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 Nakano for the score to Final Fantasy X in 2001. This marked the first time that Uematsu did not compose an entire main-series Final Fantasy soundtrack. For Final Fantasy XI from 2002, he was joined by Naoshi Mizuta, who composed the majority of the soundtrack, and Kumi Tanioka; Uematsu was responsible for only eleven tracks.In 2002, fellow Square colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito asked Uematsu to join them in forming a rock band that focused on reinterpreting and expanding on Uematsu's compositions. He declined their offer at first because he was too busy with work; however, after agreeing to perform with Fukui and Sekito in a live performance as a keyboardist, he decided to join them in making a band. Another employee at Square, Mr. Matsushita, chose the name The Black Mages for their band. In 2003, Keiji Kawamori, Arata Hanyuda, and Michio Okamiya also joined the band. The Black Mages released three studio albums and performed at several concerts. Freelancer (2004–present)
<mask> left Square Enix in 2004 and formed his own production company, Smile Please. He later founded the music production company and record label Dog Ear Records in 2006.The reason for <mask>'s departure was that the company moved their office from Meguro to Shinjuku, Tokyo and he was not comfortable with the new location. He also stated that he had reached an age where he should gradually take his life into his own hands. He does, however, continue to compose music as a freelancer for Square Enix. In 2005, Uematsu and several members of The Black Mages created the score for the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Uematsu composed only the main theme for Final Fantasy XII (2006); he was originally offered the job of creating the full score, but Hitoshi Sakimoto was eventually assigned as the main composer instead. Uematsu was also initially going to create the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII (2010). However, after being assigned the task of creating the entire score of Final

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 Konzerthaus, Vienna. On August 18, 2013, while headlining the Fantasy Rock Festival in Kawasaki, Japan with the Earthbound Papas, he revealed to the audience that he had originally intended to name their second album "Dancing Mad" after the Final Fantasy VI track which also appears on the album. However, referring to Square Enix indirectly, he told the audience that "a certain company 'S'" had phoned and informed him that he "could not use the name". Consequently, instead of backing down he decided to name the album "Dancing Dad", as a nod to the band's name.He also told the audience that he wanted to make an album of wholly original songs, but lamented that "it's just that if there are no game songs on it, it probably wouldn't sell!" Musical style and influences
The style of <mask>'s compositions is diverse, ranging from stately classical symphonic pieces and heavy metal to new-age and hyper-percussive techno-electronica. For example, in Lost Odyssey, the score ranges from classical orchestral arrangements to contemporary jazz and techno tracks. <mask> has stated that he is a big fan of Celtic and Irish music, and some of his work contains elements from these musical styles. Uematsu's Final Fantasy scores vary from upbeat, to dark and angry, to melancholic in nature. For instance, the music of Final Fantasy VIII is dark and gloomy, while the soundtrack to Final Fantasy IX is more carefree and upbeat. His Final Fantasy music has been described as being able to convey the true emotion of a scene; an example is "Aerith's Theme" from Final Fantasy VII.In an interview with the Nichi Bei Times, Uematsu said "I don't really self-consciously compose music for Japan or for the world, but I do think there is something in my more melancholy pieces that has a distinctly Japanese quality." He has been named one of the "Innovators" in Time "Time 100: The Next Wave — Music" feature. He has also been called the "John Williams of the video game world" and been credited for "increasing the


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 appreciation and awareness" of video game music. Many of Uematsu's musical influences come from the United Kingdom and the United States. He cites Elton John as his biggest musical influence, and he has stated that he wanted to be like him. Other major inspirations include The Beatles, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Simon & Garfunkel, and progressive rock bands. In the classical genre, he cites Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as a great influence.Uematsu has said that 1970s bands, such as Pink Floyd and King Crimson, influenced his Final Fantasy compositions. The intro to the piece "One-Winged Angel" from Final Fantasy VII was inspired by the Jimi Hendrix song "Purple Haze"; the lyrics were taken from the medieval poetry on which Carl Orff based his cantata Carmina Burana, specifically the songs "Estuans Interius", "O Fortuna", "Veni, Veni, Venias" and "Ave Formosissima". In turn, <mask> <mask> has had a major influence on video game music and beyond the video game industry as well. For example, "Liberi Fatali" from Final Fantasy VIII was played during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens during the women's synchronized swimming event. From the same game, "Eyes on Me", featuring Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, sold a record 400,000 copies and was the first song from a video game to win an award at the Japan Gold Disc Awards, where it won "Song of the Year (International)" in 2000. In a 2010 interview, Uematsu said that he gets more inspiration from walking his dog than from listening to other music. Works
All works listed below were solely composed by Uematsu unless otherwise noted.References

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<mask> is a retired American professional wrestler. <mask> worked for most of his career in the Southern United States, most often in tag team competition. <mask> is most famous for teaming with Sputnik Monroe in one of the first "mixed races" villainous teams seen in the south. <mask> was also part of the original Midnight Express from 1981 to 1983. Later on he would team with Koko B. Ware as one half of the "Pretty Young Things". Professional wrestling career

Early career (1971–1981)
<mask> began his professional wrestling career in 1971 the Florida/Alabama area. At the time, African American wrestlers in the south were utilized in very specific ways.They were mainly restricted to wrestling other African Americans and if they were to wrestle white opponents, they were always fan favorites who could not cheat or use underhanded means to beat their white opponents. These restrictions meant that <mask> worked as a face initially and mainly in singles competition since no all African American tag teams were used at that time. In late 1971 <mask> along with a man who had been fighting for equality in wrestling for a long time, Sputnik Monroe formed a tag team, what was unique for the team at the time was that they were heels (bad guys) a first for the Southern United States wrestling promotions. <mask> would dye a blond streak in his hair to match Monroe's and even hinted that <mask> could be Sputnik Monroe's son. Together the team won the NWA Mid-America version of the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship from the team of Bearcat Brown and Len Rossi in May 1972. They’d lose the titles to Karl and Kurt Von Brauner about a month later. Winning the tag team gold was far from the only achievement <mask> and Monroe had while in Mid-America, in what was a reversal of an infamous angle that saw "The Interns" paint Bearcat Brown

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texts: with white paint the heel duo dropped black paint on white wrestler Robert Fuller.This lead Sputnik Monroe to state that "Black is Beautiful" to which <mask> <mask> replied "White is wonderful", something that would become a catch phrase for the team. <mask> and Monroe also saw success outside the Alabama area where NWA Mid-America operated, mainly in Florida where they worked for Championship Wrestling from Florida under promoter Eddie Graham. In Florida the team won the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship on October 10, 1972 by beating Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden. <mask> and Monroe held the titles until November 16, 1972 where Jack and Jerry Brisco beat them for the titles. On October 1, 1973 <mask> won his first singles title when he became the NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Champion, something which helped cement <mask> as one of the pioneers in breaking down the racial barriers in the south. In 1975 <mask> teamed up with Rocket Monroe (Sputnik's storyline brother) to briefly hold the Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling version of the NWA United States tag team titles. After working together for three years which saw the team even tour Japan Norvell <mask> decided that it was time to work as a singles wrestler ending his association with Sputnik Monroe.From 1975 <mask> kept working for NWA Mid-America both the southern part of the territory that was promoted by Nick Gulas and the northern part promoted by Jerry Jarrett that would later split off and become Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). Despite wanting to wrestle more as a singles wrestler <mask> was usually booked in the tag team division, teaming with for instance Butch Malone to win the NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship. After the title loss <mask> was given an opportunity to feud with his former partner Butch Malone for a brief period of time. The feud

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 with Malone did not convince the bookers to give <mask> more of a singles push but instead put him back in the tag team division with a variety of partners such as Bill Dundee, Pat Barrett and Jimmy Golden all of whom he held tag team championships in NWA Mid-America or Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (renamed Southeast Championship Wrestling (SECW) in 1978). The Midnight Express (1981–1983)

In 1980 a new team was formed in Southeast Championship Wrestling when Dennis Condrey's previous partner Don Carson retired. Condrey teamed up with Randy Rose and won the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship shortly after they started teaming up. The team started a storyline feud with <mask> who wrestled as "The Junkyard Dog" before the more famous version of the Junkyard Dog used the name in wrestling.<mask> recruited various partners such as Paul Orndorff, who were successful in capturing the Southeast tag team gold briefly. In an attempt to throw Rose and Condrey off <mask> would adopt the masked persona of "The Shadow" and together with Brad Armstrong defeat the team for the Southeast tag team gold on May 4, 1981 and held onto the gold until July 27, 1981 where Condrey and Rose regained the titles. After the title loss <mask> turned on Armstrong and joined up with Condrey and Rose to form a stable (group) known as The Midnight Express. In the book The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams Condrey explains that the name did not stem from the movie Midnight Express (although later versions of the Midnight Express would use the film’s theme as their own theme music) but from the fact that they all dressed in black, drove black cars and were out partying past midnight. Together the three men would win the AWA Southern Tag Team title in the CWA and invoke a rule that would later be referred to as the Freebird Rule, which

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 allowed any two of the three men to defend the titles on a given night so that their opponents never knew what combination to expect. The Midnight Express would lose the AWA Southern tag team title to Bobby Eaton and Sweet Brown Sugar before returning to SECW in the spring of 1982. In Southeastern Championship Wrestling, the Midnight Express would win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Title a further six times.The Express won and lost the titles to such teams as Jimmy Golden and Robert Fuller, Mongolian Stomper and Stomper Jr., "Dizzy" Ed Hogan and Ken Lucas and Brad and Scott Armstrong. The Pretty Young Things (1983–1985)

The Midnight Express disbanded in late 1983 when <mask> <mask> went back to the CWA in Memphis and Dennis Condrey moved on to Mid-South Wrestling. In Memphis <mask> became a part of Jimmy Hart's stable of wrestlers known as the First Family. During a tag-team tournament in 1984 <mask> <mask> was teamed up with the masked Stagger Lee on "Fargo's Fabulous Ones" (Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert). During the course of the match Stagger Lee's mask was removed to reveal the man beneath it (Koko B. Ware), something which prompted a heel turn for Ware. <mask> and Ware became a regular tag team dubbed "The Pretty Young Things" or "The PYT Express". The two men soon began wearing red leather jackets and each had a single white glove on in an obvious imitation of Michael Jackson to further enhance their "pretty boy" image, and even used Jackson's song of the same name as their entrance music.The team managed to defeat the colossal team of Elijah Akeem and Kareem Mohammad for the AWA Southern Tag Team titles in February 1984 although they would only hang onto the gold for a little under 2 weeks before Akeem and Mohammad regained the titles. the PYT Express remained in Memphis for a period of time after this before

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 moving on to other promotions such as World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas and later on Championship Wrestling from Florida. On February 26, 1985 <mask> and Ware defeat Jay and Mark Youngblood to win the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship. Two weeks later on March 5, 1985 the team lost the titles to the Youngbloods. After dropping the gold in Florida the Pretty Young Things returned to the federation that first put them together, the Continental Wrestling Association where they won the AWA Southern Tag Team titles twice, both times from The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) as they feuded with the top face team of the promotion. Late career (1985–1986, 2004)
By the end of the summer of 1985 the Pretty Young Things went their separate ways with <mask> returning to his old stomping grounds in Southeast Championship Wrestling. In SECW <mask> was teamed up with fellow African American Brickhouse Brown to form a team called "Soul Patrol".On September 23, 1985 the Soul Patrol defeated the Nightmares to win the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship, which was <mask> <mask>'s tenth reign with that particular title. The Soul Patrol lost the championship to the Nightmares only a few weeks later on. After the Soul Patrol broke up <mask> became involved in a heated storyline with the at the time reigning NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Champion "Exotic"” Adrian Street. On January 6, 1986 <mask> defeated Street for the title and held on to it until Street with the help of his valet Miss Linda regained the title on February 17, 1986. In the late 1980s <mask> <mask> retired from professional wrestling, but has made a few special "Legends" appearances in the last couple of years, last time on September 25, 2004 where he teamed with Randy Rose to defeat the team of Texas Roughrider and Luke Goldberg in

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<mask> (, tr. Ígor' Ivánovič Sikórskij; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972) was a Russian–American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition as well as F.A.I. license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. After immigrating to the United States in 1919, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s.In 1939, <mask> designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. <mask> modified the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942. Early life
<mask> was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine). He was the youngest of five children. His father, Ivan Alexeevich <mask>, was a professor of psychology of Saint Vladimir University (now Taras Shevchenko National University), a psychiatrist with an international reputation, and an ardent Russian nationalist. <mask> was an Orthodox Christian. When questioned regarding his roots, he would answer: "My family is of Russian origin.My grandfather and other ancestors from the time of Peter the Great were Russian Orthodox priests." <mask>'s mother, Mariya Stefanovna Sikorskaya (née

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texts: Temryuk-Cherkasova), was a physician who did not work professionally. She is sometimes called Zinaida <mask>. While homeschooling young <mask>, she gave him a great love for art, especially in the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, and the stories of Jules Verne. In 1900, at age 11, he accompanied his father to Germany and through conversations with his father, became interested in natural sciences. After returning home, <mask> began to experiment with model flying machines, and by age 12, he had made a small rubber band-powered helicopter. <mask> began studying at the Saint Petersburg Maritime Cadet Corps, in 1903, at the age of 14.In 1906, he determined that his future lay in engineering, so he resigned from the academy, despite his satisfactory standing, and left the Russian Empire to study in Paris. He returned to the Russian Empire in 1907, enrolling at the Mechanical College of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. After the academic year, <mask> again accompanied his father to Germany in the summer of 1908, where he learned of the accomplishments of the Wright brothers' Flyer and Ferdinand von Zeppelin's rigid airships. <mask> later said about this event: "Within twenty-four hours, I decided to change my life's work. I would study aviation." By the start of World War I in 1914, <mask>'s airplane research and production business in Kyiv was flourishing, and his factory made bombers during the war. After the Bolshevik revolution began in 1917, <mask>sky fled his homeland, because the new government threatened to shoot him.He moved to France where he was offered a contract for the design of a new, more powerful Muromets-type plane.

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 But in November 1918 the war ended and the French government stopped subsidizing military orders, he decided to move to the United States. On March 24, 1919 he left France on the ocean liner Lorraine arriving in New York City on March 30, 1919. Aircraft designer

With financial backing from his sister Olga, <mask> returned to Paris, the center of the aviation world at the time, in 1909. <mask> met with aviation pioneers, to ask them questions about aircraft and flying. In May 1909, he returned to Russia and began designing his first helicopter, which he began testing in July 1909. Powered by a 25 horsepower Anzani engine, the helicopter used an upper and lower two-bladed lifting propeller that rotated in opposite directions at 160 rpm.The machine could only generate about  of lift, not enough to lift the approximate  weight. Despite his progress in solving technical problems of control, <mask> realized that the aircraft would never fly. He finally disassembled the aircraft in October 1909, after he determined that he could learn nothing more from the design. In February 1910, he undertook to build a second helicopter, and his first airplane. By the spring, helicopter No. 2 could lift its weight of , but not the additional weight of an operator. I had learned enough to recognize that with the existing state of the art, engines, materials, and – most of all – the shortage of money and lack of experience...I would not be able to produce a successful helicopter at that time. <mask>'s first aircraft of his own design, the S-1 used a 15 hp Anzani 3-cylinder fan engine in a pusher configuration, that could not lift the aircraft. His second

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texts: design called the S-2 was powered by a 25 hp Anzani engine in a tractor configuration and first flew on June 3, 1910 at a height of a few feet. On June 30 after some modifications, <mask> reached an altitude of "sixty or eighty feet" before the S-2 stalled and was completely destroyed when it crashed in a ravine. Later, <mask> built the two-seat S-5, his first design not based on other European aircraft. Flying this original aircraft, <mask> earned his pilot license; Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) license No. 64 issued by the Imperial Aero Club of Russia in 1911.During a demonstration of the S-5, the engine quit and <mask> was forced to make a crash landing to avoid a wall. It was discovered that a mosquito in the gasoline had been drawn into the carburetor, starving the engine of fuel. The close call convinced <mask> of the need for an aircraft that could continue flying if it lost an engine. His next aircraft, the S-6 held three passengers and was selected as the winner of the Moscow aircraft exhibition held by the Russian Army in February 1912. In early 1912, <mask> became Chief Engineer of the aircraft division for the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works (Russko-Baltiisky Vagonny Zavod or R-BVZ) in Saint Petersburg. His work at R-BVZ included the construction of the first four-cylinder aircraft, the S-21 Russky Vityaz, which he initially called Le Grand when fitted with just two engines, then as the Bolshoi Baltisky (The Great Baltic) when fitted with four engines for the first time, each wing panel's pair of powerplants in a "push-pull" tandem configuration previous to the four tractor-engined Russki Vityaz. He also

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 proved to be a "make or break" moment for <mask>'s funding. In 1928, <mask> became a naturalized citizen of the United States.The Sikorsky Manufacturing Company moved to Stratford, Connecticut in 1929. It became a part of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (now United Technologies Corporation) in July of that year. The company manufactured flying boats, such as the S-42 "Clipper", used by Pan Am for transatlantic flights. Meanwhile, <mask> also continued his earlier work on vertical flight while living in Nichols, Connecticut. On February 14, 1929, he filed an application to patent a "direct lift" amphibian aircraft which used compressed air to power a direct lift "propeller" and two smaller propellers for thrust. On June 27, 1931, <mask> filed for a patent for another "direct lift aircraft", and was awarded patent No. 1,994,488 on March 19, 1935.His design plans eventually culminated in the first (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 on September 14, 1939, with the first free flight occurring eight months later on May 24, 1940. <mask>'s success with the VS-300 led to the R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter, in 1942. <mask>'s final VS-300 rotor configuration, comprising a single main rotor and a single antitorque tail rotor, has proven to be one of the most popular helicopter configurations, being used in most helicopters produced today. Personal life

<mask> was married to Olga Fyodorovna Simkovitch in the Russian Empire. They were divorced and Olga remained in Russia with their daughter, Tania, as <mask> departed after the October Revolution. In 1923, <mask>'s sisters immigrated to the

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 US, bringing six-year-old Tania with them. <mask> married Elisabeth Semion (1903–1995) in 1924, in New York.<mask> and Elisabeth had four sons; Sergei, Nikolai, <mask>. and George. Tania <mask> von York (March 1, 1918 – September 22, 2008), <mask>'s eldest child and only daughter. Tania was born in Kyiv. Educated in the US, she earned a B.A. at Barnard College and a doctorate at Yale University. She was one of the original faculty members of Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she served as Professor of Sociology for 20 years. <mask> (1925– ), <mask>'s eldest son.He joined United Technologies in 1951, and retired in 1992, as Vice-President of Special Projects at Sikorsky Aircraft. <mask> Jr. is an attorney, businessman and aviation historian. <mask> III is also a pilot. <mask> died at his home in Easton, Connecticut, on October 26, 1972, and is buried in Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cemetery located on Nichols Avenue in Stratford. Legacy

In 1966, <mask> was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame. <mask>'s and Andrei Tupolev's professional careers were covered in the 1979 Soviet biopic The Poem of Wings () where <mask> was portrayed by Yury Yakovlev. A working model of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was recreated for filming.The Sikorsky Memorial Bridge, which carries the Merritt Parkway across the Housatonic River next to the Sikorsky corporate headquarters, is named for him. <mask> has been designated a Connecticut Aviation Pioneer by the Connecticut State Legislature. The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, Connecticut, continues to the present day as one of the world's leading

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 helicopter manufacturers, and a nearby small airport has been named Sikorsky Memorial Airport. <mask> was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1987. In October 2011, one of the streets in Kyiv was renamed after <mask>'s family house in the city's historical center is preserved to this day but is in a neglected condition pending restoration.In November 2012, one of the Russian supersonic heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, based at the Engels-2 Air Force Base, was named for <mask>, which caused controversy among air base crew members. One of the officers said that <mask> does not deserve it because he laid the foundations of the U.S., rather than Russian aviation. However, the Long Range Aviation command officer said that <mask> is not responsible for the activities of his military aircraft, noted that <mask> had also designed the first heavy bomber for Russia. In 2013, Flying magazine ranked Sikorsky number 12 on its list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation. In August 2016, the National technical university of Ukraine "Kyiv politechnical institute" was named National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" its former student and outstanding aircraft designer. On March 22, 2018 the Kyiv City Council officially renamed Kyiv International Airport to "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport Zhuliany". Philosophical and religious views
Sikorsky was a deeply religious Russian Orthodox Christian and authored two religious and philosophical books (The Message of the Lord's Prayer and The Invisible Encounter).Summarizing his beliefs, in the latter he

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Published works
 <mask>, <mask>. The Message of the Lord's Prayer. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1942. <mask>, <mask>. The Invisible Encounter. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1947. <mask>, <mask>.The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter, an Autobiography. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1967. See also
 Aerosani – <mask> built some of these propeller-powered snowmobiles in 1909–10
 Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin – an early aircraft collaborator with <mask>, in 1910
 Sikorsky Prize – a prize for human powered helicopters named in his honor
 10090 <mask> – an asteroid named in honor of <mask>sky

References

Sources

 Delear, Frank J. <mask>sky: His Three Careers in Aviation. New York: Dodd Mead, 1969, Revised edition, 1976. .
 Hacker, Barton C. and Margaret Vining. American Military Technology: The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. .
 Ikenson, Ben. Patents: Ingenious Inventions, How They Work and How They Came to Be.New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2004. .
 Lake, Jon. The Great Book of Bombers: The World's Most Important Bombers from World War I to the Present Day. St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI Publishing Company, 2002. .
 Leishman, J. Gordon. "The Dream of True Flight." Online summary: Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. .
 Murphy, Justin D. Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and warfare series). Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. .
 <mask>, <mask>.The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the

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 Helicopter, an Autobiography. New York: Dodd, Mead, originally published 1938 (updated editions, various years up to 1948), Revised edition, 1967. Spenser, Jay P. Whirlybirds, A History of the U.S. Helicopter Pioneers. Seattle, Washington, USA: University of Washington Press, 1998. .
 Woods, Carlos C. "Memorial Tributes", pp. 253–266. <mask> Sikorsky.Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering (The Academy), 1979. External links

 Official Sikorsky historical archives

 <mask>sky Aerial Russia – the Romance of the Giant Aeroplane – early days of <mask> online book
 <mask> article on ctheritage.org
 <mask>. Time magazine, November 16, 1953. (Cover)
 The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, has extensive Sikorsky exhibits
 Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Up September 1940 Popular Mechanics article showing <mask> flying his first helicopter and introducing him to the general public

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University of Bridgeport faculty
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title: Shan Foster

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<mask> (born August 20, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. He played shooting guard for the Commodores college basketball team at Vanderbilt University. He is the school's all-time leader in both points and three-point baskets made, and is also among the Southeastern Conference's all-time leaders with consecutive games with a made three-pointer. <mask> was selected as an Associated Press second team All-American for the 2007–2008 college basketball season. He was announced as the winner of the 2008 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award at the 2008 Final Four. <mask> graduated from Vanderbilt on May 9, 2008 with a degree in human and organizational development. On June 26, 2008, <mask> was drafted into the NBA by the Dallas Mavericks with the 51st overall pick.High school career
<mask> was born in Laurel, Mississippi, and attended Bonnabel High School in Kenner, Louisiana. He served as the basketball team's captain his sophomore through senior years. While playing at Bonnabel his senior year, <mask> garnered First Team All-State, All-Metro Most Valuable Player, All-City and All-District honors while averaging a double-double (23.4 points and 10 rebounds). Under <mask>'s leadership the Bonnabel Bruins finished an impressive 21–9 and claimed their district's title. <mask>'s success was not limited to the basketball court, as he also made his school's academic honor roll. Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, <mask> was listed as the No. 18 small forward and the No.82 player in the nation in 2004. College career
After picking Vanderbilt over Kansas, Notre Dame, Illinois, and

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texts: LSU, <mask> was immediately placed in the Commodores starting line-up. During his freshman year, <mask> shot a blistering 44.5% from behind the three-point line and averaged 9.2 points a game. <mask> improved his game for his sophomore year, averaging 15.9 points a game, and then 15.6 points per game as a junior. It was during his junior year that the Commodores, led by SEC Player of the Year Derrick Byars, finished the regular season a surprisingly strong 20–11 and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen before being eliminated by the Georgetown University Hoyas. Going into his senior year, <mask> was regarded as one of the deadliest long-range shooters in the NCAA and named an All-American candidate. <mask>, with the help of freshman phenom A. J. Ogilvy, led the Commodores to their best start in school history at 16–0 before falling to the Kentucky Wildcats in double overtime at Rupp Arena on January 12, 2008.<mask> would ensure that the loss was avenged, however, when, a month later, he scored 20 points against the Wildcats during their visit to Nashville en route to a crushing 93–52 victory that was Kentucky's worst loss since 1989, and their worst conference loss ever. Also that season, <mask> would score a game-high 32 points to lead the Commodores to a 72–69 victory over the then top-ranked Tennessee Volunteers at Memorial Gymnasium. This marked the second time in <mask>'s career that Vanderbilt had knocked off the top-ranked team in the nation, the other instance occurring a year earlier when Vanderbilt defeated the eventual NCAA Tournament Champion Florida Gators 83–70, also at Memorial Gym.

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title: Shan Foster

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 <mask> hit nine consecutive three-pointers (including a 22-footer and a 25-footer), all of which were contested, and unleashed a career-high 42 points on the visiting 25th-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs, including the game-winning basket, to push then 16th-ranked Vanderbilt to an 86–85 overtime victory which gave the Commodores their first undefeated season at Memorial since the 1992–1993 season. The point total tied for second-highest single-game performance in Vanderbilt men's basketball history. At the conclusion of the regular season, <mask> was named the 2008 SEC Player of the Year by both the SEC coaches and the Associated Press. College career highs
<mask>'s career highs while with the Vanderbilt Commodores are as follows:
Points- 42 vs. Mississippi State University on March 5, 2008
Assists- 7 at University of Kentucky on January 20, 2007
Rebounds- 10 on 2 occasions
Steals- 4 vs. University of Kentucky on February 25, 2007
Blocks- 3 at Rice University on January 3, 2007
Field Goals Made- 13 on 2 occasions
3-Point Field Goals Made- 9 vs. Mississippi State University on March 5, 2008
Free Throws Made- 8 vs. University of Tennessee on February 26, 2008
Minutes Played- 44 at University of South Carolina on February 28, 2007

Professional career
<mask> was drafted by Dallas Mavericks with the 51st overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft.He joined the Mavericks for the 2008 NBA Summer League. He subsequently didn't sign with the Mavericks as he later joined Juvecaserta Basket of Italy for the 2008–09 season. He re-joined the Mavericks for the 2009 NBA Summer League. In August 2009, he signed

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title: Shan Foster

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 with Kepez of Turkey for the 2009–10 season. He again re-joined the Mavericks for the 2010 NBA Summer League. In July 2010, he signed with Dexia Mons-Hainaut of Belgium for the 2010–11 season. In 2011, he re-signed with Mons-Hainaut for the 2011–12 season.Following the conclusion of the Belgian season, he joined  Caneros de La Romana of the Dominican Republic. On June 29, 2012, <mask>'s rights were traded to the Utah Jazz. In November 2012, he was acquired by the Bakersfield Jam. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2013. Awards and recognition
2008 SEC Player of the Year (Consensus)
2008 Rivals.com First Team All America
2008 CBS Second Team All America
2008 Dickie V All Solid Gold Third Team
2008 Sports Illustrated Third Team All America
2008 Associated Press Second Team All-American
2008 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Winner

References

External links
Eurobasket.com profile

1986 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in the Dominican Republic
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Bakersfield Jam players
Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
Basketball players from Louisiana
Basketball players from Mississippi
Belfius Mons-Hainaut players
Dallas Mavericks draft picks
Juvecaserta Basket players
Kepez Belediyesi S.K. players
People from Laurel, Mississippi
Shooting guards
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Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball players
Pan American Games competitors for the


title: Wang Zhaojun

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<mask> (<mask>; 王牆, also 王檣 and 王嬙), commonly known by her courtesy name <mask> () was known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. Born in Baoping Village, Zigui County (in current Hubei Province) in the Western Han dynasty (206 BC–8 AD), she was sent by Emperor Yuan to marry Chanyu Huhanye of the Xiongnu Empire in order to establish friendly relations with the Han dynasty through marriage. In the most prevalent version of the "Four Beauties" legend, it is said that <mask> left her hometown on horseback on a bright autumn morning and began a journey northward. Along the way, the horse neighed, making <mask> extremely sad and unable to control her emotions. As she sat on the saddle, she began to play sorrowful melodies on a pipa (a round-bodied lute that was later called ruanxian). A flock of geese flying southward heard the music, and saw the beautiful young woman riding the horse; they immediately forgot to flap their wings, and fell to the ground. From then on, <mask> acquired the nickname "fells geese" or "drops birds."Life

Entering the harem
<mask> was born to a prominent family of Baopin Village, Zigui County (now Zhaojun Village, Xingshan County, Hubei) in the south of the Western Han empire. As she was born when her father was very old, he regarded her as "a pearl in the palm". <mask>jun was endowed with dazzling beauty with an extremely intelligent mind. She was adept in playing the pipa and also master of the ancient "Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar" – the guqin, go, calligraphy and Chinese painting. In 36 BC, Emperor Yuan of Han chose his concubines from the whole state.

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 Because of <mask>'s fame in the county, she was his first choice as concubine Nan County. Emperor Yuan issued an edict that <mask> should enter his harem soon.<mask>'s father said that his daughter was too young to enter the harem, but could not violate the decree. <mask> left her hometown and entered the harem of Emperor Yuan in early summer. According to the custom in the palace, when choosing a new wife, the Emperor was first presented with portraits of all the candidate women. It is said that because of <mask>'s confidence of beauty and temperament, she refused to bribe the artist Mao Yanshou as the other maids did. As a reprisal, Mao Yanshou painted a mole of widowed tears on <mask>'s portrait. As a result, during her time in the Lateral Courts, <mask> was never visited by the Emperor and remained as a palace lady-in-waiting. <mask>'s portrait was either never viewed by the Emperor or was not in its true form, and therefore the Emperor overlooked her.Departing for the frontier

In 33 BC, Huhanye visited Chang'an as part of the tributary system that existed between the Han and Xiongnu governments. He took the opportunity to request to become an imperial son-in-law, which is recorded by Lou Jingde. Typically the daughter of a concubine would then be offered, but unwilling to honour Huhanye with a real princess, Emperor Yuan ordered that the plainest girl in the harem be selected. He asked for volunteers and promised to present her as his own daughter. The idea of leaving their homeland and comfortable life at court for the grasslands of the far and unknown north was abhorrent to most of the

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 young women, but <mask> accepted. When the matron of the harem sent her unflattering portrait to the Emperor, he merely glanced at it and nodded his approval. Only when summoned to court was <mask>'s beauty revealed.The Emperor considered retracting his decision, but it was too late by then, and he regretfully presented <mask> to Huhanye, who was delighted. Relations with the Xiongnu subsequently improved, and artist Mao Yanshou was subsequently executed for deceiving the Emperor. Life with the Xiongnu
<mask> became a favourite of Huhanye Chanyu, giving birth to two sons. Only one, Yituzhiyashi (伊屠智牙師), seems to have survived. They also had two daughters, Yun (雲) known as Subu Juci (须卜居次) and Dangyu Juci(当于居次). Yun was created Princess Yimuo and would later become a powerful figure in Xiongnu politics. When Huhanye died in 31 BC, <mask> requested to return to China.Emperor Cheng, however, ordered that she follow Xiongnu levirate custom and become the wife of the next Chanyu, the eldest brother (or her stepson, born by her husband's first wife) of her husband. In her new marriage, she had two daughters. <mask> was honoured as Ninghu Yanzhi (寧胡閼氏 "Hu-Pacifying Chief-Consort"). Cultural legacy

Statistics show that there are about 700 poems and songs and 40 kinds of stories and folktales about <mask> from more than 500 famous writers, both ancient (Shi Chong, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin, Zhang Zhongsu, Cai Yong, <mask>, Yelü Chucai) and modern (Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Tian Han, Jian Bozan, Fei Xiaotong, Lao She, Chen Zhisui). Literature
 Chapter novel: You Feng Qi Yuan
 Variety Plays (known as

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title: Wang Zhaojun

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 Zaju in China) in Yuan Dynasty: Han Gong Qiu'
 Biography in Ming Dynasty: He Rong Ji Han Shu, Xiongnu Zhuan (first known account of <mask>jun)
 Qin Cao ("Principle of the Lute") by Cai Yong (c. 2nd century)
 Xijing Zaji ("Sundry Accounts of the Western Capital") (c. 3rd century)
 Han Gong Qiu ("The Autumn in the Palace of Han") by Ma Zhiyuan (c. 13th century)
 <mask> by Guo Moruo (1923)
 <mask>jun by Cao Yu (1978)
 Imperial Lady by Andre Norton and Susan Schwartz (1990)
 Chapter 3, "Naturalizing National Unity: Political Romance and the Chinese Nation," of The Mongols at China's Edge by Uradyn E. Bulag (2002) contains a detailed discussion of variants of the <mask> Zhaojun legend. Film, television and music
 Beyond The Great Wall (1964), Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers. Linda Lin Dai played <mask> Zhaojun.<mask> (1984), Hong Kong TV series on Asia Television, supervised by <mask>. <mask> (1985), TV series by Hong Kong Asia Television Limited. Wei Qiuhua played <mask>. <mask> (1988), Taiwanese TV series on CTV, directed by Zhou You. Song Gangling played <mask>. <mask> (2005), TV series by China Central Television (CCTV) and China Television Media, Ltd. Yang Mi played <mask>. Zhaojun Chu Sai (2006), TV series by China Central Television (CCTV).Li Caihua played <mask>. "Wang Zhaojun", song by Yang Yang

See also

 Xi Shi
 Diaochan
 Yang Guifei

References

External links

 Hou Han Shu'' Chapter eighty nine Nan Xiong Nu Lie Zhuan
 Zhaojun cultural festival

Han dynasty imperial consorts
Xiongnu
1st-century BC Chinese people
Chinese ladies-in-waiting
1st-century BC Chinese women
Chinese

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title: Lancelot de Mole

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<mask> "Lance<mask> CBE, (13 March 1880 – 6 May 1950) was an Australian engineer and inventor. He made several approaches to the British authorities, in 1912, 1914, and 1916, with plans for a vehicle driven by a type of caterpillar track, believing that it could have a military application. It was ahead of its time because in 1912 the need for such a military device had not yet arisen. To further complicate matters his correspondence was set aside due to various bureaucratic blunders, and was not given to the appropriate officers. In 1919, three years after the first military tanks had been built and used in warfare during World War I, a Royal Commission acknowledged the potential of <mask>'s innovative vehicle. The commission noted the unfortunate consequences of his submissions being overlooked, and that while his designs had no influence on the actual development of the tank, tanks might have been developed much earlier if his idea had been properly investigated. Family

The eldest of the five children of <mask> (1852–1939), an architect and surveyor, and <mask> (1858–1941), née Moulden,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92413770 Deaths: DeMole, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Thursday, 14 August 1941), p.18.]</ref> <mask> Eldin <mask> was born in Willunga, South Australia, on 13 March 1880. Siblings
He had three sisters and one brother: Florence Louise <mask> (1881–1966) (later Mrs. Feldtmann), Winifred <mask> <mask> (1886–1903), <mask> <mask> (1886–1934), and Gladys Rose <mask> (1887–1979). His younger brother, Clive, enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force on 9 September 1914. He

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 was wounded in action in the Dardanelles on 28 June 1915, receiving a gunshot wound and a fracture to his left arm, and was invalided back to Australia in March 1916. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant on 1 January 1919, and to Lieutenant on 1 April 1919. He was discharged from the AIF in the U.K. in September 1919. Wife
He married Harriet Josephine Walter (1890–1957) on 21 July 1915.Education
His family moved to Victoria when he was 7 years old, and he was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School until 1891, and then at the Berwick Grammar School. After leaving school he trained as an engineering draftsman. Inventions
He was a prolific inventor; and a number of his inventions were patented. U.S. patents
 US patent no.1,408,569, (held by <mask> Eldin <mask>le), dated 7 March 1922 (filed 4 March 1920), for a "Road Vehicle". US patent no.1,448,056, (held by <mask> Eldin <mask>le), dated 13 March 1923 (filed 17 July 1920), for a "Differential or Balance Gear". US patent no.1,737,573, (held by <mask> Eldin <mask>le), dated 3 December 1929 (filed 14 March 1925), for a "Changing Sign and Display Apparatus". Applications for Australian patents
 1902: Australasian Mining Patents: Oylndrical ore concentrator, West Australia, February 7.No.3723 — L. E. <mask>, Kalgoorlie, W.A. 1902: Australasian Mining Patents: Concentrator — L. E. <mask>le, Brighton, Victoria: A cylindrical ore concentrator. Victoria, May 14, No.19,079. 1902: Inventions and Patents: An improved method of and apparatus for automatically operating telephone exchanges (provisional); No.7898; application made week ending

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 30 August 1902. The tank

Inspired by the uncomfortable experience of travelling over rough terrain in the Western Australian countryside in 1911, <mask> developed, and then submitted an idea of a tracked armoured vehicle ("chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches") to the British War Office in 1912; in June 1913 he received a reply that his idea had been rejected. A model of his tank is displayed at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. He wrote to the British Munitions Inventions Department on 19 June 1919 seeking remuneration for the expenses he had incurred in submitting his invention to the Department for use during the war.<mask>'s formal claim
Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors
The British Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, conducted by Mr Justice Sargant, investigated the claims of twelve persons (10 individuals, including <mask>, and one pair) relating to the invention of tanks, delivered its findings and recommendations on 27 November 1919. The commission's Report announced that "in estimating the value of the invention of the Tanks for the purpose of [our] recommendations, we have taken into account not merely the precise class of Tanks which went into action at the Battle of the Somme, but also any modified or improved classes of Tanks which may fairly be considered to result from the normal development of the inherent potentialities of the original invention". Notwithstanding this, however, the Report continued, "we have not taken into account any special or exceptional inventions which may subsequently have

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 set of ideas". Commission's rejection
The Royal Commission rejected the claims of Lieutenant-Colonel <mask> Maitland Boothby, Commodore M.F. Sueter, Major Thomas Gerard Hetherington — the separate claims of Boothby, Sueter, and Hetherington were rejected on the grounds that the important services that they had rendered came within the scope of their military employment — and that of Colonel R.E.B. Crompton and his assistant Mr. Lucien Alphonse Legros, on the basis that they had "worked loyally and very hard" at their allotted tasks, they had been well-paid as consulting engineers, and had neither invented nor discovered any of the special features that were ultimately incorporated in the tanks. In <mask>'s case, however, the commission's Report was far more sympathetic:The case of this claimant was heard a few days after the conclusion of the other cases. We consider that he is entitled to the greatest credit for having made and reduced to practical shape as far back as the year 1912 a very brilliant invention which anticipated and in some respects surpassed that actually put into use in the year 1916.It was this claimant's misfortune and not his fault that his invention was in advance of his time, and failed to be appreciated and was put aside because the occasion for its use had not then arisen. We regret exceedingly that we are unable to recommend any award to him. But we are bound to adhere to the general rule in such cases as these that a claimant must show a causal connexion between the making of his invention and the user of any similar invention by the Government. Reward
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 finally recognised the brilliance of <mask>'s design, even declaring that it was superior to the machines actually developed, but because of its narrow remit the commission was unable to recommend an award. However, <mask>le was told that if he were to make a claim for out-of-pocket expenses, it would be regarded favourably. He was asked to supply a detailed statement of his expenditure on the project, and was reimbursed in the sum of £987 (about £50,000 2019 value).Williams, 1933. He was made an honorary corporal in 1919; and, early in 1920, it was announced from London that he had been appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).At the formal investiture of the award, on 28 July 1921, in the ballroom of the New South Wales' State Government House, Lord Forster, the seventh Governor-General of Australia, was so nervous that he dropped the decoration before it could be pinned on <mask>le's chest. Post-war
After the war, <mask> made his case to the Australian government. Inquiries from that government to the British one yielded little but polite responses that Mr <mask>'s ideas had unfortunately been too advanced for their time and thus were not recognized as they should have been. Employment
After the war <mask> became an engineer in the design branch of the Sydney Water Board. Death
He died at Liverpool, New South Wales, on 6 May 1950.Personal, The West Australian, (Tuesday, 9 May 1950), p.2. See also
 Günther Burstyn
 History of the tank
 Landship Committee
 Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors

Footnotes

References

 <mask>, A.T., "The War Museum: Some

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texts: Impressions: The Tank Australian", The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 18 April 1925), p. 16. Gray, E.D.(1924a), "Story of the Tanks: <mask>'s Remarkable Invention: War Office Ineptitude", The West Australian, (Monday, 11 August 1924), p.8. Gray, E.D. (1924b), "Story of the Tanks; <mask>'s Travelling Caterpillar Fort; Remarkable Letter From Perth in 1914", The Argus, (Saturday, 9 August 1924), p.6. Williams, G.M., "Letter to the Editor: Military Tanks", The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 13 June 1933), p.8. Williams' letter, containing important, significant, and hitherto unknown facts was written in direct response to a small article that had been published on the previous day: War Tank: An Australian Invention: Rejected in 1911, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 12 June 1933), p.9. Awards to Tank Inventors: Royal Commission's Report: Mr. Churchill's "Driving Force", The Times'', No.42269, (Friday, 28 November 1919), p. 14, col.D. Awards to Tank Inventors, The (Adelaide) Register, (Thursday, 29 January 1920), p.6.Australia to the Fore: Invention of the War Tank, The (Adelaide) Register, (Thursday, 12 February 1920), p.7. Concerning People: Corporal L. E. De <mask>, The (Adelaide) Register, (Saturday, 28 February 1920), p.8. Investiture: by Lord Foster: Ceremony at Government House: C.B.E. ("Mr <mask> E<mask> Mole, for services respecting the invention of military tanks"), The Sydney Morning Herald, (Friday, 29 July 1921), p.8. Institution of Engineers, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Friday ,13 April 1923), p.10. Tank Inventor: Corporal De Mole: Early Arrival Expected, Cairns Post, (Thursday

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 26 February 1920), p.8. External links
 National Archives of Australia: World War I Service Record: <mask> Eldin <mask> (7478).Australian Dictionary of Biography <mask> <mask>, <mask> Eldin (1880–1950)
 DeMole "Design not passed on" (Article on WWI tank development; included pics of Demole and sketch of tank). Australian War Memorial: Passport photograph of Mr. <mask> Eldin <mask> (c.1916). Australian War Memorial: Full length studio portrait of Private <mask> Eldin <mask> (7478), in 1917. People educated at Melbourne Grammar School
People from Adelaide
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century Australian engineers
20th-century Australian inventors
Discovery and invention controversies
Tracked vehicles
Australian military personnel of World War I
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title: Mikhail Chigorin

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<mask> (also Tchigorin; ;  – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet chess school", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. Chess career
<mask> was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. <mask>'s parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his schoolteacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer.Once smitten with the game, he terminated his employment and started life as a chess professional. In 1876, he started a chess magazine, Chess Sheet, which he edited until 1881 (only 250 subscribers in all of Russia). He played a series of matches with established masters Emanuel Schiffers (1878–1880) and Semyon Alapin (1880) and notched up a large plus score against each. It was not long after that he was regarded as the best player in the city and possibly the whole of Russia. His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+10−5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. This event included 17 master competitors. At the great London tournament of 1883, he finished fourth (+16−10=0) behind Zukertort, Wilhelm Steinitz and Blackburne.The 14 competitors in this double round robin event included practically all of the best chessplayers in the world. At the very strong tournament of New

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title: Mikhail Chigorin

texts: York 1889 he was equal first with Max Weiss. Following this great success he challenged the world champion Steinitz for a match with the World Championship at stake. The World Championship match was played at Havana in 1889, but he lost 10½–6½ (+6−10=1). A second World Championship match was played also at Havana in 1892, but he narrowly lost 12½–10½ (+8−10=5). His overall record against Steinitz was very close (+24−27=8). He also played a much publicised 'telegraph match' against Steinitz in 1890, devised to settle a theoretical argument.<mask> had the slight advantage of choosing the openings in advance from a list supplied by Steinitz and duly won both games. Towards the end of the century, his standing at home and abroad continued to rise, and he was in the world's top four or five players. His reputation as a match player too, continued to grow. He drew an 1893 match with Siegbert Tarrasch in Saint Petersburg (+9−9=4) and in his lifetime, maintained a narrow plus score against Tarrasch (+14−13=8), who was a fearsome player in his own right. He had a strong plus score against Richard Teichmann (+8−3=1), but a poor record versus David Janowski (+4−17=4). Most of his losses to Janowski occurred late in <mask>'s life, when he was past his best. In all likelihood, his best performance occurred at the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, where he placed second, ahead of reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker, Tarrasch and former world champion Steinitz.All of the greatest players of the time participated in the event and <mask>'s outstanding result included winning his individual encounter with tournament victor, Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Pillsbury had great respect for <mask>'s ability and for good reason, as <mask> had a marginal lifetime plus score against him (+8−7=6). Although <mask> had a

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 soundness of the defensive centre. Indeed, he went on to add to the development of the concept through the work he carried out with closed variations of the Ruy Lopez. He also pioneered some variations of the Slav Defence. A large bearded man, Chigorin was described as 'decidedly handsome'. Frank Marshall once commented on the highly agitated state that would possess Chigorin when faced with difficult positions. Aside from the usual frantic foot-tapping and crossing of legs, he would occasionally become "a bundle of nerves", at which point his temperament could turn "quite fierce".Later life

As an ambassador for Russian chess, <mask> was a shining example; he gave many lectures, wrote magazine articles and chess columns and subsidised or otherwise supported a number of periodicals to keep them afloat despite low readership levels. He also founded a chess club in Saint Petersburg and tried for many years to establish a chess association, an attempt that finally succeeded just a few years after his death. According to the Canadian International Master Lawrence Day, Chigorin travelled with the young Fedor Bogatyrchuk to Russian events in the 1905–1907 period, helping to train him. After moving to Canada following World War II, Bogatyrchuk then trained Day. In 1907, Chigorin failed badly in a chess tournament. He was clearly not in good health and was diagnosed by doctors in Carlsbad with an advanced and untreatable case of diabetes. This prompted a prediction that he had only months to live, whereupon he returned to his estranged wife and daughter in Lublin and died the following January.In 1909, a Chigorin Memorial tournament was played in St. Petersburg. After that many more followed: from 1947 onwards mainly in Sochi and from 1990 back in Saint Petersburg. Legacy

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 talent, lively games and prolific teachings, many Russians regard <mask> as the founder of their "School of chess", later to become known as the Soviet School of Chess. Overshadowed to some extent in the 1920s by the exciting new theories of the hypermodern movement, <mask>'s influence nevertheless demands a prominent and permanent place in the Soviet chess hegemony of the 20th century. Openings

<mask> has several chess openings or variations of openings named after him, the two most important being the Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7) and the Chigorin Defence to the Queen's Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6). Whilst the former has remained popular through the 1900s, the latter struggled to attract a great many devotees until relatively recently. Igor Miladinović has used the Chigorin Defence with great regularity, but its current revival owes much to the efforts of Alexander Morozevich, who has championed the opening both in play and in his book – The Chigorin Defence According To Morozevich (published 2007).Another opening line invented by <mask> is 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 in the French Defence. It is now generally regarded as a forerunner of King's Indian setups, but Chigorin also played it with other ideas (such as b2–b3) in mind. In popular culture
A famous Chigorin game played against Steinitz in 1892 is used as the base for the plot of The Squares of the City, a 1965 science-fiction novel by John Brunner. References

Bibliography

External links

 <mask> download 171 of his games in pgn format. 1850 births
1908 deaths
People from Gatchina
People from Tsarskoselsky Uyezd
Chess players of the Russian Empire
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<mask> (born 10 February 1979) is a Norwegian novelist, short story writer, playwright and graphic designer. He lives in Oslo. Writing career

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<mask> was born in Stavanger. He made his literary debut in 2001, with a collection of short prose entitled Herfra blir du bare eldre ('From here on in you only get older'). The following year he published a collection of short stories called Ambulanse ('Ambulance') and 2005 saw the publication of his first novel, Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet? ('Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?'). The novel is mainly set in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.It  deals with a person who, instead of trying to be best, decides to be second best in life, like his hero, Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. In 2009 the novel was made into a television series, starring Chad Coleman as well as other, well known Scandinavian actors, including Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen and Bjarne Henriksen. Rights to the book have been sold to United States, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Faroe Islands, Italy, Russia, Turkey, South Korea and France. Demanding that the book be translated into English, an editor in the publishing house Simon & Schuster likened <mask>'s work with that of Jonathan Safran Foer. The book was published in English by Seven Stories Press in New York in June 2011, and was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Title of 2011 and one of Electric Literature's Most Beautiful Books of the Year. In 2007, Harstad published Hässelby, a novel about the children's book character Alfie Atkins' life as an

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 adult, who ultimately is held responsible for the end of the world. The novel is influenced by David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks, the theory of Synchronicity and Arthur Koestler's book The Roots of Coincidence.In 2008 he published his first sci-fi / horror novel, 172 Hours on the Moon, a crossover between young adult fiction and adult fiction. The novel, dealing with a return to the moon in 2012 (2019 in the US edition), is partly a homage to sci-fi and horror films from the 1970s and 1980s. For DARLAH he was awarded the 2008 Brage Prize in the category children's literature. The rights to the novel has been sold to United States, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Faroe Islands, Turkey, South Korea, France, Mexico, Taiwan, Brasil and Serbia. In 2015 he published Max-Mischa-Tetoffensiven, a more than a 1000 pages long novel centered around the life of the playwright and theatre director Max Hansen who moved from his native Norway to the U.S. as a teenager. The Dutch translation of this work was awarded the 2018 Europese Literatuur Prijs, a prize for translated European literature. <mask> was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2019.Plays
<mask> is also a playwright, and four of his works was published in 2008 as Bsider ('B-sides'). In late 2008 <mask> was hired as an in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway, as the first to hold such a position. During his time at the National Theatre he started working on an extensive two part play which was published in 2010 as Osv. ('Etc.'). The play, which in its Norwegian edition is over 500 pages long, is set in 1994 and centers around an

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texts: American family whose relationship is falling apart. The father, a Vietnam War veteran, suffers a nervous breakdown more than two decades after his homecoming and moves into the park at Constitution Gardens in Washington D.C., next to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall. The daughter struggles in London, after the loss of her husband and the son is a war photographer, covering conflicts in Europe and Africa.The Bosnian War, the first Chechen war and the Rwandan genocide plays a big part in the play, both as a setting and as examples of growing conflicts in the mid-1990s. For this play, <mask> received, in 2014, the Norwegian Ibsen Award. Also, he was nominated for another Brage Prize Award. In 2011 <mask> oversaw the first production of the complete Memoirs of a Breadman-trilogy at Black Box Teater in Oslo, a theater known for its focus on modern and contemporary theater. The plays are all a mix between comedy, tragedy and absurdism. The first part, Akapulco, takes place in a fictitious Swiss village in Mexico around 1920-1930. The second part, Ellis Iland is set in Manhattan between 1906 and 1917 and focus on two immigrants, a German man called Barker and a Ukrainian man called Stoklitsky, who struggles to make a life for themselves in the city.Barker is an accountant, but is forced by their landlady to work in the New York City sewer hunting alligators while Stoklitsky, who just happens to be tone deaf, tries to compose a symphony for theremins, containing only perfect fifths. The trilogy was one of three candidates for the 2012 Norwegian Ibsen Award. Though no official explanation has been given by the

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 author, many of the geographical names in <mask>'s plays are intentionally misspelled (e.g. Washingtin, Akapulco, Ellis Iland, Mattrhorn). In the Memoirs of a Breadman, references are also made to places such as Ithalia, Mexicoo, U.E.S.A, Zyrich, Miilano, Providense and Chikago. Non-fiction
In 2012 Harstad published his first non-fiction work, Blissard - A Book About Motorpsycho. The book is a mix between a biography of the Norwegian band Motorpsycho and their 1996 album Blissard, a personal account of the author's long time relationship with the band's music and his own teenage years.More than 140 pages of the books total of 330 is made up by footnotes, where Harstad expands on band trivia, details, digressions, literary detours and personal stories as well as including interviews with people affiliated with the band, poetry, reviews and newspaper clippings. Bibliography
 Herfra blir du bare eldre, [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2001. Ambulanse, [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2002. Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?, [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2005. Hässelby, [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2007. Darlah - 172 timer på månen, [Oslo]: Cappelen Damm, 2008. Bsider [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2008.Osv. [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2010. Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2015. Plays
Grader av hvitt, 2007
Washington, 2007
Krasnoyarsk, 2008
Brødmannens memoarer del 1: Akapulco, 2007
Brødmannens memoarer del 2: Ellis Iland, 2009
Osv., 2010

References

External links
Three Short Stories in English
Excerpt from Hässelby in English

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title: Jeremy Harris (politician)

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<mask> (born December 7, 1950) is an American politician who served as Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1994 to 2004. A biologist by training, <mask> started his political career as a delegate to the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention. While <mask> served as chief executive of the City & County of Honolulu, the city was named "America's Greatest City" by the official American governance journal, Governing Magazine. <mask> is the founder of the China-U.S. Conference of Mayors and Business Leaders and the Japan-American Conference of Mayors and Chamber of Commerce Presidents. He is married to Ramona <mask> and lives in Kalihi Valley on the island of O'ahu. Early years

Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, <mask> moved to Honolulu to study at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he obtained dual undergraduate degrees in related biology fields. Upon graduation, <mask> went on to the University of California at Irvine, where he obtained his master's degree in population and environmental biology, specializing in urban ecosystems.He returned to Hawaii and settled on the island of Kauai, where he was a professor at Kauai Community College and marine advisor with the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program. Political career

<mask> was elected by his fellow Kauai residents to serve as their delegate to the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention. The convention of 1978 came to be recognized as one of the most important events in Hawaii history as from its body of delegates, many would become future "giants of Hawaii politics" as the media would later recall. <mask> debated alongside John D. Waihee III, future governor of Hawaii, as well as future legislative leaders Carol Fukunaga, Helene Hale, Les Ihara, Jr., Barbara Marumoto and Joseph M. Souki. In 1979, <mask> was elected to the Kauai County Council where he served a single two-year term. In 1984, he joined the City & County of Honolulu as executive assistant to Mayor Frank F. Fasi. He was soon promoted to deputy managing director and then managing director.In 1994, Fasi resigned as mayor

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 of Honolulu and in the line of succession, <mask> assumed the office. Mayor of Honolulu

<mask> won a special election to become mayor of Honolulu outright in September 1994. He was re-elected in 1996 and 2000, appealing mostly to Chinese American, Filipino American and Japanese American communities. During his tenure, Honolulu residents voted to limit mayors to two four-year terms and thus made <mask> ineligible for re-election in 2004. Former members of the Honolulu City Council Duke Bainum and Mufi Hannemann and former mayor Frank F. Fasi ran to succeed <mask>, with Hannemann ultimately the victor. <mask> is recognized as having executed the most complete government system overhaul in Honolulu history. He reorganized all municipal departments mostly by mergers to streamline all services provided by the city and county.He also curtailed urban sprawl by reforming the system of land use planning to preserve open spaces and agricultural districts. Particularly during his first term, his management skills and those of his chief assistants were marginal and millions of dollars were embezzled or wasted as a result. <mask>'s most ambitious and controversial project was 21st Century Oahu: A Shared Vision for the Future. 21st Century Oahu is a community based visioning program where neighborhoods would be given some control and CIP funding priority over their own community development, urban planning and beautification projects. Hundreds of public safety, environment, transportation, cultural and recreation construction projects were initiated and many completed as an outgrowth of <mask>'s 21st Century Oahu project. Gubernatorial campaign of 2002

<mask> was considered a favorite to win the 2002 race for governor of Hawaii. However, high-level Democratic Party insiders who had backed fellow Democrats against <mask> in 1994, 1996 and 2000 did not want to relinquish the governorship and party leadership to this independent-minded Democrat, and thus fought against his candidacy, beginning with a public campaign demanding <mask> resign as mayor if he intended to

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 run for governor.In the spring of 2002, local news media reported allegations of campaign finance wrongdoing by some of <mask>'s staffers. Despite polling close to presumptive Republican nominee Linda Lingle, <mask> bowed out of the gubernatorial race. Hawaii Democratic leaders then backed incumbent Lieutenant Governor Mazie Hirono, a favorite of Sen. Daniel Inouye, for the nomination instead. Legacy

He built the Marine Education Center at the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, continued the Waikiki Revitalization project started by Mayor Fasi that changed the look of Waikiki's main thoroughfares, Queen's Surf Beach, Kuhio Beach and Kapiolani Park Bandstand, established torchlighting ceremonies and hula performances every night at Waikiki, and started Brunch on the Beach. However, critics of <mask>, including his successor Mufi Hannemann, contend that these programs came at the expense of basic city services and infrastructure. <mask> has the distinction of being the only mayor to be elected more than once as United States Public Administrator of the Year by the American Society of Public Administration. Twice, Honolulu's "The Bus" was honored as America's best transportation system.Other foremost national societies named Honolulu first on the list of Kid Friendly Cities as well as the most digitally and technologically advanced city in the United States. <mask> made waves on the international stage as the founder of the Mayors' Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit. Delegates in 1999, who included over 400 leaders from the Asia-Pacific Rim nations, voted to establish a permanent secretariat in Honolulu in <mask>'s honor. <mask> also established the Pacific Islands Environmental Symposium, the China-U.S. Conference of Mayors and Business Leaders, the Asia Pacific Urban Technology Institute and the Japan-American Conference of Mayors and Chamber of Commerce Presidents. References

External links

 City & County of Honolulu
 "Jeremy's World Editorial Cartoons", John Pritchett

1950 births
Living people
Mayors of Honolulu
Kauai County Council members
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title: Dikgang Moseneke

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<mask> (born 20 December 1947) is a South African judge and former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. Biography
<mask> was born in Pretoria and went to school there. He joined the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) at the age of 14. The following year he was arrested, detained and convicted of participating in anti-apartheid activity. He spent ten years as a prisoner on Robben Island, where he met and befriended Nelson Mandela and other leading activists. While imprisoned he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science and a B.Iuris degree, and would later complete a Bachelor of Laws, all from the University of South Africa. He also served on the disciplinary committee of the prisoners' self-governed association football body, Makana F.A.Moseneke started his professional career as an attorney's articled clerk at Klagbruns Inc in Pretoria in 1973. He was admitted as an attorney in 1976 and practised for five years at Maluleke, Seriti and Moseneke, mainly before the Company Court in liquidation matters and in criminal trials. In 1983 he was called to the Pretoria Bar. His application had sparked a dispute within the Bar which culminated in its abolishing its "whites-only" membership rule. Moseneke practised as an advocate in Johannesburg and Pretoria and was noted for his Company Law, Bankruptcy and Indirect Tax practice and was briefed extensively by black and Asian businessmen. He was awarded senior counsel status ten years later. Moseneke worked underground for the PAC during the 1980s and became its Deputy President when it was unbanned in 1990.Moseneke also served on the technical committee that drafted the interim constitution of 1993. In 1994 he was appointed Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, which

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 conducted the first democratic elections in South Africa. Judicial career
In September 1994, while practising as a silk, Moseneke accepted an acting appointment to the Transvaal Provincial Division. Between 1995 and 2001, however, Moseneke left the Bar to pursue a full-time corporate career, most famously as the chair of Telkom. In November 2001, <mask> was appointed to the High Court in Pretoria, his hometown, by then President Thabo Mbeki. A year later, he was made a judge in the Constitutional Court and, in June 2005, became Deputy Chief Justice. On 4 November 2013, Moseneke was appointed Acting Chief Justice during the long-term leave of Mogoeng Mogoeng.Moseneke was regarded as one of the strongest judges on South Africa's Constitutional Court. For example, he was praised for his "towering legal mind" and "commitment to fairness and justice" and described as "a most independent-minded and imaginative jurist". Moseneke's judgments include:
S v Thebus, which upheld the constitutional validity of the doctrine of common purpose;
Steenkamp NO v Provincial Tender Board, which details the relationship between public- and private-law remedies;
Masetlha v President, which held National Intelligence Agency head Billy Masetlha was not entitled to procedural fairness when he was dismissed by then President Thabo Mbeki;
National Treasury v Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance, where the Court refused to grant an interim injunction to stop Gauteng's controversial e-tolls;
Mazibuko v Sisulu, in which then leader of the opposition Lindiwe Mazibuko succeeded in obtaining an order declaring unconstitutional the parliamentary rules that allowed the National Assembly to stall, rather than proceed with, the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma that


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 ruling party. <mask> has twice been passed over for appointment as Chief Justice, despite being the most senior judge on the Court. On the second occasion, when Mogoeng was appointed, many prominent figures said Moseneke was the better candidate, and questioned the ANC's motives in snubbing him.Mogoeng was one of the Constitutional Court's most junior members, having been appointed to it less than two years earlier, and having had a relatively short judicial career at one of the smallest High Court divisions prior to that. His nomination ahead of Moseneke reminded many of the notorious supersession by L. C. Steyn, a National Party favourite, of Oliver Schreiner. Finally, whereas Moseneke had been active in the struggle against apartheid, Mogoeng had been a prosecutor in a bantustan. Moseneke retired from the Constitutional Court in May 2016. Other positions and awards
Moseneke has seven honorary doctorates from the University of the North, University of Natal, University of Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, University of South Africa, University of Cape Town and CUNY. In 2006, he succeeded Justice Richard Goldstone as Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand. Moseneke was also named as an executor of the will of Nelson Mandela, who died in late 2013.He is currently chairman of the Board of Directors of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Moseneke was the 2020 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law awarded by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. References

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title: Red Holzman

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William "<mask><mask> (August 10, 1920 – November 13, 1998) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1967 to 1982. <mask> helped lead the Knicks to two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1996, <mask> was named one of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History. Early career
<mask> was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, on August 10, 1920, to Jewish immigrant parents, as the son of a Romanian mother and Russian father. He grew up in Brooklyn's Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhood and played basketball for Franklin K. Lane High School  in the mid-1930s. He attended the University of Baltimore and later the City College of New York, where he played for two years until graduation in

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 1942.<mask> joined the United States Navy in the same year, and played on the Norfolk, Virginia Naval Base team till he was discharged from the Navy in 1945. Professional career

After the Navy, <mask> joined the NBL Rochester Royals, which won the NBL championship in <mask>'s first season, and he was named Rookie of the Year in 1944–45. In 1945–46 and 1947–48 he was on the NBL's first All League team; in the interim year he was on its second team. <mask> stayed with the team through their move to the NBA and subsequent NBA championship in 1951. In 1953, <mask> left the Royals and joined the Milwaukee Hawks as a player-coach, eventually retiring as a player in 1954 but continuing as the team's head coach. Coaching career
During the 1956–1957 season, <mask> led the Hawks (then in St. Louis, Missouri) to 19 losses during their first 33 games, and was subsequently fired. He then

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texts: became a scout for the New York Knicks for the next ten years, till 1967, whereupon he became the team's head coach for the most part until 1982.<mask>'s former player, Willis Reed, replaced him as Knicks head coach in 1977, but <mask> returned near the start of the 1978–1979 season. During this 15-year span as Knicks' coach, <mask> won a total of 613 games, including two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. In 1969, <mask> coached the Knicks to a then single-season NBA record 18-game win streak, breaking the 17-game record first set back in 1946. For his efforts leading up to the Knicks' 1970 championship win, <mask> was named the NBA Coach of the Year for that year. He won his second NBA championship as the Knicks won the 1973 NBA Finals against the Lakers. He was one of very few individuals to have won an NBA championship as both player and coach. As a coach, his final

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texts: record was 696 wins and 604 losses.At the time of his retirement in 1982, he had the second most career victories as a head coach in NBA history. In 1985, <mask> was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The New York Knicks have retired the number 613 in his honor, equaling the number of wins he accumulated as their head coach. He is also a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. <mask> lived with his wife in a home they bought in Cedarhurst, New York in the 1950s. Following his lengthy NBA coaching career, <mask> was diagnosed with leukemia and died at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York in 1998. In 2000 a clock tower was erected in his honor at the intersection of Central Avenue and Cedarhurst Avenue in Cedarhurst as part of “Operation Downtown,” a project started by Nassau County presiding officer Bruce Blakeman

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title: Haliru Mohammed Bello

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<mask> (born 9 October 1945) is a Nigerian politician. He was trained in veterinary medicine. He held various administrative positions under the military governments before 1999. He was Minister of Communications from June 2001 to May 2003. After he left office, he was indicted in a bribery scandal involving the German telecom company Siemens AG. He was Defense Minister from July 2011 until June 2012. He was appointed the acting National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria on 25 May 2015.Early years

<mask> <mask> was born in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State on 9 October 1945. After his primary education in Birnin Kebbi, he attended Government College, Zaria, now Berewa College. He was admitted to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1966, and studied veterinary medicine. He became a lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University and a Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of Nigeria. In 1977 <mask> was appointed Commissioner for Agriculture for Sokoto State under the military government of General Olusegun Obasanjo, and then Commissioner for Education for Sokoto State. After the return to civilian rule in 1979, <mask> ran unsuccessfully for Deputy Governor of Sokoto State on the Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP) platform. He was GNPP Secretary for Sokoto State until December 1983, when the military resumed power under Muhammadu Buhari and banned party politics.<mask> worked for a private company, then was appointed first Assistant General Manager and then General Manager of the Rima River Basin and Rural Development Authority, a Federal Ministry of Water Resources agency. General Ibrahim Babangida appointed <mask> <mask> as Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service in 1988. He was the first Comptroller General of the Customs and Excise department, then a service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, under a new decentralized arrangement that began on 16 February 1988. He held this post until 1994, when General Sani Abacha replaced him by Brigadier General S. O. G. Ango. During the 1995-98 transition program, <mask> was a founding member of the Democratic Party of

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 Nigeria (DPN). After the death of Abacha, <mask> was one of the founders of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi State. In September 1999 President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed <mask> as a Commissioner on the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission.Minister of Communications

<mask> became the minister of Communications in June 2001 in a minor reshuffle of the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo, replacing <mask>. He was appointed at a time when the government was planning to privatise Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL). In December 2001, <mask> said that the regulator had been mistaken in revalidating the analog mobile licence granted to MTS First Mobile, which could interfere with plans for the nation's GSM network. He said the government was instead encouraging MTS to go into fixed and rural telephony. In September 2002 <mask> announced that 400,000 lines were being installed to expend NITEL's GSM network in the North-west zone. In May 2003 <mask> approved revised regulations for interconnection between telephone companies designed to foster competition. <mask> left office in May 2003.Subsequent bribery scandals

In 2007 a German court named several prominent Nigerians, including <mask>, in a bribery scandal involving communications firm Siemens AG. <mask> was alleged to have collected €70,000 in two installments, a charge that he denied. In total, the court found that Siemens had paid out €12 million in bribes to obtain contracts in Nigeria and other countries, and fined the company €201 million. In November 2007 the German authorities provided fresh information on the Siemens bribery scandal. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) launched an investigation. President Umaru Yar'Adua said of the case "... there will neither be sacred cows nor a cover up for anybody found culpable of breaching the law". In January 2010 another scandal emerged over a N5 billion contract for supply of equipment to (M-tel), a subsidiary of NITEL.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched an investigation. In

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 2002 <mask> had looked into complaints by Ericsson over the conduct of Motorola in trying to win a contract, and on the basis of his findings, the contract was awarded to Ericsson. <mask> was not accused of wrongdoing in this case. Later career

PDP leader
In June 2004 <mask> was elected as PDP National Vice Chairman for the North West Zone, which consisted of the states of Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Kebbi, Sokoto, Jigawa and Zamfara.< In March 2008 <mask> became Deputy National Chairman of the PDP. In August 2008, <mask> received the Diamond Nigerian Telecoms Award at a ceremony in Lagos. In January 2011 he was appointed Acting National Chairman of the PDP after Okwesilieze Nwodo was suspended by the Enugu High Court. <mask> supported a change to the PDP's zoning system so that President Goodluck Jonathan could run for reelection in 2011, rather than making a northerner the party's candidate.Minister of Defense

<mask> was Minister of Defense under President Goodluck Jonathan between 2011 and 2012. He was removed on 22 June 2012 during a period of escalating security problems in the north including bomb attacks by Boko Haram extremists. Acting Chairman of the PDP

Following the resignation of PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman, Anthony Anenih, the BOT appointed <mask> <mask> as its Acting Chairman. <mask>’s nomination was endorsed on 25 May 2015 by the BOT at a meeting at the Aso Rock presidential villa in Abuja. The decision was unexpected, as Anenih had said he was resigning so that Jonathan could take the post. On 10 February 2016, Bello was relieved of his duty after it was revealed that he was being prosecuted in connection with the alleged diversion of arms procurement funds. Controversy
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has already filed charges against him for their alleged role in the diversion of funds meant for the procurement of arms in the office of the National Security Adviser.References

Living people
Federal ministers of Nigeria
1945 births
Ahmadu Bello University alumni
Ahmadu Bello University faculty
National Working Committee chairs
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<mask> (29 July 1954 — 31 December 2001) was an Indian stockbroker. <mask>'s involvement in the 1992 Indian securities scam made him infamous as a market manipulator. Of the 27 criminal charges brought against <mask>, he was only convicted of four, before his death (by sudden heart attack) at age 47 in 2001. It was alleged that <mask> engaged in a massive stock manipulation scheme financed by worthless bank receipts, which his firm brokered for "ready forward" transactions between banks. <mask> was convicted by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India for his part in a financial scandal valued at  which took place on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The scandal exposed the loopholes in the Indian banking system and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) transaction system, and consequently the SEBI introduced new rules to cover those loopholes. He was on trial for 9 years, until he died at the end of 2001.Early life
<mask> Shantilal <mask> was born on 29 July 1954, at Paneli Moti, Rajkot district, in a Gujarati Jain family. His early childhood was spent in Borivali, where his father was a small-time textile businessman. Education
He did his early study in Janta Public School, Camp 2 Bhilai. A cricket enthusiast, <mask> did not show any special promise in school and came to Mumbai after his schooling for studies and to find work. <mask> completed his B.Com in 1976 from Lala Lajpatrai College, Bombay and worked a number of odd jobs for the next eight years. Work and life
Jobs, often related to sales, including selling hosiery, cement, and sorting diamonds. <mask> started his career as a sales person in the Mumbai office of New India Assurance Company Limited (NIACL).During this time, he got interested in the stock market and after a few days, resigned and joined a brokerage firm. In the early 1980s, he moved to a lower level clerical job at the brokerage firm Harjivandas Nemidas Securities  where he worked a jobber for the broker Prasann Pranjivandas Broker who he considered his "Guru". Over a period of ten years,

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