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 placed in a classicizing architectural setting at a comfortable distance from the viewer. In the later work, the viewer is brought almost uncomfortably close to the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, who drift toward each other in clouds of drapery. Moreover, the clear architectural setting that is carefully constructed in earlier piece has been completely abandoned in favor of a peculiar nondescript urban setting.The Joseph canvases (now in the National Gallery in London) offer another example of <mask>'s developing style. Done around the same time as the earlier Visitation, these works (such as Joseph in Egypt, at left) show a much more mannerist leaning. According to Giorgio Vasari, the sitter for the boy seated on a step is his young apprentice, Bronzino. In the years between the SS Annunziata and San Michele Visitations, Pontormo took part in the fresco decoration of the salon of the Medici country villa at Poggio a Caiano (1519–20), 17 km NNW of Florence. There he painted frescoes in a pastoral genre style, very uncommon for Florentine painters; their subject was the obscure classical myth of Vertumnus and Pomona in a lunette. In 1522, when the plague broke out in Florence, Pontormo left for the Certosa di Galluzzo, a cloistered Carthusian monastery where the monks followed vows of silence. He painted a series of frescoes, now quite damaged, on the passion and resurrection of Christ.These frescoes reveal especially strongly the influence of Albrecht Dürer's engravings, which often provided inspiration to Pontormo after he returned to Florence. Main works in Florence

The large altarpiece canvas for the Brunelleschi-designed Capponi Chapel in the church of Santa Felicita, Florence, portraying The Deposition from the Cross (1528), is considered by many Pontormo's surviving masterpiece. The figures, with their sharply modeled forms and brilliant colors are


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texts: united in an enormously complex, swirling ovular composition, housed by a shallow, somewhat flattened space. Although commonly known as The Deposition from the Cross, there is no actual cross in the picture. The scene might more properly be called a Lamentation or Bearing the Body of Christ. Those who are lowering (or supporting) Christ appear as anguished as the mourners. Though they are bearing the weight of a full-grown man, they barely seem to be touching the ground; the lower figure in particular balances delicately and implausibly on his front two toes.These two boys have sometimes been interpreted as angels, carrying Christ  in his journey to Heaven. In this case, the subject of the picture would be more akin to an Entombment, though the lack of any discernible tomb disrupts that theory, just as the lack of cross poses a problem for the Deposition interpretation. Finally, it has also been noted that the positions of Christ and the Virgin seem to echo those of Michelangelo's Pietà in Rome, though here in the Deposition mother and son have been separated. Thus in addition to elements of a Lamentation and Entombment, this picture carries hints of a Pietà. It has been speculated that the bearded figure in the background at the far right is a self-portrait of <mask> as Joseph of Arimathea. Another unique feature of this particular Deposition is the empty space occupying the central pictorial plane as all the Biblical personages seem to fall back from this point. It has been suggested that this emptiness may be a physical representation of the Virgin Mary's emotional emptiness at the prospect of losing her son.On the wall to the right of the Deposition, Pontormo frescoed an Annunciation scene (at left). As with the Deposition, the artist's primary attention is on the figures themselves rather than their setting. Placed against white walls, the Angel


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 Gabriel and Virgin Mary are presented in an environment that is so simplified as to almost seem stark. The fictive architectural details above each of them, are painted to resemble the gray stone pietra serena that adorns the interior of Santa Felicità, thus uniting their painted space with the viewer's actual space. The startling contrast between the figures and ground makes their brilliant garments almost seem to glow in the light of the window between them, against the stripped-down background, as if the couple miraculously appeared in an extension of the chapel wall. The Annunciation resembles his above mentioned Visitation in the church of San Michele at Carmignano in both the style and swaying postures. Vasari tells us that the cupola was originally painted with God the Father and Four Patriarchs.The decoration in the dome of the chapel is now lost, but four roundels with the Evangelists still adorn the pendentives, worked on by both <mask> and his chief pupil Agnolo Bronzino. The two artists collaborated so closely that specialists dispute which roundels each of them painted. This tumultuous oval of figures took three years for Pontormo to complete. According to Vasari, because Pontormo desired above all to "do things his own way without being bothered by anyone," the artist screened off the chapel so as to prevent interfering opinions. Vasari continues, "And so, having painted it in his own way without any of his friends being able to point anything out to him, it was finally uncovered and seen with astonishment by all of Florence..."

A number of Pontormo's other works have also remained in Florence; the Uffizi Gallery holds his mystical Supper at Emmaus as well as portraits. Many of Pontormo's well known canvases, such as the early Joseph in Egypt series (c. 1515) and the later Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion (c. 1531) depict


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 crowds milling about in extreme contrapposto of greatly varied positions. His portraits, acutely characterized, show similarly Mannerist proportions.Lost or damaged works

Many of <mask>'s works have been damaged, including the lunettes for the cloister in the Carthusian monastery of Galluzo. They now are displayed indoors, although in their damaged state. Perhaps most tragic is the loss of the unfinished frescoes for the choir of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence which consumed the last decade of his life. His frescoes depicted a Last Judgment day composed of an unsettling morass of writhing figures. The remaining drawings, showing a bizarre and mystical ribboning of bodies, had an almost hallucinatory effect. Florentine figure painting had mainly stressed linear and sculptural figures. For example, the Christ in Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel is a massive painted block, stern in his wrath; by contrast, Pontormo's Jesus in the Last Judgment twists sinuously, as if rippling through the heavens in the dance of ultimate finality.Angels swirl about him in even more serpentine poses. If <mask>'s work from the 1520s seemed to float in a world little touched by gravitational force, the Last Judgment figures seem to have escaped it altogether and flail through a rarefied air. In his Last Judgment, Pontormo went against pictorial and theological tradition by placing God the Father at the feet of Christ, instead of above him, an idea Vasari found deeply disturbing:

But I have never been able to understand the significance of this scene, ... I mean, what he could have intended to signify in that part where there is Christ on high, raising the dead, and below His feet is God the Father, who is creating Adam and Eve. Besides this, in one of the corners, where are the four Evangelists, nude, with books in their hands, it does not seem to me

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 that in a single place did he give a thought to any order of composition, or measurement, or time, or variety in the heads, or diversity in the flesh-colours, or, in a word, to any rule, proportion or law of perspective, for the whole work is full of nude figures with an order, design, invention, composition, colouring, and painting contrived after his own fashion ...

Critical assessment and legacy

Vasari's Life of Pontormo depicts him as withdrawn and steeped in neurosis while at the center of the artists and patrons of his lifetime. This image of Pontormo has tended to color the popular conception of the artist, as seen in the film of Giovanni Fago, Pontormo, a heretical love. Fago portrays Pontormo as mired in a lonely and ultimately paranoid dedication to his final Last Judgment project, which he often kept shielded from onlookers.Yet as the art historian Elizabeth Pilliod has pointed out, Vasari was in fierce competition with the Pontormo/Bronzino workshop at the time when he was writing his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. This professional rivalry between the two bottegas could well have provided Vasari with ample motivation for running down the artistic lineage of his opponent for Medici patronage. Perhaps as a result of Vasari's derision, or perhaps because of the vagaries of aesthetic taste, <mask>'s work was quite out of fashion for several centuries. The fact that so much of his work has been lost or severely damaged is testament to this neglect, though he has received renewed attention by contemporary art historians. Indeed, between 1989 and 2002, Pontormo's Portrait of a Halberdier (at right), held the title of the world's most expensive painting by an Old Master. Regardless as to the veracity of Vasari's account, it is certainly true that <mask>'s artistic idiosyncrasies produced a style that few were


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 able (or willing) to imitate, with the exception of his closest pupil Bronzino. Bronzino's early work is so close to that of his teacher, that the authorship of several paintings from the 1520s and '30s is still under dispute—for example, the four tondi containing the Evangelists in the Capponi Chapel, and the Portrait of a Lady in Red now in Frankfurt.Pontormo shares some of the mannerism of Rosso Fiorentino and of Parmigianino. In some ways he anticipated the Baroque as well as the tensions of El Greco. His eccentricities also resulted in an original sense of composition. At best, his compositions are cohesive. The figures in the Deposition, for example, appear to sustain each other: removal of any one of them would cause the edifice to collapse. In other works,  as in the Joseph canvases, the crowding makes for a confusing pictorial melee. It is in the later drawings that we see a graceful fusion of bodies in a composition which includes the oval frame of Jesus in the Last Judgement.Anthology of works

Early works (until 1521)

Mature works (1522–30)

Late works (after 1530)

See also

 Lost artworks

References

Further reading
Krystof, Doris. Joseph Carrucci, known as Pontormo 1494–1557. Köln: Konemann, 1988. Keener, Chrystine. (2021). Pontormo's lost frescoes at San Lorenzo : political propaganda and dynastic symbolism /. External links

Pontormo's paintings and drawings illustrated
Pontormo at Olga's Gallery
Giorgio Vasari's Vita
A diary of his last two years survives
Pontormo.Pictures and Biography
"Jacopo Carucci <mask>, his life and works", by Frederik Mortimer Clapp, Oxford University Press, 1916
Official website of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano, home of the Visitation

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<mask> (August 10, 1972December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate. <mask> was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1972 to David and <mask>, who worked respectively as a steelworker and history teacher. Shortly after <mask>'s birth, his parents moved with him back to Alabama, where five generations of their families had lived.<mask> grew up with his brother Joe in Gadsden, Alabama, where the family lived in a rural house. <mask> was a big fan of rap music, including LL Cool J and Run DMC, and covered their joint bedroom in posters of his favorite rappers. <mask> graduated from Southside High School in Gadsden in 1990. That year he started at Auburn University, where he eventually earned a B.A. in English. He received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University.Career and editing

<mask> worked as an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was an editor for Copper Nickel, a nationally recognized student literary journal which he had helped found. In the spring of 2011, <mask> was the Richard B. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. During the 2011–2012 academic year, he was a visiting faculty scholar at Emory

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York's poetry appeared in journals and magazines including The New Orleans Review, The Oxford American, Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, and The Southern Review.His first book of poems, Murder Ballads, won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry. According to one reviewer, "Context matters, but good poetry is not bound by it. <mask> <mask>'s Murder Ballads — a collection of 35 poems in four parts, published by Elixir Press — is a book

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 where context matters. But the finely crafted poems—what Shenandoah editor R.T. Smith rightly calls <mask>'s "demanding poetic"—are not bound by that context". His sophomore book, A Murmuration of Starlings, won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry and was published through the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. His third book, Persons Unknown, was published in 2010 as an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry by Southern Illinois University Press. Both books chronicled and eulogized the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.Reception
Natasha Trethewey described A Murmuration of Starlings as

a fierce, beautiful, necessary book. Fearless in their reckoning, these poems resurrect contested histories and show us that the past—with its troubled beauty, its erasures, and its violence—weighs upon us all . . . a murmuration so that we don't forget, so that no one disappears into history. According to <mask> in The Rumpus,
York's study into the Civil Rights Movement is not meant to be an indictment of the American consciousness; rather, he strives to present the stories of these persons unknown so that his reader cannot help but reflect on this murderous chapter in American history. He never sinks into oblique facts, but he does not forget them, either. He never ignores the simple truth that he is writing poetry, and crafts a collection that is moving and substantial. Persons Unknown is a necessary addition to the oeuvre of civil rights literature and the conversation it (still) invokes.In 2009, <mask> was the University of Mississippi's Summer Poet in Residence. On February 14, 2010, <mask> was awarded the Third Coast Poetry

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 Prize. He had already received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. His fourth book, Abide, was published in 2014. That year he was posthumously named as the recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate. Death
<mask> died on December 16, 2012, from a stroke.<mask> had completed a new poetry manuscript, titled Abide, shortly before his death. The book was published by Southern Illinois University Press. Awards and honors

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) finalist for Abide

Selected publications
 Abide (Southern Illinois Press, 2014)
 Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois Press, 2010)
 A Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008)
 Murder Ballads (Elixir Press, 2005)
 The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Routledge, 2005)

References

External links

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: <mask> <mask> Papers, 1972-2012. 1972 births
Auburn University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Colorado Denver faculty
2012 deaths
People from West Palm Beach, Florida
People from Gadsden, Alabama
Poets from Florida
Poets from Alabama
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<mask> (2 February 1962 – 15 July 2021) was an English professional darts player, commonly known as The Viking. He won the 2004 BDO World Darts Championship and the 1999 Winmau World Masters. Darts career
<mask> made his first appearance on the stage at Lakeside in the 1995 BDO World Darts Championship and reached the semi-finals before losing to Richie Burnett. Another semi-final defeat followed in 1996, this time to Steve Beaton. On both these occasions, his victor then went on to claim the title. Second round defeats followed in 1997 (to Marshall James) and 1998 (to Raymond van Barneveld) before <mask> made it to the semi-final stage of the World Championship for third time in 1999, but was defeated by Ronnie Baxter. His 2000 campaign ended in the quarter-finals at the hands of Chris Mason and his fourth semi-final loss in 2001 was to Ted Hankey.In 2002 and 2003 he went out in the first and second rounds respectively. <mask> finally put an end to his "nearly man" reputation in the 2004 World Championship. His run saw him win his first match comfortably, 3–0 against qualifier Brian Derbyshire. He then beat former Masters champion Tony West 3–0, and teased a 9-dart leg in the third set. He defeated Darryl Fitton in the quarter-finals 5–4, and then stunned Van Barneveld, the defending world champion and strong tournament favourite, by recovering from 0–3 and 2–4 down to win the match 5–4, in what is still considered one of the most dramatic and exciting matches in BDO history. In the final, <mask> defeated Mervyn King, hitting a 139 checkout to take the eighth set 3–2 when King had reached a double-18, and then recovering from 2–0 down in the next set to take it 3–2 with double-8, and win the match by 6 sets to 3. Showdown with Taylor and health concerns
On 21 November 2004, <mask>, as reigning BDO world champion, faced off

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texts: against Phil Taylor, the reigning PDC world champion, in a best-of-13-sets match at Purfleet's Circus Tavern.The special pay-per-view event was billed as "The Showdown" and was promoted and broadcast by Sky Sports. During the match, <mask> became unwell and complained of shortness of breath. He took a break after the seventh set and was advised not to continue by medical staff at the venue. Taylor was leading the match 5–2 at the time and declared the winner by default. After the incident <mask> visited a doctor, and following medical tests he was informed that, as a result of long term alcohol damage, his liver was operating at only 25% capacity. He was advised to stop drinking alcohol immediately. <mask>'s health had long been a concern; at one point he weighed  and was in the habit of regularly consuming 24 bottles of lager before going on stage to play darts.He admitted to the media that he had felt more comfortable playing when not fully sober. The doctors' advice led <mask> to seek help and assistance via the television programme Celebrity Fit Club, where he became friends with the journalist and TV presenter Paul Ross. While getting an exercise regime underway to try to lose some weight, in January 2005 <mask> returned to the Lakeside World championship as defending champion, but was defeated 3–2 in the first round by Dutchman Vincent van der Voort. He failed to progress past the first round of any of the other BDO majors that year, although he did reach the final of the Masters of Darts event, where he lost 7–1 to Phil Taylor. <mask> made another Lakeside appearance in 2006 but again suffered a first round exit, this time losing 3–0 to Australia's Simon Whitlock. <mask> was scheduled to face Whitlock again in the first round of the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship, but prior to the tournament starting he was again

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 hospitalised after complaining of chest pains and breathing difficulties. Subsequently, he had 18 litres of bile drained from his lungs and was to remain in hospital for three weeks.<mask> was withdrawn from the tournament, with Whitlock receiving a walkover to the second round. Less than one week after being discharged from hospital, <mask> suffered what was initially thought to be a minor stroke, but which turned out to be severe breathing difficulties caused by further fluid build-up in his lungs. He eventually made a full recovery. In 2008, <mask> applied for a liver transplant. Although initially on an emergency liver transplant list, he subsequently lost 17 st (108 kg, 238 lbs) in weight and stopped drinking alcohol completely, leading to an announcement in December that, due to the improvement in his physical well-being, he probably would not now require a transplant for five years. Return to darts

In September 2007, after a nine-month absence from darts due to his health issues, <mask> made a low-key return to the oche at the Turunc Open in Turkey. <mask> did comparatively well, reaching the semi-final of the singles event where he lost to the eventual winner Martin Phillips from Wales.During his lay-off from the game, <mask> had lost 10 stone (63.5 kg, 140 lbs). He won one match in an attempt to qualify for the 2008 Lakeside World Championship, but went out in the last 128 and also lost in his opening match at the last 136 stage of the Winmau World Masters. He then received an invitation to play at the Zuiderduin Masters in December 2007 – but lost both matches 0–5, to Mark Barilli (averaging 53.43) and to Co Stompé (averaging 76.20). Move to the PDC
<mask> made his PDC debut in March 2009 at a Players Championship in Coventry, losing his preliminary round match 6–4 against Gary Scratchley. After ending his first six


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It was announced that <mask>u in May 2013. <mask> was awarded a wild card for the televised stages at the 2014 BDO World Trophy and faced Alan Norris in the first round. He was beaten 6–2 by Norris.In October 2015, <mask> advanced through a field of almost 200 players to qualify for the 2015 Grand Slam of Darts (a PDC major), winning one of two BDO UK Qualifiers. He was unable to qualify from a group consisting of Adrian Lewis, Michael Smith and Wayne Jones. His only victory, 5–3 against Jones, was his first televised win in over ten years, since the Masters of Darts in February 2005. <mask> also received a wildcard for the 2015 Zuiderduin Masters. He failed to qualify from his group because of an inferior legs difference to Brian Dawson. Also in 2015, <mask> notably reached the quarter-finals of the Jersey Classic and the last 16 of the Hal Masters, German Masters and BDO International Open. In September 2015, <mask> was awaiting clearance to play darts for the White Bear in the Chorley Darts and Dominoes League.He extended his partnership with Winmau for a further five years in April 2016. <mask> was unveiled as an ambassador for the British Disability Darts Association (BDDA) in May 2016. Handed another wildcard for the 2016 BDO World

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 Trophy, <mask> lost 6–2 to Glen Durrant in round one. 2018
He attempted to qualify for the 2018 World Masters, reaching the last 272. World Championship results

BDO

 1995: Semi-Final (lost to Richie Burnett 2–5)
 1996: Semi-Final (lost to Steve Beaton 3–5)
 1997: 2nd Round (lost to Marshall James 2–3)
 1998: 2nd Round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 2–3)
 1999: Semi-Final (lost to Ronnie Baxter 1–5)
 2000: Quarter-Final (lost to Chris Mason 3–5)
 2001: Semi-Final (lost to Ted Hankey 2–5)
 2002: 1st Round (lost to John Walton 0–3)
 2003: 2nd Round (lost to Gary Anderson 1–3)
 2004: Winner (beat Mervyn King 6–3)
 2005: 1st Round (lost to Vincent van der Voort 2–3)
 2006: 1st Round (lost to Simon Whitlock 0–3)
 2007: Withdrew from competition due to ill health

Career finals

Independent major finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Performance timeline

Outside darts
<mask> was the eldest of four children and had a brother and two sisters. He grew up in Charlton, south-east London and attended Charlton Manor Primary School and Eaglesfield Secondary School. He was a keen track-and-field athlete in his younger days and was nicknamed 'The Whippet' at school.<mask> was a fan of Rangers, and paraded his BDO World Championship trophy before a game at Ibrox Stadium in 2004. He was also a fan of Millwall, and paraded his trophy at half-time of a match at The Den. Death
On 15 July 2021, <mask> died in hospital from organ failure after a long battle with health problems. He was 59. References

External links
modusdarts.tv
<mask>'s first radio interview since falling ill BBC Sportsweek with Garry Richardson

English darts players
BDO world darts champions
1962 births
2021 deaths
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Sportspeople from Dartford
British Darts Organisation players
Professional Darts Corporation former pro tour players
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<mask> (born November 4, 1988) is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football at Oklahoma State, where he earned All-American honors in 2008. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft, where he earned three Pro Bowl berths and was named an All-Pro in 2014. Early years
<mask> was born on Galveston Island at The University of Texas Medical Branch on November 4, 1988. He and his family later moved to Lufkin, Texas, where he attended Lufkin High School. While at Lufkin High School, he played high school football for the Panthers football team. As a junior, he caught 48 passes for 1,025 yards and 16 touchdowns.<mask> led Lufkin to a 14–1 record, including an appearance in the 5A Division II state semifinals, where they lost 46–28 to Todd Dodge's Southlake Carroll. In his senior year, <mask> had 53 receptions for 1,207 yards with 21 touchdowns, and was an All-State selection. Lufkin finished the season with an 11–1 record, after losing 38–25 to Round Rock in the area round of the playoffs. After the season, <mask> participated in the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl. He was named an All-American by Parade and SuperPrep. <mask> competed in track and field and was one of the state's top competitors in the triple jump (top-jump of 14.17 m). As a standout hurdler, he had personal bests of 14.56 seconds in the 110-m hurdles and 40.70 seconds in the 300-m hurdles.He was also a member of the 4 × 100-m (42.62) and 4 × 200-m (1:28.35) relay squads. Recruiting
Regarded as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, <mask> was listed as the no. 9 wide receiver

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 prospect in the class of 2007, and the second from Texas behind only Terrence Toliver. Recruited by numerous major programs, including most Big 12 schools, <mask> took official visits to Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech, before committing to the Cowboys on January 29, 2007. He was just the fourth Parade All-American to sign with Oklahoma State since 1985. College career
<mask> attended Oklahoma State University from 2007 to 2009 and was a member of the Oklahoma State Cowboys football team coached by Mike Gundy. 2007 season
On September 1, <mask> made his collegiate debut against Georgia and had one reception for seven yards in the 35–14 loss.On September 22, against Texas Tech, he had five receptions for 51 receiving yards and his first collegiate receiving touchdown, a five-yard reception from Zac Robinson, in the 49–45 victory. On October 20 against Kansas State, he had three receptions for 37 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns in the 41–39 victory. On November 10, against Kansas, he set a school record for receiving yards in a game by a freshman with 155 in the 43–28 loss. In the 2007 Insight Bowl, he recorded nine receptions for 117 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns in a 49–33 win against the Indiana Hoosiers. As a freshman in 2007, he finished second on the team with 43 receptions for 622 receiving yards and six receiving touchdowns in 12 games. 2008 season
On September 6, against Houston, he had nine receptions for 236 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns to go along with a punt return touchdown in the 56–37 victory. On September 27, against Troy, he had six receptions

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 for 118 yards and three receiving touchdowns in the 55–24 victory.In the next game, against Texas A&M, he had 106 receiving yards, three receiving touchdowns, and a punt return touchdown in the 56–28 victory. On October 18, against Baylor, he had 11 receptions for 212 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns in the 34–6 victory. On November 1, against Iowa State, he had nine receptions for 171 yards and four receiving touchdowns in the 59–17 victory. On November 29, against Oklahoma, he had six receptions for 91 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns in the 61–41 loss. On December 30, against Oregon in the 2008 Holiday Bowl, he had 13 receptions for 167 yards and a receiving touchdown in the 42–31 loss. He finished the 2008 season with 87 receptions for 1,480 receiving yards and 19 receiving touchdowns, including two punt returns for touchdowns. 2009 season
<mask> was ruled ineligible for the rest of the 2009 season on October 7 for violating an NCAA bylaw.He failed to fully disclose his interaction with Deion Sanders, a former NFL player, to the NCAA. He was considered the best wide receiver in 2009 and a possible Heisman Trophy contender before the suspension. In three games, he finished with 323 receiving yards, four receiving touchdowns, and a punt return touchdown. College statistics

College awards and honors
 2007 Second-team freshman All-America
 2008 First team All-America by AFCA-Coaches, Associated Press, Walter Camp, Sporting News, Pro Football Weekly, Sports Illustrated

Professional career

NFL Draft
On November 5, 2009, <mask> announced his intentions to enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He was

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 widely believed to be the best wide receiver available. If he slipped by the Broncos, <mask> was projected to fall no lower than the 27th pick to the Dallas Cowboys. After dropping because of character concerns, the Cowboys traded up with the New England Patriots, moving from the 27th to the 24th position to select <mask>.For the move, the team sent a third-round draft choice, which was the 90th overall pick, while receiving the Patriots' fourth-round draft choice, which was the 119th overall pick. Dallas Cowboys

2010 season: Rookie year

<mask> was signed by the Cowboys to a contract very similar to that of Vikings' wide receiver Percy Harvin (five years, $12.05 million, roughly $8.4 million guaranteed) on July 22, 2010. On July 23, 2010, it was announced that <mask> would wear the #88 jersey, the same as Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, and Cowboys legend Drew Pearson. On September 12, <mask> made his NFL debut against the Washington Redskins and had eight receptions for 56 yards. His eight receptions in his NFL debut set a franchise record for most in a player's first game. In the next game, he had a punt return touchdown in the 27–20 loss to the Chicago Bears. On October 17, <mask> caught his first NFL touchdown catch, on a 31-yard pass from Tony Romo.The Cowboys ended up losing that game 24–21. In a Monday Night Football game against the New York Giants, at Cowboys Stadium on October 25, 2010, <mask> caught four passes for 54 yards, two of them for touchdowns, and returned a punt 93 yards for a touchdown, making the longest Cowboys' punt return since Dennis Morgan's 98-yard return during the 1974 NFL season. With

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With the departure of Roy Williams, <mask> won the starting job opposite of Miles Austin. <mask> started the first game of the 2011 season against the New York Jets where he had three receptions for 71 yards and a touchdown in a 27–24 loss. <mask> missed the next game against the San Francisco 49ers due to injury, as the Cowboys won the game by a score of 27–24 in overtime.<mask> started his second game of the season against the division rival and previously undefeated Washington Redskins on a Monday Night Football game. Playing injured, <mask> managed four

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<mask> had four receptions for 85 yards in a 24–17 win against the New York Giants in the season opener, which was a rare game played on a Wednesday. The next two games were average performances, totaling only 79 receiving yards on nine receptions and no touchdowns. Dallas lost the game in Week 2 against the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 27–7 and won in Week 3 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by a score of 16–10. In the Week 4, 34–18 loss to the Chicago Bears, <mask> had eight receptions for 105 yards.After the Week 5 bye, <mask> caught his first two touchdowns of the season,

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 single game at the time. In the last game of the season, <mask> had four receptions for 71 yards in the Week 17 loss to rival and eventual division champions, the Redskins. <mask> finished the 2012 season with 92 receptions for 1,382 yards and 12 touchdowns; these ranked 10th, sixth, and third, respectively, among all receivers. He tied the franchise record for most consecutive games, with seven, with at least a touchdown reception, which is shared with Franklin Clarke, Bob Hayes, and Terrell Owens.In addition, he set a franchise record for most games in a single season with multiple receiving touchdowns with four, breaking a mark which was tied with Clarke, Hayes, and Owens. He suffered from several injuries throughout the second half of the season. He injured his finger in early December, opting to play through the injury for the duration of the season, saying that opponents would "have to break my leg to keep me out." He left in the fourth quarter of the final game of the season against the Redskins with a back injury. Head coach Jason Garrett stated after the game that <mask> "could barely walk", with the injury. He was ranked 35th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2013. 2013 season
<mask> started the 2013 season slow with four receptions for 22 yards in a Week 1 36–31 victory over the New York Giants on NBC Sunday Night Football.He bounced back the next week and had nine receptions for 141 receiving yards and a touchdown in a 17–16 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 2. Over the course of the next two weeks, <mask> had ten receptions for 119 yards with three touchdowns, in a 31–7 win over

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 the St. Louis Rams and a 30–21 loss to the San Diego Chargers. In a Week 5, 51–48 shootout loss to the Denver Broncos, <mask> had six receptions for 141 yards and two touchdowns. On October 20, he had eight receptions for 110 yards in a 17–3 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. In the next game, a 31–30 loss to the Detroit Lions, he had 72 receiving yards and two touchdowns. In a narrow Week 15 37–36 loss to the Green Bay Packers, <mask> finished with a season-high 11 catches for 153 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown. The Cowboys ended up going 8–8 and missed the playoffs.<mask> started all 16 games and finished the season with 93 catches and 13 touchdowns, both career highs, and 1,233 receiving yards. These ranked eighth in catches, 13th in yards, and third in touchdowns, respectively, among all receivers. <mask> went to his first Pro Bowl. He was ranked 25th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014. 2014 season

Entering the final year of his rookie contract, <mask> managed to improve and had the most productive year of his career. He caught 88 passes for 1,320 yards and 16 touchdowns, the latter of which led the NFL and broke Terrell Owens' franchise record of 15 touchdown receptions. As a result, he was selected for his second consecutive Pro-Bowl appearance and was chosen as first-team All-Pro.<mask> caught five passes for 55 yards while the Cowboys were beaten at home in Week 1 by the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 28–17. However, over the next six weeks, the offense improved as they won six straight games and <mask> was dominant over the stretch, catching 41 passes for 535 yards and


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 continued to fall and never had another act common to the game. We deemed that by our judgment to be the full process of the catch, and at the time he lands and the ball hits the ground, it comes loose as it hits the ground, which would make that incomplete; although he repossesses it, it does contact the ground when he reaches, so the repossession is irrelevant because it was ruled an incomplete pass when we had the ball hit the ground." <mask> said after the game that he believed it was a catch without a doubt, and wanted to know why his catch was overturned. Dean Blandino, NFL vice president of officiating, also confirmed that the play was correctly reversed by tweeting "<mask> going to the ground.By rule he must hold onto it throughout entire process of contacting the ground. He didn't so it is incomplete." Later, during the following offseason, according to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Blandino met with the Cowboys stating "The message to the coaches and players – because we've gone out and visited with every staff – is if you're falling to the ground to make the catch, then you have to maintain the control when you land," Blandino said. "And if you reach or do anything with the football, that's not going to trump that requirement to maintain control." In the offseason, he was ranked 15th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015. 2015 season

On March 3, 2015, the Cowboys placed the nonexclusive franchise tag, worth $12.823 million, on <mask>. On July 15, 2015, <mask> and the Cowboys reached an agreement on a five-year, $70 million contract that included $45 million of guaranteed money and a

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<mask> started the 2016 season with a new starting quarterback in Dak Prescott as Tony Romo suffered a back injury in the preseason. After recording a single reception for eight yards in the season opening loss to the New York Giants, he had seven receptions for 102 yards in a Week 2 27–23 victory over the Washington Redskins. <mask> suffered a hairline fracture in his knee in Week 3 against the Chicago Bears, forcing him to miss extended time. He returned in Week 8 against the Philadelphia Eagles. Overall, he finished the season with 50 receptions for 796 yards and a


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<mask> started the 2017 season with two receptions for 43 yards in the 19–3 victory over the New York Giants on NBC Sunday Night Football. During a Week 9 28–17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, <mask> sprained his ankle, and was sidelined for the rest of the game. On November 30, against the Washington Redskins, <mask> passed Bob Hayes for the Cowboys franchise record for receiving touchdowns.Overall, he played in all 16 games in the 2017 season and recorded 69 receptions for 838 yards and six touchdowns as the Cowboys finished with a 9–7 record and missed the playoffs. The Cowboys released <mask> on April 13, 2018, after eight seasons with the team. New Orleans Saints
On November 7, 2018, nine weeks into the 2018 season, <mask> agreed to a one-year, $1.25 million deal with the New Orleans Saints. Two days after signing with the Saints, <mask> tore his Achilles tendon during team practice. He was placed on injured reserve the following day, ending his season without playing a single game with the Saints. 2019
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On October 27, 2020, <mask> was signed to the Baltimore Ravens' practice squad. He was elevated to the active roster on November 7 and November 21 for the team's weeks 9 and 10 games against the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans, and reverted to the practice squad after each game. Against the Titans, <mask> recorded his first reception since the 2017 season for a four-yard gain. He finished the game with a season-high four receptions for 28 yards in the 30–24 overtime loss. He was promoted to the active roster on November 28. Right before the Week 13 matchup against the Dallas Cowboys, his former team, <mask> tested positive for COVID-19 and was ineligible to play. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on December 10, 2020, and activated on December 15.In Week 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, <mask> caught an 11-yard touchdown pass, his first touchdown since 2017, in the Ravens' 40–14 win. The next week, he caught an eight-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of the Ravens' 27–13 win over the New York Giants. He finished the 2020 regular season with six receptions for 47 yards and two touchdowns. NFL career statistics

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Consecutive games with a receiving touchdown: (7) (tied with Terrell Owens, Bob Hayes, and Frank Clarke)

Personal life
<mask> had a troubled upbringing, born to a 13-year-old mother, Angela, who was arrested for dealing crack cocaine when <mask> was eight years old. He went on to live in eight different homes while attending Lufkin High School. <mask> has two sons, Zayne and <mask> Jr. <mask> was sued in March 2011 for $861,350 for legal fees and the cost of jewelry, which he acquired on credit while a student athlete. The case was settled before court proceedings for between $400,000 and $500,000.On July 16, 2012, <mask> was arrested on a class A misdemeanor domestic violence charge for allegedly striking his biological mother, <mask>. In March 2013, <mask> spoke at an event for Dallas Men Against Abuse. At the event, he stated, "I'm done with domestic abuse." On August 28, 2014, <mask> launched his official brand and apparel line, ThrowUpTheX. On June 22, 2016, <mask> was sued by Texas state senator Royce West for damaging a rented house in DeSoto, Texas. Damage to the rental house totaled over $60,000. In a tweet, <mask> endorsed Kanye West's campaign in the 2020 United States presidential election.See also
 List of Dallas Cowboys first-round draft picks
 List of National Football League annual receiving touchdowns leaders
 List of NCAA major college football yearly scoring leaders
 List of NFL 1,000-yard receiving trios
 List of Oklahoma State Cowboys in the NFL Draft

References

External links

Baltimore Ravens bio
Oklahoma State Cowboys bio

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<mask> (26 April 18296 February 1894) was a German and Austrian surgeon and amateur musician. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. As a musician, he was a close friend and confidant of Johannes Brahms, a leading patron of the Viennese musical scene, and one of the first to attempt a scientific analysis of musicality. Early life and education
<mask> was born at Bergen auf Rügen in the Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a pastor. His father died of tuberculosis when <mask> was five years old. He attended school in Greifswald where he obtained his Abitur degree in 1848. <mask> was an indifferent student, and spent more time practicing piano than studying.Torn between a career as a musician or as a physician, he acceded to his mother's wishes and enrolled himself at the University of Greifswald to study medicine, but gave up the whole of his first term to the study of music; Professor Wilhelm Baum, however, took him with him to Göttingen, and his medical career was fixed. He then followed Professor Baum to the University of Göttingen, and completed his medical doctorate at the Frederick William University of Berlin in 1852. Along with Rudolph Wagner (1805–1864) and Georg Meissner (1829–1905), <mask> went to Trieste to study the torpedo fish. Career in surgery
From 1853 to 1860 <mask> was an assistant in Bernhard von Langenbeck’s surgical clinic at the Charité in Berlin. There he was also apprenticed to Carl Langenbuch. In 1860, <mask> accepted an offer from the University of Zurich to become the Chair of Clinical Surgery, becoming director of the surgical hospital and clinic in Zurich. The beginning of his career in Switzerland was unpromising: during his first semester of teaching, he had only ten students, and he himself said that the income he received from his private practice was insufficient to pay for his morning cup of coffee.His reputation quickly grew however; <mask> had an infectious personality, attracting both students and surgical trainees to his ranks. He was loved by his students, and was an

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 students, creating the "Billroth School" of followers. No aspect of his profession seemed to escape his intense scrutiny, be it research, teaching, administration, or nursing. He not only had something valuable to say about each but often saw to it that his ideas became concrete reality. In all the spheres he sought to influence, he was guided by a belief in the unity of science and art, and by confidence in his own ability to effect change.<mask> was instrumental in establishing the first modern school of thought in surgery. He had radical ideas on surgical training, advocating a prolonged surgical apprenticeship on completion of medical studies consisting of preliminary work in hospitals followed by performing operations on cadavers and experimental animals. This would be followed by a 2-3 year assistantship in a surgical department with studies of the surgical literature and the acquisition of advanced practical skills. Among his disciples were the notable surgeons Alexander von Winiwarter, Jan Mikulicz-Radecki and John B. Murphy. William Halsted's pioneer surgical residency program was greatly influenced by <mask>'s own methods of surgical education. Music
<mask> was a talented amateur pianist and violinist. During his time in Zurich he regularly played string quartet with professional musicians such as <mask> and Friedrich Hegar.In 1865 he met Brahms for the first time when the rising composer and pianist played Robert Schumann's piano concerto and his own works in Zurich. After <mask> had moved to Vienna in 1867 they became close friends and shared many musical insights. Brahms frequently sent <mask> his original manuscripts in order to get his opinion before publication, and <mask> participated as a musician in trial rehearsals of many of Brahms' chamber works before their first performances. Brahms dedicated his first two string quartets, Opus 51, to <mask>. <mask> and Brahms, together with the acerbic and influential Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, formed the core of the musical conservatives who opposed the innovations of Richard Wagner and

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In 1887 <mask> was made a member of the Austrian Herrenhaus, "House of Lords"; a distinction rarely bestowed on members of the medical profession. In 1888, <mask> was elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Footnotes

Further reading

 Christian Albert <mask>: Master of surgery

 Telitschkin I., <mask> (1829–1894) in Russland. Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen.Band 23, S. 385–392. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, 2004. External links

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<mask> (June 20, 1904 – February 25, 1936) was an American-Salvadoran biologist who conceived of, then conducted, the first scientific survey of fauna for the National Park Service between 1929 and 1933. <mask> was a pioneer in many ways, but especially for his holistic approach to wildlife management issues in the National Parks. <mask> and his colleagues spent years in the field researching wildlife issues, and advocating for an ecosystem-wide approach to managing species within, and bordering, the parks. The George Wright Society, founded in 1980, honors <mask>'s vision. Early life
<mask> was born in San Francisco, California. <mask>'s Salvadoran mother <mask> was born in San Salvador, and was from one of El Salvador's most powerful, and largest, families. <mask>'s father was <mask>, a descendant of a long line of San Francisco-based steamship captains who followed his family’s footsteps by establishing a thriving import/export business along the Pacific Coast.Both of <mask>'s parents died when he was still young, leaving him in the care of a great aunt, Cordelia <mask>, who encouraged his fascination with the natural world and his interest in science. Throughout his childhood, <mask> cultivated a practice of observing and recording the habits of wildlife, particularly birds. At the age of 16, <mask> started his studies in forestry and vertebrate zoology at the University of California, Berkeley under Professor Walter Mulford in Forestry and the renowned field zoologist, Professor Joseph Grinnell, head of the University's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. During his studies, <mask> also worked in close contact with Grinnell's assistant, Joseph Scattergood Dixon, the museum's Economic Mammologist. All three would be <mask>’s mentors academically and

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 professionally. During his time at the university, <mask> spent his summer vacations exploring California, the West, and beyond. In 1921, at the age of 17, he ventured north to Alaska.An early Sierra Club member, <mask> participated on the Club’s 1922 High Country trip out of Sequoia National Park and the Kings River Canyon. Subsequent summers found him visiting western National Parks in his worn out Model T Ford. In 1926, while still a student at Berkeley, <mask> accompanied Dixon on a collecting trip up to Alaska, sponsored by a wealthy East Coast naturalist, in search of the eggs of the elusive surfbird. The trip was a success, with <mask> becoming the first person to successfully locate a surfbird's nest. Career
In 1927, <mask> entered into the National Park Service and joined the staff of Yosemite National Park as Assistant Park Naturalist, working under Carl Parcher Russell. Through this work as well as his time spent in national parks throughout the west, <mask> became very concerned about what he would come to call “the problems caused by conflict between man and animal through joint occupancy of the park areas.” <mask> was particularly concerned about the excessive predator control practiced for years within parks and adjacent lands, poaching, the park service practice of feeding grizzly and black bears for entertainment, and the lack of adequate habitat and forage for wildlife species within parks (deer, elk, buffalo, antelope) due to unnatural park boundaries and the grazing of sheep and cattle within parks. In 1929, with the help of Joseph Dixon, <mask> convinced then National Park Service Director Horace Albright to approve a survey of the wildlife and wildlife issues in the national parks in the western U.S.The survey was a

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 ground-breaking project which took root during the early years of the Great Depression; <mask> himself funded the survey and the salaries for his two colleagues, Dixon and Benjamin Hunter Thompson. The Wildlife Team of <mask>, Dixon, and Thompson (often accompanied by <mask>’s wife, Bee Ray <mask>), spent three field seasons visiting National Parks in their customized 1930 Buick, which they called “The Truck.”

The results were published in 1932 as Fauna of the National Parks of the United States, a Preliminary Survey of Faunal Relations in National Parks. Their follow-up publication, rounding out the two part "Fauna" series, Wildlife Management in the National Parks was published in 1934 and was soon adopted as official National Park Service policy. For the first time, the survey and reports established science as the basis for wildlife conservation in American national parks. In 1933, <mask> became the first chief of the newly-formed Wildlife Division of the Park Service. Under his leadership, and with the aid of Civilian Conservation Corp funding, each of the national parks began to survey and evaluate the status of wildlife on an ongoing basis in order to identify urgent problems especially in regards to restoration, conflict management, and rare or endangered species. During his brief <mask> wrote numerous articles and professional papers extolling the virtues of the National Parks and the need to maintain them in their “pristine” or “primitive” state.And how—with proper science-based management, strategic restoration, and expansion—the national parks could recover and steward their wildlife (and flora) while also accommodating increasing human visitation. Death and legacy
In February 1936, <mask> along with his friend and colleague Roger Toll

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 (Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park), and several other park service members, were notified by the Secretary of the Interior that the President had designated them members of a Commission “…to formulate policies and plans for the establishment and development of international parks, forest reserves and wildlife refuges along the international boundary between Mexico and the United States.” After several successful days exploring what is now Big Bend National Park with park and forest representatives from Mexico, the American contingent moved west to look at other potential border parks. On February 25, <mask> and Toll died in an automobile accident near Deming, New Mexico. <mask> was 31. The Park Service was devastated by the loss of two of their most prominent colleagues. Had he lived, <mask> likely would have become one of America’s most influential conservationists. The historian Richard West Sellars called <mask>'s vision for the management of national parks "truly revolutionary, penetrating beyond the scenic façades of the parks to comprehend the significance of the complex natural world.” <mask> was also featured in Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan's 2009 documentary, "National Parks: America's Best Idea."The George Wright Society is named in his honor. References

 Untold Stories from America's National Parks

External links
 Fauna of the National Parks of the United States:
 Preliminary Survey of Faunal Relations in National Parks (1932)
 Wildlife Management in the National Parks (1933)
 Portrait of <mask> <mask> circa 1930 (Historic Photograph Collection, Harpers Ferry Center)
 The George Wright Society

1904 births
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American people of Salvadoran descent
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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<mask> (4 May 1865 – 21 January 1947) was a leader and missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was ordained an apostle by church president Heber J. Grant on October 12, 1933, and remained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until his death. Early life
<mask> was born on 4 May 1865, in Dublin, Ireland, to John and <mask>. While living in England, <mask> met Mormon missionaries in Liverpool and joined the LDS Church along with his three siblings and their widowed mother. The <mask> family immigrated to Utah Territory in 1875 and settled in Davis County, Utah, first in Bountiful and later in Centerville. At age 16, <mask> moved to Coalville in Summit County, where he worked in the coal mines for 11 years.His mother married George Hyrum Williams on July 25, 1878, and they had several children. In 1891, <mask> was elected constable of Coalville. In 1892, he served as a missionary in Wyoming under the direction of the Summit Stake. From December 1892 until June 1895, he served as a missionary in the British Isles, including time in the Liverpool Conference. He later served as a missionary in Iowa. In 1896, at the age of 31, <mask> was elected to the Utah House of Representatives; he served in the 1st Utah State Legislature. In 1898, <mask> became the attorney for Summit County.In 1902, Callis married Grace Elizabeth Pack, a granddaughter of John Pack, and they were the parents of eight children. Missions
<mask>, his wife, and their two daughters moved to Florida in 1905 to perform missionary work. Callis was soon admitted to the Florida bar, and he worked to defend church missionaries in legal cases, such as the 1907 case against George Perry in Darlington, South Carolina. In 1907, the <mask> family returned home to Utah, but were almost immediately sent back to the southern United States, this time with <mask> appointed to head the South Carolina Conference. In 1908, <mask> was called as president of the church's Southern States Mission, succeeding Ben E. Rich. He

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 held this position until his call as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1933. When he began his tenure as mission president, he presided over 250 missionaries spread across 10 states.Apostle
<mask> became an LDS Church apostle on 12 October 1933, filling the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelvecreated by the death of James E. Talmage. <mask> served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve until his death, with Henry D. Moyle filling the vacancy created by his death. Richard E. Bennett wrote of Callis: "Today Elder <mask><mask> is an almost forgotten figure among younger members of the Church. Yet to those who knew him, he was utterly memorable." Nephi Jensen, a fellow missionary who worked with him in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote:

C. A<mask> in many respects [is] a very remarkable man. He is one of those heroic souls who have come up from the depths. A few years ago he was working in a coal mine in Utah, now he is a practicing attorney and has been admitted to the bar in two states.Without opportunities or aid from friends he has risen by the sovereignty of his determination to an enviable station in life. He not only acquired a knowledge of law by self effort but read widely on general subjects and trained himself in the art of public speaking. He is an able, pleasing and convincing orator. The guiding light and inspiration for Callis was always Jesus Christ. He once said, “From my earliest recollections to the present time I have always had an abiding and intense love for my Savior. I cannot read the story of His sufferings and crucifixion without shedding tears. As an apostle, Callis authored one book, Fundamentals of Religion (Deseret Book, 1945), a collection of seventeen lectures about the tenets of the LDS Church he gave over national radio in 1943.Death
<mask> died of a massive heart attack on 21 January 1947. His wife's death, which had occurred in October 1946, deeply affected Callis, and he never fully recovered from that loss. Callis died in Jacksonville, Florida, at the age of 81, the day after

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 meetings were held to organize the church's first stake in the Southern United States. He referred to this event as the "crowning achievement" of his life. The day before he died, Callis told many at the church meeting that he saw his wife many times everywhere he went. That night, he wrote to his daughter: "The Lord gave me strength to go through with the organization. With his aid I am battling through.I feel that your mother is not far from us." Funeral services for Callis were held both in Jacksonville and in Salt Lake City. He was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery. Quotes
"The awakening of the conscience is the grandeur of the soul." "In far too many cases riches and their owners change places—the riches own the owners. Money will become the master if it is not made to be the servant." “The greatest thrilling experience that you and I can ever have in our hearts will be on those occasions when deep down we receive the witness that our acts and our labors are approved by our Heavenly Father.”

"This is the world in which to cultivate righteous tendencies and just causes that will produce, in the world to come, results and harvests of perfection and heavenly fruit."Images

Works

See also
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland

References

External links

 <mask><mask> papers, MSS 22 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

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20th-century Mormon missionaries
American Mormon missionaries in the United Kingdom
American Mormon missionaries in the United States
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Irish Latter Day Saints
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Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
Irish general authorities (LDS Church)
Latter Day Saints from Florida
Latter Day Saints from Georgia (U.S. state)
Latter Day Saints from Utah
Members of the Utah House of Representatives
Mission presidents (LDS Church)
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<mask>ora, or female professional wrestler, best known under the ring name <mask> (sometimes spelled "<mask>") She is working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). <mask> is a part of an extended wrestling family that includes her father <mask>, her brother who wrestles as El Oriental and her sisters, Esther, Alda, and <mask>. She is a former two-time holder of the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship with her brother El Oriental. Professional wrestling career
<mask> is the daughter of Alfonso "Acorazado" (Spanish for "Battleship") <mask> and was trained by her father as well as by Pepe Casas for her professional wrestling career. She made her debut in 1987 in Arena Azteca Budoka in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State, the building her father promoted at the time, under the name <mask>. In the early 1990s <mask> and her sister <mask> travelled to Japan to wrestle for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. On April 21, 1991 the <mask> sisters defeated Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda to win the AJW Tag Team Championship, making them the first Mexican team to hold a championship in Mexico.They would hold the titles until August 2, 1991 where they lost the title to Takako Inoue and Mariko Yoshida. After returning to Mexico she began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), occasionally touring in Japan. In 1997 she left CMLL to work for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) along with her sisters Esther, Alda and Rossy. She made her first pay-per-view appearance for AAA as <mask>, Alda and <mask> lost to the team of their sister Rossy, Xóchitl Hamada and Miss Janeth as part of the 1999 Verano de Escandalo. At the 1999 Guerra de Titanes event Cinthia and Alda teamed up with Faby Apache to defeat

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 claimed that the Apaches and <mask> were nothing but maids, which led to AAA booking a match between <mask>, Faby and Mari Apache against Sexy Star, Rain, and Blade in a Triplemanía XVIII match where the person pinned or submitted would have to be the winning team's slave for a month. At Triplemanía La Legión defeated <mask> and the Apaches, when Blade pinned Mari, thanks in part to biased refereeing by Hijo del Tirantes. Following the match Konnan ordered Mari Apache to begin her maid duty right away by cleaning up their dressing room.The stipulation expired on July 6, 2010. Personal life
Flavia <mask> is a member of an extended wrestling family founded by her father <mask> who was both a wrestler and a wrestling promoter and her mother who took over promoting wrestling in Arena Azteca Budokan in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State after <mask> died. Cinthia's sisters Rossy Alda and Esther are or have been professional wrestlers as well as her brother who works as El Oriental. She is the former sister-in-law of Dr. Wagner, Jr. who was married to Rossy <mask>; she is also the aunt of Rossy and Wagner, Jr.'s son who wrestles as Dr. Wagner III. She's also the former sister-in-law of wrestler Groon XXX who was married to Esther. She is not related to the <mask> family that founded and promotes the International Wrestling Revolution Group promotion. Championships and accomplishments
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
AJW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with <mask>
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with El Oriental

References

External links
AAA profile

1970 births
Living people
Mexican female professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from

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title: Jan Werich

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<mask> (; 6 February 1905 – 31 October 1980) was a Czech actor, playwright and writer. Early life
Between 1916 and 1924, <mask> attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencova Street in Prague (where his future business partner, Jiří Voskovec, also studied). He studied law at the Charles University Law School from 1924 to 1927, from which he made an early departure to begin his artistic career and forge one of the most important partnerships of his life. Career

Theater
His collaboration with Jiří Voskovec and Jaroslav Ježek lasted for more than 10 years. Their partnership was a platform for their numerous left-wing political satires, most notably in the Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theatre). The trio's work took inspiration from Dada, with its love of the absurd, a reaction against bourgeois values and the horrors of World War I. In the years leading up to World War II and the closure of Czechoslovak theatres, <mask>, Voskovec and Ježek were forced into exile in the United States in 1938, where Voskovec and Ježek remained for the rest of their lives.<mask> returned to his homeland five years later, and started a partnership with Miroslav Horníček. He also worked with famous puppeteer Jiří Trnka to write modern fairy tales. With his new business partner Miroslav Horníček at his side, he re-staged many of the plays he had created with Voskovec in the 1930s but set them in the political content specific to the time. Film

<mask> appeared in such films as Byl jednou jeden král (English: Once Upon a Time There Was a King), which was released in 1955, and made many political compromises to appease the Communist censors. The 1960s were a peak in <mask>'s career. From the creation of

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 the ABC Theatre he moved to the City Theatres of Prague and then to the Musical Theatre of Karlin and Nusle. <mask> was originally cast by producer Harry Saltzman to play Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.Upon his arrival at the Pinewood set, both producer Albert R. Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert felt that he was a poor choice, resembling a "poor, benevolent Santa Claus". Nonetheless, in an attempt to make the casting work, Gilbert continued filming. After several days, both Gilbert and Broccoli determined that <mask> was not menacing enough, and recast Blofeld with Donald Pleasence in the role. Politics
<mask> signed the pro-reform manifesto 2000 Words in 1968. After the Soviet invasion of 1968, he and his wife immediately fled to Vienna along with many other Czechs at the time. After long deliberations he realized he had to go back, saying that his "home was his castle" and realizing that if he stayed abroad he would never work again. He returned to Czechoslovakia in early 1969.<mask> met with Voskovec for the very last time in Vienna, Austria in 1974. He had limited opportunities to perform in public until his death in 1980. His last public appearance was in Prague's Lucerna in 1977. He did not sign the Charter 77 proclamation, organized by Václav Havel, but in the end he succumbed to pressure from the Communist authorities and in order to be able to work again, publicly proclaimed his full loyalty to the regime, by attending "Anti-charta77" meetings and even signing a petition denouncing Charter 77. He later claimed he was tricked into signing and that he did not really know what his signature was for, as the original attendance document signed open entry

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 was potentially substituted for a later "declaration of faith". Death

<mask> died on 31 October 1980 at the age of 75. Minor planet 2418 Voskovec-Werich discovered by Luboš Kohoutek is named after him and George Voskovec.There were not enough stories however and so it was renamed and other stories were added - some of them have been previously published and some are originals, from manuscripts and letters. References

External links

 Werichovci - fan club website
  (1968, in Czech)

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Czechoslovak male singers
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Charles University alumni
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Czech male film actors
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title: Andrés Cantor

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<mask> (born December 22, 1962) is an Argentine-American sportscaster and pundit who works in the United States providing Spanish-language commentary and analysis in sports. Cantor is well known among English-speakers for his narration of soccer matches and shouting "¡Gol! when one is scored. Outside of soccer commentary, he covers other sports as well. Cantor has dual citizenship with Argentina and the United States. Early life
<mask> was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved with his family to the Southern California area when he was a teen, where he attended San Marino High School and then graduated from the University of Southern California.<mask> is of Jewish descent. His mother was born in Romania and migrated to Argentina at the age of 13, while his father was born in Argentina. His paternal grandparents were from Poland, and fled during the Nazi occupation. His favorite team is Boca Juniors from Argentina. Professional career
<mask> is famous for his signature bellowing of "¡Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!" after a score in football. Jose Maria Muñoz, a famous Argentine journalist who began narrating on radio in the 1940s, is widely considered the father of "peligro de gol" "danger of goal being scored", "gol, gol, gol, gooooool", etc.His style has been imitated by prominent football narrators throughout Latin America and Spain. It stemmed from the desire to let families and friends who have stepped away from a game know that a goal has been scored. However, due to translation and cultural dissonance issues, it was largely absent from the lexicon of British play-by-play commentators. <mask> was the first to introduce this climactic scoring call to a U.S. audience while working at Univision, making him popular with English-speaking viewers. He first used it at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but it became especially popular during the 1994 World Cup, which was held in the United States. <mask> made guest appearances on the Late Show with David

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 Letterman during the '94 and '98 tournaments, and after the tournament was over. He was broadcasting from Paris for the Late Show during the 1998 World Cup.The call is now being sold as a ringtone on  Telemundo's website. He says that Diego Maradona's goal at the 1986 World Cup, in which he ran from midfield past five English defenders to score, brought tears to his eyes (Cantor was working at the game). That goal became known as the "Goal of the Century," and took place after the infamous "Hand of God" goal. The yell was also used in a Volkswagen commercial that aired in the U.S. around the time of the 1998 World Cup. Another unique line of Cantor's can be heard whenever a game reaches half-time or is over. He delivers the line, "El árbitro dice que no hay tiempo para más" ("The referee says there is no time for more"). Telemundo Deportes
Cantor currently works for Telemundo Deportes, NBC Sports's Spanish-language division, and does play-by-play for matches on both Telemundo and its sister cable network Universo.At the 2004 Summer Olympics, where Telemundo was the first-ever U.S. Spanish-language network to broadcast the Olympics, Cantor worked as both a studio anchor and the play-by-play announcer for baseball. He went to Telemundo after several years at Univisión. Telemundo's other anchor for the games, Jessí Losada, worked with Cantor at Univisión before also leaving. Also, Norberto Longo, <mask>'s longtime partner in the broadcast booth and Univision's lead sports analyst, took the same role at Telemundo until his death on April 21, 2003, of a heart attack at the age of 61. XM Satellite Radio, in partnership with Cantor launched a Spanish-language sports network. Cantor anchored Telemundo's coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from the network's studios in Hialeah, Florida. He was also the play-by-play announcer for football during the games.Futbol de Primera Radio Network
<mask> is the owner and main play by play announcer of Futbol de Primera, a radio

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 network which owns the Spanish-language radio rights of the FIFA World Cups 2002/2006/2010/2014 as well as the Mexico national team, CONCACAF Gold Cup, Copa América (CONMEBOL) among other sports properties. <mask> hosts a daily show, Futbol de Primera, which airs nationally on more than 100 affiliates. NBC Sports
Cantor's first English-language assignment was the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he called both men's and women's football for NBC, complete with his sig. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Cantor provided only Spanish-language commentary for sister network Telemundo. Cantor had performed both English and Spanish-language broadcasts for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Other notable accomplishments
In 2008, Cantor appeared in the American live-action film Speed Racer as one of the grand prix announcers. <mask> is the author of the book Goooal!a Celebration of Football. Andres <mask>'s appearance booking fee can range from $5,000 to $10,000. In 2010, <mask> was featured in the Mike McGlone series of GEICO commercials where he is introduced as an announcer who could make any sport exciting. Subsequently, the camera cuts to him animatedly announcing a chess match. In 2011, he is uncredited for the role of the Spanish football announcer in an episode of the Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb. U.S. show Person of Interest used his 'Goooooooool' in the episode "Cura te ipsum." When Reese and Fusco confront the drug dealers at their apartment, there is a goal scored during a football match on the television.The famous "Gooooooool", seen in the U.S. on NBC's Deportes Telemundo network, can be heard in the background. In 2014, <mask> was featured in an ad campaign for Volkswagen of America. The campaign was launched for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and depicts him offering play-by-play announcing while his son Nicolas drives a new Volkswagen Golf GTI. <mask> was featured as an announcer in the Walt Disney film Muppets Most Wanted in March 2014. He

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