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 his family to port in Cape Town. After seeing them off, she returned to South West Africa with the missionary Johannes Rath, but instead of returning to Otjikango, she stayed behind in Bethanie with the family of another Rhenish Missionary, Hermann Kreft, working as a servant and learning Dutch and some German. In 1936, the missionary and educator Heinrich Vedder wrote from Uerita's perspective of an incident that made a lasting impression on Uerita and probably contributed to her conversion: "It was little Mary's bedtime. After her bath, I went to her room to tuck her in.However, she was reluctant to get into bed and knelt before me, folding her hands together and asking me to pray with her as her mother did at bedtime. I did not know how to do so and it made me feel ashamed." Uerita lived with the Kreft family in Namaland until 1857. Here she encountered a Christian congregation, an unusual sight in Hereroland, and attended catechism with a group of Nama. However, she still had no desire to be baptized and Kreft did not pressure her to change her mind. Return to the Hahns
The Hahn family returned in 1857 to Hereroland and Uerita joined them once more in Otjimbingwe. On 25 July 1858, she was baptized on the mission as <mask>, the first Herero woman to join the Christian faith.She was indispensable in Hahn's efforts to translate stories from the Bible into Herero. Later, she accompanied the family to Germany to proofread books published in Herero out of Gütersloh. They stayed there in the mission home available to missionaries on home leave. Later, Vedder's mother made <mask>'s acquaintance, making such an impression on her that she urged her son, born in 1876, to become a

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 missionary to young people in Africa. In Germany
<mask> had a great task ahead of her in Germany. She managed the Hahn household along with participating in missionary work and proofreading prints from Bertelsmann of Hahn's written work in Herero. Along with a New Testament in Herero, Bertelsmann also published a grammar and a comprehensive dictionary.Unfortunately, <mask> struggled to adjust to life in Europe. "It is a beautiful land, but only if one is born there," she later said. "If one is born in Africa, one should stay in Africa." Married life
In 1861, she returned to her homeland on the advice of her doctor, who believed the German climate was adversely affecting her health. Hugo Hahn, who would stay in Germany another two years, suggested that <mask> work for the household of Peter Heinrich Brinker, a young missionary in Otjikango. <mask> (born around 1805 in Kookfontein, died on 15 October 1889 in Otjimbingwe) lived in Otjikango at the time and had just become a widow with eight children. He married <mask> by the Herero custom, contributing the slaughter of two cattle and several goats for the wedding feast.The missionary dealer Johann Wilhelm Redecker, then a bachelor, was sent in 1868 to Omaruru to teach the locals to plant vegetable gardens and wheat fields. With her husband's permission, <mask> became Redecker's housekeeper while <mask>'s adult daughters looked after their father. Once Redecker married, <mask> and Samuel moved to Anahout on the Swakop River where they supervised the Rhenish Missionaries' wheat fields. <mask> and Samuel had nine children, of whom two died in infancy. Samuel died of a ripe old age in 1889. <mask> was around 60 when she decided to become

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 a midwife, and she helped bring many of Redecker's children into the world. She was highly proficient, to the point that she assisted with the pregnancies of many other European settler women.Last years
On 25 July 1933, the Ojimbingwe Rhenish congregation celebrated a milestone with the 75th anniversary of <mask>'s baptism. Though 97 and frail, she attended the event and regaled them with stories from the old days. "The Lord sure forgot to take me," she quipped at the event. After her death a mere two years later at the age of almost 99, she was buried next to her husband in the Otjimbingwe cemetery. Their names are chiseled on a tombstone from which a cross appears. Legacy
In 1936, Vedder's book Die schwarze Johanna: Lebens- und Zeitbild der 99jährigen <mask>ze, der Erstlingsfrucht vom Missionsfelde des Hererolandes ("The Black Johanna: The Life and Times of 99-Year-Old <mask>, the First Fruits of the Mission in the Herero Lands") was published by the Rhenish Missionaries' press, Verlag des Missionshauses. In 1999, NamPost, the Namibian national postal service, issued a stamp honoring Gertze.Sources
 (af) <mask>, the first Christian Herero woman, by Walter Moritz, Republikein, 7 February 2014. URL accessed 17 April 2016. (af) Von Moltke, J. Huisgenoot, 1 July 1949. (af) De Kock, W.J. 1968. Suid-Afrikaanse Biografiese Woordeboek, part I. Pretoria: Nasionale Raad vir Sosiale Navorsing, Departement van Hoër Onderwys. (en) <mask>'s life story from the New Era website.New Era. URL accessed 18 April 2016. References

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Namibian pharmacists
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texts: <mask> is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics (Martha Colburn and <mask>), The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering, and many more. His current projects are: Half Japanese, Period Bomb, Matmos, Spacience, Leprechaun Catering, and continues to put out new material in collaboration with Jac Berrocal and David Fenech. His record label, Megaphone, initially set out to issue work by Rock in Opposition-derived performers such as The Work, Fred Frith, the Molecules, Matmos, David Liebe Hart, Tim Hodgkinson and Jac Berrocal, but became largely a venue for <mask>'s own collaborative music. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, R Stevie Moore, James Chance, Matmos, Hanna Olivegren, Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye and his various pet ducks. The son of songwriter <mask> (whose work included Tammy St. John's "Dark Shadows and Empty Hallways" and Walter Jackson's "It's an Uphill Climb to the Bottom"), <mask> was raised in a musical household in Maryland. After being drafted as bassist for Half Japanese in 1990, he has retained a collaborative relationship with Jad Fair, with whom he has produced 14 collaborative duo releases (at least 2000 songs still unreleased). He has operated The

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 True Vine record shop out of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood for about a dozen years now, but has recently had to move it to Baltimore's Station North neighborhood.: s/t (LP) (Planam 2010)
<mask>: Something's Going On.... (Cassette) (Player Press) (2014)
Half Japanese: Overjoyed (LP) (Joyful Noise) (2014)
Bottomless Up: s/t (Cassette) (A Megaphone Cassette Special) (2015)
Half Japanese: Bingo Ringo (EP) (Joyful Noise) (2015)
Half Japanese: Perfect {LP} (2017, Joyful Noise)
Half Japanese: Perfect {CD} (2017, Joyful Noise)
Jad Fair & <mask> - The Greatest Power {LP}(Dymaxion Groove) (2015)
Half Japanese: Hear The Lions Roar {LP} (2017, Fire)
Half Japanese: Hear The Lions Roar {CD} (2017, Fire)
I Said No Doctors! {LP}(2017, Dymaxion Groove)
Half Japanese: why not? {LP} (2018, Fire)
Half Japanese: why not? {CD} (2018, Fire)
David Liebe Hart Meets Jad Fair & <mask>: For Everyone {LP} (2018, Joyful Noise)
David Liebe Hart Meets Jad Fair & <mask>: For Everyone {Cassette} (2019, Burger)
Half Japanese: Invincible {LP} (2019, Fire)
Half Japanese: Invincible {CD} (2019, Fire)
Jac Berrocal, <mask>, David Fenech : Xmas in March {LP, CD} (2020, Megaphone + Knock Em Dead Records)

External links
megaphonerecords.com
The True Vine Record Shop

Living people
American multi-instrumentalists
American experimental musicians
American audio engineers
Record producers from Maryland
Year of birth missing (living

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<mask> (27 October 1882 – 1 June 1954), was a German Protestant and nationalist essayist. He was the editor of the influential antisemitic monthly magazine Deutsches Volkstum from 1919 until its shutdown by the Nazis in 1938. While holding cultural anti-semitic thesis that diverged from the racialist Nazi doctrines, and advocating for less harmful measures to be taken against Jews, Stapel nonetheless collaborated with many Nazi institutions and official figures. He spoke vehemently against the anti-Nazi Confessing Church of Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth, and defended the policy of Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller. At the same time Stapel was committed to the policy of Reichsminister of Church Affairs (Reichskirchenminister) Hanns Kerrl, to whom he served as an advisor. After 1945, Stapel despised the new German Federal Republic and, in 1949, called for a boycott of the Bundestag elections. He died in Hamburg in 1954 at the age of 71, largely unnoticed from the public.Early life
Otto Friedrich <mask> was born on 27 October 1882 in Kalbe, the son of a Prussian watchmaker. He soon became a journalist under the influence of Friedrich Naumann in 1903. In 1905 he graduated from high school (Abitur), before joining Ferdinand Avenarius' magazine Der Kunstwart in November 1911. The same year, he earned a PhD in art history at the University of Göttingen, after a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Edmund Husserl titled Der Meister des Salzwedeler Hochaltars. Nebst einem Überblick über die gotischen Schnitzaltäre der Altmark ("The Master of Salzwedel's high altar. In addition to an overview of the Gothic carved altars of the Altmark"). From 1903 to 1914, Stapel was a left-wing

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 liberal but also an aggressive nationalist.He abominated in his articles what he called "Wilhelmian histrionics" and bourgeois materialism. The patriotic experience of WWI turned <mask> into a right-winger and a supporter of Ludendorff's annexations programme in Poland. Adopting the Volksgedanke ("thought of the folk") as the essence for his political theories, he became, from 1919 until its shutdown by the Nazis in 1938, editor in chief of Deutsches Volkstum ("German folkdom"), a nationalist and antisemitic monthly journal from Hamburg owned by the nationalist trade-union of German salesclerks (DHV). Collaboration under Nazi rule
After the great electoral success of the Nazi Party in September 1930, Stapel published a few months later a small brochure titled Sechs Kapitel über Christendum und Nationalsozialismus ("Six Chapters on Christianity and National Socialism"), and he welcomed the Nazis as an elementary and instinct-led (Volksinstinkt) movement. <mask> joined the Deutschen Christen in July 1933, to which he remained loyal even after the mass withdrawals of November 1933. He spoke vehemently against the anti-Nazi Confessing Church of Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth, this polemical dispute shaping numerous articles that appeared in the following years in Deutsches Volkstum. Stapel defended the policy of Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller and advocated for the introduction of the Aryan paragraph in the Church, claiming that the Jewish Christians should organise themselves in their own church.At the same time he was committed to the policy of Reichsminister of Church Affairs (Reichskirchenminister) Hanns Kerrl, to whom he served as an advisor. However, under pressure from

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 the Nazi leadership in 1938, Stapel had to stop the publication of his monthly magazine Deutsches Volkstum. Later life
After 1945, Stapel despised the new German Federal Republic and, in 1949, called for a boycott of the Bundestag elections. As late as 1953, he claimed the Bundestag was only an "aid institution for the relief of the occupying powers". The same critics can be found in various articles Stapel published in the magazine Nation Europa in the early 1950s. In 1951, Stapel published the book Über das Christentum. An die Denkenden unter seinen Verächtern ("About Christianity.To the thinkers among its contemners"), dedicated to the newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss, his former friend from the Der Kunstwart period. <mask> died in Hamburg on 1 June 1954 at the age of 71, largely unnoticed from the public. Nationalist and antisemitic theories
Armin Mohler considered <mask> to be one of the most influential thinkers of the Conservative Revolution. National-Protestantism
After the experience of WWI, Stapel began to develop ideas of strong leadership against the Weimar Republic's parliamentary democracy, when he argued that this regime was unsuited to turbulent times and that "free, spontaneous, dominant personalities" were needed to make quick and responsible decisions. In his essay, published in 1932 and respected at that time among German right-wing circles, Der christliche Staatsmann: Eine Theologie des Nationalismus ("The Christian Statesman: a Theology of Nationalism"), he tried to legitimise the chiliastic Imperium Teutonicum he had long been advocated for. In this sense, he stood entirely in the tradition that historian

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 Clemens Vollnhals has called Nationalprotestantismus ("National Protestantism"). Stapel had already published a specific theology of war in another essay, Ideen von 1914 ("Ideas of 1914"), where he wrote about his faith in a special divine mission for the German people.According to historian Roger Woods, <mask>'s apparently grounded theories against the Weimar system should not obscure the fact that they were theorised as a response to the political dilemma of the Conservative Revolution and their lack of programmatic detail. Stapel was above all a supporter of an "instinctive form of election" where he focused on the personalities of the candidates and "dismissed political programmes as largely produced for propaganda purposes". Cultural antisemitism
Writing about Volk and Volkstum when he defined Germans and Jews in broad generalisations, he however refused to use Nazi concepts on race. According to Stapel, the Volk was an "irrational, non-reflective, God-given entity" that one was not able to fully understand with concepts but could only experience. Inspired by Oswald Spengler's thesis on the cultural confrontation between Jews as whom Spengler described as a Magian people versus Europeans as a Faustian people, Stapel described Jews as a landless nomadic people in pursuit of an transnational culture (e.g. "international" versions of socialism, pacifism or capitalism) whereby they can integrate into Western civilisation by transgressing national cultural boundaries. He saw the Jews as the typical expression of materialism and intellectualism that were draining Germans dry from their imagination and instinctive feelings.Although he dismissed German Christians that


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 Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1937. (Schriften des Reichsinstituts für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, Bd. 7). Das Gesetz unseres Lebens, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1939
Über das Christentum. An die Denkenden unter seinen Verächtern, 1951. References

Further reading

 Heinrich Keßler: <mask> als politischer Publizist. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des konservativen Nationalismus zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen.Erlangen 1967. Helmut Thomke: Politik und Christentum bei <mask>. Mainz 1973. Jochen Meyer: Aufstand der Landschaft gegen Berlin. <mask> und seine Zeitschrift „Deutsches Volkstum“ Hamburg 1919–1938. In: Berlin – Provinz. Literarische Kontroversen um 1930, bearb.von Jochen Meyer. In: Marbach-Magazin 35/1985, S. 6–46. Siegfried Lokatis: Antisemitismus, Volkstumsgedanke und die Organisation völkischer Gesinnungsliteratur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung <mask>, Dissertation Staatliches Prüfungsamt für Lehrämter an Schulen, Lehrerprüfungsarbeit Bochum 1985, OCLC 248042365. Ascan Gossler: Theologischer Nationalismus und völkischer Antisemitismus. <mask> und die „konservative Revolution“ in Hamburg. Hamburg 1997. ders.: Publizistik und konservative Revolution: das „Deutsche Volkstum“ als Organ des Rechtsintellektualismus 1918–1933. Lit, Münster 2001. Oliver Schmalz: Kirchenpolitik unter dem Vorzeichen der Volksnomoslehre. <mask>apel im Dritten Reich. Frankfurt 2004. Roland Kurz: Nationalprotestantisches Denken in der Weimarer Republik. Voraussetzungen und Ausprägungen des Protestantismus nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg in seiner Begegnung mit Volk und Nation.Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2007, . Oliver Schmalz: "Stapel, <mask>." In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 25

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 (2013). S. 56–57. Clemens Vollnhals: Theologie des Nationalismus. Der christlich-völkische Publizist <mask>el. In: Für ein artgemäßes Christentum der Tat: Völkische Theologen im »Dritten Reich«, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Aug 15 2016.Robert Steuckers. "La contribution à Il Regime Fascista de <mask>el". Vouloir, 119/121, juli-september, 1994, pp. 37–38. See also

 Conservative Revolution

1882 births
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<mask> (November 1860 – November 7, 1938) was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. <mask> was a very successful recording artist whose career spanned from 1892 to 1918. <mask> recorded many of his hits in the legendary Tin Pan Alley of New York City. Biography
<mask><mask> was born in late 1860 in New York City to Benjamin Bernard and <mask> (née <mask>). His family moved to San Francisco when he was a child, but returned to New York in the 1870s (leading to later confusion as to his birthplace). His musical career was most likely influenced by his immediate family. His older brother by four years, John, (aged 14 at the time) was listed in a June 1870 census list as a “Drummer”.He began singing in the choir of the Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal) as a child. As a young adult, he worked as an ironworker and moonlighted as a singer at local functions in the New York area. ‘Discovered’ at one of these functions in January 1892, <mask> made his first recording in New York and quickly achieved success. Limitations of technology at the time meant that not all voices were suitable to be recorded; <mask>'s voice was one that recorded well. He assisted Thomas Edison in the laboratory as Edison made modifications to the talking machine, to make it also a singing machine. Edison described him as "the man with the perfect voice." He sang for all the major record labels of his day, including Berliner, Columbia, Edison, Gramophone, Paramount and Victor.In 1898, Columbia signed him to a year-long exclusive contract, but

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texts: within days of its expiration he was making a record for Berliner. Over his career, <mask> recorded many popular songs and cut an estimated 2,500 titles. He sang "Molly and I and the Baby" more than a thousand times in about two weeks, using the pre-electrical acoustical-recording technology of the early 1890s: the singer sang into the large end of a horn, which physically stimulated the stylus on the rotating cylinder. The companies had limited duplication capability, so if they wanted a hundred copies, the singer had to perform the song many times, a process called recording ‘in the round’ because of the placement of the recording machines in a semi-circle around the performer(s). For one take, Edison obtained an orchestra to accompany <mask> and kept that copy in his laboratory. At age 22 <mask> married 15-year-old Mary Jane Ritchie, known to the family as Jennie. They had six children: <mask>, Ritchie, Arthur (who died in infancy), Mary, known as Lidie (later Hunsberger), Jane (Manderson), and Frank.They lived in a reconstructed mansion on West 20th Street, near 10th Avenue, until about 1898, when they moved to 442 West 24th Street, in a row of two-story houses known as Chelsea cottages. Later, in response to Jennie's inability to use stairs due to worsening rheumatism, they moved to a flat at 312 West 20th Street. <mask> retired from recording in 1906 but continued to work in vaudeville, clubs, concerts, and occasionally comic opera. He briefly returned to recording from 1915 to 1918, but went back into retirement soon after. Although retired from singing, he

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 worked extensively booking concerts and shows, including two large ones held the week he died. <mask> died of intestinal cancer at the West 20th Street apartment in New York on November 7, 1938 at age 79. Selected recordings
The following is a partial list of <mask><mask>'s recordings:
"Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow" – North American Phonograph Co., 1892
"The Bowery" – North American Phonograph Co., 1892
"Daisy Bell" – North American Phonograph Co., 1893
"And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" – Berliner, 1894
"My Pearl is a Bowery Girl" – Berliner, 1894
"Girl Wanted" – Berliner, 1895
Henrietta, Have You Met Her?"(Duet with Helen Trix) – Victor, 1906
"Hello Boys I'm Back Again" – Columbia, 1915
"At the Fountain of Youth" – Columbia, 1916
"Here Comes the Groom" – Operaphone Records, 1917
"Life is a Merry Go Round" – Paramount, 1918
"Round Her Neck She Wears a Yellow Ribbon" – Paramount, 1918

Note

References

External links
 <mask><mask> recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. <mask><mask> cylinder recordings, from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. <mask>'s recording of "I Want to Go to Morrow" at the Library of Congress National Jukebox

 "Songwriters Friends: <mask>" at the Songwriters Hall of Fame website. Biography and audio clip of recording made c. 1896. <mask><mask>, Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894–1917 at Archeophone Records

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Edison Records artists
Paramount Records artists
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<mask> ( ; born July 3, 1964) is an American actress, artist and writer. She currently stars as the voice of Lisa Simpson on the long-running animated television series The Simpsons. <mask> became an actress in 1982 after graduating from drama school. She moved to New York City in 1984, where she appeared in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. She made her film debut in 1985's Heaven Help Us, followed by roles in The Legend of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive. She moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and took a recurring role in the television series Brothers. In 1987, <mask> auditioned for the Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.<mask> intended to audition for the role of Bart Simpson, but the casting director felt her voice was too high, and she was cast as Bart's sister Lisa. In 1989, the shorts were spun off into their own half-hour show, The Simpsons. For her work on The Simpsons, <mask> received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992. Alongside The Simpsons, <mask> appeared in the sitcom Herman's Head as Louise, and had recurring appearances as Marlene on Dharma & Greg and as Penny in two episodes of Dead Like Me. She has appeared in several films, including City Slickers, Just Write, Toys and As Good as It Gets. In 2004, <mask> performed an off-Broadway one-woman show entitled More at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. Aside from The Simpsons, <mask> has recorded few voice-over parts, only commercials and the film We're Back!A Dinosaur's Story. <mask> starred in and served as executive producer for the independent romantic comedy Waiting For Ophelia, which had its world premiere at the Phoenix Film Festival in April 2009. Early life
<mask> was born on July 3, 1964, in Paris. Her father, <mask>, worked for United Press International in Paris and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1966, where he became The Washington Post's first official obituary editor. Her mother, Martha Mayor,

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 was a paper conservator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution. <mask>'s parents later divorced. Her maternal grandfather was art historian A. Hyatt Mayor, and among her great-grandparents were marine biologist and zoologist Alpheus Hyatt and artist and sculptor Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor.She is also the paternal niece of political scientist, historian, and Latin American studies specialist Peter H<mask>. <mask> has labeled her family "upper crust and reserved". As a child, <mask> was often teased because of her unusual voice. <mask> has stated: "I've sounded pretty much the same way since I was six. Maybe [my voice is] a little deeper now." She made her acting debut in a sixth-grade play. Career

Early career
<mask> became a professional actress in 1982 after graduating from drama school.After appearances in a number of school plays, she joined the local Arena Stage theater group on an apprenticeship, featuring in their production of Peter Pan. She went on to star in several other plays in Washington. She moved to New York City in 1984 and appeared in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing alongside Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close. <mask>'s first film role came in Heaven Help Us (1985). She then played Putter in The Legend of Billie Jean (also 1985). The film was a box office bomb and critically panned, although <mask> "thought it would be the movie that launched my career. And then it was out at the box office about 10 days before it died."When filming was over, she rejoined The Real Thing before being out of work for six months. <mask> worried her career was over. However, the following year, she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), noting it was "truly a dreadful film, but I had a great part in it." <mask> moved to Los Angeles in 1986 on the "semi-promise" of a part in a TV film. After the audition, the role was given to another actress. <mask> realized "that people

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 don't mean what they say. It's not malicious.They just don't realize how much impact they have on an impressionable actor – and all actors are impressionable." From then on, she decided to "just sort of build a wall around myself", to cope with the disappointment of not getting a part. In Los Angeles, <mask> appeared in theatrical productions of Living on Salvation Street, for which she was paid $14 for each performance, Boys and Girls/Men and Women, and How the Other Half Loves, and played the recurring role of Louella Waters on the Showtime series Brothers. She appeared in the films The Legend of Billie Jean and Ginger Ale Afternoon (1989) as "trailer-park girls". She later spoke of her regrets of appearing in the latter in her one-woman show More. The Simpsons

<mask>'s longest-running role is voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons. She has voiced Lisa since 1987, beginning with The Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.<mask> had initially been asked to audition for the role of Lisa's brother Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila thought her voice was too high. <mask> later recalled "I always sounded too much like a girl, I read two lines as Bart and they said, 'Thanks for coming!'" <mask> was given the role of Lisa, instead. She denies rumors that she almost turned down the role, though admits she had never planned a career in voice-over work. Pietila stated that, having seen her in Living on Salvation Street, <mask> was always her preferred choice. <mask> lifts her voice up slightly to perform the role. Lisa is the only regular character voiced by <mask>, although in some earlier episodes, she provided some of Maggie's squeaks and occasional speaking parts.<mask> has only voiced characters other than Lisa on very rare occasions, with those characters usually being some derivative of Lisa, such as Lisa Bella in "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" and Lisa, Jr. in "Missionary: Impossible" (both from season 11 in 2000). <mask> spends

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texts: two days a week recording the show. Until 1998, <mask> was paid $30,000 per episode. During a pay dispute in 1998, Fox threatened to replace the six main voice actors with new actors, going as far as preparing to cast new voices. However, the dispute was soon resolved and she received $125,000 per episode until 2004, when the voice actors demanded that they be paid $360,000 per episode. The issue was resolved a month later, and <mask> earned $250,000 per episode. After salary renegotiations in 2008, the voice actors received about $400,000 per episode.Three years later, with Fox threatening to cancel the series unless production costs were cut, <mask> and the other cast members accepted a 25% pay cut, down to just over $300,000 per episode. Despite her world-famous role, <mask> is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying, "it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall; people never recognise me solely from my voice." In a 2009 interview with The Guardian, she commented: "It's the best job ever. I have nothing but gratitude for the amount of freedom The Simpsons has bought me in my life." <mask> received a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992, but felt it was not worth anything, saying "there's part of me that feels it wasn't even a real Emmy." The Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance is a Creative Arts and not handed out during the primetime telecast and, prior to 2009, was a juried award without nominations. However, <mask> says "if I had to be associated with one character in fiction, I will always be thrilled that it was Lisa Simpson."The show's creator Matt Groening has called <mask> very similar to Lisa: "<mask> has strong moral views about her character. There are lines that are written for Lisa that <mask> reads and says, 'No, I wouldn't say that. Writer Jay Kogen praised her performance on the show, particularly in the

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 episode "Lisa's Substitute", as able "to move past comedy to something really strong and serious and dramatic". Further career
From 1991 to 1994, alongside The Simpsons, <mask> was one of the lead cast members in the sitcom Herman's Head as Louise. Her other television roles include recurring appearances as Marlene on Dharma & Greg, and Penny in two episodes of Dead Like Me. <mask> has also appeared in Phil of the Future and Teen Angel. Her one-scene role as pregnant checkout girl Nancy in 1991's City Slickers earned her "more attention than all [her] previous roles combined", and taught her "that it's far better to have small parts in big movies that everyone sees."In 1997, she appeared as Lulu the palm reader in the independent film Just Write. Her other roles include parts in Barry Levinson's Toys and James L. Brooks' As Good as It Gets. Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast <mask> in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything (in one of the film's musical numbers), but her part was cut. Aside from The Simpsons, <mask> has recorded few voice-over parts, only commercials and the film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. She "had a voice-over agent for about two years, and I used to go out [on auditions] all the time, but it never really came to anything. Everybody said, 'Oh Yeardley, you'll clean up,' and that was definitely not the case."In 2004, <mask> performed her own off-Broadway one-woman show entitled More at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. Directed by Judith Ivey, the play is about her mixed feelings over the success of The Simpsons, her parents, her relationships, and her struggles with bulimia. The New York Times critic Margo Jefferson called it an "appealing if overlong show", adding that "The career narrative needed shortening. This would involve some editing and revising but wouldn't taint the best parts of More. It is refreshing to hear a celebrity talk cleanly about being fame-driven and about not

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texts: getting the degree or the kind of fame you craved. It's fun to watch a skilled actress use her craft to the full." She would later perform the play for three weeks in Los Angeles the following year.<mask> starred in and served as executive producer for the independent romantic comedy Waiting for Ophelia, which was released in 2009. She funded the film, which was written by Adam Carl and based on a stage play he wrote in 2003. She said: "I loved it. I never get to play parts like that. I always play the friend of a friend, never the lead. And the script surprised me." Carl stated it was very unlikely she would recoup her money, but <mask> decided she "believe[d] in this project, and my expectations have already been fulfilled by making the movie", and added: "You can support art even if it's not going to make a zillion dollars."It premiered on April 4, 2009, at the Phoenix Film Festival. In 2011, <mask> starred as Ms. Miller in the movie The Chaperone alongside Triple H and Ariel Winter. In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, <mask> and others told the stories of the people killed there. On March 30, 2019, <mask> was honored with the Human Rights Campaign's National Leadership Award in Los Angeles for her work as an advocate of the LGBT community. In 2017, <mask> started a podcast, Small Town Dicks, which explores real life crime in small towns in the United States. <mask> had co-hosted the podcast with actress and long-time friend Zibby Allen until March 2019 when the two filed lawsuits against one another, with Allen accusing <mask> of pushing her out of ownership and profit rights from the show. <mask> is a lifelong Democrat.In 2018, <mask> challenged Republican Ted Cruz after he disparagingly labeled the Democratic Party "the party of Lisa Simpson". <mask> recommended that people of differing political views should be able to work together on

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<mask> married English-Canadian actor Christopher Grove in 1990. They were divorced in 1992, citing irreconcilable differences. She married Daniel Erickson in 2002; the marriage lasted for six years and <mask> filed for divorce on May 21, 2008, citing irreconcilable differences. In a 1997 interview with The Daily Targum, <mask> stated "I am shy, but I have an extroverted persona which I can draw on when I need to," and that she is a "private" actress. In 2009, she commented, "People have said to me that I'm unassuming.It's true, I'm the worst celebrity ever. But I'm trying to become better." <mask> had bulimia since she was a teenager. She noted "It would make me high, I would feel endorphins and this great sense of victory." <mask> enjoys writing and painting. During the first season of Herman's Head, <mask> taught herself to paint by copying other artists. The book Just Humor Me includes a story, "The Race", written by <mask>.She has written a children's book, I, Lorelei, which was published by HarperCollins in February 2009. In 2011, <mask> launched a women's shoe line called Marchez Vous. As of April 2019, <mask> is engaged to one of the co-hosts of her podcast, Small Town Dicks, only identified as Detective Dan on the podcast. She met him while he was providing personal security for her during a Simpsons event. Filmography

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External links

 <mask> <mask> <mask> at HarperCollins.com
 <mask> <mask>'s Personal Blog at Tumblr

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title: Simón de Roxas Clemente y Rubio

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<mask> (27 September 1777, in Titaguas (Valencia, Spain) – 27 February 1827, in Madrid) was a renowned Spanish botanist, considered to be the father of Spanish ampelography. Biography

Early Days
Born into a numerous family of 15 siblings (only six of which survived to adulthood) <mask> was a son of <mask> and his second wife, <mask>, and was fourth in line in term of inheritance and thus only had a very slight possibility of inheriting the family notary business. At the age of 10 he entered the seminary of Segorbe, and after studying humanities for four years he was sent to Valencia to continue his secondary education. There he studied philosophy with Antonio Galiana and became an arts professor. He also studied other subjects in the ecclesiastical curriculum and he excelled in philology especially Greek, Hebrew and Latin. However, he was more attracted to the natural sciences and he put together several collections and classifications of plants and animals. At that time, <mask>s Published Observaciones sobre el Reyno de Valencia (1795–97) which stimulated Rojas’ interest in botany.Work Experience
In 1800, at the age of 23, he went to Madrid to apply for the professorship of Logic and Ethics at the Seminario de Nobles and even though he failed to win it he was awarded a post at the Colegio de San Isidro. He also enrolled there as a student where he took Arabic, Botany, Mineralology and Chemistry and he made contact with people he would collaborate later, for example Casimiro Gómez Ortega (Añover del Tajo, 1741 - Madrid, 1810), botanist and head of the Madrid Botanic Gardens; Mariano Lagasca <mask>ra (Encinacorba, 1776 - Barcelona, 1839), with whom he co-published Introducción a la Criptogamia Española in 1802. In 1802, Rojas was nominated professor of Arabic in replacement of Miguel García who was

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texts: ill. It was then that he met the famous Catalan traveller and spy Domingo Badía <mask>, more commonly known as Alí <mask>, a fellow enthusiast of the Arabic language and botany and the natural sciences. He managed to persuade Rojas to accompany him on a supposed scientific project in the north of Africa, but which in reality was a spying mission for <mask>. He travelled through France and England with Badía and on these trips he collected and classified nine volumes of plant-lore, which he donated to the Botanic Gardens on his return to Madrid. Badía abandoned Rojas in the north of Africa, but <mask> paid for his silence with a stipend of 1,500 reales/month for the next four years and commissioned him to carry out a study of the natural history of the former Kingdom of Granada, independently of any academic or administrative authority.For almost two years he travelled about the Granada, Jeréz de la Frontera and Sanlúcar areas collecting samples of wild and cultivated plants, observing agricultural practices, noting soil characteristics, micro-climates, and the adaptation of the flora to their natural environment. The results of this work were deposited, unedited, in the Botanic Gardens in Madrid. He also travelled to Seville in 1804. He published several articles in 1806 and 1807 in the Semanario de Agricultura y Artes, run by Francisco Antonio Zea, which would later form part of his book Variedades de la Vid Común que Vegetan en Andalucía, published in 1807. This book was published as a result of his having met three prestigious agronomists: Esteban, Claudio Boutelou and Francisco Terán, head of the Botanic Gardens of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. They encouraged him to develop what was then a new discipline in Spain, that of ampelography or the study of vines. Rojas was to become the foremost European

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 authority on this subject.In 1807 he returned to Sanlúcar to run the Botanic Gardens, which he expanded by creating an experimental section with the aim of containing an example of every type of grape vine growing in Spain at the time, along the lines of what Chaptal had proposed in France when he was Minister of the Interior. Napoleonic War

The downfall of the Godoy government and the Napoleonic Wars interfered with these plans, however. Rojas tried to play both sides of the fence (pro-French and patriotic), as his liberal leanings made him favour the puppet government, but at the same time did not want to be considered a collaborator. He was able to travel freely all over Andalusia and to Madrid, but in 1812 he settled down in Titaguas. According to his first biographer, Miguel Colmeiro, he undertook many scientific and humanitarian projects: he wrote the civil, natural and ecclesiastical history of Titaguas, made topographical drawings of the municipality, researched the genealogy of the local surnames, taught children and adults to classify the different species of birds and plants and created an amateur theatrical company where he himself played a part in Molière’s El Médico a Palos and <mask>ón’s El alcalde de Zalamea. After the war he was called on to work on the topographical drawings of the province of Cádiz but he preferred to take the post of Librarian at the Madrid Botanic Gardens, under his friend Mariano Lagasca. In 1817 they both catalogued the collections of South American plants shipped back to Madrid by José Celestino Mutis.He then edited Gabriel Alonso <mask>’s Agricultura General in order to improve the original 1513 version with more rigorous scientific updates. He wrote a new prologue and added sections on species of wheat, cotton cultivation and most significantly on

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 varieties and cultivation of grape vines and the main wines produced in Spain. Later life
In 1820 when Riego reestablished the Cortes of Cádiz, Rojas supported him and was active in the liberal movement, and he was nominated to head the list of the deputies of the Valencia constituency. He accepted the post and formed part of the commissions on Health, Agriculture, and Public Health. However, he only participated once in the Parliament in order to propose the creation of an experimental agricultural farm in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. With his health deteriorating, due to his having had yellow fever in the past, he asked for sick leave to recover, and he retired to Titaguas in 1821, where he spent the next five years of his life. There he continued to compile data for his Historia Natural de Titaguas and to complete his collections of plants, insects and animals.He also began to study bee-keeping and made notes in the margins of a copy of Gabriel Alonso <mask>’s Agricultura General and in notebooks which ended up in the hands of the family of Antonio Sandalio <mask>. He returned to Madrid in 1826 to organise and finalise some of his many unfinished works, and he died there on 27 February 1827. Legacy
<mask> <mask> Clemente is renowned for the initial planning and planning of the collection of grape vine varieties in the Plano de Flor. References

Bibliography
  Juan Piqueras, "Gesta y vida de un insigne botánico. Reseña biográfica de Simón de Rojas Clemente", en Mètode, núm. 34 (2002). Miguel Colmeiro, La botánica y los botánicos de la Península Hispano-Lusitana: estudios bibliográficos y biográficos, Madrid: Imprenta y Estereotípa de M. Rivadeneyra, 1858.Fernando Martín Polo, <mask> <mask> <mask>, Valencia: PUV, 2016, 606 p.

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title: Douglas McGregor

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<mask> (September 1906 – 1 October 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices. <mask> was a student of Abraham Maslow. He has contributed much to the development of the management and motivational theory, and is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book ‘The Human Side of Enterprise’ (1960), which proposed that manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determined how individual manages their employees. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 6,1906, to Murray James and <mask>. When he was young he volunteered in homeless shelters, played piano, and sang.When <mask> was in high school, he worked for his family business, the McGregor Institute. The McGregor Institute, first known as the Mission for Homeless Men, served the Detroit homeless population with spiritual and career services. <mask>'s uncle, his father Murray's brother, is Detroit philanthropist Tracy W<mask>. He earned a B.E. (Mechanical) from Rangoon Institute of Technology, a B. A. from Wayne State University in 1932, then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1933 and 1935 respectively.<mask> originally dropped out of Wayne State to work as a gas station attendant in Buffalo, New York, and was a regional manager by 1930, though he later returned to school. When the McGregor Institute was given a grant by the Detroit Department of Public Works, <mask> returned to Wayne State to finish his degree in 1932. Career
After teaching at Harvard University and then MIT, where he was one of the first professors in the Sloan School of Management, he served as president of Antioch College Ohio, now known as Antioch University Midwest, from 1948 to 1954. In 1954, <mask> returned to teaching at MIT, where he taught until his death in 1964. He later served as a

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He got married at age 19. <mask> was very close to Abraham Maslow.In class, he had a very relaxed teaching style which led his students to enjoy his classes. He would often put his feet up on the desk and lecture at the same time. In 1964, <mask> died at the age of 58 in Massachusetts. The Human Side of Enterprise

In the book The Human Side of Enterprise, <mask> identified an approach of creating an environment within which employees are motivated via authoritative direction and control or integration and self-control, which he called theory X and theory Y, respectively. He is responsible for breaking down previous management styles with The X and Y Theory which created a new role for managers to assume. Theory Y is the practical application of Dr. Abraham Maslow's Humanistic School of Psychology, or Third Force psychology, applied to scientific management. He is commonly thought of as being a proponent of Theory Y, but, as Edgar Schein tells in his introduction to <mask>'s subsequent, posthumous (1967), book The Professional Manager: "In my own contacts with Doug, I often found him to be discouraged by the degree to which theory Y had become as monolithic a set of principles as those of Theory X, the over-generalization which Doug was fighting....Yet few readers were willing to acknowledge that the content of Doug's book made such a neutral point or that Doug's own presentation of his point of view was that coldly scientific".Graham Cleverley in Managers & Magic (Longman's, 1971) comments: "...he coined the two terms Theory X and theory Y and used them to label two sets of beliefs a manager might hold about the origins of human behaviour. He pointed out that the manager's own behaviour would be largely determined by the particular beliefs that he subscribed to....<mask> hoped that his book would lead managers to investigate the two sets of beliefs, invent others, test out the assumptions underlying them, and develop managerial strategies that made sense in terms of those tested views

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 of reality. "But that isn't what happened. Instead <mask> was interpreted as advocating Theory Y as a new and superior ethic – a set of moral values that ought to replace the values managers usually accept." The Human Side of Enterprise was voted the fourth most influential management book of the 20th century in a poll of the Fellows of the Academy of Management. Research interests
<mask>'s research focused on managerial leadership and the ways in which employees are affected by the management styles of their superiors. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise focused on theory X and theory Y approaches to leadership.His 1967 book The Professional Manager built upon the ideas presented in his first book, along with providing behavioral, social, and psychological aspects implications of the previous ideas. Legacy
Since the mid-1950s, Procter & Gamble used Theory X and Theory Y to set up plants in Augusta, Georgia, even hiring <mask> to help. Warren Bennis, leadership expert, researcher, author, and educator, said of <mask>, "Just as every economist, knowingly or not, pays his dues to Keynes, we are all, one way or another, disciples of <mask>

<mask> died suddenly, age 58, in Massachusetts. In 1964, the School of Adult and Experiential Learning at Antioch College was renamed the "McGregor School" in his honor. It was later renamed "Antioch University McGregor" and then "Antioch University Midwest." The <mask> Memorial Award was founded in 1966 in <mask>'s honor to recognize a leading paper published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. See also
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 <mask> - Comparison of Theory X versus Theory Y
 <mask> - Theory X and Theory Y inc. diagrams

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta faculty
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title: Robin Morton (cycling)

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<mask> is an American former cycling team manager and was the first and only female manager in men's professional cycling. She also created the first Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) registered American professional road racing team in 1984. Cycling in Europe is a traditionally male sport and includes rules prohibiting women from the race caravans. At managers' meetings prior to races in Europe, the race organization would vote on whether <mask> would be allowed to ride in the team car. <mask> was elected to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2016. Career

1980-82
<mask>'s first involvement with cycling was with the amateur racing team of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club (PBC) of Germantown, Pennsylvania assisting with team management and race organization. 1983
<mask> managed a US pro cycling team sponsored by GIOS bicycles for the Tour of America with Roger De Vlaeminck and John Eustice, two time USPRO National Criterium Champion and USA Cycling Championships in 1982 and '83 and Jeff Rutter.Later that year she managed the 7-UP team with John, Jeff Rutter, Dag Selander and Ian Jackson that participated at Superweek and other races on the domestic calendar. 1984
<mask> registered the first American professional road race team thus becoming the first woman in the history of cycling to own and manage a men’s professional team. That year the team, sponsored by Gianni Motta, became the first U.S. team to enter the 1984 Giro d'Italia, Giro di Puglia, Giro di Toscana, Giro del Trentino

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 and Tour de Suisse and other European races. 1985
<mask> put together another U.S. based team, the Philadelphia Lasers, sponsored by Rank Xerox and Benotto. This was the first U.S. professional team to compete in the 1985 Vuelta a España and other races on the European calendar including Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Midi Libre, Tour de Luxembourg and the Vuelta a Colombia. In 1985-86 <mask> had a very successful Junior Team winning many races, numerous state championships and several national championships. The team included Steve Scuron from Philadelphia, the first Junior ever to win the amateur men's elite national championship(80K) in 1985.The team also included Jonas Carney, winner of many amateur and professional national championships. 1986

This year <mask> managed the domestic U.S. program for the Murella-Fanini team that included Gregor Braun

1987-89
In 1987 through 1988 the team was sponsored by Pepsi-Fanini and in 1989 by EuroCar. The team with Roberto Gaggioli won 80 races in the U.S. during these three years. The team raced in the 1987 edition of the Coors Classic from Hawaii to Colorado winning the Reno criterium stage. In 1988 Roberto won the CoreStates Championships in Philadelphia and the team won the team prize. The EuroCar team participated in the inaugural Tour de Trump in 1989. 1990-91
The team was sponsored by Poland Spring, Subaru and Tommasini.Event promotion (1989 to present)
In 1989 <mask> started working for a company promoting the professional races

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 in the U.S. that included the USPRO National Road Championships. Fundraising events include the Tour De Pink a 4 Day Breast Cancer Ride benefiting the Young Survival Coalition 2006-2019 and 2021, The New Jersey Ride for Autism 2008-2019, Tour de Summer Camps 2019-21, Flyers Charity Classic 2017-18, Eagles Autism Challenge 2018-19 and 2021, Ride to Defeat ALS 2018-19, World Bicycle Relief - Pedal to Empower 2021, Hershey's Pedal For Goodness 2017, Bike for the Heart benefiting the Sister to Sister Foundation 2009, Walk/Ride to Benefit the Brain Injury Association of NJ - 2010, Alex's Lemonade Stand to benefit Childhood Cancer - 2012.

Notable riders
Riders that have been on teams managed by <mask> include two-time Olympic gold medalist Gregor Braun, Six Day winner and wearer of the Tour de France Yellow Jersey - Dietrich Thurau, Roger De Vlaeminck - multi-time winner of Paris–Roubaix, Olympic gold medalist in the team time trial at the 1984 Olympics - Marcello Bartolini and Matt Eaton, winner of the 1983 Tour of Britain known as the Milk Race. Other experience

<mask> also served as the cycling assistant competition manager for 1996 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2006 <mask> started her own event promotion company to focus on road racing, cyclo-cross and fund-raising events. U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame

In November 2016 <mask> was inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in acknowledgement of accomplishments during her 35 years in the

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title: Robert Morley

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<mask>, CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In 1939 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of King Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes <mask> as "recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and double chin, ... particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag." Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes <mask> as "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen." In his autobiography, Responsible Gentleman, <mask> said his stage career started with managements valuing his appearance for playing "substantial gentleman" roles – as a doctor, lawyer, accountant or other professional member of society. Early life
<mask> was born in Semley, Wiltshire, England, the son of Gertrude Emily (née Fass) and <mask>, a major in the British Army.His mother came from a German family that had emigrated to South Africa. <mask> attended Wellington College, Berkshire, which he hated, followed by RADA. As he was a famous "Old Wellingtonian", generations of headmasters tried to contact him, without success, with <mask> stating "the only reason for me visiting Wellington would be to burn it down". Career
<mask> made his West End stage debut in 1929 in Treasure Island at

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texts: the Strand Theatre and his Broadway debut in 1938 in the title role of Oscar Wilde at the Fulton Theatre. Although soon won over to the big screen, <mask> remained both a busy West End star and successful author, as well as appearing in touring productions. A versatile actor, especially in his younger years, he played Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette (1938), for which he received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. He co-wrote several plays for the stage.His 1937 play Goodness, How Sad was turned into an Ealing Studios film, Return to Yesterday (1940), directed by <mask>. Later, he had outstanding success in London and New York with Edward, My Son, a gripping family drama written in 1947 in collaboration with Noel Langley. <mask> played the central role of Arnold Holt, but in the disappointing film version Spencer Tracy was miscast, turning Holt, an unscrupulous English businessman, into a blustering Canadian expatriate. Edward, My Son (1949) was directed by George Cukor for MGM-British. <mask>'s acting career continued with roles as a missionary in The African Queen (1951), The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953), as W. S. Gilbert, and in Oscar Wilde (1960). In 1959 he appeared in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents adaptation of a Stanley Ellin short story entitled, 'Specialty of the House'. Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines was released 16 June 1965.In the British period comedy film, <mask> is featured among an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas,

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texts: James Fox, Red Skelton, Benny Hill, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi. The film, revolving around the craze of early aviation circa 1910, is about a pompous newspaper magnate (<mask>) who is convinced, by his daughter (Miles) and her fiancé (Fox), to organize an air race from London to Paris. A large sum of money is offered to the winner, hence it attracts a variety of characters who participate. The film received positive reviews, describing it as funny, colourful, clever and having captured the early enthusiasm for aviation. It was treated as a major production, one of only three full-length 70 mm Todd-AO Fox releases in 1965 with an intermission and musical interlude part of the original screenings. Because of the Todd-AO process, the film was an exclusive roadshow feature initially shown in deluxe Cinerama venues, where customers needed reserved seats purchased ahead of time. The film grossed $31,111,111 theatrically and on home video $29,950,000.Audience reaction both in first release and even today, is nearly universal in assessing the film as one of the "classic" aviation films. <mask> also personified the conservative Englishman in many comedy and caper films. He was the face of BOAC (later British Airways) as the merry television commercial spokesman of the 1970s with "We'll take good care of you" for British Airways. Later in his career, he received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for his performance in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? During the 1980s, <mask> hosted a celebrity cooking

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 show on Cable TV, Celebrity Chefs. In 1980, <mask> hosted (providing explanatory introductions) the 14-episode Granada Television anthology series Ladykillers. He was renowned as a witty raconteur and for being an eloquent conversationalist, as well as a noted and enthusiastic gourmet, in real life and in various roles in film and TV.<mask> was honoured by being the first King of Moomba appointed by the Melbourne Moomba festival committee and, in typical humility, he accepted the crown in bare feet. <mask> was in Australia touring his one-man show, The Sound of Morley. In his book British Film Character Actors, Terence Pettigrew wrote: "<mask>, who has more wobbly chins than a Shanghai drinking club, enjoys poking fun at life's absurdities, among whom he generously includes himself." He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1974 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In The Guardian newspaper's obituary of Brian Cobby, (5 November 2012), it stated that <mask> and Susan Hampshire were on the 1985 panel to choose the voice of the UK's 'Speaking clock' service. Personal life and honours
<mask> married Joan Buckmaster (1910–2005), a daughter of Dame Gladys Cooper. Their elder son, <mask>, became a writer and critic.They also had a daughter, Annabel, and another son, Wilton. <mask> was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1957 and was also offered a knighthood in 1975 but declined. <mask> lived for decades at Wargrave, Berkshire. <mask> died in Reading, England, from a stroke aged 84. (aka Too Many

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 Chefs) (1978) as Max Vandeveer
 The Human Factor (1979) as Dr. Percival
 Scavenger Hunt (1979) as Charles Bernstein
 Tales of the Unexpected (1980) as Harry Knox
 Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980) as Bernie
 Loophole (1981) as Godfrey
 The Great Muppet Caper (1981) as British Gentlemen
 The Deadly Game (1982, TV Movie) as Emile Carpeau
 High Road to China (1983) as Bentik
 The Old Men at the Zoo (1983, BBC TV mini-series) as Lord Godmanchester
 Second Time Lucky (1984) as God
 Alice in Wonderland (1985, TV Movie) as King of Hearts
 The Wind (1986, direct to video) as Elias Appleby
 The Trouble with Spies (1987) as Angus
 Little Dorrit (1988) as Lord Decimus Barnacle
 War and Remembrance (1988–1989, TV Series) as Alistair Tudsbury
 The Lady and the Highwayman (1989, TV Movie) as Lord Chancellor
 Istanbul (1989) as Atkins (final film role)

Publications

 A Musing Morley (1974, )
 Morley Marvels (1976, )
 More Morley (1978, )
 <mask>'s Book of Bricks (1978, )
 Worry! (with <mask>, 1979, )
 <mask>’s Book of Worries (U.K.Version of Worry!) (with <mask>, 1979, )
 The Pleasures of Age (Hoddder and Stoughton) (1988 ) (re-published in a 'Coronet' imprint 1989)

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1908 births
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Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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<mask> (1 January 1906, Chassey-lès-Montbozon, Haute-Saône – 1986), code name Lucas, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. <mask> founded and headed SOE's first Resistance network (also called circuit) in occupied France. His AUTOGIRO network operated in and around Paris from May 1941 to April 1942. He was captured by the Germans in April 1942. After nearly a year of mostly solitary confinement in Fresnes Prison near Paris, he spent the rest of the war imprisoned in Nazi Germany in Colditz Castle, a POW camp for military officers.He was freed by the allied armies in April 1945. In the estimation of the official historian of SOE, M. R. D. Foot, Vomecourt was SOE's "first important agent in France." On 13 June 1941, SOE airdropped two CLE Canisters onto Bas Soleil, <mask> Vomécourt's estate  east of Limoges, France. The canisters were dropped by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber and contained sub-machine guns, explosives, and other materials. <mask> and wireless operator Bégué arranged for the airdrop. These canisters were the first of nearly 60,000 canisters loaded with supplies and arms which SOE air-dropped to agents and resistance groups during World War II. <mask> and the Cat
Vomécourt's wireless operator Georges Bégué was arrested in October 1941 and his replacement, André Bloch, was arrested by the Germans in November.<mask> was scathing about SOE's "incredible ignorance of local (i.e. anti-Semitic) conditions" in sending Bloch to France. Bloch may have been

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texts: arrested because he had been denounced as a Jew rather than the Germans knowing he was a SOE agent. Bloch was executed three months later. Without a wireless operator, <mask> had no means of communicating with London. His immediate need was money. He had financed nearly all the expenses of the network from his own pocket.Through an attorney in Paris, he was introduced on 26 December 1942 to a 32-year-old woman named <mask> Carré  who was a leader of a Franco/Polish espionage network known as INTERALLIÉ. She was nicknamed La Chatte, i.e. "the Cat"); her code name was Victoire and she was also called Lily. She said she had access to a wireless and could arrange for the transmittal of messages from Voméecourt to London. He was initially suspicious and tested her with a message to London asking SOE in London for money. Two days later SOE responded and Carré told him a British agent would give him the money in Vichy. Vomécourt went to Vichy and received the money.SOE headquarters was aware of Interallié and had been working with them. What neither SOE headquarters nor Vomécourt knew was that Interallié was "burned" and that Carré was working for the German intelligence agency, the Abwehr. In October 1941, the Interallié had come to the attention of the Germans and a sergeant who spoke French, Hugo Bleicher, was tasked with infiltrating the network. A captured agent gave Bleicher names and addresses of Interallié members. In November, twenty-one members of Interallié were arrested by the Abwehr in Cherbourg and on 17 November the leaders, including Carré, were arrested in Paris. The Germans also captured four radio transmitters. Bleicher persuaded Carré, with the option of being executed otherwise, to work for the Germans.Carré introduced Bleicher to <mask> as "Jean Castell," a

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 Belgian resistance leader. Carré also became Bleicher's lover. <mask> was still suspicious of Carré and in January 1942, his suspicions were heightened. He asked her to procure forged identity cards and she complied quickly, too quickly in his opinion and the cards were too good. Challenged, she admitted she was working for the Germans. <mask> then hatched a plan for Carré to persuade the Germans that she should go to SOE headquarters in London with him. Carré persuaded the Germans that she could return to France with valuable information about SOE.The Abwehr accepted her story and in early February, sent a message to London, supposedly from Vomécourt, requesting immediate evacuation from France of <mask> and Carré, saying their lives were in danger. After many misadventures, the two reached England by boat on 27 February. This was the end of Carré's career as a double and triple agent. She was interrogated and imprisoned for the remainder of the war. Return to France and capture

In London, <mask> met with the highest levels of the British government, including War Secretary <mask> and Field Marshall Alan Brooke, and gave them his assessment of the German army in France, the Resistance, and the SOE's work. He wanted to return to France as soon as possible and proposed a plan of returning with Carré and, among other things, assassinating Bleicher. His plans were turned down and on 1 April 1942, he was parachuted blind (no reception party) onto his brother Philippe's estate near Limoges.He took on a new code name, Sylvain. The Germans were apparently still unaware that Carré was now working with the British. The arrival of a new wireless operator for <mask> was delayed and he was forced to use a courier who carried messages to SOE agent Virginia Hall, an American in Vichy

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 France. His courier was captured and the papers he carried were confiscated. Hugo Bleicher recognized <mask>'s handwriting on one of the documents and realized he was back in France. Bleicher began arresting known associates of <mask> and learned from one of them of a meeting at a Paris cafe that <mask> was to attend. <mask> was arrested at the cafe on 25 April.After his arrest, <mask> and Bleicher had an amiable meeting at which both bemoaned their betrayal by "the Cat." With the arrest of <mask> and his associates the pioneering Autogiro network was destroyed. The men were initially held in Fresnes Prison in Paris. Put on trial near the end of 1942, <mask> persuaded the judges "by a final effort of personality" to give him and his associates the protection of the Geneva Convention as prisoners of war (POWs), thereby avoiding the fate of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp and executed. <mask> and his associates were transferred to the relative comfort of a POW camp for officers at Colditz Castle. Allied forces freed him on 15 April 1945. <mask> <mask>'s brother Jean was captured and executed by the Germans during the war.His brother Philippe was captured by French police in 1942, but escaped in 1944, and returned to working with the Resistance and SOE. Sources
 Michael Richard Daniell Foot, SOE in France. An account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966, 1968 ; Whitehall History Publishing, in association with Frank Cass, 2004. Benjamin Cowburn, Sans cape ni épée, Gallimard, 1958. References

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texts: <mask> (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and director. She is known for her work in independent productions and has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a British Academy Film Award. <mask> was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Nottingham, and later began her career in British television in 1991. She guest-starred in Soldier Soldier and Cracker and had a bigger role in the ITV series Band of Gold. She made the transition to film with lead roles in the dramas Emma (1996), Jane Eyre (1997), and the well-received Under the Skin (1997). <mask> also starred alongside Max Beesley in BBC's mini series production of The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling in 1997 to critical acclaim. The next year, Woody Allen cast <mask> in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.Established as a prominent force on the independent film scene by the early 2000s, <mask> starred in Morvern Callar (2002), which garnered her the BIFA Award for Best Actress, and she received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance in In America (2003), this time for Best Actress. Her role in the commercially successful sci-fi thriller Minority Report (2002) was followed by biographical portrayals of Myra Hindley in Longford (2006), Deborah Curtis in Control (2007), and Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). For her role in Longford, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best

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 Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. <mask> made her directorial debut with the television film The Unloved (2009), which won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama. She had also starred in films such as The Messenger (2009), John Carter (2012), Decoding Annie Parker (2013), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). By the late 2010s, she often ventured back into television, starring in the series The Last Panthers (2015), Rillington Place (2016), Harlots (2017–2019), and The Walking Dead (2019–2020). Early life
<mask> <mask> was born in the Clifton area of Nottingham on 13 May 1977, the third child of Pamela (née Mallek), a factory worker, and <mask>.She is of Polish/Irish descent. She has six half-siblings from her parents' relationships subsequent to their 1979 divorce. She lived with her father until she was eight, when she was made a ward of court because neither of her parents could care for her and her siblings. Her father was an abusive alcoholic, and her mother was involved in a violent relationship with her second husband; as a result, she never lived with her parents again. The next nine years were spent in and out of foster care and children's homes. During that time, she attended West Bridgford Comprehensive School and joined the Central Junior Television Workshop when she was 13, soon being offered small-screen roles in Soldier Soldier and Boon. Under the effects of drugs, she threatened an older girl who had been bullying her.She was convicted of making threats to kill and served 18 weeks in an attendance centre. Career

Beginnings (1991–1998)
After joining Central Junior Television Workshop at the

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texts: age of 13, she was soon being offered small-screen roles such as Clare Anderson in the first series of Lucy Gannon's Soldier Soldier and also Mandy, in an episode of Boon —both were ITV Central productions. Moving to London at sixteen, <mask> applied to numerous drama schools, including RADA, without success. In 1991, she attended Clarendon College of Performing Arts to gain a BTEC award but subsequently left for personal reasons. She made her stage début at the Royal Court Theatre, and continued her television career with appearances in Peak Practice and in an episode of Cracker. At the time, she had a regular role in the first two series of Kay Mellor's successful Band of Gold (1995–96). Further television roles followed, including parts in period dramas such as Emma and Jane Eyre.Emma was a film adaptation of the novel of the same name published in 1815 about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The movie received largely positive reviews from critics and was broadcast in late 1996 on ITV, garnering an estimated 12 million viewers. In Jane Eyre, <mask> starred as a Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor. Like her previous small-screen projects, the 1997 film originally aired on ITV. She took on the leading role in the independent drama Under the Skin (1997), directed by Carine Adler, where she played Iris, a woman coping with the death of her mother. The movie garnered favorable reviews from writers, with The Guardian placing it at number 15 on its list of the Best British Films 1984–2009. Janet Maslin for the New York Times remarked that <mask> "embodies the

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 role with furious intensity and with a raw yet waifish presence" and James Berardinelli wrote that the actress "forces us to accept Iris as a living, breathing individual".She won the Best Actress accolade at the 1998 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and was nominated for the BIFA Award for Best Female Performance in a British Independent Film. Critical recognition (1999–2005)
Impressed by her performance in Under the Skin, Woody Allen cast her in Sweet and Lowdown, a romantic comedy about a fictional jazz guitarist in the 1930s (played by Sean Penn) who regards himself as the second greatest guitarist in the world. <mask> played Hattie, a mute laundress and the love interest of Penn's character. The film was released in September 1999, to wide critical acclaim and moderate success at the box office in the arthouse circuit. George Perry for BBC.com found her to be "extraordinary" as an "adoring mute who suffers [...] She uses her eyes to convey meaning, reviving techniques of silent cinema". <mask> earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role, which was especially notable, considering the fact that she does not utter a single word of dialogue in the film. During a 2007 interview with UK's The Guardian, she remarked that her Oscar nomination meant "incredible things for me in the [United States].I'm grateful for that. It means that [...] I'm able to support the industry". <mask> would next star in the small scale drama Jesus' Son, which found a limited release, and praise from critics. She received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance. Her other film


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texts: in 1999 was the romantic drama Dreaming of Joseph Lees, an adaptation of a story written by Catherine Linstrum set in rural England in the late 1950s; for her part, she won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress. She appeared in the biographical drama Pandaemonium (2000), directed by Julien Temple, playing Sara Coleridge, the wife of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the category of Best Actress.<mask> also played a mermaid opposite Larry Mullen in the Anton Corbijn-directed promotional video for U2's "Electrical Storm", and provided the voice of Ruby for the Canadian animated series Max & Ruby from 2002 to 2003. <mask> found wider recognition and mainstream success when she took on the part of a senior precog in Steven Spielberg science fiction thriller Minority Report, opposite Tom Cruise. Although critics felt she was "slightly typecast" in her role of "feral, near-mute victim", Minority Report grossed US$358 million. She won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Empire Award for Best British Actress. In her next film, the drama Morvern Callar, she played a grieving young woman from Scotland who decides to escape to Spain after the suicide of her boyfriend. Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers stated that <mask> "fills this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling", as part of a positive critical response, and she earned the Best Actress Award at the 5th British Independent Film Awards and the 7th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. In the independent drama In America (2003), directed by Jim Sheridan, <mask> played the matriarch of an

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texts: immigrant Irish family struggling to start a new life in New York.In America met widespread critical acclaim, with Terry Lawson of Detroit Free Press calling the film "an achingly intimate and beautifully observed account of the immigrant experience". Roger Ebert felt that <mask> "reveals the power of her silences, her quiet [and] her presence", while A.O. Scott, of The New York Times, found the "blunt, inarticulate force of her feeling [...] at the center of the drama". Her performance earned her nominations for the Academy Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in the category of Best Actress. In 2004, <mask> starred as a love interest in the dystopian film Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom and alongside Tim Robbins, and played the wife of a man who witnessed a deadly accident in the drama Enduring Love, opposite Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig. Critics were polarized for the latter film and suggested that <mask> did not have enough time on screen. Nevertheless, she earned a nomination for the Best Supporting Award at the 2004 British Independent Film Awards.In River Queen (2005), she took on the role of a young Irish woman finding herself on both sides of the wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand. The film was a box office success at the New Zealand box office, grossing around NZ$1 million in the country. For her role, she received a nomination for the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Leading Actress. She starred alongside Johnny Depp in the little-seen period drama The Libertine, and appeared in the drama Lassie, both of which were also released in 2005.


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 Biopics and directorial debut (2006–2009)

In 2006, she played the Moors murderess Myra Hindley in the television film Longford. Set between 1967 and 1997, the film depicts the relationship between the child murderer and Lord Longford, the politician who spent years campaigning (ultimately unsuccessfully) for her release. Longford was a critical success and premiered with 1.7 million viewers.<mask>, however, was severely criticised by the relatives of the children who were killed by Hindley and Ian Brady, but she insisted, "It is my duty as a performer to raise issues [...] we're afraid to look at". She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, and won at the 65th Golden Globe Awards. <mask> took on roles in four feature films in 2007. She starred as a struggling police officer in the romantic drama Expired, and portrayed a Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the dramedy Mister Lonely. <mask> worked again with director Anton Corbijn in the biographical film  Control, where she appeared as Deborah Curtis, wife of musician Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division, whose biography Touching from a Distance formed the basis of the film. The film was acclaimed by critics. Roger Ebert remarked that <mask> was "absolutely convincing as a plucky teenage bride", and Variety magazine found her performance to be "astonishing" and "sympathetic".For Control, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her last film of 2007 was another biopic, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, in which she played Mary, Queen of Scots. She made part of an ensemble cast in Charlie Kaufman's postmodern drama Synecdoche, New York


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texts: (2008), alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams and Emily Watson. In the film, she portrayed Hazel, one of the women in the life of a theatre director (Hoffman) whose extreme commitment to a realistic stage production begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. As her character ages from 30 to 64 over the course of the story, <mask> used full-face prosthetic makeup. She discovered that she was pregnant during the filming, which had a schedule that took up to 20 hours a day. The film was a box office bomb, but garnered praise from critics, appearing on many top ten lists of the year.<mask> and her co-stars were eventually nominated for the Best Ensemble Performance award at the 18th Gotham Independent Film Awards. Also in 2008, she starred in The Daisy Chain, an Irish horror film about a couple who after the death of their daughter, take in an orphaned girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences. It premiered at the 16th Raindance Film Festival (London; October 2008), and received a DVD release in 2010. In the directorial debut of Jesus' Son screenwriter Oren Moverman, the war drama The Messenger (2009), <mask> starred as Oliva Patterson, a widow whose husband was killed in Iraq. She was drawn to the "feminine" side of the story and found her part to be "one of the first characters [she has] played in a long time where [she has] felt so much in common", as her brother and stepfather both served as soldiers in the military forces. Critical reception towards The Messenger and <mask> was unanimously favorable, with Claudia Puig of USA Today asserting that, <mask> "as always, gives a subtle, excellent

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 performance". She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and the 25th Independent Spirit Awards.<mask>'s other project of 2009 was her directorial debut, the semi-autobiographical Channel 4 drama The Unloved, which follows an eleven-year-old girl (played by Molly Windsor) growing up in a children's home in the UK's care system, and shown through her perspective. <mask> wrote the story in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, and The Unloved was first broadcast on 17 May 2009, drawing nearly 2 million viewers. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009. Michael Deacon, for the Daily Telegraph, praised <mask> on creating an "intense" and "vivid" dramatic film. <mask> won a BAFTA for her direction in 2010. Hiatus and return to film (2010–2014)
Following a three-year hiatus from the screen to focus on her personal life and family, <mask> returned in 2012. She provided the voice of Sola in the science fiction film John Carter, based on A Princess of Mars, which received mixed reviews and flopped at the box office.She next played a chief of theory in the thriller Cosmopolis, directed by David Cronenberg. Her role, described as "misjudged" by The Guardian, earned her a nomination as Best Actress in a Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. She also served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012. <mask> was the original voice of the artificially intelligent operating system in the 2013 romantic science fiction drama Her directed by Spike Jonze, but in post-production, she was replaced by Scarlett Johansson. She is, however, credited

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 as an associate producer. <mask> starred in the independent drama Decoding Annie Parker (2013) opposite Helen Hunt, playing a woman with breast cancer. The film was released in limited theaters, to mixed reviews from critics.Nevertheless, Betsey Sharkey of Los Angeles Times observed that the actress "gives Parker such a humility within a warm humanity that you feel an obligation to stick with her through the mounting horrors". She was awarded the Best Actress Golden Space Needle Award at the 2013 Seattle International Film Festival. <mask> starred opposite Michael Shannon in the independent thriller The Harvest (also 2013), as a controlling mother keeping her sick son in a secluded environment. Several critics such as Peter Debruge (Variety) and Nikola Grozdanovic (Indiewire) compared her role of Katherine to Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990). Her performance earned her a Best Actress Award nomination at the 2014 BloodGuts UK Horror Awards. In Liv Ullmann's film adaptation Miss Julie (2014), alongside Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain, <mask> portrayed Kathleen, the fiancée of a valet (Farrell) who finds himself seduced by the daughter of an Anglo-Irish aristocracy (Chastain). The film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited release in the UK, France and Spain.Miss Julie rated average with reviewers, but the cast received acclaim. Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney thought <mask>'s Kathleen was "the most satisfyingly drawn character" of the film, which he considered a "ponderous, stately affair". Roles in television (2015–present)
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texts: Cider with Rosie, a made-for-television adaptation of the book of the same name by Laurie Lee, and took on the role of an insurance investigator charged with recovering stolen diamonds in the European limited television series The Last Panthers, inspired by the notorious Balkan jewel thieves the Pink Panthers. <mask> found her character to be a "very truthful, [...] strong woman" and described her as a "female Bond". Genevieve Valentine, for The AV Club, wrote: "<mask> might at first seem a tough sell as someone so hard-boiled, but the taciturn, untouchable edifice she presents is leaking just enough poison at the edges that we look forward to watching her strike—the sort of character a six-hour miniseries was made for". <mask> appeared in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), a spin-off from the Harry Potter film series, with a screenplay by J. K. Rowling. In the film, she portrayed Mary Lou Barebone, the leader of an extremist group whose goals include exposing and killing wizards and witches.Fantastic Beasts grossed US$814 million at the international box office, becoming <mask>'s most successful and widely seen film. She filmed the three-part television crime drama Rillington Place (also 2016), based on the case of serial killer John Christie, who murdered several women in London during 1940s and early 1950s. <mask> was cast opposite Tim Roth as Christie's wife, Ethel. Intrigued by their relationship, <mask> felt the depiction of the "psychological aspect of love" in the story "really developed [her] acting chops" but considered as a challenge "to play someone so submissive" as Ethel. The miniseries premiered in BBC One and was favourably


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 received by critics. The Guardian found <mask> to be "strong" in her "difficult role", and The Independent remarked that she "gave a fine, nuanced performance" as "a woman trapped under her husband's spell". Beginning in 2017, <mask> has starred in the Hulu period drama series Harlots.She portrays Margaret Wells, the madam of a low-class brothel who seeks to improve her fortunes. The response from critics and audiences has been highly positive. The Telegraph found her to be the "standout performer", and The Atlantic noted: "While the role doesn't give <mask> the same room to flex her acting muscles as, say, Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, she gives depth and moral conflict to a character who could easily be a pantomime dame in the wrong hands". In July 2018, it was announced that <mask> had been cast in the role of Alpha in The Walking Dead, making  her first appearance in February 2019. Alpha is the villainous leader of the Whisperers, a mysterious group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse who—as a method of self-concealment—wear skins taken from the undead. Personal life
<mask> dated actor Charlie Creed-Miles, whom she met on the set of the film The Last Yellow, in 1999. They broke up when <mask> was 15 weeks pregnant with their daughter, actress Esme Creed-Miles, born 5 February 2000.<mask> met filmmaker Harry Holm (son of actor Ian Holm) while filming a music video for the band the Vitamins. Their daughter, Edie, was born on 4 January 2008, and their son, Theodore, was born in 2012. They live in Monyash, Derbyshire. In early 2008, <mask> revealed that she had been "close to death" after suffering a debilitating stroke due to being hit by a piece of

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 17th-century plaster that fell on her head (damaging her vertebral artery) in 2006. She was in hospital for three weeks after the incident. She withdrew from the public spotlight and took an 18-month break from film acting in order to learn to walk again. In 2011, <mask> wrote an open letter hoping her stepfather would get back in touch with her after being estranged for several years.However, it was revealed shortly afterward that her stepfather had died of prostate cancer four years previously. On 20 July 2011, <mask> received an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from Nottingham Trent University, "in recognition of her internationally successful acting career". Charity work
Having been raised in the foster care system, <mask> has often been active in causes involving the matter. In March 2009, <mask> returned to her hometown to show her support for its children's homes and protest against the threatened closure, by Nottingham City Council, of one of the four establishments with 24 social-care staff facing redundancy. In 2012, <mask> showed her support for the Fostering Network's annual campaign Foster Care Fortnight, and in September 2014, triggered by the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, she discussed in a video interview the sexual abuse she experienced while in the foster care system as a child in Nottingham and that the police took no action when she reported the abuse. <mask> had discussed the abuse previously while promoting the semi-autobiographical drama The Unloved, in an article for The Guardian. In 2008, she was part of the Vodafone Foundation's World of Difference campaign, which gives people the opportunity to work for a


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 charity of their choice.Whilst attending a fundraiser for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) in January 2009, she vowed never to work for the BBC again after their refusal to broadcast an emergency charity appeal for the victims of Israel's attack on Gaza on 27 December 2008. She was later joined by Tam Dean Burn, Pauline Goldsmith, Peter Mullan, and Alison Peebles, who also threatened to boycott the corporation. In 2009, she also fronted a television advertising recruitment campaign for social workers in the UK. Radio
Morton was the guest on the long-running BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs on 4 October 2020. Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

<mask> was made Honorary Associate of London Film School. See also

 List of actors with Academy Award nominations
 Evening Standard British Film Awards

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1977 births
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from Nottinghamshire
Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe (television) winners
English film actresses
English stage actresses
English television actresses
English voice actresses
Living people
People educated at West Bridgford School
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<mask>, also known as "<mask>", and "Irish <mask>" (July 9, 1919 – December 22, 1957 in South Boston) was an American professional light heavyweight boxer whose murder remains unsolved. Early life and background

<mask> was a doting mother who supported her only son <mask> throughout his professional boxing career. In Joseph Barboza's autobiography Barboza, <mask> is wrongly identified as "Rocky", not "<mask>". Thomas was known in the neighborhood as a "tough puncher" who later went to work as a longshoreman in Boston, Massachusetts and lived with his mother on East Fifth Street. Even after his boxing career finished he remained physically fit from working as a longshoreman on the Boston waterfront and sparred at a gym to stay in shape. After his murder not far from the front steps of his house on East Fifth Street, Mary was overcome with emotional distress and shock and confined herself to her bed. She died soon afterward, at eighty-three.A newspaper quoted neighbors as saying that her son's murder would "kill her." She was too grief-stricken and emotionally distraught to attend his funeral at Gates of Heaven Parish located at 615 East Fourth Street. Boxing career

At the age of twenty, <mask> started his career as a professional boxer. He was a local celebrity in South Boston. On March 17, 1942 <mask> had his first professional boxing match against Johnny Lawless in Portland, Maine. During this match Lawless retired in his corner after the second round, due to a laceration over his eye that he received from <mask>. On June 9, 1942 he fought Dave Hoblitzel in Portland, Maine.The bout with Hoblitzel was the boxing match that brought up allegations of corruption. On March 18, 1946 he fought against Jimmy Fields in Boston, Massachusetts. Fields fought the fight against <mask> under the ring moniker "John Henry Eskew". Before a large crowd totaling 10,817, Eskew dropped <mask> for a count of two in the second round. Following the knockdown, an angry <mask> continued on and

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