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texts: Democrat Thomas J. Dodd (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of Christopher J. Dodd), and decided not to run for another term in 1962. He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project (built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut), the establishment of the Peace Corps, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On December 2, 1954, <mask> was part of the large (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy after McCarthy had taken on the U.S. Army and the Eisenhower administration. During the debate leading to the censure, <mask> said that McCarthy has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line."Eisenhower later included <mask> on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. In terms of issues, <mask> often agreed with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 presidential election, <mask> and Rockefeller were longtime friends. <mask> favored a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket for 1960, and was presumed to support Rockefeller's 1964 presidential candidacy until the latter's remarriage in

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 1963. He then publicly denounced Rockefeller for divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman with whom Rockefeller had been having an affair while married to his first wife. <mask> then very publicly endorsed his former Senate colleague Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was also the older brother of one of <mask>'s protegés, former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge. Another of Senator <mask>'s major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection.He drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act (Public Law 71), enabling U.S. Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against tidal flooding. <mask> and Representative John W. McCormack, the Democratic House Majority Leader, co-sponsored the Bush-McCormack Act (Public Law 685), which expedited the construction of local flood protection works. Personal life

<mask> married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine. They had five children:   George  Nancy  Jonathan  and William "Bucky"

<mask> founded the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. As was his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928–1935. He was a multi-year club champion of the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. to help create the New York Mets. He was a member of the American Legion and the 40 & 8 Society.<mask> maintained homes in New York City; Long Island; and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; and a secluded island off the Connecticut coast, Fishers Island. He died of cancer in 1972 at age 77

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 at Memorial Hospital in  and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut. Business Plot
In July 2007, Scott Horton, an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, had an article published in Harper's Magazine claiming that <mask> was involved in the 1934 Business Plot, a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler into helping them overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Writings
<mask>'s articles include:
 "Timely Monetary Policy," Banking, June 1955 and July 1955
 "To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" Reader's Digest, July 1959
 "Politics Is Your Business," Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, Bulletin, May 1960

See also
 List of members of the American Legion

References

Further reading
 The <mask> Papers are at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. The Greenwich Library Oral History Project has interviews with <mask> Jr. and Mary Walker. There is material by and about <mask> in the History of the Class of 1917 Yale College (1919) and the supplementary class albums.John Atlee Kouwenhoven, Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman (1968). Obituaries are in the Washington Post, October 9, 1972; the New York Times, October 9, 1972; the Hartford Courant, October 9, 1972; and Yale Alumni Magazine, December 1972. <mask> <mask>. Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9: 1971–1975. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc., 1880–1978. New York: Simon and Schuster (1979).External links

University of Connecticut's profile of <mask>

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title: Dorothea Bate

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<mask> FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as <mask>, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. Early and family life
Born at Napier House, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Bate was the daughter of Police Superintendent <mask> (born in Co. Wexford, Ireland) and his wife Elizabeth Fraser Whitehill. She had an older sister and a younger brother. She had little formal education and once commented that her education "was only briefly interrupted by school". When she was 34 her brother broke his leg and she spent around 18 months looking after her parents. She was later disinherited by her parents in order to provide a dowry for her brother to marry a wealthy woman.Career
In 1898, at the age of nineteen, Bate got a job at the Natural History Museum in London, sorting bird skins in the Department of Zoology's Bird Room and later preparing fossils. She was probably the first woman to be employed as a scientist by the museum. There she remained for fifty years and studied ornithology, palaeontology, geology and anatomy. She was a piece-worker, paid by the number of fossils she prepared. In 1901 <mask>has cypriotes, later described in a paper for the Royal Society.While in Cyprus she also observed—and trapped, shot and skinned—living mammals and birds and prepared a number of other papers, including descriptions of the Cyprus Spiny Mouse (Acomys nesiotes) and a subspecies of the Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes). She later undertook expeditions to many other

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 Mediterranean islands, including Crete, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, and the Balearic Islands, publishing work on their prehistoric fauna. In the Balearics in 1909, she discovered Myotragus balearicus, a previously unknown species of the subfamily Caprinae. On the plateau of Kat, in eastern Crete, she found remains of the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus. In Crete, she got to know the archaeologists then excavating Knossos and other sites on the island, who were throwing light on the Minoan civilisation, such as Arthur Evans. Finding herself sexually harassed by the British Vice-Consul in Majorca, Bate commented: "I do hate old men who try to make love to one and ought not to in their official positions." According to The Daily Telegraph –

In the late 1920s Bate travelled to the British ruled Palestine.She was in her late 40s and well respected. <mask> had been invited by Dorothy Garrod, who later became Cambridge University's first female professor and who had been put in charge of an excavation in Haifa by the British military governor. In Bethlehem <mask> and Elinor Wight Gardner discovered an extinct elephant species, an early horse and a prehistoric giant tortoise. They also discovered evidence that animals had been hunted by Bethlehem's first human inhabitants. In the 1930s Bate studied the animal bones Garrod had excavated in the Mount Carmel caves, which contained a succession of Upper Pleistocene levels. Instead of just inferring climatic conditions from the presence or absence of cold- or -warm loving animals, she was an early pioneer of the approach to take large samples of fauna of a succession of archaeological strata. These

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 hippopotamus. Bate also worked with Percy R. Lowe on fossil ostriches in China. She compared the relative proportions of Gazella and Dama remains.Later life, death, legacy

Many archaeologists and anthropologists relied on her expertise in identifying fossil bones, including Louis Leakey, Charles McBurney, and John Desmond Clark. During the Second World War, Bate transferred from the Natural History Museum's department of geology in London to its zoological branch at Tring, and in 1948, a few months short of her seventieth birthday, she was appointed officer-in-charge there. Although suffering from cancer, she died of a heart attack on 13 January 1951, and as a Christian Scientist was cremated. Her personal papers were destroyed in a house fire shortly after her death. On her desk at Tring was a list of 'Papers to write'. By the last in the list she had written Swan Song. Her estate at death amounted to £15,369.In 2005, a '<mask>e facsimile' was created at the Natural History Museum as part of a project to develop notable gallery characters to patrol its display cases. Along with those of Carl Linnaeus, Mary Anning, and William Smith, the exhibit tells stories and anecdotes of her life and discoveries. In her biography Discovering <mask>: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter <mask>e, Karolyn Shindler describes Bate as "witty, acerbic, clever and courageous". Shindler is also the author of the biography in the 2004 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography. Selected publications
A short account of a bone cave in the Carboniferous limestone of the Wye valley,  Geological Magazine, new series, 4th decade, 8 (1901), pp.

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Preliminary Note on the Discovery of a Pigmy Elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus (1902–1903)
Further Note on the Remains of Elephas cypriotes from a Cave-Deposit in Cyprus (1905)
On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of Elephas creticus (1907)Excavation of a Mousterian rock-shelter at Devil's Tower, Gibraltar (with Dorothy Garrod, L. H. D. Buxton, and G. M. Smith, 1928)A Note on the Fauna of the Athlit Caves (1932)The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, volume 1, part 2: Palaeontology, the Fossil Fauna of the Wady el-Mughara Caves (with Professor Dorothy Garrod, 1937)

Honours
1940: Wollaston Fund of the Geological Society
1940: Elected fellow of the Geological Society
6 December 2017: a Blue Plaque was erected on Bate's birthplace, by the Carmarthen Civic Society. Portrait
A watercolour portrait of Bate as a young woman, drawn by her sister, is at the Natural History Museum.In it she wears a black dress trimmed with white lace, and a large pink rose. Footnotes

References
Shindler, Karolyn: Discovering <mask>: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter <mask> (London, Harper Collins, 2005, 390pp, 48 black and white plates) Miss D. M. A. <mask> (Obituary) in Nature, London, 167, pp. 301–302.Miss <mask>, obituary in The Times, 23 January 1951
Nicholas, Anna: Goats from a Small Island'' (London, Summersdale, 2009, 320pp,

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BBC Radio 4 programme on Bate, in the Natural History Heroes series. 1878 births
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title: Victor Vasarely

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<mask> (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ;  – ), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art. Life and work

<mask> was born in Pécs and grew up in Piešťany (Slovakia) and Budapest, where, in 1925, he took up medical studies at Eötvös Loránd University. In 1927, he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's private art school called Műhely (lit. "Workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as Budapest's centre of Bauhaus studies. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer all that the Bauhaus offered.Instead it concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design. In 1929, he painted his Blue Study and Green Study. In 1930, he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908–1990). Together they had two sons, Andre and Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was also an artist and used the professional name 'Yvaral'. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings company in accounting and designing advertising posters. <mask> became a graphic designer and a poster artist during the 1930s combining patterns and organic images with each other.Vasarely left Hungary and settled in Paris in 1930. He worked as a graphic artist and as a creative consultant at the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger, and Devambez (1930–1935). His interactions with other artists during this time were limited. He thought of opening an institution modelled after Sándor Bortnyik's műhely and developed some teaching material for it. Having lived mostly in cheap hotels, he settled in 1942/1944 in

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texts: Belles-Isles works. Since 1948, Vasarely usually spent his summer months in Gordes in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.There, the cubic houses led him to the composition of the group of works labelled Gordes/Cristal. He worked on the problem of empty and filled spaces on a flat surface as well as the stereoscopic view. 1951–1955: Kinetic images, black-white photographies: From his Gordes works he developed his kinematic images, superimposed acrylic glass panes create dynamic, moving impressions depending on the viewpoint. In the black-white period he combined the frames into a single pane by transposing photographies in two colours. Tribute to Malevitch, a ceramic wall picture of  adorns the University of Caracas, Venezuela which he co-designed in 1954 with the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is a major work of this period. Kinetic art flourished and works by <mask>, Calder, Duchamp, Man Ray, Soto, Tinguely were exhibited at the Denise René gallery under the title Le Mouvement (the motion). Vasarely published his Yellow Manifest.Building on the research of constructivist and Bauhaus pioneers, he postulated that visual kinetics (plastique cinétique) relied on the perception of the viewer who is considered the sole creator, playing with optical illusions. 1955–1965: Folklore planétaire, permutations, and serial art: On 2 March 1959, Vasarely patented his method of unités plastiques. Permutations of geometric forms are cut out of a coloured square and rearranged. He worked with a strictly defined palette of colours and forms (three reds, three greens, three blues, two violets, two yellows, black, white, gray; three circles, two squares, two rhomboids, two long rectangles, one triangle, two dissected circles, six ellipses) which he later


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texts: enlarged and numbered. Out of this plastic alphabet, he started serial art, an endless permutation of forms and colours worked out by his assistants. (The creative process is produced by standardized tools and impersonal actors which questions the uniqueness of a work of art.) In 1963, Vasarely presented his palette to the public under the name of Folklore planetaire.1965–: Hommage à l'hexagone, Vega: The Tribute to the hexagon series consists of endless transformations of indentations and relief adding color variations, creating a perpetual mobile of optical illusion. In 1965 <mask> was included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Responsive Eye, created under the direction of William C. Seitz. His Vega series plays with spherical swelling grids creating an optical illusion of volume. In October 1967, designer Will Burtin invited Vasarely to make a presentation to Burtin's Vision '67 conference, held at New York University. On 5 June 1970, Vasarely opened his first dedicated museum with over 500 works in a renaissance palace in Gordes (closed in 1996). A second major undertaking was the Foundation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, a museum housed in a distinct structure specially designed by Vasarely. It was inaugurated in 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou, two years after his death.Sadly the museum is now in a state of disrepair, several of the pieces on display have been damaged by water leaking from the ceiling. Also, in 1976 his large kinematic object Georges Pompidou was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vasarely Museum located at his birthplace in Pécs, Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by <mask>. In the same decade, he took a stab at industrial design with a 500-piece run of the

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 upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Vasarely decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie. In 1982, 154 specially created serigraphs were taken into space by the cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien on board the French-Soviet spacecraft Salyut 7 and later sold for the benefit of UNESCO. In 1987, the second Hungarian Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works. He died age 90 in Paris on 15 March 1997. Legacy

A new Vasarely exhibit was mounted in Paris at Musée en Herbe in 2012.In 2019, a temporary exhibition of <mask>'s work entitled Le Partage des Formes was displayed in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Awards

 1964: Guggenheim Prize
 1970: French Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
 Art Critics Prize, Brussels
 Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial

Museums
 1970–1996: Vasarely Museum in the Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes, Vaucluse, France (closed in 1996)
 1976: Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
 1976: Vasarely Museum, Pécs, Hungary
 1987: Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Óbuda, Budapest, Hungary

See also
 Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel
 M. C. Escher

References
Citations

Further reading

External links

 Association Vasarely
 Victor Vasarely profile and video documentary at the Central European Art Database
 Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Budapest
 Online petition to save Museum Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, France (Archived on 16 Apr 2009)
 Fondation Vasarely 3D Project
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 Tate Victor Vasarely

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title: Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery

texts:
Jean-<mask> (May 19, 1797 – June 1849) was a French physician and anatomist who was a native of Orléans. Within 20 years, along with the artist Nicolas Henri Jacob, he created the comprehensive anatomy textbook Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme. Family
As a son of a haberdasher <mask> and his wife Madeleine Marthe Delaboulaye, Bourgery grew up in Orléans. Education and work
Bourgery started his studies in medicine in 1813 in Paris. In 1815, he also attended lectures of the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. After passing the entrance examination, Bourgery worked as a clinical intern for one year (1817) with René Laennec at the Hôpital Necker and two years (1818-1820) with Guillaume Dupuytren at the Hôtel Dieu. Nonetheless, Bourgery did not complete his medical education due to financial issues.Instead, he worked for several years as a health officer (French: Officier de Santé) in a copper foundry in Romilly-sur-Seine (Aube), where he was actively involved in chemistry, chemical engineering and also participate in the establishment of a copper sulfate factory. In 1827, Bourgery came back to Paris intending to entirely focus on anatomy. On August 27 of the same year, he submitted his dissertation and received his doctorate in medicine. In 1829, he published a textbook of surgery (French: Traité de petite surgery), which was quite successful and later was translated into English (1834) and German (1836)

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texts: languages. During this time, Bourgery's role model and mentor was the anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. From 1830, together with the painter and illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob, Bourgery worked on the planning of his most important work Traité complet de l'anatomy de l'homme. It took nearly 20 years of teamwork to complete this masterpiece.From 1840 on, he had been writing scientific papers (often provided with lithographs), which were then published by the Academy of Sciences in Paris. In addition, Bourgery also took part in the production of anatomical models made of paper stucco or papier-mâché for the Félix Thibert Anatomy Museum. Bourgery repeatedly sought career opportunities in the academy. He applied for a number of different positions, such as a professor at the Museum of Natural History, membership of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1843), or the chair of anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1846). Despite his expertise and high profile, Bourgery was unable to gain a foothold in the academic world. With a certain bitterness, he expresses this shortly before his death: "I watched how all the others were preferred over me, whether they wanted or not. Since I had so much to say about science and I had studied so intensely, I thought there had to be someplace for me there, but there wasn’t.Academies, faculties, colleges – wherever I introduced myself, there were others who were much more successful than me." Jean-<mask>y died at the age


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 abysses ...” Vol. 3, p. 33

“Now that I'm about to finish my life's work, the entire material of which is at my disposal, and since what I've come close to what I set out to do, the public may realize that I did not fail with my intention.” Vol. 8, p. 3

Works

  Traité de petite chirurgie. Paris 1829
 Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire.(with <mask> Bourgery), 8 Bände, Paris 1831–1854
 Reprint: Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick (ed. ): Atlas of Anatomy. Taschen-Verlag, Köln 2005, . Traité de petite chirurgie. Paris 1829
 Anatomie élémentaire en 20 planches etc. Avec texte explicative, formant un manuel complet d’anatomie physiologique (with Nicolas Henri Jacob). Paris 1834–1842, Folio
 Des annexes du foetus et de leur développement.Habil., Paris 1846
 (scientific contributions). Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences (1836–1848), Gazette médicale de Paris (1847–1848)
 Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (with <mask> <mask>, Claude Bernard and with a help of Ludovic Hirschfeld), 10 Volumes, second edition, Paris 1866–1871

Literature

 J. M. Bourgery, N. H. Jacob: Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery. The complete colored Plates of 1831–1854. Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick: Atlas der Anatomie und Chirurgie von J. M. Bourgery und N. H. Jacob. Ein Monumentalwerk des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dreisprachig (f/e/d), Faksimile-Reprint 726 handkolorierte Lithografien, Großformat.Taschen, Köln 2005,
 Natalie J. Lauer: Der Kontrakt

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title: Big Show

texts: Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight. He is best known for his tenure with WWE (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name (The) <mask>, and his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant. Wight began his career in 1994. In 1995 he signed with WCW, where, due to his very large frame, he was known by the ring name The Giant (and was initially introduced as "the son of André the Giant"). In early 1999, he left WCW to join the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Between WWF/WWE and WCW, he is a seven-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWF/WWE Championship twice, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles.He is also an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the WWF/World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. Having also won the Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore championships, he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. He also won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WCW and WWF/WWE since 1995, including the 2000 edition


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 feature from the WWE Network, Wight stated that he was making a fraction of what the main eventers were making and his salary was not increased after he requested it be by Eric Bischoff; as a result, Wight allowed his WCW contract to expire on February 8, 1999, his 27th birthday. World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment

The Corporation (1999–2000)

Wight signed a ten-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation on February 9, 1999, debuting under the name of Paul Wight as a member of Vince McMahon's stable, The Corporation, at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House. During McMahon's cage match against Stone Cold Steve Austin, Wight tore through the canvas from underneath the ring and attacked Austin, establishing himself as a heel. After he threw Austin into the side of the cage, the cage broke, causing Austin to fall outside to the floor, resulting in Austin winning the match. Wight subsequently served as McMahon's enforcer. Renamed as <mask> <mask>, he made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania XV, facing Mankind for the right to referee the main event between Austin and The Corporation's WWF Champion The Rock.However, <mask> incapacitated Mankind and was disqualified in the process, losing the match. After the match, McMahon slapped him, so he punched McMahon, turning face and leaving The Corporation. After being defeated by Mankind in a Boiler Room Brawl, they formed a stable with Test, and Ken Shamrock known as The Union, who fought against the Corporation and later The Corporate Ministry. On the June 7 episode of Raw, <mask>

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texts: faced The Undertaker for the WWF Championship, which ended by referee stoppage and Undertaker retained his title. <mask> later turned heel once again by teaming with Undertaker, wrestling against X-Pac and Kane at SummerSlam, and they won the WWF Tag Team Championship twice. After The Undertaker was sidelined with injuries, <mask> turned face once again and began a feud with the <mask> Boss Man around the death of <mask>'s father (in reality, Wight's father had died years before). During his feud, they taped a segment where <mask> Boss Man invaded the funeral and used a chain to steal the coffin.<mask> then took on <mask> Man, Prince Albert, Mideon and Viscera at Survivor Series in a 4-on-1 elimination match. His feud was poorly received, winning the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Worst Feud Award and he won the match after <mask> Man was counted out. Later that night, <mask> participated in a Triple Threat match against The Rock and the WWF Champion, Triple H, winning the title. At that point, WWF looked for something new and fresh, so they gave the title to <mask>. Despite <mask> retaining the title at Armageddon against <mask> Man, he lost the title against Triple H on the January 3, 2000 episode of Raw. Trying to regain the title, <mask> participated in the Royal Rumble match where he was last eliminated by The Rock. They started a storyline where <mask> turned heel once again by producing a videotape that showed The Rock's feet striking the ground first, leading to a match with The Rock at No Way Out, with the WrestleMania title shot on the line.At No Way Out,

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 <mask> defeated The Rock when Shane McMahon interfered, knocking out The Rock with a chair shot. The Rock was desperate to reclaim his title shot and eventually agreed to a match with <mask> on the March 13 episode of Raw – if he won, the WrestleMania title match would become a Triple Threat match, and if he lost, he would retire from the WWF. Shane McMahon, now actively supporting <mask>'s bid to become champion, appointed himself as the special guest referee. However, The Rock defeated <mask> when Vince McMahon assaulted Shane and donned the referee shirt, personally making the three count. On the March 20 episode of Raw, Triple H defended the title against The Rock and <mask> on the condition that the match would not take place at WrestleMania 2000, pinning <mask>. Linda McMahon stated this match would not occur at WrestleMania as Triple H would defend the title there in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match, with Mick Foley as the fourth man. <mask> was the first man eliminated from the match at WrestleMania after the other three competitors worked together against him.WWF Champion (2000–2003)
After WrestleMania, <mask> turned face again and took on a comical gimmick where he began mimicking other wrestlers, lampooning Rikishi as <mask>hi, The Berzerker as Shonan the Barbarian, and Val Venis as The <mask>bowski. He defeated Kurt Angle at Backlash dressed like Hulk Hogan as the Showster, complete with skullcap/wig and yellow tights. <mask> began feuding with Shane McMahon after Shane voiced his disapproval of <mask>'s antics. At Judgment Day, Shane defeated <mask>

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texts: in a Falls Count Anywhere match following interference from <mask> Man, Bull Buchanan, Test, and Albert. <mask> returned two months later, apparently intending to gain revenge on Shane. Instead, he turned heel again and attacked The Undertaker and sided with Shane once more, forming a short-lived stable known as "The Conspiracy" with Shane, Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, and Edge and Christian. After The Undertaker threw <mask> off a stage through a table on the August 7, 2000, episode of Raw, he was removed from WWF television for the remainder of the year.<mask> was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, a WWF developmental territory, to lose weight and improve his cardiovascular fitness. <mask> returned at the Royal Rumble, but was eliminated by The Rock. Angered by his quick elimination, <mask> proceeded to chokeslam The Rock through the broadcast table before leaving the arena. He then began competing for the WWF Hardcore Championship and at No Way Out, <mask> defeated Raven to win the championship. He would lose the title to Raven on the March 19 episode of Raw. <mask> lost to Kane in a Triple Threat match for the Hardcore Championship that also included Raven at WrestleMania X-Seven. Throughout The Invasion, <mask> remained loyal to the WWF.He faced Shane McMahon, the on-screen owner of WCW, in a Last Man Standing match at Backlash and was defeated following interference from Test. He turned face again soon after. <mask> was also part of the victorious Team WWF at Survivor Series, though he was the first man eliminated. Shortly after WrestleMania X8, <mask> was drafted to

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texts: the Raw brand. On the April 22 episode of Raw, <mask> turned heel again when he chokeslammed Stone Cold Steve Austin during a tag team match against X-Pac and Scott Hall, joining the nWo in the process. At Judgment Day, <mask> and Ric Flair were defeated by Austin in a Handicap match. The stable disbanded after Kevin Nash was injured.After the nWo disbanded, <mask> achieved little success on Raw, losing matches against Jeff Hardy, Booker T, and the Dudley Boyz. In October, <mask> was traded to the SmackDown! brand, immediately challenging Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship. During this time, <mask> adopted a new attire, donning black jeans and taking on a new hairstyle and facial hair. <mask> won the WWE Championship by defeating Lesnar at Survivor Series, ending Lesnar's undefeated streak with help from Paul Heyman. He lost the title to Kurt Angle a month later at Armageddon. Then SmackDown!general manager Stephanie McMahon announced that <mask> would wrestle Chris Benoit on the December 26 episode of SmackDown! in a match to determine who would face Angle at the Royal Rumble. He lost to Benoit after Benoit pinned him. After the match, Benoit was brutally attacked by <mask> and Angle. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> lost a Royal Rumble qualifying match to Brock Lesnar. He then began feuding with The Undertaker, after <mask> threw him off the stage, injuring his neck, leading to <mask> and his partner A-Train losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XIX. He renewed his feud with Lesnar, wrestling him four times for the WWE Championship (including a Stretcher match at

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At No Mercy, <mask> defeated Eddie Guerrero for the WWE United States Championship.He then allied with then-WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. He was eliminated by Chris Benoit at the Royal Rumble. <mask> abandoned a departing Lesnar immediately before WrestleMania XX. At WrestleMania XX, <mask> lost the United States Championship to John Cena. On the April 15, 2004 episode of SmackDown!, <mask> promised to quit if he failed to defeat Eddie Guerrero that night. He lost to Guerrero after Guerrero performed a Frog Splash, and, believing that Torrie Wilson had laughed at him for losing, upended her car and threatened to throw her off a ledge. Then General Manager of SmackDown!Kurt Angle ascended the ledge to try to talk some reason into <mask>, but he chokeslammed Angle off the ledge, kayfabe concussing him and breaking

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texts: his leg, as well as causing the back of Angle's head to bleed. After the show, <mask> was neither seen nor heard from on WWE television for months as he had knee surgery on April 24. In August, <mask> was reinstated by new General Manager Theodore Long, as he interfered during a Lumberjack match between Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle on the September 9 episode of SmackDown!. <mask> had a choice to face either Guerrero or Angle at No Mercy, choosing to fight Angle, turning face in the process. <mask> defeated Angle at No Mercy. In the weeks before the match, he claimed to have "lost his dignity" when Angle tranquilized him in the middle of the ring using a dart gun and shaved his head on the fifth anniversary episode of SmackDown!. At No Way Out, he faced John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) for the WWE Championship in the first-ever Barbed Wire Steel Cage match.He chokeslammed JBL through the ring and broke the lock on the door but JBL crawled from under the canvas and won. <mask> attacked JBL but The Cabinet attacked <mask> until Batista attacked The Cabinet and John Cena attacked JBL as he crawled away. At WrestleMania 21, <mask> faced Sumo Grand Champion Akebono in a worked sumo match; the match was added to the show to attract a strong pay-per-view audience in Japan, where Akebono is considered a sporting legend. In the weeks preceding the match, <mask> pushed over a jeep driven to the ring by Luther Reigns to show that he was capable of moving the marginally heavier Akebono. <mask> lost to Akebono at WrestleMania 21. <mask> subsequently feuded with Carlito and his

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On the October 17 episode of Raw, <mask> defeated Edge and was thus entered in an online opinion poll, with the winner of the poll facing John Cena and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship at Taboo Tuesday. The poll was won by Shawn Michaels, meaning that the other two wrestlers competed for the World Tag Team Championship. At Taboo Tuesday, <mask> teamed with Kane to defeat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship. In the weeks preceding Survivor Series, <mask> became involved in the rivalry between the Raw and SmackDown! brands. <mask> and Kane invaded the November 11 episode of


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texts: Championship in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution. <mask> lost to his opponent, Shawn Michaels, by disqualification after Triple H hit Michaels with a chair, intentionally costing <mask> the match and the title shot. In retaliation, <mask> cost Triple H his qualifying match with Kane later that evening. On the December 26 episode of Raw, during the contract-signing for the match between <mask> and Triple H at New Year's Revolution, Triple H struck <mask> in the hand that <mask> favored when using the chokeslam with his sledgehammer. The following week, <mask> attacked Triple H while wearing a cast on his hand, using the padding provided by the cast to punch a hole in a chair held by Triple H, destroying a monitor from the broadcast table that Triple H intended to throw at him, and chasing Triple H away from the ring. At New Year's Revolution, Triple H defeated <mask> after striking him in the head with his sledgehammer and a Pedigree.Subsequently, <mask> was one of eight participants in the 2006 Road to WrestleMania Tournament, the winner of which would receive a shot at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 22. On the February 16 episode of Raw, <mask> faced Triple H in the tournament semi-finals in a match that ended in a double count-out. As a result, <mask> and Triple H faced Rob Van Dam (the winner of the opposing semi-finals) in a Triple Threat match to determine the winner of the tournament on the February 20 episode of Raw. The match was won by Triple H after he pinned Van Dam. In the weeks following the tournament, <mask> and Kane feuded

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At WWE vs. ECW Head-to-Head on June 7, <mask> joined the newly debuted ECW brand as he removed his Raw shirt to reveal an ECW shirt during a twenty-man battle royal including members of the Raw and SmackDown! rosters against members of the ECW roster. <mask> won the match for ECW by eliminating Randy Orton. <mask> then appeared at ECW One Night Stand, attacking Tajiri, Super Crazy and The Full Blooded Italians after their tag team match. On the July 4 episode of ECW, <mask> defeated Rob Van Dam to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Philadelphia with the assistance of ECW's Representative Paul Heyman, who declined to make the three-count for Van Dam after Van Dam performed the Five Star Frog Splash on <mask>.Heyman then instructed <mask> to chokeslam Van Dam onto a chair, before making the


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texts: three-count, meaning <mask> won the title. The fans almost rioted when <mask> won the title, throwing drinks and empty cups into the ring as Heyman and <mask> celebrated, turning heel in the process. The victory made him the first ever professional wrestler to hold the WWE Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship and ECW World Heavyweight Championship. He is also the first non-ECW Original to hold the title. Over the next several weeks, Wight defeated many other wrestlers from other brands, such as Ric Flair and Kane to retain the now renamed ECW World Championship, but lost to Batista and The Undertaker by disqualification. <mask> lost to The Undertaker at The Great American Bash in the first ever Punjabi Prison match, replacing The Great Khali, who was removed by SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long and replaced with <mask> as punishment for an attack on The Undertaker shortly before the match.He also had a brief feud with Sabu, whom he defeated at SummerSlam to retain the ECW World Championship. Also at SummerSlam, <mask> was one of the "resources" used by Vince and Shane McMahon in their match against D-Generation X (D-X). He became further involved in the McMahons' feud with D-X when he teamed with Vince and Shane against Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a 3-on-2 handicap Hell in a Cell match at Unforgiven, which was won by D-X. During the match, D-X shoved Vince's head up <mask>'s buttocks in a mockery of Vince's Kiss My Ass Club. At Cyber Sunday, <mask> faced John Cena and King Booker in a Champion of Champions match. The fans voted for King

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After a two-month departure from WWE, Wight replaced Jerry Lawler when the WWE withdrew him from a match with former nWo partner Hulk Hogan at the PMG Clash of Legends on April 27, 2007.Wight was introduced as Paul "The Great" Wight. He stated that "<mask> Show" was his slave name and that he did not want to be owned anymore. Hogan won the match after he bodyslammed Wight and pinned him following the leg drop. Return to WWE

Unified WWE Tag Team Champion (2008–2010)

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texts: television, attempted to attack Rey Mysterio after his World Heavyweight Championship match with Edge but got into a physical confrontation with boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. after Mayweather came from the crowd to challenge <mask>. The confrontation ended with Mayweather breaking <mask>'s nose with a punching combination. <mask> lost to Mayweather at WrestleMania XXIV by knockout after a shot to the jaw with brass knuckles. He turned face soon after.At One Night Stand, <mask> defeated CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero, and Tommy Dreamer in a Singapore Cane match. During the bout, he received a black eye and deep gash along the eyebrow, which required stitches after Morrison swung a Singapore cane to his knee, which caused <mask> to fall with the steps. As he fell, the steps accidentally moved to the right, which hit <mask> in the eye. The win gave him contention to face Kane and Mark Henry at Night of Champions for the ECW Championship, which Henry won by pinning Kane. <mask> was then assigned to the SmackDown brand. <mask> turned heel once again by siding with Vickie Guerrero in her ongoing feud with The Undertaker by attacking him at Unforgiven and later interfering in many of Undertaker's matches on SmackDown. He defeated Undertaker by knockout at No Mercy.However, <mask> lost to Undertaker in a fan-voted Last Man Standing match at Cyber Sunday and a Casket Match at Survivor Series. <mask> then lost a Steel Cage match against The Undertaker on the December 5 episode of SmackDown, ending the feud. In March, it was revealed by John Cena that the <mask> was


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texts: having secret relations with Vickie Guerrero. At WrestleMania 25, <mask> was involved in a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship featuring champion Edge and eventual winner Cena. On April 13, <mask> was drafted to the Raw brand as a part of the 2009 WWE draft. At Backlash, <mask> interfered in a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship between Cena and Edge when he threw Cena into a spotlight, thus resulting in Edge winning the title and Cena being seriously injured. He continued to feud with John Cena, losing to him at Judgment Day by pinfall and at Extreme Rules in a submission match, before defeating Cena on the June 22 episode of Raw to end the feud.In the weeks prior to Night of Champions, <mask> constantly attacked United States Champion Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne among others. He then feuded with Kingston over the United States Championship and earned himself a spot in the six-pack challenge at Night of Champions. At Night of Champions, <mask> was introduced as Chris Jericho's new tag team partner due to Edge needing time off to tend to an injury, thus taking <mask> out of the six-pack challenge for the United States Championship. Together, Jeri-<mask> were able to successfully defend the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship against The Legacy. Jeri-<mask> successfully defended the titles against Cryme Tyme at SummerSlam, MVP and Mark Henry at Breaking Point and Rey Mysterio and Batista at Hell in a Cell. At Bragging Rights, <mask> represented Team Raw, but he betrayed and attacked his teammates, which led to Team

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texts: SmackDown winning, so that he could receive an opportunity at the World Heavyweight Championship. <mask> received his title shot at Survivor Series in a triple threat match against The Undertaker and Jericho, but the Undertaker successfully retained his title.Jeri-<mask> lost the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs to D-Generation X (D-X) in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. As a member of the SmackDown roster, Jericho could only appear on Raw as a champion and so D-X intentionally disqualified themselves in a rematch to force Jericho off the show. Eventually the teams had a match with a definitive finish on the January 4 episode of Raw, though D-X still won, signalling the end of Jeri-<mask>. On the February 8 episode of Raw, <mask> regained the titles from D-X with his new tag team partner The Miz in a Triple Threat Tag Team Elimination match, which also included the Straight Edge Society (CM Punk and Luke Gallows). On the February 16 episode of ECW, he and Miz successfully defended the titles against Yoshi Tatsu and Goldust on the final episode of the show. On the March 1 episode of Raw, <mask> and Miz defeated D-X in their rematch. At WrestleMania XXVI, <mask> and Miz defeated John Morrison and R-Truth to retain the titles again.At Extreme Rules ShoMiz was in a tag team gauntlet match where the team that beat them would get a title match the next night on Raw. ShoMiz beat the first two teams in the gauntlet match, John Morrison and R-Truth, then MVP and Mark Henry. They then lost to The Hart Dynasty, who earned the title shot.

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After the title loss, he attacked The Miz with a knockout punch and hugged Theodore Long, turning face in the process. Later on in the night as part of the 2010 WWE draft, <mask> was drafted back to the SmackDown brand. He returned to the brand on the April 30 episode of SmackDown and was subsequently named the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, later on in the night, he interrupted World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger as he was giving his "State of Championship Address" and knocked him out with a WMD.On the May 7 episode of SmackDown, <mask> sat ringside during the Swagger/Kane main event. After Swagger was disqualified, <mask> chokeslammed him through the announce table. He also crashed Swagger's achievement celebration and cost him his match with Kofi Kingston in the next week. <mask> defeated Swagger via disqualification at Over the Limit, but did not win the title. On the May 28 episode of SmackDown, General Manager Theodore Long scheduled qualifying matches for the World Heavyweight Championship match at Fatal 4-Way and that <mask> had already qualified by defeating Jack Swagger via disqualification at Over the Limit. At Fatal 4-Way, <mask> faced Rey Mysterio, CM Punk and Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship, but Mysterio won the title. On the following episode of SmackDown, Swagger debuted his new finishing move, The Ankle Lock, and applied it on

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texts: <mask>, thus injuring his ankle and continuing their feud.Two weeks later on SmackDown, <mask> saved Rey Mysterio, whose ankle was injured by the same move, from Swagger. Later that night, <mask> fought Swagger to a double count-out. Soon he began a feud with CM Punk and his Straight Edge Society, confronting him the Friday night before the Money in the Bank event, and unmasking him to reveal his bald head. After failing to win the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match at Money in the Bank, he fought the mysterious masked member of the SES, also unmasking him as Joey Mercury. <mask>'s feud with the Straight Edge Society continued after he defeated them in a 3 on 1 Handicap match at SummerSlam and CM Punk at Night of Champions. <mask> was made Team SmackDown's captain for Bragging Rights on the October 8 episode of SmackDown. At Bragging Rights, <mask> was counted out with Sheamus during the match but his team ultimately won with Edge and Rey Mysterio left on the team.He was on Rey Mysterio's team for Survivor Series where he was a survivor along with Mysterio. The following episode of SmackDown, he was unsuccessful in qualifying for the King of the Ring tournament as he was defeated by Alberto Del Rio by count-out thanks to interference by his personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez. On the January 7, 2011 episode of SmackDown, <mask> participated in a Fatal 4-Way match to determine the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, losing due to interference by former Nexus leader Wade Barrett. The next week, <mask> faced Barrett and won via

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texts: disqualification when former Nexus members Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel attacked him. Moments later Ezekiel Jackson appeared to help him, but instead attacked <mask>. The next week, Barrett, Slater, Gabriel and Jackson informed that they had formed the Corre. In the following weeks, the Corre continued to assault <mask>, due to the size and power of Ezekiel Jackson.At Elimination Chamber, <mask> participated in the Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship, eliminating Wade Barrett before being eliminated by Kane. <mask> feuded with The Corre in the following weeks. On the March 4 episode of SmackDown, <mask> faced Kane in a confrontation until the Corre interfered on Kane's behalf. However, a miscommunication led to Kane turning on the Corre. <mask> and Kane thus reunited to take on the Corre. At WrestleMania XXVII, <mask> and Kane teamed with Santino Marella and Kofi Kingston to beat The Corre. On the April 22 episode of SmackDown, the duo defeated Corre members Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater to win the WWE Tag Team Championship, their second championship win as a team.<mask> was drafted back to the Raw brand as a part of the 2011 WWE draft. He and Kane then started feuding with the New Nexus. After defending the titles against Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson at Extreme Rules and CM Punk and Mason Ryan at Over the Limit, Kane and <mask> lost their titles to Michael McGilligutty and David Otunga on the following night on Raw. After losing the titles, <mask> was run over by Alberto Del Rio's car, driven by his ring announcer Ricardo

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On the October 7 episode of SmackDown, <mask> returned and became number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship after he attacked Mark Henry and chokeslammed him through the broadcast table. At Vengeance, <mask> fought Henry to a no-contest after the ring collapsed following a superplex from Henry, similar to his match with Brock Lesnar in 2003. This time, less damage was done, and the damage mainly occurred around the lower right-hand ring


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texts: weeks, <mask> began a feud with Rhodes after Rhodes highlighted <mask>'s embarrassing moments in previous WrestleManias, often costing <mask> to lose matches in the process. At WrestleMania XXVIII, <mask> defeated Rhodes to win the Intercontinental Championship. With this, <mask> became the twenty-fourth wrestler to win the Triple Crown Championship and the twelfth Grand Slam Champion in the WWE, and is currently the most recent wrestler to complete the original Grand Slam format. <mask> then began highlighting embarrassing moments in Rhodes' career.After a four-week reign, <mask> lost the Intercontinental Championship back to Rhodes at Extreme Rules in a Tables match. <mask> received his rematch on the May 7 episode of Raw, where he defeated Rhodes via countout after Rhodes walked out on the match. After a series of confrontations with Raw and SmackDown General Manager John Laurinaitis, <mask> was fired by Laurinaitis for making fun of his voice on the May 14 episode of Raw. Six days later, <mask> returned at Over the Limit, seemingly to help John Cena in his match against John Laurinaitis; instead, he knocked Cena out with a WMD and allowed Laurinaitis to win the match by pinfall, turning heel in the process. The following night on Raw, <mask> explained that his actions were of necessity to keep his job in the WWE, therefore resulting in Laurinaitis re-signing him to an "ironclad contract with a big fat bonus", also stating that nobody showed him any sympathy when he got fired. Over the next few weeks, he attacked Cena, Brodus Clay, Alex Riley, R-Truth, Santino


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<mask> made his televised return to WWE on the August 12


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texts: at Hell in a Cell.<mask> turned heel when joined the Authority at Survivor Series when he turned on John Cena and caused him to be eliminated from the Survivor Series elimination match against the Authority. In his first pay-per-view match as part of the faction, <mask> defeated Erick Rowan in a first-ever Steel Stairs match at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. Later in the event, <mask> attacked Cena during his match with Seth Rollins but was then confronted by Roman Reigns, leading to Cena winning the match. Reigns went on to defeat <mask> multiple times by count-out and disqualification. On January 25, 2015, at the Royal Rumble, <mask> entered the Royal Rumble match at #29, eliminating five superstars before being eliminated by Reigns, the eventual winner. At Fastlane, <mask>, Rollins and Kane defeated Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan and Ryback. <mask> went on to win the 2nd Annual André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31.However, <mask> lost to Reigns in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules. After a brief hiatus, <mask> returned on the June 1 episode of Raw, where he knocked out The Miz and confronted Intercontinental Champion Ryback. <mask> challenged Ryback for his title at Money in the Bank, winning the match by disqualification after The Miz attacked <mask>. A triple threat match for the title took place at SummerSlam, where Ryback retained the title. On the August 31 episode of Raw, <mask> received another championship match against Ryback, which he lost following a distraction from The Miz, ending the feud. <mask> later became involved in the


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<mask> was drafted to Raw as part of the 2016 WWE draft. During this time, <mask> began appearing mostly on the live event circuit rather than televised events, as he transitioned into a part-time role. At the Royal Rumble on January 29, 2017, <mask> entered the Royal Rumble match at number 9, but was eliminated by Braun Strowman. After defeating Rusev at Fastlane, he competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33, from which he was also eliminated by Strowman. <mask> wrestled Strowman two weeks later on Raw, where the ring collapsed after Strowman superplexed on him, resulting in the match going to a no contest, similar to his matches with Brock Lesnar in 2003 and Mark Henry in 2011, respectively. Throughout the summer of 2017, <mask> feuded with <mask>, culminating in a match at  SummerSlam, where he was defeated.On the September 4 episode of Raw, <mask> lost to Strowman in a steel cage match and was thrown through the cage after the match. The attack was written to take <mask> off television as he required hip surgery. His next appearance for WWE was on April 6, 2018, when he inducted his long-time friend and rival Mark Henry into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2018. <mask> returned on the October 9 episode of SmackDown, where he faced Randy Orton in a losing effort. The following week, on the 1000th episode of SmackDown, <mask> formed a short-lived alliance with The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus) by helping them defeat The New Day for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, thus turning heel in the process. This alliance

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 ended on the November 27 episode of SmackDown, after <mask> performed a KO Punch on Cesaro backstage. Following this, <mask> was written off television due to him suffering a hamstring injury.On the January 6, 2020 episode of Raw, <mask> returned from injury over a year later as a fan favorite, teaming with Kevin Owens and Samoa Joe to defeat Seth Rollins and AOP via disqualification. In a match filmed after WrestleMania 36 ended, which aired on the April 6 episode of Raw, <mask> reverted to a heel after insulting and challenging newly crowned WWE Champion Drew McIntyre for his title. He was subsequently defeated. His heel turn was short-lived, as <mask> turned face again by helping The Street Profits and The Viking Raiders fend off the group of ninjas led by Akira Tozawa on the June 15 episode of Raw. He last wrestled in an unsanctioned match against Orton on the July 20 episode of Raw. On November 22, 2020 he made an appearance at Survivor Series during The Undertaker's retirement ceremony. He made his final WWE appearance on the January 4, 2021 edition of Raw for Legends Night.Wight and WWE parted ways the following month after it was reported the two sides were unable to agree to financial terms on a new contract. Wight also cited "creative frustrations" and lack of ideas as reasons for his exit. All Elite Wrestling (2021–present)
On February 24, 2021, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced that <mask>, now known in AEW by his real name, Paul Wight, had signed with the company and would be providing commentary alongside Tony Schiavone for their new YouTube series


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 in 1995, four of those alone coming during his first year with the WWF. Wight himself acknowledged that while the frequent turns may have hurt his legacy and his mystique, he was also honored with the fact that he can play both roles well and fit in wherever he is needed to put younger talent over.Other media
<mask> has been featured in infomercials for Stacker 2 with former NASCAR drivers Kenny Wallace and Scott Wimmer, NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Elliott Sadler, retired crew chief turned Fox Sports broadcaster Jeff Hammond, and 2002, 2005, and 2011 Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart. In addition, Wight appeared on the "Thong Song" remix music video by Sisqó and Foxy Brown. Wight was featured on the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, winning $15,000 for his chosen charity, United Service Organizations. He is the only contestant to appear on two versions of the game show in two different countries. On March 31, 2012, <mask> won the first-ever Slime Wrestling World Championship at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, defeating The Miz after throwing him into a tub of slime. In 2018, The <mask> Show appeared in the Wizards of the Coast's  Dungeons and Dragons stream "Stream of Many Eyes Day Three - Jocks Machina" alongside Joe Manganiello, Travis Willingham, cross fit athele Ron Mathews, and Mike Mearls as Dungeon Master. Filmography

Personal life
Wight married his first wife, Melissa Ann Piavis, on February 14, 1997.They separated in 2000 and their divorce was finalized on February 6, 2002. Together, they have a daughter. On February 11, 2002, he married

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<mask> (September 9, 1932 – July 2, 2019 in Modesto, California) is an American operatic bass-baritone who has sung with many of the world's greatest opera companies. He began his career in Germany in the late 1950s, ultimately becoming a leading performer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1964. He then embarked on a highly successful career at the Metropolitan Opera where he sang regularly between 1964 and 1977. Between 1977 and 1982 he sang regularly at the Vienna State Opera, after which he remained active as a freelance artist on the international stage through the early 1990s. Dooley possessed a rich, deep, and warm voice that had a considerable amount of dramatic power and a wide vocal range. In his prime singing years he particularly excelled within the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Although primarily an exponent of German opera, his repertoire spanned a wide range of languages from French and Italian to Russian and even, in the case of the opera Montezuma, Aztec, Spanish and Latin.He sang in numerous world premieres throughout his career, including Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids. Biography
<mask> entered the University of Rochester in 1950, graduating from there in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in English. During that time he also studied singing as a music minor under Lucy Lee Callund at the Eastman School of Music. After graduation he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in Munich between 1954 and 1956. During his off duty hours he studied singing with Viktoria Prestel and Hedwig Fichtmüller. <mask> made his professional opera debut in 1957 as Posa in

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texts: Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos at the Stadttheater Heidelberg. He spent the next two years performing in operas and concerts throughout Germany.He joined the roster at the Städtische Bühnen in Bielefeld in 1959, where he sang regularly for the next three years. While there he notably portrayed the title role in Marcel Mihalovici's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande for its world premiere broadcast on RTF radio in France on May 15, 1961, its stage premiere at the Théâtre des Nations the following July 3, and its premiere in Germany at the Städtische Bühnen in February 1962. In the summer of 1962 <mask> became a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he sang leading baritone roles for two years. While there he notably sang the role of Apollo in the world premiere of Darius Milhaud's L'Orestie in 1963 and the role of Hernán Cortez in the world premiere of Roger Sessions's Montezuma in 1964. He was also well known in Germany for his interpretation of the role of Jago in Verdi's Otello which he sang in Bonn and many other German opera houses and abroad with great success. <mask> returned to the United States in 1964 to become a member of the company at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He made his debut with the company in the title role of Eugene Onegin on February 15, 1964 opposite Leontyne Price as Tatiana.He spent the next 13 years singing with the company for a total of 188 performances. He particularly excelled in the works of Richard Wagner during his time at the Met, portraying the roles of Amfortas in Parsifal, Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Donner in Das Rheingold, Herald in

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texts: Lohengrin, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role in The Flying Dutchman. In 1966 <mask> notably sang the role of The Messenger of Keikobad in the Met's first production of Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, and in 1976 he portrayed Marquis de la Force in the Met's first production of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Maria Ewing as Blanche de la Force. His other roles during his career at the Met included the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Amonasro in Aida, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pizarro in Fidelio, Escamillo in Carmen, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, John the Baptist in Salome, Mandryka in Arabella, the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Orest in Elektra, Rangoni in Boris Godunov, Scarpia in Tosca, the Speaker in The Magic Flute, and the title role in Wozzeck. His last performance at the Met was on March 11, 1977 as the Marquis de la Force. During his time at the Met, <mask> occasionally performed with other companies and at music festivals internationally. In 1964 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as the title hero in Mozart's Lucio Silla.He returned to Salzburg two years later to portray the Captain of the Royal Guard in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids and the role of Escamillo in Carmen. In 1965 he sang in the world premiere of Isang Yun's Der Traum des Liu-Tung at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. <mask> made two appearances with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company in 1968, portraying Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wagner's Tannhäuser with Jess Thomas in the title

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 role and Count Almaviva to Pilar Lorengar's Countess. He also made several appearances at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen during the late 1960s. In 1976 he returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to sing in the world premiere of Toshiro Mayuzumi's Der Tempelbrand. <mask> joined the roster at the Vienna State Opera in the Fall of 1977. He sang there for the next six seasons, performing much of the same repertoire that he had performed at the Met.In 1979 he portrayed the role of Pastor Oberlin in the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at the Hamburg State Opera. In 1984 he appeared in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann's Gespenstersonate at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in 1989 he sang in the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's Los Alamos at the Los Angeles Opera. In 1991 he portrayed Tiresias in the American premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Oedipus at the Santa Fe Opera, a role he had sung earlier for the opera's 1987 premiere in Berlin. References

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<mask> (, but often erroneously ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante Alighieri. Today he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of his most popular novels have been adapted as comics, animated series and feature films. He is considered the father of Italian adventure fiction and Italian pop culture, and the "grandfather" of the Spaghetti Western. Life

<mask> was born in Verona to a family of modest merchants. From a young age, he had a desire to explore the seas and studied seamanship at a nautical technical institution in Venice, but his academic performance was too poor, and he never graduated.He began his writing career as a reporter on the daily La Nuova Arena, which published some of his work as serials. As his powers of narration grew, so did his reputation for having lived a life of adventure. He claimed to have explored the Sudan desert, met Buffalo Bill in Nebraska (he had actually met him during his "Wild West Show" tour of Italy), and sailed the Seven Seas. His early biographies were filled with adventurous tales set in the Far East, events which he claimed were the basis for much of his work. Salgari had actually never ventured farther than the Adriatic Sea. He turned his passion for exploration and discovery to writing. His first stories were serialized in newspapers.Early in his career, he began signing his tales as "Captain <mask>", a title he once defended in a duel when his claim to it was questioned. Though knighted by the Queen of Italy and wildly popular, Salgari did not earn much money from his books and lived hand to mouth for most of his life. Salgari married Ida

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 Peruzzi – nicknamed "Aida," with whom he was very happy for years. The couple had four children. Salgari's private life was clouded by several tragedies. In 1889 his father committed suicide. Ida became ill after 1903 and Salgari's struggling increased with her medical bills.These events led Salgari to depression, and he attempted suicide in 1910. After Ida  was committed to a mental ward in 1911, Salgari was overwhelmed and took his own life soon afterwards, imitating the Japanese ritual of seppuku, and died on 25 April 1911. He left three letters, addressed to his and Ida's children, his publisher, and the editors of his newspaper in Turin. The letter to his publisher said:

 One of the sons of <mask> and Aida also committed suicide in 1933. Writing career
Salgari wrote more than 200 adventure stories and novels, setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures. He gained inspiration from reading foreign literature and newspapers, travel magazines and encyclopedias, which he used to portray his heroes' worlds. He wrote four major series: The Pirates of Malaysia; The Black Corsair Saga; The Pirates of Bermuda; and a collection of adventures set in the Old West.Salgari's heroes were mostly pirates, outlaws and barbarians, fighting against greed, abuse of power, and corruption. His most legendary heroes Sandokan, The Tiger of Malaysia, a Bornean prince turned pirate, and his loyal lieutenant Yanez of Gomera, led their men in attacks against the Dutch and British fleets. They declared war on James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, and tried to force him from his throne. The Black Corsair and Captain Morgan maintained a chivalric code in the Caribbean, while Salgari's pirates of Bermuda fought for American independence. His tales had been


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 so popular that soon his publisher hired other writers to develop adventure stories under his name. They added 50 novels to his “canon”. Salgari's style was imitated by many, but no other Italian adventure writer managed to duplicate his popular success.Legacy

<mask>'s work was imitated in one form or another by many who came after him. A large part of the Italian adventure literature is a continuation of Salgari's work. Many late 19th century writers such as Luigi Motta and <mask>i wrote further Sandokan adventures imitating Salgari's style: fast-paced, filled with great battles, blood, violence and punctuated with humour. The style soon spread to movies and television. One example is the work of the  director Sergio Leone, whose outlaw heroes in his Spaghetti Westerns were inspired by Salgari's piratical adventurers. More than 50 film adaptations have been made of Salgari's novels, and many more were inspired by his work (corsair stories, jungle adventure stories, and swashbuckling B movies, such as Morgan, the Pirate, starring Steve Reeves). Federico Fellini loved <mask>'s books.Pietro Mascagni had over 50 Salgari titles in his library. Umberto Eco read Salgari's works as a child. His work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young. Che Guevara read 62 of his books, according to his biographer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, who remarked that the revolutionary's anti-imperialism could be seen to be "Salgarian in origin". Though popular with the masses, Salgari was shunned by critics throughout his life and for most of the 20th century. It was not until the late 1990s that his writings

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 began to be revisited, and new translations appeared in print. They have been newly appreciated for their characterization and plots.In 2001 the first National Salgari Association was founded in Italy to celebrate his work. Films

Historians debate the first film adaptation of a Salgari novel. Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone bears many similarities to <mask>'s 1908 adventure novel Cartagine in Fiamme (Carthage is Burning). <mask> was never credited, and Gabriele D'Annunzio was billed as the official screenwriter. D'Annunzio had been brought on board to help revise the film once it had been shot, earning the credit by changing the title to Cabiria, changing the name of some of the characters, and rewriting the captions from what Pastrone had done. The three-hour epic movie with its cast of thousands created a sensation throughout Italy. It pioneered epic screen production and foreshadowed the work of D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein and others.Vitale De Stefano brought Salgari's pirates to the big screen in the early 1920s with a series of five films shot over two years, including Il corsaro nero The Black Corsair and La Regina dei caraibi (The Queen of the Caribbean). Lex Barker appeared as the tiger hunter Tremal-Naik in the 1955 B-movie The Mystery of The Black Jungle. Sandokan was played by Hercules star Steve Reeves in Sandokan the Great and The Pirates of Malaysia aka The Pirates of The Seven Seas. Ray Danton played the pirate in Luigi Capuano's Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak (aka Throne of Vengeance.) and later reprised the role in Sandokan Fights Back (aka The Conqueror and the Empress). The 1944 Mexican film El corsario negro is based on his novel The Black Corsair. The 1965 adventure film La montagna di luce (The Mountain of Light) was loosely

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 based on <mask>'s 1902 novel of the same title, which referred to the name of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.The film was released in English under several titles, the most commonly known of which was Jungle Adventurer. One of the alternate titles used for a later re-release was Sandok, an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Salgari's fictional pirate Sandokan, even though neither the novel, nor the film had anything to do with Sandokan's character or the settings of his adventures (the plot revolved around a fictitious attempt to steal the Koh-i-Noor, and took place in 19th-century India). In 1976, the landmark Sandokan TV miniseries played throughout Europe. It starred Kabir Bedi in the title role and attracted more than 80 million viewers a week. Bedi has been considered the quintessential Sandokan ever since. He later reprised the role in the late 1990s in a series of sequels. Publishers
<mask>'s works have been published by numerous publishing houses worldwide.These include: Donath, Viglongo, Carroccio, RCS MediaGroup, and Mondadori in Italian; Saturnino Calleja, Ediciones Porrua, and Ediciones Gaviota in Spanish; Editora Illuminuras  in Portuguese; Bouquins in French; ABLIT Verlag in German; and ROH Press in English. ROH Press has been republishing the novels in Italian, with their translations into English and Spanish. Work available in English

Though <mask>'s novels have been popular in Europe and Latin America for over a century, at present only nine titles are available in English, translated by Nico Lorenzutti. The Tigers of Malaysia series
 The Mystery of the Black Jungle
 Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
 Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia
 Sandokan: The Two Tigers
 Sandokan: The King of the Sea
 Sandokan: Quest for a Throne

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Bibliography

The Sandokan series

 The Mystery of the Black Jungle (I Misteri della Jungla Nera, 1895)
 The Tigers of Mompracem (Le tigri di Mompracem, 1900)
 The Pirates of Malaysia (I pirati della Malesia, 1896)
 The Two Tigers (Le due Tigri, 1904)
 The King of the Sea (Il re del mare, 1906)
 Quest for a Throne (Alla conquista di un impero, 1907)
 Sandokan to the Rescue (Sandokan alla riscossa, 1907)
 Return to Mompracem (La riconquista di Mompracem, 1908)
 The Brahman (Il Bramino dell’Assam, 1911)
 An Empire Crumbles (La caduta di un impero, 1911)
 Yanez’ Revenge (La rivincita di Yanez, 1913)

The last three tiles were published posthumously. Each excerpt is introduced by a brief synopsis of the novel it was drawn from. Bibliografia analitica ragionata, 1475–2005. Roma, IsIAO, 2009, pp.350–362
 "<mask>", ROH Press, in English. Also includes images from movies and animated series based on his novels. "<mask>i: Literature’s Invisible Man", ROH Press, in English. Read a review of the Sandokan series. Carla Passino, "Book of the Week: Sandokan, the Tigers of Mompracem", Italy Magazine, December 2009

External links

 "Italy’s enduring love affair with <mask>", The Economist, June 2017

 The Tiger of Malaysia, Barga News

 Angela Valenti Durazzo "Il Corsaro Nero Signore di Ventimiglia"

1862 births
1911 suicides
Writers from Verona
Italian historical novelists
Nautical historical novelists
Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period
Suicides by sharp instrument in Italy
Italian fantasy writers
Italian science fiction writers
Maritime writers
Italian children's writers
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian male short story writers
Italian male

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<mask> is an English composer, record producer and digital influencer. Filmography
<mask>'s work on movie scores consists of about 20 Hollywood features including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Megamind, and four James Bond movies including The World Is Not Enough and Quantum of Solace. Other credits include Ocean's 11, 12 and 13, Moulin Rouge!, Shaft, Zoolander, The Bone Collector, Plunkett and MacClean, Analyze That, Buffalo Soldiers and Luc Besson's Kiss of the Dragon. More recently, <mask> joined his wife, Internet celebrity Laura Clery, to form "Idiots Inc" – a digital media company, creating viral entertainment content and producing shows for TV / Digital and Commercials

<mask> wrote the original scores for New Town Killers, The Children, Cherrybomb, Salvage, Third Star, Sword of Vengeance and Kill Command among others. He also collaborated with composer David Holmes on Code 46, Haywire and Hunger, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Musical career
<mask> produced acts such as Badly Drawn Boy, Miguel feat Wale – with Peter Asher, David Holmes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, co-wrote and produced the track "Drone Zone" with Siouxsie Sioux, for her solo album Mantaray. <mask> has worked with many artists and has contributed to the works of Gwen Stefani, Hans Zimmer, No Doubt, U2, Pharrell Williams, Jack White, Alicia Keys, Wale, Crystal Castles, Madonna, Moby, Dave Stewart, Depeche Mode, Ke$ha, Massive Attack, Mikky Ekko, Miguel, Shirley Bassey, Sky Ferreira,  Purity Ring, FKA Twigs, Alanis Morissette, Chris Lake, Oleta Adams, Moloko, Isaac Hayes, The Pet Shop Boys, Scott Walker, Pulp, David Holmes, Bomb the Bass, Mel C, The Divine Comedy, Dirty

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 Vegas, Martina Topley-Bird, Natasha Bedingfield, Joy Zipper, The John Spencer Blues Explosion, David Arnold, Trevor Horn and Rick Nowels.He has also remixed songs by No Doubt, Sky Ferreira Orbital, Craig Armstrong and Primal Scream and provided many compositions for commercials for companies such as Apple (multiple spots), Ferrari / Shell, Mercedes, Audi, Guinness, VW, Levi's, Comme De Garcon, Sony, Renault Clio, Amex and Jean Paul Gaultier
<mask> composed, produced and mixed the music for the National Movie Awards. The Free Association

Stephen and a band of Dobermans formed The Free Association with David Holmes. Together as a band of composers and producers they scored the futuristic love story, Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom. This resulted in a nomination for European Composer of the Year at the European Movie Awards. The Free Association also scored Bronwen Hughes' film Stander, based on a true story about South African chief of police in 1979. The Free Association's album received critical acclaim and the band embarked on an extensive European tour, performing at Glastonbury, V2003, Kristiansand and Roskilde and on BBC's Later with Jools Holland. The band's music features on a variety of car adverts, including a Renault Clio Campaign (UK) and a VW Campaign (Germany & Turkey).Other repertoire has been licensed to CSI (the American crime drama series) amongst other TV series. FlyKKller

<mask> sometimes uses the moniker FlyKKiller (now called FLYKKLLR), his debut artist project . The album was reviewed by The Sunday Times as the "best psyched up twisted soul record of the year". The LP was released in October and the band were lauded by the

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