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 <mask> to write a piece for their "What I Have Learned" series, <mask> (then aged 75) took the opportunity to expound upon his cybernetic concept of "feedforward".The Oxford English Dictionary records that <mask> coined the term feedforward in 1951 at the Eighth Macy Conferences on cybernetics. In the event, the term extended the intellectual and critical influence of <mask> to cybernetics which applied the term in a variety of contexts. Moreover, among <mask>' students was Marshall McLuhan, who also applied and developed the term and the concept of feedforward. According to <mask>, feedforward is the concept of anticipating the effect of one's words by acting as our own critic. It is thought to work in the opposite direction of feedback, though it works essentially towards the same goal: to clarify unclear concepts. Existing in all forms of communication, feedforward acts as a pretest that any writer can use to anticipate the impact of their words on their audience. According to <mask>, feedforward allows the writer to then engage with their text to make necessary changes to create a better effect.He believes that communicators who do not use feedforward will seem dogmatic. <mask> wrote more in depth about the idea and importance of feedforward in communication in his book Speculative Instruments and has said that feedforward was his most important learned concept. Influence
<mask> served as mentor and teacher to other prominent critics, most notably William Empson and F. R. Leavis, although Leavis was contemporary with <mask>, and Empson much younger. Other critics primarily influenced by his

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 writings also included Cleanth Brooks and <mask>. Later critics who refined the formalist approach to New Criticism by actively rejecting his psychological emphasis included, besides Brooks and Tate, John Crowe Ransom, W. K. Wimsatt, R. P. Blackmur, and Murray Krieger. R. S. Crane of the Chicago school was both indebted to <mask>'s theory and critical of its psychological assumptions. They all admitted the value of his seminal ideas but sought to salvage what they considered his most useful assumptions from the theoretical excesses they felt he brought to bear in his criticism.Like Empson, <mask> proved a difficult model for the New Critics, but his model of close reading provided the basis for their interpretive methodology. Works
 The Foundations of Aesthetics (George Allen and Unwin: London, 1922); c o-authored with C. K. Ogden, and James Wood. 2nd ed. with revised preface, (Lear Publishers: New York 1925). The Principles of Literary Criticism (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1924; New York, 1925); subsequent eds. : London 1926 (with two new appendices), New York 1926; London 1926, with new preface, New York, April 1926; and 1928, with a revised preface. Science and Poetry (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1926).; reset edition, New York, W. W. Norton, 1926; 2nd ed., revised and enlarged: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1935. The 1935 edition was reset, with a preface, a commentary, and the essay, “How Does a Poem Know When it is Finished” (1963), as Poetries and Sciences (W. W. Norton: New York and London, 1970). Practical Criticism (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1929);

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 revised edition, 1930. Coleridge on Imagination (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1934; New York, 1935); revised editions with a new preface, New York and London 1950; Bloomington, 1960;  reprints 1950, with new foreword by <mask>, and an introduction by K. Raine. The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Oxford UP: London, 1936). Speculative Instruments (Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1955). So Much Nearer: Essays toward a World English (Harcourt, Brace & World: New York, 1960, 1968), includes the essay, "The Future of Poetry".Rhetoric, semiotics and prose interpretation

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The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. Co-authored with C. K. Ogden. With an introduction by J. P. Postgate, and supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski, 'The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages', and F. G. Crookshank, 'The Importance of a Theory of Signs and a Critique of Language in the Study of Medicine'. London and New York, 1923. 1st: 1923 (Preface Date: Jan. 1923)
2nd: 1927 (Preface Date: June 1926)
3rd: 1930 (Preface Date: Jan. 1930)
4th: 1936 (Preface Date: May 1936)
5th: 1938 (Preface Date: June 1938)
8th: 1946 (Preface Date: May 1946)
NY:  1989 (with a preface by Umberto Eco)

Mencius on the Mind: Experiments in Multiple Definition (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.: London; Harcourt, Brace: New York, 1932). Basic Rules of Reason (Paul Trench Trubner: London, 1933).The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Oxford University Press: New York and London, 1936).Interpretation in Teaching (Routledge & Kegan Paul: London; Harcourt, Brace: New York, 1938). Subsequent


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 editions: 1973 (with 'Retrospect').Basic in Teaching: East and West (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1935).How To Read a Page: A Course in Effective Reading, With an Introduction to a Hundred Great Words (W. W. Norton: New York, 1942; Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1943).Subsequent editions: 1959 (Beacon Press: Boston. With new 'Introduction').The Wrath of Achilles: The Iliad of Homer, Shortened and in a New Translation (W. W. Norton: New York, 1950; Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1951). 'So Much Nearer: Essays toward a World English (Harcourt, Brace & World: New York, 1960, 1968). Includes the important essay, "The Future of Poetry." Complementarities: Uncollected Essays, ed. by John Paul Russo (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976). Times of India Guide to Basic English (Bombay: The Times of India Press), 1938; Odgen, C. K. & Richards, I.A. See also
 M. H. <mask>

References

Further reading

Tong, Q. S. "The Bathos of a Universalism, I. A<mask> and His Basic English." In Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulation. Duke University Press, 1999. 331–354. External links

 Practical Criticism The Open Archive's copy of the first edition, 2nd impression, 1930; downloadable in DjVu, PDF and text formats.The Meaning Of Meaning at Internet Archive
 I.A. <mask> page from the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory (subscription required)
 I.A. Richards capsule biography
 The I.A. Richards Web Resource
 I.A. Richards page from LiteraryDictionary.com
 Biography compiled by John Constable
 Richard Storer, '<mask>, <mask> <mask> (1893–1979)', Oxford Dictionary

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 of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 May 2007
 Barbara Leonard Reynolds I.A. <mask>' relationship with his American mentor, author and educator Sterling A. Leonard. Jessica Renshaw, 'FAMILY: My Grandfather Sterling,' I.A.<mask>' visit to the United States in May 1931 to meet American literary critic and New Rhetoric proponent Sterling A. Leonard, who had arranged for him to speak at the University of Wisconsin, his shock at being present at Dr. Leonard's death the next day when the two men were canoeing together on Lake Mendota and the canoe overturned. 3 July 2013: NEW INFORMATION from Dr. Leonard's grandson Tim Reynolds just added to this link: "Dr. <mask> said he saw Dr. Leonard lose his grip and start to sink and he instinctively dived down, reaching for him. His hand brushed Sterling's bald head. Dr. R. told Tim, 'For a long time afterwards I was haunted with bad dreams, dreaming that Sterling was trying to come up and that my hand brushing across his head kept him from being able to.' Dr. R. told Dr. Leonard's grandson that he and Sterling had had a productive afternoon together and he believed if Dr. Leonard had survived, they (together) would have 'revolutionized English teaching.' Tim says Dr. R. seemed more concerned about him (Tim) than the past events and "he reassured me my grandfather was a very important person." 1893 births
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<mask> (born December 6, 1944) is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women's Studies. As one of the architects of Black Women's Studies, her scholarship and activism has increased the prestige, legitimacy, respect, and popularity of feminism and African American studies. <mask> has been a professor of women's studies and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies (Mona campus) in Kingston, Jamaica. She has published four books, a monograph, three edited collections, over twenty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, numerous chapters in a dozen volumes, fifteen book reviews, poems in more than thirty magazines and anthologies, and two short stories. Her first novel, Neicy, was released in October 2012. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. Early life and education
<mask> was born <mask> in Shreveport, Louisiana.Her father was a carpenter and laborer and her mother a maid and cook. She graduated valedictorian from Booker T. Washington High School in Shreveport and summa cum laude from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During these years, she was a valuable member (as a pianist and member of the choir) at Shreveport's Zion Baptist Church. She was also secretary for the local chapter of the NAACP and a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. <mask> later matriculated at Purdue University, where she earned her Master's and Ph.D. in English Literature. She married on June 12, 1966. She and her husband, Prentice Roy <mask>, also a graduate student, had their only child, Adrian Prentice <mask>, at this time.Career

Black women's studies, feminism, and African-American studies
<mask> was a member of the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group active in Boston in the

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 late-1970s. Membership in the collective catalyzed her focus as a scholar, activist, and critic. It was during this period that she co-edited the book All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies with Patricia Bell-Scott and Barbara Smith. Printed in numerous editions, it is a classic in Feminist Studies, Black Studies, and Black Women's Studies. Her landmark scholarship directed attention to the lives of Black women and, combined with the numerous articles she wrote thereafter, helped remedy the emphasis within Feminist Studies on white women and within Black studies on Black men. The National Institute conferred on <mask> its Women of Color Award for this accomplishment. In 1986 <mask> published Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, only the second published diary by an African-American woman in the United States.The New York Times gave it an enthusiastic review. Give Us Each Day revealed the life and times of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a fascinating poet-journalist who until then had been eclipsed by her more famous husband, the renowned dialect poet and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. <mask>'s book Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance continued to highlight the rich contributions of women to that pivotal era. Its painstaking archival research revealed for the first time unsuspected homoerotic connections among the women and lesbian themes in their writings. Poetry, nonfiction, and fictional works
<mask> <mask>'s poetry was first published in Women: A Journal of Liberation in the 1970s. Since then her poems have been featured in such collections as Flatfooted Truths, Life Prayers, Sisterfire, In Search of Color Everywhere, Daughters of Africa, Erotique Noire, Callaloo, and Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence. Ntozake Shange called <mask>'s book Healing Heart: Poems (published

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 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press) “the voice of a free, fiercesome, sensual and vivid woman of color," while the esteemed critic Stephen E. Henderson applauded it as “a total delight."In her book Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African-American Women, <mask> examines the burgeoning of metaphysical and “New Age” modalities after 1980, and states that politics, spirituality, and creativity are being united into a revolutionary new paradigm. Nobel Prize Laureate Toni Morrison and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller endorsed it, while Publishers Weekly praised it as "powerful, practical and nourishing gumbo ... of the heart and spirit." In 2006 <mask> moved to Little Rock, Arkansas and devoted herself to writing fiction. She was a semifinalist (top 20 of 300) in the Ursula K. Le Guin Imaginative Fiction Contest of Rosebud Magazine for "'Touch Me,' They Said, They Wanted." Her short story "Plum Jelly in Hot Shiny Jars" appeared in the 2003 Beacon Press anthology Age Ain't Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife. In 2012 she completed her first novel. Her novel is, <mask> says, the story "of a Black actress going through a lot of love, sex, sexuality, personal enlightenment -- it's not autobiographical, but it's all me."Public appearances, activism, and awards
<mask> has been the keynote speaker at numerous university and community conferences throughout the United States; given lectures and readings at numerous bookstores and other venues; been interviewed on National Public Radio about the poets of the Harlem Renaissance; participated in grassroots and professional feminist organizing; and presented workshops on multiculturalism, spirituality, creativity, and self-empowerment. These appearances include Michigan's Everywoman's Festival, the American Library Association, the New York Open Center, the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress, a 30th Class

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 Reunion speech, as well as conversations with notable authors Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Octavia Butler. She has received prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright, Rockefeller, Mellon and Ford Foundations, the American Association of University Women, and the National Humanities Center. In 1992, Purdue University awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Letters "for pioneering work in the field of black feminist studies that has empowered others to hear and appreciate diverse voices." Spirituality and name change
Over the course of her life, <mask> has studied and/or practiced Southern Baptist Christianity, Rastafari, Santeria, metaphysics, meditation, the Alice Bailey teachings, and Buddhism. She has traveled in Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Japan, the Caribbean, England, Ghana, Hawaii, and Costa Rica. These experiences helped shape her research, poetry, and nonfiction and fiction writings.In 1992 <mask> legally changed her name from <mask> Thompson to <mask> <mask>. Her chosen first name is a Sanskrit word that means "light/luminous". Personal life
<mask> married on June 12, 1966; she and her husband, Prentice Roy <mask>, also a graduate student, had their only child, Adrian Prentice <mask>, at this time. They divorced in 1984. Subsequently, she married again (divorced in 1991) and entered into a California domestic partnership (dissolved in 2006). References

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<mask> CBE (born 8 August 1935) is an Australian radio announcer. For more than 30 years until 2007, he was the host of an Australian morning radio program combining music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback. His distinctive voice earned him the nickname "the Golden Tonsils". Though officially retired between 2007-2011 he returned in February 2011 to host a morning program on 2SM and the Super Radio Network. Career
Best known as a talkback radio broadcaster, <mask> is one of Australia's highest-paid radio personalities. Although regularly commentating on topical news, <mask> did not regard himself a journalist but as an entertainer and salesman. He is nonetheless one of the few commercial radio personalities whose interviews with state and federal political leaders are considered to have a significant influence of the course of politics in New South Wales especially, and Australia in general.He has also often appeared as a television show host and enjoyed a long recording career. <mask>' radio show was syndicated throughout Australia for many years and was consistently one of the most popular and influential programs in the Australian media. <mask> is also a familiar voice for generations of Australians through his large and varied body of work as a voice-over artist for commercials, and as a celebrity endorser of commercial products, notably Valvoline motor oil, with his popular catchphrase "Valvoline, you know what I mean" and Oral-B toothbrushes (the slogan "Oral-B, the toothbrush more dentists use.") Biography

Early life
Born in Wau, Papua New Guinea to Australian parents, <mask> contracted polio twice – once as a child, and again as a young man. He was educated at Mosman Preparatory School and Knox Grammar School in Sydney, Australia. Early career
He began his radio career in 1953 at 3BO in Bendigo before working at several rural radio stations and joining 2UE in 1957, the first of four

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texts: terms at that Sydney radio station, during which time he became one of the first Australian disc jockeys to play rock 'n' roll music (along with Bob Rogers, Tony Withers and Stan Rofe). <mask> pioneered the practice (soon taken up by Rofe) of using contacts in the airline industry to supply him with the latest international pop releases, giving him an edge at a time when Australian releases of many British and American pop records might be delayed for months.<mask> left 2UE in 1959, and moved to the Hunter Region, where he ran a farm. In 1962 he moved back to Sydney, where he joined 2GB, remaining with the station for two years before he rejoined 2UE in 1964. His stint at 2UE continued until 1969, at which point he contracted to 2UW, where he was to remain for 10 years. He returned to 2UE in 1979, this time for another five years. He then moved to 2GB after a highly publicised bid for his services, but returned to the 2UE fold when the station was number eight in the ratings. The return of <mask> was the primary cause of the station becoming number one in Sydney for many years. <mask>' radio program was syndicated nationwide, and was especially popular in rural areas.Capital city stations taking <mask> include 4BC in Brisbane, 2CC in Canberra, 101.7 HOFM in Hobart and Mix 1049 in Darwin. <mask> also often worked a television host and panellist. His early 1960s show Startime assisted in introducing mainstream Australia to Edna Everage at which time <mask> claimed Everage was "a very close friend of mine". <mask> told columnist Valda Marshall in 1970 that he was 'not basically a TV star' and didn't 'feel altogether happy with the medium'. He was a judge on Australia's New Faces in 1969  and took over as host from Noel Ferrier on the panel advice show, Beauty and the Beast in 1970. <mask> quit in 1971; a spokesman for the station which produced the show, Channel 7, claimed <mask> had asked for too high a salary. He also appeared on

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 television in 1970 in an acting role in the children's drama Skippy.In May 1971, he began hosting a daytime show called His and Hers. In 1982, he hosted a revived "Beauty and the Beast" for Network 10. In 1998, <mask> – In One Lifetime premiered on Network Ten and LAWS on Foxtel. While LAWS continued until 2000, <mask> – In One Lifetime was dropped after two episodes – although the remaining five episodes that were commissioned by Network 10 were aired later that year. 21st century
However, his appeal began to wane. In 2002, station colleague and arch-rival Alan Jones moved from 2UE to 2GB, and soon took that station to the top talk position in Sydney. After 55 years on air, <mask> announced on 25 June 2007 that he would retire at the end of the year.However, he was pre-empted by other media agencies, who broke the story at 9:00 am. <mask> made the announcement at about 9:10 am, saying that he had planned to make the announcement at about 9:45 am.<mask>' last broadcast was on 30 November 2007, one week after the federal election. He began as always, "Hello world, I'm <mask>" and signed off with his usual quote, "you...be kind to each other." He then left the 2UE building in Sydney in his Rolls Royce Phantom surrounded by hordes of cameramen. In 2004 <mask> and rival talk-back host Alan Jones were accused of taking payment to make favourable comments on products and services as though merely expressing personal opinion, after entering into deals with Telstra. The ABA subsequently found that <mask>' deal constituted cash for comment but Jones' did not. <mask>, apparently angered by what he saw as inequitable treatment, launched stinging attacks on Jones and the ABA's head, David Flint.In an appearance on the ABC's Enough Rope, <mask> accused Jones of placing pressure on Prime Minister <mask> to keep Flint as head of the ABA, and made comments that many viewers took to imply a sexual relationship between Jones and Flint, and broadly

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 of the Commercial Radio Code of Practice in broadcasting this statement. It also found 2HD (licensee of 2SM) had breached a provision of the same code relating to complaints handling.He currently presents the <mask> Morning Show on 2SM and the Super Radio Network. Cultural influence
In 1996 a portrait of <mask> by artist Paul Newton won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize. The portrait was hung in <mask>' production office at 2UE. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called him the "broadcaster of the century" at <mask> 40th anniversary dinner. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2008 he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is mentioned in the song "Who Can Stand in the Way?" by Australian group Midnight Oil on their album Red Sails in the Sunset and the song "This Train Will be Taking No Passengers" from Augie March's second album Strange Bird.Poetry and non-fiction

<mask> has authored numerous books, many of them poetry collections. He claimed in 1970 that he had been reading Rod McKuen's poems on air but at one point, realising he had left his copy of McKuen's book at home, he instead read a poem of his own and "it seemed to go over pretty well." The working title for his first book was Poems that Came to Me in the Night When No-one Else Would. HIs Book of Irreverent Logic and his Book of Uncommon Sense were republished together in 1996 as A John Laws Limited Edition. His most recent work is a memoir. His books include:

 In love is an expensive place to die : poems (Paul Hamlyn, 1971)
 Results of Love (Hamlyn, 1972)
 Calendar Collection (Summit, 1978)
 Just You and Me Together, Love: Poems (Hamlyn, 1978)
 Somewhere Remembering (Angus and Robertson, 1984)
 <mask>' Book of Irreverent Logic (Pan Australia, 1994)
 <mask>' Book of Uncommon Sense (Pan Macmillan, 1995)
 <mask>' Barbecue Cook Book (Pan Macmillan, 1996)
 It Doesn't End There: Great Australian Stories With a Twist (with Christopher Stewart)

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 There's Always More to the Story (with Christopher Stewart) (Pan Macmillan, 2006)
 Lawsie : well ... you wanted to know (New Holland, 2017)

Filmography
Ned Kelly (1970) – Kennedy
Nickel Queen (1971) - Claude Fitzherbert
The Magic Pudding (2000) – Rumpus Bumpus

Discography

<mask> recorded nine singles between 1959-62, including many songs he wrote himself. He recorded eight solo albums in the 1970s.His first three LPs and the seventh, You've Never Been Trucked Like This Before, are primarily covers of country and middle of the road hits; the fourth, The Mind and the Music, was made up of original <mask> songs. In Love is an Expensive Place to Die is an album of <mask>' poetry set to music. You Must Remember This is a collection of standards from the forties with one song co-written by <mask>. Additionally, <mask> appears recorded as part of the cast of Side By Side By Sondheim (RCA Red Seal, 1977) and reading his poems to accompaniment by the Henry Mancini Orchestra on an album entitled Just You and Me Together, Love (RCA, 1977). A Tribute to the ANZACS (Southland, 2000) is a 'musical documentary' narrated by <mask>. Studio albums

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Awards

Australian Record Awards

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References

External links
 Radio 2UE's archive of <mask>' retirement announcement and noteworthy tributes
 Media Watch analysis of the 1999–2000 'cash for comment' inquiry
 Media Watch on the Telstra deals
 Sydney Morning Herald report on vilification finding

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<mask> (1619–1668) was an English astrologer and astronomer, professionally a land surveyor. Life and publications
<mask> was born at North Luffenham, Rutland on 9 April 1619. The eldest of four sons of <mask> (1587–1660) (who was taking astronomical observations during the 1620s), his family had been established in the village since at least his grandfather's time, but is thought to have had Welsh antecedents. <mask> did not receive a university education, but by assiduous study acquired his working knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Mathematics. With these skills he followed his calling as a surveyor, and invented or developed the use of the forty-link two-pole chain for measuring tracts of land in rods or poles, a method which he explained and advocated in his published works. While so engaged, two of his younger brothers, Solomon (1621) and Samuel (1626), married during the earlier 1640s and began their families, but the first of <mask>'s children by his wife Alice to be christened at North Luffenham was Elizabeth, in November 1652. During this time <mask> collaborated with William Leybourn (1626–1716), and dated the preface to their jointly-authored work Urania Practica, (published in 1649) from North Luffenham in 1648.Containing over 300 pages, this was the first substantial compendium of astronomy written in the English language. It was the commencement of important authorial careers in surveying and astronomy for both men, and they defended themselves against their critic Jeremy Shakerley soon afterwards. In

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texts: the following year <mask> published independently A Dreadful Prognostication, containing astrological predictions. However several of <mask>'s later publications were made through the press of Robert Leybourn, who went into partnership with William Leybourn in 1651. The first of these, <mask>'s Harmonicon Cœleste, appeared in 1651 at a time when <mask> was in correspondence with William Lilly: a surviving copy of the book from the library of Sir Isaac Newton was carefully annotated by its owner. In this work <mask> had made a transition towards more modern astronomical conceptions. At the Leybourn press William Leybourn produced his own first enduring and substantial work, The Compleat Surveyor, in 1653: the association with <mask> persisted until <mask>'s death.<mask>'s next major work, his Astronomia Instaurata, appeared in 1656. This led to a controversy with Thomas Streete, who published his Astronomia Carolina in 1661, and followed it with An Appendix to Astronomia Carolina in 1664 in which he criticised <mask> for his mistakes. In 1665 <mask> responded in his Examen Astronomiae Carolina, exposing the alleged errors of Thomas Street, who retaliated with Examen examinatum of 1667, 'a castigation of the envy and ignorance of <mask>.' <mask> issued ephemerides for twenty years (1652–1671), which John Flamsteed considered to be the most accurate of their time. As a very young man Flamsteed maintained a correspondence with <mask> (who died in 1668). Flamsteed, who interested himself in the opinions of both <mask>

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texts: and Streete, wrote: "with [Mr. <mask>] I had a faire Correspondence, and though we differed de parallaxi et Æquationibus systematis Solaris and severall other things, yet our dissent made us not the lesse freinds;" adding, that though he [i.e. Flamsteed] differed with Mr. Streete in his opinions de Fixatione Apheliorum et Nodorum, et de Æquationibus Lunae oscillatorijs, yet he hoped that Streete should prove to be a friendly correspondent also.A convinced astrologer, <mask> edited in 1660 the Defence of the Divine Art of Natural Astrologie which had been sent to him by his late friend George Atwell (c.1576–1658), Surveyor, and 'Professor of the Mathematicks' at the University of Cambridge, to which he wrote an informative preface. <mask> remarks, "The stars incline the will (saith Scotus) yet in no wise necessitate it, notwithstanding it often hapneth that Astrologers fore-tel truths concerning the manners of men, by reason of their proneness to follow their sensitive appetite." Atwell was the author of a work on Surveying explaining the accurate use of the measuring chain, which by 1665 had run into a third, enlarged (London) edition. In 1664 <mask> produced his own treatise on practical land surveying, his Geodætes Practicus : or, The Art of Surveying. A second edition, containing also a reprint of the Examen Astronomiae Carolinae, was produced in 1666, almost the entire run of which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. The Third Edition was the much enlarged version issued as Geodætes Practicus Redivivus

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texts: by his nephew <mask> in 1699–1700. The culmination of <mask>'s labours took shape in his Astronomia Britannica, published posthumously in 1669.Written entirely in Latin, well-illustrated with diagrams and enriched throughout by classical literary allusions, this was a complete system of astronomy on Copernican principles. It followed Seth Ward in formulating Kepler's second law. It was prefaced by a line-engraved portrait of the author seated at a table with globe and instruments, and a view of a village (possibly meant for North Luffenham) beyond. and opened with a letter of dedication to Sir Robert Markham (1644–1690), M.P. for Grantham, who wrote a two-page postscript de Refractione to the text. The seven-page preface, Praefatium ad Candidum Lectorem, which opens with a flourish invoking the authority of Hermes Trismegistus, is dated from North Luffenham early in 1665. The five 'books' of the main text (pp.1–246) each have their own title-pages, the first three dated 1668 and the last two 1669. The latter half of the work (pp. 1–366) is occupied by the Tables with a further dated title-page of 1668 for the Synopsis Compendiaria of Astronomic Observations (part 2 p. 265). <mask> also wrote for the Stationers' Company an almanac styled Olympia Domata, the annual sale of which averaged 50,000 copies. The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, <mask>, and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, <mask> of Pickworth, Rutland (see below). The publication was continued by his descendants at irregular

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 intervals until 1805. <mask> resided with his wife Alice at North Luffenham, where daughters Mary (1654), Alice (1658), Elizabeth (1664) and Catherine (1666) and sons <mask> (1656) and James (1661), were christened.He occasionally went to London for learned company. His friend and biographer John Gadbury commended his wit. He drew the scheme of his own nativity published in Gadbury's Brief Relation, and is said to have made a correct forecast of his death. He contracted consumption, of which he died on 20 September 1668, aged 49, having made his will only a fortnight previously. Gadbury observed that dedication to work had exhausted him, and rebutted any suggestion that <mask> might have taken his own life. He was buried at North Luffenham. The <mask> Family

After <mask>'s death, and during the 18th century, the vicinity of North Luffenham maintained distinction by its association with the Barker family of Lyndon Hall and South Luffenham in Rutland.<mask> the elder (father of the astronomer) had, before 1635, been a tenant of lands in North Luffenham which had formerly belonged to Fineshade Priory, Northamptonshire, and had become property of the rector of North Luffenham, Robert Johnson (1540–1625). In 1630 Johnson's grandson Isaac, principal shareholder in the Massachusetts Bay Company, sailed with John Winthrop in the founding voyage to Massachusetts. In that company was also one <mask> and his wife Deborah Batchelder, from whom an American family of <mask> hopes to trace its descent: the possible association

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texts: of that John with <mask>'s family is mooted in a published genealogy. In 1635 Johnson's lands were sold to Samuel Barker of South Luffenham, who died in 1658, but the continuing relations with the <mask> family are shown by deeds of recovery relating to some 180 acres at North Luffenham and Ketton, between <mask> junior, gent. (presumably the astronomer himself), and Jonathan and John Barker, gents. (two of the sons and heirs of Samuel Barker, upon whom the former Johnson lands had devolved), in 1660. These heirs of Samuel Barker's lived at North Luffenham Manor House (built 1640).The Wings therefore had dealings with the Barker family more than with Noel or Digby, the other two principal manorial families of North Luffenham. Lyndon Hall became the home of Samuel Barker (1686–1759) and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Isaac Newton's pupil and successor as Lucasian Professor, William Whiston (1667–1752), who latterly resided with them, and Samuel's son Thomas Barker (1722–1809), called 'The Father of Meteorology', who married the sister of Gilbert White of Selborne. The example and brilliance of <mask> found its reflex in the descendants of his youngest brother <mask> (baptised 4.x.1629, buried 5.xii.1697) and his wife Priscilla, at least eleven of whose children were baptised at North Luffenham between 1655 and 1675. Two of their children apparently founded dynasties whose works in Surveying, Fenland Engineering, Mathematics, Instrument-Making, Architecture and Astronomy continued through the eighteenth and

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 nineteenth centuries. Line of <mask> of Pickworth (1662)
 <mask> of Pickworth (1662-1726), and wife Sarah Hyfield, was the father of Tycho <mask> I (1696–1750), philosopher and astronomer, and their various namesake descendants. <mask> of Pickworth was a County coroner, surveyor and almanackist who published in 1693 the Heptarchia Mathematica, a text-book for masons, carpenters and glaziers: in 1699 he published an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, the Geodætes Practicus Redivivus supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc. John was survived by five children,
 John Wing (died 1741), Citizen and Haberdasher of London
 daughters Sarah (Baily), Priscilla (Sisson) and Elizabeth (Clerk), and
 Tycho Wing I (1696–1750), Philosopher and astronomer, teacher of Mathematics to boarding pupils at Pickworth, and Coroner for Rutland 1727–42, to whom his father bequeathed all his Mathematical books and instruments.He was the subject of an oil portrait (showing him with an astrological globe) by John Vanderbank for Stationers' Hall, London, rendered as a mezzotint by George White (1684–1732). He married Eleanor Peach of Stoke Dry, Rutland, and had at least four children, including
 Tycho <mask> II (1726–1774), instrument maker of Montpelier Row, Twickenham. He was apprenticed to the London instrument-maker Thomas Heath in 1741 and was in partnership with him from 1751 to 1773. He married Heath's daughter Hypatia. Published and sold all manner of materials for surveyors. <mask>

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 (1727–1776), surveyor, who married Mary and was father of
 Tycho <mask>, baptised at Great Casterton in 1769. <mask> (1723–1780).Became Steward to the 4th Duke and 5th Duke of Bedford at Thorney, Cambridgeshire. He published maps of the Bedford Level and Lincolnshire Fens and was involved in drainage works on the North Levels during the 1760s. Married Ann Sisson and was father of
 <mask> junr (1752–1812), who succeeded his father as Steward to the Duke of Bedford at Thorney. He debated and advocated the raising of temporary taxes for the repair and improvement of Fen drainage and maintained the Thorney estate in an exemplary fashion. He married twice, first to Katherine Elger, and second to Jane Ansell, his six children by whom included
 <mask>, the Revd., of Thornhaugh (1786–1858), who succeeded his father as Steward to the Duke of Bedford at Thorney between 1812 and 1817, and
 Tycho <mask> IV (1794–1851), who, succeeding in 1817, won himself high praise both as manager of the tenantry and for his work in drainage and management of the Fens. Between 1827 and 1834 he undertook a project to improve the outfall of the River Nene, the lower section of which is named 'Tycho Wing's Channel'. He became known as 'King of the Fens'; he married Adelaide Basevi, sister of the architect George Basevi, and had eight children.Line of <mask> of North Luffenham (1666)
 <mask> of North Luffenham (baptised 30.ix.1666, the son of Moses and Priscilla <mask>), (brother of <mask> of Pickworth), by wife Elizabeth, was the father of

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 six children including
 <mask> the elder (1697/98-1753), mason, and architect of the tower of St Peter's church at Gaulby, Leicestershire, who by his first wife Elizabeth Townsend was father of
 <mask> the younger (1728–1794), mason, and architect of the neo-Gothic church of St John the Baptist, c.1761, at King's Norton, Leicestershire; and he, by his wife Elizabeth Gibbins of Hallaton, Leicestershire (where <mask> became resident), was father of six children including
 <mask> (1756–1826), mason and architect: who, being set up in business at Woburn by his father following their 1780–82 collaboration on the Girtford bridge at Sandy, Bedfordshire, became architect of the famous Town Bridge at Bedford (also of the Town Gaol, the House of Industry and the Bedford Infirmary) and thrice Mayor of that County Town. Among his ten children by wife Elizabeth Tacy were
 James Tacy <mask> (1805–1880), church architect of Bedford. <mask> of Bedford (1802–1861), architect of Biggleswade Town Hall (1844). Notes and references

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<mask> (born July 25, 1976) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He played for the Florida Marlins (), Atlanta Braves (), Chicago White Sox (–), Arizona Diamondbacks (), New York Yankees (, ), and Montreal Expos (–). Personal life
<mask> was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. <mask> is married to <mask>. They have three children: Kamila, <mask>é, and Kariana. <mask> claims that he dislikes being the center of attention outside of the playing field and describes himself as a 'house man' spending his free time with his children. <mask> is also interested in art pieces especially the ones that are produced by Puerto Rican artists and he possesses paintings by Wichie Torres and Iván Rosario.<mask> has also expressed that he has always been interested in charity work, this interest was fueled by his parents as he states that a Christian upbringing and their support when he began practicing sports were part of this influence. Professional career

Minor Leagues
<mask> was a 5th round draft pick of the Montreal Expos in the  amateur draft. The same year, he began his professional career with the Montreal Expos's Rookie ball club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the GCL Expos. He struck out 56, walking 15, in a team leading 67 innings pitched. In 1995 he was promoted to the class A Albany Polecats where in 102 innings he struck out 87 but also walking 47. In 1996 with class A Delmarva Shorebirds he pitched 164.1 with a team leading 173 strikeouts and 57 walks. The following year he started with high A ball, West Palm Beach Expos, striking out 100 and walking 28 in 112 innings, before moving up to Class AA Harrisburg Senators where he

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 struck out 47 and walked 12 in 42 innings.Montreal Expos (1998–2003)
<mask> made his Major League debut for the Expos on April 3, 1998 pitching five innings in the loss. He picked up his first win May 26 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He finished his rookie season starting 32 games, pitching 172 innings and striking out 139 batters. In , as part of a young Expos rotation of "twentysomething", "tall", "power" pitchers <mask> started the season as the team's number three pitcher but, after being sent back to the minor leagues would miss a month and a half of the major league season. He finished the year with 26 starts, including his first career shut out September 14 against the Dodgers, 154 innings and 131 strikeouts causing ESPN to write that he had "turn[ed] the corner ... dramatically." He was the losing pitcher when David Cone, of the New York Yankees, pitched a perfect game against the Expos on July 18, 1999.In , Vázquez had become the opening day start of the Expos. He was thought of as a promising young pitcher and pitched the team's opening game on April 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, striking out five batters in seven innings in an Expos win. The Expos would win his following three starts and eight of his first eleven leaving the Expos at 27–23 on June 1. In the wake of injuries to pitchers Matt Blank, Mike Thurman and Hideki Irabu, <mask>'s 2.79 ERA, good for fourth-best in the NL, was noted as a key part to their success. After a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles and a win against the New York Yankees the Expos were at 31–23, 2nd behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East, 3rd in the entire National League. His June sixth start,

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texts: under pressure, <mask> struck out 7 batters in 6 innings but he also walked four and gave up a home run to Bernie Williams, the Expos lost and would go on to lose seven of their next nine leaving them at 33–31, eighth in the National League. The Expos would finish 67–95 and <mask> would pitch 217 innings, striking out 196 while only walking 61.He was invited to play in the 2000 Japanese All-Star Series 2000. By , <mask> had become the ace of the Expos pitching staff thought of as a "bright young star and an All-Star for years to come." On April second he opened the season in Chicago, pitching five innings, striking out five but walking three against the Cubs. The Expos won a close game five to four. He pitched better the following start, the home opener at Olympic Stadium striking out nine without issuing any walks in seven innings and would finish the season with 223 innings pitched, 208 strikeouts, while only walking 44. In , <mask> pitched a then career high 230 innings striking out 179 batters while walking 49. Despite this he lost his arbitration case following the season and was awarded $6 million rather than his requested $7.15 million.In , <mask> pitched 230 innings striking out a then career high 241 batters while walking 57. Regarded as one of the league's top pitchers he signaled to then GM Omar Minaya that he might not resign with the Expos, a team then threatened with contraction. Later when asked by the New York Times about his experience in Montreal that year he said it was tough "being over there having no owner. If you needed somebody the last couple years when we were in the hunt, especially last year, we couldn't get a

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 player we needed." The article went on to note that for financial reasons the Expos not only couldn't "obtain players from other teams who might have helped the Expos stay in the wild-card race, but the Expos also weren't allowed to call up players from the minor leagues." New York Yankees (2004)
On December 16, 2003, the New York Yankees acquired <mask> from the Expos in exchange for Nick Johnson,  Juan Rivera and Randy Choate. He agreed to a four-year deal through the  season.Entering the season The Hardball Times predicted him as their "consensus pick for the Cy Young". Following a strong start to the season he was named a 2004 All-Star. Arizona Diamondbacks (2005)
Following a disappointing performance in Game 7 of the 2004 American League Championship Series where Vazquez pitched two innings of relief allowing three runs, two hits (both home runs to Johnny Damon), and five walks, the Yankees sent <mask>, Brad Halsey, and Dioner Navarro, to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Randy Johnson on January 11, 2005. Johnson, then a 10 time all-star, had won the National League Cy Young Award each year from 1999 to 2002 and had finished in second place in Cy Young voting that year (striking out a league high 290 batters with only 44 walks in 245 innings.) As Arizona's opening day starter, <mask> surrendered 7 earned runs while struck out two without walking anyone in 1.2 innings, one of three worst starts in the Diamondbacks history. In 33 starts overall, he struck out 192 and walked 46 in 215 innings. In the month of May he pitched 46 innings, without walking a single batter.The stretch was broken at 54 innings in the 5th inning of a June


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 ninth start against Minnesota. After pitching the 2005 season with Arizona, <mask> formally requested a trade from the team, asking for a location which was "easier for his family in Puerto Rico to visit." Chicago White Sox (2006–2008)

On December 20, 2005, <mask> was traded to the Chicago White Sox for Orlando Hernández, Luis Vizcaíno, and Chris Young. During the 2007 season he struck out 213 and walked 50 in 216 innings pitched. <mask> agreed to play for the Puerto Rico Team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, joining fellow Puerto Rican players Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltrán, Bernie Williams, amongst others representing the island in a team managed by St. Louis Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo. In the 2007 season, <mask> exceeded the two hundred strikeouts mark for the third time in his career, with the other two occasions being in  and 2003. This season was the seventh season in his career where he had thrown at least two hundred innings.The only season that he was not able to work this quantity of innings was in 2004 when Joe Torre, then manager of the New York Yankees decided to jump some turns in the team's rotation. <mask> culminated that year with 198 thrown innings. When asked about <mask>'s performance during the season in an interview, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén noted that <mask> had been throwing well for some time but the team had not been able to capitalize on this until it was too late in the season, specifically referring to the team's performance during the summer. Atlanta Braves (2009)

On December 4, 2008, <mask> was traded, along with Boone Logan, to the Atlanta Braves for minor league catcher Tyler Flowers,

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 shortstop Brent Lillibridge, third baseman Jon Gilmore and pitcher Santos Rodriguez. With the Braves in 2009, <mask> had what was perhaps his most successful season with 238 strikeouts and 44 walks in 219 innings. He also led the majors in sacrifice hits, with 20. <mask> came in fourth place in the voting for the 2009 NL Cy Young Award.Second stint with the New York Yankees

On December 22, 2009 the New York Yankees re-acquired <mask>, this time from the Braves with LHP Boone Logan, in exchange for OF Melky Cabrera, LHP Mike Dunn and pitching prospect Arodys Vizcaíno. At this time he was thought of as "one of the top starters in all of baseball" after what was thought of as being one of the best if not the best statistical seasons by a pitcher in 2009. On July 21, 2010 he became the third active pitcher to beat all 30 MLB teams along with Barry Zito and Jamie Moyer. After struggling in August, the Yankees temporarily demoted <mask> to the bullpen. In his final appearance of the season, <mask> came in in relief against the Rays and proceeded to hit three batters in a row (tying a big-league record), while the Rays went on to score two runs on no hits. <mask> finished the regular season with a 10–10 win-loss record and an ERA of 5.32. Due to his struggles in the regular season, the Yankees once again demoted <mask> to the bullpen for him to be on the postseason roster.The Yankees won the 2010 ALDS against the Minnesota Twins in 3 games, but lost to the Texas Rangers in the 2010 ALCS in 6 games. <mask> was released after the season was over. Florida Marlins (2011)
Following the 2010 season, he reached an agreement on a one-year $7 million

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 his fastball." He also threw a "tight" slider which averaged 83 mph and "a big breaking curve-ball" which averaged 74 mph. His curveball was thought to be especially difficult to hit; in 2004 Sandy Alomar, Jr. called it the "best breaking ball I've seen; Bert Blyleven doesn't throw it better [...] you don't know where it's going to land. He changes speeds with the breaking ball. He throws it hard. He throws it at you. He knows how to set you up."Kalk called it a "slurvy curve with huge horizontal movement and little vertical drop" noting that he "can add and subtract from a pitch that can like anything from one of his better sliders to a 65 mph beast with massive horizontal and vertical movement." Poet Carson Cistulli once wrote that "<mask>'s curvepiece makes me a Better Man"

He featured two types of changeups: "one that darts like a cutter and one that resembles a screwball". Kalk noted an 11 mph difference between his fastball and changeup, FanGraphs a 10.5 mph average for his career (90.9 mph compared to 80.4 mph). Fastball velocity
Baseball writer Dave Cameron writes in his piece "<mask>'s Fastball Is Probably Not Coming Back" that beginning in 2010 Vazquez's fastball dropped from 91 mph to 89 mph and that "given his career workload, I wouldn’t bet on Vazquez's fastball ever coming back." In May, 2011 the Miami Herald noted that while Vazquez's velocity had been down "now it is registering in the low 90s. When one fastball snapped his glove Friday, Buck said he glanced up at the reading on the Dodger Stadium scoreboard and saw 94." In June, 2011 Joe Frisaro confirmed that his velocity had "increased" and that Vazquez's fastball was

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 topping out "at a season-high 94 mph".This was statistically confirmed in September by Eric Seidman: "from June 11 until now, Vazquez threw his fastball 53 percent of the time, and the pitch averaged 91.1 mph, right in line with his career". Post-baseball career
<mask> was hired as an international special assistant to Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark on April 30, 2014. See also

 List of Major League Baseball annual shutout leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders
 List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico

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<mask>'s CKY crew. His body of works includes the CKY video series, Haggard: The Movie, reality television shows such as Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover, Jackass 3D, and Jackass 3.5, and music videos for bands such as HIM, CKY, Clutch, and the 69 Eyes. Frantz is also a collaborative co-author of the book Dreamseller, which he wrote with MTV / Jackass personality Brandon Novak. Frantz is a television documentary producer and cinematographer whose works have aired on National Geographic, The History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and The Travel Channel. CKY

The CKY video series
Frantz is noted for serving as cinematographer for the CKY video series, a predecessor to the Jackass franchise. The series was directed by Bam Margera and starred the CKY crew, as well as popular extreme sports icons such as Tony Hawk.As director of photography for CKY 3 and CKY4, Frantz introduced high production quality 35-millimeter and 16-millimeter film sequences to the action sports genre, which was then primarily shot on various low quality videotape formats. Among the most noted film segments in the CKY videos are the "Shopping Cart Slams" and the "HeMan BeastMan" music video for the band Gnarkill (for which Frantz also crafted the stop-motion animation sequences). CKY: The Greatest Hits
In 2014, Frantz directed and produced the one-hour documentary CKY: The Greatest Hits, which highlights the most memorable moments and unreleased footage from the CKY videos, and features commentary from Bam Margera and the CKY crew, with special appearances by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine of Jackass. Independent films

Haggard: The Movie
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 his independent motion picture directorial debut, a comedy titled Haggard: The Movie (2003). Directed by, starring, and financed by Margera, Haggard co-stars Ryan Dunn and the CKY crew, and features cameos by skateboard legends Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek. For the production of Haggard, Frantz developed a production method through which he could serve dual roles as both producer and director of photography, and shot the movie in super-16 millimeter film. Minghags: The Movie
Directed by and starring Bam Margera and the cast of MTV's Viva La Bam, Minghags: The Movie (2009) is an homage to one of Margera's and Frantz's favorite genres, born out of the 1980s, the "Screwball Comedy" (such films as John Landis' Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon).As co-director, executive producer, and director of photography, Frantz shot it in super-16 millimeter film, in the same colorful style as its predecessor, Haggard: The Movie. Bam Margera Presents: Where the ♯$&% Is Santa? Bam Margera Presents: Where the ♯$&% Is Santa? (2008) is a modern-day Christmas saga, a reality comedy feature reminiscent of the MTV predecessor Viva La Bam, in which Bam Margera and Brandon Novak trek across Finland to find Santa Claus in order to make good on a bet with Jimmy Pop of the Bloodhound Gang. They are also joined by the Dudesons. The film features other cameos by Kat Von D, CKY, and Andy McCoy of Hanoi Rocks. Frantz served as the film's co-executive producer, writer, and director of photography, and appeared in a cameo role.Jackass
<mask> is noted for his camera work in Jackass Number Two (2006), Jackass 2.5 (2007), Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover (2008) (in which <mask> made his first Jackass cameo appearance), Jackass 3D (2010), and Jackass 3.5 (2011). <mask> is also noted for shooting the "lost" Jackass

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 Number Two scene of Don Vito, the "Don Vito Tooth Pull" (2006), in which Vito had his tooth pulled out via a string attached to the bumper of a Lamborghini driven by Bam Margera and Johnny Knoxville. The footage quickly became the "big stunt" in the official Jackass Number Two trailer. Due to legal allegations centered around Don Vito, the footage was omitted from the film, and it is rumored that <mask> still owns Vito's tooth. A few seconds of the lost footage can be seen in the original Jackass Number Two trailer. Reality TV

Viva La Bam
The Jackass spin-off Viva La Bam, MTV's scripted-reality series starred Bam Margera and his friends from Jackass and the CKY videos, known as the "CKY crew". The program was shot from 2003 to 2006 (from pilot to the "Viva La Spring Break" special).Each episode presented a theme or mission, and took the cast and crew on journeys across the United States, South America, Europe, and Scandinavia. The show also often featured appearances of Margera's favorite bands and celebrity friends such as HIM, CKY, Clutch, Slayer, Gwar, The Bloodhound Gang, Johnny Knoxville, and Tony Hawk. For Viva La Bam's five-season duration, Frantz served as director of photography and contributed to the aesthetic of the show by shooting scenes and montages in super-16 and 35-millimeter film, using a variety of experimental cinematographic in-camera techniques (such as stop-motion), producing the only motion picture film presented on a reality program in the history of television. Bam's Unholy Union
Frantz was producer and director of photography of the Jackass/Viva La Bam spinoff Bam's Unholy Union (2007). The series chronicled the marriage of Bam Margera to his high school sweetheart Melissa "Missy" Rothstein, and featured Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Brandon Novak, Rake Yohn, and


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MTV's Blastazoid was the featured show on MTV's highly advertised "Gamers Week". The half-hour special was created by MTV's internal division with <mask> and Brandon DiCamillo, who were signed on as producers to head up the project shortly after approaching MTV with their idea to create a "Live-Action Donkey Kong"; a five-story, life-sized version of the classic arcade game.Blastazoid chronicled the lives of hosts <mask>, DiCamillo, and Rake Yohn, as they brought "Live-Action Donkey Kong" to life. It also showcased user-created gaming, fan, and tribute footage found on the internet. Although MTV's Blastazoid Special ended with a trailer for a "Live-Action Frogger" episode, the teaser was a spoof and Blastazoid had never been intended for a series. Music videos and documentaries

HIM
Frantz has served as both producer and director of photography with director Bam Margera on four music videos for Finnish band HIM:
 "Buried Alive by Love" (featuring Natural Born Killers star Juliette Lewis) (2003)
 "The Sacrament" (2004)
 "And Love Said No" (2004)
 "Solitary Man" (2004). The international success of the HIM videos initiated the production of a series of documentary features by Margera and Frantz:
 HIM: The Making of "Buried Alive by Love" (2003)
 HIM: The Making of "The Sacrament" (2004)
 HIM: The Making of "And Love Said No" (2004)
 BAM presents HIM: The Making of "Dark Light" (2005)
Interspersed with Margera's signature antics, the documentaries highlight the history of the band and depict challenges of the video productions. CKY
In 1999, Frantz served as producer and director of photography with director Bam Margera for the CKY video "96 Quite Bitter Beings" (1999). The video was a success on MTV's Total Request Live, and the Margera / Frantz team has

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 producer and director of photography: "Blackened Sunrise" (2007) and "Hair of the Dog" (2009). Clutch
Frantz teamed up with director Bam Margera to produce and film the music video for hard rock band Clutch's "The Mob Goes Wild" (2004). The video features antics from Ryan Dunn and Brandon DiCamillo of Jackass. Vinnie Paz and Jedi Mind Tricks
As a lifelong friend of rapper Vinnie Paz, Frantz directed the first video of Paz's band Jedi Mind Tricks called "I Who Have Nothing" (1996), which features experimental in-camera animation and effects shot on a 16-millimeter Bolex camera.When frontman Paz pursued his solo career, Frantz served as director and cinematographer for Paz's debut video "Keep Movin' On" (2010). The video features cameos from several of Frantz's friends and associates: Philadelphia personality Tony Luke Jr., Scott Vogel of the hardcore band Terror, and Gina Lynn of the adult film world. Frantz followed the release with the Vinnie Paz documentary "Keep Movin' On: A Portrait of Vinnie Paz". Viva La Bands
The CD/DVD sets Viva La Bands (2005) and Viva La Bands, Volume 2 (2007) were released by skater/Jackass alumnus Bam Margera and had international distribution. The CDs are compilations of songs from Margera's favorite bands. The DVD features include popular music videos, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and the "lost episode" of Viva La Bam, titled "Iceland Waterfall", which were directed by Margera and produced and filmed by Frantz. Books

Dreamseller
<mask> is a collaborative co-author of the book Dreamseller, which he wrote with MTV / Jackass personality Brandon Novak.This "cautionary tale" chronicles Novak's career as a young professional skateboarder, descent into heroin addiction, and subsequent rise to MTV fame. Frantz documented the life of Novak in "Dreamseller: The


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 Documentary Series. The film outlines Novak's career, and the effects of drug addiction on relationships, and features interviews with Novak's mother, as well as Bam Margera, Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, and Ryan Dunn, who comment on their relationships with Novak and his history of drug abuse. In December 2007, on an episode of Radio Bam on Sirius Radio, Frantz accuses Novak of being high, frisks him, and uncovers hidden drugs. Consequently, Margera, Frantz, and company kicked Novak out of Margera's studio and sent him home. In March 2009, in an attempt to dissuade young people from trying drugs, Frantz interviewed Novak who was then committed to a mental institution for recovery from prescription drug addiction. Frantz and Novak have started writing the second book in the Dreamseller series, which is centered around Novak's relationship with his father, now deceased.Radio shows

Radio Bam
Frantz was a regular guest host on the Sirius Satellite Radio program Radio Bam until its end in 2013. The show featured Bam Margera and guests. The Novak and Frantz Show
Since 2018, Frantz is the co-host of The Novak and Frantz Show on the Might Be News Network with fellow CKY crew member Brandon Novak. On the show, they discuss sobriety, film-making, current events, and their Jackass careers. They have had Chris Raab, Rake Yohn, Phil Margera, and April Margera as guests. Filmography

Film

Television

Trivia
<mask>'s first gig in the film industry was as a production assistant on Chasing Amy (1997). It was short-lived, as on his first day, he accidentally shut down the set for an hour during a key scene by triggering an alarm on a nearby building.References

External links

<mask> on Instagram
<mask> on Twitter

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Film producers from Pennsylvania
MTV people
Businesspeople from Philadelphia
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<mask> (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, writer and director, known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre". <mask> achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy Illuminatus! and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle The Warp. The Guinness Book of Records listed the latter as the longest play in the world. The Independent said that, "In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the nature of reality, he became something approaching a grand old man of the fringe, though without ever discarding his inner enfant terrible." The Times labelled <mask> a one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance.Michael Coveney, in an obituary in The Guardian, described him as "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the British theatre of the past half-century. A genius at producing shows on a shoestring and honing the improvisational capabilities of the actors who were brave enough to work with him." The artistic director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse said, "He was the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe." Early life and career
<mask> was born in Ilford, Essex, the son of Elsie (née Handley) and Anthony Colin <mask>, who was a telegrapher. He staged his first performances in the bathroom of his childhood home: "I was three years old and helped by my invisible friend, Peter Jelp, I put on shows for the characters in the linoleum." He was educated at Chigwell School (where he won the Drama prize) and then studied at RADA before joining Colchester Repertory theatre as an understudy to Warren Mitchell. In 1967 he became resident dramatist and acting company member at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent.He soon began writing and directing his own productions,

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 including working with director Lindsay Anderson. After seeing the American Living Theatre at The Roundhouse in 1969 he was inspired to found The Ken Campbell Roadshow, a small theatre group that performed in unconventional venues such as pubs. Members included Bob Hoskins, Bernard Wrigley, Jane Wood, Dave Hill and Sylvester McCoy. <mask> was invited by John Cleese to appear with his Roadshow team in the first  Secret Policeman's Ball in June 1979. Theatre director and playwright

In 1976, he and Chris Langham formed the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool in order to stage Illuminatus, a nine-hour cycle of five plays by himself and Langham based on the cult trilogy of avowedly anarchist science fantasy novels of the same name by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Starring <mask> and Langham themselves, the production featured Neil Cunningham, David Rappaport, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy and <mask>'s future wife Prunella Gee. It later moved to the National Theatre, where it opened the new Cottesloe Theatre in 1977.Sir Peter Hall, director of the National at the time, writes of <mask> in his Diaries, "He is a total anarchist and impossible to pin down. He more or less said it was a crime to be serious." The Warp, based on the real life experiences and adventures of author Neil Oram, is a dizzying trek through the nether reaches of gurudom and tireless post-sixties mind-expansion, directed by <mask>, and opened at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in January 1979. It was spawned by the encounter between Oram and <mask> after Oram gave his acclaimed performance as raconteur at the ICA. <mask> commissioned the cycle of ten plays after hearing Oram. The cycle's inordinate length when (as was intended to be possible) it is played together, 22 hours,  rendered the 9-hour Illuminatus! a mere bagatelle by comparison.For the first two weeks the performances were of one play per night, after which the impetus for a marathon performance, a real challenge

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 mounted a yet more grandiose version of The Hitchhiker's Guide in July 1980.The venue had been renovated in the 1970s to take rock operas. Some reviewers, who in general did not greet the show favourably, labelled it a musical, since it now came with incidental music and audacious laser effects. It ran for over three hours, despite attempts to shorten the script, and was forced to close some four weeks early, losing a lot of money in the process. For a year, 1980–1981, <mask> was artistic director of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre. From 1984, he made repeated efforts to adapt for the stage VALIS, the largely autobiographical cult science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, but to the disappointment of fans, these efforts came to nothing. Television, radio and film
<mask> played Alex Gladwell, a corrupt lawyer, in one of the TV events of the 1970s, Law & Order, the notorious but ground-breaking corruption drama by G.F. Newman, a luminary of British TV screenwriting. The series provoked such a press outcry at the time that the BBC banned its overseas sale, since it was deemed to have portrayed Britain's police and criminal justice system in such a wholly unfavourable light.He played Alf Garnett's neighbour, Fred Johnson in the series of the 1980s sitcom In Sickness and in Health, which had the effect of cementing his career-long friendship with Warren Mitchell. He was memorable in Jack Pulman's 1981 television series Private Schulz as the acerbic Herr Krauss, an underwear factory owner hoping the war would continue so as not to jeopardise his contracts with the German army. <mask> in 1987 unsuccessfully auditioned for the part of the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who. He was beaten to the role by his old protégé Sylvester McCoy, but an independently written and produced episode, "The Lost Doctor", features the voice of <mask>. The then script editor, Andrew Cartmel, later revealed that <mask>'s interpretation had been considered "too dark" to put on

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 television. Other roles included the children's programme "Erasmus Microman" on ITV from 1988 to 1989 being a mad scientist. He also played Roger in "The Anniversary" episode of Fawlty Towers, buck-toothed blackmailer Ted Goat in Lovejoy Loses It, a 1993 episode of Lovejoy and a thieving flower-show entrant in Say It With Flowers, a 2004 episode of Heartbeat.<mask>'s radio career included playing Poodoo in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a part specifically written for him. The Radio 3 literary programme The Verb included <mask> as a regular contributor; in such spots as <mask>'s Book Soup he became an upturner of bibliographic rocks, revealing unconsidered trifles to the hilarity of fellow contributors. His film work included Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979), Breaking Glass (1980), Joshua Then and Now (1985), The Bride (1985), Chris Bernard's Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts (1985), Charles Crichton's A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Hard Men (1996), Alice in Wonderland (1999), Saving Grace (2000) and Creep (2004). In the final years of his life <mask> suddenly found himself cast in a whole new TV role: that of doggedly curious sceptic called upon to probe the outer realms of particle physics and cognitive science on behalf of the casual viewer, particularly where the science bordered on the paranormal. <mask>'s idiosyncratic presentation in Brainspotting, Reality On the Rocks  and Six Experiments that Changed the World, each made for Channel 4, owed much to the influence of one of his heroes, the American iconoclast Charles Fort. <mask> became a star turn at the annual Fortean Times convention, UnCon. Later career and one-man shows
From the late eighties onwards <mask> wrote and performed a series of one-man shows, each a mélange of autobiographical stand-up comedy, ontological speculation and popular-science rant.They include Recollections of a Furtive Nudist, Jamais Vu, Mystery Bruises and Pigspurt. Several

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 a reference to his time as artist in residence in 1967 at Stoke-on-Trent's Victoria Theatre. <mask> appeared on 6 September 2009, over a year after his death, in the first of a new series of Marple on ITV. He played Crump; his wife was played by Wendy Richard. The School of Night
On 23 April 2005, <mask> was asked by Mark Rylance, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, to stage a celebration of Shakespeare's work.<mask> responded with Shall we Shog?, a show in which actors played competitive improvisational games against each other in the idiom of Shakespeare. These included games like 'flyting' (a tournament of increasingly outrageous insults); an explanation and demonstration of the 'Nub' (a piece of poetic-sounding doggerel an actor uses to give himself a breathing space when he has forgotten his lines - the first sentence should contain the word 'nub' to warn the others that the actor is in trouble, and it should end with the words "Milford Haven"); and fastest recitation of Hamlet's To be, or not to be soliloquy; among many others. <mask> continued working with some of the actors from Shall We Shog, shedding and adding more along the way. He presented a series of literary improvisation shows, including a run at The Royal Court called Décor Without Production, in which the cast would create scenes and songs in the styles of poets, playwrights, novelists and songwriters. In 2006 <mask> worked with Adam Meggido's theatre company the Sticking Place (now Extempore Theatre) and staged a run of In Pursuit of Cardenio at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, during which the cast were supposed to re-create a lost Shakespeare play through improvisational techniques. In practice it turned into a nightly-changing series of literary challenges for the performers. By the latter part of the run, a large section of the show was devoted to improvised songs.One example of the extent to which <mask> pushed the actors was that by the end, each member of cast had

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 Fringe, reprising his School of Night role as on-stage director of proceedings in the final six shows of the run.For these performances, instead of taking suggestions from the audience regarding the setting and title of the show, <mask> had previously asked a number of professional theatre critics to each write a review of an imaginary musical; after this review was read onstage, the company's task would be to realise the show whose details they had only just heard. <mask>'s last performance was on 24 August 2008, one week before he died. Personal life
<mask> married the actress Prunella Gee in 1978, and they had a daughter, Daisy. They divorced in 1983 but remained close friends. He was in a relationship with the ventriloquist and actress Nina Conti when she was 26 and he was 59; from him she inherited his collection of ventriloquist dummies. <mask> lived in Loughton, adjacent to Epping Forest, in a nineteenth-century Swiss chalet. His funeral, a woodland burial in Epping Forest, was attended by mourners with whom he had worked in the theatre.Filmography

Bibliography
1972 - You See the Thing Is This: A One Act Comedy ()
1972 - Old King Cole ()
1975 - Skungpoomery ()
1976 - Jack Sheppard ()
1991 - Recollections of a Furtive Nudist ()
1993 - Pigspurt: Or Six Pigs from Happiness ()
1995 - The Bald Trilogy () - a volume collecting together Furtive Nudist, Pigspurt and Jamais Vu
1996 - Violin time; or, the Lady from Montségur ()
2000 - Wol Wantok () - a pidgin English version of Macbeth
2011 - Coveney, Michael, <mask>: The Great Caper, Nick Hern Books, London ()
2011 - Merrifield, Jeff, Seeker! <mask>: His Five Amazing Lives, Playback Publications, Shetland ()

Legacy

Many contemporary performers cite <mask> as an influence early in their careers, including Richard Herring, Nina Conti, Cariad Lloyd, Diane Morgan and Michael Brunström. References

External links

 <mask> on BBC Radio 3, on the Library of the Peculiar & Jeremy Beadle
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<mask> (master stone carver) (July 26, 1820 – December 25, 1867) was a prominent Anglo-Canadian stone carver and builder in the mid-19th century. He was the son of a stonemason (<mask>, senior), and at least one brother (<mask>) was also a stonemason. Early life and work
Born in London, he trained in England under William Cubitt (1791-1863) and Company, one of England's prominent Victorian building contractors. <mask> apprenticed with Cubitt and Company in the 1840s. William Cubitt and Company had several important commissions including: Covent Garden Market, Euston Station, repairs to Westminster Bridge, extension to National Gallery, etc. Career

1851
In 1851 <mask> travelled to North America. He was appointed foreman of works with the Works Department of the British Royal Navy, responsible for development of the strategic Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda.1853–1856
In 1853 <mask> travelled to Canada to work with Worthington Brothers, a well known Toronto-based building contractor that specialized in sandstone construction. <mask> supervised the stone work and is possibly responsible for stone carvings on the second Brock's Monument, (Queenston, Ontario) - a high-profile public works project in Victorian Canada. Brock's Monument was designed by noted Toronto architect, <mask> (no relation). 1857–1859
In 1857 C.T<mask> relocated to Cobourg, Ontario to become the master stone carver and contractor for the stone cutting on Cobourg's Victoria Hall, designed by Toronto architect, Kivas Tully. Again, <mask> was working with Worthington Brothers, using Cleveland sandstone quarried from a quarry owned and operated by John Worthington. The Victoria Hall stone carvings and ornamentation are considered among the finest in Canada.The Cobourg Star for July 7, 1858, reported on the progress being

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 made by <mask> on the main entrance to Victoria Hall (see photo, right), saying:

"a vast amount of stone cutting has been accomplished .... The carvings on the spandrels of the chief entrance are exceedingly fine. They comprise the national emblems of the three United Kingdoms - the rose, the thistle, and the shamrock disposed on either side by an ancient lyre. These carvings together with the fine bearded face which forms the keystone of the arch [see photo above] are the work of Mr <mask>, contractor for the stone cutting and they certainly do him very great credit". A handful of articles published between the 1960s to 1980s, incorrectly attributed credit for Victoria Hall's stone work to Toronto architect <mask>, presumably based solely on the July 7, 1858 Cobourg newspaper article noted above (with its vague reference to "Mr. <mask>"). There is no documentation linking architect <mask> to either the design or construction of Cobourg's Victoria Hall. Clearly the "Mr. <mask>" being referenced in the local newspaper is <mask>. <mask> considering the range of documentation outlined in this article.C.T. <mask> was also contractor for the stonework on an impressive Bank of Montreal (demolished in 1960) in downtown Cobourg, designed by Montreal architect James H. Springle. While in Cobourg, <mask><mask> also established a stone masonry business. It was in operation from 1857 to 1859. Two works from this private enterprise are known to survive - an ornately carved sandstone grave marker for <mask> in the form of a sandstone Celtic cross (located in St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery at 890 Ontario Street in Cobourg) and a white marble wall plaque honouring a prominent Cobourg citizen found inside St. Peter's Anglican Church in downtown Cobourg. Both of these surviving monuments are signed.

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In 1859 Port Hope, Ontario building firm, Jones, Haycock and Company (principals: Ralph Jones, Edward Haycock and Thomas Curtis Clarke) won the contract to build the East and West Blocks of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario. <mask><mask> was recruited as Chief Superintendent of Works on this national public works project. The Canadian Parliament Buildings project was among the largest public works efforts in 19th Century Canada. 1866–1867
On December 1, 1866, <mask><mask> relocated to Quincy, Illinois to become Master Stonemason and Superintendent of Stone Masonry on the construction of a massive railway bridge over the Mississippi River for the  Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway.The bridge was designed by <mask> Clarke of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, who would soon become one of the most celebrated civil engineers in North America. C.T<mask> met Clarke while living in Cobourg (only a few miles east of Clarke's town of Port Hope). C.T<mask> first joined Clarke on the Ottawa Parliament Buildings project then the Quincy Bridge (which opened in 1868). Death
In the fall of 1867 <mask> was supervising the lifting of rocks on a derrick when the structure collapsed, crushing his left leg. It had to be amputated but an infection set in and he died on December 25, 1867.His remains were returned to Ottawa where he was buried. Obituary

His obituary was published in the December 28, 1867, issue of the Ottawa Times newspaper:

"A short time since it became our painful duty to record a sad accident to our late fellow

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 our intercourse, and deeply sympathize with his bereaved widow and afflicted family." References

·Bermuda Pocket Almanac, 1851. ·"Who Was T.C.Clarke, C.E. ", SSAC Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 1992, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), Ottawa. ·Quincy Daily Herald, 27 October 1867 and 27 December 1867. ·Cobourg Star, 3 August 1859 (from original bound volume, Baldwin Room, Metro Toronto Reference Library). ·The Cobourg Star of 15 September 1858 noted, in an article about the <mask>'s Celtic grave marker, carved and signed by C.T.<mask>:

“This beautiful monument consists of an upright block of Ohio free-stone, most admirably carved by Mr <mask>, whose ability as a Sculptor has already been displayed upon our Town Hall … we cannot but express our sincere hope and desire that the erection of this truly ornamental monument may be the means of introducing a better and more tasteful style of gravestone than at present encumber and disfigure our public cemeteries. ''”  (Note: From original bound volume among the holdings of the Baldwin Room, Toronto Reference Library. The base of the gravemarker is signed: "C.T. <mask>, Cobourg". If there is any lingering doubt about who rendered Victoria Hall's stone work then this newspaper article is, in evidentiary terms, the proverbial "smoking gun". ·"Who Was T.C. Clarke, C.E.", SSAC Bulletin, By Jim Leonard, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 1992, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), Ottawa. ·<mask> - A Stonemason's Legacy Restored", By Jim Leonard, SSAC Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 3, December 1989, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, (SSAC), Ottawa. 1820 births
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English male sculptors
19th-century British sculptors
19th-century

masks:
Thomas Lloyd
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Charles Thomas