyndy, and on Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom's behind-the-scenes decisions to start different quarterbacks each week. <mask> won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Newspaper Writing in 1977 for his coverage of Seattle Slew's Triple Crown victory. At 26, <mask> was hired by The Dallas Morning News to write its lead sports column, and three years later, joined the Dallas Times Herald. This caught the attention of The Wall Street Journal, prompting the paper to do a story on the development. <mask> was voted Texas sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association three times (1979, 1984 and 1986). In 1989, <mask> wrote his first book, God's Coach: The Hymns, Hype and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry's Cowboys, about the rise and fall of Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys. Following the Cowboys' Super Bowl victory in 1993, <mask> wrote The Boys: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys' Season on the Edge, and following the third Cowboys Super Bowl win in four seasons, <mask> wrote a third book about the Cowboys, Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About the "Win or Else" Dallas Cowboys.Hell-Bent caused a stir, in part, because in the course of writing about the conflict between Cowboys coach Barry Switzer and star quarterback Troy Aikman, <mask> reported on speculation by Switzer and people close to him within the Dallas organization

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 that Aikman was gay. In 1998, <mask> left Dallas after 17 years and become the lead sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune. In his first year there, <mask> won the Lisagor Award for excellence in sports column writing, presented by the Chicago Headline Club (the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists). In 2000, he was voted Illinois sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. <mask> left the Chicago Tribune in July 2001. <mask>'s work has also appeared in various national sports publications, including Sports Illustrated. Radio

In 1991, <mask> began a two-year stint hosting a sports talk radio show from 6–8 p.m. Monday through Friday for Dallas radio station KLIF.In 1994, he became one of the original investors in the Fort Worth radio station KTCK ("the Ticket"), and hosted The <mask> <mask> Show from 6–9 a.m. weekdays from 1994–96. In 1996, the original owners sold the station to Cumulus Media, which bought out <mask>' contract. Also in the mid-1990s, he was a frequent guest on ESPN Radio's first national weekday show, The Fabulous Sports Babe. After moving to Chicago, he began making regular appearances on Chet Coppock's show on the Sporting News Radio network, Coppock On Sports. In 2001, he became the primary guest host of the syndicated radio program, The Jim Rome Show. Soon thereafter, <mask> began co-hosting a weekend show on ESPN Radio with former SportsCenter anchor Larry Beil, which aired until 2004, when he moved full-time into television. Television

In 1989, <mask> joined host Dick Schaap as a panelist on ESPN's The Sports Reporters, and over the next decade, he was a regular on the Sunday morning show.In 1992, <mask> became a member of the original debate team on NFL Prime Mondays "Knights of the Roundtable" segments with Mitch Albom and Michael Wilbon. In 1999 and 2000, he provided commentary for the Golf Channel from the major golf

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 championships. In 2001 and 2002, <mask> appeared regularly on Jim Rome's show on Fox Sports Net, The Last Word. He also made frequent appearances during the same period of time on Fox's The Best Damn Sports Show Period. When Rome moved to ESPN in 2003, <mask> became a fixture on Rome is Burning. He was also featured in a weekly Sunday morning SportsCenter debate segment with Stephen A. Smith, "Old School/Nu Skool". ESPN hired <mask> full-time in 2004 to team up with Woody Paige of The Denver Post in daily debate segments called "1st and 10" on ESPN2's Cold Pizza, and to write columns for ESPN.com.In May 2007, the show, which had been produced in the network's New York studios, was rebranded as First Take, and production was moved to the network's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. Around this time, <mask> stopped writing for ESPN.com; he resumed writing columns for the website in August 2012. On April 26, 2016, it was reported that <mask> had parted ways with ESPN, and would be moving to Fox Sports after his contract expired in August. His final appearance on First Take was on June 21, 2016. <mask> debuted Skip and Shannon: Undisputed along with Shannon Sharpe in September 2016 on Fox Sports 1. <mask> is known for criticizing LeBron James and Aaron Rodgers in both First Take and Skip and Shannon: Undisputed. <mask> was criticized for remarks he made on September 10, 2020, about Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, such as saying that Prescott's statements about suffering from depression were a sign of "weakness".In March 2021, <mask> signed a four-year, $32 million contract with Fox Sports. Films

Along with ESPN colleagues Woody Paige and Jay Crawford, <mask> had a cameo role in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa. The three are seen on their "First and 10" segment discussing a possible fight between a retired Balboa and current heavyweight champion Mason Dixon. <mask> opines that Balboa "was completely overrated" and mocks

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 his age. He appeared in the 2010 ESPN 30 for 30 film, Pony Excess, about the Southern Methodist University football scandal involving gross violations of NCAA rules and regulations. <mask> covered the Mustangs while writing for both The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald. He also appeared in the 2011 ESPNU documentary, Herschel, about University of Georgia running back Herschel Walker.Other honors and awards

In 2008, <mask> was selected to the Oklahoma City Wall of Fame recognizing outstanding alumni of Oklahoma City public schools. In 2009, he was inducted as one of the five members of the inaugural class of the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame. In 2012, he received two honors: he was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Analyst, and was the co-recipient with DJ Steve Porter of a Webby People's Voice Award in the category of Video Remixes/Mashups for "All He Does Is Win", Porter's mashup of clips of <mask> passionately defending oft-maligned quarterback Tim Tebow. Published books as author
God's Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry's Cowboys, Simon & Schuster, 1990. . The Boys: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys' Season on the Edge, Simon & Schuster, 1993. .
Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About the "Win or Else" Dallas Cowboys, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. .

References

Further reading
  Autobiographical essay recounting <mask>'s formative years, including his abusive childhood and introduction to sports. External links
"Profile: <mask> <mask>", ESPN website
<mask> <mask> never worries about having a First Take, USA Today, March 21, 2012

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American sports radio personalities
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Chicago Tribune people
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Los Angeles Times people
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<mask> (; 1955 – 11 June 2011), also known as <mask>, Commander J, and <mask>, was an Indian journalist, crime and investigations editor for Mid-Day (a tabloid newspaper published in several cities in India) and an expert on the Mumbai underworld. He was shot to death by motorcycle-borne sharpshooters on 11 June 2011. <mask> started his career with Hindustan Times. A wildlife enthusiast, he first started writing on forest encroachment and the man-animal conflict in Borivali National Park. A story about government departments taking away land in the reserved national park created a furore in the state legislature. He started his journalistic career as a freelancer with Afternoon Despatch and Courier writing about crime in the wildlife areas. He also dabbled in photojournalism.He then started free lancing for Mid-Day before joining them full-time. He joined Indian Express in 1996 and soon switched to covering crime stories, especially on Mumbai underworld. In 2005, he joined Hindustan Times. He later re-joined MiD Day as crime and investigations editor. <mask> had authored two books on underworld activities, Zero Dial: The Dangerous World of Informers and Khallas. He has done many reports on underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan. Personal life
<mask> was born in 1955, Bombay to Mrs. Bina <mask>.He was married to a journalist named Shubha Sharma and was survived by them (wife & mother). Death
<mask> was returning to his home on his motorcycle from Ghatkopar after meeting his mother Bina on 11 June 2011. Around 3 PM of the same day, four unidentified men on motorcycles opened fire on him at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai. He was taken to Powai Hospital, but they did not have the proper facilities to attend to him. <mask> was later rushed to Hiranandani hospital. He was reported dead on arrival at the Hiranandani Hospital, with nine exit wounds on his body. Mumbai Police speculated the murder was a professional job, and may be related to his reporting on the oil mafia.The oil mafia, which pilfers oil being transported and also

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 dilutes it before sale, has been under pressure since the killing of Yashwant Sonawane in January 2011. <mask> had also recently reported that Chhota Rajan was the mastermind behind a recent shooting involving Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar in Mumbai. The murder was widely denounced by the press and the local government. Police investigation
The investigation of <mask>'s murder was handed over to the Crime Branch department of Mumbai Police. Media persons from across different sections demanded that the investigations should be handed over to the CBI. Several media persons met the state's chief minister, Prithviraj Chavan, to put forth their demand of handing over the case to the CBI. The chief minister remained adamant that the integrity of Mumbai Police should not be underestimated and the police should be given time to crack the case.On 27 June 2011, after sixteen days of investigations, the Crime Branch declared they have cracked the case. Police officials caught seven people from different locations of India. Of which three were detained from Chembur, in Mumbai; one in Solapur; and remaining two from Rameshwaram, in Tamil Nadu. All the suspects resided in different parts of Mumbai except Satish Kalia, who settled down in Trivandrum after the birth of his daughter and cases against him were cleared. After the shootout they fled to evade arrest. All the seven suspects Rohit Thangappan Joseph alias Satish Kalia, Arun Dake, Anil Waghmode, Babloo, Sachin Gaikwad, Mangesh Agawane and Chhottu are history-sheeters. The suspects were allegedly from Chhota Rajan's gang "NANA COMPANY".Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) Himanshu Roy, who was supervising the case said in a press conference that Rajan approached Kalia who in turn organised the team to carry the shootout. Kalia was the man who shot <mask>, said the police. The commissioner also added the shootout was carried out on the behest of Rajan, and the shooters were allegedly kept in dark about the profession of Dey. On 21 February 2012, Mumbai Crime Branch chargesheeted

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 journalist Jigna Vora (Deputy Chief of Bureau of Asian Age) under stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and various other penal offences for her alleged role in the sensational murder. Besides the stringent provisions of MCOCA and the Arms Act she has also been charged under various sections of IPC including criminal conspiracy, murder and destruction of evidence. Jigna Vora had been under the Mumbai police's radar since 4 July 2011 after the police intercepted a conversation between Manoj, brother of Vinod Asrani, who has also been arrested and the gangster Chhota Rajan. The police alleged that Vora had supplied address and licence plate number of <mask>'s motorcycle to Chhota Rajan.Police claimed Vora's professional rivalry was the reason for <mask>'s murder. On 27 July 2012, Jigna Vora was granted bail by a special court reasoning that she has a child to look after and is a single parent and that she had no previous criminal record. See also
 Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, an act in Maharashtra to combat organised crime and terrorism. Mumbai underworld, a very powerful group of various Criminal organisations like D-Company operating in Mumbai. Chhota Rajan, the boss of a major Criminal organisation primarily operating in Mumbai. Notes

References
 <mask> murder case: Jigna Vora charged under MCOCA, Arms Act, Bombay Police Act
 Jigna Vora called Chhota Rajan 36 times before Dey murder
 Mid Day crime reporter <mask> shot dead in Mumbai
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 MiD DAY journalist shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mumbai
 Dey: The eagle who dared
 specialist on encounters, underworld
 J.Dey Murder:Kalam Chaloge To Goli Chalegi,Metro7days Hindi tabloid 12 June

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texts: <mask> (<mask>; born 7 November 1970) is an Indian actress and producer who is known for her work in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema . One of the most successful actresses of Bengali cinema, she rode the crest of her box office success in the late 1990s. She received a National Award, two Filmfare Awards, four BFJA Awards and four Anandalok Awards. Initially promoted as the carbon copy of Satabdi Roy, <mask> made her screen debut opposite Kushal Chakraborty in the Bengali fantasy TV series Shwet Kapot (1989) directed by the latter and broadcast on DD Bangla. She was catapulted to stardom after she made her big screen debut with Prabhat Roy's National Award-winning Bengali film Shwet Patharer Thala (1992). She made her Bollywood debut with Partho Ghosh's Teesra Kaun (1994). She had a very successful on screen collaboration with Prosenjit, Chiranjeet and Manna.She featured opposite Prosenjit for the first time in Bhijoy Bhaskar's Nagpanchami (1994) which was a major commercial success. Her other major hits opposite Prosenjit include Abujh Mon (1996), Moner Manush (1997), Pabitra Papi (1997), Baba Keno Chakar (1998), Daay Dayitwa (1999), Sindur Khela (1999), Sudhu Ekbar Bolo (1999), Tumi Ele Tai (1999), Sasurbari Zindabad (2000) and Praktan (2016). Her first collaboration with Chiranjeet was Prashant Nanda's Lal Paan Bibi (1994) which was also a major financial success. Her other hits opposite Chiranjeet include Naginkanya (1995), Rakhal Raja (1995), Sansar Sangram (1995), Chandragrahan (1997), Bishnu Narayan (1998), Sindur Khela (1999), Bastir Meye Radha (2000) and Hatiyar (2001). She teamed up with Manna for the first time in Sharif Uddin Khan Dipu's commercially successful Bangladeshi film Desh Dorodi (1998). Her other hits with Manna include Killer (2000), Shesh Juddho (2000), Jummon Koshai, Eri Naam Bhalobasa, Ranangan (2004), Swami Chintai (2006). She received critical acclaim for her roles in films such as Dahan (1997), Utsab (2000),

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 Paromitar Ek Din (2000), Chaturanga (2008) and Ahaa Re (2019).Early life
Rituparna was interested in the arts since a young age and learned painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu. She studied at Carmel High school, and later graduated in history from Lady Brabourne College. She began studying Modern History for an M.A. at University of Calcutta, but had to interrupt studies to concentrate on her career as an actress. Career

Debut and initial struggle (1989—1991)

<mask> made her screen debut opposite Kushal Chakraborty in the Bengali fantasy TV series Shwet Kapot (1989) broadcast on DD Bangla. Chakraborty's sister Anindita was her classmate. After her Secondary Examination, she was insisted by Anindita to appear for a screen test for a role opposite Chakraborty in the TV series.The work was an adaptation of the Danish fairy tale The White Dove. She had to play an imprisoned princess shapeshifting into a white dove who falls in love with an imprisoned prince played by Chakraborty. Initially her father made objection against her pursuing the role but then gave his consent since the role demanded two-day shoot. Due to Chakraborty's stardom, the sitcom grabbed the attention of media personalities. She accepted a role in Ramen Adhikari's Bengali sitcom Hortoner Golam that featured Kaushik Banerjee as the protagonist. It is based on Monilal Ganguly's Bengali story of the same name. She enacted a few more roles in several other Bengali TV series but those never took off her career.Breakthrough and success (1992—2007)

After Gargi Roychowdhury declined the role of Titli opposite Bhaskar Banerjee in Prabhat Roy's National Award winning Bengali film Shwet Pathorer Thala (1992), <mask> was offered to play the character. She featured opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Bhijoy Bhaskar's Nag Panchami (1994) and Chiranjeet Chakraborty in Prashanta Nanda's Laal Paan Bibi (1994). Since both the films worked at the

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texts: box office, producers and directors approached her with meaty roles opposite Chatterjee and Chakraborty. <mask> made her Bollywood debut opposite Chunkey Pandey in Partho Ghosh's thriller Teesra Kaun (1994) which was a debacle at the box office. <mask> bagged the female lead in Swapan Saha's Sujan Sakhi (1995) alongside Abhishek Chatterjee essaying the male lead. The film was a remake of Khan Ataur Rahman's Sujon Sokhi (1975). The film was a major success at the box office.She featured opposite Chiranjeet Chakraborty in the latter's directorial venture Sansar Sangram (1995). The film retaining a highly melodramatic approach appeased the rural audience of West Bengal. She featured opposite Mithun Chakraborty in Raghuram's Bhagya Debata (1995). The film was a major financial success. She featured in Zee's home-production Mohini (1995), directed by Hema Malini. The telefilm stars Madhu and Sudesh Berry as the protagonists. <mask> hit the pinnacle of her professional rivalry with Satabdi Roy in the late 1990s since the two were offered most of the female leads opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee after Debashree Roy vowed not to work with Chatterjee any longer.Sreelekha Mitra claimed that <mask> had an extramarital affair with Chatterjee, which helped her get most of the female leads opposite Chatterjee. She featured opposite Chatterjee in a string of commercially successful Bengali films such as Abujh Mon (1996), Matir Manush (1997), Mayar Badhon (1997), Moner Manush (1997), Pabitra Papi (1997), Samadhan (1997), Tomake Chai (1997), Baba Keno Chakar (1998), Praner Cheye Priyo (1998), Daay Dayitwa (1999), Madhu Malati (1999), Sindur Khela (1999), Sudhu Ekbar Bolo (1999), Tumi Ele Tai (1999), Aasroy (2000), Madhur Milan (2000) and Sasurbari Zindabad (2000) to name a few. Some of her hits in Bangladeshi cinema include Sagarika (1998), Tomar Amar Prem (1998), Ranga Bou (1999). She featured in Aparna Sen's Paromitar Ek Din (2000). After her fallout with

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 Prosenjit Chatterjee, she found herself in a very debilitating state. Swapan Saha cast <mask> alongside Abhishek Chatterjee, Tapas Paul and Satabdi Roy in his family drama Sukh Dukkher Sansar (2003). The film was a financial success.In 2004, <mask> had 12 releases in Bengali cinema, all of which became box office debacles generating the common notion among the filmmakers that the actress had lost her market value. Sengupta starred in Sushanta Saha's Sagar Kinare (2004) where she shared silver screen with Debashree Roy for the first time. She featured opposite Rajpal Yadav in Chandan Arora's critically acclaimed Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (2005). She featured alongside Satabdi Roy and Koel Mallick in Raja Sen's Devipaksha (2004). Setback (2008—2011)
Sengupta appeared in a host of films between 2008 and 2011, but only very few of those were commercially or critically successful. She starred as Damini in Suman Mukhopadhyay's Chaturanga (2008) which was the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rabindranath Tagore. The Times of India wrote that it was her best performance till date.The film failed to achieve commercial success. She featured in Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited (2008). The film became a major dud at the box office. She accepted the role of a woman suffering from a turbulent conjugal relationship in Mahanagar@Kolkata (2010). She featured in Anjan Das' critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful film Bedeni (2011). Resurgence and further roles (2012—present)
Sengupta featured in Agnidev Chatterjee's Charulata 2011 (2012). It narrates the story of a lonely woman whose workaholic husband does not have much time to spend with her.Eventually she meets a man younger than her and falls for him. She featured in Muktodhra (2012). She featured opposite Tapas Paul in Satabdi Roy's Om Shanti (2012) that also stars Rakhi Sawant in a dance number. <mask> skipped the premier show of the film as she felt that Sawant had been

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texts: given more preference than her in the poster of the film while Roy said that <mask>'s grievance was illogical. <mask> later said that she regretted doing the role. The film received negative review. It was a major financial disaster.Sengupta featured in Ratul Ganguly's 10 July (2014). The film failed to achieve critical favour and became a box office debacle. She featured as Begum Jaan in Srijit Mukherji's Rajkahini (2015) and met box office success. Her character in the film is that of an aged prostitute who runs a brothel housing eleven women. The Times of India detected that Sengupta failed to land the coarseness of a rustic prostitute perfectly. News18 India appreciated her performance but deprecated her dubbing to be "a very forced husky baritone." She featured opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Praktan (2016).The poster for the Amitabh Bhattacharjee starrer jatra, Ekaler Karnaarjun (2017) claimed <mask> to be the director. <mask> negated that it was a misrepresentation while Indrajit Chakraborty, another actor of that jatra claimed that she was the guest director. She featured alongside Roopa Ganguly and Indrani Haldar in Aaro Ekbar (2017). Her Baranda (2017) was commercial disaster. She won critical favour for her role as Chandrima Mukherjee in Prakash Bharadwaj's Colours of Life (2018). She featured as Sohini in Agnidev Chatterjee's Gaheen Hriday (2018) alongside Kaushik Sen playing Anupam. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Suchitra Bhattacharya.Her performance in the film was appreciated by critics. In Kamaleshwar Mukherjee's Goodnight City (2018) she featured as psychiatrist Abhiri Chatterjee who implores her husband who is a deputy commissioner with the detective department, not to be hard on the protagonist, a murderer whom she believes to be a psychologically distraught person. Her performance failed to win critical favour. The Times of India wrote on her performance, "she shows the compassionate side of her


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 have to see <mask> in Ahaa Re to believe how much this is true. Every single frame of her cooking a dish, or even preparing to do so, is filled with so much love. Almost as if she is in a silent worship. Love, nourishment, gentleness, fondness – she defines these words with her performance.Her Basundhara is a woman who does not wear her emotions on her sleeves, but there is a scene towards the end of the film, when she can’t take it anymore and just breaks down. Keep your handkerchiefs ready. Asianmoviepulse.com wrote in their review: "<mask> Sengupta is a splendid actor and portrays the character of Basundhara with subtle emotional traits. The character goes through different shades and the director uses many close shots to capture her facial expressions perfectly." . In 2020 Sengupta starred in the Thriller The Parcel which was well received by critics and audiences. Bhaskar Chattophadhyay from Firstpost gave the film a positive review and called Senguptas performance brilliant: "The performances are superlative, though. <mask> Sengupta is a strange mix of someone resigned to her fate in some matters, and at the same time, someone who can go to any extent to prevent any harm that might come to her family.By now, I am so used to seeing her excel in her roles, that I often commit the grave crime of overlooking the immense difficulties in playing a character as complicated as the one she does in this film. I am inclined to see that the lion's share of Parcel lies on her shoulders, and she is effortlessly brilliant in it. Rossini Sarkar from Cinestaan wrote in her review: <mask> Sengupta carries the film on her shoulders, gradually creating her state of depression through perpetual tension, unreasonable outbursts and a haggard look. Her expressions in close-up are outstanding. Personal life and image in media

She married her childhood friend Sanjay Chakrabarti, founder and CEO of MobiApps on 13 December 1999 in Munshigonj and the couple has

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 a son named Ankan and a daughter named Rishona Niya. <mask> has a deferential attitude to Debashree Roy whereas her attitude towards Satabdi Roy is oscillating. The relationship between the two got sour during the shooting of Prashanta Nanda's Laal Paan Bibi (1994) when <mask> literally broke drown into tears after she was denounced for coming late to the set of the film, by Roy who was the bigger star by then.Roy cast <mask> as the female lead in her directorial venture Om Shanti (2012). Both the actresses were interrogated whether their professional rivalry would affect the making of the film. Both of them denied such rivalry. <mask> later claimed that she had been given lesser importance in the poster of the film while Roy said that the former's grievance is meaningless. <mask> was absent at the premier show of the film, which generated the speculation in the media that the duo were no longer in talking terms. In April, 2014, the duo were spotted talking again at a quiz contest conducted by Anandabazar Patrika. Time and again, she has been an object of mockery among netizens for her unimpressive sense of fashion.Controversy
On 19 July 2019, <mask> was interrogated by ED officers about an amount of near about 7 crore that she had received from the Rose Valley Group led by Gautam Kundu. In the 2020 controversial vlog Let's Expose Face It, Sreelekha Mitra said that <mask> wanted to play the lead in Tolly Lights that features Mitra as the protagonist. Mitra said that Sengupta made a phone call to Arjun Chakraborty, the director of the film and requested him to cast herself replacing Mitra. Awards and honors

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<mask> (趙光逢) (died January 20, 928? ), courtesy name Yanji (延吉), formally the Duke of Qi (齊公), was an official in the late Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and the succeeding Later Liang of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, serving as a chancellor during Later Liang. During Tang Dynasty
It is not known when <mask> was born. His father <mask> served as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Yizong of Tang and Emperor Yizong's son Emperor Xizong. Both <mask> and his younger brother <mask> were known in their youth for their literary abilities and virtues, and <mask> was particularly praised for the propriety of his actions, becoming nicknamed "Jade Ruler" (玉界尺). <mask> passed the imperial examinations in the Jinshi class in 878 and was made a secretary of the Fengxiang Municipality (鳳翔, in modern Baoji, Shaanxi) government, before he was recalled to the imperial government to serve as an imperial censor with the title Jiancha Yushi (監察御史). After his father <mask> died in 881, he left governmental service for some time to observe a mourning period for his father.After Emperor Xizong, who had fled the imperial capital Chang'an due to the major agrarian rebellion led by Huang Chao, was able to return to Chang'an in 885, Emperor Xizong made him a Taichang Boshi (太常博士), a scholar at the ministry of worship (太常寺, Taichang Si). He subsequently successively served as Lǐbu Yuanwailang (禮部員外郎), a low-level official at the ministry of rites (禮部, Lǐbu); Sixun Yuanwailang

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 government as deputy minister of civil service affairs, Shangshu Zuocheng, and minister of worship (太常卿, Taichang Qing). In 907, when Zhu forced <mask>'s son and successor Emperor Ai to yield the throne to him (ending Tang and starting a new Later Liang with Zhu as its Emperor Taizu), <mask> participated in the transition ceremony, assisting the chief imperial censor Xue Yiju in bearing the main imperial seal and presenting it to Zhu. During Later Liang
In 908, Emperor Taizu sent <mask>feng's brother <mask> and another official, Li Yinheng, to formally commission his vassal Liu Yin, who then controlled Qinghai Circuit (清海, headquartered in modern Guangzhou, Guangdong) as the military governor of Qinghai and Jinghai (靜海, headquartered in modern Hanoi, Vietnam) Circuits. Liu kept <mask> and Li and refused to let them return. (When Liu's brother and successor Liu Yan would eventually declare himself emperor of a new state of Southern Han in 917, he would make both <mask> and Li chancellors.)In 909, Emperor Taizu removed the chancellors Han Jian and Yang She from their chancellor posts; <mask>, who was then serving still as the minister of worship, and Du Xiao, were made chancellors in their stead with the designation Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事). In 915, by which time Emperor Taizu's son Zhu Zhen was emperor, <mask>, who was then carrying the titles of You Pushe (右僕射, one of the heads of the executive bureau) and Menxia Shilang (門下侍郎, deputy head of the

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 examination bureau (門下省, Menxia Sheng)), retired, and was given the honorary title of Taizi Taibao (太子太保). In 916, he was again made chancellor and Menxia Shilang, and was additionally given the title of Sikong (司空, one of the Three Excellencies). He retired again in 918 and was given the title of Situ (司徒, also one of the Three Excellencies). It was said that after this retirement, he did not receive guests at his mansion. During Later Tang
In 923, Later Liang was conquered by its northern rival Later Tang. Later Tang's Emperor Zhuangzong subsequently made another brother of <mask>'s, <mask>yin, chancellor.It was said that when <mask>n visited <mask>, he would often try to discuss the political matters of the day with <mask>. One day, <mask> posted a sign on his door, "Please do not speak of the matters of the Office of the Chancellors." Subsequently, early during the Tiancheng era (926-929) of Emperor Zhuangzong's adoptive brother and successor Emperor Mingzong, <mask> was given the honorary title of Taibao (太保) and created the Duke of Qi. He later died at Luoyang and was given posthumous honors. Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 178. History of the Five Dynasties, vol.58. New History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 35. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 266, 267, 269, 270, 272. 9th-century births
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Meyer Myron "<mask>" <mask> (June 15, 1909 – April 30, 1985) was an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. He was the father of actor Joel Grey and grandfather of actress Jennifer Grey. Early life
<mask> was born <mask> on Sawtell Court in Cleveland, Ohio, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Johanna (née Herzberg) and <mask>. Originally one of five children, <mask> lost an older sister to diphtheria when he was about four years old. Menachem supported the family as a tailor, but money was always tight in the <mask> family. As children, <mask> and his siblings contributed to the family finances by entering amateur musical contests in the neighborhood theaters and bringing the prize money home to their parents.Even after graduating from high school, <mask> continued to support his family with the money he earned from his music. Out of high school, <mask> was hired by Phil Spitalny to go on a road tour. While waiting at the train station to leave, <mask> met Grace Epstein, his future wife. He was seventeen and she was fourteen. He married her three years later, in 1930. They had two sons, Joel Grey and Ronald. Each of <mask>'s sons had two children.Joel fathered Jennifer Grey and Jim Grey, and Ronald fathered <mask> and <mask>. In 1977, <mask> told the story of his life in a biography called Papa, Play for Me. Career

Finding the clarinet
One evening when <mask> was eleven, his father took him to a concert at the Talmud Torah. A clarinet solo was on the program. On the way home, <mask> told him he wanted to play the clarinet. However, for his father to pay for an instrument and lessons was out of the question. The next day, <mask> asked the bandmaster of the local high school for a school clarinet, and within a few days he received an old and dusty clarinet.The next step

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 was to find a way to pay for clarinet lessons. <mask> went to his Uncle Sam and offered to clean his tailor shop if he would pay for the lessons. His uncle agreed, and soon <mask> was studying under Joseph Narovec. He made excellent progress on the instrument, and quickly learned the saxophone as well, which is played basically the same way as a clarinet. Starting his career
Fresh out of high school, <mask> landed a gig playing clarinet and sax for Phil Spitalny and went on a road tour with his band. After the tour, <mask> played in Doc Whipple's big band at the Golden Pheasant Chinese Restaurant for about a year, at which point he left and joined Angelo Vitale's band at the Park Theater. Deciding to try his luck in New York City, <mask> left Cleveland in 1929.He had a hard time finding work at first, and bopped around from one small, unsuccessful job to the next. He finally ran into Ed Fishman, whom he knew from Cleveland and who helped him find a job playing in Howard Phillips' orchestra at the Manger Hotel. However, the job ended in 1930, after his marriage, and the couple had no choice but to go to live in Grace's uncle's home. <mask> was soon saved from this situation when he received a phone call from Jack Spector, a friend back in Cleveland. A spot for a clarinet and sax player had recently opened up in Maurice Spitalny's band at the Loew's State Theater, and Spector had recommended <mask>. <mask> moved back to Cleveland with Grace and played with Spitalny until the leader left Loew's Theater in 1932. <mask> continued to play there for another year, then rejoined Spitalny at the RKO Palace Theater and played there until the Cleveland musicians' local in Cleveland went on strike in 1935.Unfortunately for <mask>, the union lost the strike, since movie theaters were becoming more common

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 and theaters no longer needed live musicians, and he was out of a job once again. Nevertheless, he soon found work playing for vacationers as they sailed around Lake Erie on the excursion boat Goodtime. This gig lasted every summer from 1935 to 1939. During the off-season, <mask> found what work he could playing various one-night gigs. When the Goodtime went out of business in 1939, he moved on to a position as bandleader and MC at the Ohio Villa gambling palace. Going to war
In 1942, <mask> was hired as bandleader at the Alpine Village theater-restaurant in Cleveland. He was subsequently drafted, but was classified 4-F classification by the Selective Service System and released from his military obligation after failing his preinduction physical.He found other ways to help the war effort, though. Back at the Alpine Village he began to sell war bonds after the shows, bringing in US$25,000 to $30,000 a week for the U.S. government. He also played for servicemen at the USO canteen at Cleveland's St. John's Cathedral. Then, in 1945, he took his six-man comedy and band group (<mask> and His Krazy Kittens) on a USO tour of Europe with movie star Betty Hutton. For this trip <mask> was made a temporary officer, it was the closest he ever came to serving in the military. Hitting his stride
In 1946, the national jukebox convention was to be held in Cleveland, and <mask> was asked to conduct for it. While there he met Spike Jones, and a week later Jones asked <mask> to join him in Hollywood.<mask> played with Jones for more than a year, but never felt he was paid enough, so he left Jones in 1947. <mask> soon decided to make an English-Yiddish comedy record. Having written the lyrics to "Haim afen Range" (based on "Home on the Range") some years previously, he had it approved by RCA. He quickly wrote

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 another song for the flip side, "Yiddish Square Dance", and had his friend Al Sack sketch out the melody for it and set "Haim afen Range" to music as well. The original run of 10,000 copies released in New York City sold out in three days, and RCA received orders for 25,000 more. <mask> then went on to parody "Tico, Tico" as "Tickle, Tickle" and backed this new record with "Chloya", a parody of "Chloe". He then hired a manager in Los Angeles, and in 1947 performed in Boyle Heights, a largely Jewish and Mexican-American neighborhood.In <mask>'s words, he was a "double-ethnic smash." Receiving some opposition
Despite <mask>'s appeal with particular groups, there were many who did not like his music. Most of these people were affronted by the way he emphasized Jewish differences, convinced that his antics would help perpetuate Jewish stereotypes. In "The Yiddish are coming", writer Josh Kun sums up the atmosphere of the time with the following: "As historian Howard Sachar has noted, the prevailing attitude after World War II was a fear that anything that promoted a 'separate identity as Jews ... would somehow lend credence to Hitler's racial theories. Although <mask> had his fans, not everybody loved him. There were many radio stations that refused to play his records, and several venues feared hiring him. In his biography, <mask> recalls asking a radio station manager why he wouldn't play any of <mask>'s records:

 I asked him why he wouldn't play my records.He said, "Because some of our listeners are offended." I asked, "Who, besides you?" He said, "I don't think that's any of your business." I answered, "I think it is my business because this is how I make a living. You play Italian records, you play Polish records--"
 He cut me off. "I will not play any record with Yiddish in it. Yiddish is

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 the language of the ghetto.""My friend," I said, "Yiddish is the language of our forefathers." "I do not care to hear it." "Then why don't you play some of my instrumental records? They're some of the greatest music in the world, played by some of the greatest musicians in the world—Ziggy Elman, Mannie Klein, Nat Farber--"
 Again he cut me off mid-sentence. "There will be no Yiddish spoken, or Jewish music played, on this station." Continuing on
Not one to let others get him down, though, <mask> continued to create parodies until 1957 and continued to perform off and on until his death. In 1948, <mask> produced the English-Yiddish stage revue Borscht Capades, co-starring with his son Joel Grey.The show did well until it went to Broadway. Right before Borscht Capades opened, an almost identical show, called Bagels and Yocks opened up down the street. In competition with each other for such a small, particular audience, both shows ending up failing. From 1951 to 1956, <mask> operated as a disc jockey for the Los Angeles radio station KABC while going on occasional road tours and playing engagements at the Bandbox nightclub. In 1952 <mask> also did some shows for the United Jewish Appeal. In the same year, he joined the California Friars Club, and proceeded to conduct at their major functions for the next 25 years. In 1953, <mask> decided to play Las Vegas, and after a successful start at the Frontier, he returned to Las Vegas for four more years.In 1955, <mask> played a brief engagement at Harrah's, located at Lake Tahoe. The following year, he played in Europe and Australia. In 1958, <mask> finally played the Catskills, an area where most of his peers made their start. Unfortunately for <mask>, the booking office that hired him was determined to make as much money out of him as possible, and he

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 ended up with a packed schedule, playing "anything north of Atlantic City." In 1961, <mask> went on a tour of South Africa, playing in cities including Cape Town, Johannesburg, Benoni, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, and Muizenberg. Finally, at the end of his career, <mask> began playing the Florida condominium circuit, often playing two shows a night. Musical style
<mask> was largely a jazz musician.All of his parodies have a distinct klezmer flavor, either throughout the entire piece or as a brief "break" in the middle of the song. His songs often lampooned both Jewish and American culture. Various <mask> appearances
<mask> and his group can be seen in the movie Thoroughly Modern Millie accompanying Julie Andrews as she sings a Yiddish song at a Jewish wedding. A number of famous Jewish musicians, including those with their own bands, recorded with him, including Mannie Klein, Ziggy Elman and Si Zentner. Jazz musician Don Byron recorded a tribute to <mask> in 1993, Don Byron Plays The Music of <mask>. The 2003 British movie Wondrous Oblivion featured <mask>' "The Barber of Schlemiel" (a parody of The Barber of Seville) in a scene where the Jewish main character plays the record for his Jamaican neighbor. <mask> supplied the voice of the character Hop-a-Long Catskill on the Beany and Cecil cartoon series on ABC-TV in 1962.Catskill was a frog, and the role was a parody of the role of Chester on the television series Gunsmoke. His primary function, in the few episodes in which he appeared, was to serve bad coffee and provide even worse Yiddish/English puns. <mask> is most well known for his parodies, but he created more traditional klezmer music as well. His songs have been compiled onto CDs, including Mish Mosh, The Most Mishige, <mask> Greatest Shticks, and Simcha Time: Music for Weddings,

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 Bar Mitzvahs, and Brisses. <mask> played with many musicians throughout the years, but he initially performed his parodies with Mannie Klein on trumpet, Sammy Weiss on drums, Benny Gill on violin, Si Zentner on trombone, and Wally Wechsler on piano. Al Sack, the man who created the music for <mask>'s first two parodies, assembled these players for <mask> and then helped him get Nat Farber to arrange the music. <mask> died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, California in 1985, at the age of 75.Further reading
 <mask>, <mask>. Nonzense on Who's Whoo end Wat's Wat, Illustrations Bernard Schmittke (74 pages). Spear & Gilpin 1929. <mask>, <mask>. Papa, Play For Me, Simon & Schuster, 1977. Larkin, Colin. The encyclopedia of popular music, third edition.Macmillan 1998. Perry, Jeb H. Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978, Scarecrow Press, 1980. Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954. The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954, Record Research Inc. 1986. Chabon, Michael.Manhood for Amateurs, Ch. X (Cue the Mickey Katz), HarperCollins 2009. Young, Jordan R. (2005). Spike Jones Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music. (3rd edition) Albany: BearManor Media . Kun, Josh. 'Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America,' University of California Press, 2005, Ch.2 ("The Yiddish Are Coming"). References

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Jewish American male actors
Jewish male comedians
RCA Victor artists
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<mask> (October 2, 1843 – October 23, 1887) was a politician, diplomat and newspaper editor who served many political roles in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He served as Governor of Maui from 1874 to 1876, Minister of Finance from 1876 to 1878 and again from 1883 to 1886, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1878 to 1880, Postmaster General from 1881 to 1883 and Collector General of Customs from 1886 to 1887. From 1874 to 1875, he accompanied King Kalākaua on his state visit to the United States to negotiate the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. In 1882, he traveled to Tokyo as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Japan to negotiate Japanese immigration to Hawaii. Early life and family
Born on October 2, 1843, at Lāhainā, on the island of Maui, Kapena was the son of Mākini and High Chiefess Nāʻawa, a relative of the Kalākaua family. He was adopted under the Hawaiian custom of hānai by his uncle Jonah Kapena, an influential statesman, judge and royal advisor since the reign of King Kamehameha III (r. 1825–1854). Kapena was educated at the Royal School and later at the Oahu College (now Punahou School).In 1863 he married Emma Aʻalailoa Malo (1846–1886), the only daughter of early Native Hawaiian historian and Christian minister David Malo and his third wife Rebecca Lepeka. Emma was an accomplished musician and composer and served as an attendant of Princess Liliʻuokalani. Emma died unexpectedly from heart disease on April 18, 1886, at the age of 39. They had one daughter, Alexandrina Leihulu <mask> (1868–1914). On November 5, 1887, Leihulu

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 married Morris Kahai Keohokālole of Maui. She later divorced Keohokālole and married Henry N. Clark after he divorced his wife Emma Dreier. Leihulu owned property on Hawaii and the mainland United States.She died on March 23, 1914, while living in San Francisco, California. She was the last lineal descendant of David Malo. Leihulu died intestate and her estate was disputed between her widower and her two next of kin: Samuel I. Maikai and David U. K. Maikai (grandsons of <mask> Elliott Maikai). The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in favor of her widower as her sole heir. Editor
In 1870, Kapena became the editor of the newspaper Ke Au Okoa, which ran from 1865 until it merged with Ka Nupepa Kuokoa to become Ka Nupepa Kuokoa Me Ke Au Okoa I Huiia in 1873. Political career

Earlier career

During the reign of Kamehameha V (r. 1864–1872), he was commissioned on January 16, 1864, as first lieutenant of the 1st Company of the Yeomanry, a volunteer army regiment in the military of Hawaii. When King Lunalilo ascended to the throne in 1873, Kapena was appointed to a number of political positions.He was appointed to the Board of Education on January 23. He was made a colonel on the king's personal military staff on January 27, and judge of the first circuit court on the island of Oahu, serving in the latter position from April 1, 1873, to July 13, 1874. In July 1873, King Lunalilo and his foreign minister Charles Reed Bishop considered a proposal to cede Pearl Harbor to the United States in exchange for a reciprocity treaty. Although he was in favor of the


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 reciprocity treaty, Kapena gave a speech in front of 1500 Hawaiians at Kaumakapili Church opposing the cessation of Hawaiian territory. Patronage by Kalākaua
Lunalilo died without an heir in 1874. In the election that followed, Kapena supported his relative David Kalākaua's candidacy for the vacant throne against Queen Emma, the dowager queen of Kamehameha IV (r. 1855–1864). The choice of Kalākaua by the legislature, and the subsequent announcement, caused a riot at the courthouse.US and British troops were landed, and some of Emma's supporters were arrested. As part of his first round of political appointments, Kalākaua appointed Kapena as a member of the Privy Council of State and the Governor of Maui, succeeding Paul Nahaolelua, who had resigned the governorship to become Minister of Finance. <mask> served as Governor of Maui from February 23, 1874 until December 15, 1876, when he too resigned the governorship to become Minister of Finance. He was succeeded by William Luther Moehonua as governor. On January 10, 1876, <mask> was appointed by the king to be an official member of the House of Nobles, the upper chamber of the legislature. As a member of the House of Nobles, Kapena served in every legislative session between 1876 and 1886. From November 17, 1874, to February 15, 1875, Kapena was a member of the Reciprocity Commission and traveled with Kalākaua on his state visit the United States to negotiate the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875.Kapena held various important cabinet positions during Kalākaua's reign. In 1876, <mask> was appointed to the

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texts: king's cabinet as Minister of Finance serving alongside three Americans: Henry A. P. Carter, Minister of Foreign Affairs; <mask>-Smith, Minister of the Interior; and Alfred S. Hartwell, Attorney General. He served as the finance minister from December 5, 1876, until Kalākaua demanded the resignation of his entire cabinet in the middle of the night on July 1, 1878. It was widely suspected that Kalākaua's sudden replacement of his cabinet was influenced by American businessman Claus Spreckels, who had refinanced the King's debts the night before in order to secure water rights for his sugarcane plantation on Maui. On July 3, <mask> was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in a new cabinet with Samuel Gardner Wilder, Minister of the Interior; Simon Kaloa Kaʻai, Minister of Finance; and Edward Preston, Attorney General. Kapena became the first Native Hawaiian to hold the post of foreign minister and the only minister to survive the political shakeup. He held this post from July 3, 1878, to August 14, 1880.During his tenure, the elders (na elemakule) of Tabiteuea in the Gilbert Islands requested annexation to Hawaii. However, Kapena and the king wrote back declining the request due to its political impractically. When the king chose a new cabinet in 1880, <mask> was replaced in the position by the Italian adventurer Celso Caesar Moreno to the vehement opposition of the diplomatic corps and political leaders in Honolulu. Kapena later returned to another cabinet headed by Walter Murray Gibson when he was appointed Minister of Finance for a second

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