title: Arjun Bijlani

texts: portrayed the role of Vikram, a supporting character. <mask> had his first noticeable work with the action based television drama Left Right Left. In this show, he played the role of Cadet Aalekh Sharma. In 2008, he took a break from Left Right Left and signed Deepti Bhatnagar's period drama Mohe Rang De, where he played the role of Sanjay, a rich fun-loving guy.In 2008, he featured in the romantic youth show Miley Jab Hum Tum alongside Rati Pandey, Sanaya Irani and Mohit Sehgal. He played Mayank Sharma, a nerd who falls for a fun-loving girl. This was his first show as a leading actor which received high TRPs. The show ended on 19 November 2010. His next television venture was NDTV Imagine's show Pardes Mein Mila Koi Apna alongside Bhavna Khatri. He played the role of Chandrakant Bhosale in the show. In 2012, <mask> hosted UTV Bindass's reality talk show Dell Inspiron Road Diaries.In 2012, he also acted in Magic Lantern's telefilm in Teri Meri Love Stories on Star Plus opposite Neha Janpandit where he played the role of Raghu, an uncultured guy. In the same year he did a short film, named Full Phukre. In 2013, Bijlani worked in two short films; I Guess and Caught in the Web. In the film I Guess, he played the role of a man named Manav waiting for his friend's operation in a hospital lobby, who starts a weird conversation with a stranger named Aadi about life and death. In his next short film, Caught in the Web, he played the role of Karan, a casanova always cheating on the net. He next appeared in the television series Kaali – Ek Punar Avatar opposite Aneri Vajani. He played the role of Dev, a police inspector.His next

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Chintu Ban Gaya Gentleman. His final appearance of 2013 was in the comedy based cookery drama Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyaar on SAB TV, where he played the role of Aditya Khanna opposite Shweta Gulati. In 2014, he also played in Box Cricket League. In 2014, <mask> featured in an episode of UTV Bindass's Yeh Hai Aashiqui named "This or That?" alongside Perneet Chauhan and Rucha Gujarathi. In March 2015, he entered in Balaji Telefilms' romantic television drama series Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi alongside Radhika Madan and Shakti Arora. He played the role of Shikhar Mehra, a casanova lawyer, yet a positive guy who falls for Ishani.However, he quitted the show in August 2015 for Naagin. In September 2015, he signed for another thriller show of Balaji Telefilms, Naagin, opposite Mouni Roy. The show aired on Colors TV. In the show, he portrayed a suave and ambitious tycoon, Ritik Singh, who believes that love and religion are distractions, as they make you weak, but his beliefs are challenged when he comes face-to-face with Roy's character Shivanya. The show proved to be a turning point in his career. The show received high TRPs and it ended on 5th June 2016. In 2016, he made his Bollywood debut with Baba Motion Pictures' Direct Ishq, co-starring with Rajneesh Duggal and Nidhi Subbaiah.He played the role of Kabir Bajpai, a good boy from a rich family but the film failed at box office. Since July 2016, <mask> was participating in the dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, but later got eliminated along with Surveen Chawla

In August 2016, he entered the Colors TV's show Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se starring Mona

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 Singh and Vivek Dahiya wherein he played a genie. He also did an appearance in Naagin (Season 2) for seven episodes. In November 2016, he played Raghav Mehra in Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil, opposite Drashti Dhami. The show ended on 30th June 2017 due to low TRP's. In September 2017, <mask> signed Beyond Dreams Entertainment show  Ishq Mein Marjawan which aired on Colors TV as Deep Raj Singh. The show received good TRPs and ended in June 2019.In 2018, he anchored the dance reality show Dance Deewane. In 2019, <mask> hosted Colors TV's cooking reality show, Kitchen Champion and also did appearance in Naagin 3 for four episodes. In 2019, he anchored Dance Deewane 2 aired on Colors TV. In January 2020, he appeared in a music video named Kehndi Haan Kehndi Naa produced by VYRL Originals alongside Sukriti Kakar and Prakriti Kakar. In March 2020, he made his digital debut with State of Siege: 26/11 produced by Contiloe Pictures and Distributed by Zee5. He played the role of Major Nikhil Manikrishnan which was inspired by the character of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan. The same year, he appeared in another music video named Ishq Tanha produced by "Indie Music Label" starring alongside Reem Shaikh.In January 2022, he also hosted Sony TV's India's Got Talent. In February 2022, he participated in Star Plus's Smart Jodi with his wife, Neha <mask>. Filmography

Films

Television

Web series

Music videos

Awards

See also

 List of Indian television actors

References

External links

Sindhi people
Indian male television actors
Living people
Male actors in Hindi television
Indian male soap opera actors
21st-century Indian male actors
1982

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title: Hang Tuah

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<mask> (Jawi: , /tuha/ or /toh/) was a warrior who lived in Malacca during the reign of Sultan Mansur Shah in the 15th century. He was supposedly the most powerful of all the laksamana, or admirals, and is considered by the Malays to be one of history's greatest silat masters. <mask> is held in the highest regard, even in present-day Malay culture, and is arguably the most well-known and illustrious warrior figure in Malay history and literature. Early life and background
While  historical facts regarding the early life and background of <mask> are limited and his ethnicity is the source of some dispute; it has been reported that he had aboriginal Malay ancestry. As a young boy, <mask> worked as a woodcutter in his parents' shop. His grasp of spiritual concepts and potential as a fighter were apparent from a young age. At ten years old he learned silat together with his four comrades <mask>, <mask>, <mask> and <mask>u.Their teacher was Adi Putera, a renowned master who lived a hermetic life at the top of a mountain. Under the guru's tutelage, <mask> and his four compatriots were taught the arts of self-defense and meditation. <mask>'s appearance in the history of the region began when some men ran amok near Kampung Bendahara. Tun Perak came with a party of guards to investigate the incident, but was also attacked. His guards fled but when <mask> and his friends, who happened to be at a nearby stall, saw what was happening, they rushed to save Tun Perak. They fought the group and, because of their ferociousness, they ran away. Tun Perak was amazed by the courage of <mask> and his companions.He rewarded them and presented them to Sultan Muzaffar Syah. Career

<mask>'s illustrious career as an admiral or laksamana includes tales of his absolute and unfaltering loyalty to his Sultan, some of which are chronicled in Sejarah Melayu (the semi-historical Malay Annals) and Hikayat Hang Tuah (a romantic collection of tales involving <mask>). <mask> is

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title: Hang Tuah

texts: believed to have engaged in correspondence with the Ryukyu Islands. <mask> became the sultan's constant aide, accompanying the king on official visits to foreign countries. On one such visit to Majapahit, <mask> fought a duel with the famed pendekar Taming Sari. After a brutal fight <mask> emerged as winner, and then Singhavikramavardhana, the ruler of Majapahit, bestowed upon him Taming Sari's kris or dagger. The Keris Taming Sari was named after its original owner, and was purported to be magical, empowering its owner with physical invulnerability.<mask> also acted as the sultan's ambassador, travelling on the king's behalf to allied countries. Another story concerning <mask>'s legendary loyalty to the ruler is found in the Hikayat Hang Tuah, and involves his visit to Inderaputra or Pahang during one such voyage. The sultan sent <mask> to Pahang with the task of persuading the princess Tun Teja, who was already engaged, to become the sultan's companion. Tun Teja fell under the impression that <mask> had come to persuade her to marry him, not the sultan, and agreed to elope with him to Melaka. It was only during the voyage home that <mask> revealed his deception to Tun Teja. The Hikayat Hang Tuah and Sejarah Melayu each carry different accounts of this incident. The Hikayat records that it was <mask> who persuaded Tun Teja to elope with him, thus deceiving her.Perhaps the most famous story in which <mask> is involved is the fight with his closest childhood companion, <mask>. <mask>'s deep loyalty to and popularity with the sultan led to rumours being circulated that <mask> was having an illicit affair with one of the sultan's dayang (court stewardesses). The sultan then sentenced <mask> to death without trial for the alleged offence. The death sentence was never carried out, however, because <mask>'s executioner, the bendahara (chief minister), went against the sultan's orders and hid <mask> in a remote region of Melaka. Believing that <mask>

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title: Hang Tuah

texts: was dead, murdered unjustly by the king he served, <mask> decided to avenge his friend's death. <mask>'s revenge allegedly became a palace killing spree or furious rebellion against the sultan (sources differ as to what actually occurred). It remains consistent, however, that <mask> wreaked havoc onto the royal court, and the sultan was unable to stop him, as none of the warriors dared to challenge the more ferocious and skilled <mask>.The bendahara then informed the sultan that the only man who was able to stop <mask>, <mask>, was still alive. The bendahara recalled <mask> from his hiding place and the warrior was given full amnesty by the sultan and was instructed to kill <mask>. After seven gruelling days of fighting, <mask> was able to kill <mask>. It is notable that the two main sources of <mask>'s life differ yet again on the details of his life. According to the Hikayat Hang <mask>, it was <mask> who avenged his friend's death, only to be killed by the same friend, but according to Sejarah Melayu, it was <mask>uri. The Sejarah Melayu or the Malay Annals are unique in that they constitute the only available account of the history of the Malay Sultanate in the 15th and early 16th century, but the <mask> story, as the more romantic tale, remains more popular. <mask> continued to serve Melaka after the death of <mask>.Later in his life, as <mask> progressed in his years, the warrior was ordered by the successive Melakan ruler to court a legendary princess on the sultan's behalf. The Puteri Gunung Ledang (Princess of Mount Ledang) was so named because she resided on Mount Ledang at the Melaka-Johor border. According to legend, the Princess met with <mask>, and only agreed to marry the sultan if he satisfied a list of requirements, or pre-wedding gifts. The list included a golden bridge linking Melaka with the top of Gunung Ledang, seven trays of mosquito livers, seven jars of virgins' tears and a bowl of the sultan's first-born son's blood.

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 <mask> knew the tasks would not be fulfilled, and was said to be so overwhelmed that he failed his king that he flung his kris into a river and vowed only to return to Melaka if it resurfaced, which it never did. It was also said that he then vanished into thin air. According to other sources, <mask> lived to an old age, and his body is said to have been buried in Tanjung Kling in Melaka, where his tomb can still be seen today; however it is to be believed that his tomb is just a representation of his name and his body is actually buried elsewhere.Other sources stated that, following the arrival of the Portuguese , <mask> moved to Singapore. Legacy
He remains extremely popular in Malaysia, embodying the values of upper-class Malay culture at the time, when allegiance and loyalty to the ruler were paramount above all else. Although its historical accuracy remains disputable, the legend of the tragic friendship between <mask> and <mask> represents a paradox in the Malay psyche about loyalty and justice, and remains a point of debate among students of Malay history and literature. In contemporary Malaysia, <mask> is purportedly quoted as saying "Takkan Melayu Hilang di Dunia" meaning "Never shall the Malay(s) vanish from the earth". The quote is a famous rallying cry for Malay nationalism. However, this line never occurred in the original Hikayat <mask>ah. In popular culture
<mask> is a prominent legendary figure in Malaysia's popular culture and his story has been adapted into several movies.Famous portrayals in these movies include the ones by:-
 P. Ramlee in Hang Tuah (1956) ;
 Jamal Abdillah in Tuah (1990)
 Jalaluddin Hassan in XX Ray 2 (1995) - a science-fiction film made by Aziz M. Osman about modern scientists who were sent back into <mask>ah's era. The film imagines the hero getting his attributed quote Takkan Melayu Hilang Di Dunia from one of the scientists from future (played by Aziz M. Osman). M. Nasir in Puteri Gunung Ledang

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 (2004). The singer-cum-actor also portrays the figure in a local Kit Kat commercial where Tuah (unrelated to the role in that film) runs into a modern convenience store. Places and things named after <mask> Tuah

In Malaysia
 Five roads in Malaysia are named after <mask>ah: Jalan Hang Tuah in Kuala Lumpur, and similarly named streets in Johor, Malacca, Muar, and Ipoh. The Royal Malaysian Navy has two frigates named after <mask> Tuah,  and . A strip along Jalan Hang Tuah has been renamed Hang Tuah Mall and popularised as a tourist attraction.An LRT station and Monorail Station in Kuala Lumpur is named  Hang Tuah. It is an interchange station. Medan Hang Tuah, a major food court and hawker centre is located at The Mall, Kuala Lumpur. Hang Tuah Stadium, a sport stadium in Malacca. Hang Tuah's Well, a water well in Malacca. Hang Tuah Jaya, a town and parliamentary constituency in Malacca. Admiral Hang Tuah Jamek Mosque, a mosque in Malacca.Hang Tuah Centre, an attraction in Malacca. Hang Tuah Village, a village in Malacca. Hang Tuah Bridge, a bridge in Malacca. <mask> Tuah Hall, a building in Malacca. In Indonesia
 Certain roads in several major cities are named after the warrior as Jalan <mask>ah: in Pekanbaru, Jakarta, Batam, Tanjung Pinang, Medan, Surabaya, Palembang, Padang, Palu, Denpasar, and Bandung
 Hang Tuah University, a major university established by the Indonesian Navy in Surabaya
 The Indonesian Navy has two ships named after <mask>,  RI Hang Tuah and  . Hang Tuah Park, a Park in Riau Main Stadium in Pekanbaru
 Hang Tuah Stadium, a green space in Masjid Agung An-Nur in Pekanbaru

See also
 Malay folklore
 Hang Jebat
 Hikayat <mask> Tuah
 Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang
 Puteri Gunung Ledang (film)
 Puteri Gunong Ledang (film)
 Puteri Gunung Ledang (musical)

References

Further reading
 Richard O. Winstedt, A History of Malaya. History of Malacca
Malay culture
Malaysian warriors
People from Malacca
Year of birth missing
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title: P. S. Veeraraghavan

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<mask> (; born 24 December 1948) is a well known space scientist and rocket technologist of India. He has served as the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and as the Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram. One of the most senior scientists at Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Veeraraghavan is known for his contributions to launch vehicle technology, especially in the areas of integration & checkout and Inertial Systems of ISROs launch vehicles. Presently, he is holding the honorary position of Prof. <mask>i Distinguished Professor in VSSC, ISRO since January 2013. Education and career
Veeraraghavan studied in Gopalapuram Boys High School, Chennai. After receiving his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy in 1969, he joined the Master's Programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and received his M.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Instrumentation in 1971.He started his career in Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation in 1971. His first assignment was as Engineer-in-Charge of Checkout System development in the SLV-3 (Satellite Launch Vehicle) Project under the leadership of former ISRO scientist & former President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He was responsible for the design and development of the Checkout system for the first SLV-3 Project. <mask>van has taken training in CNES, France, in Diamante Launching in 1971-72 and visited major space centres in Japan, U.S.A and France in 1984. At VSSC, he has been the Deputy Director, Mechanisms and Vehicle Integration and Testing (MVIT) and was responsible for integration, check-out and launch of

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title: P. S. Veeraraghavan

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 ISRO Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicles (ASLV), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicles (GSLV), and Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV). In 2002, he took over as Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) at Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram. At IISU he led the teams that developed sensor systems for launch vehicles and satellites.These inertial navigation systems guide the rockets in their trajectory, thus helping them to put the satellites in precise orbits. In 2009, <mask> took over as Director of VSSC from K. Radhakrishnan who has been appointed Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation. Positions held

Shri P. S. Veeraraghavan joined Indian Space Research Programme in 1971 in the erstwhile SLV-3 Project. He served in the following capacities prior to assuming charge as Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India:-

 Engineer-in-Charge, Checkout System Development, SLV-3 (1971–1982)
 Deputy Project Director, Electrical Integration and Checkout System (1982–1988)
 Head, Launch Vehicle Integration & Checkout Division, PSLV Project (1988–1993)
 Group Director, Launch Vehicle Integration & Checkout Group (1993–1999)
 Deputy Director, Mechanisms, Vehicle Integration & Testing Entity, VSSC (1999–2002)
 Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit, IISU, Thiruvananthapuram (2002–2009)
 Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (November 2009-December 2012)
 Prof. Vikram <mask>i Distinguished Professor (January 2013 onwards)

<mask>van has made pioneering contributions to ISRO's Launch Vehicle Programmes. As Deputy Director of VSSC - Mechanisms and Vehicle Integration Testing (MVIT) he was responsible for Assembly, Integration and Checkout of ISRO's launch vehicles,

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texts: PSLV and GSLV till June, 2002. In 2002, he took over as Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram. At IISU, he was responsible for the development of Inertial System for both Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft.These inertial navigation systems guide the rockets through their trajectory to put the satellite in precise orbits. The performance of these inertial navigation systems has been at par with those of other space fairing nations like Europe and the United States of America with excellent orbit injection accuracy. The inertial navigation systems supplied by IISU for PSLV-C11 / Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the moon, have given very good orbital accuracy and contributed to precise orbital manoeuvres and very accurate lunar injection. Under his able leadership, IISU has developed a number of advanced inertial sensors and systems and now achieved 100% self-reliance in the crucial technology of inertial sensors and systems. In 2009, Dr <mask> took over as Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre - VSSC from <mask>van, who has been appointed as Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation. Under his able leadership, VSSC made sparkling successes through 6 missions of PSLV namely PSLV C15/CARTOSAT 2B, PSLV C16/ RESOURCESAT, PSLV C17/GSAT12, PSLC18/MEGHAPROPIQUES, PSLV C19/RISAT1 and PSLV C21/SPOT6 and two missions of GSLV including the first test flight of indigenous Cryogenic stage. During his period, several major facilities of international class were established in VSSC like 1m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, 6MW Plasma Wind Tunnel & Shock tunnel, 25Ton vibration shaker facility, 220Terra Flops super computing facility, etc.He also masterminded the development of various

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 critical technologies and systems for the advanced missions of ISRO like Air Breathing Propulsion Project and Reusable Launch Vehicle Project. Honors and awards

<mask> <mask> is a recipient of prestigious VASVIK Award (Electronics) in 1997. He is also the recipient of the ASI Award of Astronautical Society of India. The 2002 ASI award was in recognition of his contribution to rocket and related technologies. He has also received ISRO's Performance Excellence Award for 2007 and the National Aeronautical Prize by Aeronautical Society of India for the year 2011. Fellowships/memberships
Fellow, Aeronautical Society of India
Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering
Member, Astronautical Society of India
Member, Indian National Society for Aerospace & Related Mechanisms. Publications
He has guided in publishing more than 1000 technical documents and around 100 technical papers for projects PSLV, GSLV, RSR, SRE, etc.and the various satellite projects of ISRO. References

External links
ISRO Press Release
'Improve quality of engg education'

Tamil scientists
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title: Merneptah

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<mask> or Merenptah (reigned July or August 1213 BC – May 2, 1203 BC) was the fourth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled Egypt for almost ten years, from late July or early August 1213 BC until his death on May 2, 1203 BC, according to contemporary historical records. He was the thirteenth son of Ramesses II, only coming to power because all his older brothers had died, including his full brother Khaemwaset or Khaemwase. By the time he ascended to the throne, he was probably around seventy years old. He is perhaps best known for his victory stele, featuring the first known mention of the name Israel. His throne name was Ba-en-re Mery-netjeru, which means "The Soul of Ra, Beloved of the Gods". Family
Merneptah was likely the fourth child born to Isetnofret I and Ramesses II.He was Ramesses II's thirteenth son. He married Isetnofret II, who was likely his full sister or niece, and she would be his Great Royal Wife when he became pharaoh. They had at least two sons, Merenptah and Seti, and a daughter, Twosret. When Seti became pharaoh, Twosret was his Great Royal Wife; she would eventually become pharaoh in her own right. Takhat, the mother of Amenmesse, may have been a secondary queen. Prior to accession
Ramesses II lived well into his nineties and was one of the oldest pharaohs in Egyptian history, if not the oldest. Ramesses outlived many of his heirs and eventually Merneptah would be the son to succeed him.Merneptah would have been prepared to be pharaoh through the responsibility of his government roles. By Year 40, Merneptah had been promoted to Overseer of the Army. In Year 55, he was officially proclaimed crown prince. At that point, he gained additional responsibilities by serving as Prince Regent for the last twelve years of Ramesses II's life.


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 dependents, and ran for their lives. Merneptah states that he defeated the invasion, killing 6,000 soldiers and taking 9,000 prisoners. To be sure of the numbers, among other things, he took the penises of all uncircumcised enemy dead and the hands of all the circumcised, from which history learns that the Ekwesh were circumcised, a fact causing some to doubt that they were Greek. There is also an account of the same events in the form of a poem from the Merneptah Stele, widely known as the Israel Stele, which makes reference to the supposed utter destruction of Israel in a campaign prior to his fifth year, in Canaan: "Israel has been wiped out...its seed is no more." This is the first recognised ancient Egyptian record of the existence of Israel--"not as a country or city, but as a tribe" or people. Succession

Merneptah was already an elderly man in his late 60s, if not early 70s, when he assumed the throne. Merneptah moved the administrative center of Egypt from Piramesse (Pi-Ramesses), his father's capital, back to Memphis, where he constructed a royal palace next to the temple of Ptah.This palace was excavated in 1915 by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, led by Clarence Stanley Fisher. <mask>'s successor, Seti II, was a son of Queen Isetnofret. However, Seti II's accession to the throne was not unchallenged: a rival king named Amenmesse, who was either another son of Merneptah by Takhat or, much less likely, of Ramesses II, seized control of Upper Egypt and Kush during the middle of the reign of Seti II. Only after he overcame Amenmesse, was Seti able to reassert his authority over Thebes in his fifth year. It is possible that before seizing Upper Egypt, Amenmesse had been known as Messuy and had been viceroy of Kush. Mummy

Merneptah suffered from arthritis and atherosclerosis and


title: Antoine-Félix Bouré

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Antoine-<mask> (8 July 1831 – 8 April 1883), known in his own time as <mask> but sometimes found in modern scholarship as <mask>, was a Belgian sculptor, best known for his monumental lions. Life and career
<mask> was born in Brussels as the Belgian war of independence was drawing to a close. He studied locally first under Guillaume Geefs and then from 1846 to 1852 under Eugène Simonis at the Royal Academy for Fine Art, going abroad to complete his training at the Academy of Fine Arts at Florence. In his studies, he followed the same course as his older brother, <mask>. Paul died in his mid-twenties when Antoine-Félix was only 17. Bouré was among the artists whose work was exhibited at the Musée Bovie, a grand maison built by the painter Virginie Bovie on the Rue de Trône, Brussels. In 1868, he was one of sixteen co-founders of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, an avant-garde society that provided exhibition space alternative to that of the official Salon in Belgium.The manifesto of the society espoused the Realist principle of "free and individual interpretation of nature" along with avant-gardist ideals of "struggle, change, freedom, progress, originality and tolerance" that were inspired by Courbet and Baudelaire. "Modernity" and "sincerity" were keywords. By 1875 the Salon had come to accept and then coopt the Realist program, at which time the society disbanded. <mask> was a friend of Auguste Rodin, who worked on a number of projects in Brussels throughout the 1870s. In 1877, <mask> was one of two Belgian sculptors who offered

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 testimony on behalf of the 36-year-old Rodin during a controversy over The Vanquished, a life-sized male nude modeled after a Belgian soldier that was later retitled The Age of Bronze. Rodin had been accused of assembling the work from plaster casts rather than modeling it from life; Bouré confirmed Rodin's work methods from his own observations in the studio. Bouré's sculptures were considered remarkable for their combination of grace and power.The critic Camille Lemonnier, a fellow member of the Sociéte Libre, praised him for "sincerity", one of the ideals prized by their group. <mask> showed work at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in the years 1867 and 1878, and at numerous salons in Belgium and abroad. He earned medals at exhibitions in Brussels, Paris, and Philadelphia. Bouré was awarded the Order of Leopold, either as a chevalier (knight) or officier. He died at Ixelles in 1883 in what was marked as the prime of his life, and was buried next to his brother. In L'Art moderne, he was eulogized jointly with the octogenarian Geefs to the detriment of his former teacher, whom the anonymous writer accused of "inundating the country with pathetic vulgarities": <mask>) in Ixelles is named for him.Animalier

<mask>'s reputation rests primarily on his large sculptural lions, characterized by their athletic musculature and majestic air. The most famous of these is the colossal lion that sits atop the Gileppe Dam "like a cat on a garden wall." The Gileppe lion stands 13.5 meters tall (around 44 feet). Weighing 130 tonnes, it was

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 constructed from 183 blocks of sandstone brought to the site by horse-drawn carts. <mask> also sculpted the colossal lion in bronzed zinc at the Leopold Gate in Brussels; the pair at the entrance to the Palais de Justice in Charleroi, known as Totor et Tutur; and other lions throughout Brussels, including those in the garden of the Palais des Académies and four along the Rue Royale. Some of his lions were produced in tabletop versions. <mask>'s interest in leonine subject matter places him in company with les animaliers, the 19th-century French sculptors led by Antoine-Louis Barye who made animals the focus of their work rather than relegating them to the background.Along with the sculptor Léon Mignon (1847–1898) and Jacques de Lalaing (1858–1917), Bouré helped establish a distinctively Belgian tradition of animal art, to which the flourishing Antwerp Zoo contributed inspiration. The Lizard

The other work for which Bouré is most noted shows a strikingly different side of the artist. The white marble Le lézard or L'enfant au lezard, not quite 4 feet long and about 2 feet high (overall 61.5 by 118.5 by 39 cm), depicts a nude boy lying on his stomach, ankles crossed, resting on his left elbow with his right hand cocked inquisitively as he directs his absorbed gaze down at a small lizard. Bouré created this délicieux morceau during the period 1872–1874. It was praised for its fine modeling and lifelike expression, its charm and grace of attitude, and the "rare suppleness of its lines." Le lézard was not uniformly admired. One critic

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title: Ronan Rafferty

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<mask> (born 13 January 1964) is a Northern Irish professional golfer who formerly played on the European Tour. Early life
<mask> was born in Newry, Northern Ireland. He won the Boys Amateur Championship aged 15, qualified for the Open Championship at age 16, and played in the 1981 Walker Cup aged 17. He tied for first place with Peter McEvoy in the 1980 English Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy. According to Rafferty, as an amateur he and future pro Philip Walton had the best handicaps in the country. Professional career
Rafferty was briefly one of the best professional golfers in Europe. Between 1987 and 1993, he won 12 official tournaments around the world: five in Australia, seven in Europe.He led the 1989 European Tour Order of Merit and qualified for the 1989 Ryder Cup team. By the early 1990s, he came close to breaking the then-record for consecutive cuts made on the European Tour. He also spent over 100 weeks ranking inside the top 25 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1989 and 1993. <mask> joined the European Tour in 1982. He first year was solid (if unremarkable) with one top ten and 48th ranking on the Order of Merit. His second season, in 1983, inaugurated an excellent stretch that lasted throughout the 1980s. In eight straight seasons, he finished in the top 30 of the Order of Merit and recorded at least six top-10s per year.He struggled at coming through down the stretch, however. He recorded an astonishing 62 top-10s before his first European Tour victory. This included a playoff loss to compatriot David Feherty at the 1986 Lancia Italian Open. He had better luck winning down under, however, recording two wins on the 1987 Australasian Tour. The second victory was at the New Zealand Open where he defeated defending PGA Championship winner Larry Nelson in a playoff. He was the first European to win New Zealand's

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title: Ronan Rafferty

texts: national open since the 1920s. He also won the 1988 Australian Match Play Championship, defeating Australian Mike Clayton in the finals.After knocking on the door for years, <mask> would finally win in Europe in 1989. He avenged his 1986 playoff loss at the Italian Open with a one stroke win over Sam Torrance. This would be <mask>'s best season, as he would win an additional two events and record a 15 top-10 finishes. At the end of the year he won the Volvo Masters, the most prestigious win of his career, defeating Nick Faldo by one shot. He would go on to win the European Tour Order of Merit. He would also finish atop the 1989 Ryder Cup standings and play in his only Ryder Cup that year at The Belfry. Although Rafferty did not play great (he lost both team matches he played) he won his singles match against defending Open Championship winner Mark Calcavecchia on the 18th hole for a 1up win.This tight win proved indispensable as the European team struggled on the last day and only barely retained the cup with a 14–14 tie. In 1990 was another great season for <mask>. He won the Coca-Cola Classic, PLM Open, and Ebel European Masters Swiss Open, recorded two runner-ups, and had 12 top-10s in 30 official tour events. His excellent play earned him a special foreign invitation to play the Masters for the first time. In the spring he reached his career peak of #16 in the Official World Golf Ranking after a tie for 6th at the Belgian Open. He also qualified for the U.S. Open and PGA Championship; he was the first Irish pro to play in the U.S. Open since the 1940s. The remainder of the early 1990s would see Rafferty vacillate between brief stretches of greatness and longer stretches of mediocrity.Although he recorded six official top-10s, including a distant runner-up finish at the European Pro-Celebrity pro-am, 1991 was a bit of a letdown. For the first time in five years,

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title: Ronan Rafferty

texts: <mask> did not win an official international event. He missed a European Tour cut for the first time in years at the Spanish Open. His play at the majors was especially weak. He missed the cut at the Masters, abruptly withdrew from the U.S. Open in the middle of the second round, and failed to qualify for the Open Championship for the first time since the beginning of his career. His withdrawal from the U.S. Open was particularly contentious and he was fined by the European Tour. By the end of season he was in danger of leaving the top 50 in the world rankings.The beginning of the 1992 season suddenly saw <mask> go on perhaps the hottest stretch of his career. He finished no worse than second place in five consecutive worldwide events: a victory at the Daikyo Palm Meadows Cup for his final win in Australia; a tie for second at the European-sanctioned Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok, Thailand; a playoff loss to Seve Ballesteros at the Dubai Desert Classic; a runner-up to American legend Tom Watson at the Hong Kong Open; and finally a victory at the Portuguese Open. His world ranking would peak again at #16 after his win in Portugal. The culmination of this period also marked the beginning of a slow decline that would persist to the end of his career. In the heart of the season, playing in more challenging European and American events, Rafferty could not keep up, missing the cut in most of the events he played and, when he made the cut, usually finishing near the bottom. 1993 marked a brief return to form. After recording some high finishes in minor European and South African events in late 1992/early 1993, Rafferty recorded a number of top-10s in the middle of the 1993 European season.This would culminate with a victory at the 1993 Hohe Brucke Austrian Open. <mask> would finish the season ranked inside the global top 50. The 1994 season, however, would mark the


title: Ronan Rafferty

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 beginning of the end of his career as a touring professional. His victory in Austria would be his last. He recorded only two top-10s in 26 European events and failed to finish in the top 50 of the Order of Merit for the first time. Rafferty maintained full-time status for three more years and recorded a spate of top 10s but could come close to matching his 1980s heyday. In 1997 broken bones in his left hand severely affected his play.After the 1997 season, he failed to enter the top 100 of the Order of Merit again. He would retire as a touring professional after the 2003 season. Personal life
<mask> is married to Claire and has two adult children, Jonathan and Emma. Though from Northern Ireland, he now lives in Ascot, England. In 1987, while playing on the Australasian Tour during the European Tour offseason, he lived with the family of Australian pro Ian Baker-Finch. During this time, Rafferty became a connoisseur of Australian wine. He remains a noted wine collector.Rafferty now plays few tournaments, and is involved in broadcasting, where he works as a commentator and analyst, and golf course design. He regularly appeared on Setanta golf's coverage. Legacy
<mask> is known for prefiguring the rise of professional golf Northern Ireland. He and David Feherty were the first Northern Irish golfers to win consistently on the European Tour. Shortly after they retired golfers like Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, and Darren Clarke would go onto greater success, winning major championships. Although never a household name, Rafferty was one of the best European golfers during the 1980s and early 1990s. He won 12 official worldwide tour events between 1987 and 1993.By comparison, Nick Faldo, the best European golfer of that era, won 17 tour events during that timespan. Paul Azinger, the most victorious American golfer during that timespan, won only one more event than <mask>


title: Gabriel de Vallseca

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<mask>, also referred to as <mask> and <mask> and <mask> (before 1408 - after 1467) was an Aragonese cartographer of Jewish descent connected to the Majorcan cartographic school. His most notable map is the portolan of 1439, containing the first depiction of the recently discovered Azores islands. Life
<mask> was born in Barcelona to a family of Jewish conversos. He is sometimes said to be the son of Haym ibn Risch (of the Cresques family), who, upon conversion, took the name <mask>. Alternatively, he had Majorcan relatives through his mother or his wife. By 1433, <mask> had left Barcelona and was living in Palma, Majorca, where he soon made a name for himself as a master cartographer, instrument-maker and merchant. He lived in the parish of Santa Creu, in the marine and commercial district of the city.He married Floreta Miró and had two sons, Francesc and Joan, both of whom later had run-ins with the Spanish Inquisition for "judaizing", which suggests their father <mask> may also have been a crypto-Jew. <mask> wrote out his last will in the city of Majorca in 1467 and died shortly after. Works

There are three existing portolan charts signed by <mask>

 Map of 1439, at the Museu Marítim de Barcelona (inv. 3236) - partial mappa mundi
 Map of 1447, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France  (Rés. Ge. C4607)  - Mediterranean only
 Map of 1449 at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (CN 22) - Mediterranean only

There are also two anonymous maps attributed to him:

 Undated map (est.1440) at

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title: Gabriel de Vallseca

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 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (portolà 16) -  partial mappa mundi
 Undated map (est. 1447) at Bibliothèque nationale de France (Rés.Ge. D 3005) - fragments of the eastern Mediterranean

Although his style conforms to the traditional Majorcan cartographic school, <mask> incorporated some more contemporary innovations in cartography from Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, most notably from Francesco Beccario (e.g. the homogenization of the scale between the Mediterranean and Atlantic). <mask> <mask>'s charts retain some signature Majorcan decorative motifs, such as the wind rose, miniature humans, animals and plants, the Atlas Mountains shaped as a palm, the Alps as a chicken's foot, Bohemia as a horseshoe, the Danube as a chain, the Tagus as a shepherd's crook, the Red Sea colored red, and scattered notes and labels in the Catalan language. 1439 Map

Vallseca's most famous map is the portolan of 1439, particularly for incorporating the very recent discoveries of the captains of the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator. Its depiction of the Atlantic Ocean stretches from Scandinavia down to the Rio de Oro and including the Atlantic islands of the Azores, Madeira and Canaries, as well as the imaginary islands of Thule, Brazil and Mam. The most notable is the depiction of the islands of the Azores (officially discovered in 1431 by Henry's captain Gonçalo Velho Cabral), which although incorrectly spaced, are accurately depicted for the first time as strung out from southeast to

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 northwest.The 1439 map is signed <mask>l de Valsequa la feta en Malorcha, any MCCC.XXX.VIIII. According to a marginal note on the reverse side, this map was once owned by Amerigo Vespucci, who paid 80 gold ducats for it. (Questa ampia pella di geographia fue pagata da Amerigo Vespuci - LXXX ducati di oro di marco). It is conjectured Vespucci probably acquired it in Florence in the 1480s, and that he might have even have taken it on his 1497-1504 voyages to the New World. The 1439 Vallseca map was acquired in Florence by the Cardinal Antonio Despuig y Dameto sometime before 1785, and subsequently came into the possession of his heirs, the Majorcan Counts of Montenegro. The map suffered an accident in the winter of 1838/39, when the Count of Montenegro was in the process of showing it to his visitors, Frédéric Chopin and George Sand. A carelessly-placed inkwell tipped onto the map, causing irreparable blots and marring the legibility of some of the labels on the western part of the map.Most notably, the inkwell accident damaged Vallseca's crucial note pertaining to the discovery of the Azores. The current note reads as follows:

The surname and part of the date are smudged. The earliest reading we have of this portion of the map is by a Majorcan named Pasqual in 1789 who jotted the surname down as "Guullen". It has since been read as <mask> Senill ('the Old' - a hopeful reading in the direction of Gonçalo Velho) and <mask>vill or de Sunis, Survis, Sinus, Simis, Sines. The date has been

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 alternatively interpreted
MCCCCXXVII (1427) or MCCCCXXXII (1432) or MCCCCXXXVII (1437). In 1943, historian Damião Peres proposed Diogo <mask> and the date as 1427, which is now commonly cited in Portuguese sources. Vallseca names eight or nine islands of the Azores, which have been hard to read because of the ink accident.One 1841 reading (by the Visconde <mask>) identifies the names of the eight islands as Ylla de Osels (Ucello, Santa Maria), Ylla de Frydols (São Miguel), Ylla de l'Inferno (Terceira), Guatrilla (São Jorge), <mask>perta (Pico), Ylla de ....? (erased, Faial?) and (although not yet officially discovered) the more westerly Ylla de Corp-Marinos (Corvo) and Conigi (Flores) (these last two would only be officially discovered by Diogo <mask> in 1452; Vallseca apparently lifted these last two from the Catalan Atlas of 1375). Other readings decipher "deserta" (rather than de Sperta), "jlla bela" (instead of Guatrilla), illa aucells or jlha aurolls (instead of Osels/Uccello), faucols (instead of Frydols) and raio marnos or vegis marins (instead of Corp-Marinos). In 1910, the Count of Montenegro put the 1439 map up for sale. It was bought by the Catalan Pere Bosc i Oliver, who proceeded to sell it to the Institute of Catalan Studies, which deposited it at the National Library of Catalonia in Barcelona in 1917. It was transferred in 1960 to the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, where it is currently on display.There is one reproduction of the map, made in 1892 for an exhibition on the  4th

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title: Gabriel de Vallseca

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 centenary of Columbus in Spain, that is currently in the possession of the Naval Museum of Madrid. References

Sources

 C.R. Beazley and E. Prestage, editors (1896–99) The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, London: Hakluyt, v.1, v.2
 Cortesão, Armando (1954) A Carta Nautica de 1424, as reprinted in 1975, Esparsos, Coimbra. vol. 3
 D'Avezac, M.A.P. Marquis (1845) Notice des découvertes faites au môyen-age dans l'Océan Atlantique, antérieurement aux grandes explorations portugaises du quinzième siècle, Paris: Fain et Thunot online
 Jordão de Freitas (1937) "As ilhas do arquipélago dos Açores na história da expansão portuguesa", in A. Baião, H. Cidade and M. Múrias, editors, História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo, 3 vols. ; Lisbon, 1937, vol.1, pp. 291ff. Ginard Bujosa, Antoni (2002) La cartografia mallorquina a Mallorca. Barcelona: JJ. De Olañeta Editor. .
 Mees, Jules (1901) Histoire de la découverte des îles Açores, et de l'origine de leur dénomination d'îles flamandes. Ghent: Vuylsteke. online
 Novinsky, A.W.(1990) "Papel dos Judeus nos Grandes Descobrimentos", in Revista Brasileira de História. São Paulo, vol. 11 (21), Sep, pp. 65–76. <mask> <mask> (1841) Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné.... pelo Chronista Gomes Eannes <mask>a' "Vallseca, <mask>" in Miquel Dolç, editor, Gran Enciclopèdia de Mallorca'', vol. 18, Palma: Promomallorca. .

Majorcan cartographers
Atlases
History of the Balearic Islands
Spanish Roman Catholics
15th-century Catalan

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title: Luis Horna

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<mask> (; born 14 September 1980, in Lima) is a former tour professional tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Known by his nickname "Lucho", he won 2 career singles titles, reached the quarterfinals of the 2004 Madrid Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 33 in August 2004. Together with Pablo Cuevas, <mask> also won the men's doubles at the 2008 French Open. At the 2003 French Open, he defeated Roger Federer in the first round. Career

Juniors
<mask> was an outstanding junior player, reaching as high as No. 4 in the world in singles 1997 (and No.3 in doubles). He made the final of the boys singles at the French Open in 1997 losing to Daniel Elsner. <mask> won the French Open and Wimbledon doubles with José de Armas and Nicolás Massú respectively. 1998–2001
<mask> turned professional in 1998 and he moved up over 1,000 places in the rankings with victories in the Ecuadorian, where he defeated Sergio Roitman as a qualifier and three Futures events in Peru and in 1999 made his first ATP Challenger final in Aschaffenburg. In 2000 he was finalist in Salinas and again in Aschaffenburg and it was not until 2001 that <mask> was able to get his first win on the ATP tour in Umag defeating Martin Damm. He also made another Challenger final in Curitiba losing to Flávio Saretta. 2002–2004
2002 was a successful year for <mask> when he became the first Peruvian since Jaime Yzaga to finish in the top 100 in the end of season rankings, who finished 34th in 1994.This was achieved through winning three Challenger titles in Zagreb, Fürth, and Weiden defeating Dominik Hrbatý, Jürgen Melzer and Zeljko Krajan respectively and finalist in the São Paulo Challenger losing to Franco Squillari. <mask> made his debut in the four Grand Slam events in 2003. At the French Open, <mask> defeated Roger Federer who was the fifth pre-tournament favourite and was the last time that Federer lost in the

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Horna
Horna
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title: Luis Horna

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 first round of a Grand Slam event. At the time <mask> said after the victory that it was "the best feeling I have had in my whole life". <mask> lost his second round match after having a match point against eventual finalist Martin Verkerk. He won another Challenger title in Seville and was a three time semi finalist in Amersfoort, Sopot and Palermo. In 2004, <mask> reached his career-high ranking of World No.33, which was achieved on 30 August. <mask> won the Bermuda Challenger over Martín Vassallo Argüello and made his first ATP final in Long Island losing to Lleyton Hewitt. <mask> also made three semi finals at the Brasil Open, Houston and Munich. <mask> finished inside the top 50 at the end of the year equalling the same feat by Jaime Yzaga. 2005–2006
2005 was not as successful for <mask> and his singles ranking slipped to outside the top 50. He won his first doubles title with Argentine Martín García in Amersfoort and achieved his best ever performance at the French Open making the third round and defeating the seeded Tim Henman in the second round before losing to Victor Hănescu. Despite <mask> winning his first ever ATP singles title defeating Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 7–6(5), 6–4 in Acapulco.After winning the title he said "Acapulco will stay in my heart. I've had an unbelievable experience here,". "It's like being at home". As well as reaching the third round of the Australian Open for the first time defeating Gaël Monfils before losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu and winning his second doubles title with Martín García in Palermo. Horna finished 2006 ranked outside the top 50 and had various injury problems relating to his arm and shoulder which affected his final end-of-year ranking. 2007
Horna had an unfortunate start to 2007 by losing his first round match at the Australian Open to doubles' specialist Max Mirnyi, after being frustrated by the umpire's refusal to eject an abusive heckler in the

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title: Luis Horna

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 fifth set. His concentration was disturbed by the calls of "Well done, Beast" (Max Mirnyi's nickname) and "C'mon, roadkill".In February of that year he won his second ATP singles title, defeating Nicolás Massú for the only time in 7 matches 7–5, 6–3 in Viña del Mar, Chile, without losing a set in the tournament. In September, <mask> and Iván Miranda took the Peruvian team of Davis Cup to the World Group for the first time by beating Belarus in Lima 4–1. 2008
While <mask> has only made one semi final in 2008 in Acapulco, he has won 3 doubles titles in Auckland with Juan Mónaco, in Buenos Aires with Agustín Calleri and the 2008 French Open with the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. The 2008 Australian Open started an unusual sequence for <mask>, in which he played against his sometime doubles partner and friend Agustín Calleri in his first four tournaments of the year in addition to the Australian Open, the others were Viña del Mar, Buenos Aires and Acapulco. This sequence was broken by <mask>'s elbow injury that caused him to withdraw from Costa do Sauipe. The highlight of 2008 was the unexpected win in the 2008 French Open men's doubles crown, partnering Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas, the duo became the first all-South American doubles team to win a Grand Slam title. It was a surprise that Cuevas said "We were not expecting to go that far."<mask> and Cuevas were unseeded and defeated four seeded teams starting with Michaël Llodra and Arnaud Clément in the first round, Leander Paes and Lukáš Dlouhý in the third round. In the quarter finals they defeated the No. 1 ranked team Bob and Mike Bryan and in the final defeated the No. 2 seeded team of Nenad Zimonjić and Daniel Nestor. The trophy was presented by Andrés Gómez <mask> said that "Gomez has been like an idol for us Peruvians,". "To have a trophy from him is, I think, one of the important moments in my professional career." While having doubles success, <mask> struggled in

masks: Horna Horna Horna Horna Horna Horna Horna


title: Luis Horna

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 his singles and finished outside the top 100 since 2001.He won the Lugano Challenger without losing a set defeating Nicolas Devilder in the final. <mask> and Cuevas by virtue of winning Roland Garros had qualified for the Tennis Masters Cup doubles where they made the semi finals losing to Nenad Zimonjić and Daniel Nestor, by finishing second in their round robin group behind Bob and Mike Bryan. <mask> became the first player from Peru to win a Grand Slam title in the professional era. The Peruvian Alejandro Olmedo won two before the Open era, Wimbledon and Melbourne (Australian Open) in 1959 but representing the United States. 2009 was <mask>'s last season on tour, and played his final tournament at Lima Challenger, where he lost in the second round to Chilean Jorge Aguilar. Playing style
<mask> plays right-handed, he has a strong serve for a relatively short player and the forehand is his best stroke. He uses a single-handed backhand and his favourite surface is clay.Miscellaneous
 He previously shared coach Francisco Mastelli with Juan Mónaco and Mastelli was the former coach of current Argentine Davis cup captain Alberto Mancini. <mask> is currently the Peruvian Davis Cup captain. Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 15 (10–5)

Doubles: 16 (7–9)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

References

External links

 Horna World Ranking History

1980 births
Living people
French Open champions
French Open junior champions
Olympic tennis players of Peru
Sportspeople from Lima
Peruvian male tennis players
Peruvian people of Italian descent
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys'

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title: Yun Doo-su

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<mask> (; 1533–1601) was a Korean scholar-official of the Joseon Kingdom. Politician, Poet, Writer, and scholar, he was a follower of Yi Hwang school among Westerners (Hangul: 서인, Korean: Seoin). Among many other official positions, he served as Chief State Councillor during the reign of King Seonjo. His pen name was Oheum (오음, 梧陰), courtesy name was Jaang (자앙, 子仰). Early Life

Birth and Family
<mask> was born in 1533 at Hansung. His father was <mask> (윤변, 尹忭; 1493–1549), who was government official. There were half brothers <mask>-soo and <mask>-soo, who are about 20 years older than Yoon Doo-su, and <mask>, his younger brother, below them.His father was taught by Yu Woon and Jo Gwangjo. When the third literati purge of 1519 took place and Jo Gwangjo was imprisoned, he pleaded not guilty, and for this reason, he was called a partisan of Kimyo and rejected. His younger brother <mask>-su was also a major politician during reign of King Seonjo and Gwanghaegun. His family origin is from Haepyeong <mask> clan and his family progenitor was <mask>-jeong (윤군정, 尹君正) who served as Pan-gongbusa (Chairman of supreme government office) of Goryeo dynasty during era of Gojong of Goryeo and Wonjong (원종, 元宗, 1219–1274). Education
In 1549, he lost his father at the age of 17 but devoted himself to his studies under Yi Jung-ho. In 1552, he studied under the

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 leadership of Seong Su-chim. At this time, he met Seong Hon and became a lifelong friend, and due to this influence, He chose the Westerners when the Bungdang was formed later.After entering the government office, he visited Yi Hwang in Andong, and became his pupil. Career

Myeongjong era (1558–1567)
<mask>-su was the first-rank passer of the Classics Licentiate Examination (생원시) at the age of 23 in 1555, and in 1558, he passed the regular triennial civil service examination (식년문과) as a seventh place and worked at the Office of Diplomatic Correspondence (승문원). Afterwards, he went through the Editorial Examiners of the Office of Royal Decrees (예문관검열), the proofreader (정자) and first copyist (저작) of the Office of Special Advisors (홍문관), and became Assistant Section Chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs (병조좌랑) in 1561, Assistant Section Chief of the Ministry of Personnel (이조좌랑) in 1562. In 1563, when <mask>-su was as Section Chief of the Ministry of Personnel, Yi Yang, then an authority having person, recommended his son Yi Jeong-bin and his friend Yu Young-gil to the ministries to expand his power. <mask>-su opposed this with Bak So-rip and Yi Hu-baek and was impeached by the Office of the Inspector General in July and lost his government post. Later, Yi Yang had been dismissed and <mask>-su was found not guilty by the intercourse of Chief

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title: Yun Doo-su

texts: State Councilor <mask>-hyung and Right State Councilor Sim Tong-won and appointed to the position of sixth counselor (수찬) and promoted to the Section Chief of the Ministry of Personnel (이조정랑) later. <mask>-su was in charge of the editorial clerks (검상) and First Secretary (사인) in State Council (의정부), went back and forth between the Office of the Inspector General and Sungkyunkwan, and then moved to the Office the Royal Stables (사복시).In 1565, he worked as the directorate of the Royal royal coffin hall (빈전도청) as assistant responding editor of the Office of Special Advisors (홍문관부응교) at the mourning of Queen Munjeong. After the work was over, he was raised to the Grand Master of Comprehensive Governance (통정대부) and also appointed as the head of the Five Guards (오위장). In January 1566, he was appointed as the Sixth Royal Secretary (동부승지) and was promoted to the Right Assistant Royal Secretary (우부승지). In August 1566, he was selected as the Left Assistant Royal Secretary (좌부승지). In 1567, when King Myeongjong was in critical condition, he was in Royal Secretariat as the Right Royal Secretary (우승지) and sent it to Prime Minister Yi Jun-kyeong writing a testament citing the past and saying, "Wen Yanbo of Song Dynasty came into the palace and slept." Upon receiving this, Yi Jun-kyeong soon slept in a place where he was on duty, and he was able to receive

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 the order left at the time of death of Myeongjong that night. In doing so, <mask>o-su stabilized the situation considered unstable and suspected that the king did not have a crown prince to die after.Seonjo era (1567–1601)
In the early days of King Seonjo's accession, the political situation was operated around two tasks: establishing a new political order led by Sarim and liquidating politics of kinship, by redressing a grievance and hiring those affected by fourth literati purge of 1545. In accordance with this stance, <mask>-su was appointed to the third minister of personnel (이조참의) through a Chief Censor (대사간) of the Office of Censors (사간원). <mask>-su was in charge of the supervision of gwageo in August 1574, and appointed to the assistant examiners (대독관) next month. In 1575, due to the conflict between Sim Ui-gyeom and Gim Hyo-won over the appointment of Section Chief of the Ministry of Personnel, Sarim was divided into the Easterners and the Westerners. At this time, <mask>-su participated in the Westerners. In July 1576, he was appointed as a Chief Censor, and his nephew <mask> was appointed as Assistant Section Chief of the Ministry of Personnel. <mask>-su and <mask>-su suppressed the Easterners while they were in key positions.<mask>-su, <mask>-su, and <mask> were called <mask> (삼윤), and the Easterners had a bad feeling about them.

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title: Yun Doo-su

texts: In the midst of this, a bribery case occurred by the magistrate of the Jindo County, and <mask> was involved in this case. Eventually, <mask>-su was dismissed due to the impeachment of the Office of Censors and Office of the Inspector General in March 1579. As Inspector General (대사헌) Gim Gye-hwi requested, Yoon Doo-soo was appointed again and became Magistrate of Yeonan Strategic Prefecture (연안도호부사). In the famine of 1580 to 1581, the people were helped to live by him, and there were about 1,000 people who came and ate from distant regions, and when a royal secret inspector (어사) reported this, King Seonjo especially gave him silk clothes. Later, he served as second magistrate of Hansung (한성좌윤) and Second Minister of Punishment (형조참판), and in 1587, when the Japanese invaded Jeolla Province, he was appointed as a governor of Jeolla province to reform the discipline of chiefs and leaders and punish criminals. In 1588, <mask>-su became second deputy directors of Privy Council (동지중추부사) in June and governor of Pyeongan Province (평안도관찰사) and magistrate of Pyongyang Magistracy (평안부윤) in autumn.When there was news that the leader of the barbarians was coming to the western border, <mask>-su strategically responded by reducing the number of soldiers belonging to the military and increasing the number of troops from four to six because they ran away

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title: Yun Doo-su

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 increased day by day. The following year, he taught the people around Yalu River how to plant cotton in Pyongyang. In 1590, he was established as Gwanggukgongsin and sealed to Haewongun due to the contribution of correcting the Joseon dynasty's genealogy. In August of that year, he resigned his original position and went up to the Minister of Punishments (형조판서) and became the Inspector General. A month later, he became a Fourth Superintendent of Privy Council (지중추부사). He became the Inspector General again in 1591. In March 1591, he became the Minister of Taxation, but in June, He had decided to support Prince Shinseong with Yi San-hae, but he supported Gwanghaegun in the Geonjeo issue, a partisan fight between the Easterners and the Westerners, so King Seonjo was angry and divested <mask>-su of his office and exiled him with his younger brother <mask>-su to Hoeryong.After that, He was transferred to Hongwon due to the continued impeachment of the Easterners. Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)

In March 1591, a letter sent by Toyotomi Hideyoshi through Joseon Tongsinsa said he would invade Ming dynasty, but unlike other subjects who insisted on hiding it from the Ming dynasty, he actively insisted on telling the Ming Dynasty the situation of Japan. In October 1591, when he was exiled to Hongwon, diplomatic envoys to Ming (진주사) returned

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texts: from Beijing. When they reported that the Wanli Emperor praised the situation of Japan in detail, the royal court tried to let him go of his exile for his contribution, but he was transferred to Haeju due to opposition from the Office of Censors and the Office of the Inspector General. On April 13, 1592, when Japan captured Dongnae following Busan, he was released on 23 April as king's special order. On April 28, it was reported that Sin Rip had been defeated in Chungju, so King Seonjo proposed royal flight from the palace and it was decided the next day. <mask>-su joined King Seonjo's departure to the west at the dawn of April 30 as an official holding sinecure post.Arriving in Kaesong on May 1, the procession of the royal carriage took <mask>-su as the captain of Office of the Directorate General (어영대장) on May 2 and sacrificed to Right State Councilor the next day. <mask>-su insisted on sending an address to Liaodong to announce the war, punishing those who did not come with king as court officials, and remaining in Kaesong and defending. However, when King Seonjo heard that Kyongsong had fallen, he wanted to leave Kaesong. <mask>-su requested that the royal carriage leaves early in the morning, but it was not accepted. Accordingly, <mask>-su sent the governor of Hwanghae to soothe people so that the procession could leave Kaesong safely.

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 The royal carriage left Kaesong on May 3 and arrived in Pyongyang on May 7. On May 9, he became Left State Councilor.On May 19, discussions took place on asking Ming for relief forces. <mask>-su objected to this for three reasons. First, Joseon's soldiers are guarding Imjin River and have enough troops. Second, it is not clear that the Ming government will send troops. Third, the military in Liaodong and Guangning have a ferocious nature and various villages in Pyongan Province will be devastated. However, as the situation became increasingly urgent, <mask>-su also agreed to the request for relief forces. He also insisted on protecting Pyongyang in discussions on whether to protect Pyongyang or move to another place.King Seonjo refused to accept this and asked to discuss the next destination, and <mask>-su recommended going to Uiju rather than Hamhung. The procession left for Uiju, and <mask>-su remained with Yi Won-ik to protect Pyongyang. Family
Parents and Siblings
Father: <mask>on (윤변, 尹忭) (1493 - 8 July 1549)
Step-mother - Lady Yi of the Jeonju Yi clan (전주 이씨)
Older step-brother - <mask>-su (윤담수, 尹聃壽)
Older step-brother - <mask>-su (윤춘수, 尹春壽) (1521 - ?) Older step-brother - <mask>-su (윤기수, 尹期壽)
Mother: Lady Hyeon of the Palgeo Hyeon clan (팔거 현씨, 八莒 玄氏) (? - 1544)
Older step-sister - Lady <mask> of the Haepyeong <mask> clan (해평

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title: Yun Doo-su

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Younger brother - <mask>-su (윤근수, 尹根壽) (1537 - 17 August 1616)
Wives and their children
Lady Hwang of the Changwon Hwang clan (창원 황씨, 昌原 黃氏) (? - 1591)
Son - <mask> (윤방, 尹昉) (22 June 1563 - August 1640)
Son - <mask>un (윤흔, 尹昕) (1564 - 17 December 1638)
Son - <mask>wi (윤휘, 尹暉) (1571 - 1644)
Son - <mask> (윤훤, 尹暄)
Unnamed concubine
Son - <mask> (윤간, 尹旰) (1573 - 12 February 1665)

Writings
 Oheum-yugo 《오음유고》 (梧陰遺稿)
 Gija-ji 《기자지》 (箕子誌)
 Seongin-rok 《성인록 成仁錄》
 Pyeongyang-ji 《평양지 平壤志》
 Yeonan-ji 《연안지 延安志》

As a scholar
As most intelligent mind of Neo-Confucian philosophy, he interacted with masters of Neo-Confucianism school, such as Seong Hon, Song Ik-pil, Yi I, and Yi Hwang. Most of his writings are written during the Japanese invasions of Korea.Popular culture
 Portrayed by Jung Dong-hwan in the 2004-2005 KBS1 TV series Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin. References

1533 births
1601 deaths
16th-century Korean poets
Korean Confucianists
16th-century Korean philosophers
Korean politicians
Korean scholars
Neo-Confucian

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title: Peter Viertel

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<mask> (16 November 1920 – 4 November 2007) was an author and screenwriter. Biography
<mask> was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress <mask> and the writer <mask>. In 1928, his parents moved to Santa Monica, California, where <mask> grew up with his brothers, Hans and Thomas. The home in Santa Monica Canyon was the site of salons and meetings of the Hollywood intelligentsia and the émigré community of European intellectuals, particularly at the Sunday night tea parties given by <mask>'s mother. However, Viertel identified more with Southern California youth culture than with the European millieu he was exposed to by his family. "The physical aspect of European intellectuals was so totally different from what an American kid wants to be," he told the International Herald Tribune in 1992. "I knew Bert Brecht was close to being a genius, but he was a funny-looking man to me."<mask> graduated from Dartmouth College in 1941. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a private, but after being assigned office work in California (in his memoirs he joked he was a "Remington Raider" in reference to the typewriters they used), he applied for officer training and eventually was accepted by the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA, where his recruiters were impressed that he had already published at 19 the  highly acclaimed novel The Canyon (1940), and had written a screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock, Saboteur (1942), as well as the script for The Hard Way (1943). His obvious high intelligence, native German language skills, good looks and athleticism were useful in Nazi-controlled Europe. He finished the war as a second lieutenant where he served with the Seventh United States Army in Southern France where he recruited

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title: Peter Viertel

texts: several female agents. Based on his experiences, <mask> wrote the play The Survivors with his friend Irwin Shaw. It premiered in New York City in 1948, and was turned into an episode for the US Studio One TV series in 1950, and a BBC television movie in 1957. Some of his war experiences found their way into the screenplay for Anatole Litvak's highly acclaimed movie Decision Before Dawn (1951).He found it difficult to turn his OSS experiences into a novel and struggled with it for several decades, and a draft was found after his death, but as of 2018 there has been no news of potential publication, nor of the second volume of his autobiography. <mask> was best known for his novel White Hunter Black Heart, which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.surinenglish.com/noticias.php?Noticia=10689|title=Sur in English': "<mask>tel author and screenwriter" May 31 2007|author=|date=|website=surinenglish.com|accessdate=15 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929064303/http://www.surinenglish.com/noticias.php?Noticia=10689|archive-date=29 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is a thinly-disguised account of Viertel's experiences working with film director John Huston while they were making The African Queen. The central character is scriptwriter Pete Verrill while the Huston character is called John Wilson. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote in 1999 that White Hunter was “still the best Hollywood novel I’ve ever come across — and it isn’t even set in Hollywood.”  <mask>'s opinion of the finished film was tempered by his idea that Huston himself would have preferred a portrayal with more sarcasm. <mask>'s looks and personality were an inspiration for Robert Redford's character Hubbell

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title: Peter Viertel

texts: Gardiner in The Way We Were. Of his screenwriting work for Hollywood productions, Viertel said that it was primarily a vehicle for income so that he could continue to write novels. Though he worked closely with movie professionals that he liked such as Billy Wilder and Huston, Viertel said there was always creative tension.Viertel is recognized for introducing surfing in Europe. In 1956, while on location in Biarritz for the filming of The Sun Also Rises, <mask> was so impressed by the waves that he sent for his surfboard from California and soon afterwards started Europe's first surf club. <mask> was twice married. His first wife was Virginia Ray "Jigee" Schulberg, the ex-wife of the novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg; she was pregnant with their only child, Christine, when Viertel abandoned her to live with the fashion model Simone Micheline "Bettina" Bodin. Varying sources show that <mask> and Jigee divorced in 1958, 1959, or were still separated but legally married upon her death in January 1960. Bettina left him for Prince Aly Khan in 1955, and was pregnant with Khan's child when he died in May 1960. <mask>'s second wife was the actress Deborah Kerr, marrying her on 23 July 1960.<mask> was widowed by Kerr on 16 October 2007, just 19 days before he died from lymphoma while living in Marbella, Spain; he was 12 days shy of his 87th birthday. Through Kerr he had two stepdaughters, Melanie and Francesca Bartley. A filmed documentary by director Michael Scheingraber was in production at the time of <mask>'s death. Titled <mask> – Between the Lines, the film is based upon over 400 minutes of recorded interviews with him. FilmsSaboteur (1942)The Hard Way (1943)The Search (Draft – uncredited) (1948)We Were Strangers (1949)Roughshod (Story)

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title: Peter Viertel

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 (1949)The Survivors (Studio One TV series episode) (Story) (1950) Decision Before Dawn (1951)The African Queen (Uncredited) (1951)Beat the Devil (Screenplay collaboration – uncredited) 1953The Village (1953)The Hard Way (Lux Video Theatre TV series episode) 1957The Survivors (TV movie) (with Irwin Shaw) 1957The Sun Also Rises (1957)The Night Heaven Fell (Uncredited) (1958)The Old Man and the Sea (1958)Five Miles to Midnight (1962)White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

BooksThe Canyon (1940)Line of Departure (1947)White Hunter Black Heart (1953)Love Lies Bleeding (1964)Bicycle on the Beach (1971)American Skin (1984)Dangerous Friends: At Large with Huston and Hemingway in the Fifties (1992)Loser Deals (1995)

Play
The Survivors, (with Irwin Shaw) New York, Playhouse Theatre, January 1948. Footnotes

References
"<mask>, 86, Author and Screenwriter, Is Dead", by Douglas Martin, The New York Times'', November 6, 2007

External links
Obituary by Ronald Bergan in The Guardian, 7 November 2007

Peter Viertel (fan-site) Images, letters, bio and other information

1920 births
2007 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American expatriates in Spain
American male dramatists and playwrights
American male screenwriters
20th-century American memoirists
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Dartmouth College alumni
Deaths from lymphoma
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title: Kazbek Gekkiyev

texts:
<mask> (c. 1984 – 5 December 2012), a Russian TV news presenter and journalist for the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, was shot three times in the head and killed by a gunman outside of his workplace. The gunmen are believed to be linked to the Islamic insurgency in the North Caucasus. He was the seventh journalist killed in the North Caucasus in ten years in connection to his work. Personal
<mask> was 28 years old at the time of his murder. He was born in Russia and lived in the village of Zhankhoteko in Kabardino-Balkaria, in Russia. He studied at a school. Career
<mask> was a popular journalist and television presenter at VGTRK in the city of Nalchik, Russia.As a journalist he reported about social issues that didn't attract much attention publicly. He took over the position of the anchor after a video was released in February from local militants alluding to the Islamic insurgency, threatening the previous two news anchors causing them to get pulled off air for safety precautions. Colleagues did not know of any motives for killing <mask> in view of the fact that his reports were never connected to crime or the insurgency in the North Caucasus. Death
<mask> <mask> died from three gun shot wounds to the head shot by two men with an automatic weapon late Wednesday night on 5 December 2012 around 9:00 p.m. night local time (17:00 GMT). The scene took place in a parking lot outside of his workplace as he was talking with a fellow female co-worker. Two gunmen approached the two asking <mask> to confirm his identity as the television news anchor, and when he answered yes, they shot the journalist dead on the spot and fled the scene leaving his co-worker unharmed. Investigators believe <mask>'s death to be a threat to other journalists and their bosses not to cover news about insurgents in the region.<mask> is the

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title: Kazbek Gekkiyev

texts:
 seventh journalist in last decade and first journalist in 2012 to be murdered in Russia in correspondence to his work. Police established the identities of <mask>'s attackers, one of which being Zeitun Boziev and the other unnamed, who was killed by police on 22 January. The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) established the suspect in the murder of <mask> Gekkiev as 30-year-old Zeitun Boziev, who is also lived in Nalchick. Law enforcement started searching for Boziev in 2011 but he went to the forest after he was ordered not to leave. He then joined a group of local armed underground and eventually became the primary candidate as the replacement KBR gunman following the death of the group's leaders. Context
<mask> <mask> was the seventh journalist killed in the North Caucus Region of Russia in ten years in connection to his work. The attack took place in the North Caucus region, a place known for terrorist attacks and threats organized by the Islamic insurgents against government functionaries, law enforcement, and moderate Muslims.The attacks conducted by the Islamic insurgents are interpreted as a message to journalists and reporters, that if you talk about the Islamic militants, you will be punished. The year 1999 was the worst for journalists with the number of journalists killed reaching 12. In 2009 Natalya Estemirova, journalist and human rights activist, was abducted in Chechnya and her body was later located with gunshot wounds. There were three known beatings and two murders in Dagestan in 2008, and  with 3 journalists killed, one including Gadzhimurat Kamalov, worker of the newspaper in Chernovik who was shot and killed, Russia was ranked 6th most dangerous nation out of 40 in 2011. In 2012, <mask> was the only journalist killed in 2012 taking Russia off the list of most dangerous countries for journalists. The attack specifically took place

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title: Kazbek Gekkiyev

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 Kabardino-Balkaria, in the North Caucasus Region, which is normally viewed as a quiet republic compared to other parts of the region but has recently seen a sharp increase in militant violence due to police battling the Islamic militants. In 2005, violence in the region reached its highest point when dozens were killed at different government sites throughout Nalchik, after many simultaneous attacks planned by hundreds of militants were performed.Over 50 people have been placed before a judge, in a trial that has been in process sense 2007. One of Gekkiyevs attackers was identified as Zeitun Boziev, an Islamic militant who was killed by police in January 2013, the other remains unnamed. Boziev had a hand in the murdering of a traffic policeman on 1 June 2012, and a worker at Cherek ROVD on 29 July 2012. Islamic insurgents say their goal is to bring an Islamic state into existence in the region between the Black sea and Caspian sea. The insurgents complain of unfair treatment from authorities, police efforts to stop the violence, and tension between different ethnic groups between Balkars and Kabardians in Kabardino-Balkaria and others. Impact
VGTRK, the station where Gekkiyev worked, canceled all of its entertainment and news programs following his death. Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO,  publicly condemned the murder of Russian journalist <mask> Gakkiyev and encouraged authorities to do their most to bring justice to his killers.She said, "The murder of <mask> <mask> must not go unpunished. I am encouraged by the rapid reaction of the Russian authorities, who pledged immediately that the crime would be investigated. Bringing the perpetrators to justice will send a clear sign to those who commit such acts that attempting to silence the media is not an option. The rights to freedom of expression, and  the right of journalists to carry out their professional duties without

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 fearing their lives, are fundamental conditions for everyone to live in informed and peaceful societies." Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urged the authorities to put an end to the impunity by investigating of all killings of journalists. Mijatovic said, "Journalists in Russia are far too often subject to acts of intimidation, threats, and attacks. Sadly, some of these brave members of the media have paid the ultimate price for their fearless work."President and spokesperson for Russia's Federal Investigation Committee, Vladimir Markin condemned the shooting by comment in Moscow on Thursday 6 December 2012, by saying that the killers violated the victim's "right to live and also the right to disseminate information. At this moment, we can say that the most probable motive was <mask>'s professional activity. We can view this impudent crime as a threat to other journalists speaking about the results of the struggle against the bandits underground". "Before killing <mask>, the suspects made sure he was indeed a journalist, the host of a news program, which confirms the main suspected motive." In an interview about <mask>'s murder,  Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of the Memorial human rights group, said that this may indicate that these underground groups are prepared to become even more violent. "The new resistance leaders who are younger and have far fewer qualms as who to attack and kill for the sake of their cause must have decided to abide by fewer limits of violence as well, including violence that can now be aimed at journalists too." A popular television presenter and member of the presidential Public Chamber does not agree with Cherkasov and does not believe that <mask>'s death was politically motivated.See also
List of journalists killed in Russia

References

1980s births
2012 deaths
Russian journalists
People from

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title: Indira Samarasekera

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<mask>  (née  Arulpragasam; April 11, 1952) is the former president and former vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta. She has been a member of the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, which advises on appointments to the Senate of Canada, since 2016. Biography
<mask> was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, and was married to a Sinhalese, Sam Samarasekera and was divorced when her children were 7 and 3 years. Education and career

<mask> received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sri Lanka in 1974 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis as a Fulbright Scholar in 1976. In 1977, she immigrated to Canada, where she received her PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1980.That year, she began working in the Department of Metals and Materials Engineering at UBC with a focus on the continuous casting and hot rolling of steel. She was only the second woman appointed to the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Engineering. In 2000, she was appointed UBC's vice-president of research. During her time in that role, the university's research funding from government, private donors and industry more than doubled, from $149 million to $377 million. She succeeded Roderick Fraser as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta on July 1, 2005, and served two terms, ending June 30, 2015. She was the first female president of any university in Alberta. As of July 1, 2015, she was succeeded by David Turpin as president of the University of Alberta

Awards and honorary degrees

In 1991, <mask> was awarded NSERC's the E.W.R.Steacie Fellowship, an award that recognizes

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title: Indira Samarasekera

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 promising young Canadian researchers. In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2012, she received Canada's Public Policy Forum Peter Lougheed award for leadership in public policy, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2014, she was named a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering. Samarasekera has received honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, Queen's University Belfast, Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario. In 2018 <mask> was awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, an annual honour named after Sir Henry Bessemer awarded for outstanding services to the steel industry. Board and committee service

Samarasekera was appointed to the board of directors for Scotiabank in 2008, and for Magna International in 2014.She was appointed chair of the Worldwide Universities Network in 2012, serves on the CEO of the Year Advisory Committee   and has served as both board member and chair of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT). Samarasekera is on the board of directors of TC Energy, owner of the Keystone Pipeline, appointed in 2016. She has served as a member of Canada's Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC), the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee on the Public Service, the Conference Board of Canada  and the Public Policy Forum. From 2010 to 2012, she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos and has participated as either a speaker or a moderator. Public profile
In July 2009, the University of Alberta purchased Samarasekera's private residence for $930,000, representing approximately $180,000 profit for


title: Mandip Singh Soin

texts:
<mask> (born 9 March 1957) is a prominent Indian mountaineer, explorer, adventure travel expert, environmentalist, speaker and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has spent over forty years in the field of adventure, having gone on expeditions to all the seven continents of the world. His mountaineering ascents and explorations include several Indian “firsts” like the first Indian ascent of Mount Meru in 1986 in the Himalayas as well as several first Indian ascents in the French and Swiss Alps, Italian Dolomites, Wales and Scotland. He is a strong advocate of responsible tourism and Founder President of the Ecotourism Society of India

Adventurer and Explorer
At 14, Mandip started participating in climbing expeditions while he was studying at The Air Force School under Hari Dang, a well known educationist and a mountaineer. Later while studying at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and during his early climbing years, he started playing an activist’s role for several environmental causes along with his expeditions. In 1979, he co-founded a national and international award-winning travel company, Ibex Expeditions Pvt. Ltd, offering adventure & safari travels in India and later also to the more discerning parts of the world.Through Ibex Expeditions, Mandip pioneered several unique journeys, such as the now famous frozen river (Chadar) trek on the Zanskar river in 1994, which paved the way for winter tourism in Ladakh and many more. In 1988, he along with two team members, undertook a Mountain Rescue training project in North Wales, Scotland and Chamonix, under the aegis of an INLAKS Foundation grant. His team established a project called HELP (Himalayan Evacuation and Lifesaving Project) and Sir Edmund Hillary was patron of the project which helped reinforce Rescue systems in the Indian Himalaya. He also undertook a cycling expedition from Delhi to Kathmandu in 1981. Led the first crossing on camel back of the Indian Thar desert from Jaisalmer to the Rann of Kutch in 1986, and the first elephant back expedition


title: Mandip Singh Soin

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 in the jungles of Kerala in 1990. In 1992, he became the first Indian to be conferred the Ness Award for expeditions and exploration by the Royal Geography Society, UK. In 1992, he was also nominated ‘Person of the Year’ and  'India's Most Versatile Adventurer' by Limca Book of Records

In 2012, he was conferred the highest civilian honor in India for Adventure by the President of India – the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for Lifetime Achievement.In 2015, he became the only Indian to be honored by the “Citation of Merit” from the famous Explorers’ Club, USA, at the 111th Explorers’ Club Annual Dinner. Environmentalist
<mask> has campaigned for the cause of environmental protection with concern for forests, wildlife, nature, communities and sustainable tourism in India. He is the Honorary Founder President of the Ecotourism Society of India, and former member of international committees such as the Pacific Asia Travel Association, Member of the World Travel Market Responsible Tourism Day's advisory panel and a Trustee of the Himalayan Environment Trust. For the last three decades, he has visited over 50 National Parks and sanctuaries all over India, Sri Lanka, South Africa etc. to assess the Ecotourism potential and lay out strategies for the Government & the tourism industry in India and worldwide. As Chairman of Pacific Asia Travel Association India Chapter's Environment & Ecotourism Committee, he was successful in getting the Indian travel industry to sign an environmental pledge in 1992. Expeditions
 All India Rock Climbing Expedition, 1984.Led first crossing of the Thar desert on camel back, 1986. Member first Indian ascent of Mt Meru in the Garhwal Himalaya, 1986. Led first Elephant Expedition, Kerala, 1990. Led Indo British Frozen River Zanskar & Winter Expedition with Lord John Hunt as Patron, 1994. The expedition was awarded the Explorer's Club Flag and opened Tourism in winter for Ladakh. International Friendship Expedition: Indo Pakistan Friendship Expedition, in the Swiss Alps under the aegis


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<mask> (born May 24, 1980) is a former American football defensive end and outside linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Western Michigan, where he was twice recognized as the conference defensive player of the year. Babin also played for the Seattle Seahawks, Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, and Baltimore Ravens. Early years
Babin attended Paw Paw High School and lettered in football, wrestling, and track. In football, he was a two-time team Defensive MVP, and was an All-Kalamazoo Valley Association first team choice as a senior. In wrestling, he was the state champion as a senior.Babin came back from a broken leg during his senior year, playing in the last three games and earning a scholarship from Western Michigan University. In track & field, Babin was a state-qualifier in the throwing events, with top-throws of 16.15 meters (52 ft 9 in) in the shot put and 47.85 meters (156 ft 4 in) in the discus throw. College career
<mask> attended Western Michigan University, where he played for the Western Michigan Broncos football team from 2000 to 2003. He finished his college football career with 38 sacks, 299 tackles, eight forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries. Babin started 25 of 47 games at Western Michigan, setting Broncos career marks in sacks (38) and tackles for loss (75). Babin also had two passes defended, blocked three punts and had three receptions for 55 yards. Babin started all 12 games at the left defensive end position as a senior, earning first-team All-America honors from The NFL Draft Report and College Sports Report and added second-team honors from Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, and College Football News.He was a first-team All-Mid-American Conference

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 selection and league's Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, in addition to being team captain and team MVP. As a senior, he made 115 tackles and matched his career-high with 15 sacks and made 33 tackles behind the line of scrimmage. As a junior, he started all 12 games and made 94 tackles (26 for loss), 15 sacks, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, and two passes defensed. Babin also blocked two punts and caught three passes for 35 yards. He made 56 tackles (13 for loss) as a sophomore, plus a team-leading seven sacks and two forced fumbles. As a freshman, Babin played in all 12 games, collected 34 tackles and was the only true freshman on the team to earn a letter. Professional career

Pre-draft

Houston Texans
Babin was drafted by Houston Texans in the first round (27th pick overall) of 2004 NFL Draft.The Texans traded second, third, fourth, and fifth round picks to the Tennessee Titans in exchange for a first (27th overall) and fifth round pick. He was signed to a five-year contract worth $6 million by the Texans on June 26, 2004. He played 16 games in his rookie season for Houston, making 51 solo tackles, 12 assisted tackles, and four sacks. In 2005, he played in 12 games and made 35 tackles. He matched his 2004 sack mark with four and also forced two fumbles. In 2006, he played 15 games and recorded 26 tackles and five sacks. Seattle Seahawks
On September 1, 2007, <mask> was acquired by the Seattle Seahawks from the Houston Texans in exchange for safety Michael Boulware.He was released by the Seahawks on September 17, 2008 after the team acquired wide receiver Keary Colbert from the Denver Broncos. Kansas City Chiefs
<mask> was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs on November 12, 2008. After the 2008 season, Babin became a free agent. Philadelphia Eagles
Babin was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles on August 4, 2009. Tennessee Titans
On

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 March 19, 2010, Babin signed with the Tennessee Titans. <mask>'s lone season with Titans proved to be one of his best, recording 58 tackles, 12.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles, which led to him being named to the 2011 Pro Bowl, the first appearance of his career. Second stint with the Eagles
Following his Pro Bowl season, Babin signed a five-year deal with the Eagles worth approximately $28 million.This deal included guarantees in the $5–6 million range and reunited him with former Titans defensive line coach Jim Washburn. In Week 1 of the 2011 regular season against the St. Louis Rams, Babin had two sacks, which matched his previous total during his last stint with the Eagles. He then would record eight sacks in three games, and climbed to the top of the NFL with 18 sacks with two games remaining in the season. He finished the season with 40 tackles and 18 sacks, the highest of his career. On November 27, 2012, Babin was released. He had 5.5 sacks through 11 games. Jacksonville Jaguars
On November 28, 2012, <mask> was claimed off waivers by the Jacksonville Jaguars.In five games with the Jaguars, Babin made 11 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, and 1 fumble recovery. Overall in the 2012 season, combined with both teams, Babin played 16 total games with 37 total combined tackles, 7 sacks, 1 pass defended, 4 forced fumbles, and 1 fumble recovery. On November 17, 2013, Babin inadvertently ripped out a handful of Arizona Cardinals running back Andre Ellington's dreadlocks while defending a running play versus the Arizona Cardinals in Jacksonville. Babin finished the 2013 season with 7.5 sacks on 40 combined tackles, two passes defended, and three forced fumbles. On March 10, 2014, Babin voided the final two years of his contract to become a free agent. Three days later, on March 13, he re-signed with the team. <mask> signed a two-year contract with the New York Jets on

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 July 23, 2014. He was released by the Jets on September 5, 2015. Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens signed <mask> on September 15, 2015. Babin was released on October 13, 2015. Arizona Cardinals
On January 12, 2016, Babin signed with the Arizona Cardinals to add depth as an outside linebacker for the postseason after Alex Okafor was lost to an injury. NFL statistics

Key
 GP: games played
 COMB: combined tackles
 TOTAL: total tackles
 AST: assisted tackles
 SACK: sacks
 FF: forced fumbles
 FR: fumble recoveries
 FR YDS: fumble return yards
 INT: interceptions
 IR YDS: interception return yards
 AVG IR: average interception return
 LNG: longest interception return
 TD: interceptions returned for touchdown
 PD: passes defensed

Personal life
Babin has a wife and three sons. He is a supporter of the Republican Party, is an avid poker player, and is well known for his devout love of the theater, which has included multiple trips to plays both on and off Broadway.His father moved from Quebec in Canada to live in Michigan

In 2014, <mask> was inducted into the Western Michigan University Athletics Hall of Fame. Babin cofounded RedZone Realty Group with former Jacksonville Jaguars teammate, Kyle Bosworth. References

External links

Philadelphia Eagles bio
Tennessee Titans bio
Jacksonville Jaguars bio
New York Jets bio

1980 births
Living people
Players of American football from Michigan
Sportspeople from Kalamazoo, Michigan
American football defensive ends
American football linebackers
Western Michigan Broncos football players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
Houston Texans players
Seattle Seahawks players
Kansas City Chiefs players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Tennessee Titans players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
New York Jets players
Baltimore Ravens players
Arizona Cardinals players
Michigan Republicans
American people of Canadian descent
National Conference Pro Bowl