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texts: his Duchy. He demanded that she evacuate the fief to him, sent armed troops to the area to prevent her from collecting taxes from the farmers of the area and threatened to attack the estate to remove her physically. The conflict escalated to this point prior to his marriage in 1579, because he wished to present Strömsholm as the residence of his bride. <mask>'s rights were protected by John III, who reminded Charles that although the King had not mentioned the estate in his will, he had asked the Princes to ensure the right of his widow to it verbally. The conflict, however, continued until 1582, when John III formally had the royal council declare a verdict in favor of <mask> in the matter and threaten Charles with the loss of his succession rights to the throne unless he respected the decision.In 1570, <mask> had a wish to marry Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg, the brother-in-law of her stepdaughter Princess Sophia. These plans was however prevented by the spouse of Sophia, Magnus II of Saxe-Lauenburg. During the time of conflict between her and Duke Charles of the rights to Strömsholm, she received a proposal from a German Count Palatine, but declined the offer. During the reign of John III, she no longer had such a prominent place at court, as the King was married. Because of her royal rank, she occupied a more and more dominant role in her own birth family, and often hosted family meetings and arranged family occasions such as weddings and funerals, and continued to act as a channel between her relatives and the royal house. In 1574, a scandal took place when her brother <mask> made his legendary

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texts: elopement with their cousin, Malin Sture, daughter of her famous aunt Martha Leijonhufvud. The couple were in love, but had been forbidden to marry by Martha because they were cousins.Martha had the King imprison Erik, but <mask> and Duke Charles both acted as mediators, and managed to have Erik released and have their love marriage acknowledged within a year. In 1582, she participated in the meeting between Karin Månsdotter and Queen <mask> at Svartsjö Castle. Queen <mask>, as well as Queen Gunilla Bielke, both acted as mediators during the conflict between the King and the Royal Council in 1589–90. During the conflict, John III suspected the Councillors of conspiring to depose him in favor of the son of Eric XIV. <mask> was informed that rumors circulated in which she was to have hosted a meeting for the Councillors at Strömsholm where they conspired to depose the King. She contacted the King and defended her against the accusations, and was never openly accused. In 1592, John III died and was succeeded by his son Sigismund III Vasa, the elected King of Poland, which was opposed by Duke Charles.<mask> participated in the burial of John III in 1594, and had her fiefs confirmed by Sigismund, with the right to appoint the officials in Åland. In 1595, civil war erupted between Sigismund and Duke Charles. Her brothers refused to join Duke Charles, who declared them, her brother-in-law Klaus Fleming, Governor of Finland, and her nephew as his enemies. Klaus Fleming had a new official appointed to her fief of Åland and used its supplies for Sigismund against Charles. This was likely done with the approval of <mask>,

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texts: who had sent warnings about Charles to Fleming, but this could not be proven, even though Charles had one of Fleming's men arrested and interrogated. In November 1597, <mask>'s fief Åland was confiscated by Charles on the ground of it having been used against him. The same year, after the warfare of Duke Charles toward the loyalists of Sigismund in Finland, Fleming was killed, and <mask>'s sister Ebba Stenbock and her daughters were taken captive by the Duke and imprisoned in Stockholm: the son of Ebba was killed during the Åbo Bloodbath in 1599.Several of the relatives of Queen Dowager <mask> remained loyal to Sigismund and fled to Poland. She visited Queen Christina to plead to the King through her in 1599. Duke Charles could prove nothing against <mask> herself, and her fief of Åland was eventually replaced by Drottningholm. Her residence of Strömsholm became a refuge for the abandoned wives and daughters of her male relatives, who fled to Sigismund in Poland and had their estates in Sweden confiscated, and she petitioned for the confiscated property to be returned to her female relations, sometimes eventually with success. Her sister Ebba and her daughters lived with her after they were released from prison in 1600. Among the female relations she received as maid of honor were Ebba Brahe in 1614, who was the removed from the employ of the mother of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden to prevent a love match with the King, and whose wedding she hosted in 1618. Queen Dowager <mask> spent her last years tending to her estates, engaging in iron works and other enterprises, and spending time with her relatives,

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 especially her sisters.During her last years, she became periodically crippled, and was for this reason not able to attend the wedding of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1620. She has been given a charitable reputation because she gave a safe haven to many female relations to the exiled loyalists of Sigismund, and because she often acted as a channel of the local peasantry and the royal house. Upon her death in 1621 at 86 years of age, it was said that: "The poor have lost a friend, the orphans their mother". She was buried in Uppsala Cathedral, but without a monument of her own. Notes

References
 Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906), Katarina Stenbock. Lars Ericson: Johan III (John III) (Swedish)
 Lars-Olof Larsson: Gustav Vasa - Landsfader eller tyrann? (Gustav Vasa - Father of a country or a tyrant?)(Prisma) (Swedish)
 Wilhelmina Stålberg, P. G. Berg : Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes of Swedish women) (in Swedish)
 Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen (2010). Vasadöttrarna (utgåva 2). Falun: Historiska Media. Malin Grundberg: Ceremoniernas makt: maktöverföring och genus i vasatidens kungliga ceremonier
 Tegenborg Falkdalen, Karin, Vasadrottningen: en biografi över Katarina Stenbock 1535-1621 [The Vasa Queen: A biography of <mask>, 1535-1621], Historiska media, Lund, 2015

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People of the War against Sigismund
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title: Cody Simpson

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<mask> (born 11 January 1997) is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, model, swimmer and environmentalist. Since his debut, he has released three solo studio albums: Paradise (2012), Surfers Paradise (2013), and Free (2015). He portrayed the lead role of Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia from November 2018 through April 2019. The same year he won the first season of The Masked Singer Australia as “Robot”. Early life
<mask> was born at Logan Hospital in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, to Brad and <mask>. He attended All Saints Anglican School throughout his upbringing and was a talented swimmer in his younger years. <mask> trained at the Miami Swimming Club under coach Ken Nixon and won two gold medals at the 2009 Queensland Swimming Championships.His mother Angie also worked as a volunteer at the swimming club. He has two younger siblings, Tom and Alli. <mask> began to record songs in his bedroom during the summer of 2009 on YouTube, performing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, "Cry Me a River" and "Señorita" by Justin Timberlake, "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5, and his own songs, "One" and "Perfect". Career

Music

2009–2011: Career beginnings, 4 U, and Coast to Coast

<mask>'s rise to recognition was featured on The 7.30 Report in December 2009. He released his debut single, "iYiYi" (which features American rapper Flo Rida), on 15 May 2010. The music video for <mask>'s second single, "Summertime", was released on 20 September 2010. <mask> relocated to Los Angeles in June 2010 with his family to record his songs with Atlantic Records' Shawn Campbell.That same month, <mask> appeared on Sunrise. On 22 June 2010, it was announced that <mask> would participate in the Camplified 2010 Tour, along with other artists, touring across the United States. The tour began on 5 July 2010 and ended on 14 August 2010. Other tours that year included a middle school tour that took place from October–November 2010 and covered 9 U.S states. An EP, 4 U was released on 21 December 2010. The EP included five tracks in total, four of them being previously unreleased.

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 <mask> recorded a remake of the song "I Want Candy" by The Strangeloves as the main theme song for the Easter-themed live-action/CGI-animated film Hop.In May 2011, <mask> was "egged" during a live performance at Westfield Miranda in Sydney. <mask> told Australian radio show The Kyle & Jackie O Show that he was not in fact hit by the eggs, and that he was upset on behalf of his fans because the remainder of his show was cancelled because of security concerns. He then started the Waiting 4U tour with American singer Greyson Chance on 9 April in Ivins, Utah. The tour ended on 18 May 2011, in Portland, Oregon. Coast to Coast was released on 20 September 2011 by Atlantic Records. It reached number 12 on the Billboard 200 and sold 24,000 copies. On 23 April 2011, <mask> released the single "On My Mind".On 5 August 2011, he performed on The Today Show. The following day, <mask> started his Coast to Coast Mall Tour in Lake Grove, New York to promote his second EP. He played nine dates around the United States and finished it in Orange, California on 18 September 2011. On 22 September, it was announced that <mask> hired Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, as his own. In December 2011, The Wish Factory released a <mask> doll in two formats. 2012–2014: Paradise, Surfers Paradise and Dancing with the Stars

On 12 June 2012, <mask> released an EP titled Preview to Paradise containing four songs from his upcoming debut studio album, Paradise, which was released on 2 October 2012. In February 2013, <mask> toured Europe, doing his own tour dates as well as supporting Justin Bieber on many of the European Believe tour dates.Surfers Paradise, which was released on 16 July 2013, is <mask>'s first album to debut in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. During the summer of 2013, <mask> headlined the Paradise Tour, featuring opening acts Ryan Beatty and Before You Exit. On 19 November 2013, <mask> released an acoustic album called The Acoustic Sessions, featuring the songs "Pretty Brown Eyes", "All Day", "La Da Dee", "Wish U Were Here", and a cover of "Please Come Home for Christmas"

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 recorded acoustically. On 4 March 2014, <mask> was announced as one of the celebrities to participate on the 18th season of Dancing with the Stars during ABC's Good Morning America. He was partnered with professional dancer Witney Carson. He was eliminated on Week 5 of the competition and finished in 9th place. From 30 June 2014 to 14 July 2014 <mask> did an acoustic tour through Europe with singer Jackson Harris.In August 2014 <mask> announced he had departed Warner/Atlantic. He cited creative differences as the reason for his departure and as a result, is currently unsigned. 2015–2018: Free, <mask> and the Tide, and Wave One
<mask>'s album Free was scheduled to be released on 23 June 2015 then was pushed back to 10 July. <mask> performed the first single, "Flower" on Good Morning America on 6 February 2015. It is his first album as an independent artist since leaving Atlantic Records to create his own label, Coast House. The album was produced by Cisco Adler and includes songwriting collaborations with G. Love and Donavon Frankenreiter. John Mayer served as a sounding board.<mask> performed his single "New Problems" on NBC's Today show on 13 July 2015. On 1 November 2015 it has been reported that <mask> took a break from his long term solo career to start up a new band with his close mates Adrian Cota and Khari Mateen. In 2017, <mask> formed a new band billed as <mask> and the Tide, making their debut with the single "Waiting for the Tide." Cody and the Tide is composed of <mask> on vocals and guitar, Adrian Cota on drums and Shareef "Reef" Addo on bass. Cody and the Tide released their debut EP, entitled Wave One, in the fall of 2017. The music is a blend of pop, rock, blues, and surf-rock genres. The band used their varying influences and musical tastes to create Wave One.In their four-track EP, <mask> sings of love, unity, environmentalism and ocean conservation. The EP's debut single, "Waiting for the Tide," was inspired by a poem <mask> wrote that tackled topics such as rising water levels and ocean conservation. In August 2018, the band released "Underwater"

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 music video song. In October, <mask> and the Tide went on a short tour of southern California to perform their EP. In early 2019, after almost three years together, the band split up. 2019–present: Return to solo work
After parting ways with his band and focusing on his solo career again, <mask> released the song Golden Thing he wrote for Miley Cyrus on 18 October 2019 which crossed over 1 million views on Spotify. In the same year, he participated on The Masked Singer Australia, as the "Robot" and went on to win the show.In 2022, he released a new music video of "Nice To Meet You" on YouTube and Spotify. Acting
In 2014, he made his television debut by making a cameo in a sitcom Instant Mom. In 2015, <mask> guest starred on the American television sitcom Cougar Town, portraying Pete, a high school student. In the same year he booked a role in Nickelodeon's film One Crazy Cruise where he played the love interest of Kira Kosarin's character Ellie Jensen-Bauer and starred as himself. In late 2017, <mask> was cast in the supporting role in Bret Easton Ellis' thriller film, The Smiley Face Killers opposite actor Crispin Glover. In October 2018, he debuted on Theatre when he was cast in the Broadway musical Anastasia as the leading male character Dmitry, alongside John Bolton and Christy Altomare. Swimming
In 2019, he revealed that he is a member of the University of Southern California (USC)'s Trojan Swim Elite team.As of early 2020, he has been training under the two-time Olympian Brett Hawke. He competed in the 100 yard butterfly competition and finished in the 24th position out of 29 entrants. In December 2020, he shared on social media that he had qualified for the Australian Olympic trials in the 100m butterfly. The trials took place in Adelaide in June 2021 and <mask> set personal best times but failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics by finishing in 8th place having made the final of the 100m butterfly. <mask> starred on Head Above Water, a swimming documentary, as himself which released on June 4, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video. He is currently training to qualify

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 for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Other works
In 2012, he was a brand ambassador of Build-A-Bear Workshop.A year later, he became a brand ambassador for Teen Cancer America. In June 2017, he was named the first United Nations Development Programme advocate for oceans. In the month of August, he was named one of Bonds brand ambassador for Home Grown campaign. He also featured in Stellar. He is signed with IMG Models. His book "Prince Neptune" is set to release in April 2020. In February 2020, he had appeared in Australia's new Bonds "WeGotsYou" campaign.He is signed with the talent agency ICM Partners. <mask> starred on Head Above Water as himself which was released on June 4, 2021, in Amazon Prime Video. Personal life
<mask> has several tattoos on his body: his record label, which represents the sun, water, and earth, on his left forearm; a large anchor on his right hand; a large sun below his right shoulder; 'Old man river' on his arm; skull and crossbones inked on his chest; and a thumb-sized drawing of Elvis Presley on his forearm. <mask> publicly dated Gigi Hadid from 2013 to 2015 followed by Miley Cyrus from 2019 to 2020, and model Marloes Stevens (2020-2021). Filmography

Discography

Studio albums
Paradise (2012)
Surfers Paradise (2013)
Free (2015)

Tours
Headlining
Welcome to Paradise Tour (2012)
Paradise Tour  (2013–14)
The Acoustic Sessions Tour (2014)
Free Tour (2015)

Co-headlining
Waiting 4U Tour  (2011)

Promotional
Coast to Coast Mall Tour (2011)

Opening act
Big Time Summer Tour  (2012)
Believe Tour  (2013)

Awards and nominations

References

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21st-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian singers
Atlantic Records artists
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Australian contemporary R&B singers
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Living people
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title: Patty Schemel

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<mask> (born April 24, 1967) is an American drummer and musician who rose to prominence as the drummer of alternative rock band Hole from 1992 until 1998. Born in Los Angeles, Schemel was raised in rural Marysville, Washington, where she developed an interest in punk rock music as a teenager. She began drumming at age eleven, and while in high school, formed several bands with her brother, Larry. Schemel was recommended as a drummer to Hole frontwoman Courtney Love by her husband, Kurt Cobain, a friend of Schemel's. She formally joined the band in 1992, and performed on their critically acclaimed second album, Live Through This (1994). On the band's third release, Celebrity Skin (1998), Schemel was replaced by a session drummer after its producer, Michael Beinhorn, convinced Love that Schemel was unable to adequately perform during their recording sessions. Though she receives credit on the album, her drumming does not appear on the final tracks, and the event marked her departure from the band.For the band's subsequent tour, <mask> was replaced by Samantha Maloney. After leaving Hole, Schemel developed a significant crack cocaine addiction, and was homeless for a time. In the early 2000s, she became sober and reunited with Love, joining the short-lived group Bastard before drumming on Love's debut solo album, America's Sweetheart (2004). Schemel subsequently drummed for Juliette and the Licks, appearing on their EP ...Like a Bolt of Lightning (2004). In 2010, using concert and video diary footage from Hole's 1994–1995 Live Through This world tour, Schemel co-created Hit So Hard, a documentary chronicling her time in Hole, her overcoming substance abuse, as well her subsequent business operating a dog boarding business. In 2013, she joined the indie rock group Upset, formed by Ali Koehler, previously of Vivian Girls and Best Coast, and formed the band Death Valley Girls with her brother, Larry, the same year. Life and career

1967–1986: Early life
Patricia Theresa <mask> was born April

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 24, 1967 in Los Angeles, California.She is the middle child of three children and grew up in Marysville, Washington. Both her parents are natives of Brooklyn, New York, and relocated to Washington state shortly after Schemel's birth. Schemel's parents were members of Alcoholics Anonymous, which Schemel described as significant to her upbringing in her memoir, Hit So Hard. Schemel began playing drums at age eleven after her father bought her a drum set, and played music with her brother Larry, who played guitar. As a teenager, Schemel came out as a lesbian to her family. "When I realized I was a lesbian, it was weird," Schemel reflected. "Thank god for punk and rock music.You could be whoever you wanted." Musically, Schemel's early influences included Echo & the Bunnymen, AC/DC and Wire, among other punk rock bands. Schemel recalled being one of a small number of peers in her high school who had a shared interest in punk rock music. At age fifteen formed her first band, The Milkbones. She and her brother Larry subsequently formed the Seattle punk band Sybil, which was renamed Kill Sybil due to the artist of the same name. 1987–1991: Early projects
In 1987, she joined Doll Squad, an all-female punk rock band from Seattle. Along with bassist Annette Billesbach, lead guitarist Cathy Watson, rhythm guitarist Helen Halloran and vocalist Mara Dralle, Schemel was one of the original members of Doll Squad before their 2008 reunion.The band was initially active from 1987 to 1989 gaining an indie following in Seattle, playing alongside Nirvana, and releasing one self-released demo tape. Between Kill Sybil and Doll Squad, Schemel played drums for Everett, Washington-based band The Primitives with poet Raegan Butcher and local performers Danny Darst and Tommy Suzuki. 1992–1997: Hole

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 of Angels.She also sang backing vocals and appeared prominently in the video for the song. During this time, <mask> and Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur formed a short-lived side project called Constant Comment. The band played a small number of shows before disbanding. Hole became active again in 1997 and entered the studio to record Celebrity Skin (1998), the follow-up to Live Through This. Schemel worked on the writing of the album's material, and composed all of the drum parts herself. While in the studio, however, Love and Erlandson, at the insistence of producer Michael Beinhorn, suggested using a session drummer to record the drum tracks for the album. This led to Schemel voluntarily leaving the studio and quitting the band, and the final drum tracks were recorded by a session drummer provided by producer Beinhorn.In the months following the album's release, <mask> was not present in band interviews, and was eventually replaced by Samantha Maloney for the album's tour. However, due to her contribution to the writing of the album and its demos, Schemel's name and photo were still included on the album sleeve. 1998–2000: Departure from Hole and aftermath
Reasons for Schemel's departure from Hole were disputed at the time, with Love claiming that Schemel's then drug habit was to blame, which supported circulating rumours, however, Schemel insisted it was due to "musical differences." It was later revealed in 2011 that Schemel left Hole due to personal and musical differences between her and Celebrity Skin producer, Michael Beinhorn. She claimed that Beinhorn was "totally psyching [her] out in the studio" and after a meeting with the band, Beinhorn brought in a session drummer, to which she felt "betrayed by the band." Bandmates Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson later publicly expressed regret over the decision to replace Schemel on the album's studio work, and Love referred to Beinhorn as "a Nazi". Melissa Auf der Maur also commented on the incident, but noted that she "didn't have

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 Documentary Centerpiece at Outfest in Los Angeles in June 2011 and was released theatrically and on home video in 2012.In April 2012, Schemel joined former Hole bandmates Melissa Auf der Maur, Courtney Love, and Eric Erlandson for a reunion performance at the Public Assembly in Brooklyn, New York following a screening of Hit So Hard. In January 2013, Schemel joined the group Upset with Ali Koehler. The same year, she formed the garage rock band Death Valley Girls with her brother, Larry. Schemel published an autobiography, also titled Hit So Hard:A Memoir, in 2017 through Da Capo Press. The book was praised for its candor, honesty and humor. In dealing with topics such as fame, addiction, coming out and more. The following year, Schemel appeared as a drummer on Marissa Nadler's eighth studio album, For My Crimes (2018).In 2019 <mask> recorded a record with Upset produced by Steven McDonald of Redd Kross. Discography

As a drummer

Kill Sybil
Kill Sybil (1993)

Hole
Live Through This (1994)
My Body, the Hand Grenade (1997)
Celebrity Skin (1998)

Phranc
Goofyfoot (1995)

Lucid Nation
Tacoma Ballet (2002)

Courtney Love
America's Sweetheart (2004)

Juliette and the Licks
...Like a Bolt of Lightning (2004)

Upset
She's Gone (2013)

Sharkmuffin
Chartreuse (2015)

Marissa Nadler
For My Crimes (2018)

Notes

References

Sources

Further reading

External links

 2013 Audio Interview with <mask> from the Podcast "I'd Hit That"

1967 births
American alternative rock musicians
American women drummers
American people of German descent
American punk rock drummers
American rock drummers
Feminist musicians
Hole (band) members
Juliette and the Licks members
American lesbian musicians
Living people
LGBT people from California
LGBT people from Washington (state)
LGBT songwriters
People from Marysville, Washington
Songwriters from California
Songwriters from Washington (state)
20th-century American drummers
20th-century American women musicians
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people
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title: Butch Trucks

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Claude Hudson "<mask>" <mask> (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. <mask> was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. He played in various groups before forming the 31st of February while at Florida State University in the mid 1960s. He joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Their 1971 live release, At Fillmore East, represented an artistic and commercial breakthrough. The group became one of the most popular bands of the era on the strength of their live performances and several successful albums.Though the band broke up and re-formed various times, Trucks remained a constant in their 45-year career. Trucks died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 24, 2017. Early life

Claude Hudson <mask> was born on May 11, 1947, in Jacksonville, Florida. His father was an optician. He first discovered his talent at drumming when prompted by a band director at Ribault junior high: "The band director gave three of us sticks and said, 'Play me something,'" he recalled. He then attended Jean Ribault High School, where he was made first chair as a freshman. Trucks was in two bands before later graduating from Englewood High School in 1965: The Vikings, who released one 7-inch in 1964, and the Echoes, which mainly played Beatles covers.Trucks attended Florida State University for one year; he once said he "majored in staying out of Vietnam." His grades suffered from poor attendance and he was kicked out. During this time, Trucks formed a band,

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 the Bitter Ind., with two high school friends. The group played covers of Bob Dylan, the Byrds, and the Lovin' Spoonful. They relocated to Daytona Beach in hopes of finding greater success, but were often turned away by owners because their patrons were unable to dance to the music. At one club, he met members of the Allman Joys, including brothers Duane and Gregg Allman. The band changed their name to the 31st of February fearing legal action from New York nightclub The Bitter End.The band signed a deal with Vanguard Records, and their self-titled debut album was released in 1968. The group briefly toured with the Allmans under various names, recording demos later released in 1972 as Duane & Greg Allman. Music career

Tired of his then-middling music career, Trucks pondered going back to school to study mathematics. In 1969, he was invited to join a new project headed by Duane Allman, who had secured a record deal with Atlantic Records. Allman introduced Trucks to Jai Johanny Johanson (Jaimoe), who also would be a drummer in the band. Together, the two developed a rhythmic drive that would prove crucial to the band. Trucks laid down a powerful conventional beat while the jazz-influenced Johanson added a second layer of percussion and ad libitum cymbal flourishes, seamlessly melded into one syncopated sound.Said founding member and co-lead guitarist Dickey Betts of Trucks' addition to the original band lineup, "...When <mask> came along, he had that freight train, meat-and-potatoes kind of thing that set Jaimoe up perfectly. He


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texts: had the power thing we needed." The group became the Allman Brothers Band, who began touring heavily and released their first, self-titled album later that November. Trucks continued to record and perform with the Allman Brothers Band until they disbanded in 2014. Along with Allman Brothers band members Johanson, Betts, and Gregg Allman, Trucks was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against UMG Recordings. The suit, initiated in 2008, sought $10 million over royalties from compact disk sales and digital downloads services such as Apple's iTunes. Trucks saw the license given to users for downloads as legally unsound.Trucks embraced Internet technology for the group and planned to use Moogis.com (now defunct) to make the Web a real venue for the Allman Brothers and other jam bands. In the Brothers' later years, he helped connect them to the extended jamband scene. In 2013, he formed the Roots Rock Revival master camp experience. In 2015, Trucks performed at two festivals with a band billed as <mask>s & Very Special Friends. This band evolved into a band called Les Brers which was led by Trucks and also featured other former Allman Brothers Band members including his longtime drumming partner Johanson. He also performed with a band called Butch Trucks & The Freight Train Band. Trucks had a long interest in philosophy and literature.In 2005, The New York Times Book Review published a letter from Trucks criticizing writer Roy Blount, Jr.'s reference to Duane as "one of these churls" in a review of Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis


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 Reader. The letter further criticized Grover Lewis for his 1971 Rolling Stone article about the band, which Trucks wrote made the members look like uneducated characters who spoke in dialogue "taken directly from Faulkner." Personal life and death

Trucks was married for 25 years to <mask>, with whom he had two children. He also had two children from a previous marriage, and four grandchildren. Trucks was related to other famous musicians: his nephew, guitarist <mask>, joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and is one of the co-founders of the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Another nephew, Duane <mask> (Derek's younger brother), plays drums for Widespread Panic and Hard Working Americans. Trucks' oldest son, guitarist Vaylor <mask>, is part of a trio called The Yeti Trio based in Atlanta, Georgia.Police reports confirmed that Trucks died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on January 24, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of 69 "reportedly after years of financial strife". References

Sources

Further reading
Freeman, Scott. Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band, Little, Brown & Co. 1995.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/derek-trucks-remembers-butch-trucks-he-left-an-impression-at-all-times-113703/

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Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1995

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2017 suicides
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Musicians from Jacksonville, Florida
Suicides by firearm in Florida
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The 31st of February members
Trucks family
2017 deaths
Blues rock

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<mask> (born February 7, 1991) is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Schwenninger Wild Wings of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Ramage was a fourth-round selection of the Calgary Flames (103rd overall) at the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Ramage played four seasons of college hockey with the University of Wisconsin Badgers and has twice won a medal as a member of the American junior national team: Gold at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, and bronze as captain of the American junior national team that won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He turned professional in 2013 and made his NHL debut in 2015. Early life
<mask> was born in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, Ontario, when his father, former National Hockey League (NHL) player <mask>, was a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but was raised in the  St. Louis area suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri. He is the son of Rob and his wife Dawn, and has two elder sisters, Tamara and Jacklyn. As a youth, Ramage played in the 2004 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the St. Louis Blues minor ice hockey team.Ramage followed his father into hockey and played for his hometown St. Louis Bandits in the North American Hockey League (NAHL) in 2007–08 before joining the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (USNTDP) for a year. While a member of the program, Ramage represented Team USA at the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships and recorded one assist in seven games for the gold medal-winning squad. At least four National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools attempted to recruit Ramage, as did the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Ramage

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 accepted a scholarship offer to attend the University of Wisconsin and play with the Wisconsin Badgers hockey team beginning in the 2009–10 season. At Wisconsin, Ramage majored in life sciences communication and completed his four-year degree. Playing career

College
Ramage played four seasons with the Badgers between 2009 and 2013. As a freshman in 2009–10, he scored 2 goals and added 10 assists in 41 games.He also joined the United States junior national team for the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Ramage recorded three assists in seven games and the Americans defeated the host Canadians in the final to win the gold medal. Ramage played in his second World Junior Championship in 2011; he served as team captain for the bronze medal-winning Americans. At the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> was selected in the fourth round, 103rd overall, by the Calgary Flames – one of his father's former teams. He remained at Wisconsin, and in his sophomore season of 2010–11, scored 1 goal and added 10 assists. Named the Badger's captain in his junior season of 2011–12, Ramage initially struggled and finished with only 10 points in 37 games. Wanting to complete his degree and to continue to develop as a player, <mask> declined an opportunity to turn professional with the Flames and instead returned to Wisconsin for his senior season.Ramage enjoyed his best collegiate season in 2012–13 as he tallied 8 goals and 12 assists for 20 points in 42 games. In 157 games over four years, he scored 14 goals and 53 points. Professional
Upon completing his college career, Ramage signed a two-year contract with the Calgary Flames. He began the 2013–14 season with Calgary's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the

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texts: Abbotsford Heat, where he recorded only 1 assist in 50 games. The Flames demoted him to the ECHL's Alaska Aces, a development that <mask> later said benefited him as he received increased responsibilities with Alaska. He appeared in the team's final six regular season games, during which he recorded one goal. He then added 4 more goals and 13 assists in 20 playoff games as the Aces won the Kelly Cup championship.Returning to the AHL for the 2014–15 season, Ramage was assigned to Calgary's relocated affiliate, the Adirondack Flames. He recorded 14 points with the team in 53 games before earning his first NHL recall on April 10, 2015. He made his NHL debut the following day in a 5–1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets. Following the season, the Flames chose not to extend a qualifying offer to Ramage on a new contract, thus making him an unrestricted free agent. On July 3, 2015, Ramage signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He contributed to the Lake Erie Monsters Calder Cup championship for the 2015–16 season. During his third season within the Blue Jackets organization in the 2017–18 campaign, <mask> was traded to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for future considerations on January 22, 2018.On February 26, 2018, the Coyotes traded <mask> along with Tyler Gaudet to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Pierre-Cédric Labrie and Trevor Murphy. He was immediately assigned to the Predators AHL affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals, adding 3 assists in 21 games. On July 1, 2018, Ramage continued his journeyman career, agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract with the New Jersey Devils. Rampage was assigned to AHL affiliate, the Binghamton Devils for the duration of the 2018–19 season. In his

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 sixth season in the AHL, Ramage established new career best markers with 12 goals and 31 points in 74 games, however was unable to earn a recall to New Jersey. As an impending free agent, Rampage opted to pursue a European career, signing his first contract abroad on a two-year agreement with German club, Eisbären Berlin of the DEL, on May 10, 2019. After helping Berlin claim their eighth championship title in his second season with the club, <mask> left as a free agent to sign a one-year contract with Schwenninger Wild Wings on May 14, 2021.Personal life
He married <mask> (née Butrym) on July 11, 2015 in Libertyville, Illinois. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

See also
List of family relations in the NHL

Notes
 Sources disagree on where <mask> was born. The National Hockey League's website says Mississauga, Ontario, however the Calgary Flames Media Guide, the IIHF Guide and Record Book, Winnipeg Free Press, and Canadian Press all give St. Louis. <mask>'s father Rob was playing with the Toronto Maple Leafs at the time of his birth, but had previously spent six seasons in St. Louis. References
Career statistics:

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1991 births
Living people
Abbotsford Heat players
Adirondack Flames players
Alaska Aces (ECHL) players
American men's ice hockey players
Binghamton Devils players
Calgary Flames draft picks
Calgary Flames players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cleveland Monsters players
Columbus Blue Jackets players
Eisbären Berlin players
Ice hockey players from St. Louis
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Lake Erie Monsters players
Milwaukee Admirals players
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Tucson Roadrunners players
Wisconsin Badgers men's ice

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title: Loredana Bertè

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<mask> (; born 20 September 1950) is an Italian singer. In her long career she has worked with prominent Italian songwriters such as Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Mango and Enrico Ruggeri, among others. She has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to pop. Her sister Mia Martini was also a prominent singer. <mask> is known for the eccentric clothing she wears onstage for her performances. At one point in her life, she was married to the tennis star Björn Borg (1988–1992). Career

<mask> was born in Bagnara Calabra, Province of Reggio Calabria, in Southern Italy on September 20 as the third of four daughters, three years after her sister Domenica.Her parents, Giuseppe Radames Berté and Maria Salvina Dato, were both school teachers. <mask> spent her childhood in Porto Recanati and then in Ancona. After her parents separated, Berté moved with her mother to Rome where she attended the local Art Institute. In the early 1970s she performed as a go-go dancer in television and radio shows such as "Bandiera Gialla" and "Stasera Rita!". She later joined the dance troupe of the Piper Club in Rome, where she met Renato Zero. In 1969 both Berté, Zero and Teo Teocoli starred in the Italian edition of the musical "Hair". In 1970 <mask> and her sister Domenica, who had by then changed her name to Mia Martini, performed as backing vocalists for Chico Buarque de Holanda.While Martini would consequently start a successful music career, recording songs like "Piccolo Uomo" and "Minuetto", <mask> continued to pursue theatre. In 1972 she performed in "Ciao Rudy" and

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texts: "Orfeo 9". In 1974, producers Alfredo Cerruti and Enrico Riccardi persuaded <mask> to record her first album, Streaking. Berté's second album, "Normale o Super" included "Sei Bellissima", Berté's first domestic hit. In 1978, Berté started a relationship with Ivano Fossati. Fossati produced the single "E la luna bussò", which is considered one of the early minstream reggae songs in Italy. In the early 1980s Berté spent a year in New York to work on her next album.Elio Fiorucci introduced her to Andy Warhol at the Factory. Warhol and Berté collaborated on the music video for her song "Movie". In 1982 she won Festivalbar with "Non sono una signora". In 1985 she recorded the album Carioca in collaboration with Djavan. In 1986 she participated to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Re". In 1988 she met and married Bjorn Borg. The marriage would end in 1992.In 1993 Berté and Mia Martini, collaborated on the song "Stiamo come stiamo". On May 12, 1995, Martini was found unresponsive in her apartment in Rome. Martini's death proved to be a devastating moment in Berté's life. In the early 2000s <mask> returned to theatre, performing with Carla Fracci in "Gerusalemme" at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. She entrusts the direction of the three video clips that are part of the mini-CD "Dimmi che mi ami" of 2002. Two years later she took part in "Music Farm", the first reality show on Italian TV involving famous singers. Thanks to the show's proceeds, she produced the new album "Babybertè" (2005) by herself.In April 2010 she suffered a bad fall, and the related surgery forced her to a lengthy

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 hospitalization. She returned to the Sanremo Music Festival the following year, finishing fourth with the Gigi D'Alessio song "Respirare". Her following tour, "Bandabertè", ended up in Russia, where she participated in the international White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. In 2015 she played the judge's role in the talent "Friends of Maria De Filippi". In 2017 she recorded the songs "Allegria" with J-Ax and Fedez and "Occhi di Gatto" with Cristina D'Avena. In 2016 Berté staged a big show at the Verona Arena called "Amiche in Arena", performing a series of duets with other Italian female artists, including Fiorella Mannoia, Gianna Nannini, Patty Pravo and Irene Grandi. Berté's song "J'adore Venise" was included in Luca Guadagnino's Oscar-winning film's soundtrack, Call Me By Your Name (2017).In 2018 she topped the Italian charts with "Non ti dico no", a song made in collaboration with the raggae dancehall band Boomdabash. She also duetted with Fabio Rovazzi and J-Ax in "Senza pensieri". (2004)
 "Strade di fuoco" (2006) Italy: Gold
 "Musica e parole" (2008) Italy: Gold
 "Cattiva" (Loredana Errore feat. <mask> <mask>) (2011)
 "Respirare" (with Gigi D'Alessio) (2012) Italy: Gold
 "Ma quale musica leggera" (2012)
 "Non ti dico no" (with Boomdabash) (2018) Italy: 2x Platinum
 "Cosa ti aspetti da me" (2019) Italy: Platinum
 Tequila e San Miguel (2019)
 Senza Pensieri (2019) Italy: Platinum
 Figlia di... (2021) Italy: Gold
 Tuttapposto (2021)
 Che sogno incredibile (2021) Italy: Gold

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title: Alfonso Téllez de Meneses el Viejo

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<mask> ( 1161–1230), known as el Viejo ("the Old"), was a nobleman of Castile and a participant in the key Reconquista battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. He was the second Lord of Meneses, Lord of Cea, Grajal, Montalbán, and, through his second wife, first Lord of Alburquerque. Family
His father was <mask>, a powerful noble in Tierra de Campos and Cea, founder, with his wife Gontrodo, of the Monastery of Santa María de Matallana, and three hospitals for lepers and pilgrims in Cuenca, Villamartín, and in San Nicolás del Real Camino. Although mistakenly considered the founders of the Monastery of Santa María de Trianos because of the donation that the couple made in 1185 with the consent of their five children, the monastery had been founded before 1125 the year in which Pope Honorius II issued a Papal bull appointing the abbot and the prior of this religious establishment. The mother of <mask> was Gontrodo García of the Fláinez family who married <mask> around 1161, the year in which he granted her arras. Gontrodo was the daughter of García Pérez, tenente in Cea who distinguished himself in the conquest of Baeza and Almería, and of Teresa Pérez. Gontrodo's parents founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María la Real in Gradefes, which she joined after she was widowed and where she eventually became the abbess.Life
In 1209 King <mask> ceded to <mask> <mask> the village of Montalbán. The following year he received as a gift of the king the village of Navahermosa, its castle Dos Hermanas, and the village of Malamoneda and its eponymous castle, splitting them off from the jurisdiction of the Knights

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texts: Templar. Around this time <mask> <mask> also governed Portillo on behalf of his relative Ermengol VIII, Count of Urgell. He fought at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, which took place on 16 July 1212, along with his brothers-in-law Gonzalo, Rodrigo, Pedro, Nuño, and Álvaro Rodríguez Girón, and his three brothers. In July 1213 <mask> ceded the village of Palazuelos to <mask>éllez <mask> and he in turn donated it to a Cistercian community, specifically that of San Andrés de Valbení. In 1216 construction began on the Romanesque Monastery of Palazuelos. It was completed in the middle of the 13th century and became the headquarters of the Cistercians of Castile.In February 1216, during the uprising of Álvaro Núñez <mask>, he took part in an extraordinary parliament along with other Castilian nobles including Lope <mask> Haro, Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, Álvaro <mask> Cameros, and others, where they agreed, with the support of Berengaria (sister of the young king Henry I), to form a common front against Álvaro Núñez. By the end of May the situation in Castile had become dangerous for Berengaria, so she decided to take refuge in the castle of Autillo de Campos, a property of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, and sent her son Fernando to the court of León and his father, King <mask>. On 15 August 1216 a meeting was held among all the nobility of the Kingdom of Castile to try to reach an accord and avoid civil war, but their disagreements led the families of Girón, Téllez <mask>s, and Haro distance themselves definitively from Álvaro Núñez <mask>. According to the Crónica latina de los reyes de Castilla, the year

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texts: 1217 was one of great tension, such as never had occurred in Castile before. Álvaro Núñez <mask> refused to renounce the power he had gained thereto and harassed the forces that remained loyal to Berengaria, laying waste to the valley of Trigueros and besieging Autillo de Campos, where Berengaria and her partisans were located, as well as Cisneros and Frechilla. Circumstances changed suddenly when King Henry died on 6 June 1217 after receiving a head wound from a roof tile that came loose accidentally while he was playing with other children in the palace of the Bishop of Palencia, <mask>o Téllez de Meneses. Álvaro Núñez de Lara, as the young king's guardian, tried to keep the matter quiet, bringing the king's body to the castle of Tariego, but he could not prevent the news from reaching Queen Berengaria.Immediately, Berengaria charged Lope <mask> Haro, Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, and <mask> <mask> with the task of discreetly fetching her son Ferdinand, who at the time was in Toro with his father King <mask>, using as pretext the possibility of an attack on Autillo and without revealing the news of her brother's death. Despite the hesitation of the infantas Sancha and Dulce, the nobles were able to convince the King that King Henry was alive and well, thereupon leaving Toro with Ferdinand. Berengaria, the legitimate heiress to the throne of Castile, renounced it in favor of her son Ferdinand, who shortly thereafter was proclaimed king in Autillo de Campos on 14 June 1217. On 20 September of that year, <mask> <mask> took Álvaro Núñez <mask> prisoner, and Álvaro was obliged to hand over some

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 fortresses. On 11 November a generous truce was signed, allowing members of the House of Lara to recover their liberty and privileges. As soon as he was released from prison, however, Álvaro once again defied his enemies <mask> <mask>, Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, and Lope <mask> Haro, but he died while laying siege to them in the fortress of Castrejón de Trabancos, where they had taken refuge after an initial defeat. His brother Fernando Núñez <mask> made his way to Morocco, where he placed himself in the service of Caliph Yusuf II.The Pact of Toro of 26 August 1218 ratified the truce and put an end to the conflict. <mask> <mask> died in 1230 while accompanying King Ferdinand on his way to his coronation as King of León, the occasion of the union of the two crowns upon the death of <mask> of León. He was buried, according to tradition, in the Monastery of Santa María de Palazuelos which he had founded. Marriage and children
<mask> married twice. His first wife was Elvira Rodríguez Girón (? – after 22 February 1211), daughter of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón. They had four children:

<mask>o <mask> <mask>, subject of chivalric romances on account of his defense of Martos and Córdoba.He died without issue, leaving his brother <mask> to succeed him as Governor of Cordoba and Lord of Meneses. <mask> <mask> "el Mozo", ("the Young"; ? –  1257), who married María Anes <mask>ia, daughter of <mask>, tenant-in-chief in Limia y Monterroso, and Maria Pais Ribeira "a Ribeirinha". <mask> and María had three children, including, <mask> <mask>, the wife of infante <mask> Molina, and mother of Queen <mask> Molina and

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 her brother <mask> <mask>, Lord of Meneses and alférez to the king. <mask>, married to Rodrigo Gómez <mask>, son of Count Gómez González <mask> and Elvira Pérez. <mask>, married to Menendo <mask> Sousa, and by him the mother of <mask> <mask>usa who married <mask>, illegitimate son of <mask> of León and Teresa Gil <mask>. Between February 1211, the year in which his first wife died, and before July 1213 when he first appears with his second wife, he married the young Portuguese Teresa Sanches, the illegitimate daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and Maria Pais Ribeira, who later married <mask>, tenant-in-chief in Limia and Monterroso.<mask> probably succeeded to the Lordship of Alburquerque thanks to his second marriage to Teresa, since it was inherited by the children of this marriage, while the Lordship of Meneses passed to his firstborn, <mask>, the son of his first wife. The children of this second marriage were:

<mask> (died after 15 June 1285), who married Mencia Rodríguez. Martín left a will dated 15 June 1285, leaving instructions for his wife Mencia, his sister <mask>, and his five children, Teresa, María, <mask>, <mask>, and Gil Martínez. He also mentions his brother-in-law Gómez Rodríguez who must be Mencía's brother. <mask> <mask> "Tizón", (died after 1252), who according to some authors married Mayor González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón. <mask> (died before 15 June 1285). <mask> (?–1268), married to Elvira or Berenguela González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón.References

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title: Ellis Rowan

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<mask> (30 July 18484 October 1922), known as <mask>, was a well-known Australian artist and botanical illustrator. She also did a series of illustrations on birds, butterflies and insects. Life
Marian, the daughter of Marian and Charles Ryan, principal of stock agents Ryan and Hammond, was born at "Killeen" near Longwood, Victoria, one of her father's pastoral stations in Victoria. Her family was well-connected: sister Ada Mary married Admiral Lord Charles Scott, son of the Duke of Buccleuch; brother Sir Charles Ryan was a noted Melbourne surgeon and for a time Turkish consul in London (and whose daughter became Baroness Casey). Another niece was Joice NanKivell Loch. She was educated at Miss Murphy's private school in Melbourne, and in 1873 married Captain <mask>, who had fought in the New Zealand wars. Her husband was interested in botany and he encouraged her to paint wild flowers.She had had no training but working conscientiously and carefully in water-colour; her work is noted for being botanically informative as well as artistic. <mask> returned to Melbourne in 1877, and for many years travelled in Australia painting the flora of the country, at times in the company of her painting companion, Margaret Forrest. <mask> exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She published in 1898 A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand, largely based on letters to her husband and friends. About this time she went to North America and provided the illustrations, many in colour, to A Guide to the Wild Flowers, by Alice Lounsberry, published in New York in 1899 as well as Guide to the Trees (1900), and Southern Wild Flowers and Trees (1901) also by Lounsberry. It was while in America, travelling with Lounsberry, that <mask> received news that her son Russell (called "Puck") had been killed in the Second Boer War. In 1905 she held a successful exhibition in London.She returned to Australia and held exhibitions of her work which sold at comparatively high prices. In 1916 she made a trip to New Guinea, the first of several during which she produced a

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 huge volume of illustrations. She contracted malaria during these journeys. In 1920 she held the largest solo exhibition seen in Australia at the time, when she exhibited 1000 of her works in Sydney. She died at Macedon, Victoria, her husband and her only son having predeceased her (her husband died in 1892, aged 47, possibly by suicide; and her son died of nephritis in Africa, aged 22, while in jail awaiting trial on charges of forgery). Other books by <mask> published in Australia were Bill Baillie, his Life and Adventures, The Queensland Flora, and Sketches in Black and White in New Zealand. Several accounts of her career have been published including:

Australia's Brilliant Daughter <mask>: Artist, Naturalist, Explorer 1848–1922 (1984) by Margaret Hazzard.Flower Paintings of <mask> from the Collection of the National Library of Australia (1982) by M. Hazzard and H. Hewson. <mask>: A Flower-Hunter in Queensland (1990) by J. McKay. The Flower Hunter: <mask> (2002) by Patricia Fullerton. Wild Flower Hunter—the story of <mask> (1961) by her niece, H. J. (Helen Jo) Samuel. The Australian Club in Melbourne, one of that city's oldest and most venerable establishments, has a room with the walls entirely covered in murals by her, painted as a result of a commission from the Club. Despite winning several gold medals judged by international artists against some of Australia's leading male artists, a disdain for her ability, artistry, and capacity due to her gender resulted in a bias against her art that lasted decades.Her art was housed in the National Library, not the National Gallery. National Library of Australia - Rowan Collection
In 1923, a year after her death, her surviving collection of 952 paintings was offered to the Australian government by her estate. The offer was debated in the House of Representatives. Parliament eventually agreed on a price of 5000 pounds for the paintings, half the asking price, and they became the property of the Australian Commonwealth. The collection was stored in the vaults of the Federal Treasury in Melbourne until 1933, when custody was transferred to the Commonwealth

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 National Library, and to date, the major purchase by the Australian government had either been mostly hidden from public view, or her art was farmed out to overseas government offices. The remaining 919 paintings are now housed at the National Library of Australia. <mask>'s Memorial portrait is also here.Queensland Museum Collection

The Queensland Museum's collection of 125 botanical paintings by <mask> has been in accessible to the public for almost half a century. By 1912, her collection was taken from the old Brisbane Town Hall to the Queensland Museum after <mask>'s victorious Exhibition. 1. Painting techniques

<mask> painted most of her Queensland paintings indoor, she always worked into the night to drawn plants that she collected on her journey. On the other hand, <mask> was a rapid and direct painter who made her botanical paintings outdoor, which usually without the under-drawing of the pencil. She painted and traveled with her curiosity and personal interests, and she did not intend to be a serious botanical illustrator. She wrote of her Queensland Paintings:

'The collection is painted with a view of showing the general public how the flowers grow with their surroundings—while they are all botanically correct you cannot in the one drawing make a picture of the flower and also show it scientifically drawn in sections which is quite a different study.'<mask> desired to make artistic compositions, which generally represented with bold close-up form. The colorful and vivid flora painted by her were not in the conventional way but placed in the varies native habitats, extending beyond the picture frame. It is said that her composition was influenced by the Thornton's Temple of Flora. <mask> sometimes added insects and even snakes to her artworks, like some of Thornton's artists, in order to achieve the dramatic effect. Claiming herself a self-taught painter, <mask> combined traditional watercolor techniques with opaque paints that she used to illustrate detail. She produced multiple copies of her paintings, and this non-professional and peculiar practice resulted in the difficulty of classifying

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 the quantity of her output. 2.Plants

For today's botanists, <mask>'s painting has limited scientific research value because they are lacking the critical details that is necessary for the botanical illustrations. However, these flora drawings are accurate and clear enough to help people identify most of the plants she drew. Although <mask> confessed that she knew very little about plants, she maintained her passion and love to discovering the botanical world, dried many specimens as her collections. In the early year of her career, there was the trend that depicting the flower or fruit as an isolated part or branch, but her later career showed a change which was inclined to put plants in their own environment rather than in a studio-like space. <mask> created her botanical world more than paint every detail of her observation. There are some ‘new species’ plants created by <mask>, which often added one part of a plant to another, the most surprisingly, the arrangement of these different types plants presented a pleasing combination. There is another reason why <mask>’ paintings are not strong enough to be called the scientific illustration.It seems that <mask> had her own taste when she choosing the object, which resulted in the limitation of botanical species in her painting. She preferred colorful and showy species rather than many small-flowered herbaceous species, for example, waterlilies were her most favorite flowers, and there was no depicting of the large and significant sunflower family in her artworks. 3. Animals

In spite of the spectacular botanical paintings, <mask> is also good at depicting animals and insects. The series about New Guinea bird and butterfly drawings are her major exploration into animal paintings. One-third of <mask>’ paintings which collected in the Queensland Museum were illustrated plenty of species of animal, such as beetles, butterflies, snakes and dragonflies. These insects or animals in <mask>’ works probably added later after the plants, because most of <mask> paintings finished indoor and the flower was often picked by herself or given to her by the local people.it

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 has been questioned that whether the representation of these real species was accurate in their context. It is probably that <mask> combined plants and insects at random, without thinking carefully about the relationship between them. <mask>’ interest with animals was derived from her early experience with her family, as recollected by her niece Lady Casey:

‘She had inherited the interest of her grandfather John Cotton not only in flora and fauna but in insects and even reptiles; she enjoyed the accident of life, the fusion of one aspect of nature with another. … Some of our family, the Le Souefs, actually had a feeling for shakes. They liked running their warm fingers over those long cold exquisite bodies.’

<mask> full of enthusiasm with her artistic creation, which enabled herself to observe the insect world and animal life. These magical creatures brought her entertainment and helped her escaped from her busy business of botanical   painting. In spite of observing insects, <mask> also a collector of them.Her letters which wrote during her journey always mentioned collecting activities, and some of them were the adventurous stories of snakes. There were sheets of paper painted with rows and rows butterflies leaning on <mask>’ studio wall. They indicate the study that <mask> down as a source of adding to the flower paintings. However, the adding of these animals and insects were more for the artistic effect rather than the realistic illustration. Though the scientific value of <mask>’ botanical Paintings is limited, they are as the excellent record of history of some Queensland's flora drawn by an artist who was in search of the aesthetic expression and picturesque beauty. Royal Worcester
Rowan was commissioned to do a series of paintings to be used as designs on Royal Worcester tea sets. A collection of this porcelain is held at the National Trust of Australia property Saumarez Homestead.A collection of the original drawings is held at the Museum of Royal Worcester. Selected list of medals awarded Ellis <mask>
 International Exhibition Melbourne, 1873
 Sydney International Exhibition, 1879
 Special

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 Merit, <mask>, Macedon. Flower Painting, International Exhibition, Sydney, 1879
 International Colonial and Export Exhibition, Amsterdam, 1883
 Calcutta International Exhibition, 1833-1884
 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886
 Melbourne International Exhibition (1880), ‘Vitam Excolvere per Artem’
 London International Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1884
 Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888
 World Columbian Exposition in Commemoration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Landing of Columbus, 1892-1893

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography

Bibliography
A Flower Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1898)
[With Alice Lounsberry] A guide to the wild flowers (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1899)
[With Alice Lounsberry] A guide to the trees (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1899)
[With Alice Lounsberry] Southern wild flowers and trees (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1901)
Bill Baillie, his life and adventures (Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908)
[With Herbert P. Dickins] Australian wild-flowers : a popular introduction to the wild-flowers of Australia, with notes on their characteristics and the localities where they may be found. (Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1944)

Source: Worldcat.org

Memorials

Portrait
Her portrait by Sir John Longstaff, paid for by public subscription, was unveiled in 1929.It was the first national portrait of an Australian woman. <mask> Street
A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour. <mask> Building
The first building in the Australian National Botanic Gardens was named in her honour. See also
 List of Australian botanical illustrators

References

Sources

The National Library of Australia. The Flower Hunter: <mask>
Australian Women Biography Entry
Australian National Botanic Gardens Biography
Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry

Further reading

External links

1848 births
1922 deaths
Australian illustrators
Australian naturalists
Flower artists
Australian bird artists
Artists from Melbourne
19th-century Australian painters
20th-century Australian painters
People from Longwood, Victoria
19th-century Australian women
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Antoine Reed (born December 24, 1987) is an American rapper better known by his stage name <mask> or <mask>. He started his music career in 2005 as a member of the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, and later joined the groups All City Chess Club, the "super group" P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops), and The Toothpick Clique. The Cool Kids released their debut album When Fish Ride Bicycles in 2011, which features production by The Neptunes and artists such as Ghostface Killah. The album peaked at No. 76 on the Billboard 200, and No. 9 on Top Rap Albums.Starting in 2011 <mask> began releasing a number of free mixtapes, also contributing as a guest artist to tracks by Mac Miller, Dom Kennedy, Jeremih, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, Ski Beatz, and more. In April 2014 he contributed to the Chuck Inglish album Convertibles. His first commercial solo album, Banco, was released on July 29, 2014, and features guest appearances by artists such as Too $hort, Mac Miller, Twista, Iamsu, and Pouya. Early life
Antoine "Mikey <mask>" Reed was born in 1987 in the Chicago suburb of Matteson, Illinois, where he was raised. At a young age he listened to artists such as Nas, Jay-Z, Slick Rick, and Eric B. and Rakim, and he started rhyming at the age of ten. Despite an interest in sports, academics, and graphic art, he has stated that even at age ten he knew he would go into hip hop. "I never had a backup plan or plan B. I’ve always known that this was what I was supposed to be doing.As far as time goes, I’ve put all my time into it." As a teenager he began producing his own music, also working on rhymes and making music with friends, including his future collaborators Tris J and Shorty K.  He attended Rich South High School and Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago. Beyond music he had an early interest in zoology, stating he would specializing in reptile and mammal

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 studies if not rapping. He began producing under the moniker <mask> <mask>, also going by Mikey <mask>. Music career

The Cool Kids

2005–07: Founding

In mid-2005 <mask> was mostly working on music production, and doing some rapping as well. He soon founded the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, when <mask> was still sixteen. He met co-founder Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll on Myspace in 2005, after <mask> found a beat that Ingersoll had produced.The two met to discuss terms of the beat's sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours. Stated Inglish, "One day we just met up--I came over to his house with some CDs, and that's all she wrote. We were both, like, searching for each other without searching for each other." They discovered common influences (Outkast, Gorillaz, and 1980s hip hop) and a shared sense of retro fashion. Inspired by golden age hip hop and artists like LL Cool J and Eric B. & Rakim, they formed a production duo The Cool Kids that year. The band stated they "originally were only going to make beats and produce for other artists."However, "<mask> himself rapped during a session and wound up as the temporary 'voice' of the Cool Kids", though the two soon began sharing vocal duties. The group was soon booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance, where they encountered DJ Diplo. Diplo offered to release a mixtape of their unreleased tracks titled Totally Flossed Out on his label Mad Decent, though it was eventually released on C.A.K.E. Recordings in 2007 instead. Also in 2007 the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled "Gettin' It". As of summer 2007 all of their material had been released solely on their MySpace page—their recording contract with Chocolate Industries and C.A.K.E. came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Music

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 episode of the HBO comedy Entourage. They also recorded an original track, "2K Pennies", for the soundtrack of NBA 2K9. 2009–11: Albums

The group's second official mixtape, Gone Fishing was released on May 5, 2009. A new mixtape called Tacklebox came out on May 31, 2010. Tacklebox was assembled by the LA Leakers, and featured new singles and "leftovers" from When Fish Ride Bicycles, with freestyles from both members of The Cool Kids. The band also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool's Gold Records label, which they did for one single in 2011, titled "Gold and a Pager."Their debut studio album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, was released July 12, 2011 on Green Label Sound. The album had originally been slated for release in 2009, only to be delayed by legal issues with Chocolate Industries. The album features production by The Neptunes and also features artists such as Bun B, Chip tha Ripper, and Ghostface Killah. The album peaked at No. 76 on the Billboard 200, and No. 9 on Top Rap Albums. The album's song "A Little Bit Cooler" was used in a "Most Valuable Puppets" commercial from Nike with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant entitled "Mrs.Lewis." 2010–11: New groups
The Cool Kids are  members of the hip-hop collective All City Chess Club founded in 2010. Also in 2010, Mikey <mask> teamed up with Chuck Inglish, Gary, Indiana's Freddie Gibbs and Cleveland's Chip tha Ripper to form the "super group" P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops). The crew had first worked together on the 2010 track "Oil Money" by Freddie Gibbs, and kept working afterwards. Their first single, "Authority", was produced by Blended Babies and featured singer Nate Santos. Around 2011 <mask> co-founded The Toothpick Clique with his friends Tris J and Shorty K, collaborators from his teenage years.They were working on new material as of 2012. 2011–13: Solo

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 mixtapes
In 2011 both <mask> and Inglish began working on solo material separate from The Cool Kids. However, they continued to help each other on their various projects and continued to tour together as the band. On March 14, 2011, Sir <mask> released his debut solo album, the Rocks Report mixtape, which featured twenty five original songs and skits. Guest appearances include Like and Mibbs of Pac Div, <mask>, and Trademark Da Skydiver, with production by Ski Beatz, Madlib, and others. This mixtape was followed on October 2, 2011, by Premier Politics. The album features sixteen tracks with <mask> doing most of the writing on all.About the production process, <mask> stated "It didn’t take too long because I’m a studio rat, so I’ll be in the lab for 2 weeks straight, 10 hours a day, and just grind out non-stop." A number of different producers besides <mask> contributed, including the Alchemist. He also released a collection of sweatshirts and T-shirts with the release of the Premier Politics, promoting various independent designers. On October 23, 2011, it was announced that <mask> joined forces with the independent label Jet Life Recordings, a Warner Bros. imprint owned by fellow rap artist Curren$y, who <mask> had first had befriended over Myspace around 2008. <mask> appeared as a featured artist on a number of the albums released by the label. In 2011, this included "1st Place" (featuring Currensy, Trademark Da Skydiver, Young Roddy & Mikey <mask>), which appeared on the album Jet World Order. <mask> toured in late 2011 on the Smoker's Club Tour, which featured Curren$y, Method Man, Smoke DZA and Big K.R.I.T.While working on solo material he also continued to work on music with The Cool Kids. On April 6, 2012, he released the mixtape Premier Politics 1.5, which included songs he'd originally intended for Premier Politics.

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 Contributing producers and featured artists included Cardo, Tye Hill, Brandun DeShay, Cookin' Soul, Like, his close friend Tris J, Shorty K, and Chuck Inglish. Stated Hot New Hip Hop, Sir <mask>'s future brightens with every new release, and Premier Politics 1.5 certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue." His mixtape Lap of Lux was released on August 2, 2012. Lap of Lux feature appearances from Mac Miller, Rockie Fresh, and Casey Veggies along with production from Hit-Boy and Inglish.For the Lap of Lux track "Reservations" he collaborated with actress and singer Teyana Taylor to shoot a music video, which later premiered on MTV in December 2012. He toured in the fall of 2012 with Mac Miller, and for the second part of the year toured with Pac Div. Rocks released an 8-track follow-up mixtape, Lap of Lux 1.5, in December 2012, with producer Harry Fraud also contributing. Stated Hip Hop Vibe in February 2013, "Though he is overlooked in the wake of Chief Keef, Rockie Fresh, and Lil Reese, it is highly likely that Sir <mask> is Chicago's biggest newer artist. He performed at SXSW 2013 in Austin, having performed at the festival annually since 2007. As of February 2013 he was associated with but not signed to Jet Life Recordings, instead remaining independent. On May 30, 2013 he released the mixtape While You Wait..., a ten track project with guest appearances by artists such as Ab-Soul, Mac Miller, and Larry Fisherman, who also contributed to production.2013–14: Banco, guest appearances
His debut album Banco was released on July 29, 2014. The album features guest appearances from Twista, Casey Veggies, Iamsu!, Mac Miller, Trinidad James, Too Short and Chuck Inglish. <mask> continues to be active as a guest artist, and he has contributed to tracks by artists such as Dom Kennedy, Ski Beatz, Sean O'Connell,

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 Curren$y, Rapsody, Dizzy Wright, Freddie Gibbs, and The World's Freshest. In April 2014 he contributed to the Chuck Inglish album Convertibles, which was preceded by three singles – one of which was "Swervin'" featuring <mask> and Polyester the Saint. 2018-19: Mysteryschoolus

Entering a new musical era. The artist has linked up with Owen Bones to create a new group called MYSTERY SCHOOL to form an experimental electronic hip-hop duo. released their self-titled debut, Mystery School EP.The whole campaign leading up to this release has led to Owen Bones and Sir <mask> on Twitch for these "Sudden Death" segments. Where they give themselves a half hour to create a beat from scratch with at least one verse on it. Style and genre
Equipment
As a music producer, <mask> has been known to use the music software program Reason from Propellerhead Software. Sound, lyrics and influences

Stated by Hot New Hip Hop in May 2012, "His laidback flow is definitely a good fit for Curren$y's Jet Life Recordings... but you really can't compare Mikey <mask> to other rappers because his flow and sound are so different from what is constantly heard nowadays; staying with the fresh theme, listening to Sir <mask>' rap is like a breath of fresh air." He stated in late 2012 about his rhymes, "I just write something that I or my friends would listen to. Nine out of ten times if we like it, other people will fuck with it." Genres
Sir <mask> has referenced local Chicago rappers as influences on his sound.Stated Rocks in 2011, "of course, [Chicago] classics like Twista, Crucial Conflict, Kanye, Common and Lupe was a big influence on what I am doing now. A lot of Chicago music has definitely raised me to be who I am." Stated Chicago Reader in 2007, "Over the past year and a half, a new crowd of omnivorous, beat-obsessive DJs and rappers--Flosstradamus, Kid Sister,

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 Hollywood Holt, The Cool Kids [with Sir <mask>], Mano--has done what nobody's managed to do in years: developed what you could conceivably call a Chicago hip-hop sound. It takes cues from the indie-rock-influenced hipster dance scene, relying more on four-on-the-floor club rhythms from juke and house than the languid, syncopated beats common in mainstream hip-hop. And it borrows some of the most appealing elements from the other major regional styles: the screwed vocals of Houston hip-hop, the good-natured rowdiness of Dirty South crunk, and the playful, casual attitude of Bay Area hyphy, with its rhymes about hanging out, dressing up for the club, and gettin' retarded." Fashion
As of September 2012, <mask> was the face of the clothing line Mariani. In an interview with magazine Ruby Hornet, "Mac Miller mentions [The Cool Kids] not getting enough credit for what they’ve done in style, music, and fashion."According to All Hip Hop in 2012, "All gold everything, Retro J's, and a Neiman Marcus wardrobe – these are all things hot in popular hip-hop fashion culture today, but nothing that is extremely new. In 2007, The Cool Kids strutted out all of the above fashion trends and rocked it all years before it was mentioned in recent songs. There is no doubt that Sir <mask> and Chuck Inglish pioneered modern swag." Personal life
As of May 2012 he was living in both Chicago and Los Angeles, moving between the two. Discography

 Banco (2014)

References

External links

Living people
1987 births
People from Matteson, Illinois
Rappers from Chicago
African-American male rappers
American hip hop record producers
Midwest hip hop musicians
Songwriters from Illinois
21st-century American rappers
Record producers from Illinois
21st-century American male musicians
African-American songwriters
21st-century African-American musicians
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title: Sami Zayn

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Rami Sebei (born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name <mask>. He is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his third reign. Prior to joining WWE, Sebei wrestled for Ring of Honor under the ring name El Generico, using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase "Olé!" He wrestled while masked from his debut in 2002 until 2013. Upon signing with WWE, he began wrestling without a mask and became a one-time world champion in the company by winning the NXT Championship. Sebei achieved much success in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) as a two-time PWG World Champion and five-time World Tag Team Champion. He is the only person to have won both of PWG's annual tournaments, the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in 2010 and the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011.He has also held the ROH World Television Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship as part of a team with Kevin Steen, with whom he later earned the 2010 Feud of the Year award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is also a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion for the Montreal-based International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS). Having wrestled internationally, he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship in Germany and DDT Pro-Wrestling's KO-D Openweight Championship in Japan. Early life
Rami Sebei was born on July 12, 1984, in Laval, Quebec. Both of his parents are Syrian immigrants to Canada, having relocated from Homs in the 1970s. Professional wrestling


title: Sami Zayn

texts:
 After successful title defenses against Shuji Ishikawa and Sanshiro Takagi, he re-lost the title to Kodaka on January 3, 2012. El Generico has also made some appearances for Union Pro's parent promotion, DDT Pro-Wrestling, most notably defeating Kota Ibushi in Ibushi's return match from a shoulder injury on May 4, 2012. On August 18, El Generico wrestled his first match in the Nippon Budokan, defeating the debuting Konosuke Takeshita. On September 30, El Generico defeated Kota Ibushi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, DDT's top title. El Generico made his first successful title defense on October 21 in a rematch against Ibushi. On November 25, El Generico defeated KO-D Tag Team Champion Mikami for his second successful defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship.On December 23, El Generico lost the KO-D Openweight Championship to Kenny Omega in his third defense. Dragon Gate USA and Evolve (2012)
On March 31, 2012, El Generico made his debut for Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), when he defeated Chuck Taylor, Cima, Lince Dorado, Rich Swann and Samuray del Sol in a six-way match. On April 13, El Generico made his debut for Evolve, a promotion closely affiliated with DGUSA, losing to Low Ki. After another loss to Ricochet on May 11, El Generico picked up his first win in the promotion on May 12 by defeating <mask>. El Generico then had two singles matches against Samuray del Sol; the first on June 28 at Evolve 14 was won by El Generico and the rematch the following day at Evolve 15 was won by Samuray. El Generico returned to Dragon Gate USA on July 28, when he and


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 Kendrick and Pete Wilson, with Generico being pinned for the win by Hart.WWE

NXT Champion (2013–2015)

In January 2013, Sebei signed with WWE after passing all medical tests. On February 13, Sebei made his debut for WWE's developmental territory NXT, but did not wrestle. Sebei's NXT in-ring debut took place at a live event on March 7 in Tampa, Florida, where he wrestled a tag team match while working unmasked and under his real name. Sebei eventually settled on the ring name <mask>. Zayn made his televised debut on the May 22 episode of NXT by defeating two former champions in WWE, first defeating Curt Hawkins in the opening match and then challenging and scoring an upset win over Antonio Cesaro later in the show. The following week he took part in an 18-man battle royal to determine the number one contender to the NXT Championship, but was eliminated by Mason Ryan. On the June 12 episode of NXT, Zayn suffered his first pinfall loss in NXT in a rematch with Cesaro.On the July 17 NXT, Zayn failed to win another number one contender's match also involving Cesaro and Leo Kruger. On the July 31 episode of NXT, Zayn teamed with NXT Champion Bo Dallas against Cesaro and Kruger; after Cesaro and Zayn brawled to the back, Dallas lost the match and later blamed Zayn for the loss. On the August 21 episode of NXT, Zayn lost to Cesaro in a two-out-of-three falls match to conclude the feud. On September 6, Zayn made his WWE debut at a house show in his hometown of Montreal, where he defeated Cesaro. When Zayn targeted Dallas' NXT Championship, Dallas cost Zayn his match


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 royal for the United States Championship on the July 4 only to lose to AJ Styles, being last to be eliminated.At Battleground, Zayn defeated Mike Kanellis. Teaming with Kevin Owens (2017–2019)
On October 8, at the October 10 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn referred to Owens as his "brother" and explained that his actions were due to McMahon not giving Zayn opportunities despite the SmackDown brand being dubbed the "Land of Opportunity". On the October 24 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn was defeated by Randy Orton for a spot on Team SmackDown to face Team Raw at Survivor Series. At the Survivor Series kick-off show, Zayn and Owens defeated Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango). Later that night, Owens and Zayn interfered in the main event and attacked Shane, but it backfired after Shane attacked both with a steel chair and Orton delivered an RKO to Owens. Owens and Zayn faced Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura in a tag team match at Clash of Champions with SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon and SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan as special guest referees and their jobs on the line. At the event, they defeated Orton and Nakamura after a fast count by Bryan.Later on, <mask> and Owens both scored non-title victories over WWE Champion AJ Styles on respective episodes of SmackDown Live, thus earning a title opportunity against Styles in a handicap match at the Royal Rumble. Both men failed to win the title at the event. Zayn later stole Tye Dillinger's number 10 spot at the Royal Rumble match but was eliminated by the eventual winner Shinsuke Nakamura. Zayn later


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 After this event, Zayn reformed his tag team with Kevin Owens, where they defeated The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) at Stomping Grounds.However, the team of <mask> and Owens drifted apart again, after Owens turned face and reignited his feud with Shane McMahon. After their team disbanded, Zayn lost to Rey Mysterio twice, first at Raw Reunion, and second in the gauntlet match the following week. Zayn then competed in the King of the Ring tournament, but lost in the first round to Cedric Alexander. By that point, Zayn had lost fifteen out of his last sixteen televised singles matches. Artist Collective and Intercontinental Champion (2019–2020)

On the August 20 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn joined forces with Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, as they attacked The Miz on an episode of Miz TV. Zayn was positioned as Nakamura's mouthpiece. Zayn then managed Nakamura against Miz at Clash of Champions, where he involved himself in the finish securing the win for Nakamura.As part of the 2019 draft, Zayn was drafted to the SmackDown brand. Following the draft, he would also become the manager of Cesaro. At Survivor Series, Zayn accompanied Nakamura in a non-title match against United States Champion AJ Styles and NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong, which was won by Strong. On the January 31, 2020 episode of SmackDown, Nakamura lost the title to Braun Strowman, despite interferences from Zayn and Cesaro. At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on March 8, Zayn, along with Nakamura and Cesaro, defeated Braun Strowman in 3-on-1 handicap match to


title: Sami Zayn

texts: win the Intercontinental Championship, ending his 5-year WWE title drought since he won the NXT Championship.On the March 13 episode of SmackDown, <mask>n began a feud with Daniel Bryan, during which Bryan and Drew Gulak faced Zayn's Artist Collective partners Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro in various matches. Eventually, Bryan and Zayn would face each other at WrestleMania 36, where Zayn defeated Bryan to retain the title. His reign would end at 65 days on May 12, when he was stripped of the championship after refraining from competing during the COVID-19 pandemic.On August 28 episode of SmackDown, <mask> returned with his Intercontinental title, the title he refused to drop, following Jeff Hardy's successful title defense against Nakamura and attacked Hardy declaring himself the "real" Intercontinental Champion. Later at the show, Zayn reunited with Cesaro and Nakamura backstage; however, Cesaro dismissed him from the locker room so that he and Nakamura could have some discussion by themselves. At Clash of Champions on September 27, Zayn defeated Hardy and AJ Styles in a triple threat ladder match to reclaim the Intercontinental Championship by handcuffing both with the ladders. On the October 2 episode of SmackDown, Zayn defeated Hardy to retain the title. On the November 13 episode of SmackDown, Zayn defeated Apollo Crews by countout to retain the title. On November 22 at Survivor Series, Zayn was defeated by United States Champion Bobby Lashley. On December 25 episode of SmackDown, he lost the Intercontinental title to Big E, thus ending his second reign at 89

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<mask> (born 26 April 1992 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 106 achieved on 8 May 2017, and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 156 achieved on 21 October 2019. He has represented Barbados at the Davis Cup and at the 2016 Olympics. His first Grand Slam appearance came at the 2017 US Open, where he lost to fourth seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets. Personal life
<mask> was born on April 26, 1992 in Bridgetown, Barbados where he currently resides.His father played field hockey and his mother played net ball and died of pancreatic cancer in 2010. He has 3 siblings; 2 brothers and 1 sister. One of the brothers, Christopher, is <mask>'s current head coach. He is good friends with many tennis players Frances Tiafoe, Dustin Brown, Noah Rubin, Taylor Townsend, and Sloane Stephens. His favorite athlete is Usain Bolt. Career

Junior career
<mask> began playing tennis at the age of 8 and grew up idolizing Gaël Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Dustin Brown (now good friends with <mask>). He played his first junior match in April 2006 at the age of 13 at a grade 4 tournament in Barbados.During his junior career, <mask> made both the singles and doubles draw in 3 of the 4 boys grand slams in 2010 where he failed to make it past the first round once in the singles and made it to the second round twice in the doubles. In one tournament, he defeated future world No. 3 and 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem. He ended his junior career with a high ranking of 47 in both the singles and the doubles (both attained on January 4, 2010) and a record

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 of 78–47 in singles and 81–35 in doubles. Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:

Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: 1R (2010)
Wimbledon: 1R (2010)
US Open: 1R (2010)

Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:

Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: 2R (2010)
Wimbledon: 2R (2010)
US Open: 1R (2010)

Professional career
<mask> officially turned pro in 2010 at the age of 17. He was considering on playing college tennis at UCLA but made the decision to turn pro instead. Between 2011-2016, <mask> would go on to make 22 ITF futures finals, winning 13 of them.These results would continuously improve his year-end ranking. In 2014 at the Charlottesville Challenger, <mask> threw his racket at a lineswoman which got him defaulted. The incident went widespread throughout the tennis community and internet. In 2015 at the Citi Open, <mask> became the first Barbadian to qualify for an ATP event. He lost to Go Soeda in the first round in straight sets. In 2016, <mask> made his first challenger final at the 2016 Milo Open Cali. In the final, he defeated top seed Victor Estrella Burgos in three sets to win his first challenger title.Two weeks later, he won another challenger title at the 2016 Levene Goulding and Thompson Tennis Challenger defeating Mitchell Krueger in the final in straight sets. Two months later, he would win his third challenger title of the year at the 2016 Tiburon Challenger defeating Michael Mmoh in the final in straight sets. This would also be the year that <mask> played in the 2016 Summer Olympics having been invited to play in the main draw in the singles. He lost to eventual quarterfinalist Steve Johnson in the first round in straight

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title: Darian King

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 sets. In 2017, <mask> became the first Barbadian to win an ATP match at the Memphis Open when he won against 5th seed Bernard Tomic in straight sets. He would then follow this up with back to back second round appearances at Indian Wells and the Miami Open, losing to his idol Gaël Monfils in Indian Wells in three sets and to David Goffin in Miami both in straight sets. He reached his career high-ranking of 106 on May 8, 2017.He then went into the 2017 Wimbledon qualifying as 8th send and made it to the qualifying competition before being eliminated by Lukáš Rosol in 4 sets. He qualified for the 2017 US Open for his first and only grand slam. He lost to 4th seed Alexander Zverev in very close straight sets. He finished 2017 with a fourth challenger final at the 2017 Stockton Challenger where he lost to Cameron Norrie in straight sets. Throughout 2018-2021 his ranking would slowly start to decline. He made two more challenger finals at the 2018 Indian Wells Challenger and the 2019 Orlando Open but lost both. He also made three more qualifying competitions at Grand Slams.Twice at the Australian Open (2018), (2019) and once at the US Open (2019). He would once again lose every single one. He did have some success in doubles, however. In the doubles, he would make 26 ITF futures finals and win 18 of them. In the challenger tour, he made seven challenger finals and won four of them. He's also known for partnering with Peter Polansky on numerous occasions. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, <mask> underwent wrist surgery which would keep him inactive until February 2021.Davis Cup
<mask> made his Davis Cup debut in 2009 at the age of 16.

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title: Darian King

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 During his time with the Barbadian Davis Cup team, he posted a win-loss record of 29–11 in singles, 11–11 in doubles, and 40–22 overall. Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 28 (16–12)

Doubles: 33 (22–11)

Performance timelines

Singles
Current through the 2021 San Diego Open. Record against other players
<mask>'s match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been ranked No. 1 in boldface. ATP Tour matches and qualifying matches, ATP Challenger Tour matches and qualifying matches, ITF Tour matches and qualifying matches, and Davis Cup all count on record. Marcos Baghdatis 1–1
  David Goffin 0–1
  Jürgen Melzer 0–1
  Gaël Monfils 0–1
  Alexander Zverev 0–1
  Lucas Pouille 0–2

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1992 births
Living people
Barbadian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Bridgetown
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Barbados
Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Barbados
Tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Tennis players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for


title: Fred Tackett

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<mask> (born August 30, 1945) is an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Originally a session player on guitar, mandolin, and trumpet, he is best known as a member of the band Little Feat. In addition to his work with Little Feat, <mask> has played and recorded with many notable artists, Bob Dylan and Jimmy Webb among them. He had an additional side project with another member of Little Feat; he performed as part of a duo with Paul Barrere, as Paul and <mask>. Association with Little Feat

<mask>'s association with Little Feat goes back to a friendship with the founder of the band, Lowell George, at the time of its inception. Working as a session player for other musicians, he continued his friendship with the bandmates, and contributed a song Fool Yourself to their third album Dixie Chicken as well as acoustic guitar. He also contributed guitar to their sixth album Time Loves a Hero.In 1979 he co-wrote songs with Lowell George for both George's first (and only) solo project Thanks, I'll Eat It Here,  and Little Feat's album Down on the Farm. It was during work on the latter that the group's break-up was announced. Lowell George died shortly afterwards. In 1983, he performed on the Antilles Records release Swingrass '83. Joining Little Feat

In 1988 Little Feat reformed despite the absence of their former front man, and prolific singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist, Lowell George. The regrouped Little Feat included former members Paul Barrere, Richie Hayward, Bill Payne, Kenny Gradney, and Sam Clayton, with the addition of <mask> and Craig Fuller. All had been former members of Little Feat, except Fuller and <mask>, who had previously made songwriting contributions and session work for the band.Fuller left in 1993, to be replaced by female vocalist Shaun Murphy who remained with the group, until 2009. <mask> has remained with Little Feat since the day he

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