title: Al Capp

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 Political and Social Satire in the Comics" from Journal of Popular Culture; Vol. 25, Issue 4 (Spring 1992)
Caplin, Elliot, <mask> Remembered (1994) Bowling Green State University
Theroux, <mask>, The Enigma of <mask> (1999) Fantagraphics Books
Lubbers, Bob, Glamour International #26: The Good Girl Art of Bob Lubbers (May 2001)
Capp, Al, The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (2002) Overlook Press
Capp, Al, Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years — 4 volumes (2003–2004) Dark Horse Comics
Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books (2008) Dark Horse
Capp, Al, Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Vol. 1 – Vol.x(ongoing) (2010–present) The Library of American Comics
<mask>, <mask>, <mask>'s Complete Shmoo Vol. 2: The Newspaper Strips (2011) Dark Horse
Inge, M. Thomas, "Li'l Abner, Snuffy and Friends" from Comics and the U.S. South, pp. 3–27 (2012) Univ. Press of Mississippi
Kitchen, Denis, and Michael Schumacher, <mask>p: A Life to the Contrary (2013) Bloomsbury Publishing

External links

 Li'l Abner official site

 Denis Kitchen biography: <mask>
 Animation Resources: <mask>p part I
 Animation Resources: <mask> part II
 Animation Resources: <mask> part III
 Animation Resources: <mask>p part IV
 Animation Resources: <mask>p part V
 <mask> Deserves a Tribute (Newburyport News, 28 Sept. 2009)
 Dogpatch USA amusement park. The Dogpatch Family Band Mechanical Toy
 Dogpatch and Li'l Abner on Broadway in Life, January 14, 1957, pp. 71–83
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database

1909 births
1979

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<mask> "Charlotte Antoinette" <mask> (1782/84 – 25 September 1828), was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling. Her first name was <mask> (or Antonia), but in the French fashion of the time, she was often called Charlotte Antoinette. She was the author of the popular song "Sång i en melankolisk stund". Early life
<mask> was the daughter of <mask> and <mask>, actors and directors of a travelling theatre company. She became blind at the age of four due to an incompetent smallpox vaccination.Four years later, at the age of eight, she contracted smallpox, and the scars made people consider her ugly, which made her shy. As a child, she contributed to the household by singing songs she had composed herself to the music of the harp in her parents' theatre. She was widely advertised as a wonder: the singing and music-making blind child. She also played the guitar. Her father was very ambitious and upheld a high standard in the plays at his theatre company, often performing famous plays from the continent, such as plays by Shakespeare. Her mother was a good actress who became the first Swedish speaking Julia in Romeo and Juliet in Norrköping in 1776. They toured in both Sweden and Finland, and even performed at the Swedish court on at least one occasion.They were popular among the public, but often had financial difficulties and problems with irregular staff – during periods of staff-shortage they were

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 forced to use dolls on stage. Charlotta's sister Carolina Fredrika <mask> was also an actress, but she married a vicar in 1789 and retired. Career
After the death of her father in 1795, her mother took sole charge of the theatre and moved to Finland, where the competition was small, to tour as the director of her troupe. She sent her daughter to Stockholm to have an eye-operation by the famous doctors Rislachi and af Bjerkèn, that was promised to give her eyesight back. The operation, however, failed, and as Seuerling did not have the money to join her mother in Finland. She was thereby forced to stay in a boardinghouse for poor women. Her musical talent was discovered in 1806 by Per Aron Borg, who gave piano lessons to the poor women of the boardinghouse piano playing.He was impressed by her ability, and accepted her as his private student in musical theory in 1807, giving her a home with his family. Impressed by her ability to learn, he added more subjects, and soon, she excelled in nature sciences and languages. She also composed her own poems, and created a device by which she could write her poems down. Borg invented a blind-writing, by which she could learn to read notes, German and French. She was uninterested in subjects traditionally given to her gender, and Borg published a pamphlet where he argued that women were capable of learning subjects from which they were banned. Borg also taught her medicine; also in this subject, she was so successful that he argued that women would be equally and even better as medical doctors than men. Inspired by her


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texts: ability to learn, Borg founded the first Institute for blind and deaf in Sweden (1808).Seuerling was his first student, and she is sometimes regarded as the first blind student of her country. In 1808, Borg held a demonstration during which Seuerling displayed her ability and talent in reading and writing, playing the harp and clavichord, read notes, speak French and German, as well as weaving, sewing and knitting. During this time period in history, blind and deaf people were often suspected to be unable to educate, and the demonstration of <mask> <mask> was of great help to the institute. Her ability attracted attention, and a lot of the support of the newly founded institute is attributed to her. On 5 July 1809, Borg held a public exam for his pupils in front of five hundred guests, among them the queen, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. <mask> <mask> performed her own song: "I, who does not enjoy the pleasure to see the treasured Queen". Upon this, the queen complimented her, and Charlotta, entirely in the taste of the time, dropped her harp and fainted with happiness.She won a great success. The scene was described in a poem by Gustaf Snoilsky: Upon this the blind songmaiden was moved / and by her gratitute stagger..., which made her known as the "Songmaiden". After this, the queen became the protector of the institute, and it was also given government support. <mask> wrote the song "Sång i en melankolisk stund" (English: Song in a Moment of melancholy) for harp music. The song was very popular in Sweden during the entire 19th century. It

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title: Ice Cube

texts: O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as <mask>, is an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker. His lyrics on N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap's widespread popularity, and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), and The Predator (1992) were critically and commercially successful. He has also had an active film career since the early 1990s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of N.W.A in 2016. A native of Los Angeles, Jackson formed his first rap group called C.I.A. in 1986. In 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A.As its lead rapper, he wrote some of Dre's and most of Eazy's lyrics on Straight Outta Compton, a landmark album that shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped differentiate it from East Coast rap. N.W.A was also known for their violent lyrics, threatening to attack abusive police and innocent civilians alike, which stirred controversy. After a monetary dispute over the group's management by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller, <mask> left N.W.A in late 1989, teaming with New York artists and launching a solo rap career. <mask> entered cinema by playing Doughboy in director John Singleton's feature debut Boyz n the Hood, a 1991 drama named after a 1987 rap song that <mask> wrote. <mask> also cowrote and starred in the 1995 comedy film Friday; it premised a successful franchise and reshaped his persona into a bankable movie star. His

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 directorial debut was the 1998 film The Players Club. As of 2020, he has appeared in about 40 films, including the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, family comedies like the Barbershop series, and buddy cop comedies 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Ride Along.He was an executive producer of many of these films, as well as of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. Life and side ventures

<mask> was born on June 15, 1969, in Los Angeles, to Doris, a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, a machinist and UCLA groundskeeper. He has an older brother, and they had a half-sister who was murdered when <mask> was 12. He grew up on Van Wick Street in the Westmont section of South Los Angeles. In ninth grade at George Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, <mask> began writing raps after being challenged by his friend "Kiddo" in typewriting class. Kiddo lost. Explaining his stage name, <mask> implicates his older brother: "He threatened to slam me into a freezer and pull me out when I was an ice cube.I just started using that name, and it just caught on." <mask> also attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California. He was bused 40 miles to the suburban school from his home in a high-crime neighborhood. Soon after he wrote and recorded a few locally successful rap songs with N.W.A, he left for Arizona to enroll in the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall 1987 semester. In 1988, with a diploma in architectural drafting, he returned to the Los Angeles area and rejoined N.W.A,

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texts: but kept a career in architecture drafting as a backup plan. In 1990, he formed his own record label, Street Knowledge, whereby a musical associate via the rap group Public Enemy introduced him to the Nation of Islam (NOI). <mask> converted to Islam.Although denying membership in the NOI, whose ideology often rebukes whites and especially Jews, he readily adopted its ideology of black nationalism, familiar to the rap community. Still, he has claimed to heed his own conscience as a "natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God". Questioned in 2017, he said, in part, that he thinks "religion is stupid". He estimated, "I'm gonna live a long life, and I might change religions three or four times before I die. I'm on the Islam tip—but I'm on the Christian tip, too. I'm on the Buddhist tip as well. Everyone has something to offer to the world."On April 26, 1992, <mask> married Kimberly Woodruff, born September 1970. They have four children together. In 2005, asked about the balance between his music and his parenting, <mask> discussed counseling his children to appraise the violence depicted in all media, not just in music lyrics. His eldest son, O'Shea Jackson Jr., portrayed him in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. In a 2016 interview, he cited the 1975 film Jaws as his favorite movie, and his favorite among his own songs as "It Was a Good Day". Commercially, <mask> has endorsed Coors Light beer and St. Ides malt liquor, and licensed a clothing line, Solo by Cube. In 2017, he launched Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball

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 league starring former NBA players.Its first season started that June with eight teams, an eight-week regular season, playoffs, and a championship game. Musical career
In 1986 at the age of 16, <mask> began rapping in the trio C.I.A., but soon joined the newly formed rap group N.W.A. He was N.W.A's lead rapper and main ghostwriter on its official debut album, 1988's Straight Outta Compton. Via financial dispute, he left by the start of 1990. During 1990, his debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, found him also leading a featured rap group, Da Lench Mob. Meanwhile, he helped develop the rapper Yo Yo. 1986: C.I.A.With friend Sir Jinx, <mask> formed the rap group C.I.A., and performed at parties hosted by Dr. Dre. Since 1984, Dre was a member of a popular DJ crew, the World Class Wreckin' Cru, which by 1985 was also performing and recording electro rap. Dre had Cube help write the Wreckin Cru's hit song "Cabbage Patch". Dre also joined Cube on a side project, a duo called Stereo Crew, which made a 12-inch record, "She's a Skag", released on Epic Records in 1986. In 1987, C.I.A. released the Dr. Dre-produced single "My Posse". Meanwhile, the Wreckin' Cru's home base was the Eve After Dark nightclub, about a quarter of a mile outside of the city Compton in Los Angeles county.While Dre was on the turntable, <mask> would rap, often parodying other artists' songs. In one instance, <mask>'s rendition was "My Penis", parodying Run-DMC's "My Adidas". In 2015, the nightclub's co-owner and Wreckin' leader Alonzo Williams

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 would recall feeling his reputation damaged by this and asking it not to be repeated. 1986–1989: N.W.A. At 16, <mask> sold his first song to Eric Wright, soon dubbed Eazy-E, who was forming Ruthless Records and the musical team N.W.A, based in Compton, California. Himself from South Central Los Angeles, <mask> would be N.W.A's only core member not born in Compton. Upon the success of the song "Boyz-n-the-Hood"—written by Cube, produced by Dre, and rapped by Eazy-E, helping establish gangsta rap in California—Eazy focused on developing N.W.A, which soon gained MC Ren.<mask> wrote some of Dre's and nearly all of Eazy's lyrics on N.W.A's official debut album, Straight Outta Compton, released in August 1988. Yet by late 1989, <mask> questioned his compensation and N.W.A's management by Jerry Heller. <mask> also wrote most of Eazy-E's debut album Eazy-Duz-It. He received a total pay of $32,000, and the contract that Heller presented in 1989 did not confirm that he was officially an N.W.A member. After leaving the group and its label in December, <mask> sued Heller, and the lawsuit was later settled out of court. In response, N.W.A members attacked <mask> on the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin', and on N.W.A's next and final album, Niggaz4Life, in 1991. 1989–1993: Early solo career, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, and The Predator
In early 1990, <mask> recorded his debut solo album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, in New York with iconic rap group Public Enemy's production team, the Bomb Squad.Arriving in May 1990, it

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texts: was an instant hit, further swelling rap's mainstream integration. Controversial nonetheless, it drew accusations of misogyny and racism. The album introduces <mask>ube's affirmation of black nationalism and ideology of black struggle. Cube appointed Yo-Yo, a female rapper and guest on the album, to the head his record label, and helped produce her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode. Also in 1990, <mask>-E as a "house nigga", the track blames N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller for exploiting the group, mentions that he is a Jew, and calls for his murder. <mask> contended that he mentioned Heller's ethnicity merely incidentally, not to premise attack, but as news media mention nonwhite assailants' races. The track "Black Korea", also deemed racist, was also thought as foreseeing the 1992 Los Angeles riots. While controversial, Death Certificate broadened his audience; he toured with Lollapalooza in 1992. <mask>'s third album, The Predator, arrived in November 1992.Referring to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the song "Wicked" opens, "April 29 was power to the people, and we might just see a sequel." The Predator was the first album ever to debut at No. 1 on both the R&B/hip-hop and pop charts. Singles include "It Was a Good Day" and "Check Yo Self", songs having a "two-part" music video. Generally drawing critical praise, the album is his most successful commercially, over three million copies sold in the US. After this album, <mask>'s rap audience severely diminished, and never regained the prominence of his first

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 three albums. During this time, Cube began to have numerous features on other artists' songs.In 1992, <mask> appeared on Del the Funky Homosapien's debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here, on Da Lench Mob's debut Guerillas in tha Mist, which he also produced, and on the Kool G Rap and DJ Polo song "Two to the Head". In 1993, he worked on Kam's debut album, and collaborated with <mask>-T on the track "Last Wordz" on 2Pac's album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..

1993–1998: Lethal Injection and forming Westside Connection
Cube's fourth album, Lethal Injection, came out in late 1993. Here, <mask> borrowed from the then-popular G-funk popularized by Dr. Dre. Although not received well by critics, the album brought successful singles, including "Really Doe", "Bop Gun (One Nation)", "You Know How We Do It", and "What Can I Do?" After this album, <mask> effectively lost his rap audience. Following Lethal Injection, <mask> focused on films and producing albums of other rappers, including Da Lench Mob, Mack 10, Mr. Short Khop, and Kausion. In 1994, <mask> teamed with onetime N.W.A groupmate Dr. Dre, who was then leading rap's G-funk subgenre, for the first time since <mask> had left the group, and which had disbanded upon Dre's 1991 departure.The result was the <mask> and Dre song "Natural Born Killaz", on the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, released by Dre's then-new label, Death Row Records. In 1995, <mask> joined Mack 10 and WC in forming a side trio, the Westside Connection. Feeling neglected by East Coast media, a

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 longstanding issue in rap's bicoastal rivalry, the group aimed to reinforce West pride and resonate with the undervalued. The Westside Connection's first album, Bow Down (1996), featured tracks like "Bow Down" and "Gangstas Make the World Go 'Round" that reflected the group's objectives. The album was certified Platinum by year's end. Interpreting rapper Common's song "I Used to Love H.E.R." as a diss of West Coast rap, <mask> and the Westside Connection briefly feuded with him, but they resolved amicably in 1997.It was also at this time that <mask> began collaborating outside the rap genre. In 1997, he worked with David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails singer Trent Reznor on a remix of Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans". In 1998, <mask> was featured on the band Korn's song "Children of the Korn", and joined them on their Family Values Tour 1998. 1998–2006: War & Peace Vol. 1 & 2 and Westside Connection reunion
In November 1998, <mask> released his long-awaited fifth solo album War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc). The delayed sixth album, Volume 2, arrived in 2000.These albums feature the Westside Connection and a reunion with his old N.W.A members Dr. Dre and MC Ren. <mask> also received a return favor from Korn, as they appeared on his song "Fuck Dying" from Vol. 1. Many fans maintained that these two albums, especially the second, were lesser in quality to his earlier work. In 2000, <mask> also joined Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg for the Up in Smoke Tour. In 2002, <mask> appeared on British DJ Paul Oakenfold's solo

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 debut album, Bunkka, on the track "Get Em Up". Released in 2003, Westside Connection's second album, Terrorist Threats, fared well critically, but saw lesser sales."Gangsta Nation" (featuring Nate Dogg), the only single released, was a radio hit. After a rift between <mask> and Mack 10 about <mask>'s film work minimizing the group's touring, the Westside Connection disbanded in 2005. In 2004, <mask> featured on the song "Real Nigga Roll Call" by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, the then leaders of rap's crunk subgenre. 2006–2012: Laugh Now, Cry Later, Raw Footage, and I Am the West
In 2006, <mask> released his seventh solo album, Laugh Now, Cry Later, selling 144,000 units in the first week. Lil Jon and Scott Storch produced the lead single, "Why We Thugs". In October, <mask> was honored at VH1's Annual Hip Hop Honors, and performed it and also the track "Go to Church". Cube soon toured globally in the Straight Outta Compton Tour—accompanied by rapper WC from the Westside Connection—playing in America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.Amid Cube's many features and brief collaborations, September 2007 brought In the Movies, a compilation album of <mask> songs on soundtracks. <mask>'s eighth studio album, Raw Footage, arrived on August 19, 2008, yielding the singles "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It" and "Do Ya Thang". Also in 2008, <mask> helped on Tech N9ne's song "Blackboy", and was featured on The Game's song "State of Emergency". As a fan of the NFL football team the Raiders, <mask> released in October 2009 a tribute song,

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 "Raider Nation". In 2009, <mask> performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos, and returned to perform at the 2011 festival. On September 28, 2010, his ninth solo album, I Am the West, arrived with, <mask> says, a direction different from any one of his other albums. Its producers include West Coast veterans like DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, E-A-Ski, and, after nearly 20 years, again <mask>'s onetime C.I.A groupmate Sir Jinx.Offering the single "I Rep That West", the album debuted at #22 on the Billboard 200 and sold 22,000 copies in its first week. Also in 2010, <mask> signed up-and-coming recording artist named 7Tre The Ghost, deemed likely to be either skipped or given the cookie-cutter treatment by most record companies. In 2011, <mask> featured on Daz Dillinger's song "Iz You Ready to Die" and on DJ Quik's song "Boogie Till You Conk Out". In 2012, <mask> recorded a verse for a remix of the Insane Clown Posse song "Chris Benoit", from ICP's The Mighty Death Pop! album, appearing on the album Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium. In September 2012, during Pepsi's NFL Anthems campaign, Cube released his second Raiders anthem "Come and Get It". 2012–present: Everythang's Corrupt and forming Mount Westmore
In November 2012, Cube released more details on his forthcoming, tenth studio album, Everythang's Corrupt.Releasing its title track near the 2012 elections, he added, "You know, this record is for the political heads." But the album's release was delayed. On February 10, 2014, iTunes brought another single from it, "Sic Them

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 Youngins on 'Em", and a music video followed the next day. Despite a couple of more song releases, the album's release was delayed even beyond <mask>'s work on the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton. After a statement setting release to 2017, the album finally arrived on December 7, 2018. In 2014, <mask> appeared on MC Ren's remix "Rebel Music", their first collaboration since the N.W.A reunion in 2000. In 2020, <mask> joined rappers Snoop Dogg, E-40, Too Short and formed the supergroup Mt.Westmore. The group's debut album is slated for release in January 2022. Film and television career
Since 1991, <mask> has acted in nearly 40 films, several of which are highly regarded. Some of them, such as the 1992 thriller Trespass and the 1999 war comedy Three Kings, highlight action. Yet most are comedies, including a few adult-oriented ones, like the Friday franchise, whereas most of these are family-friendly, like the Barbershop franchise. Narrative
John Singleton's seminal film Boyz n the Hood, released in July 1991, debuted the actor <mask> playing Doughboy, a persona that <mask> played convincingly. Later, <mask> starred with <mask>-T and Bill Paxton in Walter Hill's 1992 thriller film Trespass, and in Charles Burnett's 1995 film The Glass Shield.Meanwhile, <mask> declined to costar with Janet Jackson in Singleton's 1993 romance Poetic Justice, a role that Tupac Shakur then played. <mask> starred as the university student Fudge in Singleton's 1995 film Higher Learning. Singleton, encouraging <mask>, had reportedly told

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texts: him, "If you can write a record, you can write a movie." <mask> cowrote the screenplay for the 1995 comedy Friday, based on adult themes, and starred in it with comedian Chris Tucker. Made with $3.5 million, Friday drew $28 million worldwide. Two sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next, arrived in 2000 and 2002. In 1997, playing a South African exiled to America who returns 15 years later, <mask> starred in the action thriller Dangerous Ground, and had a supporting role in Anaconda.In 1998, writing again, the director <mask> debuted in The Players Club. In 1999, he starred alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as a staff sergeant in Three Kings, set in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, whereby the United States attacked Iraq in 1990, an "intelligent" war comedy critically acclaimed. In 2002, <mask> starred in Kevin Bray's All About the Benjamins, and in Tim Story's comedy film Barbershop. In 2004, <mask> played in Barbershop 2 and Torque. The next year, he replaced Vin Diesel in the second installment of the XXX film series, XXX: State of the Union, as the main protagonist, which he reprises the character in the third installment and reunited with Diesel 12 years later, XXX: Return of Xander Cage. He also appeared in the family comedy Are We There Yet?, which premised his role in its 2007 sequel Are We Done Yet?. In 2012, <mask> appeared in 21 Jump Street.He also appeared in its sequel, 22 Jump Street, in 2014. That year, and then to return in 2016, he played alongside comedian Kevin Hart in two

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 more Tim Story films, Ride Along and Ride Along 2. Also in 2016, <mask> returned for the third entry in the Barbershop series. And in 2017, <mask> starred with Charlie Day in the comedy Fist Fight. Documentary
In late 2005, <mask> and R. J. Cutler co-created the six-part documentary series Black. White., carried by cable network FX. <mask> and basketball star LeBron James paired up to pitch a one-hour special to ABC based on James's life.On May 11, 2010, ESPN aired <mask>'s directed documentary Straight Outta L.A., examining the interplay of Los Angeles sociopolitics, hip hop, and the Raiders during the 1980s into the 1990s. Serial television
Ice Cube's Are We There Yet? series premiered on TBS on June 2, 2010. It revolves around a family adjusting to the matriarch's new husband, played by Terry Crews. On August 16, the show was renewed for 90 more episodes, amounting to six seasons. <mask> also credits Tyler Perry for his entrée to TBS. In front of the television cameras, rather, <mask> appeared with Elmo as a 2014 guest on the PBS children's show Sesame Street.Controversies
In 2020, he was accused of a "long, disturbing history of anti-Semitism". This traces to his 1991 song "No Vaseline", which uses racial slurs against the other former members of N.W.A. and calls the group's manager Jerry Heller a "white man", "white boy", "Jew", "devil", "white Jew", and "cracker". In 2015, <mask>ube expressed regret at including the word "Jew" in the song, as he intended to attack Heller, not "the whole Jewish race". That

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 same year, he was sued for—but has denied—ordering a rabbi to be assaulted. In June 2020, some of Ice Cube's Twitter posts—promoting Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, an allegedly antisemitic mural, with the caption, "Fuck the new normal until they fix the old normal! ", and associated conspiracy theories—triggered wide accusations of antisemitism.Calling himself "just pro-Black", not "anti anybody", Cube dismissed "the hype", and professed "telling my truth". According to the Hollywood Reporter, in October 2021, <mask> was set to star in the comedy film Oh Hell No alongside Jack Black, but left the project after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19. The project would have paid him $9 million. Discography

Studio albums
 AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
 Death Certificate (1991)
 The Predator (1992)
 Lethal Injection (1993)
 War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) (1998)
 War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc) (2000)
 Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006)
 Raw Footage (2008)
 I Am the West (2010)
 Everythang's Corrupt (2018)

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

Film awards
<mask> has received nominations for several films in the

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<mask> (born 1954 in Dortmund, Germany) is a German political scientist and professor for International Relations and East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Global Politics at Freie Universität Berlin, which offers four distinct graduate study programs designed for professionals and young leaders. His research interests include theories of International Relations, transformations in the former Soviet Union, international political economy, and globalization. Biography
From 1974-1979, <mask> studied history, Slavic languages, political science, and philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum and University of Konstanz, completing his studies with both a master's degree and Staatsexamen (government-recognized exam for future teachers). In 1984, he obtained his PhD (Dr. phil.) from Bremen University with a study on the USSR during the Second World War.<mask> worked as research fellow at a project on Soviet reform politics at the University of Bremen and later as research fellow at JWG University in Frankfurt am Main. From 1990-1995, he joined Germany´s leading think tank on politics, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) at Ebenhausen and in 1992 qualified as professor with a book on systemic change in the Soviet Union. After working as professor for International Relations at the University of Konstanz in 1995, <mask> became professor for Political Science and East European Politics at the Institute for East European Studies and the Otto-Suhr-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. He has conducted several research projects – among others one on Post-Soviet Puzzles (on spaces, territories, elites and interests in the FSU; published 1994/95) and one on Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks (1998–2000) –

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 and has implemented as well as supervised different study projects which since 2007 are integrated in the Center for Global Politics. <mask> is a member of several scientific boards of organizations of international repute including the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) the Gulf Research Center, and the Institute for European Politics. As visiting scholar he has worked, amongst others, at Stanford University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Fudan University. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the European Humanities University.Fields of activity
As both Chair for Political Science at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Professor for International Relations, <mask>’ research interests cover a broad range of topics. He directed research projects on the political and societal transformations in East Europe and in the Former Soviet Union (“Post-Soviet Puzzles”; “Explaining Post Soviet Patchworks”) and headed a research project “Global City Regions” (2002–2004) exploring the role of city regions as sub-state political entities within the context of contemporary globalization processes. According to Segbers, globalization and global flows of capital, trades and services, information and people are dramatically altering the nature of politics and the opportunities for nation-states to control or influence events. “Politics can no more be masterminded, engineered, implemented, executed, organized and controlled. Politics, rather, is happening, as the result of thousands of moves by a multitude of actors on different levels of action.” Segbers suggests that politicians should reduce
expectations and not try to function as engineers but as moderators, or as navigators. Another proposal is to

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 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Deutsche Außenpolitik gegenüber Osteuropa: Die wichtigste Nebensache?In: Stephan Böckenförder, Chancen der deutschen Außenpolitik. Analyse – Perspektiven – Empfehlungen. Dresden: TUDpress, 2005, 150-159. Public Problems, Private Solutions? Globalizing Cities in the South (with Simon Raiser, Krister Volkmann – eds. ), Aldershot, Burlington/VT: Ashgate, 2005. Resistance to Globalization.Political Struggle and Cultural Resilience in the Middle East, Russia, and Latin America (with Harald Barrios, Martin Beck, Andreas Boeckh – eds. ), Hamburg, London: LIT, 2003. Gullivers Bindungen. Aussenpolitiken der  Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den neunziger Jahren: Die innere Dimension. In: Werner Süss (Hg. ), Deutschland in den neunziger Jahren. Politik und Gesellschaft zwischen Widervereinigung und Globalisierung.Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 2002, 349 – 361. Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks (Ed.). Volumes 1 – 3, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001
Vom (großen) Nutzen und (kleinen) Elend der Komparatistik in der Transformationsforschung. In: Ulrich Menzel (Hg. ), Vom Ewigen Frieden und vom Wohlstand der Nationen. Dieter Senghaas zum 60. Geburtstag.Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000, 493–518
The Globalization of Eastern Europe. Teaching International Relations Without Borders (with Kersin Imbusch – eds. ), Münster, Hamburg, London: Lit Verlag, 2000 (i.E.) Post-Soviet Puzzles. Mapping the Political Economy of the Former Soviet Union (with Stephan De Spiegeleire – eds. ), 4 vls., Baden-Baden 1995. “The European Peace Movements, The Soviet Union and the American Left”.Telos 54 (Winter 1982-3). New York: Telos Press. References

External links
Homepage of <mask>

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title: Anson Burlingame

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<mask> (November 14, 1820 – February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, Republican/American Party legislator, diplomat, and abolitionist. As diplomat, he served as the U.S. minister to China (1862–1867) and then as China's envoy to the U.S., which resulted in the 1868 landmark Burlingame Treaty. Early life
<mask> was born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents (<mask> and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio, and about ten years afterwards to Michigan. Between  1838 and 1841 he studied at the Detroit branch of the University of Michigan, and in 1846 graduated from Harvard Law School. On June 3, 1847, he married Jane Cornelia Livermore. They had sons Edward Livermore Burlingame (born 1848) and <mask> (born 1852), as well as a daughter Gertrude Burlingame (born 1856).Early career
<mask> practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts, and won a wide reputation by his speeches for the  Free Soil Party in 1848. He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853, of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1853 to 1854, and of the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1861, being elected for the first term as a Know Nothing and afterwards as a member of the new Republican Party, which he helped to organize in Massachusetts. He was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma chapter). <mask> vs. Preston Brooks
In May 1856, Senator Charles Sumner (R-Massachusetts) delivered a fiery anti-slavery speech. He was subsequently brutally assaulted in the Senate chamber by Representative Preston Brooks (D-South Carolina), who was hailed as a hero by pro-slavery South.

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 Shortly afterwards, <mask> delivered what The New York Times referred to as "the most celebrated speech" of his career: a scathing denunciation of Brooks' assault on Sumner, branding him as "the vilest sort of coward" on the House floor. In response, Brooks challenged <mask> to a duel, stating he would gladly face him "in any Yankee mudsill of his choosing".<mask> eagerly accepted; as the challenged party, he had his choice of weapons and location. A well-known marksman, he selected rifles as the weapons and the Navy Yard on the Canadian side of the U.S. border in Niagara Falls as the location (in order to circumvent the U.S. ban on dueling). Brooks, reportedly dismayed by both <mask>'s unexpectedly enthusiastic acceptance and his reputation as a crack shot, neglected to show up, instead citing unspecified risks to his safety if he were to cross "hostile country" (the northern U.S. states) in order to reach Canada. <mask>'s solid defense of a fellow Bostonian greatly raised his stature throughout the North. Diplomatic posts

Minister to China (Qing Empire)
On March 22, 1861, after <mask> lost his bid for re-election, President Abraham Lincoln appointed <mask> as Minister to the Austrian Empire, but <mask>, who had championed the Hungarian Lajos Kossuth and his drive for independence from the Austrian Empire, was not acceptable and did not serve. On June 14, 1861, Lincoln instead appointed <mask> as minister to the Qing Empire. <mask> worked for a cooperative policy rather than the imperialistic policies of force which had been used during the First and Second Opium Wars and developed relations with the reform

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 elements of the court.As he put it, the "cooperative policy... substituted for the old doctrine of violence one of fair diplomatic action," and the representatives of the Western powers agreed that they would not interfere in the internal affairs of China. <mask> reported that he had used his diplomacy to get the European powers to agree that they would "give to the treaties a fair and Christian construction; that they ... never would menace the territorial integrity of China." China's envoy to U.S. and European nations
The success of this diplomacy was not lost on Qing dynasty court officials. On November 16, 1867, when he was set to retire and return to his political career at home, the Chinese government appointed  <mask> envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to head a Chinese diplomatic mission to the United States and the principal European nations. The mission, which included two Chinese ministers, an English and a French secretary, six students from Peking, and a considerable retinue, arrived in the United States in March 1868. <mask> used his personal relations with the Republican administration to negotiate a relatively quick and favorable treaty. In a series of speeches  across the country, he displayed eloquent oratory to advocate equal treatment of China and a welcoming stance toward Chinese immigrants.On July 28, 1868, the mission concluded at Washington, D.C., a series of articles, supplementary to the Reed Treaty of 1858, and later known as the Burlingame Treaty. The treaty provided that Chinese subjects in the United States should enjoy the same rights as citizens of the most favored

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 nation, a legal strategy which up until that point had only been used to expand foreign privileges in China. <mask> worked successfully to include a clause permitting Chinese to become citizens, which was barred by American law. This treaty was the first equal treaty between China and a western power after the Opium War. Subsequently, <mask> also negotiated treaties with Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and Prussia. He died suddenly at Saint Petersburg on February 23, 1870, while negotiating terms for a treaty with Russia. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Family
His son Edward L<mask> was founding editor of Scribner's Magazine. His grandson (Edward's son), <mask> was an author of fiction, nonfiction, and biographies. Legacy

After <mask>'s death, the spirit and many of the specific provisions of the treaty bearing his name were reversed. Foreign powers continued to encroach upon China, and Congress  passed strict laws against Chinese immigration. The success of the Communist Revolution of 1949 led to animosity between the two countries and <mask>'s reputation was as a naive and euphoric advocate of China. After warming of relations in the 1980s, <mask>'s reputation began to rise again, however. Burlingame, California; Burlingame, Kansas; and Anson, Wisconsin, are all named after <mask> Burlingame.The ranch which Burlingame purchased in San Mateo on the San Francisco Bay retained his name and was eventually developed after his death. In 2018, upon the 150th anniversary of the Burlingame Treaty, a new bust of <mask> <mask> sculpted by Zhou Limin was unveiled at an international

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 ceremony held at the Burlingame Public Library in Burlingame, California. References

Citations

Further reading
 Anderson, David L. "<mask> Burlingame: American Architect of the Cooperative Policy in China, 1861–1871." Diplomatic history 1.3 (1977): 239–256. online
 Anderson, David L. "<mask> Burlingame: Reformer and Diplomat." Civil War History 25.4 (1979): 293–308. online
 Biggerstaff, Knight."The Official Chinese Attitude Toward the Burlingame Mission" American Historical Review, 41#4 (1936), pp. 682–702 online
 Schrecker, John. "'For the Equality of Men -- for the Equality of Nations': <mask> Burlingame and China's First Embassy to the United States, 1868," Journal of American-East Asian Relations 17.1  (2010):  9-34. online
 Williams,  Frederick Wells. <mask> <mask> and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers (New York: Scribner's,  1912). online

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 Burlingame Public Library – History: <mask> Burlingame

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title: Malek Jandali

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<mask> (, ) (born 1972) is a German-born Syrian-American pianist and composer. He is the founder of the nonprofit organization Pianos for Peace, which aims to build peace through music and education. Jandali immigrated to the United States and studied music in North Carolina. Since then, he has performed with orchestras across the world and composed a number of modern classical works. His music was described as "a major new addition to the 21st century symphonic literature" by Fanfare Magazine with "heart-rending melodies, lush orchestration, clever transitions and creative textures", according to American Record Guide. <mask>'s music ranges from chamber works to large symphonic compositions integrating Middle-Eastern and Western influences. Life
<mask> was born to Dr <mask> and Lina Droubi, citizens of Homs in Syria.He has a brother, Rami, and a cousin, Mona Simpson, a novelist and English teacher at UCLA. Other cousins include Mona's brother, Steve Jobs, and Bassma Al Jandaly, a Russian-born Emirati journalist. He began his musical career as a classical pianist after his studies at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus with Vladimir Zaritsky and Victor Bunin of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. Jandali won first place in the Syrian National Young Artists Competition in 1988, and in 1995 received a scholarship to attend North Carolina School of the Arts under Eric Larsen. He graduated from Queens University, where he studied under Paul Nitsch and received the Outstanding Musical Performer Award of the school. While in the Charlotte area, he was an organist and choir director for St. James Catholic Church in Concord, North Carolina. He studied composition and orchestration with Eddie Horst, Harry Bulow, Lawrence Dillon and Richard Prior.In 2004 he received his master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and in 2015 the Carnegie Corporation of New York named him a "Pride of America" honoree for his notable contributions to society. <mask> currently lives in New York City. Music

As performer

<mask> has

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 performed in London, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, Paris, Atlanta, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Stude Hall of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Kaufman Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City, National Auditorium in Madrid, Cadogan Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the Madinat Theater in Dubai. He has performed with orchestras including the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ludwig Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, The Stockholm Solister and the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra at Damascus Opera House. In 2013 he launched his ongoing world tour "The Voice of the Free Syrian Children" from the Berman Center in Detroit to raise awareness and much needed humanitarian aid for the suffering Syrian children. The tour reached Europe and the Middle East with benefit concerts along with lectures and academic workshops. As composer
<mask> has composed works ranging from solo instrumental pieces to chamber music and works for large ensemble or orchestras.He has a special interest in Arab music and combines the maqamat or modes with western harmony in his piano and orchestral compositions. <mask>'s compositions not only integrate Middle-Eastern modes into Western classical forms and harmony, they echo UNESCO's call to preserve and protect the rich cultural heritage of Syria and the Silk Road at a time when it is in danger of being eradicated. He incorporates ancient melodies from Aleppo, Damascus and other stops on the Silk Road in his compositions. He released his first album of compositions for piano and orchestra, Echoes from Ugarit, in June 2009. The album was briefly in the international music charts of the United Arab Emirates. The title track is based on a hymn to Nikkal, one of the Hurrian songs inscribed on cuneiform clay tablets discovered in Ugarit, Syria, and thought to date from 1400 BC and thus to be the oldest notated

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texts: and was inspired to launch his ongoing world tour "The Voice of the Free Syrian Children" in 2013. That same year he was awarded the GUSI International Peace Prize for his humanitarian and peace activism. In 2014 <mask> was awarded the Global Music Humanitarian Award for his contribution to peace and justice for the Syrian children. Inspired by stories from the Arab Spring, in April 2011 Jandali wrote Watani Ana (I am my Homeland). In June his scheduled appearance at the annual convention of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) was cancelled, reportedly because he planned to perform Watani Ana. The initial statement issued by the ADC did not make clear the reason for the cancellation, and attracted criticism from other organizations including the Arab-American Institute.The ADC issued a further statement in April 2012, in which it said that it had reached "an amicable resolution" with Jandali. In July 2011 Jandali performed Watani Ana at a protest in Lafayette Park. Shortly afterwards, his parents, Dr. Mamoun <mask> and Lina Droubi, were severely beaten and their home in Homs was ransacked. Jandali blamed Syrian security forces for the attack, and told reporters that as his mother was beaten, she was told "we're going to teach you how to raise your son." Photographs published on Facebook showed evidence that the couple had been brutally beaten. In September two armed attackers broke into the house and again ransacked it; <mask>'s parents were not there, as they had fled Syria after the previous attack. Jandali is regularly invited to speak and participate in panel discussions and academic workshops.He was on the panel of the 2012 Doha Debates at Georgetown University in Qatar and was featured in the 2014 BBC series "What Freedom Looks Like". In 2016, he spoke at the annual Skoll World Forum at Oxford University and Aspen Ideas Festival. Jandali has given lectures, masterclasses and workshops at numerous universities and institutions such as Duke, Rutgers, Fordham, CU Boulder, the Hammer Museum and Complutense University

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title: Stelios Kazantzidis

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<mask> (Greek: Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης, 29 August 1931 – 14 September 2001) was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers. Biography
<mask> was born in Nea Ionia, in Athens, Greece. He was the first of two brothers born to <mask> (of Pontian roots from Ordu) and <mask>, who came from the town of Alanya (known as Alaiya) in Southern Turkey and migrated to Greece as a result of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). He was orphaned at the age of 13 when his father, a member of the Greek Resistance, was beat to death by right-wing guerillas in 1947, during the Greek Civil War. This forced Kazantzidis into employment, working as a baggage-carrier at Omonia Square and then for an interstate bus company, as a seller of roasted chestnuts at open markets, and as a labourer at the Nea Ionia textile mills. His life changed when the owner of a factory, which was located in the Perissos working district, gave him a guitar.He spent long hours playing music. He made his first public appearance at a Kifissia night club in the early 1950s and soon after, in July 1952, made his first studio recording at Columbia studios with a song entitled "I'm going for a swim" (Για μπάνιο πάω), written by Apostolos Kaldaras. It did not do well but he tried again, recording Giannis Papaioannou's "The suitcases" (Οι βαλίτσες) soon after. The song became the first of

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title: Stelios Kazantzidis

texts: many hits and with his newfound popularity he began to make appearances in some of the biggest clubs of the time, like "Theios", "Mpertzeletos" and "Rosignol". With his career in full swing, Kazantzidis began to collaborate with some of the biggest names in Greek music, among them Manolis Chiotis, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, and Stavros Xarhakos. A hallmark in his career – and an event of great importance for the musical scene of post-war Greece – was his cooperation with composer Vassilis Tsitsanis. Starting in 1956 it resulted in several new songs as well as reinterpretions of Tsitsanis older songs.Kazantzidis, thus, sung and popularized such rebetiko classics as "Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki", "Bakse tsifliki" and "Ta Kavourakia". These songs, and many others, previously unknown to the wide public suddenly became cherished and sought-after. A few years later <mask> started to develop his own musical style, a style with influences ranging from rebetika to Indian music. This new turn met with considerable success and became a template for later developments in Greek popular music. "Mantoubala" for example, a Kazantzidis original, was inspired by Madhubala, an Indian actress he saw. This was the first record in Greece to sell over 100,000 copies, an amazing fact since the total population of the country (at the time) was about 7.5 million. <mask> <mask> married Marinella on 7 May 1964 and they toured together in

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title: Stelios Kazantzidis

texts: Germany and the United States.The two of them became a legendary duo. In 1965, <mask>, whilst at the peak of his career, decided to stop appearing in nightclubs. For the next ten years, he only released studio albums. In September 1966 he divorced Marinella, and they recorded their last duets ("Mh Mou Lete Gia Authn", "Apopse Se Eho Stin Agalia Mou" and "I Kardia Tis Manas") for Philips the following year. Following Marinella's departure Litsa Diamandi became his primary female harmony vocalist in 1968. The album simply titled Stelios Kazantzidis (often referred to as the "balloon album", due to its cover artwork), was a transitional album. Marinella sang on some songs (including "Pame Tsarka"-an updated version of Tsitsanis' "Bakse Tsifliki") and Diamandi on others (e.g.the big hit "Efiye Efiye"). In 1968, Kazantzidis recorded "Nyhterides Ki Arahnes", written by newcomer Hristos Nikolopoulos; the song became an immediate success. The follow-up to this album, Ena Gramma had a number of hits, which included "Sto Trapezi Pou Tha Pino", "Pare T' Ahnaria", "Tha Kopso to Telefono" and "Kai Oi Andres Klene" (men cry too). Marinella had an "answer back" to that latter song, by releasing "Oi Andres Den Klene" (men don't cry). In 1973 he collaborated with songwriter Akis Panou and released an album with six songs, including one of his biggest hits, "I zoi mou oli", and in 1974 he recorded "Stin Anatoli", composed by


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 album, also called "#3" which is on Regal, and is a hits compilation)
"Tragoudise Mazi Mas" (Sing together) 1966
"Stelios Kazantzidis" (self-titled, "Balloon Cover" album) 1968
"Kazantzidis & Marinella" 1969
"Nichterides Ki' Arachnes" (Bats and spiders) 1969
"Ena Gramma" (One Letter) 1970
"I Stenahoria Mou"(My distress)1971
"Iparcho" (I exist) 1975
"I Gialinos Kosmos" (A World of Glass) 198? "O Gyrismos" (The Return) 198? "Elevtheros" (The Victor) 1988
"Stelios Kazantzidis & Marinella – Ta Tragoudia Tis Amerikis" (The songs of America) 1991
"Kai Pou Theos" 1994
"Synapanteman" 1994
"O Stelios Tragoudaei" (<mask> is singing) 2001–02
"<mask> Kazantzidis: Ta zeibekika" 2003

Appearances on Compilation albums
Retsina and Bouzouki No.2 and #3(HMV, Greece)
Greek Serenade(Capitol, USA)....includes "Vraho Vraho ton Kaimo Mou" and "O Kyr-Antonis"
Nina "Custom Series"(Nina, USA)....late 1950s Greek hits compilation of various artists, spread through six discs—the first four have no Kazantzidis songs, but he appears on the last two, with "Tha Vro Moumouri Baglama" and "Enoho Chryma"... He is on the B-side of the single, "Ap' To Pono Tha Pethano"
Christos Nikolopoulos....Bouzouki player for Kazantzidis in the 1970s/80s has solo recordings out. Daviko......Israeli singer has an album called "Yassoo Kazantzidi". Songs are a mix of Greek and Hebrew. "Efiye Efiye" has been sampled, and used in the songs by J Love("Track 19") and

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title: Stelios Kazantzidis

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 Action Bronson("Eastern Promises"). Zohar Argov, Israeli singer, had a local hit called "Elinor"---which is "Yparho" but with new lyrics written in Hebrew. Dimitris Mitropanos, another famous Greek singer, had covered a Kazantzidis song, "Gyrizo Ap' Tin Nychta" TWICE.....both the studio and live versions became hits in Greece.References

External links
Official fan community <mask> Kazantzidis
Who is <mask> Kazantzidis?, Trapezounta

Syllogos filon <mask> Kazantzidis

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title: Norman Wengert

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<mask> (November 7, 1916 – July 28, 2001) was an American political scientist who wrote about the politics of natural resources, advanced a seminal theory of the "politics of getting", and had a number of significant roles in his public and academic career. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Eugene F. and <mask>. He pioneered the revival of the study of political economy in the United States with publication of Natural Resources and the Political Struggle, and later authored more than fifty monographs and studies on the political economy and public administration of environmental resources. His scholarship explored the politics of natural resources and environmental policy formation and administration, with emphases in national energy policy, urban water planning and management, land use planning and controls, national forest management, and citizen participation in administrative processes. Wengert helped establish the doctoral program in Environmental Politics and Policy at Colorado State University; published numerous notable scholarly books, research monographs, journal articles and chapters in anthologies; served as a consultant to government agencies, and received numerous awards and honors. He died at age 84 in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 7, 1916 to Eugene F. and <mask>.During his education he attained degrees in several different fields. He attended Concordia College in Milwaukee during the period 1930–36, and received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1938 and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1939. He served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserve during 1944–45. Returning to the University of Wisconsin, he was awarded a degree in law from its University of Wisconsin Law School in 1942, and a doctorate in political science in 1947. He was also a member of the Wisconsin Bar Association. Wengert married Janet Mueller in 1940 and they raised three children: Eugene M., Christine Ann (Davis), and Timothy John. Public service and academic

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 Resources Bulletin (1971–1987; now Journal of the American Water Resources Association). Consultancies
Wengert was Special Advisor to the Government of India on food and agriculture (1959); provided advice to the Federal Aviation Administration (1963);  served as research consultant on environmental and natural resources issues for the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan (1968–69); on environmental impact assessment of water projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1968); with Thorne Ecological Institute (1972–75); Atlantic Richfield Oil Corporation (1973–74); the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Water Resources and Technology (1973–75); the National Water Quality Commission (1974–81); the Western Interstate Nuclear Board (1975–76) and for the states of Colorado, Maryland, Georgia, and Michigan on numerous occasions.Honors and recognition
<mask> was invited to present the prestigious annual Royer Lecture at the Institute for Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley in 1975. The Royer Lecture series in political economy, one of the oldest in the United States, was funded by a bequest in 1879 to the University of California by Herman Royer. Wengert was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Coif legal honor society and was editor of the University of Wisconsin Law Review while in law school, was a member of Sigma Xi, the national Scientific Research Society, and Phi Kappa Phi, the national honor society, and is listed in Who's Who in America. Selected publications
"The Land, TVA, and the Fertilizer Industry." Land Economics. 25 (February 1949): 11–21. "TVA: Symbol and Reality."Journal of Politics. 13 (August 1952): 369–392. Valley of Tomorrow: TVA and Agriculture. Knoxville: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Tennessee, 1952. "Program Planning in the U.S. Department of the Interior" (coauthor). Public Administration Review. 14 (Summer 1954): 193–201.Natural Resources and the Political Struggle. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. "Public Administration and Policy Formation". Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 39(September): 158–159, 1958.


title: Norman Wengert

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 Lakewood, Colorado: Western Interstate Nuclear Board, 1976. The Physical and Economic Effects on the Local Agricultural Economy of Water Transfer from Irrigation Companies to Cities in the Northern Denver Metropolitan Area, with Raymond Lloyd Anderson and Robert D. Heil. Fort Collins: Environmental Resources Center, Colorado State University, 1976. "The Energy Boom Town: an Analysis of the Politics of Getting." Policy Studies Journal, 7(Autumn): 17–23, 1978."The Energy Boom Town: An Analysis of the Politics of Getting." In Robert M. Lawrence and <mask><mask>, eds. New Dimensions to Energy Policy. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 17–24. The Purposes of the National Forests: A Historical Re-interpretation of Policy Development, with A. A. Dyer. Fort Collins: Colorado State University, 1979."Symposium on Land Use Planning." Natural Resources Journal. vol. 19, #1. 1979. (editor). Environmental, Legal, and Political Constraints on Power Plant Siting in the Southwestern United States: A Report to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, with Michael S. Hamilton.Fort Collins, Colorado: Colorado State University Experiment Station, 1980. Summaries of Selected Federal Statutes Affecting Environmental Quality, with Michael S. Hamilton. Fort Collins: Colorado State University, Cooperative Extension Service, 1980. "Land Use Policy." Encyclopedia of Policy Studies, 2d ed, Stuart Nagel, ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1994. References

External links
 Colorado State University, Department of Political Science, Graduate Program—Environmental Politics and Policy.Accessed January 28, 2009. Journal of the American Water Resources Association Accessed January 29, 2009. 1916 births
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title: Dmitry Yazov

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<mask>v (; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August Coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. <mask> was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990, the only Marshal born in Siberia, and at the time of his death on 25 February 2020 the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union. Biography

Early life
He was born in the village of Yazovo, Krestinsky volost, Kalachinsky district, Omsk province. He was the son of <mask> (died in 1933) and Maria Fedoseevna Yazova, who were both peasants. The family had four children. World War II
Yazov joined the Red Army voluntarily in November 1941, a seventeen-year-old young man, not having time to finish high school.When he joined the army, he said he was a year older than he was, saying that he was born in 1923. He was enrolled in training at the Moscow Higher Military Command School (Evacuated due to the Battle of Moscow to Novosibirsk from November 2, 1941 to January 28, 1942) and graduated from it in June 1942. He received a school graduation certificate only in 1953, already being a major. From August 1942 he fought on the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts as commander of a rifle platoon, a commander of a rifle company, and a platoon commander of front-line courses of junior lieutenants of the 483rd Rifle Regiment of the 177th Rifle Division of the Leningrad Front. He participated in the battles of the Siege of Leningrad, in the offensive operations of Soviet troops in the Baltic states, and in the blockade of the Courland Pocket. In 1944 he joined the Communist Party

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 of the Soviet Union. Post–war military career
In 1962, Yazov commanded Soviet ground forces in Oriente Province, Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he personally worked with Cuban Defense Minister Raúl Castro.The unit, which was headquartered at Holguín Air Base, was ordered to attack Guantanamo Bay Naval Base with KS-1 Komet nuclear cruise missiles if war with the United States started. In 1971–1973, he commanded the 32nd Army Corps in the Crimean region of the Odessa Military District. In 1979–1980, <mask> was commander of the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia. He was commanding the Far East Military District in the northern summer of 1986, when, according to Time magazine, he made a favourable impression on General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to later promotions. He was appointed Soviet Defence Minister on 30 May 1987, after Marshal Sergei Sokolov was sacked as a result of the Mathias Rust incident two days earlier. From June 1987 to July 1990, <mask> was a candidate member of the Politburo. He was a key part of Black January.<mask> was responsible for deployment of Russian OMON commando units to Latvia and Lithuania in early 1991. During the August Coup of 1991, <mask> was a member of the State Emergency Committee. For supporting the GKChP, the government of Valentin Pavlov was dismissed and, accordingly, <mask> lost the post of Minister of Defense. During the Yeltsin period, <mask> was prosecuted and acquitted in 1994. On the morning of August 22, before the first interrogation, <mask> turned to Gorbachev with a video recorded message in which he read a letter and called himself an "old fool", regretted participating in this "adventure" and asked for forgiveness from the President of the

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 USSR. 20 years after these events, the former defense minister will say that he did not remember what he said, because he did not sleep for a day. And he named the journalist Vladimir Molchanov the initiator of this letter and video.In his memoirs, Yazov clarified that he was persuaded to turn to Gorbachev with a penitential speech to protect him from the criminal article "Treason to the Motherland", and under the influence of fatigue he succumbed to the persuasion of television reporters. Released on recognizance not to leave in January 1993. Amnestied by the State Duma in 1994. He did accept the amnesty offered by Boris Yeltsin, stating that he was not guilty. He was dismissed from the military service by Presidential Order and awarded a ceremonial weapon. He was awarded an order of Honor by the President of Russian Federation. Yazov later worked as a military adviser at the General Staff Academy.Despite his selection by Gorbachev for the Defence Minister's position, William Odom, in his book The Collapse of the Soviet Military, repeats Alexander Yakovlev's description of <mask> as a "mediocre officer", "fit to command a division but nothing higher". Odom suggests Gorbachev was only looking for "careerists who would follow orders, any orders". In March 2019, <mask> was tried in absentia and convicted of war crimes by a Lithuanian court for his role in the military crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Russia denounced the trial as politically motivated and refused to extradite Yazov. Death
Yazov died in Moscow on 25 February 2020 following what the Defence Ministry of Russia called "a serious and prolonged illness". He is buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery outside

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<mask> (born ) is a British-American singer, dancer, and actor. He was named the "2017 Rising Artist of the Year" in a contest sponsored by Pepsi and Hard Rock Cafe. Early life
<mask> was born in London, England, on 16 August 1970 to Nigerian parents. While pregnant, <mask>'s mother went to London while his father remained in Nigeria. By his own account, <mask> never knew his father. His mother remarried and worked for the London Underground, cleaning tracks at night. One day his mother said she was going to Nigeria for a couple of weeks for a visit and did not come back for eight years.<mask> was raised in the Tottenham neighborhood that has been described as "tough". He spent much of his youth in foster homes with Caucasian parents. As a teenager, he listened to and was influenced by Motown artists, including Stevie Wonder, Kool and the Gang, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Jackie Wilson and Otis Redding. At the age of 16, <mask> was working in a McDonald's in London when he was introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by a manager. He was baptized soon afterward. Boyé first performed in public while serving as a missionary for the Church in Bristol, England. Career

The 1990s
After completing his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Boyé became a backup dancer, including for George Michael.In 1995, he formed and became the lead singer of Awesome, a European boy band. Awesome performed at local dances and other small venues until 1996 when they won a vocal competition on Capital Radio, London's largest radio station. Subsequently, Universal Records of Europe signed Awesome to a five-album recording contract. Awesome released three singles off their first album, Rumors, which made top-10 charts all across Europe. The band sold 500,000 albums and performed alongside artists that included Bryan Adams, George Michael, Simon and Garfunkel, MC Hammer, and many others. But Boyé disliked the

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 lifestyle of a touring musician. "I had this dream of being a musician, but it was taking me down a road that led somewhere I didn't want to go," he said.<mask> decided to leave the band in 1999 to pursue a solo career. He lost all of the material possessions he had gained as a member of Awesome when the record company took the apartment, the clothes, the phone and the money. In 1999, <mask> joined two other artists in London to discuss recording a demo tape of church hymns with a pop/R&B spin. One of the artists sat at the piano and hit upon a jazz sound for the hymn "Count Your Many Blessings" which became the signature song for the group. That evening they began to improvise church hymns and eventually created 'Soul Saints'. Within a couple of weeks, the group had started recording the songs and gave performances at Hyde Park, London before going on to tour in Utah. Wayne Scholes was the group's manager and Excel Records acted as a consultant while Soul Saints were in the United States.The 2000s
In 2000, <mask> moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to pursue a career in Mormon music. He released his first religious album The Love Goes On in 2001. When the lead actor portraying Frederick Douglass in the Rodgers Memorial Theatre's production of Frank Wildhorn's Civil War dropped out three weeks before the play opened, <mask> was recruited as a replacement. With no prior acting experience and no knowledge of the Civil War, he learned his lines and united the cast. Glenn McKay, the theatre's board president, had recruited black performers for the show from the Calvary Baptist choir and other area churches, but was having trouble melding them with his Davis County regulars. McKay said Boyé "saved the production." <mask> followed that success with the role of Abinadab in the Lightstone Films production of David and Goliath.In 2005, <mask> received an award from the LDS Booksellers Association for his album Testimony. <mask> also appeared in a 2008 episode

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 of the BYU produced TV show The Writers' Block. <mask> was seeking a way to build an LDS audience when he met Craig Jessop, then conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, at an LDS music festival and he encouraged <mask> to audition for the choir. <mask> joined the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2006 and, when accepted, became one of three black choir members. He also continued to pursue a solo career. He had two solo parts in the choir's album Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. The 2010s
In 2010, <mask> performed the single, "Born to Be a Scout", at the National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P.Hill, Virginia. <mask> was signed to Deseret Book's Shadow Mountain label. In August 2010, he was a featured soloist in a concert connected at the re-dedication of a Catholic church in St. George, Utah. Songs by Boyé have appeared in movie soundtracks including Charly (2002), The Dance, Baptists at Our Barbecue and Church Ball. Boyé was featured in a video by The Piano Guys, released in January 2012 as "Peponi", a cover of Coldplay's "Paradise" on YouTube. In early 2013 he did a cover of the Lumineers' "Ho Hey" that also generated a large number of YouTube hits. In early 2013, <mask> signed with Wenrick-Birtcher Entertainment (Eddie Wenrick & Baron R. Birtcher) as his managers.In March 2013, <mask> opened for a performance by Olivia Newton John at the Royal Albert Hall. A documentary DVD entitled Front Man telling Boyé's story has also been produced. In 2013, Boye released a song entitled "I Am Gold". In early 2014, he, along with the One Voice Children's Choir, created an Africanized tribal version of the popular song "Let It Go" from the movie Frozen. The video went viral, propelling <mask>'s combined YouTube views to over 100 million. It was selected as YouTube's best pop cover of 2014. He also released his Lemonade video on YouTube with more than 1.7 million views

<mask> had a role in the 2014 film Saints and Soldiers: The Void.He also released a

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texts: YouTube music video to promote the film. He attained some acclaim for his cover of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off", with over 600,000 views, as of 1 January 2015. In December 2014, <mask> released an original Christmas song and YouTube video entitled "Newborn – Wise Men Still Seek Him". In January 2015, <mask> released an Africanised version of "Circle of Life", with proceeds from the sale going to the koinsforkenya mission. In 2015, <mask> was awarded the Governor's Mansion Artist Award. In June 2015, <mask> and his band, Changing Lanes Experience, performed their version of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" on the 10th season of America's Got Talent. After receiving great comments from the judges, they advanced into the next round to perform on Judge Cuts Week.In August 2015, he and the band were eliminated on Judge Cuts Week 4 after performing their version of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk". In September 2015, Boye was announced to be cast as The Heavenly Guide in the remake of the film Saturday's Warrior. It was released in Utah theaters on 1 April 2016 before expanding it to various other states in the following weeks and months. In early 2016 Boye and the BYU Men's Chorus released a version of Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu", the theme music to the video game Civilization IV with lyrics adapted from the Biblical Lord's Prayer in Swahili. <mask> appeared in a duet with Marie Osmond on her album Music Is Medicine that was released on 15 April 2016. The video for the song "Then There's You" was released on the video streaming site Vevo on 27 March 2016 and features the duo performing in a Las Vegas backdrop at Caesars Palace Hotel and the Paris Hotel. <mask> was cast as Pastor Aiken in Drop Off, which was a family film.<mask> was selected as the "Grand Prize Winner" of the Hard Rock Rising 2017 Battle of the Bands. That same year, Boyé performed as the guest artist for the 2017 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Pioneer Concert, performing a mix


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 of originals and covers. In September 2018, Boyé released single "Bend Not Break", produced by Randy Jackson (American Idol). Personal life
<mask> met his wife, Julie, in an LDS singles ward and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 6 January 2007. As of September 2019, they are the parents of seven children with another one due in January 2021. A video showing <mask> is part of the "I'm A Mormon" campaign launched by the LDS Church in Britain in the spring of 2013. In 2009, Boyé began raising money to buy a house for a local refugee family with sales of his single, "Crazy for You."On 22 February 2012, <mask> became a United States citizen in a ceremony at the Rose Wagner Theater in Salt Lake City. He was surprised when he was invited by the judge conducting the ceremony to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner". Discography

Albums
Testimony (2004)
Spirit (2007)
Be Still, My Soul: Classic Hymns & Folk Songs (2009)
Africanized (2014)
African Gospel Inspirations (2016)

EPs
Hope for Israel (2011)
We All Bleed the Same (2016)
Africanized Christmas (2016)

Singles

Filmography

Notes

References

Boye entry at Discogs

External links

Peponi, an African-stylized cover of Coldplay's Paradise with <mask>, Jon Schmidt, and Steven Sharp Nelson, on YouTube
<mask>e performs the national anthem after becoming a U.S. Citizen on YouTube

Interviews

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American male musical theatre actors
English male dancers
American male dancers
Tabernacle Choir members
Swahili-language singers
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Mormon missionaries in England
1970 births
Singers from London
People from Tottenham
African-American Latter Day Saints
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English emigrants to the United States
English people of Nigerian descent
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<mask> (born <mask>, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952 and 1953 to 1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers. Early life
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1914, <mask> was the youngest of three sons of Theresa Violet (née Fisher) and <mask>. <mask>'s father, according to the federal census of 1930, was a native of New York and supported his family in Chicago by working as a real estate broker. That same census also documents that a full-time maid, Amelia Hirsch, lived with the <mask> family, an indication of the household's relative prosperity at the time. Highly athletic as a boy, "Jack" became a circus acrobat by age eight, and later, in 1934, he appeared at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago with a trapeze act. He graduated from Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School, Sullivan Junior High School, and Senn High School on the far North Side of Chicago. Career

Modeling and acting
<mask> as a young man worked successfully as a John Robert Powers model.Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he worked as a stuntman and bit player between modeling jobs. <mask> in his 1996 autobiography I Was That Masked Man noted that Hollywood producer Edward Small persuaded him around 1940 to adopt the stage name "<mask>". Subsequently, he was cast as an occasional player in B Westerns and the lead in four Republic Studio cliffhangers and in two films for Columbia Pictures. Military service
During World War II, <mask> enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served with that branch's First Motion Picture Unit making training films, such as Target-Invisible, in which <mask> co-starred

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In 1949, <mask>'s work in the Ghost of Zorro serial drew the attention of George W. Trendle, co-creator and producer of a popular radio series titled The Lone Ranger. The series' running plot involved the exploits of a mysterious former Texas Ranger, the sole survivor of a Ranger posse ambushed by a gang of outlaws, who roamed the West with his Indian companion Tonto to battle evil and help the downtrodden. When Trendle brought the radio program to television, <mask> landed the title role.With the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" finale from Rossini's William Tell overture as their theme music, <mask> and co-star Jay Silverheels made history as the stars of the first Western written specifically for television. The Lone Ranger soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true hit. It earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1950. <mask> was replaced in the third season by John Hart, reportedly due to a contract dispute, but he returned for the final two seasons. <mask> later said he received no explanation from the producers as to why he was replaced or why he was rehired. The fourth season of The Lone Ranger was again filmed in black and white; however, the fifth and final season of the series was the only one to be shot in color. In all, <mask> starred in 169 of the 221 episodes produced.<mask> appeared in other television series during his Lone Ranger run, including a 1952 episode of Bill Williams' syndicated Western The Adventures of Kit Carson. He guest-starred in two episodes of Jock Mahoney's series The Range Rider in 1952 and 1953. Silverheels and he also starred in two feature-length Lone Ranger motion pictures. After completion of the

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 second feature, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, in 1958, <mask> began 40 years of personal appearances (including for the short-lived Lone Ranger Restaurants in Southern California), TV guest spots, and classic commercials as the legendary masked man. Silverheels joined him for occasional reunions during the early 1960s. Throughout his career, <mask> expressed respect and love for Silverheels. One of <mask>’s personal appearances in character became the basis of a story that actor Jay Thomas told every year around Christmas beginning in 2000 on The Late Show with David Letterman.Thomas was a radio disc jockey at the time in North Carolina and happened to be doing a show at a car dealership where <mask> was appearing in character as The Lone Ranger. <mask> had been stranded at the dealership, and Thomas offered him a ride back to his hotel. On the way, a passing motorist struck Thomas’ Volvo with enough force to break a headlight. Thomas gave chase and eventually cornered the man in a parking lot where he threatened to press charges. The driver of the other car taunted Thomas by saying nobody would believe his story, but <mask> emerged from the back seat of the car — still wearing his costume — and said “they’ll believe me, citizen” to the stunned driver. With one exception, Thomas returned to Letterman’s show to tell the story every December until Letterman’s retirement. Lawsuit
In 1979, Jack Wrather, who owned the Lone Ranger character, obtained a court order prohibiting <mask> from making future appearances as The Lone Ranger.Wrather was in the process of making a new film version of the story and believed that <mask>'s public appearances in character would undercut the value of the character and the film, and also

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 advance any rumors that the 65-year-old <mask> would be playing the title role in the new picture (which he did not). Wrather's move was disastrous. <mask> responded by filing a countersuit and then slightly changed his costume, replacing the domino mask with a pair of Foster Grant wraparound sunglasses and participating in the company's "Who's that behind those Foster Grants?" ad campaign. The public was strongly in favor of <mask>, as evidenced when moviegoers stayed away from Wrather's film. The Legend of the Lone Ranger was released in 1981, was panned by critics, and earned only $12 million at the box office, two-thirds of the film's budget. The legal proceedings between <mask> and Wrather dragged on until 1984, when Wrather suddenly dropped the lawsuit permitting <mask> to again make public appearances as the Lone Ranger; Wrather died of cancer two months after dropping the suit.<mask> & the Lone Ranger
<mask> often was quoted as saying he had "fallen in love with the Lone Ranger character" and strove in his personal life to take The Lone Ranger Creed to heart. This, coupled with his public fight to retain the right to wear the mask, made <mask> and his character inseparable. In this regard, he was much like another cowboy star, William Boyd, who portrayed the Hopalong Cassidy character. <mask> was so identified with the masked man that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, , to have his character's name along with his on the star, which reads, "<mask> — The Lone Ranger". He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1990 was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. <mask> also was awarded a place on the

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 Western Walk of Fame in Old Town Newhall, California. Death
<mask> died on December 28, 1999, in a West Hills, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home in nearby Calabasas.He was survived by his fourth wife, Clarita <mask> (née Petrone), and an adopted daughter, Dawn Angela <mask>. <mask> is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. In Popular Culture
 An episode of Night Court concerns an aging cowboy actor (a Lone Ranger analog) who always appears publicly in his old costume, but he is being prohibited to do so by the TV producers who own the rights to it. The movie Bubba Ho-Tep centers on a retirement home that is being terrorized by a life-sucking mummy. The lead characters are Elvis Presley and a man claiming to be a race-swapped John F. Kennedy, but another inhabitant of the rest home is an actor who still wears his cowboy gear, including his mask and his guns. He is referred to as "Kemosabe", the affectionate term for the Lone Ranger used by Tonto. Filmography

References and notes

Autobiography
I Was That Masked Man, by <mask> with Frank Thompson, Taylor Publishing Company, 1996 –

External links

 <mask> Memorial
 <mask> at The Old Corral (b-westerns.com)
 "<mask>, Television's Lone Ranger And a Persistent Masked Man, Dies at 85", by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, December 29, 1999

 Sept 2014 interview with daughter, <mask>

1914 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
First Motion Picture Unit personnel
Lone Ranger
Male Western (genre) film actors
Male actors from Chicago
Male film serial actors
Masked actors
People from Calabasas, California
Western (genre)

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<mask> (April 3, 1882 – June 16, 1971) was an American classical pianist known primarily for his relationship with the French composer Claude Debussy in the early 20th century and his interpretations of modern Spanish piano works. Career
A native of Massachusetts, <mask><mask>. began piano studies as a child with Calixa Lavallée, the composer of "O Canada" and an important early member of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). <mask> later worked at the New England Conservatory with Liszt pupil Carl Baermann, then traveled to Europe for studies with Giuseppe Buonamici in Florence and Teresa Carreño in Berlin. Copeland was also coached in Paris by the British pianist Harold Bauer, concentrating on works of Schumann. Early in the 20th century, Copeland fell in love with the works of then-unfamiliar French composer Claude Debussy. On January 15, 1904, <mask> gave one of the earliest-known performance of Debussy's piano works in the United States, playing the Deux Arabesques at Steinert Hall in Boston. <mask> was not the first to perform Debussy in the United States; that honor went to Helen Hopekirk, a Scottish pianist who programmed the Deux Arabesques in Boston in 1902.From 1904 until his final recital in 1964, <mask> played at least one work of Debussy on each of his recitals. In the early 1900s, John Singer Sargent, a fellow Bostonian, introduced Copeland to Spanish music. <mask> became an Iberian specialist, performing works of Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, and others throughout the United States and

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 Europe. In 1909, he introduced three of Albéniz's Iberia suite to the United States, playing "Triana," "Malaga", and "El Albaicin" in Boston. In 1911, he met Debussy in Paris and spent four months studying with the composer, discussing and playing all of Debussy's piano works. This was a turning point in <mask>'s life; until his death 60 years later, <mask> would recall his time with Debussy with the greatest affection and reverence, both in print and in conversation with friends. In 1913, <mask> gave the following account of their discussions:
"I have never heard anyone play the piano in my life who understood the tone of every note as you do," remarked Debussy."Come again tomorrow." This seemed praise indeed and I did go tomorrow. I found him much more genial than on my first visit, and then I went time after time, until finally I was with him about twice a week for three months. I bought new copies of his works, which he marked for me; I played his works and he criticised my work and showed me what to do and how to do it. In the end, he admitted that I played him just as he wanted to be played and represented to the people. By 1955, <mask> had modified his account to have Debussy say: "I never dreamed that I would hear my music played like that in my lifetime. In this later version, Copeland claimed that their meetings were daily, for four months, including periods of playing as well as long walks in the countryside.<mask> gave many U.S. premieres of Debussy's works, as well as several world premieres. The most important was the

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texts: world premiere of numbers X and XI of the Etudes on November 21, 1916, at Aeolian Hall in New York City. The anonymous critic for Musical Courier was not particularly impressed with the Études, writing "These [études], in themselves, are not so absorbing as some of the composer's more familiar pieces, but as played by Mr. Copeland they acquired a delicate tone and glowing imagery that were surpassingly beautiful." Other U.S. premieres of Debussy included the Berceuse héroïque and La Boîte à joujoux. The latter, played on March 24, 1914 at the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston, may have been the world premiere of the work. From 1918 through 1920, Copeland toured the United States with the Isadora Duncan Dancers, the "Isadorables"), a sextet of dancers who were the students and adopted children of dancer Isadora Duncan. Sponsored by the Chickering Piano Company and managed by Loudon Charlton, Copeland and the dancers performed a shared program of dance and piano solos including works of Schubert, Chopin, MacDowell, Debussy, Grovlez, Albéniz, and others.The reviews of Copeland were overwhelmingly positive, though many reviewers were less enthusiastic about the dancers. Annoyed at <mask>'s success, the girls ordered Loudon Charlton to put <mask> in his place. The program covers were accordingly changed to read in large font "THE ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS," with <mask>'s name appearing in a smaller font beneath. <mask> saw this and refused to go onstage until all of the offending program covers in the audience had been removed. In the spring of

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texts: 1920, <mask> abruptly broke his contract for unknown reasons and went to Europe. Years later, <mask> told his student Ramon Sender that breaking his contract had fatal consequences for his career and that when he returned to the United States in the 1930s, no reputable manager would touch him. After a time in Italy, he then moved to the island of Mallorca.There he lived in the village of Genova and had a good relationship with the neighbours, becoming the godfather of Juana Maria Navarro, the daughter of one of his better friends. <mask> returned to the United States only periodically, giving Carnegie Hall recitals in 1925, 1928–1931, and 1933. In 1930, he performed in Philadelphia and New York City with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Leopold Stokowski, offering works of Debussy and de Falla. While living in Europe, he played at the Chopin Festival of Majorca, in Vienna with the Wiener Philharmoniker, at the Salzburg Festival, and in London. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, <mask> returned to the United States. Settling in New York City, he performed there annually at venues including Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Hunter College, and made regular trips to Washington D.C. and Boston. In 1945, he toured with the soprano Maggie Teyte in an all-Debussy duo recital that included his arrangement of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.<mask> played a Golden Jubilee Recital at Carnegie Hall on October 27, 1957, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his New York recital debut. The New York Times reviewer described his


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 performance as "magical," calling <mask>'s work "playing that stays in the memory." In the spring of 1958, he suffered a fall at his vacation home in Stonington, Connecticut and broke his shoulder. He was unable to play for several years and believed his career to be over. In 1963, he made a comeback, recording with famed engineer Peter Bartok and concertizing at schools and smaller halls on the East Coast. On May 11, 1964, <mask> performed his final recital at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University. Although he spoke in 1966 of a return to the concert stage, he never again performed in public.<mask> died of bone cancer in the Merwick Unit of Princeton Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 16, 1971. His cremated remains are held at the Ewing Cemetery in Ewing, New Jersey. Personal life
<mask> was open about being gay throughout his life. In 1913, he gave an interview to the Cleveland Leader in which he stated "I don’t care what people think of my morals. I never think anything about other people’s morals. Morals have nothing to do with me." He indicated that Oscar Wilde was a favorite author.Throughout his life, the pianist delighted in exotic jewelry and scents, both considered effeminate in the early 20th century. He wrote in his unpublished memoirs:
I have always had a passion for wearing jewelry, and whilst I know it is considered bad form, forbidding men to wear anything but a tiresome signet ring, I have taken the liberty of defying that convention all my life. Probably it grew out of my father's attitude. He was going to


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texts: give me a watch on my birthday, and he asked me what kind I wanted. I wanted a wristwatch – they were still a rare novelty in those days. He said I could certainly have the wristwatch if I wanted it, but that I need never darken his door again. Men who wore jewels or wristwatches, or who used perfume, or anything that smelt agreeable, were considered effeminate.I felt if my masculinity or effeminacy were to be judged and decided by the bottle of scent, or the kind of jewel I wore, I had best give up! Jewels are another manifestation of beauty, and certainly perfume smells better than perspiration! I wear jewels because I love to look at them myself, and because I hope they give pleasure to others. They are not unrelated to music, for all music has color – the deep greens of forests, the limpidness of water, the passionate flash of rubies and diamonds. <mask>'s openness about his sexuality allegedly led to problems for composer Aaron Copland. In the 1930s, the pianist preceded the composer on a concert tour in South America. In one country <mask> was apprehended on a "morals charge" and told never to return.When Aaron Copland arrived for his concerts, the authorities treated him frostily before he explained that he was Copland the composer, not <mask> the pianist. Around 1936, <mask> met a young German, Horst Frolich, at a restaurant in Barcelona, and they began a relationship that lasted for over thirty years. Frolich returned to the United States with <mask> that year, listing his occupation on the ship manifest as "secretary."

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 According to friends of the pianist, <mask> was adamant about Frolich's position as his partner; if you wanted the socially-desirable pianist to attend your party, Frolich had to be invited. A December, 1942 New York Times social item reporting the guest list of a high-society gathering at the St. Regis in New York included <mask>, the violinist Fritz Kreisler, and Frolich. Frolich committed suicide in 1972 after a dispute involving a property he was to inherit from a different lover. Programming
Although his repertoire contained several larger Romantic works, <mask> was alternately acclaimed and reviled as a miniaturist.He devised his programs according to his personal tastes. He said in a 1929 interview, "I don't want to convey any message. I play what I like the way I like it, and the audience generally likes it too. And I don't give a whoop about leaving the world a better place when I die." In the early part of his career, he was viewed as an avant-gardist. By the time of his final recitals, he was patronized as a relic of times past. A typical Copeland program included short works of a Baroque composer (Bach, Scarlatti, Grazioli, etc.), works of Chopin (generally a selection of mazurkas, waltzes and etudes), occasionally a larger work of Schumann or Beethoven, Debussy, and modern Spanish works by composers like Albéniz, Granados, Turina, de Falla, Lecuona, and others. He rarely deviated from this formula. He occasionally presented all-Debussy recitals, though more often such recitals included one or two non-Debussy works, such

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