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 and unbounded charity." Abram generously bequeathed money to six hospitals in his will. In 1781 an Old Bailey trial found a pickpocket, William Posser, guilty of stealing Monkhouse's cambric handkerchief. The thief was sentenced to be whipped.<mask> was a friend of Henry Laurens, an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina, who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. In a letter of August 1763 he writes to <mask> "I am glad you are so happy in your nieces. May your pleasures daily increase but I should be rather more pleas’d to hear that you had some sons and daughters of your own". He was also a friend of James Oakes who lived in Bury St Edmunds. Oakes had inherited one of the largest yarn-making companies in the country. Later he was made Receiver General of the Land Tax for West Suffolk and was to become a banker. Oakes' diaries span 50 years of his business life and provide a vivid insight into Georgian England.He records many visits to see his friend <mask>. He frequently had breakfast or supper at his London home. In November 1783 he "... had to rush back to Fenchurch Street because Mr Newman's brother-in law and business partner, Monkhouse <mask>, was ill."  An entry in May 1793 records his friend's death. Dalston Hall
Monkhouse Davison, in 1761 bought Dalston Hall, in Dalston, Cumbria from Sir George Dalston, 4th Baronet and owned the property for 32 years until his death. Rose Hall, St Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica
When Monkhouse was 76, in 1789, Davison Newman and Co. bought a 4/18 share in a property of 1,200 acres (approximately 2 sq miles) known as Rose Hall in the

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 parish of St Thomas in the Vale located 20 miles north west of Kingston at what is now called Linstead. This Rose Hall is not to be confused with the better known Rose Hall, Montego Bay, Jamaica). The estate was the source of sugar and other produce for export to the UK and US.The old slave muster-book, dating from 1784 to 1819, shows that in 1784 the total slave labour force was: 82 men, 72 women, 39 boys, 27 girls, a total of 220. By 1819 the total was 256. By 1834, William Thwaytes (1749–1834) was sole owner of Davison Newman and Co. He left his shares to his wife Ann Thwaytes who paid for the erection of Herne Bay Clock Tower in 1836. Will and final resting place

<mask> died at his home in Fenchurch Street in May 1793. His will included a list of the following properties: his main London home in Fenchurch Street, in Essex: Porter's at Rippleside, Essex and Gale Street in Barking, in Cumbria: Coledale Hall, Carlisle, Dalston Hall, Dalston, Hill Top and the Gill near Kendal. The only reference found to a possible marriage is a letter with "Happy marriage greetings" in February 1776 when Monkhouse was 63.In his will there were to be no direct heirs to his estates and no mention of a wife. Abram and Monkhouse were buried together in All Hallows Staining but after the collapse of the crypt their monument was to be seen in the church of St Olave Hart Street, London until it suffered bomb damage in May 1941 in the Second World War. References

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<mask> (born May 9, 1984) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers. He was selected in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft by the Brewers out of Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, and spent the first seven years of his MLB career with the Brewers before signing with the Tigers, in January 2012. In November 2013, <mask> was traded to the Rangers, where he played the remainder of his career. Fielder is a six-time All-Star. He holds the Brewers' team record for home runs (HR) in a season and is the youngest player in National League (NL) history to hit 50 home runs in a season. He became the first Brewer to win the Home Run Derby, defeating Nelson Cruz in the final round of the 2009 derby. Fielder also won the 2012 derby, joining Ken Griffey, Jr. and Yoenis Céspedes (later joined by Pete Alonso) as the only players to win more than one derby and becoming the first player to win the Derby as both an American League (AL) and NL All-Star.On August 10, 2016, <mask> announced that he would be unable to continue his playing career after undergoing a second neck surgery in three years. He was released by the Rangers on October 4, 2017. He ended his career with 319 home runs, the same number as his father, <mask>. <mask> and <mask> are also the only father-son duo to each hit 50 MLB home runs in a season, and were the only father-son duo to hit 40 MLB home runs in a season until 2021, when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. joined his own father in achieving the feat. Childhood
Fielder was born right-handed, but at a very young age was converted to being a left-handed hitter by his father, baseball player <mask>. Fielder was a fixture around his father's teams' clubhouses growing up. He appeared with his father on MTV Rock N' Jock Softball.When his father played for Detroit,

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 <mask> would sometimes come along for batting practice. Fielder hit a home run off Tigers third base coach Terry Francona into the upper deck of Tiger Stadium as a 12-year-old in 1996. Fielder attended Saint Edward's School in Vero Beach, Florida, for two years, where he played junior varsity baseball. Fielder spent his first three years of high school playing at Florida Air Academy in Melbourne, Florida. He then transferred to Eau Gallie High School, located in the Eau Gallie neighborhood of Melbourne, to play baseball there his senior year (2002). He hit .524 with 13 doubles, 10 home runs, 41 RBIs, and 47 runs in his senior year. He was named by Florida Today as the All-Space Coast Player of the Year in 2002.Fielder committed to play college baseball for Arizona State. Professional career

Minor league baseball
The Milwaukee Brewers drafted <mask> in the first round, with the seventh overall selection, of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Brewers and began his professional career in minor league baseball with the Ogden Raptors of the Rookie-level Pioneer League. He was promoted to the Beloit Snappers of the Class A Midwest League that season. Fielder spent the 2003 season with Beloit and was promoted to the Huntsville Stars of the Class AA Southern League for the 2004 season. Fielder began the 2005 season with the Nashville Sounds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. Milwaukee Brewers (2005–2011)

2005
Fielder earned his first call-up to Major League Baseball on June 13, 2005.He served as the designated hitter for the Brewers during interleague play. With Lyle Overbay serving as the Brewers' regular first baseman, <mask> was sent back down to the Sounds after the end of interleague play. <mask> was again called up to the Majors on August 17, 2005, and went on to finish the season with the Brewers, where he was used as a pinch-hitter. He was the sixth-youngest player in the league. On June 15, 2005,

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 he collected his first major league hit, a double, off Hideo Nomo, and drove in his first big league run with his second hit of the night at Tampa Bay. <mask> also hit his first home run on June 25, 2005. 2006
After the Brewers traded Overbay to the Toronto Blue Jays, <mask> became the Brewers' starting first baseman in 2006.He was an early favorite for National League Rookie of the Year. Fielder did not get off to a great start in the 2006 regular season, going 0–9 with seven strikeouts. In his 12th at-bat, <mask> delivered a game-winning hit that drove home Geoff Jenkins for the winning run in the bottom of the 8th inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Fielder was named the National League's Rookie of the Month for April. With his 18th home run of the year, Fielder broke the Brewers' rookie home run record previously held by Greg Vaughn. Fielder led all major league rookies with 28 homers in the 2006 season. On defense, he had the lowest zone rating among NL first basemen, .804.2007
Fielder had a strong first half in 2007, earning a start at first base in the 2007 All-Star game over the previous two MVP winners, Ryan Howard (2006) and Albert Pujols (2005). On August 13, 2007, Fielder was featured on a magazine cover for the first time when he was featured on the August 13, 2007, issue of ESPN The Magazine. On September 15, 2007, Fielder broke the Brewers franchise record for home runs in a season, hitting his 46th in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. The record was previously jointly held by Richie Sexson (twice) and Gorman Thomas. On September 25, Fielder became the youngest player ever to reach 50 home runs in a season, joining his estranged father in the exclusive club. Fielder stated that he hoped to surpass his father's total of 51 home runs in a season (1990) as a way of exorcising the demons that came with being the son of a prominent major-leaguer. "A lot of people said that's the only reason I got drafted...I

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 don't mind people comparing me to him but I'm a completely different player. One day I want people to mention my name and not have to mention his," Fielder said. Earlier in the season, <mask> had told a magazine that it was his famous name that led to his son being such a highly-touted prospect. The younger Fielder also saw his contention in the 2007 NL MVP race as a way of proving his father wrong, but got little else from the rift but motivation saying, "You've got to look at who's saying it. Let's be honest. He's not really the brightest guy." Fielder ranked first in the National League in home runs (50) in his MVP-caliber 2007 season (and was, until the 2017 MLB season, the last player in the National League to hit 50 or more home runs in a single season, when Giancarlo Stanton hit 59 home runs), was second in slugging percentage to teammate Ryan Braun (.618), second in at-bats per home run (11.5) and OPS (1.013), third in RBIs (119) and extra-base hits (87), fourth in total bases (354) and hit by pitch (14), fifth in intentional walks (21) and sacrifice flies (8), seventh in runs (109) and times on base (269), and ninth in walks (90).In 2007, he led all major league first basemen in errors, with 14, and was last among eligible major league first basemen in range factor (8.49). Fielder earned the Milwaukee Brewers Team MVP award, the Player's Choice NL Outstanding Player award, 2007 Silver Slugger award, and was voted the National League's Hank Aaron Award winner. 2008

Unable to come up with an agreement for a long-term contract with the Brewers, Fielder and his agent, Scott Boras, signed a one-year, $670,000 deal with the Brewers. Fielder was quoted saying, "I'm not happy about it at all", showing his disappointment in not being able to reach an agreement with the club. On June 19, Fielder hit the second inside-the-park home run of his career, against the Toronto Blue Jays. On August 4, <mask> and teammate Manny Parra

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texts: against Rafael Perez of the Cleveland Indians on June 15, 2009, at Progressive Field. Fielder was one of four NL first basemen who made the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, joining starter Albert Pujols and fellow reservists Adrián González and Ryan Howard.<mask> won the 2009 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby in St Louis. <mask> began the Derby with a Rickie Weeks bat, but quickly switched to one of Ryan Braun's because it was longer and gave him more plate coverage. He made the finals with 17 home runs after the first two rounds, eliminating local favorites Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard. He then beat former Brewers teammate Nelson Cruz with six homers in the final round. His 23 long balls tied for the sixth-most in the Derby's history. He also hit the longest home run of the Derby at . On August 4, <mask> was involved in an incident with Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Guillermo Mota.With two outs in the ninth inning, Mota hit <mask> with a pitch on the leg, apparently in retaliation for Mota's teammate Manny Ramirez being hit in the hand by Brewers pitcher Chris Smith. Mota was ejected. After the 17–4 Dodgers victory, <mask> went to the Dodgers clubhouse in an effort to confront Mota. The Dodgers security guards stopped <mask> from entering, though the incident was captured by a television crew. Both Mota and <mask> were fined by Major League Baseball for their roles in the incident. <mask> had a good September. While playing the San Francisco Giants on September 6, Fielder hit his third career walk-off home run in the 12th inning.The Brewers' subsequent home plate celebration sparked a minor controversy due to its unusual style. Then, on September 19, <mask> set the Brewers' single-season record for RBIs at 127, beating Cecil Cooper's 1983 record of 126. He set this record during a game against the Houston Astros — the team Cooper was managing at the time. The record-breaking RBI was a sacrifice fly, scoring

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 Mike Cameron. He finished the season with 141 RBIs, which surpassed his father's career high of 133 in 1991. <mask> finished tied for first in the National League in RBIs with Ryan Howard, and second in home runs with 46. He is one of three players in Brewers franchise history to have 100 or more RBIs in three consecutive seasons, along with Richie Sexson (2001–03) and Ryan Braun (2008–10).2011
On January 18, <mask> and the Brewers agreed on a one-year, $15.5 million contract. <mask> was named MVP of the 82nd All Star Game, in which he hit a 3-run home run. Along with <mask>, Braun also hit 30 home runs on the season, marking the 4th time the duo each hit at least 30 home runs in a season. Only 6 other duos have done this in major league history. <mask> became one of three Brewers who have had four 100-RBI seasons, along with Cecil Cooper and Braun. On September 27 in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Fielder went 3-for-3 with three home runs and a walk, and 5 RBIs. It was his first career three-home run game.In 2011, Fielder batted .299, led the National League in intentional walks (32, a Brewers record), was second in the league in home runs (38), and was third in slugging percentage (.566). On defense, he led the majors in errors committed by a first baseman (15) and had the lowest fielding percentage of all first basemen (.990). Through 2011, he had the second-highest career slugging percentage (.540) and OPS (.929) of any player in Brewers history, behind Braun, and was second in career home runs (230) to Robin Yount. Fielder came in third in the voting for the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player Award, behind winner and teammate Ryan Braun and Matt Kemp. Detroit Tigers (2012–2013)

2012

Following the 2011 World Series, Fielder became a free agent. On January 26, 2012, Fielder agreed to a nine-year, $214 million contract with the Detroit Tigers to play first base and bat clean-up in the Tigers batting order.

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texts: It was the largest contract in the history of the Tigers, surpassing Miguel Cabrera's contract of $185.3 million over eight years.The Tigers acquired <mask> to replace the bat of an injured Víctor Martínez, the everyday designated hitter in 2011. The acquisition of <mask>, who had only played first base in his career, required 2008–2011 first baseman Miguel Cabrera to move to third, which Cabrera was notably happy to do. On April 5, 2012, <mask> made his debut with the Tigers and singled in his first at bat. <mask> hit his first two home runs as a Tiger on April 7, 2012, in a 10–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. In his first season in the American League, he was voted to the 2012 All-Star team as a starter. It is his fourth All-Star appearance overall. Fielder was also selected by American League captain, Robinson Canó, to participate in the 2012 Home Run Derby.On July 9, 2012, <mask> became the 2012 Home Run Derby champion, hitting 12 home runs in the third and final round over José Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays. This is <mask>'s second win in the derby, his first coming in 2009. <mask> became the first participant to win for both the National and American League, and joined Ken Griffey, Jr. as the only two players to win multiple Derbies. <mask> finished the 2012 regular season with a career-best .313 batting average. He hit 30 home runs, giving him six straight seasons with at least 30 long balls, and drove in 108 runs for his fifth career 100-plus RBI season. He also had an on-base percentage of .412, his fourth straight season with an on-base percentage above .400. He played in all 162 games for Detroit, his third such season in his career, and he led the American League in being hit by pitches (17).Some in the sports media have given <mask> at least partial credit for teammate Cabrera winning the Triple Crown of batting in 2012. With <mask> hitting behind him in the Tiger order, Cabrera's walks declined from 108 the

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 previous season to just 66, giving him more opportunities to hit home runs and drive in runs. Cabrera would later confirm in a June 2013 Sports Illustrated article: "You can see a difference. They pitch to me more...I see a lot of good pitches." The 2012 World Series was <mask>'s first career trip to the World Series. He compiled only a .071 batting average (1-for-14) during the World Series as the Tigers were swept in four games at the hands of the San Francisco Giants. In Game 2 of the series, <mask> was hit on the shoulder by a pitch from Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner.After Delmon Young hit a double down the left-field line, <mask> attempted to score. However, a relay throw from Gregor Blanco to Marco Scutaro to Buster Posey tagged Fielder out as he was sliding home. This became the first-ever 7-4-2 putout in a World Series. 2013
<mask> was named AL Player of the Week for April 8–14. He hit .632 during the week (12-for-19) with 11 RBIs and 22 total bases. He finished the month of April with a .301 batting average, 7 home runs, and 27 RBIs. On July 1, Fielder was voted in as a reserve infielder in the AL player balloting for the 2013 Major League All-Star Game.It was his fifth career All-Star selection. During the All-Star Game, he hit a lead-off triple in the ninth inning off of Jason Grilli. He did not score but the American League still won the game 3–0. Fielder hit .279 during the 2013 regular season, and his 25 home runs was the lowest total in any of his eight full major league seasons until he hit only 23 in 2015. He did, however, drive in 106 runs, marking the sixth time he topped 100 in his career. Fielder also played all 162 games for the third straight season, and played in his 500th consecutive game on September 24. This followed a 327-game streak that was broken in September 2010, when he played for the Brewers.(He missed one game due to severe flu symptoms.) By the end of the 2013 season, he had

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 played in 831 of his last 832 regular-season games. Fielder batted .278 in the ALDS against Oakland, registering 5 hits and no RBIs. In the 2013 ALCS he declined further, registering a .182 average with only 4 hits and no RBIs. Texas Rangers (2014–2017)

2014
On November 20, 2013, <mask> was traded to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler and $30 million. In June 2014 Fielder underwent season ending neck surgery. At the time of his mid-season departure, he was batting .247 with 3 home runs and 16 RBI in 42 games.<mask>'s then league-leading streak of 547 consecutive games started was ended. 2015
Nearly halfway through the season Fielder led the AL in batting average and was selected as a reserve designated hitter for the MLB All Star Game in Cincinnati. It was <mask>'s sixth appearance in the All-Star Game and his fourth selection in five seasons. He finished the 2015 season with a .305 batting average, 23 home runs, and 98 RBIs. He had to be very patient with his power, but he said "the way I'm hitting this year, I'm fine with it." 2016
On April 29, 2016, in a game against the Los Angeles Angels in the bottom of the 6th inning, <mask> hit a sharp single through the shift to score Rougned Odor, making him and his father <mask> the 2nd father-son combo to both record 1,000 RBIs. On July 20, it was revealed that <mask> was diagnosed with C4-C5 herniations in his neck, putting his career in jeopardy.In a press conference on August 10, <mask> announced that he would not be able to continue playing professional baseball due to his injuries. In 89 games of 2016, Fielder finished his injury-shortened season with a .212 batting average, 16 doubles, 8 home runs, and 44 RBIs. 2017
On October 5, 2017, the Rangers released Fielder, citing financial considerations. Although Fielder was not completely retired at the point he was released, the Rangers decided to release him anyway. Career statistics
In 1611 games over 12 seasons,

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 Fielder posted a .283 batting average (1645-for-5821) with 862 runs, 321 doubles, 10 triples, 319 home runs, 1028 RBI, 18 stolen bases, 847 bases on balls, .382 on-base percentage and .506 slugging percentage. Defensively, he recorded a .992 fielding percentage playing every inning at first base. In 44 postseason games, he batted only .189 (31-for-164) with 13 runs, 5 doubles, 5 home runs, 12 RBI and 15 walks.<mask> was included on the ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame class of  when it was announced on November 22, 2021, but after ballots were counted, he became ineligible for future balloting, due to receiving less than 5% of the total. Personal life
<mask> was named after his grandfather. He married his wife Chanel in 2005 during the Triple-A All-Star break while playing for the Nashville Sounds. They have two sons. <mask> filed for divorce in May 2013, but by March 2014, he and his wife had reconciled. They reside in Melbourne Beach, Florida. <mask> has a tattoo on the left side of his neck that reads, "왕자", Korean for "<mask>".See also

 List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders

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<mask> "R. J.<mask> ( 1943 – 8 November 1997), was a leading Northern Irish loyalist. He served as the commander of the Portadown battalion of the Ulster Defence Association's Mid-Ulster Brigade. Along with the Mid-Ulster Ulster Volunteer Force's brigadier Robin Jackson, <mask> was implicated in the killing of Catholic chemist William Strathearn. Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Patrol Group officers <mask> and Billy McCaughey named him as one of their accomplice; however, neither <mask> nor Jackson were questioned by police or brought before the court, for "reasons of operational strategy". Weir and McCaughey were convicted of Strathearn's killing.<mask> was alleged to have been a member of the Glenanne gang, in which Jackson was a key figure. This gang of loyalist extremists was a loose alliance of loyalist paramilitaries and rogue members of the security forces who carried out a series of sectarian attacks in south County Armagh in the 1970s against local Catholics. <mask> was killed in mysterious circumstances; his charred body was found near a burnt-out boat that had exploded as it was being towed on a trailer on the main Newry to Warrenpoint road. Ulster Defence Association
<mask> <mask> was born into a Protestant family in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland in about 1943. He joined the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), shortly after its formation in Belfast in September 1971. It was an umbrella organisation of local vigilante groups that were set up following the outbreak of violent religious and political conflict known as the Troubles in the late 1960s, ostensibly for the defence of Protestant communities from nationalist gangs. At some stage he became the commander of the Portadown battalion of the UDA's Mid-Ulster Brigade.On 9 September 1972 he was charged with possession of weapons and ammunition in suspicious circumstances in

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 Lurgan. Miami Showband bomber Harris Boyle was one of those arrested with him. <mask> was later found guilty of having participated in an armed robbery on 10 March 1973. The following year, on 29 January 1974, he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting and intimidating two men seven months before. William Strathearn killing
<mask> was named by RUC Special Patrol Group (SPG) officer <mask> as having been one of the two gunmen who shot Catholic chemist William Strathearn to death at his home in Ahoghill, County Antrim on 19 April 1977. Strathearn, who lived above his chemist shop, was shot dead at 2.00 am by a loyalist hit squad. They gunned him down when he opened the front door after the men used a ruse of needing medicine for a sick child.Weir alleged that the actual trigger man was Robin Jackson, brigadier of the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, and <mask> was his accomplice. After the killing, Jackson and <mask> went away in the former's poultry lorry to deliver a load of chickens. Jackson made a living delivering chickens all over Ireland and <mask> worked as his lorry helper, assisting him in loading and unloading the chickens. Weir and fellow SPG officer Billy McCaughey were later convicted of the killing, although they maintained that they had waited in Weir's car throughout the entire operation. Although Weir and McCaughey named <mask> and Jackson as the gunmen, the two men were never questioned about the attack, and an RUC officer stated that neither <mask> nor Jackson were brought before the court for "reasons of operational strategy". Weir had offered to testify against <mask> and Jackson, but only on the condition that the murder charge against him was withdrawn. Weir's offer was refused by the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions who said:

<mask> and Jackson have not been interviewed by the police because the police state they are virtually immune to interrogation

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 and the common police consensus is that to arrest and interview either man is a waste of time.Both men are known to police to be very active and notorious UVF murderers. Nevertheless the police do not recommend consideration of withdrawal of charges against Weir. I agree with this view. Weir and McCaughey must be proceeded against. When proceedings against them are terminated the position may be reviewed in respect of Jackson and <mask>.In Mid-Ulster membership of the UVF and UDA was often interchangeable. [Ref:"Collusion in the South Armagh/Mid Ulster Area in the mid-1970s"

The Derry-based human rights group, the Pat Finucane Centre, asked Professor Douglass Cassel (formerly of the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago) to convene an international panel of inquiry to investigate collusion by members of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in sectarian killings in Northern Ireland. This panel, in their 2006 report, named <mask> as one of the members of the notorious Glenanne gang, of which Robin Jackson was a key figure.The gang was a loose alliance of loyalist extremists who carried out a series of sectarian attacks and killings against Catholics/nationalists in the South Armagh area in the 1970s. The gang comprised loyalist paramilitaries and rogue members of the security forces, including the RUC and Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR). It was allegedly directed by British Military Intelligence and/or the RUC Special Branch. The same report also described <mask> as a local UDA commander. <mask> stated in his affidavit, which was published in a judiciary inquiry commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, that he had first met <mask> in the company of Robin Jackson in 1974. Weir had gone to a pub in Moira, County Armagh with a girlfriend and there had been introduced to <mask> and Jackson. Jackson was implicated by Weir

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 as one of the leaders of the two UVF gangs that exploded three car bombs in Dublin's city centre on 17 May 1974, leaving 26 people dead.<mask> was not implicated, however. Weir made his affidavit in 1999 when both <mask> and Jackson were already dead. The 2003 Barron Report notes that Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland <mask> was aware of <mask> and Jackson's involvement in the Strathearn killing, and that they were not prosecuted for "operational reasons". Mr. Justice Barron was highly critical of the RUC's failure to properly investigate <mask> and Jackson. Subsequent activity
According to Sean McPhilemy, <mask> was one of three loyalist gunmen responsible for the attempted killing of Catholic civilian Paschal Mulholland in Portadown on 11 February 1984. McPhilemy claimed that <mask> and the other gunmen, Philip "Silly" Silcock and Ernest McCreanor, had been drinking with a local Portadown solicitor when they concocted the plan to "kill a Taig". McPhilemy also stated that <mask> had been part of the hit team responsible for the murder of RUC Sergeant Joseph Campbell in Cushendall on 25 February 1977.Journalist and author Paul Larkin maintained that <mask> had first coined the nickname "King Rat" for the notorious Billy Wright, leader and founder of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). It came about as a form of pub bantering. <mask> was sitting inside a pub and jokingly bestowed a nickname upon every patron as they entered. When Wright walked through the door, <mask> dubbed him "King Rat", as Wright and his unit called themselves "The Brat Pack". Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan picked up on it and the name was introduced to the media at large, much to Wright's fury. Death
On 8 November 1997, he was killed in mysterious circumstances. His charred body was found on wasteground 20 yards from a burnt-out boat that had blown up as he was towing it on a trailer.Police and firemen

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 made the discovery after rushing to the scene of the explosion and subsequent fireball which had consumed the craft. This occurred on the main Newry to Warrenpoint road. <mask> was 54 years old at the time of his death, and his body was so badly damaged by the flames that he had to be identified by the documents in his wallet. According to McPhilemy he had made loose arrangements to meet <mask> immediately prior to his death. By that time he had become disillusioned with loyalism. A post mortem revealed that he had died in a "vapour explosion". Police believe he had been towing the boat on a trailer; when he climbed on the deck, his cigarette ignited the gas, causing a fireball.His death was ruled accidental. A petrol bomb attack was carried out the previous August by the LVF against the home <mask> shared in Glandore Terrace, Portadown with his common-law wife, Muriel Richardson. Richardson was hospitalised for smoke inhalation. This attack was followed by a death threat against <mask>. Richardson later testified before a Crown Court jury at Newry that <mask> had lived in fear of the Wright-led LVF after he had accused them of extortion and intimidation. She was a witness for the prosecution at the trial of James Alexander Gribben who was facing charges of conspiring with <mask> to destroy his 36 ft motor cruiser the "Lorna Doon" between 24 March and 8 November 1997 in order to claim compensation from an insurance company. Gribben was found guilty and sentenced to a jail term.LVF leader Billy Wright was shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in an ambush at the Maze Prison in December 1997 while being transported to the prison's visitors' block. <mask> was posthumously described by Mike Browne in The People as a former Mid-Ulster UDA brigadier. Notes

References

1943 births
1997 deaths
Ulster Defence Association members
Accidental deaths in Northern Ireland
People from

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<mask> (13 April 1948 – 3 December 2019); also known by the names <mask> and A. R<mask>) was a Tamil activist and former revolutionary from Jaffna who had a part in forming the group Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) in January 1975 in Wandsworth, England during the Tamil independence movements to secure an independent Tamil Eelam. He later left the conflict, after work as an independent peace negotiator between the two sides of the civil war. At the time of his death, he headed the Global Sustainability Initiative in the United Kingdom. He was also the father of the musician M.I.A. and the jewellery designer <mask>. Life

Education
<mask> graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow with a degree in Engineering. Politics
Having created EROS in 1975 in Wandsworth, England the group staged demonstrations at the inaugural Cricket World Cup that year, prompting clashes between Tamil and Sinhalese cricket supporters, and bringing the conflict in Sri Lanka to international attention for the first time.In March 1976, he moved to Vavuniya and was one of three EROS members selected to train for six months in Lebanon with Palestinian militants associated with the Fatah wing of the PLO. He left after three months of training, returning to Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka with his family. <mask> moved back to Vavuniya in late 1976 and from 1978 – 1986, he lived and worked in Tamil Nadu where India, through its intelligence agency supported and trained EROS, one of six Tamil revolutionary groups against the Sri Lankan state. He made sporadic visits to Jaffna where his

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 family lived, introducing himself to his children as their uncle. Although never himself a member of the LTTE, <mask> was an old friend of the group's military leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran during the early years of the Tamil rebellion. His wife and three children left Jaffna in the late 80s and were granted political asylum in the United Kingdom, while he remained behind. <mask> <mask> left his group EROS and the conflict in 1987, becoming an independent peace mediator between the two sides of the civil war, and he was instrumental in bringing in more direct Indian intervention to the conflict in 1987, ultimately ending in failure.M.I.A. has stated in interviews her father shared revolutionary ideals, and that he was a politician, although she had no contact with him since the early 1990s. Rarely speaking about her father publicly, in an interview with The Guardian in 2005, M.I.A. stated "He never had a practical, physical influence" in her family's life. On his involvement in the war and some writers referring to him as a former Tiger rebel, she has said "People write it because it's easy. The Tigers were big in numbers but my dad was too selective. The Tigers had machetes and said, 'They killed my mum so I'm going to fucking fight them.'And my dad was like, 'No no no no, read this amazing book about revolution. Let's sit down and draw up a manifesto." Later years
In 1997, he set up an Institute of Sustainability Development at Trincomalee on the Eastern Province's coast. The same year, he wrote a seminal book on Tamil history, and was based in the island's north east and Tamil Nadu until the

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 mid-2000s. He contacted his daughter following the release of her debut album, named Arular after him, in 2005, telling her to change its name, however she refused. His house was flooded after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. <mask> moved to Britain and, at the time of his death, headed the Britain-based Global Sustainability Initiative, which has overseen inventions such as a redesigned bullock cart, a motorised wheelbarrow and a car that consumes less petrol.<mask> explained "GSI's mission is to develop a program with a global perspective." <mask> died on 3 December 2019, aged 71. Family
<mask> <mask> was the father of jewellery designer <mask>, musician/filmmaker/visual artist Mathangi "Maya" <mask> (better known by her stage name, M.I.A. ), and Sugu <mask>. His family moved back to Sri Lanka when Maya was six months old. M.I.A. named her 2005 debut album Arular after her father, partly for him to get in contact with her."Arular" was his nom de guerre during the civil war. M.I.A. said of her upbringing: "I only had my mum. I never grew up with my dad so I don’t know what he’s like. I think I’m a mixture of both. My mum’s really passive, quiet and she’s not feisty. She cared about bringing in food and getting us to school and stuff but that’s as far as it went.Growing up without a dad, I was going to school and turning up at parents' meetings on my own. At the time everyone was like, "Oh if you had a dad he’d pay for your school and you’d have a better future". At the time, my mom was bringing us up and she was like, "The only thing your father gave you was a name". So that's why I

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 used [his name "<mask>"] on my album to turn it into a statement that my mom always made. If the only thing he's going to give me is a name, then that's what I'm going to use." In 2005, M.I.A. told EGO Magazine that despite her father's involvement in the conflict, she felt no affiliation to either armed party in the war, noting her work to be the voice of "civilians and refugees that get caught up in the cross fire of politics" and shocking enough to invoke discussion in young people that felt they had no right to talk.Following the end of the armed conflict in 2009, M.I.A. condemned the Government of Sri Lanka for engaging in systematic genocide against Tamils. In a 2010 feature for The Fader, she stated of the US and Sri Lankan government's behaviour towards her following her rise in prominence: "He negotiated peace processes, brought in the new army, and when he goes to Sri Lanka, it’s the government who gives him security against the Tigers", she explains. "They used it the other way and told the world my dad’s a Tiger which got me to this point. It’s like, 'Wow I didn’t know this guy, and this guy has been working for you for 20 fucking years, and when you feel like it you want to use my own dad against me to discredit what I do.'" References

Further reading
<mask>, Maya (2002). M.I.A.No. 10 (Paperback ed.). Pocko Editions. 1948 births
2019 deaths
Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students militants
People from Jaffna
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia alumni
Sri Lankan revolutionaries
Sri Lankan Tamil rebels
Sri Lankan Hindus
Sri Lankan expatriates in the United Kingdom
M.I.A.

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<mask> (3 February 1914 – 3 July 1994) was a New Zealand-born graphic designer, painter, stage designer, interior designer, and illustrator who lived the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. He sometimes signed his illustration and cartoon work Fix. Early life
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, <mask> was the second son of <mask>, a prosperous engineer, and his much younger wife, Hortense <mask> née Runcie. <mask> attended King's College but was mostly home-schooled in his younger years. He trained as a graphic artist and designer and also sold the occasional cartoon. His father went bankrupt in 1933 and his mother left him to live in England. <mask> left New Zealand in 1935 and joined his mother in London.He never returned to New Zealand. In London <mask> was soon employed as a graphic designer at Lintas, the advertising wing of Unilever. At the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the Royal Air Force where he became a navigating officer. In 1943 he suffered a severe illness that ended his active service and resulted in <mask> focussing on his painting. Artistic career
<mask>'s paintings were influenced by the Surrealists. His specialisation in domestic architecture and regular commissions saw him develop a romantic style that found more favour with his clientele and often included a number of recurring motifs such as red and white striped deckchairs, and items of mechanical engineering such as hot air balloons, paddle steamers, railways, trains, trams, and lighting fixtures. His paintings were meticulously executed.Houses were painted to an architecturally accurate standard but often contrasted with an untamed, almost sinister landscape. <mask>'s first one-man show was in 1943 at the Lefevre Gallery. This was a success. Herbert Read, the writer and art critic, bought a painting and invited <mask> to illustrate the second edition of his short novel, The Green Child. <mask> accepted the commission. Read returned the favour by writing the introduction to the book Paintings by <mask> published in 1946 by Falcon Press. In 1944 a larger exhibition of <mask>'s works opened at the

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texts: same gallery with works by Lucian Freud and Julian Trevelyan in adjoining rooms.<mask> accepted numerous commissions for paintings, murals and for illustration work. His commissions led him to visit and stay at many of the grandest country houses in the United Kingdom. His personality, wit, and charm ensured he was often invited back by his wealthy clients and, in some cases, developed into lifelong friendships. In 1947 he was invited to the United States by the New York gallery Portraits, Inc. Condé Nast Publications commissioned him to paint a number of important American houses and the publication of these works led to more commissions in the United States. The same year he also illustrated for the Lilliput magazine. He fulfilled commissions in the UK, United States, Russia, North Africa, the Far East, and the Caribbean. In addition to painting he was often in demand as a muralist and interior designer.His own apartment was photographed and featured in magazines a number of times. He completed a mural for the banqueting hall of the Royal Palace, Kathmundu, Nepal, murals in a number of Union Castle and Cunard liners, but probably his most well known commission was the four murals painted in the Garden Hall at Castle Howard in 1982. These murals were commissioned by George Howard and paid for with the location fee from the Brideshead Revisited television production. <mask> also designed the <mask> car at Castle Howard, a little fairground-style train for conveying visitors round the grounds. <mask> also worked on developing architectural ideas for his clientele. He produced an artist's impression of a Palladian temple for Sebastian de Ferranti, who then worked with various architects to realise the design. de Ferranti chose Julian Bicknell to build the house which was completed in 1986 Later <mask> worked on the Cave, a modern grotto, at Henbury Hall.<mask> remodelled the house of Sir Michael Blake at Cornhill-on-Tweed and designed it as a Gothic dowerhouse. On the request of Charles, Prince of Wales <mask> produced an artist's impression of an improved design of the Prince of Wales'

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 residence Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. This became the inspiration of the remodelling of Highgrove. <mask> also produced set designs for a number of theatre productions including:
 Production: A Day by the Sea, 1953, the Haymarket. This production starred Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud
 Production: World premier of the Opera Nelson, 1954, Sadler's Wells Theatre
 Production: The Merchant of Venice, 1960–61, the Old Vic
 Production: The Last Joke, 1960, the Phoenix

<mask> illustrated a number of books including a very successful collaboration his friend Elizabeth Burton whose four-volume series on the domestic interiors and furnishings of Elizabethans, Jacobeans, Georgians and early Victorians ideally fit <mask>'s aesthetic. His tendency towards the surreal and sinister was reflected in the dust jacket work he did for Faber and Faber's Best of series including Best Horror Stories (1957), Best Detective Stories (1959), and Best Tales of Terror (1962), as well as a beautiful wrap-around dust jacket for Haunted Houses (1956) by Joseph Braddock. He also illustrated
 Twilight Stories (1947) by Rhoda Broughton
 A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay (1947) by J Sheridan Le Fanu
 The Desperate Art: a novel (1955) by John Rosenberg
 Pilgrim's pleasure: the West Country (1959) by Alan Ivimey
 London (1960) by Ivor Brown
 Castle Howard (1972) by George Howard
 Lincolnshire churches: Their past and their future edited by Henry Thorold

Death
<mask> was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1992 and died in Devon in 1994.His partner, the garden designer Vernon Russell-Smith inherited his estate. Work in Public collections
 <mask>'s archive of sketches, photographs and papers is held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, who also own 2 paintings
The RW Norton Art Foundation owns 23 paintings
Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery owns 8 paintings
Various British public institutions own 7 paintings

References

1914 births
1994 deaths
New Zealand painters
New Zealand interior designers
New Zealand illustrators
New Zealand surrealist artists
New Zealand expatriates in the

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title: Moy Lin-shin

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<mask> (梅連羨 méi lián xiàn) (1931 in Taishan county, Guangdong – June 6, 1998, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Taoist monk, teacher and T'ai chi instructor who founded The Taoist Tai Chi Society (道教太極拳社), the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism and the Gei Pang Lok Hup Academy. Early life
As a sickly youth Moy was sent to a Taoist monastery. There he was trained in the teachings of the Earlier Heaven Wu-chi sect of the Hua Shan School of Taoism and regained his health. Moy reported that he studied the religious and philosophical side of Taoism and that he had acquired knowledge and skills in Chinese martial arts. Ahead of the Communist Revolution of 1949 Moy moved to Hong Kong. There he joined the Yuen Yuen Institute, in Tsuen Wan district in the New Territories, continued his education and became a Taoist monk. The Yuen Yuen Institute was established in 1950 by monks from Sanyuan Gong (Three Originals Palace) in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, which in turn traces its lineage to the Longmen (Dragon Gate) sect of Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Taoism.The Yuen Yuen Institute is dedicated to Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. In 1968, Moy co-founded, together with Taoist Masters Mui Ming-to and  Tang Yuen Mei, the temple for the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism (FLK; Penglai ge, 蓬萊閣) on the grounds of the Yuen Yuen Institute. In addition to his studies and education in Taoism <mask> Lin-shin learned a range of internal martial arts including Liuhebafa (Lok Hup Ba Fa, 六合八法 liùhé bā fǎ), T'ai Chi Ch'uan (太極拳 tàijí quán), Hsing I Ch'uan (形意拳 xíng Yì Quán), Bagua (Baguazhang, 八卦掌 bà guà zhǎng) and Taoist  Qigong (chi kung, chi gung, 氣功 qìgōng). Moy's main teacher was Yang Liu (杨六)

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 Tai Chi. Moy emphasized the non-competitive nature of his style of teaching and of the form (see explanation in here). A teacher of Taoist Tai Chi is asked to conform to and live by what Moy called, "Eight Heavenly Virtues":

 Sense of Shame
 Honor
 Sacrifice
 Propriety
 Trustworthiness
 Dedication
 Sibling Harmony
 Filial piety

In accordance with these virtues, Taoist Tai Chi is a form that is taught by volunteers. Organizations
To promote his understanding of the Taoist foundations of Tai Chi and to facilitate understanding between eastern and western cultures, Moy helped to set up a number of organizations. Initially he established the Toronto Tai Chi Association, which, after Taoist Tai Chi chapters were formed across Canada, became the Taoist Tai Chi Society (道教太極拳社) of Canada.After expansion into the United States and later into Europe, New Zealand and Australia the International Taoist Tai Chi Society was established in 1990. In 1981 <mask> Lin-shin and Mui Ming-to established a Canadian branch of the Hong Kong-based Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism, which became the religious arm of the Taoist Tai Chi Society. This occurred with the opening of a Fung Loy Kok high shrine at the Society's Bathurst Street location in Toronto. They subsequently established other branches of Fung Loy Kok in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. This Institute maintains altars to the Taoist deities, i.e., the Jade Emperor (Chinese: 玉皇大帝, or Emperor in Heaven), Guanyin (Chinese: 観音. One of the mythological female deities in Buddhism), and Lü Dongbin (Chinese: 呂洞賓. One of the eight Chinese mythological "Transcendants", who became Immortals via "Inner Alchemy").Initially


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 <mask> concentrated on teaching just Tai Chi forms and later emphasized other internal arts. In 1988 <mask> established the Gei Pang Lok Hup Academy, which is dedicated to the memory of his teacher Liang Zipeng. It was established with the intent to teach the internal martial arts other than Tai Chi, mainly Liu He Ba Fa. Over the years, <mask> Linshin not only taught Tai Chi and Liu He Ba Fa but also Daoist Meditation, Yiquan Zhan Zhuang and Qigong, a Hybrid Xingyiquan-Yiquan form from Sun Di, Yang Style Tai Chi Sword and Yang Style Tai Chi Saber, a long list of Foundation exercises (Jibengong) and some Baguazhang. The organizations since his death
Since the death of <mask> Lin-shin in 1998 the three organizations he founded have been amalgamated, with the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism as the main organization and the Taoist Tai Chi Society and the Gei Pang Lok Hup Academy  as part of the Institute. This brought together the financial and administrative management of the three organizations. In order to broaden the emphasis on health and vitality, the Taoist Tai Chi Health Recovery Centre was established in 1997 near Toronto, at Orangeville, Ontario.On the same grounds a Taoist Cultivation Centre was built between 2005–2006. Criticism
<mask> Lin Shin has been criticized for being unqualified and for teaching a version of Tai Chi that is "not generally recognised as an authentic style of Tai Chi" although even critics have admitted that his efforts "did a great deal to introduce thousands to tai chi". References

Canadian tai chi practitioners
Chinese tai chi practitioners
Republic of China Taoists
People's Republic of China Taoists
Canadian Taoists
1931 births
1998

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title: Frede Jensen (philologist)

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<mask>, Ph.D., (February 17, 1926 - September 13, 2008) was a 20th-century, Danish-born Romance philologist, author, and professor of French. Author of 17 books and over 60 articles, he was widely respected by the romance philology community and recognized as an expert in the field. He is highly esteemed for his detailed and thorough publications on the grammar of Old Occitan (also referred to as Provençal) and has been referred to endearingly as "the 'Grevisse' of old Occitan". <mask> is also considered an expert on Sicilian poetry. His English translation and analysis of previously untranslated Sicilian poems have been honorably referred to as one of the codices optimi on the subject, dating from Dante forward. An extraordinary linguist, <mask> was fluent in eight languages with a remarkable command of medieval/ancient Romance languages. His publications include
works on vulgar and classical Latin, old Italian, old Spanish, medieval Occitan, old French, and old Portuguese.Life

<mask> <mask> was born on February 17, 1926 to <mask> and Jenny Kirstine Martinusen in Taarup, Auning county, in the Midtjylland region of Denmark. He spent his first years on a sizable family homestead and was raised by his two loving parents. Frede was the second of three children born to the <mask> family. The property was home to a lovely forest where oak, pine, and beech trees grew. These early surroundings were likely the mold where Frede's great sensibility to nature was formed. The great depression arrived with its share of sufferings and soon the family had to  relocate to a smaller house in the nearby small village of Trojstrup.

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texts: Frede lived there with his family until he graduated from the Randers Stattskole in 1945.When he was a young teenager, he loved collecting and drying flowers from the countryside. His collection later ended up in the hands of the  Museum of the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen, which they still preserve today. In 1945, <mask> went to the University of Copenhagen and completed his undergraduate studies in 1949. <mask> then attended the Université de Grenoble in France on a scholarship where he received a degree in French grammar and Philology (Certificat de Grammaire et de Philologie Francaises) in 1950. While in Grenoble he joined a mountaineering club. For him it was the door opened to the undulating slopes of wildflowers, before setting his sights on higher summits later in his life. <mask> returned to Denmark to serve his mandatory 9-month military service from 1950 to 1951 where he served as a telex operator.<mask> then returned to the University of Copenhagen where he received his master's degree, with distinction, in 1953 in French with a minor in English. He spent the summer of 1953 studying at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, then went on to attend the University of Salamanca, Spain where he received a Spanish Philology degree in 1955 (Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica). It was here that he met his future wife, whom he later wed in the United States in 1968. In 1956, <mask> moved to Los Angeles, California in the United States on a Fulbright grant and subsequently earned his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1961, in Romance Languages and Literatures with an emphasis in Philology (French, Spanish, and

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 Italian). Over the next 6 years, <mask> held a number of teaching positions, first at the University of Calgary, Canada and then at U.C.L.A., before settling in Boulder, Colorado to take on a professorship position at the University of Colorado in 1967. <mask> was Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder until his retirement on June 19, 1996.<mask> was the recipient of numerous awards for scholarly achievements throughout his career. He also served as the President of the Centre de Guillaume IX, a center for research in Troubadour studies, and was a member of the editorial board of Semasia (a romance philology publication). He was also an avid mountaineer who summitted hundreds of peaks in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Europe and the United States, and he climbed all fifty three of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks within two summers. He continued to hike regularly up until his death in September 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82. Education

Middle school, a private school in Allingaabro, Denmark
High school studies at Randers Stattskole in Randers, Denmark, graduating in June, 1945
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1949 (B.A.) Université de Grenoble, France, 1950, Certificat de Grammaire et de Philologie Françaises
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1953, M.A. (with distinction) with major in French and a minor in English
University of Salamanca, Spain, 1955, Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica
U.C.L.A., California, U.S.A.1961, Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, with major emphasis on Philology (French, Spanish, Italian)

Professional career

University of Washington at Seattle,

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 1956–57, Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages.U.C.L.A, 1957-60, Teaching Assistant, Department of French. Katedralskole, Nykøbing (Falster), Denmark, 1960-1961, Acting Instructor in French and English. University of Calgary, 1961-64, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages. U.C.L.A., 1964-67, Assistant Professor of French and Romance Philology. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1967-73, Associate Professor of French and Linguistics. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1973-77, Professor of French and Linguistics. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1977-1996, Professor of French.Publications

Books

1. The Italian Verb, A Morphological Study, University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, No. 107, 1971. 97 pp. 2. From Vulgar Latin to Old Provençal. University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, No.120, 1972. 97 pp. 3. F<mask> and T. Lathrop:  The Syntax of the Old Spanish Subjunctive. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, Janua Linguarum Series, 1973. 92 pp. 4.The Syntax of the Old French Subjunctive. The Hague:  Mouton Publishers, Janua Lunguarum Series,1974. 134 pp. 5. The Old Provençal Noun and Adjective Declension. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 9, 1976.177 pp. 6. The Earliest Portuguese Lyrics. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 11, 1978. 308 pp. 7.Provençal Philology and the Poetry of Guillaume of Poitiers. Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol. 13, 1983. 374 pp. 8. The Poetry of the Sicilian School. New York and London:


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  Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol.22, 1986. I-LXXIII. 250pp
9. The Syntax of Medieval Occitan. Tübingen/West Germany:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol. 208, 1986. I-VII.431 pp. 10. Old French and Comparative Gallo-Romance Syntax. Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol. 232, 1990. I-XI. 590 pp.11. Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry. An Anthology. New York and London:  Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol. 87 1992. I-CXXXVIII. 624 pp.(see review)
12. Syntaxe de l'ancien occitan. Tübingen/West Germany:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschift für romanische Philologie, Vol. 257, 1994. 404 pp. 13. Tuscan Poetry of the Duecento.New York and London:  Garland Publishing, Inc., Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, Vol. 99, 1994, I-XLV, 335 pp. 14. Troubadour Lyrics. A Bilingual Anthology. New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 39, 1998, 593 pp.15. A Comparative Study of Romance. New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, Studies in the Humanities, vol. 46, 1999, 446 pp. 16. La Vie de Saint Eustace. Introduction to Old French.Philological Commentary by <mask> <mask>. Edition and Introduction by Tom Lathrop. Newark/Delaware:  LinguaText, Ltd., 2000, 208 pp. 17. The language of the eleventh century "Vie de St. Alexis". Edition by Tom Lathrop. Newark/Delaware:  LinguaText, Ltd., 2003, 367 pp.References

External links
Books listed at WorldCat

Philologists
University of Salamanca alumni
Historical

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<mask>han is a former Hong Kong actress, who is best known for her work with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), and to an extent, for her film work and singing career. She also holds the Miss Hong Kong 2004 title. In December 2019, she announced her retirement from the entertainment industry with plans of moving to Europe. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Hong Kong. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a homemaker. Prior to winning her beauty queen title, <mask> had originally aspired to become a professional dancer. She had begun practicing ballet since the age of 4, but was forced to quit when she was 11, due to an injury on her right ankle.At the age of 14, she had begun to practice Jazz dance, Salsa, and Argentina Tango. She was educated at Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin) and eventually graduated from the University of California, Davis, majoring in Japanese, minoring in Spanish and marketing. After completing her degree, she had returned to Hong Kong and worked as a translator and project coordinator. She had previously worked at an engineering firm. In 2004, she entered the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant and was crowned the winner along with the titles of Miss Photogenic, Miss International Goodwill, and the Slimming Beauty Award. After the pageant, she signed with TVB and began her career as an actress. TV career
Following guest roles in The Zone and When Rules Turn Loose in 2005, <mask> made her official TV debut in TVB series, La Femme Desperado in 2006.Professional Taiwanese film critic, Mai Ruoyu, while critiquing <mask>'s film performance, had said that <mask> had demonstrated strong charisma and had effectively held her own in La Femme Desperado, even while starring alongside veteran actresses, Sheren Tang and Melissa Ng. Her role as Ida in the series was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, as well

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texts: as the Favourite Female Character category, in the TVB Anniversary Awards 2006. In 2007, <mask> had three TVB series released, including The Brink of Law, On the First Beat, and Steps. The roles cumulatively earned her the Most Improved Female Artist award from the TVB Anniversary Awards 2007. Her role in Steps also earned her nominations in the Best Actress category, as well Favourite Female Character category for the same awards show. In 2008, <mask> took on her first villain role in Moonlight Resonance, and the role had earned her a Top 5 position in the Best Supporting Actress category of the TVB Anniversary Awards 2008. On the other hand, her leading role in Speech of Silence, in which she played a deaf character, had earned her a Top 10 position in the Best Actress category of the aforementioned awards show.While <mask>'s TV career quieted down during 2009 to 2010, due to her focus on her film career, 2011 proved to be fruitful for <mask>, with six of her TV dramas airing on TVB. Of the six roles, Paris Yiu from Lives of Omission had garnered the most attention. For the role, <mask> was awarded a My Favourite TVB Female TV Character award from the StarHub TVB Awards, nominations in the Best Actress and Favourite Female Character categories for the TVB Anniversary Awards 2011, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Actress in Television by the Ming Pao Anniversary Award. Additionally, in 2011, with the high turnover rate in contracted TVB artists, TVB executive, Virginia Lok, appointed <mask>, Myolie Wu, Linda Chung, and Fala Chen, as the new Top 4 "Fa Dans" (a Cantonese term that is used for actresses with high popularity and status in TVB), with their predecessors being Flora Chan, Ada Choi, Kenix Kwok, and Jessica Hsuan. 2012 is arguably Tsui's peak year in her TV career. In Highs and Lows, <mask> portrays an extremely tragic character that

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 struggled with substance abuse, gang rape, and eventually, drug dealing. <mask> described her experience of filming this drama as "being on an emotional roller coaster", to the extent that she did not wish to speak to anyone or pick up the phone after work.The producer of the drama, Lam Chi Wah, referred to <mask>'s role in Highs and Lows as the greatest breakthrough in her career and applauded her for setting down her image as a beauty pageant winner to dive into such a complex character in the drama. Film director, Patrick Kong, also noted in his column that <mask>'s acting has greatly matured in Highs and Lows, particularly in her portrayal of emotional scenes. In 2014, <mask> took part in a TVB-produced micro film, A Time of Love, which consists of four individual stories, each with a separate theme. <mask> starred opposite Taiwanese actors, James Wen and Chris Wang, in the "sorrow" themed story. After the airing of the micro film, TVB received 39 individual viewer statements that commended Tsui of her outstanding performance in the micro film. Column writer, Ko Leung, of Macao Daily, also stated <mask> portrayed her character in the micro film perfectly and that <mask>'s acting is comparable to that of Bai Baihe in The Stolen Years. In 2015, <mask>'s management contract with TVB ended.However, <mask> said that she is still on very good terms with TVB, and TVB has settled job arrangements for her up until February 2016. Despite having received several offers, <mask> stated that she will not finalize any management contract agreements until she has completed her jewelry design courses. Film career
Aside from her development in television acting, <mask> also experienced success in developing her career in the film industry. In 2007, through a series of auditions, <mask> was cast as the female lead, alongside A-list actors Tony Leung Ka-fai and Simon

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 the script, she had intended to reject the role because of the frightening content. However, <mask> eventually agreed to the role due to Ng's persistence and persuasion. With reference to collaborating with <mask>, Ng said that <mask> is a very professional and admirable actress.Jewelry design career
In December 2015, <mask> launched a jewelry line with K.S. Sze & Sons Ltd. The collection is called "Rabbit-Duck Illusion". She indicated that her designs are inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's concept on the two different ways of seeing, using the ambiguous image of a "duckrabbit". She spoke of the concept behind her jewelry designs, "It's something that I like to remind myself of, that there are many situations in life that aren't worth splitting hairs over, and if I simply adjust the angle that I'm viewing things from, I can easily see a different perspective." In early 2016, <mask> found her own fine jewelry brand and online shop; katetsui.com

Further education
In 2015–2016, <mask> completed her Jewelry Design course at GIA and Colored Gem Professional Level II at the Gübelin Academy. In June 2019, <mask> finished her master's degree in Psychology at the University of Hong Kong.She plans to further her studies overseas and pursue a PhD in psychology. Filmography

Films

Television

Awards
2016
The most promising new entrepreneur of the year - katetsui.com

2015
Jade Solid Gold Music Awards Presentation 2014 – Song Award: 棋逢敵手 (with Hubert Wu)

2014
StarHub TVB Awards 2014 – My Top 6 Favourite Female TV Character Award (Bounty Lady)
StarHub TVB Awards 2014 – Everlasting Glow Award
Jade Solid Gold Second Round Music Awards 2014  – Song Award: 棋逢敵手 (with Hubert Wu)

2013
StarHub TVB Awards 2013– My Top 6 Favourite Female TV Character Award (Highs and Lows)
StarHub TVB Awards 2013 – Most Glamorous Female Artist Award
 Next TV Awards 2013 – Top 10 Artist


title: Tin Ka Ping

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<mask>  (; 20 November 1919 – 10 July 2018), also known as K. P<mask> or Tian Jiabing, was a Hong Kong–Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and chairman of Tin’s Chemical Industrial Company and the Tin Ka Ping Foundation. <mask> donated billions of Hong Kong dollars and funded hundreds of schools, dozens of hospitals, and thousands of rural libraries throughout China. He was awarded numerous honours for his philanthropy, including the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Hong Kong government, a Gold Plate on Contribution to Public Welfare by President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan, honorary citizenships by more than 80 cities, and honorary doctorate degrees by over ten universities. Chinese astronomers named the asteroid 2886 Tinkaping after him, and his childhood home in Dabu County is protected as a heritage site. Early life
<mask> was born in 1919 in the Hakka community of Dabu County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province. His grandfather was a Qing dynasty official who served in Henan Province and fought against the Taiping Rebellion.He was the only son of his father, a businessman who ran a grocery store and a kiln. Business career
When his father died in 1935, <mask> was forced to quit school at the age of 15 to run the family business. He went to Vietnam in 1937 to export the porcelain clay which Dabu is famous for, and soon controlled 60% of Dabu's export business. However, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and in June 1939 the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Shantou, the main port in eastern Guangdong, blocking the export route from Dabu. <mask> moved to Indonesia in 1939 to join his cousin and helped run the latter's metal factory. After the Surrender of Japan in 1945, he founded a factory in Jakarta to process the abundant supply of local rubber, and later expanded the business with a second factory. In 1956, he started the first plastic film factory in Indonesia.Because of government policies that

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 discriminated against Chinese Indonesians, in 1959 he left Indonesia for Hong Kong. He built a factory in Tuen Mun District making plastics and artificial leather, and his Tin’s Chemical Industrial Company became a leader in Hong Kong's chemical industry. He later opened a second factory and owned several industrial buildings. With China's reform and opening in the 1980s, <mask> joined many other Hong Kong companies to open factories in the mainland. He opened his first mainland factory in Humen, Dongguan, and gradually grew the business. Philanthropy
<mask> was involved in philanthropy since the 1960s and 1970s, when he served as a director of Hong Kong's three largest charities at the time: Pok Oi Hospital, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, and . In 1982, he donated more than a billion Hong Kong dollars, which was about 80% of his wealth, to establish the Tin Ka Ping Foundation, dedicated to making donations in education, medical care, transportation, and other public facilities.In 2009, he transferred the rest of his assets into the foundation, and retired from its active management. Having been forced to quit school in his childhood, <mask> dedicated much of his resources to funding education. Since the 1980s, <mask> made donations to 93 universities, 166 secondary schools, 41 elementary schools, and 19 specialized schools and kindergartens. He also funded 1,800 libraries in rural schools, 29 hospitals, and 130 bridges and roads. There are schools bearing his name in every province, municipality, and autonomous region in China, and he has been honoured as the "Father of a hundred schools" (). He also sponsored schools in Taiwan, Singapore and the United States. <mask>'s businesses and foundation suffered massive losses during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.To help fund his foundation, in 2001 he sold his house in Kowloon Tong that he and his wife had lived in for 37 years, and rented a  apartment. He donated the entire proceeds of HK$56 million to more than 20 secondary

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 schools. It was seen as an "incredible" decision by Hong Kong media. Honours and awards
<mask> had received numerous honours and awards in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Britain, for his contributions to public welfare. He was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1982, the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996, and the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2010 by the Hong Kong government. Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui presented him a Gold Plate on Contribution to Public Welfare in 1988. He was named the "Star of Education" by the Hong Kong Loving Hearts Campaign.In 1994, the Purple Mountain Observatory named the asteroid 2886 <mask>kaping after him. He was an honorary citizen of more than 80 cities and counties in China, and was awarded the honorary doctorate by more than 10 universities in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. <mask>'s former home, the Gong Chen Building located in Yintan Village, Gaopo Town, is now protected as a heritage site by the government of Dabu County. It has opened as a museum honouring <mask> <mask>. Personal life and death
<mask> was married to Fong Wai-ying. They had more than 20 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. With the belief that it was "better to bequeath virtue rather than wealth to one's children", <mask> donated the vast majority of his assets to his charitable foundation.In 2013, when he was 94, <mask> was baptised and became a Christian. <mask> died on 10 July 2018 in Hong Kong, at the age of 98. References

External links
Tin Ka Ping Foundation

1919 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Chinese businesspeople
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Businesspeople from Meizhou
Chief executives in the manufacturing industry
Chinese company founders
Chinese expatriates in Indonesia
Chinese philanthropists
Converts to Christianity
Hong Kong business executives
Hong Kong chief executives
Hong Kong Christians
Hong Kong people of Hakka descent
Hong Kong philanthropists
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<mask> (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Biography
<mask> was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Henry and <mask>. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed <mask> throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra. <mask> first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926 with Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. <mask> appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s.She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde". Among her over 200 films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives. A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. Awards
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, <mask> was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the south side of the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Season 1 episode 7 "All Our Yesterdays" (uncredited)

References

Further reading

External links

The <mask> shrine

1907 births
1997 deaths
Actresses from Kentucky
American film actresses
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University of Tulsa alumni
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
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title: Erion Veliaj

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<mask> (born December 17, 1979) is an Albanian politician, who is currently serving as the 42nd Mayor of Tirana. Stemming from a civil society activism organization as the leader of MJAFT!, <mask> joined the ranks of the Socialist Party of Albania in 2011, when he was appointed Secretary for Youth and Immigration. Previously he has served as a Member of the Parliament for the district of Gjirokastër and as Minister of Social Welfare and Youth under Prime Minister Edi Rama. In April 2015, <mask> was appointed as mayoral candidate of the Socialist Party in the city of Tirana. He won the elections and took office on July 31, 2015. Personal life and education
<mask> was born on December 17, 1979, in Tirana, Albania. His father <mask> served as an officer in the Albanian Army, while his mother was an HR Manager in the military.He attended the Sami Frashëri High School in Tirana and then later Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan where he graduated with a B.A. in political science. He received his master's degree in European Integration from the University of Sussex. Before returning to Albania, <mask> worked with several international humanitarian organizations in the Americas, Eastern Africa, and Kosovo. <mask> is from a Muslim family which first left Islam and later became an atheist. Getting in contact with missionaries from the United States, <mask> <mask> converted to Evangelicalism. His Mjaft organisation showed the controversial Muhammad cartoons on its pages.On April 30, 2017, as Mayor of Tirana, <mask> <mask> received “Doctor Honoris Causa” extended by the Grand Valley State University in the US for the contribution made in public services. He is married and has a son. Political career

MJAFT! Veliaj was one of the earliest activists of MJAFT!, a civic organization created in 2003 aimed at protesting social and political injustices in Albania. He soon became one of the central figures of MJAFT! due to his many TV appearances. <mask> was involved with MJAFT!until November 2007. Mjaft

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 organization showed the controversial Muhammad cartoons on its pages when <mask> was a leader of it. In 2004, ‘MJAFT!’ was granted the United Nations Award for Civil Society by Kofi Annan for its exemplary and highly efficient methods of protest. G99
In 2008, <mask> <mask> and a few other activists from MJAFT! created G99 (Group 99), a center-left political party. While initially unaligned, G99 ended up joining other political parties of the center-left coalition in the 2009 Parliamentary Election. <mask> <mask> ran as G99's leading candidate for the district of Tirana.Despite the media attention, <mask> <mask> and G99 only earned 0.86% of the vote, failing to win a seat in the Parliament. In 2011, <mask> leaves G99 and joins the Socialist Party of Albania. Socialist Party of Albania
In the Socialist Party, <mask> was nominated to serve as Secretary for Youth and Emigration. In 2013, he was nominated as a candidate for MP representing the district of Gjirokastër. The center-left coalition of political parties won the 2013 Parliamentary Election and <mask> was appointed to serve as Minister of Social Welfare and Youth in Edi Rama's new cabinet. He resigned in 2015 due to him being nominated as SPA's candidate for Mayor of Tirana. <mask> was elected Mayor of Tirana with 53.58% of the vote, defeating Democratic Party's candidate, Halim Kosova and the independent candidate, Gjergj Bojaxhi.Mayor of Tirana

Tirana Mayoral Election 2015
In April 2015, <mask> was appointed as mayoral candidate of the Socialist Party in the city of Tirana. The candidate representing the oppositional Democratic Party was Halim Kosova, a well-known gynecologist, serving as a Member of Parliament at the time. Other candidates were Gjergj Bojaxhi, a former Democratic politician, and Sazan Guri, an environmental activist. <mask> won the elections by a landslide and took office on July 31, 2015. Mayoral tenure
The issue of urban air pollution is a growing concern in Tirana, and the role of the car can be controversial. In

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 September 2015, Tirana organized its first vehicle-free day. In January 2017 the new Skanderbeg Square was inaugurated by <mask> and the Prime Minister.In July 2017 the Municipality of Tiranë voted to raise the water tariff significantly, <mask> promoted this action by arguing that it would eventually make drinking water available 24 hours a day, and help improve its access and quality. During his term as Mayor, he has earned the nickname "Lali Eri", which can be translated as "Big Brother Eri"

Notable projects of the Municipality of Tirana
 Reja (the cloud), a project from Sou Fujimoto. Plastic bags reduction project
 Skanderbeg Square - featured also as one of the installations at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Pazari i Ri, in an urban renewal project, the "New Bazaar" neighbourhood was rebuilt. Criticism

The death of Ardit Gjoklaj
Ardit Gjoklaj, a 17-year-old boy died on 7 August 2016 working in very poor conditions in the landfill of Sharrë. His death became controversial because the company that managed the landfill of Sharrë "3R", was promoted publicly by <mask> himself as having good working conditions. Comments about Injured Police
On 27 November 2018, in a televised speech to the City Council, <mask> reacted to the developing story about a police officer who lost her fingers in clashes with protesters in Tirana, by saying "We are all men here.Would any of us have eyes to marry someone with no fingers?" Fake news accusation regarding alleged kidnapping of Griselda Roshi

In a 2011 email to EU representatives, <mask> briefed them on what he claimed was a politically motivated kidnapping of Kavaja's mayor's wife, Griselda Roshi, which allegedly led to a forced abortion. He related the kidnapping to the fact that Elvis Roshi had been able to flip a district such as Kavaja that traditionally voted for the DPA. The story was debunked after  Roshi revealed to Albanian authorities that she had made up her kidnapping and was not pregnant. In a 2011 meeting on human rights in Albania, MEP

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 Tanja Fajon used this debunked story as an illustrative example. She later apologized and claimed <mask> never updated her on this story. This controversy has raised serious concerns over <mask>'s using of fake news and personal connections to influence high-ranked EU officials.The demolition of the National Theatre
Amidst the protests against the construction of a new National Theatre building replacing the old National Theatre in Tirana, on 8 May 2020 the Albanian government transferred ownership of the land of the National Theatre to the Tirana Municipality through a special law. This law emphasized that the land must be used only for the construction of a new theatre building. After more than two years of consecutive protests for the protection of National theatre and after a dubious legal procedure, the building was demolished on Sunday 17 May 2020 by police bulldozers with heavy police presence  at 4:30 in the morning. This action which was took place during the emergency state in Albania due to COVID-19 pandemic. This decision drew the widespread condemnation from several local activists, opposition political parties and artists against the Municipality of Tirana and the Albanian government. Europa Nostra called the demolition of the theatre as illegal and against the rule of law. The Delegation of EU in Albania voiced their concern regarding the lack of dialogue between the authorities and activists before the demolition took place.References

External links
Portraits – Return to Europe: <mask> <mask>, Albania
The Albanian Renaissance Documentary

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Living people
Members of the Parliament of Albania
Government ministers of Albania
Youth ministers of Albania
Mayors of Tirana
Converts to evangelical Christianity
Albanian former Muslims
Converts to Protestantism from Islam
Albanian evangelicals
Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists
Converts to Protestantism from atheism or agnosticism
Socialist Party of Albania politicians
Grand Valley State University alumni
Alumni of the

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<mask> (born December 23, 1965) is an American guitarist and songwriter. He has been a member of major indie pop and punk bands, most notably Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, Bambi Kino, Death of Samantha, and Cobra Verde. Early life
<mask> was born in Sandusky, Ohio. His parents were from Colorado, where his father helped construct missile silos, and his mother was a teacher's aide. <mask> grew up on a farm in rural Northeast Ohio, in the town of  Huron, and attended schools in Elyria, Ohio. By age five, <mask> was writing songs, which he recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine to be mailed by his family to his older sister who lived in Germany. <mask> moved to Cleveland after graduating high school.In 1984, he was briefly a non-student college radio DJ at Oberlin's WOBC, after which he was a DJ for six years at Cleveland State University's WCSB, concurrent with his musical career in the late 1980s. Musical groups
Beginning in high school, <mask> began performing with Ohio punk bands such as Suspect Device, Children's Crusade, and Starvation Army. He has also performed and/or recorded with Richard Buckner, Yuji Oniki, My Dad Is Dead, The Mice, Bill Fox, Fence Lions, Zest of Yore, Stewart Pack, The Oranges Band, Mascott, and Sally Crewe and The Sudden Moves. As a result of <mask>'s appearances on Guided by Voices' Suitcase and Suitcase 2 box sets, he is sometimes erroneously credited as a member of a variety of fictitious bands (e.g., Approval of Mice, Champion Hairpuller), due to Robert Pollard's creation of new imaginary band names for nearly every track of his compilations of outtakes and demos. Death of Samantha and Cobra Verde

In the 1980s, <mask> was a member of the Ohio-based band Death of Samantha, a "modernist pop troupe" led by John Petkovic. After the breakup of Death of Samantha, <mask> became one of the original members of John Petkovic's

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 1990s band Cobra Verde. Robert Pollard, who had been a fan of <mask>'s since his Death of Samantha days, asked Cobra Verde in 1996 to be his backing band for Guided by Voices' Mag Earwhig!LP. Guided by Voices

After joining forces with Guided by Voices as part of Cobra Verde, <mask> remained a member of Guided by Voices for about seven years, from 1997 to 2004, a period that encompassed six official LPs and numerous other releases. <mask>'s association with Pollard also resulted in three albums in collaboration as a duo: 1999's Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (credited to Robert Pollard and <mask>), and two albums credited to Lifeguards, Mist King Urth in 2003, and Waving at the Astronauts in 2011. On July 25, 2016, it was announced <mask> rejoined Guided by Voices. Gem

In the early 1990s, <mask> launched Gem, his own band, which also included bassist Tim Tobias (later of Guided by Voices). Gem's debut album, Hexed, was recorded in 1994 and released on Restless Records in 1995. The Cleveland Scene praised the group as a "velveteen rock combo," and the editor of Cleveland's Alternative Press cited Gem's song "Suburban Girl" as "one of the greatest things in the history of Cleveland rock."Trouser Press called Hexed a "tuneful rush of smart, catchy and simple rhythm guitar pop-rock – sort of grown-up Weezer without the anxious pretensions." According to Trouser Press, <mask>'s contributions stood out as "crafty," with "the woolly and weird chant of 'Sheep,' the bracing T. Rex borrowings of 'Your Heroes Hate You' and the countryfied pun of 'Only a Loan.'" In 2001, Gem reunited to release another album, Sunglare Serenades. Bambi Kino

 <mask> was one of the founding members of Bambi Kino, a band formed in anticipation of 2010's fiftieth anniversary of the first Beatles shows in Hamburg, Germany. The band also includes Nada Surf drummer Ira

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 Elliot, Mark Rozzo (guitarist for Maplewood and Champale) and Erik Paparazzi (bass player for Cat Power). The group covers songs from the formative 1960–1962 pre-celebrity era of The Beatles in Hamburg and at the Cavern Club. The band took its name from the Bambi Kino, a squalid movie theater in Hamburg where the Beatles lived in cramped storerooms.Working with Hamburg-based Tapete Records, the band debuted with a week of shows in August 2010 at the Indra Club in Hamburg, where the Beatles first played. In 2011, Tapete released the group's self-titled debut album. The record was praised by AllMusic's James Allen for its authentically "scrappy Merseybeat style," resulting in an album that "also happens to rock on its own merits." In an interview, Rozzo said, "We very consciously didn’t want to be a tribute band. We wanted to be ourselves, and in doing that we thought we were being truer to The Beatles." The group remains active. In May 2014, Bambi Kino played at a benefit concert at Brooklyn's Bell House as well as the White House Correspondents Jam, in Washington, DC, with Chuck Leavell.Nada Surf

In 2010, <mask> joined the band Nada Surf, which had been formed in 1992 by Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca. The line-up of Caws, Lorca, drummer Ira Elliot, and <mask> appeared on Nada Surf's 2012 album The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy. Solo career
In a 2014 article, the music magazine Blurt quoted Death of Samantha's John Petkovic assessing <mask> as a solo artist. Petkovic contrasted <mask>'s consistent artistic openness since the 1980s with his limited name recognition:

<mask> has recorded three full-length albums as a solo artist, not including his early cassette releases. <mask>'s solo recording career technically began with two self-released cassettes, the four-song Cover Songs with Big Heads EP (1985), and a 1990 release of juvenilia recorded by

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 <mask> at ages 5 to 9. In 1999, <mask>'s serious solo career began with the release of the five-song Malamute Jute EP. This was followed in 2004 by Salamander, his first solo full-length album made as an adult, and the 2008 album Call from Restricted.Parade On
Gillard's 2014 solo album, Parade On, was released on Nine Mile Records. Blurt wrote that Parade On blends hooks with layers of guitars in a display of diverse examples of "steady, riff-based rock," and the British music magazine Bearded wrote that <mask>'s "cup brims over with subtle gems," making Parade On a record "worthy of its own ecstatic praise." AllMusic's Mark Deming called Parade On an eclectic and superbly crafted album of "guitar-fueled rock & roll with an extra portion of pop hooks" and lyrics in "various degrees of bittersweet snark." Deming praised <mask> as a gifted songwriter, guitarist, producer, and arranger, whose multi-instrumental performances included layers of strong lead and rhythm guitar work melding with "tough yet flexible" bass, in the service of songs ranging from "sparkly jangle" to "sweet but aggressive" hard-rocking power pop. In April 2014, a music video by filmmaker Mike Postalakis was officially released for the album track "Ready for Death." Other projects
Gillard produced indie band Eternal Summers' third album, The Drop Beneath. He has scored several independent films, including the comedy short film Creative Process 473 (2002), and American Cannibal (2006).In 2014, <mask> recorded a version of Scott Miller's song "Dripping with Looks," which originally appeared on the 1987 Game Theory album Lolita Nation. <mask>'s version, released as a music video in May 2014, was expected to appear on a Scott Miller memorial tribute album. The song "Say Goodbye", with <mask> on guitar and lead vocals, and Peter Buck on mandolin, appears on the posthumous Game Theory

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 album Supercalifragile (2017). <mask> shares songwriting credit for Miller's previously unfinished song, which Gillard completed. <mask> presently lives in New York City and continues to perform solo and as a member of Guided by Voices, Nada Surf and other bands. Partial discography

Solo releases

Albums and EPs
 Cover Songs with Big Heads EP (1985)self-released cassette – sold mail order by Scat Records
 It'll Be Such a Thrill (1990)self-released cassette – sold mail order by Scat Records, contains songs recorded by Gillard at ages 5 to 9
 Malamute Jute EP (1999) (Cushion Records)
 Creative Process 473 (2003)contains 10 songs for motion picture soundtrack, plus 3 bonus original songs not on soundtrack
 Salamander (2004) (Pink Frost)distributed by Redeye Distribution, Inc. Call from Restricted (2008) (347 Records)2008 digital release, 2009 physical CD – contains 11 songs recorded in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, NY
 Parade On (2014) (Nine Mile Records)contains 11 songs recorded in New York, NY and Austin, Texas

Singles
 "Breaking in Two" b/w "So Much More" 7" (2011) (347 Records)

Videography
 "Ready for Death" (April 2014)
 "Dripping with Looks" (May 2014)

Collaborations with Robert Pollard

Albums
 Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) – as Robert Pollard with <mask> Gillard
 Mist King Urth (2003) – as Lifeguards
 Waving at the Astronauts (2011) – as Lifeguards
 Starting Point of the Royal Cyclopean (2016) - as ESP Ohio

Singles
 "Product Head" b/w "Naught Windsor" 7" (2011) (Serious Business Records)

References

External links

 <mask> Gillard on Bandcamp

Living people
Musicians from Cleveland
1965 births
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Guided by Voices members
American alternative rock musicians
Guitarists from Ohio
20th-century American guitarists
Nada Surf members
20th-century American male

masks: Gillard Gillard Doug Doug


title: Kenshiro Abbe

texts:
was a prominent Japanese master of judo, aikido, and kendo. He introduced aikido to the United Kingdom in 1955, and founded the Kyushindo system. Abbe was a graduate of the Budo Senmon Gakko, having studied judo and kendo there. Following an illustrious early career in the martial arts, he served in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. He then trained in aikido under its founder, Morihei Ueshiba, for a decade. Abbe held dan ranks in several martial arts, most notably 8th dan in judo, 6th dan in aikido, and 6th dan in kendo. After introducing aikido to the UK, he established several Japanese martial arts councils there during the late 1950s.He returned to Japan in 1964 and remained there for most of the remainder of his life. There are contradictory accounts of Abbe's final years, but it appears that he was in poor spirits and poor health towards the end. Early life
Abbe was born on 15 December 1915 in a village in Tokushima Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the son of Toshizo <mask>, who was the local school's headmaster and a kendo instructor, and his wife, Kote Abbe. The couple had four sons and five daughters, and Abbe was the youngest child in the family. On 4 September 1919, when Abbe was not yet four years old, his father drowned in a flash flood while training in the mountains. A young schoolteacher, Manpei Hino, subsequently became a father figure for the young boy and introduced him to the martial arts, including sumo.Abbe went on to become a local school champion in sumo. In 1929, Abbe began learning