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 Mahathir, in turn, refused to lend support to <mask>'s candidacy, and instead nominated Sabah Chief Minister, Shafie Apdal, for the Prime Minister's post instead. Despite the support of allies DAP and Amanah for this compromise, Keadilan again rejected the proposal and continued to propose <mask> as the coalition candidate. In September 2020, <mask> claimed to have gathered support from a "formidable" majority of MP's for his appointment as Prime Minister. Views and comments on various issues

External influence and interference through APCO in 1Malaysia claims
<mask> has made numerous remarks about a supposed conspiracy among the Malaysian government, APCO (a public relations firm retained by the Malaysian government), Israel, and the United States. <mask> has condemned the Malaysian government for seeking advice from APCO. He claims that the firm is linked to the "murder of Muslims in Palestine."He further claims to have given proof to a disciplinary committee of the Malaysian parliament, investigating his comments, that APCO is a front for the Israeli government. On another occasion, <mask>, speaking from the parliament, claimed that the firm was controlled by Jews and working on behalf of the American government to influence Malaysian foreign policy. He further implied that changes in Malaysian foreign policy could only be explained if Jews were manipulating Malaysia for the United States. On 22 April 2010 <mask> was censured by Malaysia's parliament for remarks he made during a press conference in parliament on 30 March 2010. During the press conference, Anwar claimed to have documents linking 1Malaysia with One Israel and the public relations firm APCO but refused to allow access to the documents when challenged. The Malaysian government and APCO have both strongly denied <mask>'s

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 allegations. The censure motion passed by the House of Representatives referred <mask>'s case to the Rights and Privileges Committee which will recommend a punishment for approval by the full chamber.Such punishment could include being banned from parliament. However <mask> retaliated against the Malaysian government attacks by producing two documents to support his claims of links between APCO and 1Malaysia. Comments about Jewish people
In a press conference at the London School of Economics in March 2010, Anwar made comments about Zionists and "nasty Jews". In the press conference, he also stated that "There are good Jews, there are bad Jews, there are good Muslims and bad Muslims." In May 2010, B'nai B'rith International, a prominent Jewish human rights organisation, condemned Anwar in a letter to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, claiming that Anwar was a "purveyor of anti-Jewish hatred" and asked the American government to suspend all contact with Anwar. 2012 Israeli-Palestinian Security comments
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, <mask> <mask> stated, "I think our policy should be clear—protect the security [of Israel] but you must be as firm in protecting the legitimate interests of the Palestinians." This comment sparked an array of criticism from UMNO, one of the ruling party then.UMNO's MP Khairy Jamaluddin stated that <mask>'s comments "show a blanket support for anything Israel does" and that "The issue of Palestine is a top foreign policy priority for my party, it would be an issue during the election year or otherwise… timing doesn't matter.". Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad then said he was not surprised by <mask>'s comments, and stated concerning <mask>'s relationship with the Jewish community, "You can't be friendly with them and

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 against them". Later, Anwar clarified his stand; he said that the remarks were consistent with the two-state solution adopted by the United Nations that is accepted by the Arab world, as well as Malaysia and Hamas. "I am issuing a stern warning to anyone trying to twist my statement just so that they can say that I have betrayed the aspirations of the Palestinian people", he said, continuing with stating that his party's stance "is to defend the rights of whoever it is that has been victimized". Views on gay marriage and homosexuality

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Anwar stated that while he opposes gay marriage and upholds the sanctity of marriage between men and women, laws on sodomy in Malaysia must be changed as they are "archaic". In an interview with British Broadcasting Corporation, <mask> reaffirmed his belief that marriage should remain between men and women. Clarifying his comments to The Wall Street Journal, <mask> maintained that he does not advocate legalising homosexuality or making gay marriage permissible—only that the laws should be amended to ensure private affairs are not penalised saying, "It is not my business to attack people or arrest people based on their sexual orientation.Morality is in the public sphere, not beyond that." Personal life
He is married to former Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail on 26 February 1980, and they have five daughters and a son. His eldest daughter, Nurul Izzah <mask>, is also an MP for Permatang Pauh. Awards and recognitions

Honours of Malaysia
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  Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP) – Dato' Sri (1990)
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  Grand Commander of the Order of Malacca (DGSM) – Datuk Seri (1991)
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  Companion of the Order of the Defender of State (DMPN) – Dato' (1991)
  Knight Grand Commander of the

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<mask> (February 1732 – 4 November 1764) was an English poet and satirist. Early life
<mask> was born in Vine Street, Westminster. His father, Rev. <mask>, was rector of Rainham, Essex, held the curacy and lectureship of St Johns, Westminster, from 1733, and <mask> was educated at Westminster School, where he became a good classical scholar, and formed a close and lasting friendship with Robert Lloyd. He was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge on 8 July 1748. <mask> contracted a marriage with a Miss Scot within the rules of the Fleet in his eighteenth year, and never lived at Cambridge; the young couple lived in his father's house, and <mask> was afterwards sent to the north of England to prepare for holy orders. He became curate of the church of St Thomas à Becket in South Cadbury, Somerset, and, on receiving priest's orders (1756), began to act as his father's curate at Rainham.Two years later the elder <mask> died, and the son was elected to succeed him in his curacy and lectureship. His emoluments amounted to less than £100 a year, and he increased his income by teaching in a girls' school. His marriage proved unhappy, and he began to spend much of his time in dissipation in the society of Robert Lloyd. He was separated from his wife in 1761, and would have been imprisoned for debt but for the timely help of Lloyd's father, Pierson Lloyd, who had been an usher and was now second master at Westminster School. Satirist
<mask> had already done some work for the booksellers, and his friend Lloyd had had some success with a didactic poem, The Actor. <mask>'s knowledge of the theatre was now made use of in the Rosciad, which appeared in March 1761. This reckless and amusing satire described with the most disconcerting accuracy the faults of the various actors and actresses on the London stage; in a competition judged by Shakespeare and Jonson, Garrick is named the greatest

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texts: English actor.Its immediate popularity was no doubt largely due to its personal character, but its vigour and raciness make it worth reading even now when the objects of <mask>'s wit are forgotten. The first impression was published anonymously, and in the Critical Review, conducted by Tobias Smollett, it was confidently asserted that the poem was the joint production of George Colman the Elder, Bonnell Thornton and Robert Lloyd. <mask> immediately published an Apology addressed to the Critical Reviewers, which, after developing the subject that it is only authors who prey on their own kind, repeats the fierce attack on the stage. Incidentally it contains an enthusiastic tribute to John Dryden, of whom <mask> was a devotee. In the Rosciad he had praised Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Cibber and Mrs Clive, but no leading London actor, with the exception of David Garrick, had escaped censure, and in the Apology Garrick was clearly threatened. He deprecated criticism by showing every possible civility to <mask>, who became a terror to the actors. Thomas Davies wrote to Garrick attributing his blundering in the part of Cymbeline "to my accidentally seeing Mr <mask> in the pit, it rendering me confused and unmindful of my business."<mask>'s satire made him many enemies, and brought reprisals. In Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), he answered the attacks made on him, offering by way of defense the argument that any faults were better than hypocrisy. His scandalous conduct brought down the censure of the dean of Westminster, and in 1763 the protests of his parishioners led him to resign his offices, and he was free to wear his blue coat with metal buttons and much gold lace without remonstrance from the dean. The Rosciad had been refused by several publishers, and was finally published at <mask>'s own expense. He received a considerable sum from the sale, and paid his old creditors in full,

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 besides making an allowance to his wife. Friendship with Wilkes

In 1761 or 1762 he became a close ally and friend with the champion of liberty of the press John Wilkes, whom he regularly assisted with The North Briton weekly newspaper. His collaboration with Wilkes thereafter earned him an honourable place in the history of parliamentary democracy and civil liberties.His next poem, The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), was founded on a paper written originally for The North Briton. This violent satire on Scottish influence fell in with the current hatred of Lord Bute, and the Scottish place-hunters were as much alarmed as the actors had been. When Wilkes was arrested he gave <mask> a timely hint to retire to the country for a time, the publisher, Kearsley, having stated that he received part of the profits from the paper. His Epistle to William Hogarth (1763) was in answer to the caricature of Wilkes made during the trial, in it Hogarth's vanity and envy were attacked in an invective which Garrick quoted as shocking and barbarous. Hogarth retaliated with an engraving based on The Painter and his Pug, which caricatures <mask> as a bear in torn clerical bands hugging a pot of porter and a club made of lies and NB, while Hogarth's pug Trump urinates on <mask>'s Epistle. The Duellist (1763) is a virulent satire on the most active opponents of Wilkes in the House of Lords, especially on Bishop Warburton. He attacked Dr Johnson among others in The Ghost as "Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd".Other poems are The Conference (1763); The Author (1763), highly praised by <mask>'s contemporaries; Gotham (1764), a poem on the duties of a king, didactic rather than satiric in tone; The Candidate (1764), a satire on John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich, one of Wilkes's bitterest enemies, whom he had already denounced for his treachery in The Duellist (Bk.

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 iii.) as too infamous to have a friend; The Farewell (1764); The Times (1764); Independence, and an unfinished Journey. Death and legacy
In October 1764 he went to Boulogne to join Wilkes. There he was attacked by a fever of which he died on 4 November. He left his property to his two sons, and made Wilkes his literary executor with full powers. Wilkes did little.He wrote an epitaph for his friend and about half a dozen notes on his poems, and Andrew Kippis acknowledges some slight assistance from him in preparing his life of <mask> for the Biographia (1780). There is more than one instance of <mask>'s generosity to his friends. In 1763 he found his friend Robert Lloyd in prison for debt. He paid a guinea a week for his better maintenance in the Fleet, and raised a subscription to set him free. Lloyd fell ill on receipt of the news of <mask>'s death, and died shortly afterwards. <mask>'s sister Patty, who was engaged to Lloyd, did not long survive them. William Cowper was his schoolfellow, and left many kindly references to him.A partial collection of <mask>'s poems appeared in 1763. References

Sources
 The Poetical Works of <mask>. Edited with an introduction and notes by Douglas Grant. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957. External links
WMF project links

Works
 <mask> at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)

"The Dedication to the Sermons" A commentary by John Fraser. "<mask>: poet, rake, and rebel" by Wallace Cable Brown (University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1953). 240-page, illustrated biography.Open access full-text PDF file available from the University of Kansas. <mask> at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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<mask> IV  (June 11, 1956 – June 30, 2015) was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator. In February 2004, <mask> was appointed to replace Hugh Scott as the Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, one of Canada's largest academic health centres. He left that position in December 2011. <mask> also served as chair of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee, which reviews the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency. He was appointed to that committee by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 3, 2008, and along with that appointment, was made a privy councillor. On May 27, 2013, <mask> was arrested in Panama on fraud charges, which alleged that he took part in a $22.5 million kick-back scheme related to the construction of McGill University Health Centre's new $1.3 billion hospital. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called it the biggest fraud investigation in Canadian history.<mask> denied any wrongdoing. <mask> composed his memoirs, The Man Behind the Bow Tie: <mask> on Business, Politics and Intrigue, with writer and biographer T. R. Todd, and the book was released on September 12, 2014. The book has been optioned for television and movie rights. <mask> died just before midnight on June 30, 2015, at a cancer hospital in Panama. His death was announced on July 1, 2015. Early life and education

<mask> was born in Sierra Leone. He held both Canadian and American citizenship.He was married to Pamela Mattock <mask> and had four children. His mother was Danish. His father, <mask> III, spearheaded the expansion of the University of Nairobi in Kenya during the years when Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta was in power. <mask> received his early education in Sierra

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 Leone and Kenya. After attending the University of Sierra Leone, he studied in England at the University of Cambridge, including its School of Clinical Medicine. <mask> earned his M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee and certificates in medical management from Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He also studied at Western University in London, Ontario.He was bestowed a Fellowship and Diplomate status in Healthcare Administration from the American Academy of Medical Administrators. Initial career

Following his training in medical and radiation oncology, <mask> assumed several senior positions in Canada, including that of senior specialist at the University of Alberta, Chief of Radiation Oncology at the London Regional Cancer Centre (University of Western Ontario), and Chairman of Oncology at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. In 1991, he was appointed Radiation Oncologist-in-chief, professor and chairman of the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University. During the subsequent five years, <mask> accepted several other concurrent positions, including Director of Clinical Care at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and associate dean at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He also founded a cancer clinic in Nassau, in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, known as the Cancer Centre. In 1999, <mask> was named CEO of the Detroit Medical Center, a US$1.6 billion health system, which is one of the United States' largest urban health systems and the biggest non-government employer in Detroit. He resigned from this position in 2003.In 2001, <mask> was appointed to the presidential commission charged with reviewing the health care provided by the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration. In August 2002, Michigan Governor John Engler

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 appointed <mask> to a four-year term as chairman of Michigan's Hospital Commission. McGill University Health Centre

In February 2004, <mask> was appointed as the Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, despite warnings given to McGill University's recruiters in 2003 by the former dean of Wayne State University School of Medicine, John Crissman, as well as articles in the Detroit Free Press revealing his involvement in multiple side businesses. The McGill University Health Centre is one of Canada's largest academic health centres and was engaged in a multibillion-dollar redevelopment project at the time. On February 12, 2008, <mask>, as Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre, announced the launch of the Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation website. <mask> completed his second term in December 2011, having handed the academic health centre the largest grant to a single institution from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (nearly $100 million). This was matched by the Quebec government and supported by donors to bring research funding up to $250 million.Other professional activities

<mask> was once president of the American Brachytherapy Society, the American College of Oncology Administrators, the American Cancer Society (Great Lakes); and the American College of Radiation Oncology. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiation Oncology and on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute (USA). Between 2006 and 2008, <mask> served on the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), which oversees government funding for health-related research in Canada. Related to <mask> in the

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 Canadian Institutes of Health Research were Michael Fortier, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Tony Clement, the Minister of Health. In 2008, <mask> became a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada when Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed him to Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC). After <mask> resigned as chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in November 2011, he was subsequently succeeded as chair of the committee by Chuck Strahl. In 2011, <mask> obtained a St Kitts and Nevis diplomatic passport delivered by the prime minister, Denzil Douglas.<mask> was in charge of developing cancer treatment facilities on the island. Controversy and allegations

After the National Post published revelations about his business dealings with international lobbyists and close ties to the president of Sierra Leone, <mask> resigned as chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in November 2011, three months before the end of his contract. <mask>'s questionable business dealings and foreign connections included his relationship with Ari Ben-Menashe, a Montreal-based businessman and an ex-Israeli international lobbyist and arms dealer, who was arrested and charged in the United States for illegally attempting to sell military transport airplanes to Iran. Among the suspicious activities reported by the National Post were revelations that <mask> had received $22.5 million in consulting fees from SNC-Lavalin prior to awarding the firm a $1.3 billion contract related to the construction of the McGill University Health Centre. These dealings were found to be in violation of the Quebec Health Act, and along with the emergence of other questionable business activities, led to calls for his resignation. The


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texts: hospital's board of directors initially came out in support of <mask>, but he voluntarily resigned on December 5, 2011 in light of mounting media and public pressure. In November 2012, McGill University filed a lawsuit seeking repayment of $317,154 which he owed the university.The lawsuit indicated that <mask> responded to a letter of October 2012 (demanding payment of the outstanding amount within one week) only with a three-line email, and that they had not heard from him since then. Following the controversy over the unpaid loans, McGill University described <mask> as "of unknown address", with McGill's suit indicating that he gave his current addresses as post office boxes in the Bahamas and in Sierra Leone. Further investigation of the case by the Charbonneau Commission on corruption in the Quebec construction industry resulted in allegations of involvement with SNC Lavilin and health centre employees in fraud and forgery. The investigators then issued a warrant for <mask>'s arrest on February 27, 2013 on charges of fraud, conspiracy, breach of trust, taking secret commissions, and money laundering. <mask> had by that point left Canada, and was apprehended by INTERPOL agents with his wife in Panama, where he remained imprisoned awaiting extradition to Canada. The National Post reported in November 2012 that <mask> was receiving treatment for a "self-diagnosed" cancer in the cancer centre that he had established in the Bahamas and of which he was the managing director. It also gave a link to a story in the Turks and Caicos Magazine, which refers to his establishing cancer centres both in the Turks and Caicos and Bahamas in conjunction with his long-time friend and business partner Karol Sikora, who is Director of Medical Oncology at the Bahamas Cancer

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 Centre, in addition to their mutual cancer-business interests in the British Isles.Criminal charges and arrest

On 27 February 2013, an arrest warrant was issued in relation to the McGill University Health Centre scandal. <mask> and his wife, Pamela Mattock <mask>, were detained by Interpol agents in Panama on May 27, 2013, after an investigation by the Sûreté du Québec, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). He faced charges in Canada of fraud, conspiracy to commit government fraud, abuse of trust, secret commissions and laundering the proceeds of a crime. <mask>'s wife faced charges of laundering the proceeds of a crime and for conspiracy. The fraud against the Québec government related to his alleged role in the awarding of the $1.3-billion Montreal hospital construction and maintenance contract to SNC Lavalin. The contract was awarded to SNC-Lavalin, the engineering giant deeply involved in the Québec corruption scandal. At the time of the alleged fraud, from 2008 to 2011, <mask> was the CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, being in charge of one of Canada's largest health-care providers.He was appointed to that position in 2004. He was also a member of Air Canada's board of directors. Extradition proceedings

<mask> and his wife (Mattock) opposed extradition from Panama to Canada. <mask> was claiming diplomatic immunity on the basis that he was travelling via Panama on a diplomatic mission to Antigua and Barbuda, on behalf of the government of Sierra Leone, according to his lawyer Ricardo Bilonick Paredes (formerly known as Ricardo Bilonick), a convicted drug smuggler with ties to Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega and Colombian cartels. However, the Sierra Leone


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texts: government said that he was a goodwill ambassador and thus had no diplomatic immunity. On June 4, 2015, while <mask> was still in La Joya jail fighting extradition to Canada, he set up a company, BQ Holding with the help of his lawyer, Ricardo Bilonick Paredes, who was listed as president. Bilonick Paredes passed millions of dollars in bribes to deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega in the 1980s in exchange for the ability to fly planes packed with tons of cocaine from Panama to the United States.Bilonick netted $47 million for providing drug smuggling and money laundering services over a four-year period. More than a year after his arrest, while still in prison, <mask> filed a $150 million lawsuit against the Republic of Panama, claiming damages incurred from his arrest and imprisonment in the country. That suit cited Panamanian Law 2502, which states that if a person being sought for extradition does not face a hearing within 60 days of their detention, they are to be freed. He also complained to the United Nations that his human rights had been violated. In August 2013, Mattock was extradited to Canada. She posted a $250,000 bail in Montreal. Under her bail conditions, she was restricted from leaving Quebec and having any contact with her husband.Mattock turned herself in to police in September 2014 on charges of using the proceeds of crime to achieve her $250,000 bail. She decided not to re-post bail in the hopes of receiving a quicker trial date. On December 18, 2014, Mattock pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering and received a 33-month sentence, less time served. As a result of this plea, she will not have to serve time in a federal penitentiary, and she will likely be released in 2015. On January 17, 2015, it was announced that Canada and

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 Panama had come to an agreement on <mask>'s extradition. However, no date was set. After <mask>'s death in June 2015, lingering questions remained about the Canadian government's genuine willingness to bring <mask> back to face the charges.An article by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, on July 2, 2015, noted that Panama ignored its own extradition laws, and Canada did not press to have his case handled quickly. The case has sparked questions as to what secrets <mask> may have taken to his grave. Writings and film

<mask> wrote a memoir with Canadian biographer T. R. Todd about his rise and fall, entitled The Man Behind the Bow Tie: <mask> on Business, Politics and Intrigue. It was published by Figure 1 Publishing in September 2014 and distributed by Raincoast Books. On 8 July 2014, Quill & Quire announced that <mask>'s memoir was optioned for film and television by a Montreal-based production company. Illness and death

<mask> diagnosed himself with cancer at his clinic in the Bahamas in December 2012. Despite a prognosis of around six to eight months, he fought lung cancer, which spread to his bones and liver, for two-and-a-half years.<mask> was aided by his expertise as an oncologist and access to cutting-edge drugs due to his connections in the medical world. Approximately two of those years were spent in La Joya prison, where <mask> had drugs smuggled into the prison. He also self-medicated with an oxygen tank and other medical supplies. Six weeks before his death, <mask> was transferred to the Panama National Cancer Centre. He died there while still in Panamanian custody on June 30, 2015. His death was first announced by his doctors, his family and his biographer. <mask>'s death was widely covered by the media in Canada and the United States, and it

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 brought to an end speculation that he faked his illness.Even after the announcement, skepticism remained as to whether he was actually dead. Despite his position as a privy councillor, the Canadian Prime Minister's Office did not issue a comment on his death and refused to lower the flag on Parliament Hill. On July 2, 2015, Quebec's anti-corruption squad (UPAC) sent two investigators to Panama to view the body. Five days later, the squad was granted access to the Panama City Morgue and viewed the body. It also conducted finger printing and DNA testing. He was declared officially dead on July 7, 2015. In his memoir, he expressed a desire to be buried in Sierra Leone, although no funeral plans were publicly announced by the family.References

External links
 <mask> on LinkedIn

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<mask> (June 8, 1799 – August 17, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury, during President Zachary Taylor's Administration. Early and family life
Born on June 8, 1799 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, <mask> was the eldest son of <mask> (d. 1844), a successful attorney and after 1814 president of Schuylkill Bank, who narrowly lost to Nicholas Biddle the presidency of the Bank of the United States. During the year he was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, 1795, <mask> married the writer and poet <mask> (née Ogden) (d.1828). Gertrude was the niece of <mask>, as well as of Gouverneur <mask>, and highly educated and respected in her own right, as well as published in Dennie's Port Folio. The couple ultimately had eleven children. <mask> served on the Philadelphia Common and Select Councils, and on the Vestry of Christ Episcopal Church, among other leadership positions in the city.His brother <mask> (d. 1872) was a leader of the Bar in Baltimore, Maryland. <mask><mask> graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1812 (graduation at age 13 not being unusual at the time). After assisting his father in the family's saddlery business, he read law, and was himself admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. After his mother's death in 1828, <mask> <mask> helped raise his younger siblings. On June 17, 1834, at the age of 35 and after a ten-year engagement, <mask> married the former Catherine Keppele (d. 1854). They had one son (<mask>, b. 1838, later a published essayist and poet) and four daughters: Gertrude Gouverneur <mask>, Euphemia <mask>, Elizabeth Caldwell <mask>, Catherine Keppele <mask>.<mask> also helped care for her husband's siblings, and his father when he was disabled by a stroke in 1839. <mask> was admitted to the bar in 1817, and began practicing law. He drew considerable public attention,

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texts: as did his slightly senior colleague James C. Biddle (later his brother-in-law), by questioning the conduct of Judge Frank Hallowell in Commonwealth v. Cook, a murder case in which three black men were charged with killing a boy. During the jury's deliberation, the American Daily Advertiser published an article which defense counsel thought highly biased. The judge allowed counsel to question jurors as to whether they read the article, and when the judge refused to dismiss a juror who said he was offended by <mask>'s questioning, complained such that the judge held both lawyers in contempt of court and ordered them jailed for 30 days, despite considerable public sympathy. Upon their release, they secured release of two of the prisoners in an appeal on double jeopardy grounds. This gained <mask> a reputation for fearlessness and inflexible honesty, and he was elected President of the Philadelphia Bar Association the following year.A Federalist, <mask> was then elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, where he served in the minority for five years, from 1824 to 1828, the year of his mother's death (during which his father was grief-stricken and never fully recovered). One of his accomplishments was establishment of a House of Refuge for juvenile offenders, and he served as that institution's manager, and also on the board of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, in which capacity he continued to serve for many years until his death. <mask> was president of the Philadelphia City Council from 1834 until 1849, and was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1837. That same year, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. <mask> also served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1845. During that time, he prosecuted Alexander Holmes for manslaughter in the <mask> case. A successful

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 attorney, particularly after he secured termination of the German Lutheran Church's interment rights in Franklin Square in Commonwealth v. Allmyer, <mask> owned the Wheatland Estate in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from May 1845 until December 1848 before selling it to future President James Buchanan.President Zachary Taylor, wanting a Pennsylvania Whig for his cabinet, appointed <mask><mask> to be the 19th Secretary of the Treasury. He began his term in office on March 8, 1849. <mask> strongly opposed the free trade legislation passed the year before under his predecessor Robert J. Walker. He felt that there was a need to protect the American workman, who was subject to competition from poorly paid European labor. <mask>'s principal contribution in office was his Annual Report of 1849 in which he set forth an elaborate argument for a protective tariff. The increase in the public debt due to the Mexican–American War and the acquisition of California gave <mask> additional argument for raising revenue through higher import duties, but no action was taken on the tariff during <mask>'s term. He also recommended a revision of the Coast Survey Code, which had not been changed since its implementation in 1806.The Coast Survey had seen great expansion and improvement with the introduction of steam powered ships and was in need of revision. <mask> resigned from his office as Secretary of the Treasury, upon President Taylor's death in 1850. Civil War and later legal career
<mask> was elected Pennsylvania's attorney general in the 1860 election, and served for two terms (from 1861 until 1867). In 1861, as a delegate to a Peace Conference, he worked unsuccessfully to prevent the southern states from seceding from the Union. His brother Sullivan Amory <mask> had served in the Mexican War, and became a Brigadier General of Union Volunteers, commissioned in 1862, and the brothers helped assure

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title: William M. Meredith

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 Pennsylvania met its quota of troops. His son <mask> served for a brief period as secretary to Major General George A<mask>, but his stutter and problems with cataracts caused him to resign that position. <mask> later served as a member of a commission working out the settlement of the Alabama claims, in 1870.The following year, President Ulysses Grant asked <mask> to travel to Geneva as senior counsel for the United States in an international arbitration proceeding, but he declined the position due to ill health. His last political post was as President of the 1872 Republican National Convention. Death and legacy
<mask> died in Philadelphia in August 1873, at the age of 74. His wife, Catherine had died in 1854. Both are interred at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania holds the <mask> family papers. A Philadelphia school was named in his honor in 1931, and remains active today.<mask> received one of only two 1849 Double Eagles while serving as Treasury Secretary. That 1849 Double Eagle is a pattern coin. The other coin is on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The coin was auctioned as part of his estate but its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. References

External links

 Biographical sketch of <mask> <mask>, The American Law Register, Vol. 55, No. 4, Apr 1907
 The Meredith Family Papers, including <mask><mask>'s political correspondence, civic papers and legal case files, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.1799 births
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title: Elijah D. Taft

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<mask> (1819-1915) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Pre-War

<mask> was born in Mamaroneck, New York April 28, 1819. He worked as a carpenter in Brooklyn, New York. <mask> entered a New York militia unit, rising to the rank of captain by the year 1855. In the same year <mask> stood for political office in Brooklyn. He was nominated by the Know Nothing Party for the state legislator. Later the Whig Party also nominated him.The New York Times compared him to a man given an elephant who does not know what to do with it. <mask> sought a commission with William Walker, the filibuster president of Nicaragua ca. 1856, citing his 15 years of militia experience. War Service

The 5th New York Independent Light Artillery was organized in Brooklyn, New York on August 15, 1861. <mask> was commissioned its commander as a captain later in the year. The battery was intended to serve with the Excelsior Brigade on BG Daniel Sickles. The 5th New York Battery sometimes was called the First Excelsior Light Artillery.The 5th New York was mustered into the federal service on November 8, 1861. It departed for Washington, D. C. eight days later and stayed there, encamped near the Capitol, until March 1862. Then the gunners left for the Peninsula Campaign of MG George B. McClellan. It was assigned to the Reserve Artillery of the Army of the Potomac under Col Henry J. Hunt. The battery's equipment not having arrived, <mask>, his officers and men served with other batteries at the Battle of Yorktown,

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texts: the Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days Battles. The 5th New York sailed from Harrison's Landing on August 9, 1862, arriving at Falmouth, Virginia.Fully equipped, the battery joined the Reserve Artillery attached to V Corps under Col William Hays,  The battery was engaged at the Battle of Antietam, firing from two different positions against Confederate guns on the other side of Antietam Creek, one near the Middle Bridge and one farther to the left. <mask>'s battery next served in the Reserve Artillery under Col Hays at the Battle of Fredericksburg. It was one of the batteries lined up overlooking the Rappahannock River to support the federal army's crossing of the river. In the Chancellorsville campaign he served under Cpt William M. Graham and BG Robert O. Tyler. In May 1863 his battery fired across the river not far from where it was positioned in December to cover the crossing of VI Corps at the beginning of the Second Battle of Fredericksburg. After Chancellorsville, the Reserve Artillery was reorganized into brigades. <mask> was assigned command of the Second Volunteers brigade, composed of four batteries: 1st Connecticut Heavy, Battery B: Capt Albert F. Brooker; 1st Connecticut Heavy, Battery M: Capt Franklin A. Pratt; 2nd Connecticut Light Battery: Capt John W. Sterling; 5th New York Independent Battery under <mask>.During the Gettysburg Campaign, two batteries were left in the rear areas of the army. The other two, led by Capt <mask>, arrived on the Gettysburg battlefield. At the Battle of

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texts: Gettysburg, <mask>'s batteries arrived on July 2 about 10:30 A.M. and were held in reserve until they moved into position. The 5th New York was sent to the Evergreen Cemetery at about 3.30 P.M. This was part of Gen Hunt's effort to cover all Confederate angles of approach to Cemetery Hill. The guns were engaged from 4:00 P.M. until dark. Four guns of the battery were south of the Baltimore Pike firing at Confederate batteries on Benner's Hill.Two guns fired westward. The battery remained in place on the morning of July 3. One gun on Baltimore Pike burst, but the other three relieved the section firing westward against the Confederate guns on Seminary Ridge. They remained in that position until the close of the battle. The 5th New York lost 1 man killed and 2 wounded. The battery's monument stands in the Gettysburg National Cemetery. The 2nd Connecticut Battery under Capt.John W. Sterling reinforced the III Corps line until late in the day on July 2. Later it retired and on July 3 formed line under Ltc Freeman McGilvery on the left of II Corps on Cemetery Ridge. After Gettysburg, <mask> command his reserve artillery brigade in the Bristoe Campaign and at the Battle of Mine Run. At the beginning of the Overland Campaign of 1864, Maj John A. Tompkins took command of the brigade, and consequently <mask> resumed command of his battery. The battery participated in the Battle of the Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvania in the Reserve Artillery, but it was assigned to V Corps at the Battle of Cold Harbor. The 5th

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 New York was sent to the defenses of Washington on May 19, 1864. It was in XXII Corps in July 1864; and in the artillery brigade of VI Corps in August.Next <mask> was sent with his guns to serve in the Army of the Shenandoah under MG Philip H. Sheridan. In the Valley Campaigns of 1864, <mask>'s battery was assigned to XIX Corps. He commanded the Artillery Reserve of the corps at the Third Battle of Winchester and the Battle of Fisher's Hill. When Maj Albert W. Bradbury took command of the Reserve, <mask> resumed command of his battery, which was assigned to the first division of the corps. The battery fought at the Battle of Cedar Creek under Capt <mask>. Thereafter the battery remained, with <mask> as commander, in the Department of West Virginia. The 5th New York was mustered out of service at Hart's Island near New York City on July 16, 1865.<mask> received brevet rank of major to date from March 13, 1865. Post-War

<mask> filed for a pension in 1886. Nothing is recorded about his wife and children, but he died at the home of his grandson Edgar G<mask> at Freeport on Long Island on March 2, 1915. Notes

References
 Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 6 vols., Albany, J.B. Lyon company, state printers, 1912. <mask>, Brian, Battery Commander <mask>, Behind AotW (blog), Dec 12, 2007,

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title: Blues Saraceno

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<mask> (born October 17, 1971) is an American rock guitarist, composer and music producer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He was discovered by Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine at the age of 16, which assisted him in releasing instrumental recordings on an independent basis. <mask>'s high profile as a gifted guitar virtuoso and musician opened the doors to an early career as a first-call guitar sideman and session musician. <mask> is most often recognized from his time playing with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker (Cream) as well as his brief tenure with the rock band Poison. <mask>'s early success in the music industry would eventually blossom into a career in producing and composing for television and film. Early life and career
<mask> was born to musician parents, who introduced him at an early age to several musical instruments. He started to play guitar at the age of nine.When he was thirteen, he broke his elbow when he fell from a go-kart and asked the doctor to position the cast in a way that allowed him to remove it from his sling to practice guitar during his recovery. When he was nineteen, <mask> moved to Los Angeles to seek a career in music. Career
When <mask> was still a teenager, his manager sent a demo tape to singer Michael Bolton, who decided to enlist him to play on a song for Cher's album, Heart of Stone. The album also featured musicians like Peter Cetera, Bonnie Tyler, Desmond Child, and others. His demo tape then reached the Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. The

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texts: magazine, which was about to launch a new record label, offered Saraceno a record deal. Saraceno released his first album titled Never Look Back in 1989.<mask> won an audition with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, former members of Cream, and started touring with them. After two successful US tours, Saraceno was sometimes referred to as the "kid that replaced Eric Clapton". After another year of overseas touring, Baker departed and was replaced by Simon Phillips (Who, Toto) and eventually Gary Husband (Level 42). Saraceno released two other solo albums (Plaid and Hairpick) as well as furthering his reputation as a top call session guitarist and landing many high-profile equipment endorsements. In 1993, Saraceno joined the band Poison as lead guitarist and songwriter after Richie Kotzen was fired. After a South American tour which included the famous Hollywood rock festival in Brazil, Saraceno recorded the album Crack a Smile with the band. However, Capitol Records decided to shelve the album, releasing the 1996 compilation album, Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996, instead.Still, the album featured two of the new songs recorded with Saraceno. After some time, <mask> left the group amicably and was replaced by one of the band's former guitarists, C.C. DeVille. In 2000, Capitol finally decided to release the Crack a Smile album under the name Crack a Smile... and More!. The album features fifteen tracks recorded by Saraceno. After his departure from Poison, Saraceno met the vice-president of Advertising of Fox

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texts: Television, who was a fan of Saraceno's earlier instrumental work. This resulted in Saraceno working on soundtracks and songs for several television shows and films.In 2000, <mask> founded the band, Transmission OK. <mask> also worked as record producer for the band, which was signed to Beyond Records, and was distributed by BMG. After a brief US tour, and lackluster support from the label, the group disbanded and Saraceno continued to work on television and film, as well as his session work. <mask>'s has done session work with everyone from Ziggy Marley (Dragonfly) to Melissa Etheridge (Lucky), earning him a reputation for being a "go-to guy" for many of Los Angeles' top record producers and engineers. Saraceno has also produced for artists including Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-0, Oceans 11), Eric Balfour (24, Haven, Chainsaw Massacre) of Fredalba, Lindsay Price (Beverly Hills 90210, Lipstick Jungle) and Anthony Michael Hall (Dead Zone). Saraceno's greatest success has come in the field of television and film. His television work credits include WWE, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Disney, Discovery, UPN, MTV, MTV 2, VH1, USA, TLC, Comedy Central, Telemundo, SCI FI, SPIKE, E! and BRAVO.A more detailed list can be found on his website (www.bluessaraceno.com). He has commented on how it is not uncommon to have several commercials running in different countries throughout the world, all at the same time, using the same piece of music. Saraceno did three tracks for Megas XLR. These tracks were Blood Shot, Berzerker and Ro-Sham-Bo.

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texts: Saraceno's "Save My Soul" is the soundtrack for the History Channel's mini-series The Men Who Built America. <mask>'s "Evil Ways" song was also used in various videogames trailers such as God of War: Ascension, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, BioShock Infinite and Call of Duty: Black Ops IIs zombies mode map, Mob of the Dead and was also included in the soundtrack for a videogame Rebel Galaxy. In addition, the song was also utilized to promote AMC's 2013 Fear Fest and is also used as the main theme music in the History Channel's TV series, Biker Battleground Phoenix.TNA wrestler AJ Styles began using "Evil Ways" at TNA's Slammiversary pay-per-view on June 2, 2013, as his new theme song. It was also used in a WWE promo featuring The Undertaker vs. CM Punk WrestleMania XXIX match and another promo featuring The Wyatt Family in an episode of WWE SmackDown. It was also used during a promo for Kane, Ryback and Big Show vs. The Wyatt Family at WWE's Fastlane 2016 pay-per-view. German TV-Channel ProSieben and sister-channel ProSieben Maxx are using the song for almost every promo-clip for upcoming western-movies in their program. "Flesh It Out" was used as WWE rookie Seth Rollins' theme tune for the first year of his career on FCW and NXT. "Strident Missile" was used for Triple H's history of dominance promo for WrestleMania XXX.An instrumental version of the dubstep remix of "The River" was used for Emma's video packages leading up to her return at the post-Wrestlemania RAW in 2017. WWE also used his single "Bad Man" for


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 Jeff Jarrett's Hall of Fame video. Discography

Solo
Never Look Back (1989)
Plaid (1992)
Hairpick (1994)
The Best of Blues Saraceno (2000)
Dangerous (2016)
Dark Country 4
Blues, Electronic blues

CherHeart of Stone (1989)
Never Hold Us Down

Taylor DayneCan't Fight Fate (1989)

Kingdom ComeHands of Time (1991)

PoisonPoison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996 (1996)Crack a Smile... and More! His song "Dangerous" is featured in the episode Apex of the CBS Television series FBI.The Sound of NASCAR (2005) – <mask> also composed three songs for the EA Sports NASCAR Racing games. He penned the song "Save My Soul", which is the title theme for The Men Who Built America TV series. Several of his songs were in the soundtrack for the game, Rebel Galaxy. An instrumental portion of Saraceno's song, "Bad Man" is featured in a Sheriff Cali advertisement on the Disney Jr. Channel.His song "The River" is used in a preview for episode 905 of The Walking Dead. His song "If You Believe" was featured in the launch film for the Maserati Kubang concept car, which later became produced as the Maserati Levante for the 2017 model year. His song “Bong Squad” is heavily featured in the reveal trailer for the 5th main entry in the Call Of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: World at War''. The song has also been numerous times by WWE over the years. References

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title: Jabari Simama

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<mask> (born on March 6) is a retired educator and public official. <mask> served as President of Georgia Piedmont Technical College for 6 years. He also served as Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Development and Chief of Staff in DeKalb County government from 2009 to 2012. In 2001 he was the chief architect of a large municipal technology program to bridge the digital divide, the Atlanta Community Technology Initiative where thousands of citizens were taught how to use computers and the internet. <mask> also organized broadband in cities' and towns' summits from 2006 to 2009 in Columbia, South Carolina which explored how broadband technology can serve un-served rural and urban communities. Featured in John Barber's book The Black Digital Elite: African American Leaders of the Information Revolution, published by Praeger Publishers, <mask> is also the author of Civil Rights to Cyber Rights: Broadband & Digital Equality in the Age of Obama, published in July, 2009. Education
<mask> graduated from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri.He attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. He received his BA degree from the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut, his MA degree from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his Ph.D.from Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Career
<mask> began his career as a college professor at Atlanta Junior College (currently, Atlanta Metropolitan College). He then moved to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio where he taught in the African American Studies Department and became the editor of Studia Africana. In 1979 he took an appointment as an Associate Professor of English at Morgan State University. He returned to Atlanta in 1980. He became the first general manager of the Public-access television program in Atlanta, sponsored by the cable operator, then Cable Atlanta.Through the program five neighborhood-based studios were opened to teach Atlanta citizens television production skills. At the end of 1986, <mask> left the cable company and ran for elected office for the Atlanta City Council. In 1987, he won and became the first African American elected

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texts: in the South with an African name. He served two terms as the District 3 council member, before embarking on an unsuccessful campaign for council president. In 1994 he became a columnist for Creative Loafing (Atlanta), and as co-author of a series of articles entitled "Outside the Fences" in 1996 he won third place for the Alternative Newsweeklies Association (AAN). He published the weekly column until 1998. During this same period he was a visiting professor in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology.He taught a course on Race and New Media and conducted research, which was featured in John Barber’s book, The Information Society and the Black Community. He returned to the City of Atlanta in 1998 in the position of Director of Communications where he was responsible for all communications and marketing for the city. During his tenure as Director of Communications, he negotiated an 8 million dollar deal with AT&T and Media One to fund a citywide program designed to bridge the digital divide. The City Cyber Program included multiple sites such as recreation centers, libraries, one historical black college, and a cyber bus that brought mobile broadband technology directly to local communities. In 2003, the cyber bus became the operations center for a forum sponsored for U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. In 2005, <mask> left government and returned to education as Vice President for Community Development and External Affairs and Executive Assistant to the President at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. There <mask> continued his work in community technology, sponsoring four annual summits on Broadband in Cities and Towns.The summits attracted participants from around the country and focused on the idea of expanding broadband to unserved and under-served communities. In June 2009, <mask> returned to Atlanta and began working as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Development for DeKalb County and Chief of Staff, the third largest county in Georgia. where he remained until August, 2012. A report of

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 investigation by the DeKalb District Attorney's Office into the county's administration produced indictments against county CEO Burrell Ellis, and accused <mask>, as chief of staff under Ellis, of manipulating committees that award contracts. The report recommended a criminal investigation into possible bid-rigging. <mask> faced possible appeals or ongoing litigation as a result of the probe. no charges were filed against <mask>.<mask> served as president of Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) starting 2012. He was the first black president for the college that had an 78% black student population. In 2018, the college was investigated by the U.S. Department of Education regarding management of its finances, placing the college under "Heightened Cash Monitoring 2" status. As a result of the investigation, GPTC dismissed <mask> and placed four other administrators on leave. <mask> denied he was removed from his position with the college, and said at the time he was retiring. <mask> also defended his tenure as President of GPTC, citing his positive performance evaluations, including regarding fiscal management, and citing having received a merit increase for the year prior to his departure. In 2019, <mask> was one of nine candidates vying in a special general election for Atlanta's District 3 seat on the city council.<mask> placed fifth, receiving 9.9% of the votes, compared to the top two candidates Antonio Brown and Byron Amos, who received 19.3% and 23.4% respectively, who went on to the general runoff election for the council seat. <mask> is a consultant, senior fellow with Government Technology, education and government columnist for Governing Magazine, and writes a weekly blog on issues of politics, culture and maleness. Works

Civil Rights to Cyber Rights: Broadband & Digital Equality in the Age of Obama, (2009)
The Information Society and the Black Community, "Race, Politics, and Pedagogy of New Media: From Civil Rights to Cyber Rights" ed. John Barber, 2001

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title: Orodes II

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<mask> II (also spelled Urud II;  Wērōd), was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 57 BC to 37 BC. He was a son of <mask>, whom he murdered in 57 BC, assisted by his elder brother Mithridates IV. The two brothers quickly fell out and entered into a dynastic struggle, in which <mask> was triumphant. Meanwhile, the Roman general and triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus had made an attempt to extend his share of Roman territory by eastward conquest. This attempt proved disastrous, with Crassus meeting his end in 53 BC, in the Battle of Carrhae, by <mask>' general Surena. <mask> himself had invaded Armenia and forced king <mask> () to submit and abandon his alliance with the Romans. The victory at Carrhae secured for the Parthians the countries east of the Euphrates.Then, the next year they invaded Syria, but with little success. Surena, whose achievements had made him too dangerous, was killed by Orodes, and Pacorus I, the son and heir of the king was defeated by Cassius in 51 BC. During the Roman Republican civil wars, the Parthians sided first with Pompey and then with Brutus and Cassius, but took no action until 40 BC, when Pacorus, assisted by the Roman deserter Quintus Labienus, conquered a great part of Syria and Asia Minor, but was defeated and killed by Ventidius in 38 BC. <mask>, who was deeply afflicted by the death of his favourite son, relinquished the throne to his son Phraates IV, and died soon afterward. Name
Orōdēs () is the Greek version of the Middle Iranian Wērōd/Urūd (). The etymology of the name is disputed. The Modern Persian version is Viru ().Background
<mask> was born in the 70s BC, if not earlier. He was a son of Phraates III (), who was a son of Sinatruces (), himself

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 presumably a son of the Parthian ruler Mithridates I (). The name of the Arsacid branch established by Sinatruces on the Parthian throne has been coined by the modern historian Marek Jan Olbrycht as the "Sinatrucids", which ruled the Parthian Empire from 78/77 BC until 12 AD. During his father's reign, Orodes seemingly enjoyed close connections with the eastern part of the Parthian realm, specifically with the House of Suren, and possibly also with the Indo-Scythians. He seemingly married (possibly even before enthronement) an Indo-Scythian princess, who bore Phraates (Phraates IV). <mask>' eldest son Pacorus (Pacorus I) was also seemingly the result of a union with a princess from the peripheries of eastern Parthia. Struggle for the Parthian throne

In 57 BC, <mask> and his elder brother Mithridates IV murdered Phraates III.Mithridates IV was at first supported by <mask>, however, this was short-lived. The two brothers quickly fell out, and <mask> revolted with the support of the Suren clan, as well as probably the Scythians of Sakastan. They both assumed the title of King of Kings to demonstrate their claims of superiority over each other. This changed the meaning of the title; originally being used as a symbol of political dominance over other realms, the title became known as a symbol of power and legitimacy for contenders in a royal family. Mithridates IV was forced to flee to Roman Syria. He took refuge with Aulus Gabinius, the Roman proconsul and governor of Syria. Mithridates IV then returned to invade Parthia with Gabinius in support.The Roman proconsul marched with Mithridates IV to the Euphrates, but turned back to restore another ruler, <mask> Auletes of Egypt, to his throne.

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 Despite losing his Roman support, Mithridates IV advanced into Mesopotamia and managed to conquer Babylonia. He ousted <mask> and briefly restored his reign as king in 55 BC, minting coins in Seleucia until 54 BC. However, king Mithridates IV was besieged by <mask>' Surenid general, Surena, in Seleucia, and after a prolonged resistance, offered battle to <mask>' forces and was defeated. Mithridates IV was afterwards executed in 54 BC by Orodes. Orodes was crowned by Surena, as was the hereditary right of his clan. War with Crassus

Around the same time, Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the Roman triumvirs, who was now proconsul of Syria, had been preparing to invade the Parthian realm in belated support of Mithridates IV.<mask>' emissaries had initially attempted to convince Crassus to abandon his expedition, which the latter replied by saying he would give an answer in Seleucia. The eldest Parthian emissary, Vagises, showed the palm of his hand, stating "Hair will grow here before you see Seleucia." The Artaxiad king of Armenia, Artavasdes II (), who was an ally of Rome, advised Crassus to take a route through Armenia to avoid the desert and offered him reinforcements of a further 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. His reasoning was that the Parthian cavalry would be less potent in the Armenian highlands. Crassus refused the offer and decided to take the direct route through Mesopotamia. As Crassus' army marched to Carrhae (modern Harran, southeastern Turkey), Orodes invaded Armenia, cutting off support from Artavasdes. Orodes persuaded Artavasdes to a marriage alliance between the crown prince Pacorus I (d. 38 BC) and Artavasdes' sister.<mask> also made an alliance with the Commagenian king

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texts: Antiochus I (), which was cemented with <mask>' marriage to Antiochus' daughter, Laodice. Surena, with an army entirely on horseback, rode to meet Crassus. Surena's 1,000 cataphracts (armed with lances) and 9,000 horse archers were outnumbered roughly four to one by Crassus' army, comprising seven Roman legions and auxiliaries including mounted Gauls and light infantry. Using a baggage train of about 1,000 camels, the Parthian army provided the horse archers with a constant supplies of arrows. The horse archers employed the "Parthian shot" tactic: feigning retreat to draw enemy out, then turning and shooting at them when exposed. This tactic, executed with heavy composite bows on the flat plain, devastated Crassus' infantry. With some 20,000 Romans dead, approximately 10,000 captured, and roughly another 10,000 escaping west, Crassus fled into the Armenian countryside.At the head of his army, Surena approached Crassus, offering a parley, which Crassus accepted. However, he was killed when one of his junior officers, suspecting a trap, attempted to stop him from riding into Surena's camp. After his death, the Parthians allegedly poured molten gold down his throat, in a symbolic gesture mocking Crassus' renowned greed. Crassus' defeat at Carrhae was one of the worst military defeats in Roman history. Parthia's victory cemented its reputation as a formidable if not equal power with Rome. While <mask> and Artavasdes were observing a play of The Bacchae of Euripides (c. 480–406 BC) at the Armenian court in honor of the wedding of Pacorus and Artavasdes' sister, the Parthian commander Silaces announced the news of the victory at Carrhae, and put the head of Crassus at Orodes' feet. The head was given

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 to the producer of the play, who decided to use Crassus' actual severed head in place of the stage-prop head of Pentheus.With his camp followers, war captives, and precious Roman booty, Surena traveled some 700 km (430 mi) back to Seleucia, where his victory was celebrated. However, fearing his ambitions for the Arsacid throne, Orodes had Surena executed shortly thereafter. Although <mask> fell out with the Suren clan, he still preserved close connections in the east, such as the Indo-Scythian king Azes I (). Parthian invasion of Asia Minor and the Levant

Emboldened by the victory over Crassus, the Parthians attempted to capture Roman-held territories in Western Asia. Crown prince Pacorus I and his commander Osaces raided Syria, going as far as Antioch in 51 BC, but were repulsed by Gaius Cassius Longinus, who ambushed and killed Osaces. Orodes sided with Pompey in the civil war against Julius Caesar and even sent troops to support the anti-Caesarian forces at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. Quintus Labienus, a general loyal to Cassius and Brutus, sided with Parthia against the Second Triumvirate in 40 BC; the following year he invaded Syria alongside Pacorus I.The triumvir Mark Antony was unable to lead the Roman defense against Parthia due to his departure to Italy, where he amassed his forces to confront his rival Octavian and eventually conducted negotiations with him at Brundisium. After Syria was occupied by Pacorus' army, Labienus split from the main Parthian force to invade Anatolia while Pacorus and his commander Barzapharnes invaded the Roman Levant. They subdued all settlements along the Mediterranean coast as far south as Ptolemais (modern Acre, Israel), with the lone exception


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 of Tyre. In Judea, the pro-Roman Jewish forces of high priest Hyrcanus <mask>, Phasael, and Herod were defeated by the Parthians and their Jewish ally Antigonus <mask> (r. 40–37 BC); the latter was made king of Judea while Herod fled to his fort at Masada. Despite these successes, the Parthians were soon driven out of the Levant by a Roman counteroffensive. Publius Ventidius Bassus, an officer under Mark Antony, defeated and then executed Labienus at the Battle of the Cilician Gates (in modern Mersin Province, Turkey) in 39 BC. Shortly afterward, a Parthian force in Syria led by general Pharnapates was defeated by Ventidius at the Battle of Amanus Pass.As a result, Pacorus I temporarily withdrew from Syria. When he returned in the spring of 38 BC, he faced Ventidius at the Battle of Mount Gindarus, northeast of Antioch. Pacorus was killed during the battle, and his forces retreated across the Euphrates. His death spurred a succession crisis in which <mask>, deeply afflicted by the death of his favourite son, relinquished the throne to his other son Phraates IV (r. c. 37–2 BC) as his new heir. Death
<mask>' cause of death is uncertain. According to Cassius Dio, he either died of grief due to Pacorus' death or as a result of old age. Plutarch, however, states that <mask> was murdered by Phraates IV.Fearing that his position might become endangered, Phraates IV executed all his half-brothers–the sons of <mask> and Laodice, partially due to their maternal descent being greater than that of his own. Laodice was probably killed as well. Coinage and titulage

Coinage under Orodes remained largely unchanged. The obverse of his coins portrays him with short hair and beard, along with a visible

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 moustache. According to the modern historian Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, the portrait greatly resembles the Shami statue, discovered in the Bakhtiari mountains in southwestern Iran; it is currently stored in the National Museum of Iran in Tehran. The reverse depict a seated archer wearing a soft cap (bashlyk) and sitting on a throne. Curtis notes its close resemblance to the thrones of the Achaemenid monarchs portrayed on the rock reliefs at Persepolis.Other reverse of his coins, however, depict an investiture scene, where Orodes is receiving a scepter by the Greek goddess Tyche. In the Parthian era, Iranians used Hellenistic iconography to portray their divine figures, thus the investiture scene can be associated with the Avestan khvarenah, i.e. kingly glory. According to the modern historian Khodadad Rezakhani, the introduction of this new portrayal may have been due to the enlargement of <mask>' authority after the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. Under <mask> and his son Phraates IV, the production of coins reached its zenith, with the only Parthian ruler having similar numbers being Mithridates II (). Like the rest of the Parthian kings, Orodes used the title of Arsaces on his coinage, which was the name of the first Parthian ruler Arsaces I (), which had become a royal honorific among the Parthian monarchs out of admiration for his achievements. Family tree

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References

Bibliography

Ancient works
Cassius Dio, Roman History
Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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<mask> (1921 in Pescara  - May 12, 2013) was an Italian resistant, journalist, photographer, writer and inventor. Early resistance and the war years
<mask> grew up in a working class district of Turin. His father, <mask>, was a sculptor, and his mother a homemaker. From his father and his teacher of Humanities, Gaudenzio Manfredi, he learned to question authority under Fascism. This landed him briefly in jail at age thirteen, his first political imprisonment. Growing up, he became attracted to the English language, Anglo American culture, and the international and liberal democratic vision they provided. A brief attendance at the University of Turin in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures was interrupted in 1940 by military draft into the cadet officers' course of the Alpini troops.There he was arrested on suspicion of having conspired against Fascism with some other students arrested in Turin<ref name=. <mask> was tried in the Tribunale Speciale per la Difesa dello Stato in Rome, and sentenced to two and a half years in the penitentiary of Forte Urbano, in the Emilia region. He was liberated after the fall of the Mussolini government, in the brief interregnum and political amnesty under General Badoglio. On September 8, 1943, the Italian army collapsed and Nazi forces occupied Italy. <mask> first joined a monarchist partisan formation in the Lanzo valley, west of Turin. Later, he worked with the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, guiding escaped Allied prisoners to neutral Switzerland. Caught with group of them at the railway station of Novara, he managed to escape, and eventually made his way to Switzerland and the refugee camp of Tramelan.Among his encounters there was Piero Chiara, later renowned as a writer, who was recruiting students for the

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 Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA. Escaping from the work camp, he returned to Italy. The first village he came to was in the mountains of Lake Como. There, under the nom de guerre  of Gigi, he founded a partisan formation with some local young men and Lombard students who refused to collaborate with the Nazi Occupation. Their activities consisted of raiding Fascist controlled barracks and warehouses, gathering and distributing information, and guiding fugitives from the Nazis to Switzerland. His new formation was part of the Garibaldi Brigades, under Communist control. In disagreement with his command on both political ideology and military strategy, <mask> resigned his command and returned to Switzerland.There he joined Giustizia e Libertà, a formation supported and armed by the OSS. Upon hearing the news that the Resistance had gained control of Milan, <mask> and his new partisan comrades immediately returned to Italy. Journalism
During his partisan activity on Lake Como, <mask> had befriended some Milanese refugees, who after the war introduced him to the writer Elio Vittorini. Under Vittorini's sponsorship, <mask> entered journalism. In 1949 he was given his dream job: correspondent from New York for the leading weekly journal l'Europeo, under the direction of Arrigo Benedetti. He remained in New York until his visa expired in 1951. <mask> then transferred to Montreal, working as a political commentator for the International Service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.<mask> finally returned to New York when his wife, illustrator and designer Luciana Amelotti <mask>, secured a residents' visa for the couple. After a period of free-lancing for a range of leading Italian journals including Il Mondo, a Rome-based political and

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 cultural weekly, L'Espresso, a Milanese weekly, and as a photographer for Epoca, an Italian version of Life magazine, <mask> was recommended by his erstwhile employer Benedetti to Gaetano Baldacci, director of the newly founded Milanese daily, Il Giorno. Il Giorno
Roselli's career as a correspondent, photographer and editorialist at Il Giorno spanned over three decades from 1956 to 1989. Responsible for the coverage of every aspect of the United States, from politics to culture, science, technology and life-style, he was a defining voice in Italy for such major events as the Cape Canaveral launchings, the Kennedy and King assassinations, Watergate, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the Reagan and Clinton years. His role models in journalism were the television newscaster David Brinkley, and  the columnist Walter Lippmann. When <mask> met the latter at a party in the 1970s,  they discussed the difficulty of giving truly novel news, as opposed to simply expected information. From the master, he learned the maxim: "You can only tell people real news if your readers know half of it already".Retirement and other activities
On his retirement from Il Giorno, <mask> moved to Southern California with his second wife, actress Elise Hunt, and became a US citizen in 1994. He continues to write fiction and non-fiction books, plays and stories, but his main interest has shifted to inventions in ecology and aviation. He earned a solo piloting license in 1970. He holds two patents on concepts in solar-powered flight and a design for a paraflier. Family life
<mask> was married to Luciana Amelotti <mask>, from Alessandria, Italy, from 1950 to their divorce in 1964. He has one daughter, Elisa, born in New York City in 1956. He married his second and current wife, Elise Hunt from

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 Milton, Massachusetts, in 1969.His sister, <mask> (b. 1930) is also a writer

Controversies and ideological positioning
Throughout his career, <mask> has been an advocate of Anglo-American style liberal democracy, although always aware of its defects and limitations. His war years left him with experience of authoritarian regimes of several political colors, and their methods and jargons. He kept aloof from the strongly left-wing doctrines of the Italian intelligentsia of the post-war period, identifying more with the youth, liberation and peace movements in the USA of the 60s and 70s. In the critical Presidential election of 1968, for example, he strongly supported the dovish Democratic candidate, Eugene McCarthy, who was the first politician to promote an end to US involvement in Viet Nam. Publications
In addition to his daily articles for Il Giorno, <mask> has published a children's book, The Cats of the Eiffel Tower, with illustrations by Laurent de Brunhoff (NY: Delacorte, 1967). It was a story he made up for his little daughter Elisa on their long drives while holidaying in France.His letters from prison during the war years form the core of a biographical work by his sister, <mask>: Mio Fratello Ando' in Galera (Edizioni L'Arciere Cuneo, 1990). <mask> filmed a documentary about Italian Americans that was aired on RAI TV in 1961, and was the  cinematographer for another documentary, Paese d'America (1959), on the same theme, made with film director Gian Luigi Polidoro, and shown at the Cannes festival. Notes

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<mask> ( born 7 June 1962) is a Lebanese singer, dancer, composer, television personality, and philanthropist. <mask> began his career in the 1980s when he appeared as a contestant on the talent show broadcast Studio El Fan, on which he received the Platinum Award. <mask>'s fame came after Studio El Fan followed by yearly albums and number-one hit singles such as "Ya rait", "'Aan Jad" (Seriously) and "Alby Asheq'ha" (My Heart Adores Her) which was the first Arabic song in history to be made into a music video. <mask> continued his success into the 2000s with the release of his chart-topping albums Saharony El Leil (2001), Tab Leh (2002), El Hob El Kebeer (2004) and Ba'asha'ak (2008), the latter which earned the artist the Platinum certification from Virgin Megastores for its record sales. One of his recent albums Seneen Rayha (2010) saw the artist team with Starbucks for its release and sale, making him the first Arab artist to have his album sold at Starbucks. The Starbucks album Starz Vol. 1 also included a song featuring international pop artist Shakira.He adopted an environmental cause with the album after being named the United Nations Ambassador of Climate Change. <mask> has won two Murex d'Or Awards and several other awards during his career. His albums have made him one of the most commercially successful singers in the Arab world. In mid-2011, it was announced that <mask> would head the judging panel for the pan-Arab version of the American Idol series. Early life
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 born into a Shia family, the son of Sobhi <mask> and Wafiqa <mask>. He has four brothers (Mohammad, Ahmad, Khoder and Hassan)  and three sisters (Sabiha, Rima, and Lina) - of which he is the middle child.His father named him after the first Lebanese judge, "<mask> Beik <mask>". At eight years old, <mask> took up playing the Oud and participated in a live radio program to showcase his talent. In 1996 <mask> married Jihan al-Ali, who gave birth to his two sons, Khaled (born 1998) and Louai (born 2001). <mask> also has a second cousin named Rola <mask>. Entertainment career

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2000–2006: Tab Leh and Hob El Kebeer
In 2000, <mask> recorded "Betgheeb Betrouh" with then-rising singer Elissa. In 2003, he released "Tab Leh" (Oh Why?) under the recording label Alam El Phan and the title track entered the number one spot for several weeks.He also featured famous Iranian-Armenian singer-songwriter Andy Madadian on a track titled "Yalla Ya Chabab" (Let's Go Guys). At the end of 2004, he released "El Hob el Kebeer" (The Great Love) which included the hit single "Naseeni el Dunya" (Make Me Forget the World) and the title track which was released in July 2005 and directed by Wissam Smayra in a huge production shot in Malaysia. In 2006, <mask> participated in the pro-celebrity Formula One race, held in Bahrain, as an introductory show to the competition. He placed third and signed an agreement with Formula One Management to participate in the next race that will be held in Shanghai, China. 2008–present: Backstage Production

In May

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 2008, <mask> <mask> released Baa'sha'ak, which was certified Platinum by Virgin Megastores Dubai by April 2009 for its record sales. The album was produced by his own company Backstage Production and included the hits "Yighib" and "Ser Hobbi"

In 2010, and again under his own production company Backstage Production, <mask> released the environment-themed album Seneen Rayha which included the number one singles "Seneen Rayha" and "Betfell". The album solidified <mask>'s position as the number one artist in the Arab world and was sold in all branches of Starbucks Coffee along with a B-side compilation album titled "Starz Vol.1" that included the hit collaboration with Shakira "Good Stuff (Remix)". Other work
Near the end of 2011, <mask> was announced as the head of jury for the new MBC show Arab Idol, which is a remake of the number one show of all time, American Idol. Joining <mask> on the panel were the Gulf singer Ahlam and the music producer Hassan Shaf'ee. The Arab Idol team began its auditioning tour around the Middle East and the UK in September 2011. In 2013, he was appointed by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) as the Goodwill Ambassador in West Asia. Saint George Schools
At the beginning of his musical career in the 1980s, <mask> <mask> opened the Saint George Schools. His goal was to provide education to as many students as possible.His goal was achieved with the help of his brother, Ahmad Subhi <mask>, who has been the General Manager of Saint George Schools since the beginning. Ahmad built the

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 organization from the ground up, starting with the first Block in Haret Hreik which had nearly 200 students but has now grown to almost 2000 students spread into 4 Blocks total (1 in Haret Hreik, 2 in Hadath, and 1 in Hay el Amerkan.) Endorsements
Throughout his career, <mask> has been endorsed by several international companies and has been the face of their many marketing campaigns. Of the companies that endorsed <mask> and featured him as part of their promotions including Hublot, United Nations, Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Malaysian Ministry of Tourism, Malaysia Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Persol, The Pearl-Qatar. Jury of talents programs
They Had chosen <mask> to be a jury of talents programs like:
In 2011-2013 he was a jury of Arab Idol s1 and s2 beside Ahlam and Nancy Ajram and Hassan El Shafei. In 2015, he was a jury of The X Factor beside Elissa and Donia Samir Ghanem. In 2019, he was on the fifth season of the Arabic version of The Voice, leading his act Mahdi to victory.Studio albums
 1986: Ya Rayt
 1987: Al Hadiya
 1988: Dawa el Leil
 1989: Ma Y'gooz
 1991: Alby Ashe'ha
 1993: Ya Hayati
 1995: Taw'am Ruhy
 1996: Sayedati el Gameela
 1997: Bravo 'Alaiky
 1999: Habeeby Ya Nasy
 2001: Saharooni el Leil
 2002: Tab Leih
 2004: El Hob el Kebeer
 2008: Baa'sha'ak
 2010: Seneen Rayha
 2010: Starz V.1
 2014: Habeeb Dehkati

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<mask> (born 1970) is an American journalist, author, filmmaker, television host, and podcast host. He is currently the national arts reporter for The Washington Post and was previously a staff arts reporter for The Boston Globe. <mask> currently hosts the Edge of Fame podcast, a collaboration between The Washington Post and WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR National. In addition, <mask> produced and starred in the 2010 music documentary Do It Again. His articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ and Wired, and he has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, including the Boston Phoenix, Raleigh News and Observer, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. <mask> has also published  children's books on Elvis, The Beatles, and Stan Lee, and co-wrote a book on Julia Child with his wife, Carlene Hempel. In 2013, he hosted a Travel Channel reality TV series called Edge of America, and in June 2013 he was awarded a New England Emmy for work on a video for The Boston Globe.He also hosted the military history series Secrets of the Arsenal on the American Heroes Channel. <mask> joined The Washington Post in September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter. Career
Edgers attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from Tufts University in 1992 with a degree in English. Following his graduation he was employed as a reporter by several newspapers, including the Sudbury Town Crier, Waltham News-Tribune, Middlesex News, Boston Phoenix, and Raleigh News and Observer. He worked as an arts reporter from 2002 to August 2014 for The Boston Globe. His work involved covering the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and other arts-related organizations in the Boston area. <mask> has also freelanced for several magazines including GQ, Spin, Wired, and Salon.Examples of this work include an article on Monkee Michael Nesmith's New Mexico symposiums (for Wired) and a series of pieces for Salon, including one on Brian Wilson's 2000 Pet Sounds tour. <mask> has written three children's books: The Midnight Hour: Bright Ideas for After Dark (Penguin, 1997) and four

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texts: installments in the Grosset and Dunlap "Who Was...?" series, Who Were The Beatles? (2006), Who Was Elvis Presley? (2007), Who Is Stan Lee? (2014), and Who Was Julia Child? (2015), the last installment collaborating with his wife, Carlene Hempel.<mask> teamed up with director Robert Patton-Spruill in early 2008 to begin work on a film about his love of British Invasion band The Kinks, headed by the two feuding brothers Ray and Dave Davies. The documentary, entitled Do It Again follows Edgers throughout America and Britain on a quest to reunite the original members. Edgers meets with various personalities and Kinks fans to discuss the band, such as Sting, Paul Weller, Peter Buck, Zooey Deschanel, Clive Davis, Warren Zanes, Robyn Hitchcock, and Dave Davies himself. Do It Again premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2010, and was met with positive reviews. It traveled the film festival circuit throughout the rest of 2010 (making stops at locations such as the Independent Film Festival of Boston and London International Documentary Festival) and was broadcast on multiple PBS stations throughout late 2011 and early 2012. In 2013 the Travel Channel aired Edge of America, a TV series starring Edgers. The program, produced by Magilla Productions, involved Edgers on a search for quintessentially American forms of entertainment and fun ("strange American things in scenic American places" according to The Boston Globe), as well as "a quest to see what constitutes entertainment."The Travel Channel showed strong initial confidence in the series. But it failed to attract desirable demographics, and was not renewed. <mask> was awarded a New England Emmy in June 2013 for work on a video for The Boston Globe. He shared the award with producer Darren Durlach. The short, entitled  "Behind the Curtain: Act One of Barbara Quintiliani's Story", is a ten-minute documentary about the success and struggles of acclaimed Massachusetts-based opera singer Barbara Quintiliani. In April 2014, he released another documentary, entitled 5 Runners. The 30 minute film, based on <mask>' April 2013 Boston Globe article "Chance

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texts: Leaves Five Runners Forever Linked", documents the lives of five runners leading up to, during, and directly after the Boston Marathon bombing.The five competitors, at the time all in the close vicinity of the explosion and directly affected by the trauma, share an ambition to run the race once more in order to achieve closure. Edgers wrote and narrated the film and shared directing duties with Darren Durlach. 5 Runners premiered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on April 10, followed by a broadcast on April 14 at 9:30 p.m. on the New England Sports Network. In August 2014 it was announced that <mask> would leave the Globe to join The Washington Post staff. He began his new position as national arts reporter in September 2014. Since starting at the Post, Edgers had written in-depth profiles of Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Norm Macdonald, Darrell Hammond, Tom Hanks, and Ava DuVernay, as well as lengthy pieces on the history of Run-DMC’s "Walk This Way" and a story documenting the mysterious life of a man who stole a Stradivarius violin and virtually disappeared with the instrument. A press release from the Post stated that "[Edgers] will have a broad reach to write about arts, entertainment and cultural issues across the nation" and noted that he will remain based in Boston while still reporting to a senior editor in Washington and "appearing in the newsroom frequently."Following on the heels of this appointment, in November 2014 a new television show hosted by Edgers was announced, entitled Secrets of the Arsenal. The series features Edgers exploring the stories and provenance behind military artifacts such as a German pistol from World War II or weapons from the Mexican–American War. After premiering on December 16 at 10:00 PM Eastern, The New York Times Neil Genzlinger described Edgers' "genuine enthusiasm" for the memorabilia he investigates, stating that in the same "gung-ho" spirit of his work with Edge of America, "he applies that ... passion to visiting museums and private collectors in search of artifacts with stories behind them." In January 2018, Edgers debuted a new podcast series, Edge of


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 Fame, drawing on his experience as a journalist, documentary film maker, writer, and National Arts Reporter for the Post. In the series, Edgers explores the lives of various celebrities and performers on the dark and humorous sides of show business. Each podcast episode focuses on Edgers shadowing a specific performer for a long period of time. Eschewing a typical one-on-one interview style, Edgers assembles a combination of interviews, testimonials, and anecdotes from various voices he encounters along the way.It was released as a collaborative effort between radio station WBUR and The Washington Post. Edgers' book Walk this Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever was published in February 2019, detailing the famous collaboration between rock band Aerosmith and rap duo Run-DMC on their remake of the former's hit, "Walk This Way". The book received positive reviews across the press. In The Atlantic, James Parker wrote, "The question with a book like this—a book that zeroes in on a particular happening or art moment and then extrapolates boomingly outward—is always: Is there enough there? Enough action at the core, that is, and enough concentrically moving energy to prevent the narrative from collapsing in on itself as it stretches to book length? The answer in this case, I am happy to report, is yes." The Boston Globe'''s Rob Sheffield called it "a cultural detective yarn," and praised Edgers' "valiant gumshoe work."Personal life
Edgers is married to Carlene Hempel, a professor at Northeastern University. They live outside Boston and have two children together, Lila and Calvin Hempel-Edgers. External links
 Washington Post reporter profile
 @<mask> on Twitter
 Losing the part: How Darrell Hammond, SNL’s best impressionist ever, found life after Trump, by <mask>. The Washington Post.'' (September 27, 2017). References

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texts: <mask> (5 January 1968 – 19 December 1997) was a Singaporean model and writer. After garnering local fame as a model, she gained worldwide recognition for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature and the anthropic philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, Are You A Model?, is recognised as a significant milestone in the literary and cultural history of Singapore. <mask> later published a second book, Discuss Disgust, and many shorter pieces in press outlets, including a short-lived opinion column in a major Singaporean daily that was pulled due to public dissent from Singaporean traditionalists. <mask> died at age 29 on 19 December 1997 aboard SilkAir Flight 185 when it crashed into the Musi River on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) expressed high confidence that the crash was an act of suicide and mass murder by the troubled Singaporean pilot, a colleague of <mask>' ex-husband. All 104 passengers and all crew perished.After <mask>' death, numerous publications including the book Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny <mask> by Tal Ben-Shahar featured her life and thought. Although she was deemed controversial by many during her lifetime because of her willingness to openly discuss human sexuality, Singaporean literary scholars today deem <mask>' voice as a pivotally important one for interpreting contemporary Singaporean society. <mask>' legacy today is one of an important transitional social figure between old and new Singapore during its period of broad-scale societal changes under the forces of globalisation. Her death resulted in the loss of a Singaporean national

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 voice that was both growing and important yet internally conflicted while confrontive. Criticisms by Singaporean traditionalists during her modelling and authoring careers continually vexed <mask>' conscience and drove her to re-evaluate her life. <mask> ultimately made a sustained series of traditionalist choices during the latter years of her life. Early life
<mask> was born in 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to a British father, <mask>, and a Cantonese-speaking Singaporean-Chinese mother, Betty Soh.Her parents separated shortly after her birth and Soh relocated to Singapore in 1969 with her infant daughter. There, <mask>' formative social environment was multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and included Malays, Indians, and Chinese of various dialect groups. Although <mask> was biracial, she identified as Chinese during her early childhood, speaking Cantonese and watching Chinese-language television at home. When <mask> was twelve, her mother accepted a job as a caretaker of a bungalow in Sentosa, Singapore, and they relocated to the island away from a Singaporean Housing and Development Board flat in Toa Payoh. Throughout her teens, <mask> lived with her mother on Sentosa Island, and intermittently with her  (grandmother) with whom she enjoyed a particularly close relationship. <mask> never met her father. At aged sixteen, she traced his whereabouts through the British High Commission, with whom he was stationed on Singapore during <mask>' conception.Married with children from his new arrangement, and likely keeping his past muffled from his new family, <mask>' father returned word via fax to her that he wanted nothing to do with her. Despite <mask>' superficial

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