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 troupe had also performed their signature brand of longform improv (ASSSSCAT) in a special for the Bravo channel in 2005. In 2008, they released a DVD entitled ASSSSCAT! : Renegade Improv Comedy through Shout! Factory, which features an uncensored improv performance by the troupe and special guests. The DVD also includes deleted scenes and along with other bonus features. In 2008, <mask> played the part of "Courtney Frenchip", the hippie roommate of David Cross in David's Situation, a pilot made for HBO written by Cross and Bob Odenkirk.The pilot was filmed live on May 9, 2008, but was not picked by HBO as a series. In 2013, he portrayed Edwin Stanton in the "Chicago" episode of Comedy Central's Drunk History. Between 2011 and 2014, he appeared on Parks and Recreation as the morning DJ Crazy Ira. <mask> and the UCB continue to run a Los Angeles comedy theater in Franklin Village. <mask> and the UCB currently perform several times a week at the Los Angeles theater, in their show ASSSSCAT 3000 every Sunday night. Other work
<mask> makes frequent appearances on many podcasts on the Earwolf podcasting network, including Comedy Bang Bang, as well as hosting "The Earwolf Challenge", a reality-competition series where several podcasters compete against each other. <mask>'s Comedy Central pilot This Show Will Get You High aired as a sketch comedy special on October 27, 2010.The show featured video shorts and sketches from <mask> and Upright Citizens Brigade Theater comedians John Gemberling, Brett Gelman, Paul Rust, and Betsy Sodaro, and Nathan Barnett. In 2011, <mask> began hosting the Improv4humans podcast, where he and guest improvisers perform scenes based on suggestions sent in via Twitter. The podcast releases an episode each

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 week and has differing guests. <mask> wrote and directed his first film, Freak Dance, based on his long-running UCB stage show. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2011, and had a limited theatrical and video on-demand release in May 2012. The film was made available on DVD and iTunes on July 10, 2012. In 2014, <mask> and comedian Rich Fulcher had an Adult Swim special air as part of the channel's "4AM Infomercial Parody" series, called In Search Of Miracle Man.<mask> and Fulcher hosted the show as two men claiming the second coming of a savior they call "Miracle Man". <mask> co-starred in both seasons of the Hulu comedy series The Hotwives, which stars his wife Danielle Schneider, who also co-created the series. <mask> plays the husband of Schneider's character. In 2015, <mask> and Schneider played another married couple ("Blake and Karen") in the epilogue of a 2015 episode of the comedy series Community. Personal life
<mask> married actress-comedian Danielle Schneider in 2008. Their daughter Sidney Diane <mask> was born on July 29, 2013. References

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<mask> (born 14 September 1947) is an Indian theatre director, scenic designer and costume designer and presently she is in her second consecutive term as the Chairperson of National School of Drama, India's premier institute of Theatre training, she also runs the Dramatic Art and Design Academy (DADA), New Delhi, with her husband <mask>, which they co-founded in 2000. As a theatre director, she has directed over 55 plays in Hindi, including notable plays like, Aadhe Adhure (Mohan Rakesh), Khamosh, Adalat Jari Hai (Vijay Tendulkar adaptation of 1956 short-story, 'Die Panne' (Traps) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt), Ashadh Ka Ek Din (Mohan Rakesh), Tughlaq and Hayavadana (both by Girish Karnad), Mahabhoj (Mannu Bhandari) (1982), King Lear, Himmat Mai (Mother Courage), Nati Binodini (2006) and Begum Barve (Satish Alekar), many of which are known to have set trends in Indian theatre. She was awarded the 1998 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Direction, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama

Early life and education
Born in 1947 in Mumbai to Ebrahim Alkazi, noted theatre director and the first director of the National School of Drama; while her father was of Arab descent (of Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti parentage), her mother Roshan Alkazi, belonged to the Gujarati Ismail Khoja community and did the costumes for almost all of her father's plays. Her father was one amongst nine siblings; in 1947, Amal's paternal relatives migrated to Pakistan while her father stayed behind in India. She grew up in a household steeped in theatre and overlooked by her grandmother, a staunch Gandhian, and frequented by artists, writers and theatre personalities,

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 Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) and costume designer in Mahesh Bhatt's Saransh (1984)

Personal life
She is married to Nissar <mask>, whom she first met at the age of 15 in a father's Ebrahim Alkazi's theatre group. Nissar <mask> though a doctor by profession, practices stage design and lighting design and has worked in most of her plays, he is also the Director of Dramatic Art and Design Academy (DADA), which they founded in 2000 in Delhi. Their daughter Zuleikha Chaudhary is also a theatre director. Her mother, Roshan Alkazi died in 2007, and a year later two books titled, Ancient Indian Costume and Medieval Indian Costume, based on her research of Indian costume through the history were published by <mask> and her father Ebrahim, released at Art Heritage Gallery which was founded Ebrahim and Roshan together. Notes

References
  at The Hindu

 Women who dared, by Ritu Menon.National Book Trust, India, 2002. . Chap. 13, p. 181–190. External links
 National School of Drama, Chairperson, Official webpage
 Delhi Ibsen Festival, website
 Nati Binodini – a photo journey

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<mask> (born December 30, 1946) is a former American football coach and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as the head football coach at Wisconsin for 16 seasons, from 1990 to 2005, compiling a career college football record of 119–72–4. He has the longest head coaching tenure and the most wins in Wisconsin Badgers football history. <mask> stepped down as head coach after the 2005 season, and remained as athletics director until July 1, 2021. Since retiring, <mask> has served as interim head coach on two occasions. He coached Wisconsin in the 2013 Rose Bowl, after the departure of Bret Bielema to the University of Arkansas, and in 2015 Outback Bowl, following the departure of Gary Andersen to Oregon State University. <mask> was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2010.In honor of his accomplishments, the Badgers announced in 2021 that the field within Camp Randall would be renamed to <mask> Alvarez Field. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Langeloth, Pennsylvania, where his family settled after his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Spain. He graduated from Burgettstown Union High School in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played linebacker from 1966 to 1968 under Bob Devaney, who became one of his major coaching influences along with Hayden Fry and Lou Holtz. <mask> intercepted a pass in a game played between the Cornhuskers and the Badgers in Madison. <mask> later became a head coach at Lexington High School in Lexington, Nebraska and then Mason City High School in Mason City, Iowa where the Mohawks won the 1978 class 4A state title, 15–13, over Dubuque Hempstead before becoming an assistant coach at University of Iowa and then at the University of Notre Dame. From 1979–1986 at

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 Iowa, <mask> would coach linebackers such as Leven Weiss, Todd Simonsen, Mel Cole, James Erb, Jonathan Hayes, and Larry Station. In 1987, <mask> would coach linebacker Wes Pritchett.In 1988, he led the defense of a Notre Dame team that finished 12–0 as national champions. They finished 3rd in points allowed on the season. The players he coached that year included DL Jeff Alm, LB Frank Stams, and DB Todd Lyght. In 1989, the Notre Dame defense finished 9th in points allowed and the team finished 12–1. Head coaching career
In 1990, <mask> was named head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers. He inherited a program that had not had a winning season since 1984, and had only won seven games in Big Ten Conference play in that time. Considering the awful state of the program he'd inherited, <mask> engineered a very quick return to respectability.In recruiting players, <mask> made the decision to "build a wall" around the state of Wisconsin, to make sure all of the state's top recruits were going to be recruited to the program. He also encouraged walk-on players to try out for the team. According to <mask>, he looked for two kinds of players for his team: Players who loved football, and players that were tough. He won only eleven games in his first three seasons (including a 1–10 record in his first year). However, the 1992 team showed signs of the future to come. That team upset Ohio State on national television, and four of its losses were by a touchdown or less. One of those losses, to Northwestern, kept Wisconsin out of a bowl.The Badgers steamrolled through the 1993 season, notching a 10–1–1 mark and their first Rose Bowl appearance since 1963, along with only the second bowl win in school history. During his tenure, the Badgers won or shared three Big Ten titles and played in three Rose Bowls (1994, 1999 and 2000), winning

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texts: all three of them. He also led the Badgers to 11 bowl games, winning 8 of them; before his arrival they had been to only six bowls in their entire history, with only one win. The 1998 team notched the first 11-win season in school history, while the 1999 team won the school's first outright Big Ten title in 37 years. <mask> retired for the first time at Wisconsin with a win over the Auburn Tigers in the 2006 Capital One Bowl. Following his two interim stints as the team's coach, his all-time record at Wisconsin to 120–73–4 (), making him far and away the winningest coach in school history; his 120 wins are almost double those of runner-up Phillip King. His record in bowl games is 9–4 ().<mask> is the only Big Ten Conference coach to win consecutive Rose Bowls. Prior to his first return as interim coach, his 3–0 Rose Bowl record as a full-time coach had placed him third on the list of undefeated Rose Bowl records, behind USC's Howard Jones (5–0) and John Robinson (4–0). On December 5, 2012, the day after the 2012 Big Ten Championship Game, Badgers head coach Bret Bielema announced he would be leaving to take the Arkansas head coaching position and revealed to the media that <mask> would be the interim coach for the Badgers in the 2013 Rose Bowl. The Badgers lost that game to the Stanford Cardinal 20–14, dropping <mask>'s Rose Bowl record to 3–1. <mask> is the only Big Ten coach with consecutive wins over the Ohio State Buckeyes during Jim Tressel's coaching tenure there; those came in 2003 and 2004. He finished his career with a 3–1 edge over Tressel. <mask> had six seasons with at least nine wins at Wisconsin.Prior to his arrival, the Badgers had recorded only four in nearly 100 seasons (1897–1899, 1901). (Wisconsin has regularly played a season schedule of nine or more games from 1942 onward.) Life after


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<mask> replaced Pat Richter as athletic director in 2004 while retaining the head coaching position. After the 2005 season, <mask> stepped down as head coach. Due to his continuing role as athletic director, <mask> had the rare opportunity to choose his successor. <mask> promoted his defensive coordinator, Bret Bielema. In 2006, <mask> released his autobiography, Don't Flinch, co-authored by Mike Lucas.During the 2006–07 bowl season, <mask> worked as a color commentator/analyst for Fox Sports. He worked both the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and 2007 BCS National Championship Game as well as select NFL games. In 2010, it was revealed that he had invested $600,000 in the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Nevin Shapiro. Starting with the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the Bowl Championship Series was abandoned in favor of a four-team playoff to determine a national champion. <mask> was one of the thirteen inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee. Head coaching record

Coaching tree
Assistant coaches under <mask> who became nfl or college head coaches:

 Bret Bielema : Wisconsin (2006-2012), Arkansas (2013-2017), Illinois (2021-present)

 Paul Chryst: Pitt (2012–2014); Wisconsin (2015–present)
 Rob Ianello: Akron (2010–2011)
 Lance Leipold: Wisconsin–Whitewater (2007–2014); Buffalo (2015–present)
 Dan McCarney: Iowa State (1995–2006); North Texas (2011–2015)
 Jay Norvell : Nevada (2017-2021), Colorado State (2022-present)
 Paul Winters: Wayne State (2004–present)
 Bill Callahan: Oakland Raiders (2002–2003); Nebraska (2004–2007)
Players who became coaches include
 Mel Tucker
 Jim Leonhard

Honors and awards
Prior to his arrival at Wisconsin, <mask> was part of Lou Holtz's staff at Notre Dame from 1987–1989. He was the defensive coordinator for the 1988 and 1989 teams which lost a single

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 game in these two seasons and were named national champions in 1988.During his head coaching tenure, <mask> received national recognition as the recipient of the AFCA Coach of the Year and Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 1993. He was twice honored as the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, in 1993 and 1998. In 1994, Babcock Dairy Store, run by the UW–Madison's Department of Food Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, developed an ice cream flavor called "Berry Alvarez", a mixture of raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry, in his honor. In 2001, Hispanic Business magazine named <mask> one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics." On October 13, 2006, a bronze statue of <mask> was unveiled in the Kellner Plaza of Camp Randall Stadium. The statue honoring <mask> had been announced the previous year, at his last home game as head coach. In 2009, <mask> was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.On May 27, 2010 it was announced that <mask> would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2010 class. It was further revealed that the induction vote for <mask> was unanimous. References

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title: Drew Pomeranz

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Thomas Andrew "<mask>" <mask> (born November 22, 1988), nicknamed Big Smooth, is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, and Milwaukee Brewers. Pomeranz was an MLB All-Star with the Padres in 2016, and a World Series champion with the Red Sox in 2018. Early years
Pomeranz is from Collierville, Tennessee. Despite being selected in 12th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft by the Texas Rangers, he opted to play college baseball for the University of Mississippi. He also received scholarship offers from Tennessee, Memphis, and Mississippi State and was recruited heavily by LSU and Alabama. Pomeranz pitched the United States Collegiate National Team to a victory in the 2009 World Baseball Challenge, throwing a one-hitter in the championship game against the German national baseball team.He finished the tournament with a 4–1 record and a 1.75 earned run average (ERA), while also leading the team with 48 strikeouts. Pomeranz was the 2010 recipient of the Cellular South Ferriss Trophy (now the C Spire Ferriss Trophy), awarded annually to Mississippi's top collegiate baseball player. Professional career

Cleveland Indians
<mask> was initially drafted by the Texas Rangers in 2007 but decided to go to college instead. He was then drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Indians on August 16, 2010, right before the deadline; his contract, which included a $2.65 million signing bonus, was the largest bonus given to a college pitcher in the

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 draft that year. He was considered one of the top 50 prospects in baseball in 2011. Colorado Rockies
On July 31, 2011, <mask>, Alex White, Joe Gardner, and Matt McBride were traded to the Colorado Rockies for Ubaldo Jiménez.He made his Major League debut when he started and pitched five scoreless innings to pick up the win against the Cincinnati Reds on September 11, 2011. He made 4 starts in September 2011, finishing 1–2 with a 5.40 ERA. After employing a 75-pitch limit after the first month of the season, Pomeranz averaged less than 5 innings per start. On May 7, 2012, Pomeranz hit his first career home run. Pomeranz spent the 2012 season between AAA and the Rockies rotation, making 22 starts for them despite recording a 2–9 record. For the 2013 season, Pomeranz began the season in AAA and would only appear in 8 games, 4 starts for the Rockies. Oakland Athletics

On December 10, 2013, <mask>, along with minor league pitcher Chris Jensen, was traded to the Oakland Athletics for pitcher Brett Anderson.Pomeranz began 2014 as a member of the A's bullpen, where he made 9 appearances, going 1–1 with a 1.98 ERA in 13.2 innings, before being moved to the rotation on May 9 to replace the struggling Dan Straily. Pomeranz did not give up a run in the rotation until his fourth start, on May 25, giving Oakland three 5-inning starts of shutout ball before. He made 8 starts, going 4–3 with a 3.21 ERA, striking out 37 in 42 innings, before fracturing his non-throwing hand by punching a wooden chair after giving up 8 runs in 3.2 innings against the Rangers on June 16. Brad Mills took his spot in the rotation as Pomeranz went on the disabled list. He was recalled from the Sacramento

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 in curveball percentage (39.2%). He also tied for the major league lead in bunt hits allowed, with eight. In the ALDS against the Cleveland Indians, he made two relief appearances, allowing two runs in  innings (4.91 ERA). For the 2017 Red Sox, Pomeranz had a record of 17–6 with a 3.32 ERA in 32 appearances (all starts), registering 174 strikeouts and 69 walks in  regular season innings. For the second consecutive season he led all major league pitchers in curveball percentage (37.0%).In the postseason, he started Game 2 of the ALDS against the Houston Astros; he only pitched into the third inning while allowing four runs (18.00 ERA) and took the loss. During the 2018 Red Sox season, Pomeranz made his first start on April 20, after beginning the season on the disabled list due to a flexor strain. Through the end of May, his record was 1–3 with a 6.81 ERA. On June 5, he was placed on the disabled list due to left biceps tendinitis; he was activated on July 24 as a relief pitcher. He remained in the bullpen for the remainder of the season, finishing at 2–6 with a 6.08 ERA in 26 games (11 starts) for Boston. <mask> was initially not included on Boston's postseason roster, but was added for the World Series in place of Brandon Workman. Although Pomeranz did not pitch in the World Series, the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games, making Pomeranz a World Series champion for the first time in his career.San Francisco Giants
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 with a 6.10 ERA in 17 starts and a 2–9 record. Milwaukee Brewers
On July 31, 2019, the Giants traded Pomeranz and Ray Black to the Milwaukee Brewers for Mauricio Dubon. San Diego Padres (second stint)
On November 27, 2019, Pomeranz signed a four-year contract with the San Diego Padres. Pomeranz began the shortened 2020 season with 18.2 consecutive scoreless innings before giving up a three-run home run to Wilmer Flores of the San Francisco Giants on September 25, in the final series of the season. In 2021 for the Padres, Pomeranz pitched to a 1.75 ERA with 30 strikeouts in 27 appearances.On August 14, 2021, it was announced that Pomeranz would undergo season-ending surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon. Personal life
Pomeranz married his longtime girlfriend, Carolyn Esserman, on November 19, 2016. His older brother Stu also played in MLB. <mask> and Stu are great-grandsons of former professional football and baseball player Garland Buckeye. In August 2020, <mask> and his wife announced, via social media, that they were expecting their first child. Their son, Tate Pomeranz, was born on February 6, 2021. References

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Choi Whee-sung (; born February 5, 1982), known professionally as Wheesung or by the stage name Realslow, is a South Korean R&B singer, record producer, and musical theatre actor. Career

1982: Early life and education
<mask> was born on February 5, 1982. He was an avid dancer in high school, where he was part of a rock band. He began singing in his senior year. He initially attended the Sun Moon University, under the journalism major but dropped out. Wheesung subsequently attended the Gukje Digital University and Kyung Hee University's Graduate School of Communication. 1997–1999: Dance Team and Group Debut
He started his career in 1997 as a member of a back dancing team ING.Wheesung began his career in 1999 with the short lived Korean boy group, A4. He left after the band's first album debut, citing musical differences between himself and the other members of the band. After that, He joined a rock band, MAME, as vocalist for a short while. And, he participated the MBC College Music Festival (MBC 강변가요제) in 2000. 2000–2006: Solo Debut and YG Entertainment
In 2000, he signed onto M Boat, a former sister company to YG Entertainment. He underwent a few years of vocal training under the label and released his first solo album Like A Movie in 2002. The album became very popular after receiving praise from many well-known artists, including Seo Taiji and Shin Seung Hun.In 2003, he released his second album, It's Real. It proved to be as popular as his first, making him the best selling artist of 2003 in Korea. Unlike his debut album, It's Real wasn't restricted to R&B and it included different musical elements like pop and


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<mask> (Marathi: उत्तम कांबळे) is an Indian journalist who has been the Chief Editor of Sakal Media Group. He is a post-modern author, with around 63 published books. He has been in journalism for more than three decades. He is best known for his oratory, poetry and his writings for the oppressed and deprived class. He has also been the President of the 84th Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, the single largest literary meet, surviving great tradition in Marathi. He also inaugurated the 16th Kamgar Sahitya Sammelan (February 2011) in the Satara district of Maharashtra, which was presided over by Ramdas Phutane. Early life
<mask> was born 31 May 1956 into poverty in a rural area of Chikkodi Taluka in the  Belagum district of Karnataka.This geographic area has a mixed population of Kannada and Marathi speaking communities. He experienced hardship during his childhood. His mother was an illiterate land laborer. Young Uttam used to help her in this work during his childhood. He is the first literate person from his family. In his youth, he worked various jobs including compounding, construction work, sales and paper-boy, while still continuing his education. Career
<mask> <mask> graduated from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) degree.After graduation, he joined a small daily newspaper named Samaj (Marathi: समाज) in 1979. He joined the Sakal Group in 1982 and remained there for the rest of his career. Positions held in Sakal Group
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<mask> (29 October 1910, London – 27 October 1998, St Paul, Minnesota, USA) was an English-born mathematician and geometer with a career spanning more than sixty years. In the course of his life he wrote approximately fifty research and expository papers in geometry. He is also the author of various core books on mathematics and geometry some of which have remained in print for decades and been translated into several languages. These books include the three-volume Methods of Algebraic Geometry (which he wrote in collaboration with W. V. D. Hodge), The Gentle Art of Mathematics, Circles: A Mathematical View, Geometry and the Visual Arts and most recently Japanese Temple Geometry Problems: San Gaku (with Hidetoshi Fukagawa). Early life
<mask> was born in London in 1910, the youngest of thirteen children of Szmul Abramski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland who found himself in London in the 1890s: he had boarded a cattleboat not knowing whether it was bound for New York or London, so his final destination was one of blind chance. <mask>'s mother, Ryfka Raszka Pedowicz, was the only child of Wolf Pedowicz, a corn merchant and his wife, Sarah Haimnovna Pecheska from Łomża then in Congress Poland (that part of Poland then under Russian control). The family name requires some explanation.The father, Abramski, was one of the Kohanim, a priestly group, and once in Britain, he changed his surname to Cohen. At first, all thirteen children took the surname Cohen, but later, to avoid any potential anti-semitism, some of the Cohen children changed their surname to <mask>, a contraction of their mother's maiden name; this happened while <mask> was at school, aged 12. "Danny" was the youngest child in a family of thirteen children and his childhood was spent in relative poverty in the East End of London, despite their father being a skilled cabinetmaker. He

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 attended the Central Foundation Boys' School where he was first influenced in his love of geometry by the headmaster Norman M. Gibbins and a textbook by Godfrey and Siddons. While still at school, <mask> published his first paper, The geometric interpretation of Cagnoli's equation: sin b sin c + cos b cos c cos A = sin B sin C – cos B cos C cos a; it appeared in the Mathematical Gazette in 1929. He was successful at the "ten plus" examination and subsequently won a Scholarship to study mathematics at Cambridge University. Cambridge and Princeton
During his first three years at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, <mask> was tutored in mathematics by Arthur Stanley Ramsey, the father of Frank P. Ramsey.He attended lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, although he was unimpressed by the teaching style of either great man. Geometry became his main interest and, advised by Henry Baker, he started work on his doctorate and published several papers. In 1935 he took a break from Cambridge and went to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton where he worked with Solomon Lefschetz. University of Southampton and Freeman Dyson
On his return to England in 1936, <mask> was appointed as an assistant lecturer of the mathematics department at the University College, Southampton. More of his papers were published and after(?) 1937, he was awarded his PhD on the strength of his thesis, The Exceptional Curves on an Algebraic Surface, which was based on Henry Baker's work on the Italian theory of algebraic surfaces; he was examined by W. V. D. Hodge and Baker at Cambridge. In the late 1930s, <mask> married Mary Tunstall, an English geographer and the couple had a daughter, Naomi, and identical twin sons, Dan and Hugh, born in December 1939.By 1941, Winchester College had lost several teachers to the army and had become unable

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 to meet its teaching commitments. They requested help and <mask> was asked to assist with the teaching of mathematics. He taught junior and senior classes (the juniors could be unruly) and in the senior class one of the students was  Freeman Dyson who showed enormous early talent and was strongly encouraged by <mask> with extra work and reading. Their friendship lasted more than fifty more years until <mask>'s death in 1998 and Dyson's list of people who have most influenced him begins "Hardy, Pedoe...". In 1941 a collaboration with W. V. D. Hodge started which lasted some twelve years and included the writing of the huge three-volume work, Methods of Algebraic Geometry. Although the book was originally designed as a geometric counterpart of G. H. Hardy's A Course of Pure Mathematics it was never intended as a textbook and contains original material. First published in the 1940s, all three volumes were reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 1995.<mask> published three more papers in 1942: A remark on a property of a special pencil of quadrics, On some geometrical inequalities and An inequality for two triangles. Birmingham University and Westfield College
In 1942, <mask> moved to Birmingham for a lectureship at the University of Birmingham, working mainly in engineering mathematics. The family were not happy there, the local air pollution affected his children and <mask> did not like the working environment. The professor of mathematical physics at Birmingham was Rudolf Peierls, who was working on the British project to develop the atomic bomb; he suggested to <mask> that he, <mask>, should do some war-work. He did so, and worked part-time to improve piston rings so as to emulate German dive-bombing tactics. In 1947 he moved to Westfield College, part of the University of London, as a reader in mathematics. Once again, he was unhappy, both

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 from domestic and professional points of view: his salary was insufficient for him to afford to buy a family home and he found the working environment to be "a strain".Khartoum and Singapore
Encouraged by Mary to look abroad, he was appointed as head of the mathematics department at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan and took up the role in 1952 on trial basis with leave of absence from Westfield College. When Westfield pressed for firm decision, he resigned and stayed at Khartoum for seven years: the length of his contract. It was during this period that he wrote many of his books including The Gentle Art of Mathematics, Circles and a textbook, An Introduction to projective geometry. <mask> found the time at Khartoum to his taste; there was a comfortable life-style that allowed him to write and the family joined him each Christmas. Eventually, Mary stayed with him permanently, the children remaining in England. In 1959, he was appointed as head of the mathematics department at the University of Singapore by Sir Alexander Oppenheim. Purdue and Minnesota
Unwilling to retire at 55, the statutory retirement age in Singapore, he moved again, to Indiana in 1962, to take up a position at Purdue University, near Lafayette.Although the location was somewhat isolated, there was an active social life and he was kept busy. One of the positions he held there was as Senior Mathematician to the Minnesota College Geometry Project, which was to improve geometry teaching in high schools and colleges by making films and writing accompanying books. After two years at Purdue, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Minnesota where he stayed until he retired in 1980, when he was made Professor Emeritus. He won a Lester R. Ford Award in 1968. San Gaku
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 Hidetoshi Fukagawa, a high-school teacher in Aichi, Japan. Fukagawa had tried unsuccessfully to interest Japanese academics in San Gaku – Japanese wooden tablets containing geometric theorems which had hung in temples and shrines for around two centuries as offerings to the gods. A collaboration started which resulted in the publication of the book, Japanese Temple Geometry Problems by the Charles Babbage Research Centre in Canada.The book succeeded in arousing interest in this uniquely Japanese form of mathematics. Death
<mask> died in 1998, aged 88, after a long period with failing health. He was survived by his twin sons, Dan and Hugh Tunstall-<mask>, and six grandchildren. Archive
A collection of <mask>'s papers and correspondence throughout his life is to be found at the University of Birmingham archive centre. Books
 Methods of Algebraic Geometry (3 volumes)
 Circles (republished as Circles: a Mathematical View)
 A Course of Geometry for Colleges and Universities (republished as Geometry: A Comprehensive Course)
 A Geometric Introduction to Linear Algebra
 Geometry and the Liberal Arts (republished as Geometry and the Visual Arts)
 The Gentle Art of Mathematics

See also
 <mask>'s inequality
 W. V. D. Hodge
 Sangaku

References

"In Love with Geometry", <mask>, College Mathematics Journal, 1998, Volume 29 pp. 170–188. External links

1910 births
1998 deaths
Mathematicians from London
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Saul "<mask><mask> (Amsterdam, 19 July 1899 – Bussum, 3 August 1986) was a Dutch politician of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). He was also a member of the House of Representatives for the CPN and chief editor of the party newspaper De Waarheid. Biography
<mask> was the son of a Jewish diamond cutter in Amsterdam. He and his parents left for Antwerp in search of work. After primary school, <mask> jr. worked as an apprentice diamond cutter. When Antwerp was threatened by German troops after the outbreak of the First World War the <mask> family fled to the neutral Netherlands and temporarily settled in Amsterdam. Son <mask> got a job with a cigar maker who taught him the principles of socialism.In 1916 he returned to Antwerp with his parents. <mask> jr. became a diamond worker and joined the General Diamond Workers' Union of Belgium (ADB) and the Socialist Young Watch. Training
Impressed by the October Revolution (1917), he participated in the founding conference of the United Communist Party of Belgium and became a member of the party board. Because of his participation in the agitation against the (temporary) occupation of the Ruhr area, in which Belgian troops also participated, he had to flee Germany in October 1923. After a short stay in France, <mask> relocated to Amsterdam in the autumn of 1925. He was active in the General Dutch Diamond Workers' Union (ANDB) and in the Communist Party Holland (CPH), the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). Party board member
After a purge of political leadership enforced by Moscow, <mask> joined the party board of the CPN in February 1930.Because of his activist past, great readability (besides Karl Marx he also read Heinrich Heine), intelligence, journalistic qualities and tactical insight, he

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 stood head and shoulders above his fellow directors. This and his almost slavish loyalty to Stalin led to <mask> becoming political secretary of the party in 1938, which had since been renamed Communist Party of the Netherlands. He formed the party presidency with Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters. He also became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Het Volksdagblad. He turned out to be a headstrong, often capricious and suspicious leader. World War II
After the German invasion in May 1940, <mask> initially believed that the Hitler-Stalin Pact required a cautious attitude towards the German occupying forces. In the Volksdagblad he wrote that English imperialism and the Dutch bourgeoisie had provoked the occupation.It did not prevent the CPN and its organs from being banned by the Germans. In November 1940, the first issue of a new, illegal party newspaper, De Waarheid, was published. <mask> aimed his arrows at the German aggressor, but also continued to fight "Anglo-American imperialism", the government in London and the SDAP. Only with the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 did he change course. Incidentally, it was not <mask>, as the party legend later proposed, but fellow board member Jansen who wrote the famous manifesto 'Staak, staak, staak' on the eve of the February strike of 1941. The CPN has always considered this strike to be the culmination of the communist resistance against the Nazis in the Netherlands. In October 1942, the Germans raided the house where <mask> and his family were hiding.<mask> managed to escape through the back door, but his wife and daughter were taken to Auschwitz and gassed there, which made him feel guilty and troubled the rest of his life. In February 1943 he again narrowly escaped arrest by the Germans. He then turned the party

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 leadership over to others (including Jaap <mask>) and cut off all contact with the illegal party. Recovery after 1945
After the war, <mask> succeeded in quickly and easily regaining power within the CPN. For a short time he promoted the dissolution of the party in favour of an 'Association of Friends of De Waarheid', because in that first post-war period the communist newspaper De Waarheid enjoyed wide popularity because of its resistance history. Fierce criticism in his own ranks and an ok from Moscow made <mask> decide in July 1945 to re-establish the CPN. <mask> also entered the House of Representatives.There and in De Waarheid, of which he had become editor-in-chief, he sometimes defended contradictory views. For example, with regard to the young Indonesian republic: on the one hand he was against sending Dutch troops to violently crush the nationalist resistance in Java and elsewhere, on the other hand he thought that young communists should be sent out and then propaganda within the army for Indonesian independence. In their own communist circle this led to confusion and dissatisfaction. End of board work
In 1962 <mask> stepped down as political secretary and was appointed party chairman. In 1966 he left the Chamber and a year later, at the 22nd party congress, he also resigned the presidency of the CPN. As an honorary member of the party board and director of the party's scientific office (IPSO), however, he continued to exercise decisive influence behind the scenes, such as in 1975 when the CPN decided to reconcile with Moscow. When the party suffered a dramatic election defeat in 1977 - the CPN dropped from seven to two parliamentary seats - <mask> knows this because the party hierarchy had been fooled by 'government machinations' around the recently completed

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 train hijacking at De Punt.He thought the current leadership was too soft - young academics and social workers had increasingly taken the place of workers as members and administrators in the 1970s - and wanted to see it replaced by steel worker frameworks. With that, however, he overplayed his hand. The party board opposed and stripped him of honorary membership (1978). <mask>'s role had been played. Retirement
For the last ten years of his life, he lived a secluded life. Journalists and others who tried to approach were rebuffed. <mask> moved with his (second) wife to a care flat in Zeist and after her death, in September 1985, to a Jewish nursing home in Bussum.The disappearance of the CPN group from the House of Representatives in 1986 never elicited any public comment from him. After his own death, that same year, <mask> <mask> was commemorated with a single column in De Waarheid. Literature
Cornelissen, I. (1996). <mask> <mask> public enemy no. 1 . Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Stutje, JW (2000).The man who showed the way. Life and work of <mask> <mask> 1899-1986 . Amsterdam: Busy Bee ( digital edition )

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<mask> (; born 8 September 1930) is a German  actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum. He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Biography
<mask> was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of Matteo Menniti, an Italian surgeon and <mask>, a German medical assistant. He grew up in his maternal grandfather's hometown, Mayen, where he was raised by his unmarried mother. He rose to fame in Europe, and particularly Germany, and also made appearances in international films, including Ten Little Indians and Smilla's Sense of Snow. He also played a small role in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's Smiley's People as a German club owner.In Italy he also played in a number of movies. In the 1960s, he married Lis Verhoeven. The couple had a child, Stella, prior to their divorce. He starred with Barbara Bouchet in Milano Calibro 9 in 1972. In 1985, he married Monique Faye. <mask> has expressed regret that he declined roles in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961). He also turned down the role of General Mapache in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), because he felt the character was too violent.In 1996, he provided the German dubbing voice for the character Draco in Dragonheart, a role performed by Sean Connery. Awards
Among many others:
 2000 Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award
 2011 Best Human Brand Award

Selected filmography

 08/15 (1954), as Wagner
 08/15 – In der Heimat (1955), as Unteroffizier Stamm
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 the Neighbour's Garden (1956), as Landstreicher
 The Girl and the Legend (1957), as Bertie
 Sand, Love and Salt (1957, directed by František Čáp), as Coco
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 The Devil Strikes at Night (1957, directed by Robert Siodmak), as Bruno Luedke
 The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958, directed by Géza von Radványi), as Pelz, Sanitäter
 Rosemary (1958, directed by Rolf Thiele), as Horst
 The Death Ship (1959, directed by Georg Tressler), as Lawski, Polnischer Kohlenschlepper
 The Day the Rains Came (1959, directed by Gerd Oswald), as Werner Maurer
  (Bumerang) (1960, directed by Alfred Weidenmann), as Georg Kugler
 My Schoolfriend (1960), as Niedermoser
 Brainwashed (1960, directed by Gerd Oswald), as Mirko Centowic
 Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? (1961), as Max Klausen
 Le goût de la violence (1961), as Chamaco
 A cavallo della tigre (1961, directed by Luigi Comencini), as <mask>e
 Lulu (1962, directed by Rolf Thiele), as Rodrigo Quast
 Freddy and the Song of the South Pacific (1962), as Cameo during brawl at harbour pub (uncredited)
 The Last Charge (1962), as Nardone
 Street of Temptation (1962), as Joe
 Station Six-Sahara (1963, directed by Seth Holt), as Santos
 Die endlose Nacht (1963), as Juanitas Bekannter
  (1963), as Axel Rottmann, Reporter
  (1963, TV film), as Siebenter Geschworener
 Apache Gold (1963, directed by Harald Reinl), as Frederick Santer
 La visita (1963, directed by Antonio Pietrangeli), as Cucaracha
 A Mission for Mr. Dodd (1964), as Buddy Herman
 The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (1964, directed by Rolf Olsen), as Pedro Ortiz
 Massacre at Marble City (1964, directed by Paul Martin), as Matt Ellis
 Major Dundee (1965, directed by Sam Peckinpah), as Sgt. (1974, directed by Massimo Dallamano), as


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<mask> (1766 – 15 May 1844) was an English tavernkeeper in Alexandria, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Early life and migration to Alexandria
Born in 1766 in England, <mask>'s earliest known record in the United States is in 1795. He traveled with his wife, Margaret Smelt, and his two daughters, Ann Sophia and Margaret Sarah, to Alexandria, Virginia, then a major shipping port. His first establishment was at the Union Tavern and Coffee House in Alexandria, a subscription coffee house that catered to business men in the middle and upper classes. City Hotel

On October 6, 1796 <mask> leased the City Hotel from <mask>, now the site of Gadsby's Tavern Museum in Alexandria. The tavern quickly became the center for community events, from the George Washington birthnight ball to dancing assemblies to meetings of local clubs, particularly the Alexandria Jockey Club of which Gadsby was a benefactor. He made money renting his carriages and investing in a stagecoach line.When he renegotiated his lease, <mask>'s property and possessions totaled $22,441. His most valuable "possessions" were the enslaved African-Americans who comprised the majority of his staff. By 1805, <mask>'s first wife Margaret had died, and he married Peggy McLaughlin of Georgetown. He then quickly married off his daughters. First, Margaret Sarah <mask> was married to Charles Thomas Chapman in 1807, and the couple had a son, <mask> Chapman, by 1808. In July of that year Ann Sophia <mask> married Augustine Newton. Though at that point <mask> still had eight years remaining on his lease with <mask>, he abruptly sold it and moved to Baltimore, possibly for economic opportunity.Indian Queen Hotel
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 a sizeable tavern that showed off new mechanical innovations, including a steam kitchen, stew stove, patent oven, and smoke jacks to move a large coffee roaster and mechanical spits. In addition to his tavern's position as a stagecoach station on four lines, this hostelry par excellence brought Gadsby both a fortune and an excellent reputation in Baltimore. Guest Samuel Breck wrote:

On May 10, 1808, <mask> and Peggy had a son, William. But on February 12, 1812, Peggy passed away, and a short 11 months later, Gadsby married Providence "Provey" (Norris) Langworthy, twenty years his junior. The Norris family was prominent in Baltimore and attended numerous events at the Indian Queen Hotel. The patriarch of the family, Provey's father Benjamin Bradford Norris, was significant in town for being a signer of the Bush Declaration. The couple had three children in Baltimore: Virginia (1813), Augusta (1816), and Julia (1818).They also had a son, Charles, who died as a young child. Of the many notable guests <mask> welcomed before, during, and after the Battle of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key would become the most significant. Key finished his song the "Defence of Fort McHenry," now better known as "The Star-Spangled Banner," at the Indian Queen on September 16, 1814. During the Panic of 1819, <mask> sold his lease and left Baltimore nearly penniless. The reasons behind his financial downfall are unsure. <mask> looked toward Washington Hall Hotel in Philadelphia, the next stop on his stagecoach line to the north, for his next venture. He was in negotiations to take over the hotel, but its loss by fire rendered his plans moot.Instead he looked to the next stagecoach stop to the south: Franklin Hotel in Washington, DC.

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In 1824, <mask> bought up the Franklin Hotel, which had a reputation for hosting the most distinguished men in the nation as they visited Washington. Quickly, the Franklin Hotel became known as Gadsby's Hotel. By 1826, Gadsby's Hotel boasted a billiard room and an extensive coach house as well as parlors, private suites, and rooms for dozens of men. Not all visitors were impressed, however; Lukas Vischer, a Swiss traveler, chronicled the following:

Since the carriage ride from the Franklin to the Capitol took forty minutes, the location was not ideal and Gadsby looked elsewhere. The Franklin Hotel became a rental property, and Gadsby began to deal in the real estate business with other private dwellings. National Hotel
The grand dining rooms, premier ballrooms, and private suites of the National Hotel, located on Pennsylvania Avenue at Sixth Street, hosted presidents, foreign ministers, congressmen, and prominent travelers.The hotel was originally a series of rowhouses which Gadsby converted into one  and contained several stores under the same roof: a bank, a stage office, a wine store, and a lottery office. Two years after the grand opening – the February 22, 1827 George Washington Birthnight Ball at which President <mask> Adams and most of his administration was present  – the hotel was still under construction. By all accounts, the hotel could accommodate several hundred people. A large number of Congressmen resided at Gadsby's Hotel for the season, mostly Congressmen from Massachusetts and South Carolina. Some lived at Gadsby's for as many as seven years. Andrew Jackson stayed at the National Hotel before his inauguration. In 1830, Gadsby owned 39 slaves and employed 4 free black

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 women.Jonathan Elliot praised <mask>'s individualism and perseverance as a businessman as his personal charm:

In 1835, <mask>'s daughter Augusta married <mask> McBlair, a grocer and eventual army officer. Another of his daughters, Virginia, died in July 1836 at the age of 20. She was much lamented in the local papers, where she was remembered as her kindred's "centre of light and life." Retirement to Decatur House
<mask> retired in September 1836 at the age of 70, leaving the business to his son William. He bought Decatur House, one of the largest residences in DC that had a history of grand entertaining, for $12,000 at auction on October 24, 1836. Ten slaves moved with the Gadsbys from the National Hotel to Decatur House. Two families of slaves, the Kings and the Williams, lived in the two-story structure added to the property by the Gadsbys, one of the few extant examples of urban slave quarters.In addition, an enslaved African American named Rosa Marks lived there even through emancipation, and is now buried in the family vault. Occupants of the house included <mask> and Provey, unmarried daughter Julia, married daughter Augusta (with her husband and children), and a young cousin, Mary Augusta Bruff, who would go on to marry <mask>. In 1845, Julia married well to <mask> Ten Eyck who went on to serve as a US Senator from New Jersey. <mask> died on May 15, 1844 at the age of 78 and was buried in Congressional Cemetery. He was remembered as a "well-respected and useful citizen." His wife, Provey, died in 1858, operating Decatur House as a boarding house before her death. References

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<mask> (born 1 August 1979) is an English football coach and former footballer who works as a first team coach at EFL League One side Sunderland. As a player, he was a forward who played between 1996 and 2014 for Everton, Grimsby Town, Hull City, Yeovil Town, Bristol City, Huddersfield Town, Bury, Morecambe, Hyde and Stockport County. Jevons came through the youth academy at Premier League side Everton and was promoted to the club's first team squad in 1996. He made only 8 league appearances before being sold to Grimsby Town in 2001. It was whilst a Grimsby player that he is notably remembered for scoring a last minute 30-yard extra time winning goal for The Mariners against his home town club Liverpool in the third round of the League Cup in 2001 which gave The Mariners a 2–1 victory at Anfield, having initially being 1–0 down. He went on to join Hull City on loan before returning to Grimsby for the 2003–04 campaign. The following season he joined Yeovil Town where he hit 42 goals in 84 appearances in a two-year spell before signing for Bristol City.In 2008, he joined Huddersfield Town permanently following a short loan spell and again in 2009 was loaned out again to Bury and Morecambe. In 2010, he signed with Morecambe on a permanent basis notching up 12 goals in 65 appearances in his two-year stay. In 2012 following his release from the club he took his first step into Non-league football by signing with newly promoted Conference National side Hyde. Jevons netted 15 goals in 35 appearances which aided Hyde's survival in the Conference but on 21 May 2013 he signed for Stockport County who had suffered relegation at the expense of Hyde. In 2014, he announced his retirement to focus on his coaching career. He played his last professional match for Stockport County in a 3–1 win over Harrogate Town in which he scored two goals. Career

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 of the better young players in their reserve side, scoring 37 goals in 90 youth team games and winning an FA Premier Reserve League winners medal in 2001. Despite his reputation for frequently scoring in the youth and reserve sides, he failed to break through into the first-team squad on a regular basis. But, he made his first team debut on 10 March 1999 coming on as a 38th-minute substitute for Nick Barmby in a 2–1 Premier League victory over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. He was handed his first start for the club on 22 September 1999 in a 1–0 home defeat in the League Cup by Oxford United, however he was replaced in the 46th minute by Francis Jeffers. His final appearance came on 5 May 2001 when he featured in a 2–1 defeat away at Chelsea. Jevons was transfer listed at the end of the 2000–01 season. Grimsby Town
In July 2001, he was sold to Grimsby Town for £250,000.Grimsby were playing in the Football League First Division, and <mask> was one of the first signings of the new campaign for manager Lennie Lawrence. He became an instant hit at Blundell Park and helped fire Grimsby to the top of the league within the first five games of the season, notably his partnership with young striker Jonathan Rowan had shown early promise. On 9 October 2001, he scored a long-range goal in extra time of a League Cup fixture against Liverpool to send Grimsby through to the next round knocking Liverpool out. <mask> finished the 2001–02 season having played 37 games scoring eight goals in all competitions. After three substitute appearances for Grimsby in the 2002–03 season, <mask> was placed on the transfer list due to financial reasons, but was later removed and was sent out on a season-long loan to Humber derby rivals Hull City. He scored three goals in 26 games for Hull, before returning to the Mariners in the summer of 2003 following Grimsby's relegation from the second tier of English football. Following the sacking of Paul Groves and the

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 appointment of Nicky Law, <mask> struck up a good partnership with Isaiah Rankin, he scored four goals in a 6–1 victory over Barnsley on 28 February 2004.Despite this the club suffered a second successive relegation, <mask> finished that season with twelve goals and left the club at the end of the season. In total <mask> scored 24 times as a Grimsby Town player. Yeovil Town
On 18 June 2004, he joined Yeovil Town on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract. He made his debut on the opening day of the 2004–05 season in a 3–1 defeat to Bury. He scored his first goal for the club on 10 August 2004, as part of a 1–1 draw with Darlington. He then scored in each of the next two games against Boston United and Notts County respectively. On 18 September 2004, he scored his first hat-trick for the club in a 6–1 win over Oxford United.He went on to score another two hat-trick's that season against Chester City and Bristol Rovers respectively. He finished the 2004–05 season with a total of 29 goals in all competitions. <mask> scored his first goal of the 2005–06 season on 10 September 2005 in a 2–1 win over Walsall. Before the new year he went on to score another seven goals including a brace in a 3–0 win over Nottingham Forest on 22 October 2005. After New Year, he scored another eight goals, including two brace's against Hartlepool United and Huddersfield Town. He finished the 2005–06 season with sixteen goals in all competitions. Bristol City
On 22 May 2006, <mask> joined Bristol City on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract following Gary Johnson to Ashton Gate.He scored his first goal as a Bristol City player on 12 August 2006 in a 2–1 defeat to Huddersfield Town. On 3 December 2006 he scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup as part of a 4–3 win over Gillingham. He went on to score a total of seventeen goals in the 2006–07 season, helping his side to promotion to the Football League Championship. He started his 2007–08 campaign off

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 well scoring a brace in a 3–0 win over Brentford in the League Cup. But after going three more games without a goal, he was sent out on a month's loan deal to Huddersfield Town on 22 November 2007. Huddersfield Town

He made his debut on 24 November 2007, as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat to Leyton Orient at the Galpharm Stadium. On 1 December 2007, he scored his first two goals for the club in a 3–0 against his former team, Grimsby Town to send Huddersfield through to the third round of the FA Cup.He scored his first league goal for the club in a 2–1 win over Bristol Rovers. On 24 December 2007, <mask>'s loan at Huddersfield was extended until 19 January 2008. However, on 10 January <mask> was signed for £100,000, a fee that could double to £200,000 depending on appearances and whether Huddersfield could gain promotion. <mask> signed a contract that would take him to the summer of 2010. He scored another five goals in the 2007–08 season, taking his season total to eleven goals for both Bristol City and Huddersfield. After going sixteen games without a goal in the first half of the 2008–09 season, he scored his first goal of the campaign on 10 January 2009 in a 1–1 draw with Northampton Town. He scored his second goal in three games as his side lost 4–2 to Leicester City.On 21 March 2009, <mask> joined up with Football League Two side Bury on a month's loan deal. On 24 March, he made his debut in a 1–1 draw with Rotherham. After another two games without a goal, he scored his first for the club in a 2–1 win over Shrewsbury on 9 April 2009. He netted just one more time for Bury in a 1–0 win over Accrington Stanley. On 22 July 2009, <mask> signed for Morecambe on a season-long loan deal, along with teammate Ian Craney. He scored his first goal for Morecambe in a 5–2 defeat to Burton Albion on 15 August 2009. He scored brace's against Rochdale and former club Bury respectively.He scored a total of eighteen goals in his season long loan


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 spell at the club. Morecambe
After being released from Huddersfield Town, he signed for Morecambe on a permanent deal on 4 July 2010. He scored his first goal since joining Morecambe permanently on 24 August 2010 in a 3–1 Football League Cup defeat to Burnley. On 2 November 2010, he scored a hat-trick in a 5–0 victory over Stockport County. He finished the 2010–11 season having scored nine goals in 41 appearances in all competitions. He scored his first goal of the 2011–12 season on 13 August, in a 3–0 win over Hereford United. Jevons only scored another four goals all season.He was released at the end of the season, manager Jim Bentley stated that Jevons did not fit into his future plans. Hyde

On 16 April he joined Wrexham on trial, but on 12 June 2012 <mask> signed for newly promoted Conference National side Hyde. He scored his first goals for the club, scoring a hat-trick in a 5–2 win over Hereford United in September 2012. He added a fourth of the campaign in his next match—a 3–2 defeat to Lincoln City. He scored his fifth goal in three matches as his side drew 2–2 with Nuneaton Town. After three games without a goal, he scored a brace in the win over Tamworth in October 2012. In December 2012, he scored another four goals in a 7–0 win over Woking, taking his Hyde goal tally to thirteen in nineteen matches.<mask> left Hyde at the end of the season after netting 15 goals in 35 games. Stockport County
On 21 May 2013 <mask> signed for newly relegated Conference North side Stockport County. He made his debut for the hatters in a 4–1 defeat to Boston United on the opening day of the 2013–14 season. He scored his first Stockport goals in a 3–1 home win over Gainsborough Trinity on 7 September 2013. <mask> announced his retirement from the game and would play his last ever professional game for the Hatters and netted two goals in a 3–1 win over Harrogate Town. Coaching career
<mask> began working on his FA Coaching badges and has


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 since returned to Everton to help coach the club's under-9s side as well as continuing to play as a professional. In September 2012 he also became Head coach of the worldwide scouting football project "The Next Football Superstar".He later progressed to work with the Everton Under 18's team. On 16 September 2021, Jevons signed a contract as a first team and academy coach at Sunderland. Following the dismissal of manager Lee Johnson, Jevons was temporarily appointed interim assistant manager in order to assist Mike Dodds. Career statistics

Honours

Club
Everton
FA Youth Cup: 1998

Grimsby Town
Supporters Player of the Year: 2004

Yeovil Town
Football League Two winner: 2005

Individual
Football League Two Golden Boot: 2005
FA Cup Player of the Round (Second Round): 2006

Personal life
Jevons attended both primary and secondary school in the Merseyside town of Gateacre. In popular culture
Pete Green wrote "The Ballad of <mask>s" which appears on the B side of their first seven-inch single Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Sparkly (Atomic Beat Records, 2007 – ABR001). According to the songwriter: "To start with I just wrote the song to amuse my fellow Grimsby-supporting mates, and never intended it for public performance because I didn't think it'd mean anything to anyone. But then I thought: hmm, well, the enigmatic, gifted-but-lazy footballer is sort of an everyman figure really."References

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Living people
English footballers
English people of Welsh descent
Everton F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Hull City A.F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Bristol City F.C. players
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
Bury F.C.players
Morecambe F.C. players
Hyde United F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Association football forwards
Premier League players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
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title: William Franke (philosopher)

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<mask> is an American academic and philosopher,  professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University (formerly and concomitantly Professor Catedrático and Head of Philosophy and Religions at the University of Macau, 2013-2016). A main exposition of his philosophical thinking  is A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014), a book which dwells on the limits of language in order to open thought to the inconceivable. On this basis, the discourses of myth, mysticism, metaphysics, and the arts take on new and previously unsuspected types of meaning. This book is the object of a Syndicate Forum and of a collective volume of essays by diverse hands in the series “Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion”: Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy. Franke's apophatic philosophy is based on his two-volume On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts (2007), which reconstructs in the margins of philosophy a counter-tradition to the thought and culture of the Logos. Franke extends this philosophy in an intercultural direction, entering the field of comparative philosophy, with Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions Without Borders. In On the Universality of What is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking, Franke argues for application of apophatic thinking in a variety of fields and across disciplines, from humanities to cognitive science, as key to reaching peaceful mutual understanding in a multicultural world riven by racial and gender conflict, religious antagonisms, and national and regional rivalries.Biography
Franke holds degrees in philosophy and theology from Williams College and Oxford University and in comparative literature from UC Berkeley and Stanford (Ph.D. 1991). He lectures and teaches in English, German, French, and Italian. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and a senior fellow of the


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 Press, 2018. Series on Chinese Philosophy and Culture, edited by Roger Ames (270 pages)
Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante. Columbus: Ohio State University Press: 2016 (256 + xii pages) Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies series, edited by Lori Branch
The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015 (424 + xii pages)
A Philosophy of the Unsayable.Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014 (384 + viii pages)
Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign.’  London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic], 2013. New Directions in Religion and Literature Series, edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)
Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language. Stanford: Stanford University Press: 2009 (211 + xiv pages). Translated into German as: Dichtung und Apokalypse: Theologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag. Salzburger Theologische Studien Band 39 (Interkulturell 6) Innsbruck: Tyrolia Verlag, 2011   (216 pages)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by <mask>. Vol. I: Classic Formulations (401 + xi pages); Vol. II: Modern and Contemporary Transformations (480 + viii pages)
Dante’s Interpretive Journey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (242 + xi pages) Religion and Postmodernism series, edited by Mark C. Taylor
Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy. Edited by Nahum Brown and <mask>e. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.References

External links
Homepage of <mask>e
Reviews of Books

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title: Johnny Hon

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<mask> (born 22 December 1971) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician. He is the founder of the Global Group, which he established after working at ABN AMRO Bank in Hong Kong. He is most known for his media ventures and work as an executive producer in the film and television industry, as well as live theater. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Hong Kong on 22 December 1971 to <mask>, and Wong Ling (Betty). He is the eldest of their two sons. <mask> now has four daughters and one son. At age 13, <mask> left Hong Kong to study at Uppingham School in the United Kingdom.In 1990, he went on to attend King's College London and graduated in 1993. <mask> then attended Hughes Hall, Cambridge where he obtained his PhD in Psychiatry. He also holds an M.A. degree in Korean Studies studied at The School of Oriental & African Studies. Career
After obtaining his PhD, <mask> began his career in the private banking sector at ABN AMRO Bank in Hong Kong. He left private banking in 1997 and established Global Group International Holdings Ltd., which developed into an international venture capital company involved in banking, biotechnology, education, entertainment, leisure, financial services, financial technology, gaming, media, mining, oil and gas, property development and sports. Global Group's media and entertainment investments include a number of international projects such as W, a biographical drama

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 produced by Oliver Stone that explored the life and presidency of George W. Bush.He was also executive producer of the film Fagara written and directed by Heiward Mak, Protégé produced by Derek Yee, and the TV drama series in China, Da Ren Wu (2006–07). <mask> is also involved in the theatre business, and worked as executive producer with Michael Linnit and Michael Grade on the revival of Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close. He was also executive producer of the West End musical, 42nd Street (musical). <mask> has investments in fine art, wine collection, and horse racing. He has recently hired French jockey, Gerald Mossé, as his principal rider for his stable of over 40 horses in the United Kingdom and internationally. Philanthropy
The Global Group is a sponsor of educational funds and scholarships in both China and UK, including for University of Oxford and Peking University. The educational scholarships were created to open up opportunities for Chinese students.In July 2015, <mask> was awarded the Medal of Honour from the Government of Hong Kong SAR for his contributions to the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon. In early 2018, <mask> donated to the New Countryside Construction Project in Xiaping Village, which is located in Yunfu City within China's Guangdong Province. The construction project increased government investment in agriculture, expanding rural areas and the fiscal coverage of rural

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 areas and infrastructure. Politics
<mask> has involvement in a range of diplomatic and political projects. He holds official positions within four governments. Armenia
In 2012, <mask> was appointed adviser to the Minister of Economy of Armenia. China
<mask> is a member of the 12th Heilongjiang Provincial Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).He is a former Member of the 10th Heilongjiang Provincial CPPCC, the 11th Heilongjiang Provincial CPPCC, and a former Member of the 6th Yunfu Municipal Committee, CPPCC as well the 5th Yunfu Municipal Committee, CPPCC. Further, <mask> is an Economic Adviser for a number of local governments within China, including the People's Government of Jilin Province and the People's Government of Yuyao City in Zhejiang Province. Grenada
<mask> is the Ambassador-at-large for Grenada and the Honorary Consul of Grenada in Hong Kong. Hong Kong SAR (China)
<mask> has been a long-standing member of the New People's Party (NPP) in Hong Kong since it was established in 2011 by Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee GBS JP, and was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Party in January 2019. North Korea
In 2007, <mask> said, “No prize in the world is as prestigious as the ‘International Kim Il Sung Prize. As chairman of the International Kim Il Sung Foundation, I will make every possible effort to carry out the noble cause started by the President, deeply aware of

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 the mission I have assumed before the times and humankind.’” The International Kim Il Sung Prize is an award conferred for contributions to the study and dissemination of the Juche idea. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
In 2002, <mask> was the Commercial Representative for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Hong Kong and Singapore.Arms
Hon was granted arms by the Lord Lyon Court in 2018. Publications
 <mask>, J., Huppert, F.A., Holland, A.J. and Watson, P. (1998) The value of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (Children's Version) in an epidemiological study of adults with Down's syndrome. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37: 15–29
 Holland, A.J., <mask>, J., Huppert, F.A., Stevens, F. and Watson, P. (1998) A population-based study of the prevalence and presentation of dementia in adults with Down's syndrome. British Journal of Psychiatry, 172: 493–498
 <mask>, J., Holland, A.J., Huppert, F.A. and Watson, P. (1999) Neuropsychological assessment of older adults with Down's syndrome: an epidemiological study using the Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG). British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38: 155–165
 Rubinzstein, D., <mask>, J., Stevens, F., Pyrah, L., Tysoe, C., Huppert, F.A., Easton, D.F.and Holland, A.J. (1999) ApoE genotype and risk of dementia in Down's syndrome. Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 88B (4): 344–347
 Holland, A.J., <mask>, J., Huppert, F.A., Stevens, F. and Watson, P.

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 (2000) The incidence and course of dementia in people with Down's syndrome: Findings from a population-based study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 44 (2): 138–146
 Ball, S.L., Holland, A.J., Huppert, F.A., Treppner, P., Watson, P. and <mask>, J. (2004) The modified CAMDEX informant interview is a valid and reliable tool for use in the diagnosis of dementia in adults with Down's syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 48 (6): 611–620
 Ball, S.L., Holland, A.J., <mask>, J., Huppert, F.A., Treppner, P. and Watson, P. (2006) Personality and behaviour changes mark the early stages of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down's syndrome: findings from a prospective population-based study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21 (7): 661–673
 Landt, J., Ball, S.L., Holland, A.J., <mask>, J., Owen, A., Treppner, P. and Herbert, J.(2011) Age-Related Changes in Plasma Dehydroepiandrosterone Levels in Adults with Down's Syndrome and the Risk of Dementia. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 23 (5): 450–455

References

External links
<mask> – Official Website
Global Group International Holdings Ltd. – Official Website

1971 births
Living people
Alumni of St. Paul's Co-educational College
People educated at Uppingham School
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Hong Kong film producers
Hong Kong theatre people
Hong Kong writers
New People's Party (Hong Kong)

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title: Zaidee Jackson

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<mask> (December 30, 1897 – December 15, 1970) was an American-born jazz, spiritual and pop music singer, dancer and actress who was well known in France, United Kingdom and Romania. Early life

<mask> was born in Augusta, Georgia in the winter of 1897 to C.J. and <mask>, who were both sharecroppers in Berrien County, Georgia. Sometime after moving to Europe, she began using 1900 as her birth year. <mask> had three older siblings, Ora Lee, Era and <mask>. Sometime in late 1900, Alice left her husband and children, taking only <mask>, and moved north to Boston, Massachusetts, where she met and married Fred Williams. <mask> soon took her stepfather's last name.In 1902, Alice and Fred had their own child, Corinna. On July 6, 1920, <mask> married <mask>, but the unhappy marriage was brief, and on December 6, 1922, James abandoned his wife and relocated to Harlem. Around this time, Zaidee became acquainted with pianist Lawrence Brown, who had been working as an elevator operator and studying in Boston, and who was soon touring Europe with Roland Hayes. Career

Early career (1924–1927)

From late-1924 to early-1925, Zaidee left home, travelling across the South as actress with the Andrew Bishop Players, an extension of the old Lafayette Players Company. The company toured Tennessee and Kentucky performing its play, "Paid In Full". By Mid-1925, Zaidee became the lead performer of Walter Sweatman's Creole Revue, touring the Eastern Seaboard and Canada. In January 1926, director David Belasco cast Zaidee in Broadway's latest lurid melodramatic play, "Lulu Belle".The mixed cast consisted of 100 Black and 15 White performers, the stars being major Black actresses such as Evelyn Preer, Ollie Burgoyne, Mattie Wilkes and Fannie Belle de Knight. <mask> had a minor role in the beginning of the play as a Harlem entertainer in the fictional Elite Grotto nightclub. Opening February 9, 1926, at the Belasco Theatre, the show

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 performed successful 461 times before closing on May 16. Afterhours, Zaidee was also performing at Harlem's Club Alabam, known for its semi-nude Josephine Baker-esque revues. Between August–November 1926, Zaidee recorded six Blues records accompanied by James P. Johnson, Otto Harwick and Duke Ellington. Only four recordings were released. In Late-November,  <mask> and several other castmates from "Lulu Belle" were hired by Black film director, Oscar Micheaux, to appear in his latest horror film, *The Spider's Web*.Filming began that winter in Baltimore. Micheaux's *The Spider's Web* was released on January 6, 1927. In February 1927, <mask> ran into her estranged husband in Harlem and filed for divorce. In April, she appeared in "Desires of 1927" at the Lafayette Theatre. The revue was staged and produced by Irvin C. Miller with Adelaide Hall as its star. In July, <mask> was cast as Magnolia in Miller & Lyle's, "Rang Tang", which opened July 12 for 112 performances at the Majestic Theatre. The two-act musical comedy was set in Madagascar and Harlem and featured Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles, Daniel Haynes and Josephine Hall.After its Broadway run closed on October 22, the show prepared to go on the road. However,  Lawrence Brown (who was touring Europe with Paul Robeson) convinced <mask> to visit him in Paris while Robeson was away celebrating the birth of his son. In November 1927, <mask> sailed from New York to France, leaving behind America's systematic racism and trading in on the French fascination for "Negro" culture. French and British career (1928–1933)

Throughout January–February 1928, <mask> was in Cannes, performing at the KitKat cabaret. Her performances sparked the interest of numerous members of the British elite such as Elsa Maxwell, the Duke of Kent, and especially the Countess of Carnarvon, who purchased <mask>'s plane ticket to London in May. In June 1928, she was the star of "Playtime at the

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texts: Piccadilly" at London's Piccadilly Hotel. This annual revue was overwhelming success.Every afternoon, she slipped away to perform on BBC-Radio. Afterhours, she also doubled at the illustrious Uncles Club. On August 28, <mask> recorded two Blues numbers with HMV Records accompanied by pianist Carroll Gibbons, which were never released. In Late-September, she recorded the American folk song, Waterboy, twice with British Duophone. Each recording was rejected. In October 4, <mask> was hired by director, Albin Limpus, to perform Spirituals and Folk songs accompanied by Winifred Smith's Orchestra every afternoon before the curtains raised on May Eginston's latest play, "Deadlock" at the Comedy Theatre. The play ran for 17 days before closing.In-between singing daily at the Comedy, nightly at the Piccadilly, she also found time to record four songs for British Duophone, which were released to public with overwhelming success. In November, once her contract with the Piccadilly ended, <mask> returned to Paris to perform for a week at the Plantation Cabaret with Eddie South's Orchestra. While in Paris, she witnessed Afro-British pianist Reginald Forsythe performing in local club and she quickly recruited him as her new pianist. On November 12, <mask> and Reggie flew back to London on the Imperial Air Lines for a weeks engagement at the Café Anglais. During this engagement, she recorded four more songs for British Parlophone. Eventually, Forsythe struck up a friendship with leading Harlem musical theatre tenor, Walter Richardson and the duo soon departed for a year-long Australian tour. At the end of the month, <mask> returned to Paris alone, performing at the Lido des Champs-Elysées with Eddie South's orchestra.In January 1929, <mask> returned to London, recording one song with Metropole Records and four unissued songs with Duophone. Returning to Paris on January 26, she performed at the opening Ada "Bricktop" Smith's

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texts: latest nightclub. Shortly afterwards, Zaidee purchased a comfortable apartment on the Rue Chalgrin, a small right-angle street in the Chaillot district, where she held intimate cocktail parties before whisking her guests over to the Bal Negre cabaret to dance the Biguine. On April 6, <mask> converted her apartment into small cabaret (short-lived unfortunately), Chez Zaïdée, imitating Josephine Baker's own French nitery. Throughout the spring, she was invited to sing at Countee Cullen's small house party near the rue Pigalle and at black dancer Louis Cole's birthday party at his large apartment near the Trocadero. Throughout the summer of 1929, Zaidee performed regularly at the famous Boeuf Sur Le Toits, Chez Florence and Floresco's before she was left hospitalized on July 27 with a sprained ankle. In-between these engagements, she frequently flew back to London for quick radio appearances.She often traveled on Guy Robson's private plane, who occasionally enjoyed showing off with his stunt flying, turning flips over the Channel. In November 1929, Zaidee returned to Britain for an extensive 8-month provincial tour organized by her manager, E.J. Bonner, appearing in Manchester, Birkenhead, Bristol, Glasgow, Blackpool, Sheffield and Dublin. Between January–April 1930, she recorded six more songs with British Parlophone. In June 1930, towards the end of the tour, Reggie Forsythe returned to Europe and accompanied Zaidee once again. On June 13, <mask> was back in Paris, with a four month contract with Russian-themed Sheherazade Cabaret. Between June–August 1930, she returned to London to record her six final songs with British Parlophone.That fall, <mask> departed for a three-month German tour. In November, she was appearing in at Berlin's famous Kabarett der Komiker. Unfortunately, the German press wrote mixed reviews for her singing, which most German audiences felt was barely audible in their large concert halls.

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texts: In January 1931, she returned to Paris for a well received months' engagement at the L'Ange Bleu Bar. The following month, she continued her European tour, appearing in Budapest at the Royal Hotel, accompanied by Russian pianist, Suponitzkaya. Her performance were broadcast nightly on Hungarian radio stations. Returning to Paris in June, at the height of the Paris Colonial Exposition, she appeared in a new cabaret, La Jungle-Montmartre, performing her intimate songs with Reginald Forsythe beside her with his piano.However, eventually her companion Reggie was eventually whisked away with another band. After the Exposition closed in November, she moved over Le Miami Club (quitting after they failed to pay her) and later the New Marine Club. That winter, George White offered her some of the music scores from his Broadway production, Scandals of 1931, probably with the intention of her joining the show or simply for a recording session that never materialized. hroughout January–April 1932, <mask> relocated to Cannes, opening her latest nightclub, Sous le Maquis, hoping to have Josephine Baker as her headliner. The establishment was briefly successful, but she eventually decided to return to Paris. In May, she began a six-month residence at Le Bosphore (another Russian cabaret) and Chez Zelli's (an American themed nightclub). In July, she also began performing at the Sheherazade cabaret as well, singing and dancing eccentrically for her friends, Pizella, Maurice Chevalier and Prince Yusupov.In August, she departed for month to the resort town of St. Jean de Luz for a month engagement at the Maxim Bar. The following month, while performing a "Russian Act" at the Sheherazade, she planned for a trip to Moscow, which never came together. In December, she returned to London, with a major role in William Walker's, "Ballyhoo Revue", which opened December 22 at the Comedy Theatre. The cast included Hermione Baddeley,


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 Walter Crisham, Phyllis Clare, Pearl Argyle and Leon Morton. The two-act revue was devised and staged by William Walker and Robert Nesbitt. Dances and Ballets staged by Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton. <mask> made her initial appearance in Act 1 in the fourth sketch, "Black Magic", performing a gloomy blues number (Black Magic), while Crisham and the chorus girls danced around her.She returned again in sketch 12, "Mediterranean Madness", performing a much more lively number. She made her final appearance in Act 2 in the slow melancholic sketch, "I've Got The Wrong Man". The British press was extremely critical of the revue, although the dance and ballet number were considered stellar, the singing of Phyllis Clare wasn't received well and <mask>'s voice wasn't considered "Harlem" enough for the show. Often her voice would be drowned out by the singing of the chorus girls. On March 17, 1933, <mask> returned to her regular appearance on BBC Radio. She also began doubling at the Blue Train nightclub. In the meantime, film director Andrew Buchanan took her on screen, appearing in two short films with the Ideal Cine-Magazine, *I've Got the Wrong Man* and *Black Magic*.With Decca Records, she record several numbers from the show, such as the comedy number, Pink Elephants, I’ve Got the Wrong Man and Black Magic. Once "Ballyhoo" closed April 22 and reopened nine days later on May 1 at the Leicester Square Theatre. However, <mask> soon bailed on the show, returning to Paris to perform at the Robinson nightclub. In June, she starred in Joe Zelli's brand new cabaret, Chez Les Nudistes, where Zaidee appeared semi-nude in an extravagant revue,"Au Dela... des Reins" for the next four months. She also doubled at the Sheherazade, Le Grand Ecart and Le Bosphore cabarets. In September 1933, she took a month off to appear in Saint Jean-de-Luz at the Auberge Club. The French Riviera, Monaco & Switzerland (1934–1935)

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 the Depression arrived in France in 1931, it didn't seriously affect the country until early-1934, causing the economy to fall apart and public demonstrations were sprouting everywhere.Besides her occasional appearances in Paris at the Hotel Ritz, Sheherazade and Le Bosphore cabarets, Zaidee soon began touring the French Riviera, appearing in Juan-les-Pins, Évian-les-Bains, Cannes and Monte Carlo. In May 1935, <mask> departed for Switzerland for an eight-month tour with Benny Peyton's Jazz Kings orchestra. They appeared in Ouchy, Lausanne, Berne, Neuchatel and Geneva. In-between engagements, Zaidee frequently returned to France for appearances in Saint Jean-de-Luz and Paris at Fred Payne's Bar. Romania (1936–1939)

Returning to France around Late-January 1936, stable employment was still difficult for African-American entertainers and Zaidee possibly returned to the French Riviera. Around this time, as the annual Rallye Monte Carlo came to a close, Zaidee was introduced to one of the racers, 32-year old Barbu Neamțu, a wealthy Romanian mechanical engineer who was a great sportsman and Ford representative in Bucharest. Barbu was born c.1904 in Craiova, a city of 100,000 located in the midst of the rich agricultural territory of Southwestern Romania.He was the eldest of six children of Eugenia Albeanu and Constantin Neamtu. Besides being wealthy landowner, 69-year old Constantin Neamtu had an expensive Romanian and Belgian education and was a professor, the director of the Romanian National Bank (Craiova Branch), director of Craiova's Commerce Bank and a local politician. In the early-1920s, Barbu had traveled to England, studying English and economics while attending Oxford University. While he was away, his father presented him with a position as a deputy of the city of Craiova. In 1931, he became the director of SEBAR, a truck and tractor manufacturing plant (a branch of Ford-Romania). As early as 1934, Barbu


title: Zaidee Jackson

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 also took speed racing as a hobby, winning numerous trophies from races held in Monte Carlo, Brasov, Cluj and Bucharest. By 1936, Barbu was already in an extremely unhappy marriage, from which he had a daughter.Nevertheless, upon his return to Craiova from the Rallye Monte Carlo, he brought with him, his new Black mistress. This caused an immediate scandal across Craiova, especially as, according to the locals, <mask> was the first Black woman they had ever seen in person. Local children followed her around town, attempting to rub the "Blackness" from her skin. While Barbu began divorce proceedings with his current wife, <mask> was quickly relocated to Bucharest, residing at 9 Strada Arcului, a comfortable metropolitan residence that her future father-in-law rarely used. From 1936-1937, <mask> maintained a residency at Bucharest's Restaurant-Bar Zissu, an extremely lavish and overpriced Parisian-themed cabaret located at 5 Strada Serban Voda. She danced and performed in English, French and soon began including Romanian songs as well. At some point during this period, <mask> also departed for a brief Egyptian tour.On October 27, 1937, <mask> boarded the SS Queen Mary from Cherbourg back to New York. Landing on November 1 (exactly a decade since her departure), she moved into the Dewey Square Hotel on Seventh Avenue and began a ten-month nightclub engagement in New York and Philadelphia. Upon arrival, she was met by American journalists, such as those of the Pittsburgh Courier: "<mask> <mask> was singing sweet songs at Chez Florence in Montmartre when we met her. A slim bronze young woman, who had Paris by its ears. We wonder if anyone who has lived over there for ten years as she has can come back here to prejudice and hate and pick up where she left off. We don't doubt that she'll return to Europe where, she says ’her work is more appreciated... and more lucrative.’"

While away in America, <mask> avoided the

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