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 suffrage for all women. He cofounded the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868, organized Portland's first public meeting on women's suffrage in 1870, and cofounded Maine's first statewide Woman Suffrage Association in 1873. Slavery
<mask> was "resolutely and heartily opposed to slavery", interpreting the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to mean that "the slaves in America were created free... Ergo—They may abolish the government, which, by keeping them as they are kept, has 'violated its trust. In reaction to widespread rape of enslaved women, he reported that "white fathers... are guilty of selling their own flesh and blood to bondage... In the Southern States of America, where coloured women are sought after, purchased, and cohabited with by white men... because the profit of the master is in direct proportion to the fruitfulness of the slave." Believing that "sudden emancipation of the whole [enslaved population], at once, is impossible" and that it would perpetuate Black Americans' status as "a much-to-be-dreaded caste" in the US, he supported "gradual emancipation [which] has done well in the New England states; and in New York."Because New England had "nothing to lose by emancipation; but rather...much to gain by it; since the value of white labour would rise", <mask> called for federally-funded compensated emancipation to spread the cost throughout the states. <mask> supported the American Colonization Society, founding the Portland, Maine local chapter in 1833, serving as its secretary, and later meeting with Liberia's first president, Joseph Jenkins Roberts. <mask> likely avoided the movement for "immediate, unconditional, and


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 universal emancipation" because of a long-standing feud with William Lloyd Garrison. The feud was not resolved until <mask> declared in 1865 that "I was wrong... and Mr. Garrison was right." Rights of Black Americans
<mask> protested disfranchisement of free Black Americans by revealing how "free-born Americans,... because of their colour," not just in the slave states, "but in the states where slavery is regarded with horror... are suffered even to vote,... being either excluded by law... or excluded, by fear". Wary of "practical racism" among White Northerners, <mask> drew attention to members of his gymnasium who in 1828 "voted that... no colored man... can be permitted to exercise with white citizens of our free and equal-community. Hurra for New-England!We have no prejudices here—None but wholesome prejudices, at any rate." Disappointed they would not admit the Black men he sponsored for membership, <mask> ended his involvement with the gym shortly thereafter. In fiction, <mask> explored the differences between Northern and Southern prejudices against Black Americans, particularly in The Down-Easters (1833). He nevertheless believed in phrenological inferiority, explaining that "while we disregard colour, we pay great attention to form, in our estimation of capacity. The negro head is very bad." This led him to a proto-eugenicist argument for legalizing interracial marriage so that future generations of "the negroes of America would no longer be a separate, inferior class, without political power, without privilege, and without a share in the great commonwealth". Rights of American Indians
<mask> published essays, novels, and short stories to advocate

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 the rights of American Indians.At a time when "native American" was a nativist term referring to Anglo-Americans, <mask> declared in his first novel (1817) that "the Indian is the only native American." In "A Summary View of America" (1824), <mask> claimed that American Indians "have never been the aggressors" in conflicts with European-Americans and that "no people, ancient or modern... have been so deplorably oppressed, belied, and wronged, in every possible way." He called for recognition of Indigenous sovereignty, decrying that "the law of nations has never been regarded, in dealing with them:... their ambassadors have been seized, imprisoned, and butchered,... [and] war has never been declared against them". Outlining the process by which the US government seized Indigenous land, <mask> said,

The frontier people pick a quarrel with the Indians... No declaration of war follows; no ceremony; but, forth goes General [Andrew] Jackson—or general somebody else; wasting and firing the whole country. A truce follows: a ceding of the conquered country—for the protection of the whites. <mask> used novels like Logan (1822) to challenge racial boundaries between White and Indigenous Americans. Reacting to the Indian Removal Act (1830) and popular literature that supported it, <mask> published the short story "David Whicher" (1832) to explore peaceful multiethnic coexistence in the US.The tale also "contested how popular literature employed colonial violence to provide a model of and justification for its continuation in the name of national expansion". Temperance
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 throughout his life. He did not associate himself with the temperance movement until after he returned to Portland, Maine from London. His first invitation to lecture an audience was for the annual address for the Portland Association for the Promotion of Temperance in 1829. <mask>, <mask>'s cousin, was a leader of the prohibition movement, and in 1836 <mask> engaged in public debates with his cousin to defend moderate wine drinking as an alternative to total abstinence. It was in this period between the late 1830s and late 1840s that <mask> became disillusioned with the temperance movement, which had moved away from a focus on moral suasion to enacting prohibition laws; Dow and his followers "instead of regarding the injunction, 'Be temperate in all things,' were furiously intemperate on the subject of temperance; making total abstinence the condition of citizenship, and almost of civilization." <mask> remained convinced of "the evils of intemperance...They could not well be exaggerated; the only question was about the remedy." Dueling
In his first novel (1817), <mask> portrayed dueling as a holdover from an aristocratic era that is immoral, pointless, antidemocratic, and anti-American, charging "that here, in America, a gentleman may cut another's throat, or blow out his brains with complete impunity." His "Essay on Duelling" that same year attacked the institution as a gendered performance, or "the unqualified evidence of manhood", believing that "in his closet every man wishes duelling abolished, and if every man who wishes it sincerely in private would but speak as firmly in publick , it would be abolished." Social hierarchy
<mask>'s Quaker upbringing

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 likely instilled in him an aversion to "worldly titles" he claimed were unfitting in republican society. He mocked them with humorous works like the title page of his first novel (1817) that claimed the book was "Reviewed By—Himself—'Esquire. In "A Summary View of America" (1824) he decried that the US had fallen away from its ideals of equality to a place in which "titles are multiplying... Even the pride of ancestry... has found root in that republican soil.There is a tremendous contention... between the families of yesterday, and those of the day before." As a lawyer he refused to address Chief <mask> Marshall or any other judge as "your honor," claiming that "there is no greater humbug in the minds of men than this obsequious bowing to men of high station. The great thinkers of the world are the workers of the world, the producers of the world." Militia tax
In his "United States" essay (1826), <mask> made his first published argument against the poll tax that financed the US militia system. He illustrated that both "the poor and the rich are taxed... under the militia law" which was designed "to defend property of the rich man. The rich, of course, do not appear in the field. The poor do.The latter cannot afford to keep away; the former can." He proposed replacing the poll tax with a property tax to pay men serving in militias, thereby making the system more equitable. Lotteries
<mask> made his earliest arguments against lotteries in Baltimore newspapers as a law apprentice, then in Logan (1822). His argument that the law should treat lotteries the same as other forms of gambling found influence across the US and in the House of Commons of the United

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 Kingdom. In The Yankee, he "opened fire upon all [lottery] offices,... both at the bar, and in our legislative halls, and never rested, until the system was up-rooted... throughout our whole country". Lotteries fell into disfavor in the US in the 1830s. Capital punishment
<mask> began his campaign against public executions after witnessing one in Baltimore.He attacked capital punishment by writing in newspapers, magazines, novels, and debates, achieving national influence in the US and reaching a more limited audience in the UK. Late in life he remembered still "having no belief in the wisdom of strangulation, for men, women, and children, however they might seem to deserve it, and being fully persuaded that the worst men have most need of repentance, and that they who are unfit to live, are still more unfit to die." Bankruptcy law
<mask> became active in bankruptcy law reform shortly after his own bankruptcy in 1816. As a young Baltimore lawyer he took an unpopular stance against Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819) and played a prominent role in the movement for a national bankruptcy law. He continued by attacking the policy of imprisonment for debt in his Baltimore novels and in American and British newspapers later in the 1820s. Legacy

Scattered genius

<mask>'s reputation as an intellectually dispersed and uncontrolled genius is exemplified by biographer Windsor Daggett, who claimed "he scattered his genius into many channels at a loss." Historian Edward H. Elwell opined that "he wrote for everything because he could not write long for anything."By <mask>'s own admission, a year-long stint as newspaper editor was "a long

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 great". Influence

<mask>'s creative work had indirect influence on many writers during and after his life. Seba Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are all known to have enjoyed and been influenced by <mask>'s early poems and novels. Smith is most famous for his "Jack Downing" humor series, which was likely influenced by <mask>'s humorous use of regional dialect. It is also likely that Edgar Allan Poe developed many of his characteristic traits as a writer under the influence of <mask>'s articles in The Yankee in the late 1820s.Many scholars conclude that most defining authors of the mid-nineteenth-century American renaissance earned their reputations by employing techniques learned from <mask>'s work earlier in the century, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. Biographer Benjamin Lease pointed to <mask>'s comparatively better remembered immediate predecessors, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, as lacking an obvious link to those mid-century masters that <mask> clearly demonstrates. He further argued that <mask>'s ability to influence such disparate figures as Poe and Whitman demonstrates the weight of his work. Historical status
Aligned with their twentieth-century predecessors, both Lease and Sears in the 1970s classified <mask> as a transitional figure in literature who came after the initial wave of British-imitating American literature but before the great American Renaissance that occurred after <mask> had published the bulk of his work. More recent scholarship placed <mask> "Not exactly 'beneath' the 'American Renaissance, but "scattered across it." American literature

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 scholars Edward Watts, David J. Carlson, and Maya Merlob contended that <mask> was written out of the Renaissance because of his distance from the Boston-Concord circle and his utilization of popular styles and modes viewed at a lower artistic level. Selected works

Novels
 Keep Cool, A Novel (1817) Full text
 Logan, a Family History (1822) Full text
 Seventy-Six (1823) Full text
 Randolph, A Novel (1823) Full text
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<mask> (17 January 1873 – 12 December 1942) was a Danish educator and cleric, principally remembered for the years he spent in Solvang, California, where he and his colleagues established a Danish community with a Lutheran church and a folk high school. Early life and education

<mask> was born in the rectory at Brabrand, a town just west of Aarhus, Denmark, on 17 January 1873. He was the 7th of the 13 gifted children raised by Pastor <mask> and Vincentia Christiane Michelsen. In the footsteps of the famous theologian and philosopher N. F. S. Grundtvig, from the age of 11 he attended the Aarhus Cathedral School before studying theology at Copenhagen University. Later he would comment: "Although I was often moved by the sermons of Grundtvigian priests and although many of my student friends were Grundtvigians, I have never been able to accept Grundtvig's excessively dogmatic views." After graduating with honours in 1898, he became a substitute teacher at Herlufsholm School before becóming a tutor for Count Brockenhuus-Schack's eldest son in Ringsted in 1899. Though pleased with his position, he could not resist the urge to go to America where he had been offered a post as a lecturer at Grand View College, a Danish seminary and folk high school in Des Moines, Iowa, believing that America would open up new horizons for him.Years in the United States

One of his first tasks as a lecturer at Grand View was to coordinate relations between Danish Lutheran churches in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. In the summer of 1901, he returned to Denmark specifically to be ordained in Aarhus Cathedral. Back in America, he continued his work as a lecturer at Grand View. In 1903, when he was only 30 years old, he became the college president, a post which he held until 1910. That year, as a result of differences with his colleagues at the college who were far more Grundtvigian than he, <mask> was pressured to leave. From 1906, <mask> together with Jens M. Gregersen, a pastor from Kimballton, Iowa, and

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 Peder P. Hornsyld, a lecturer at Grand View, had discussed the possibility of creating a new Danish colony with a dedicated Lutheran church and school on the west coast. In 1910, together with other Danish-Americans, they created the Danish-American Colony Company in San Francisco.Later that year, their land agent, Mads J. Frese, found suitable land in the Santa Ynez Valley northwest of Santa Barbara. On 23 January 1911, the contract was signed and Solvang was founded. The Danes had bought almost 9,000 acres of the Rancho San Carlos de Jonata land grant, paying an average of $40 per acre. Soon after the establishment of Solvang, a school was opened with 21 students on 15 November 1911 with <mask> as president. At the end of 1912 when it became almost impossible to sell any more plots of land, the company's income was vastly reduced. The shareholders persuaded Gregersen to give up his position as Solvang's pastor and travel to Iowa and Nebraska to convince Danish immigrants to buy land in the new colony. He enjoyed considerable success, relieving the colony of any further threats.After Gregersen's departure, <mask> became the pastor. Before long, Solvang also had a store, a bank, a lumber yard, a barbershop and a post office with Hornsyld as postmaster. Where there had just been fields, there was now a small town. Solvang's folk high school
Nordentoft was not content with the little school established in Solvang. When he was unable to convince his Danish colleagues that a larger educational institution was needed, he bought them out and started to raise funds for a bigger and better school. The following year, in August 1914, a rejsegilde, or topping-out ceremony, was held for the impressive new building which Nordentoft called Atterdag College in memory of Valdemar Atterdag who did much to consolidate the kingdom of Denmark in the 14th century. What surprised many of those who came to the celebration was the great similarity the building had with Grand View College.Standing on a hilltop with a commanding view of the village,

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 the new college or folk high school was designed to teach Danish-speaking students in their late teens how to lead more meaningful lives with an emphasis on lectures, singing, gymnastics, folk dancing and fellowship. A difficult period followed as World War I put a stop to Danish emigration to America leading to a reduction in the number of young people requiring a school education. It also became difficult to maintain a Danish-speaking school at a time when American nationalism was steadily growing. On 26 April 1918 when he was 45, <mask> married 20-year-old Mary Hansine Christiansen, the daughter of a Danish farmer from Newell, Iowa, and one of his earlier students. By 1921, the family had two children and a third was on the way. <mask>, who felt he had achieved his ambitions in America and wished to have his children educated in Denmark, sold the college to the congregation of Solvang's Bethania Church in 1921 for $5,000. He then returned to Denmark with his wife and family.Later life

Back in Denmark in 1921, he was first a priest in Tranebjerg on Samsø, then in Mariager and in March 1926 he became pastor of St Nicolai Church in Kolding. The family who raised no less than 11 children were always very welcoming to anyone who wished to visit them at the rectory in Hyrdestræde. All the children were given the middle name Atterdag in memory of the college. <mask> not only taught at the high school in Kolding but became a popular public speaker in the area, thanks to his entertaining and humorous delivery. He often spoke affectionately about his years in America and was active on the committee for the Danish-American Mission. In 1941, he was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog for his services to Danish-American relations. <mask> died in Kolding on 12 December 1942.A few years later, the authorities in Solvang decided to name two streets in his memory: Nordentoft Way and Kolding Avenue. References

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<mask>. (born 15 March 1940) is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. <mask>' research interests are mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, attractors and chaotic systems. Biography
<mask> was born in Uberaba, Minas Gerais. His father was a Lebanese immigrant, and his mother was a Syrian immigrant. The couple had eight children (five men and three women), and <mask> was the youngest. His father was a merchant, owner of a large store, and supported and funded the studies of his children.<mask> said that he already enjoyed mathematics in his childhood. At 16, <mask> moved to Rio de Janeiro to study engineering at the University of Brazil – now UFRJ. He was approved in first place in the entrance exam, but was not old enough to be accepted; he then had to take the university's entry exam again a year later, at which again he obtained first place. He completed the course in 1962 with honours and receiving the award for the best student. In 1964, he moved to the United States. In 1966 he obtained his master's degree in mathematics under the guidance of Stephen Smale at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1968 his Ph.D., with the thesis On Morse-Smale Diffeomorphisms, again with Smale as advisor. In 1968, he returned to Brazil and became a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Since 1973 he has held a permanent position as professor at IMPA, where he was director from 1993 until 2003. He was Secretary-General of

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 the Third World Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2006, and elected its president in 2006 and remained on position till December 2012. He was also president of the International Mathematical Union from 1999 to 2002. He is the current president of Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2007. <mask> has advised more than forty Ph.D. students so far from more than ten countries. Awards and honors
<mask> has received numerous medals and decorations. He is a foreign member of several academies of sciences, including the United States National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences and German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.In 2005 <mask> received the Legion of Honor. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2010 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for his fundamental contributions in the mathematical theory of dynamical systems that has been the basis for many applications in various scientific disciplines, such as in the study of oscillations. He is also a recipient of the 1988 TWAS Prize. Selected publications
 On Morse-Smale Dynamical Systems, Topology 19, 1969 (385–405). Structural Stability Theorems, with S. Smale, Proceedings of the Institute on Global Analysis, American Math. Society, Vol.XIV, 1970 (223–232). Cycles and Bifurcations Theory, with S. Newhouse, Asterisque 31, Société Mathématique de France, 1976 (44–140). The Topology of Holomorphic Flows near a Singularity, with C. Camacho and N. Kuiper, Publications Math.Institut Hautes Études Scientifiques 48, 1978 (5–38). Moduli of Stability and Bifurcation Theory, Proceedings

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 2001.Books published
 Geometric Theory of Dynamical Systems, with W. de Melo. Springer-Verlag, 1982; also published in Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. Hyperbolicity and Sensitive-Chaotic Dynamics at Homoclinic Bifurcations, Fractal Dimensions and Infinitely Many Attractors, with F. Takens. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993; Second Edition, 1994. References

External links
 <mask>' homepage

 <mask> International Balzan Prize Foundation
 Interview (in Portuguese)

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<mask> is the Director of Regional & Community Development & Language with Údarás na Gaeltachta and is an Irish author and broadcaster. Early life
<mask> was raised in the Connemara Gaeltacht village of An Cheathrú Rua, the eldest of three children of <mask> and Mairéad. He is a brother of <mask> and <mask>. Career
<mask> was educated at Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiaráin, and studied BA in Journalism in Dublin City University (DCU). While at university, he was editor of the college newspaper and contributed to a number of other university publications. He began his journalistic career as a news feature writer with the Evening Herald and also worked for the Irish Independent. In 1996, with the opening of Teilifís na Gaeilge, <mask> took up a role as video journalist with Nuacht TnaG.Two years later, he returned to Independent News & Media as a freelancer, while also working as Dublin Correspondent for the Irish language newspaper Foinse, and as an editor for the Telecom Éireann (now eircom) online publication Cumasc. He was also a contributor to various publications such as Magill and The Irish Times during this period. In 1999, he co-founded the communications company, meas media, along with Breandán Ó hEaghra, and became managing director of the company, focussing mostly on the expanding web industry and the Irish language sector. During this period, he also became involved in the hospitality trade, taking out a lease on two Galway city public houses, An Gob Fliuch and de Burgo's. In 2002, he returned to television journalism and was appointed Local Government correspondent for Nuacht RTÉ and Nuacht TG4, where we won a number of awards for his journalism. In 2004, he won an ESB National Media Award for his investigation of planning irregularities. In 2006, he was awarded the Oireachtas Journalist of the Year award following his revelations regarding a personal fund-raising dinner in Manchester for the then Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.While

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 working for RTÉ, he worked on a number of documentaries. The well-reviewed  UEFA sa Ghaeltacht, which saw <mask> <mask> as presenter and writer, told the story of a UEFA Cup soccer match being played on a Gaelic football pitch in rural Connemara. "Trálaer" looked at life aboard a deep-sea pelagic fishing trawler from the Aran Islands, which was again presented and written by <mask> <mask>. Saighdiúr looked at the role of Irish citizens in the British army during World War II, where <mask> Iomaire used the case of his grand-uncle, Paddy Ridge, to illustrate the story. Ridge was killed while serving in the Irish Guards in Tunisia in 1943. <mask> <mask> shot, co-directed, wrote and presented Saighdiúr. He was appointed Leascheannaire (deputy head) of Ireland's national Irish-language radio broadcaster, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, in 2011.In 2014, he was appointed RTÉ's first ever group head, Irish Language. In 2019, he became Director of Regional & Community Development & Language with Údarás na Gaeltachta. Writing
<mask> <mask> is the author of Rocky Ros Muc (Cló Iar-Chonnachta), a biography of Irish boxer Seán Mannion, who fought for the light-middleweight world championship in Madison Square Garden, New York in 1984. The book looks at how Mannion, who won the US light-middleweight title in 1983, escaped a future as one of Whitey Bulger's henchmen and climbed his way to the top of the rankings in what was one of the most competitive weight divisions in boxing history, and how drink and depression put an end to his ambitions of glory. US publishers Rowman & Littlefield published Mac Con Iomaire's second book, The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down, in 2018, an English-language telling of Seán Mannion's story. The book, which was well-reviewed, was initially launched into the North American market before being released in Ireland and the UK. Rocky Ros Muc was developed as a feature-length documentary by Below the Radar TV in 2017, and has won

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 awards at the Boston Irish Film Festival, the Galway Film Fleadh, and the Celtic Media Festival, among other awards.<mask> <mask> was associate producer and contributor. Along with being the first Irish-language documentary to be long-listed for the Oscars, and achieving a cinema release in both the US and Ireland, Rocky Ros Muc received numerous positive reviews. <mask> <mask> Iomaire was awarded the New Writer of the Year award for his work on Rocky Ros Muc at the Oireachtas Literary Awards in October 2013. He is a contributor to Scéal Scéil, an insight into the way the modern Irish journalist operates. Scéal Scéil, edited by Breandán Delap will be published by Cois Life in 2014. <mask> <mask> is also a writer and performer of agallaimh beirte (a usually humorous conversation in verse between two people) and lúibíní (the same as an agallamh beirte, except that the verses are sung), and has won a number of awards at Oireachtas na Gaeilge. Sports
<mask> <mask> is a keen triathlete and runner and in 2010, founded TríSpórt, a triathlon club for the Connemara and Aran Islands area.The club has seen considerable success since its foundation, and organises two events per year, the Conamara 10k in Carna, Co. Galway and the Conamara Duathlon in An Cheathrú Rua, Co. Galway. The club assists in the organisation of the Tour de Conamara cycling event in Clifden. He is also a keen sailor and spent many years organising the Galway hooker maritime festival, Féile an Dóilín. References

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<mask> (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. His recorded output has mainly relied on musical backing from the Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, and Paul Burgess. Early life
<mask> was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. He lived in the Higher Broughton area of the city and became interested in poetry after being inspired by his English teacher, <mask>, whom he described as "a real outdoor guy, an Ernest Hemingway type, red blooded, literary bloke". During an April 2018 episode of Steve Jones' radio show Jonesy's Jukebox, <mask> revealed one of his early inspirations to be the poet Sir Henry Newbolt, reciting from memory a portion of Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada".Recollecting his childhood, <mask> said:

His first job was a laboratory technician at Salford Tech. He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band the Ferrets. His first releases were on Tosh Ryan and Martin Hannett's independent label Rabid, starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. Rabid also released his debut LP Où est la maison de fromage'? (catalogue number NOZE 1), which was a collection of live recordings, demos and rehearsals. He toured with Bill Nelson's band Be-Bop Deluxe in 1978 and was signed by Epic Records, who issued the studio album Disguise In Love, produced by Hannett, in 1978. <mask> has

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 attributed his early success in part to the influence of the English poet Pam Ayres.Her run of success on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks led both <mask> and his mother to believe that he could make a living at poetry. Career

Solo success
In 1979, he had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix! (Play Loud)". <mask> toured with Linton Kwesi <mask>, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall). His set is characterised by lively, rapid-fire renditions of his poems, usually performed a cappella. Often referred to as "the bard of Salford", he usually refers to himself on stage as "<mask>, the name behind the hairstyle". <mask> appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh!A Music War, in which he performed his poem "Health Fanatic". The film featured live performances of mainstream artists (the Police, the Go-Go's, XTC, Devo) as well as more obscure bands (Pere Ubu, Invisible Girls, the Alley Cats, Athletico Spizz '80, Chelsea) using concert footage from around the world. He also starred in another 1982 film titled <mask> <mask> - Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt produced for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Channel 4. Somewhere between a narrative film, a series of music videos and a documentary, the film features interviews and performances by <mask> and Linton Kwesi <mask> among others. <mask> released Zip Style Method in 1982, but thereafter performed his live act less frequently, spending much of the 1980s mired in

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 heroin addiction, living in a "domestic partnership" with singer and fellow addict Nico. He described this period of his life: "It was a feral existence. I was on drugs.It was hand to mouth." In 1987, he performed live (on crutches owing to a broken ankle) at the Albany Empire in London with Suns of Arqa, recorded two tracks ("Libera Me" and "The Truth Lies Therein") for their album Seven, and featured in the music video for the latter. In 1988, he made an appearance in two UK adverts for Sugar Puffs, taking second billing to the Honey Monster. He returned to live performance in the 1990s, appearing again with Suns of Arqa in 1992 at The Witchwood in Ashton-under-Lyne. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. Since 2000
After 20 years of performing the same material, <mask> re-established contact with guitarist Rick Goldstraw, who had founded Blue Orchids and played with The Fall and Nico. Goldshaw began handling <mask>'s affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall.He also duetted with Reverend Jon McClure at a Reverend and the Makers concert at London's Spread Eagle, performing the poem "Last Resort", which would later be released as the B-side for the band's single "Heavyweight Champion of the World". <mask> also recorded a song with the band entitled "Dead Man's Shoes". <mask>'s recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. A live performance of the same poem appears in the film Control, with <mask> portraying himself in a re-creation

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 of a 1977 concert in which he supported Joy Division, despite being 30 years older than the events depicted in the film. "Evidently Chickentown" (recited by Christopher Eccleston) is featured in the made-for-television film Strumpet. <mask>'s poem "Out of Control Fairground" was printed inside the Arctic Monkeys' 2007 single "Fluorescent Adolescent" CD. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl.The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of <mask>'s work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. <mask> was the subject of a BBC Four documentary, Evidently... <mask> <mask>, in May 2012, screened as part of the BBC's Punk Britannia season. That same year, <mask> featured in rapper Plan B's feature film Ill Manors and subsequently the Ill Manors album. In July 2013, <mask> was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Salford in "acknowledgement of a career which has spanned five decades, bringing poetry to non-traditional audiences and influencing musicians and comedians." Upon receipt, <mask> commented: "Now I'm a doctor, finally my dream of opening a cosmetic surgery business can become a reality." His poem "I Wanna Be Yours" was adapted by Arctic Monkeys and frontman Alex Turner for the band's fifth album, AM, released on 9 September 2013. On their 2020 eponymous debut album, English band Working Men’s Club pays homage to the poet in the track <mask> <mask>, referencing his poem “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" and book The Luckiest Guy Alive.In October 2020 <mask> published an autobiography which took its title from his poem I Wanna Be Yours. Television and radio appearances
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<mask> has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. They have one daughter, Stella. Discography

Albums
Où est la maison de fromage?(1978), Rabid
Disguise in Love (1978), Epic - AUS No. 100
Walking Back to Happiness (1979), Epic (Live album)
Snap, Crackle & Bop (1980), Epic - UK No. 26, AUS No. 99
Zip Style Method (1982), Epic - UK No. 97
This Time It's Personal with Hugh Cornwell (2016), Sony - UK No. 34
The Luckiest Guy Alive (2018), Macmillan Digital Audio

Compilations
Me and My Big Mouth (1981),

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Word of Mouth: The Very Best of <mask> <mask> (2002), Sony
Anthologia (2015), Sony

Singles, EPs
Innocents EP (1977), Rabid
"Post-War Glamour Girl" (1978), CBS
"Gimmix! (Play Loud)" (1978), Epic - UK No.39
"Splat"/"Twat" (1979), Epic
"The It Man" (1980), Epic
"The Day My Pad Went Mad" (1982), Epic
"Night People" (1982), Epic
"Pity the Plight" (2012 Ill manors album - Plan B)

DVDs, videos
Ten Years in an Open-Necked Shirt (1981) Channel 4/British Arts Council  (re-released 2015)
Evidently, <mask> <mask> (2012), Click Films/BBC
South of the Border - Live (2013), Click Films/Safecracker Pictures
Ten Years In An Open-Necked Video: the (Early) Archive Performances (2016), Ozit

Compilation appearances
Streets (1977), Beggars Banquet - "Innocents"
Short Circuit - Live At The Electric Circus (1978), Virgin (various artists, features <mask> performing "(You Never See a Nipple In The) Daily Express" and "I Married a Monster From Outer Space"
Urgh! A Music War (1981), Warners - "Health Fanatic"
The Old Grey Whistle Test Volume 3 (2004), 2 Entertain - "I Don't Want to Be Nice"
Poets, Punks, Beatniks and Counter Culture Heroes (2010), Ozit - includes rare JCC film footage from the 1980s

Bibliography

Poetry collections
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt (1983), Arena
The Luckiest Guy Alive (2018), Picador

Prose
I Wanna Be Yours (2020), Picador,

References

External links

<mask> <mask> Interview 2012

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<mask> (born 1955 in Laval, France) is a French architect, urban planner and academic. She is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq and the architecture school, Confluence Institute. Decq is known for her unique, self-described goth appearance and style. Education
In the 1970s, <mask> first entered École Régionale d'Architecture de Rennes. She was told by the first year director that she would never become an architect because she did not possess the right spirit. She completed two years at Rennes, then moved to Paris, where she enrolled at La Villette (formerly called UP6). Because of the Revolution of 1968, Decq spent a lot of time on strike, instead of in class.In order to finance her education, she began to work for French writer, architect, and urban planner Philippe Boudon. Boudon was writing about theory of architecture at that time, and was interested in Decq because of her studies in literature and linguistics. Decq began reading for Boudon, and later went on writing for him. After four years, Decq resigned from her job with Boudon to pursue her diploma. She graduated in 1978 from École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette with a diploma in urban planning from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1979. Career
Decq opened her own firm in 1979. Her future partner in the firm and in life,  Benoît Cornette, was studying medicine at the time.In 1985 Cornette earned a degree in architecture and the couple established the architecture firm ODBC. The buildings they completed for the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes with Peter Rice in 1990 brought them numerous awards and international

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 recognition. It was the first metal-construction office building in France. Model building is especially important to her process. <mask> and Benoît would create models with modular parts that could be moved in order to test the feasibility of various configurations. <mask> has stated that her philosophy on architecture is that a building " has to be a place where people can move, live in good conditions, forget the hardness of the life outside, so it has to have a kind of humanistic approach..."

She has "been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research." Being awarded the Golden Lion of Architecture during the Venice Biennale in 1996 acknowledged her early and unusual career.Other than just a style, an attitude or a process, <mask> <mask>’s work materializes a complete universe that embraces urban planning, architecture, design and art. Her multidisciplinary approach was recently recognized with the Jane Drew Prize in 2016, and Architizer’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Since 1992, <mask> <mask> has been a professor at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris where she was elected head of the Department of Architecture in 2007. She left in 2012 and subsequently designed and opened her own school, Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, in Lyon, France. in 2014. <mask> <mask> co-founded and led the school along with architect Matteo Cainer. She describes her approach to education as forcing students to take a strong position to foster their independence and ability to "express themselves strongly and very clearly."In 1998 Cornette died in a car accident

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 at the age of 45. Decq continued to work under the firm ODBC, but in 2013 changed the name to Studio Odile Decq. The name change was prompted by her late husband still being credited with buildings that were solely her design. Despite her husband's death, Decq began experimenting with her designs and ideas even more and trying to find herself again, and soon producing some of her most well-known and successful designs including the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes, the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Macro Museum in Rome. Her projects have grown and continue to grow larger in size, complexity, and daring. “A Conversation with <mask> Decq.” Log, no. 32 (January 1, 2014): 39–45.https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=721730&site=ehost-live. Foges, Chris. “A Steely Gaze: Odile Decq Draws from Lyon’s Industrial Context to Project the Waterfront’s New Identity.” Architectural Record, Building types study n.948. Office buildings, 202, no. 7 (July 1, 2014): 65–71. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=716082&site=ehost-live. Schwitalla, Ursula,, Itsuko Hasegawa, Nili Portugali, Donna Blagg, Alison Kirkland, and Steven Lindberg.Women in Architecture: Past, Present, and Future. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2021. Interview with <mask> Decq about - What is architecture? 1955 births
Living people
People from Laval, Mayenne
21st-century French architects
French women architects
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Columbia University faculty
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title: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

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<mask> (; born April 24, 1975), also known as <mask>, is a Canadian former television host. She is married to the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, <mask>. She is involved in charity work and public speaking, focusing mainly on women's and children's issues. She was a "WE ambassador" for the WE Charity. Early life and education
<mask> was born on April 24, 1975, in Montreal, Quebec, as the only child of <mask>, a stockbroker, and Estelle Blais, a Franco-Ontarian nurse. Her family lived north of the city, in Sainte-Adèle, eventually relocating to Montreal when she was four years old. She was raised thereafter in Montreal's Mount Royal suburb, where she was a classmate and childhood friend of <mask>, the youngest son of Prime Minister <mask> and his wife Margaret; and brother of Grégoire's future husband, <mask>.Grégoire has stated that her "childhood was a happy one", noting that she was a good student who made friends easily and loved sports and the outdoors. However, beginning around the age of 17, she struggled with bulimia nervosa. The problem lasted into her early 20s, when she revealed the illness to her parents and subsequently began a two-year period of recovery; she credits therapy, the support of her loved ones, and yoga with her recovery from the illness. Grégoire attended high school at the private Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie in Outremont. She subsequently attended the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf before studying commerce at McGill University, intending to follow her father's career path, but soon switched to communications studies, and ultimately graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the Université de Montréal. Career and charity work

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 Association; and WaterCan. As part of her work with WaterCan, Grégoire travelled to Ethiopia in October 2006 with her mother-in-law, <mask>, who is the honorary president of the organization. Their trip was featured in a CTV documentary, "A Window Opens: Margaret and <mask> in Ethiopia", which aired in May 2007. Grégoire is the national ambassador for Plan Canada's "Because I am a Girl" initiative, and the official spokesperson for The Shield of Athena, which helps women and children dealing with domestic violence. Grégoire also works as a professional public speaker, focusing primarily on women's issues.Personal life

Grégoire first met <mask>, the eldest son of Prime Minister <mask>, when they were both children in Montreal, where Grégoire was a classmate and childhood friend of the youngest Trudeau son, Michel. <mask> and <mask> reconnected as adults in June 2003, when they were assigned to co-host a charity ball, and began dating several months later. They became engaged in October 2004, and married on May 28, 2005, in a ceremony at Montreal's Sainte-Madeleine d'Outremont Church. They have three children: Xavier James born in 2007, Ella-Grace Margaret born in 2009, and Hadrien Gregoire born in 2014. Grégoire is reported to have introduced her brother-in-law Alexandre to his future wife Zoë Bedos. After her husband became a Member of Parliament for Montreal's Papineau riding in 2008, Grégoire continued to live in their Montreal home with their children, while <mask> stayed at a hotel in Ottawa during the week. In June 2013, two months after <mask> became the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the couple sold their home in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood and began living in a rented home in the Rockcliffe Park area of Ottawa.<mask> <mask>'s

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 husband <mask> was officially sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada on November 4, 2015. After the end of the 2015 election, <mask> <mask> indicated her preference for the hyphenated surname of "<mask>-<mask>", but she switched to using the unhyphenated form in March 2016. <mask> is fluent in French, English, and Spanish. She became a certified yoga instructor in 2012. On March 12, 2020, <mask> isolated herself at Rideau Cottage, along with her husband and children, after she showed flu-like symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after she returned from a speaking engagement in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister's Office announced later that day that she had tested positive for COVID-19. By March 28, she had recovered."Smile Back At Me"
On January 18, 2016, <mask> <mask> made the impromptu decision to sing a work she composed, entitled "Smile Back at Me" at the end of a speech in honour of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Ottawa City Hall. Mike Strobel, of the Toronto Sun, said the crowd gave her a standing ovation. Toronto Star pop music critic Ben Rayner said the song was "out of pitch" and "cast serious doubt upon her musical judgment". In Maclean's'', Michael Barclay (formerly a music critic), described the song as "fine", although not designed to be sung a capella, and that <mask>'s voice was "surprisingly strong". Remixed versions of the song were released online afterward. References

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<mask> (born July 29, 1980) is an American professional mixed martial artist who competes in Bellator's Light Heavyweight division. A professional competitor from 2000 until 2013, he also competed for Strikeforce. Background
Noe was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Munford. Noe grew up in a rough neighborhood and began training in karate at the age of six, and then transitioned into Tae Kwon Do when he was 17. Noe attended Munford High School along with fellow Bellator Light Heavyweight and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, who Noe would befriend. Noe was a talented football player, going to the state finals with his high school team and personally held the state record for most tackles in a single game. However, during his senior year he injured his neck in a car accident which resulted in the end of his football career.Noe then joined a local boxing team with "Rampage" Jackson which evolved into mixed martial arts training as Jackson would teach Noe wrestling techniques and Noe would teach Jackson striking techniques. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
Noe made his professional debut in 2000. He became more active in 2007 after a few fights to tune up his craft and didn't fight again until 2008. Noe compiled a professional record of 3-1 with one no contest before making the under card with Strikeforce. Strikeforce
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<mask> (born 1963 in Karlshamn, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist, writer and author. Biography

<mask> recorded his first 7" single with the band Paradize in 1979, then formed the band Overdrive in 1980. He released the 12" MLP Reflexions in 1981, after which the band was signed by Planet Records and released the albums Metal Attack (1983) and Swords And Axes (1984). The band split in 1985 and <mask> formed Overheat together with former Overdrive-singer Pelle Thuresson on bass. The band only lasted a few years and made no official recording. In 1991 <mask> participated in the national guitar competition Guitar Battle, where he went to the finals two years in a row, earning him tracks on the CD compilation Guitar Heroes Of Sweden. In 1995 <mask> formed the band Locomotive Breath.The band released its debut album Train Of Events in 1997 and 1998. The follow-up Heavy Machinery was released in 2002 and the band's third album Change Of Track was released in October 2005. This album featured Marcel Jacob (Talisman, Yngwie Malmsteen) on bass. After this the band took a long (and still lasting) break, with only a brief break to record the track "Fill Your Head With Rock" for the 2008 Sweden Rock Festival CD sampler. In 1996 <mask> released his first book, The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Hard Rock And Heavy Metal 1970-1996, a 400-page encyclopedia featuring more than one thousand Swedish recording bands. In 2002 his second effort Volume 2 was released. Both books released by Premium Publishing.Besides playing guitar in his ordinary bands, <mask> has also made guest appearances on recordings by many bands, including Narnia, Blinded Colony, Faith, VII Gates, Chris Catena, Rod Chappell Band, Audiovision, From Behind (featuring former Samson-singer Nicky Moore), Zello etc. He is

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 also responsible for layout and/or artwork for albums by his own bands, as well as Zello, Neon Rose, Zeelion, Axia, RAW, Have Mercy and others. In December 2006 <mask> was part of the one-off Sweden Rock All Star Band which also featured Udo Dirkschneider, Ian Haugland, Ryan Roxie, Oscar Dronjak etc. In 2007 <mask> released the debut by his new solo project Mountain Of Power on Grooveyard Records, dedicated to his influences from the seventies, such as Derringer, Moxy, Stray Dog, Captain Beyond and Budgie, featuring guests like Dan Swanö, Björn Lodin, Thomas Larsson, Anders Johansson, Chris Catena, Jonas Hansson, David Fremberg, Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Mike Andersson. Further more an album with his collaboration with singer Chris Catena, christened Teenage Rampage, will release their debut in 2008. Also the resurrected Overdrive released the new album Let The Metal Do The Talking on Lion Music in January 2008. In 2007 <mask> joined forces with Björn Lodin and Mikael "Nord" Andersson in a completely new band called incarnation called BALLS.The band's debut album Chameleon was released on October 10, 2008, but the band folded shortly after its release. <mask> and Mikael are still composing songs together for a forthcoming solo album by Mikael. <mask> also contributed with guest guitars on releases by Thalamus, M.O.B, Alyson Avenue and Tower Of Stone. In August 2008 The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk was published by Premium Publishing, written by Peter Jandreus, but where <mask> is credited for layout, additional text and research. In mid-2008 <mask> started working on his own third encyclopedia of Swedish hard rock, which was planned to be released 2010 (Premium Publishing), but finally hit the streets in November 2013

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texts: Medaglia on the album Tribal Domestic. He also recorded most of the guitar solos for Swedish/Canadian metal band Assassin's Blade's debut album Agents Of Mystification. Later the same year Janne started working on an album together with singer/bass player Neil Merryweather, under the name Merryweather Stark.The band was signed by GMR Records in 2017 for a release of the debut album in January 2018. The album, entitled Carved In Rock, was released on GMR Music in 2018 on CD and double-LP (with one bonus track). GMR Music also signed  Grand Design and released the band's album Viva La Paradise, later in the year re-issued as Viva La Paradise - Special Mission, featuring four bonus tracks. In 2017, Janne joined Danish Thin Lizzy tribute band Falling Hazard, who released their first vinyl single I Lie Not (a tribute to Phil Lynott) and Old Town (a cover of Phil Lynott) in 250 copies. In August 2019 Janne left Grand Design. In November the same year, Janne recorded a tribute to Welsh hard rock band Budgie under the project name Bandolier Kings. The album also features singer/guitarist Tony Spinner and guest spots from former Budgie members Tony Bourge and Steve Williams.Other guests includes for example Kyoji Yamamoto of Bow Wow, Ian Haugland of  Europe, John Gallagher of Raven and Bill Steer of  Firebird. November 27, 2020 saw two releases emerge from Janne, first off was of the second album by Merryweather <mask>, entitled Rock Solid (CD/LP on GMR Music)  and secondly the fourth album by Mountain of Power, entitled "Volume Four". This album featured guest spots from musicians such as Rob Lamothe of Riverdogs, Carl Dixon of Coney Hatch, Neil Merryweather and more. On June 18, 2021 German label Pride & Joy released the third album by Constancia, entitled Brave New


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<mask> (1876 – 1959) was an attorney, businessman, and politician in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. <mask> is best remembered as a pioneer African-American member of the West Virginia Legislature, gaining election in 1918 and re-election in 1920 from an overwhelmingly white district, at a time when state disenfranchisement of blacks across the South had resulted in the exclusion of most blacks from statewide politics. <mask> was active in the NAACP, serving as president for the West Virginia chapter in 1929, and in black fraternal organizations. In that role, <mask> was instrumental in bringing a suit in 1929 that ended the racial segregation of public libraries in West Virginia. In 1929 <mask> was admitted to the American Bar Association, although it officially barred African Americans. In 1948 he won a ruling from a federal court that the city of Montgomery, West Virginia's segregation of its public pool was unconstitutional; without the funds to build a second pool to provide equal access, the city closed its pool for 14 years rather than open it to blacks. "It was the first substantial victory for black Americans fighting swimming pool discrimination in the courts."The case aided the NAACP in its litigation of related pool cases in other parts of the country. Biography

Early years

T<mask> <mask> was born on June 15, 1876 in Princess Anne, on the rural Eastern Shore of Maryland. His parents were <mask> and Emma (Henry<mask>. His paternal grandparents were Virginia and <mask>, and on the maternal side his grandparents were Peter and Julia Henry. He had a younger brother Isaac Henry (1878–1959), whom he called "Ike", and two younger sisters, Julia and Hattie. The boys attended the segregated public schools in Maryland. Gillis, as he was known, showed an early interest in the law and jurisprudence.He attended Howard University, an historically

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<mask> had joined the Republican Party, which, as the party of President Abraham Lincoln and emancipation, had been supported by most blacks in West Virginia and other parts of the South since after the Civil War. He ran in 1918 in the primary election as a Republican candidate for the West Virginia state

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texts: legislature. <mask>'s candidacy was actively supported by former Governor George W. Atkinson and other leaders of the West Virginia Republican political establishment.<mask> won election in November by a margin of 1,388 votes over his Democratic opponent. He won by a large majority and his district was less than 10 percent black. <mask> was re-elected to a second two-year term in November 1920. He served on the House Judiciary Committee during his second term. Among the issues he supported were the construction of state institutions to assist African Americans: an insane asylum, and an Industrial School for Colored Boys and an Industrial Home for Colored Girls. Due to disenfranchisement of most blacks across the South at the turn of the century, <mask> was at the time virtually the only black elected to statewide office in the region. This situation would continue well into the 1960s and after passage of civil rights legislation by Congress.In 1928, <mask>'s favorite brother Ike, an attorney who had been prominent as a leader in the Republican Party in Atlantic City, New Jersey, shifted to the Democratic Party to support Governor Al Smith against Herbert Hoover. <mask> <mask> was disappointed, saying the two brothers had been the closest among their siblings. The Democratic Party was important in the Northeast in mobilizing new urban populations including many black migrants and European immigrants. In 1929, <mask>, as head of the West Virginia section of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons was instrumental in the desegregation of the state's public libraries. Upon hearing complaints that black citizens were being denied admission to public libraries, <mask> and fellow black attorney C. E. Kimbrough filed a writ of error with the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The court agreed with the plaintiffs that public libraries were

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 not schools and were not subject to existing Jim Crow "separate but equal" rules. Also in 1929, <mask> was admitted to the American Bar Association, although it generally excluded blacks.He continued to have a successful law practice. In the late 1930s, he "represented white business interests in a land deal worth $12 million." In 1947, <mask> brought suit in federal court in a civil rights case to gain integration of a public pool in Montgomery, West Virginia. He chose the federal court in the hopes of getting a fair hearing and also, if victorious, to gain a ruling that would benefit blacks in other places in the country. The federal court ruled in Lawrence v. Hancock (1948) that the municipality was trying to avoid the state civil rights law that required equal access and, if it provided a pool for whites it must also provide one for blacks. Unable to afford a second pool and unwilling to integrate the existing one, the city of Montgomery closed the pool and kept it closed until 1961. "It was the first substantial victory for black Americans fighting swimming pool discrimination in the courts."The case and its principle aided the national office of the NAACP in litigating other swimming pool cases. Associations, personal and political

On December 18, 1920, <mask> had married Sarah Meriwether <mask>, a fellow Howard University graduate and teacher born in Washington, DC. In 1909 while in college, she had been one of the founding members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's first sorority by and for African Americans. The <mask>s attended First Baptist Church in Charleston, a black congregation that was founded in 1868. According to an article on successful West Virginia blacks which he published in The Messenger in 1924, <mask> was teaching a Men's Sunday School at the church that year. <mask> was active in a number of fraternal orders. In 1913 he was elected


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 the national leader of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World.<mask> served a one-year term as the order's "Grand Exalted Ruler," during which time he was credited for creating and reinstating more local lodges than at any time since a merger of the organization in 1910. <mask> believed in promoting the success of African Americans in West Virginia. In 1924 he published an article in The Messenger on West Virginia blacks as part of their series, "These 'Colored' United States," published from January 1923 through September 1926. His article featured the lives of 28 successful blacks, both male and female: business owners, professionals and educators, including his wife. He provided data on property owned crops produced, as well as other material on businesses. In 1928 <mask> served as the West Virginia state head of the Knights of Pythias, another black fraternal association. Death and legacy
<mask> died in Charleston on June 23, 1959.At the time of his death, he was living on 304 Elizabeth Street in the city's East End. He was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington, D.C on June 26, 1959. <mask> was noted for being elected in a time of few elected black officials in the South. He gained integration of public libraries while president of the state chapter of the NAACP. From 1959 on, the West Virginia Conference of NAACP Branches began to give the TG Nutter Award as one of its highest awards. See also

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Footnotes

1876 births
African-American history of West Virginia
African-American state legislators in West Virginia
Howard University alumni
Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates
NAACP activists
Politicians from Charleston, West Virginia
People from Princess Anne, Maryland
West Virginia lawyers
West Virginia Republicans
Lawyers from Charleston, West Virginia
1959 deaths
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title: Dave Bickler

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<mask> (born March 31, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer for the rock band Survivor from 1978 until 1983, most notably on the #1 U.S. hit "Eye of the Tiger". In addition to his wide vocal range, his trademark look included a beret. <mask> would go on to provide the vocals in advertisements, including Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" TV and radio commercials. Biography
<mask> was born in North Dakota, moved to Willmar, Minnesota, and then graduated from Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois. His career began in 1968 as one of two lead singers and a musician in the early 1970s American rock group Jamestown Massacre. The group's single "Summer Sun" was a Billboard Top 100 and Easy Listening chart entry in the summer of 1972. <mask> met Jim Peterik while doing commercial jingles in the mid-1970s, leading to their future partnership in the band Survivor.<mask> currently lives with his family in Brookfield, a suburb of Chicago. On February 2, 2012, he appeared on The Colbert Report singing a passage from Newt Gingrich's book A Nation Like No Other to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger". In 2009, <mask> posted several new songs he was writing and recording for a future solo project via his Twitter account and website. On September 28, 2018, he released his debut solo album, Darklight. On October 2017, <mask> appeared at Rockingham Festival at the Nottingham Trent University, UK. In 2018, he joined Jim Peterik on stage to perform Caught in the Game, Rebel Girl, and Eye of the Tiger. On May 17, 2021, <mask> performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert intro singing about the Houston fugitive Tiger

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<mask> is best known as an original member of Survivor from 1978 to 1983. He rejoined with co-founders Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik in 1993, staying until early 2000. He was a part of the group for their first four albums: Survivor, Premonition, Eye of The Tiger, and Caught in the Game. Although primarily serving as the band's lead vocalist during this time, he is also credited with playing keyboards on Survivor's first two albums (including being the sole keyboardist on their debut album, before rhythm guitarist Jim Peterik began to take over the role on Premonition, although future releases would see Peterik replaced in-studio by session musicians). Survivor experienced their big breakthrough in 1982, when they were asked by Sylvester Stallone to provide the theme song for his movie Rocky III. The song, "Eye of the Tiger", soon turned into one of the biggest hits of the band's career. It had an enormous impact on the Billboard charts, soaring to #1 for six weeks.The song won the band a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, was voted "Best New Song" by the People's Choice Awards and received an Academy Award nomination. Thanks to the song's success and another Top 20 single, "American Heartbeat", the album Eye of the Tiger peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. The song remains popular today. It came in at #18 on the Top 100 Singles chart in Billboards 100th Anniversary issue and it is well over the 300,000 mark on the iTunes Store, where it once held #9 on their "Top Soundtrack" chart. Bickler also can be heard on other


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texts: Survivor singles including "Somewhere in America", "Rebel Girl", "Poor Man's Son", "Summer Nights", "The One That Really Matters", "American Heartbeat", "Caught in the Game" and "Ever Since the World Began" (later re-recorded by Bickler's successor in Survivor, Jimi Jamison, as a solo single for the Lock Up film soundtrack). Bickler left the band in late 1983 after he developed polyps on his vocal cords and required surgery and voice rest, a condition that would take a year and a half to recuperate from. Bickler was also unhappy about his lack of a bigger payday he felt was owed him for the multi-platinum success the band had from their hit album Eye of The Tiger released a year earlier.After leaving Survivor, <mask> continued recording with other groups in the Chicago area and doing commercial jingles and ads. <mask> rejoined Survivor in early 1993 as lead vocalist for a Greatest Hits album on Scotti Bros. featuring two new songs "You Know Who You Are" and "Hungry Years" (the latter of which he co-wrote). Bickler recorded new music with the band in hopes of a new album, but ongoing lawsuits and trademark ownership issues with his initial successor in the band, Jimi Jamison halted the release. <mask> was fired in early 2000 after a brief string of tour dates. On April 1, 2000, it was announced that for the second time Jimi Jamison was the new lead singer of Survivor. <mask> is credited with co-writing two songs on the Survivor album Reach with Frankie Sullivan: "I Don't" and "One More Chance". In 2013, it was announced on Survivor's official media sources that guitarist Frankie Sullivan had reunited the

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 current Survivor line-up with <mask> again, with the band planning to have their two most well-known vocalists together for the next tour, <mask> and Jimi Jamison.Following a year of touring together with <mask> in this lineup, Jamison died of a drug-induced stroke on September 1, 2014. In March 2016, <mask> was again fired from Survivor. Bud Light "Real Men of Genius" radio and television ads
Since 2000, <mask> has continued his venture in recording commercials and video advertisements. His singing is featured in the successful Budweiser Light "Real American Heroes" and "Real Men of Genius" ad campaign (the decision to change the campaign from Heroes to Genius was made after 9/11) singing plaintively in counterpoint to the wry commentary of voice actor Peter Stacker. Over 100 of these commercials have been recorded and broadcast on sports radio stations and events for over ten years. A handful of CDs from the Bud Light ads have been released and sold over 100,000 copies in its first three weeks of release. The release according to 'Pop Culture Tonight: with Patrick Phillips' February 2016 interview with <mask>, sold 400,000 copies.Discography

With Survivor
 Survivor (1979)
 Premonition (1981)
 Eye of the Tiger (1982)
 Caught in the Game (1983)
 Greatest Hits (1993)
 Fire Makes Steel Demos (Bootleg) (1998)

Solo
 Darklight (2018)

Track listing

References

External links
 Official Web site

1953 births
American rock singers
American male singer-songwriters
American singer-songwriters
American rock songwriters
American tenors
Benet Academy alumni
Living people
Survivor (band) members
People from Chappaqua,

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<mask> (born May 21, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet. She has published four full-length poetry collections, including In The Margins Of The World (Plain View Press), winner of the 2002 Oregon Book Award; Box Poems (Alice James Books); Storytelling In Cambodia (Calyx Books); and Rending the Garment (Mudfish/Box Turtle Press). The letterpress chapbook, The Books of Esther, was produced in conjunction with her interdisciplinary exhibit at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Early life
<mask> was born in East New York (Brooklyn), New York. She was raised in a middle class housing project and attended Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, the same school that both of her parents graduated from. Her father, <mask>, was born in Brownsville (Brooklyn) in 1915, and her mother, <mask>, was born in East New York (Brooklyn) in 1920. Both of her parents were first generation Americans—Ben's parents emigrated from Austria, while Esther's father was from Romania and her mother was from Austria.Ben was a middle school teacher and later became a law librarian, working on Wall Street for Berlack, Israels & Lieberman. For over twenty years Esther was a high school English teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, an inner-city school. She was a substitute teacher when Willa attended, and then later became a full-time English teacher. Esther eventually became the head of College Discovery, an affirmative action program whose aim was to help minority students get into college. Many of her students were the first members of their families to attend college and a number were accepted into Ivy League schools. Work and education
Willa graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1969. She attended a number of colleges, including Binghamton University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and Empire

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 Books of Esther" embodies the essential contribution of written language, and how one woman's need to communicate trumped her disability. In 2014, memorabilia, ceramic sculpture, photographs and broadsides were on display at Glyph Café and Arts Space in Portland, Oregon, relating to her most recent collection, Rending the Garment, published in the same year, a linked-poetry homage to her deceased parents, Ben and Esther: He struggled with agoraphobia, which he conquered, and then subsequently died of brain atrophy. She eventually died of complications relating to larynx cancer. Additional publications
Willa's poetry has appeared in publications such as The American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salmagundi, Women’s Review of Books, Tikkun, Poet Lore, The Oregonian, and Bellevue Literary Review, Harpur Palate, and Calyx Journal. She has been included in numerous anthologies, including Lit From the Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books, I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights, Before There Is Nowhere to Stand: Palestine/Israel Poets Respond to the Struggle from Lost Horse Press, and The Years Best Fantasy and Horror Nineteenth Annual Collection from St. Martin's Press.Her poetry was also featured in the textbook Bearing Witness: Teaching About The Holocaust, Heinemann Books, which discusses <mask>'s poetry alongside that of Carolyn Forché and Sharon Olds. Awards and recognition

<mask>'s collection In the Margins of the World was awarded the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry from the Oregon Book Awards Oregon Book Awards in 2002. She has been awarded two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships in poetry, a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, along with three Professional Development Grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC). The most recent

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 2012
 Rending the Garment, Mudfish/Box Turtle Press, 2014

Reviews
"Rending the Garment tells a familiar tale: the Jewish immigrant family romance, but with an important difference. Using shifting points of view and narrative interruptions, biographical essays, scolding notes from school principals, diary entries, not to mention a cast of characters as lively as a Borscht Belt revue, <mask> Schneberg tells her story from the inside, where grief and love live side by side in bed 'neither old nor young,' bodies outside of time… A fresh, original and moving addition to our literature." —Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Failure"Rending the Garment draws us intimately into one family—and through them into the world of immigrant Jews born almost a century ago and their lives in America. Willa Schneberg has a fine ear and her poems capture their voices, their cadences, the way they think, mixing Yiddish with English, the old and the new. The people of her poems come alive on the page: irreverent, beautiful, flawed, funny, sad, loving, opinionated, stubborn, real. They embody a wealth of contradictions, perfectly exemplified in these lines that her mother—who smoked so glamorously and lost her voice to cancer—writes in a notebook near the end of her life, 'I'm Jewish./There is no God.' I recognize these people and I've come to care for them deeply."—Ellen Bass, author of The Human Line"Schneberg's poetry is both a quiet reflection on the brevity of life and a celebration of how full it is...From tender adolescence through the indignities of advanced age, Schneberg plays with perspective to broaden the portrait of her family and delivers a robust and bittersweet narrative." —ForeWord Reviews

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 the Garment'' leaves me with the remarkable individuals to which it has given voice." —Eleanor Berry, Oregon Poetry Society

References

External links
 Willa Schneberg website, www.willaschneberg.org
 Willa Schneberg YouTube Channel
 Willa Schneberg on Facebook
 Oregon Poetic Voices, <mask> Schneberg. VoiceCatcher Journal, “Capturing the Essence of Things: A Conversation with <mask> Schneberg,” by S. H.  Aeschliman, January 10, 2013. “The Books of Esther: an interdisciplinary exhibit of the life of one woman who spoke through writing,” Schneberg’s 2012 exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum. Ooligan Press Blog, “From the Enchanted Tower to Publishing’s Rutted,” by <mask> Schneberg, February 7, 2013.Oregon Jewish Life, “<mask> Schneberg's Latest Book Poetically Maps Evolution of Family”, September 1, 2014. The Muddy River Poetry Review, "The Junk Men," by <mask> Schneberg. The Williston Observer, “Little Details: Anatomy of a Poem,” by Katherine Bielewa Stamper, April 25, 2013. Library Journal, "Willa / Not Dead Yet," by Cheryl LaGuardia, November 6, 2014
Oregon Poetry Association Newsletter, “An Interview with <mask> Schneberg,” April 3, 2018
NW Dharma News, "American Buddhist Poetry comes from Portland To Kathmandu’s Dharmakirti Vihar Monastery,” by <mask> Schneberg, Spring 2018
Tikkun, "American History,” by <mask> Schneberg, 2022

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American women poets
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
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Poets from New York (state)
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Jewish poets
University of Tennessee alumni
Empire State College alumni
Writers from Portland, Oregon
Poets from Oregon
Thomas Jefferson High School (Brooklyn) alumni
People from East New

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<mask>, born <mask> (1918, Brooklyn, New York – 7 July 1979, Paris) was a controversial American journalist, businessman, Communist and NKVD agent. Early life
Enthralled with the radical left, <mask> began writing at a relatively young age for the Communist Party USA publication, the Daily Worker. Espionage allegations
In 1943, <mask> came under the scrutiny of Representative Martin Dies Jr., chairman of the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities for his communist affiliations. <mask> was at the time working for the Office of War Information (OWI). <mask> appeared before the committee and stated under oath that he was an informant for the FBI, but that testimony was entirely a manufactured story. A special congressional investigation found no cause to remove him, but at the same time, the Civil Service Commission concluded he was both untruthful and unreliable. <mask> resigned from the OWI and was immediately hired by Drew Pearson, one of America's most widely read columnists.With the release of the Venona decrypts, a decryption from June 1944 established that <mask> was an informational source for the NKVD. In it, Soviet agent Vladimir Pravdin reported to Moscow information he stated he received from Soviet TASS deputy bureau chief Samuel Krafsur from his contact (<mask>). <mask> earned a reputation as an unscrupulous investigative reporter who misrepresented himself to sources. In 1944, <mask> was also active in Vice President Henry Wallace's effort to remain on the presidential ticket. President Franklin Roosevelt referred to <mask> as a "chronic liar." During the war, <mask> was investigated twice by the FBI, once after obtaining a secret report on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin prepared for President Roosevelt by Oskar Lange, another NKVD source in the administration. To obtain the report, <mask> claimed to be on the staff of US Vice President Henry Wallace.On 12 September 1946, Pearson wrote an article based on a classified US military study of

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texts: British military operations against the Greek Communist insurgency. The article, which alarmed the U.S. State Department, contained highly classified information on the British order of battle in Greece. The document had been in the office of the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, one Alger Hiss. An investigation revealed that the original document was missing and that the information reached Pearson through his aide, <mask>. The FBI suspected that <mask> was working for the KGB and that his income was derived in part from the Soviet government. The FBI had Phillip Jaffe under audio surveillance during the Amerasia investigation and overheard Jaffe discussing with Andrew Roth various possible contacts for information from government sources. Roth told Jaffe that Karr could obtain "a lot of stuff on the Far Eastern things that the other guys don't get because of his Treasury connections.He goes up once a week with Harry"." Jaffe inquired as to whether this was Harry Dexter White, already under suspicion for communicating information to the Soviet Union; Roth stated that it was. In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy referred to <mask> as Pearson's "KGB controller". <mask> later began a series of articles on the use of public relations in business takeovers. In 1959, <mask> became CEO of the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation, a large defense contractor whose divisions included Colt Firearms. After three years the shareholders dismissed him. <mask> then turned to film and hotel businesses, and in 1971, he became associated with Armand Hammer, who expanded Karr's contacts and business opportunities in the Soviet Union.<mask> became a good friend of the son-in-law of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, Dzherman Gvishiani, and was granted both North and South American trademark rights to Misha the Bear, the mascot of the 1980 Olympic games. Along with Hammer, he formed a joint venture to make and sell Olympic commemorative coins, an enterprise estimated to be worth

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 some U.S. $200 million. <mask> frequently boasted of having close ties with prominent US senators and presidential candidates and that he transmitted information between the Soviet and American governments on such issues as détente, trade, and strategic-arms negotiations. <mask>, then living in Paris, headed a Franco-American firm called Finatech. According to KGB files, <mask> arranged meetings between Sen. Edward Kennedy and Soviet leaders. A KGB file describes Kennedy in 1978 trying to help a close friend, former Senator John V. Tunney of California, get some business in the Soviet Union. In 1992, Yevgenia Albats, a Russian journalist assigned by the Russian Parliament to examine the archives after the aborted Soviet coup attempt of 1991, quoted "an extremely top secret KGB memo to Soviet leaders:"

In late 1978, as Occidental Petroleum was attempting an unfriendly takeover of the Mead Corporation, <mask> told a bizarre story in secret testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission.<mask> said that one night in 1972, he was summoned to a hotel in Moscow to find Hammer in his pajamas, in tears and on his knees, pleading with two KGB agents not to arrest him. Hammer was being accused of bribery and smuggling two letters written by the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, letters that Hammer had purchased at an auction in New York. <mask> said that Hammer was let off the hook by agreeing to donate the treasures to the Soviet Union. Death

Within days of learning of <mask>'s public disclosure, Hammer dropped his takeover bid of Meade. Seven months later, in July 1979, hours after returning from a trip to Moscow, <mask> was found dead in suspicious circumstances in his Paris hotel room. Amid suspicions that <mask> had been murdered, his widow halted the burial so that an autopsy could be performed. One claim was that <mask> had swindled his Russian partners.Rumors linked his friend Gvishiani to bribery scandals. Israeli intelligence officials

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 claimed <mask> was involved in secret Russian arms sales to states on the U.S. State Department's terrorist watchlist, namely Libya and Uganda. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, in the new atmosphere of openness, Soviet investigative journalist Albats published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that <mask> was "a competent KGB source" who "submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries." Legacy
In 2009, his grandson <mask> made the short film Ten for Grandpa about his fabled ancestor. A fast-paced investigation into <mask>'s complex life, the film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at dozens of other international film festivals. References

Yevgenia Albats, Senator Edward Kennedy Requested KGB Assistance With a Profitable Contract for his Businessman-Friend, Izvestia 24 June 1992, 5. Paul Quinn-Judge and Kathryn Tolbert, KGB file tells of prime treatment for Sen. Kennedy The Boston Globe 24 June 1992.Statement of Rep. Fred E. Busbey, Congressional Record 18 February 1944, A876. Statement of Rep. Martin Dies, Congressional Record 1 February 1943, 504–516. Extension of Remarks of Hon. Francis E. Walter, Congressional Record 6 February 1957. Henry Wallace Papers: see Harold Young from Oskar Lange, 3 July 1944. Washington Post, 3 July 1944. FBI Silvermaster file, (PDF p. 33).Washington Post, 4 July 1994. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to Harvey Klehr, 18 April 1990. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, pgs. 244–247. Yevgenia Albats, Reporting Stories in Russia That No One Will Publish Nieman Reports, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Vol. 53 No. 4 Winter 1999.1918 births
1979 deaths
American spies for the Soviet Union
American people in the Venona papers
Espionage in the United States
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title: Michael Huey (artist)

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<mask> (born September 21, 1964) is an American contemporary artist based in Vienna, Austria. He often employs found photography and archival resources to create new photographic images, objects, installations, and videos. His work has been shown in Vienna, Berlin, Rome, London, Lisbon, Sofia,  Cleveland, and New York City, and written about in Art in America, Artforum, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. <mask> was born in Traverse City, Michigan. He graduated from Amherst College in 1987 with a degree in German Studies. He has lived in Vienna since 1989, and received a master's degree in art history at the University of Vienna in 1999. He is married to Viennese art historian Christian Witt-Dörring.Alongside his work as an artist, <mask> has also published extensively, first as a staff member of The Christian Science Monitor, and more recently as a memoirist writing about his family's roots in Chicago and Leelanau County, Michigan. He is a regular contributor to the London-based magazine The World of Interiors and has written about art and design for exhibition catalogues, newspapers, and magazines in both Europe and the United States. Work
<mask>'s artistic practice has been linked by critics to his interest in family history, archives, and inventories. The arts magazine EIKON has written that <mask>'s works "are like news that reaches us from the past and are kept as poetry in time." According to Artforum magazine, "<mask>'s process defamiliarizes...objects to the

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 extent that they become alien, worthy of scrutiny." The concepts of loss and legacy tie his works together over a wide range of media. One of his techniques involves re-photographing and/or re-using existing photographs and papers.He also incorporates found objects into his exhibitions. Recent shows have involved installations of large-scale wall paintings or wallpapers <mask> has designed. Images from <mask>'s "China Cupboard" series have been likened by The New Yorker to the work of early photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot. Individual works by <mask> have been shown at the Kunsthalle Wien, the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2014 he joined the Secession, the Viennese artists’ association founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, and Joseph Maria Olbrich, among others. Marcus) (Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna)
 2006 — Josef Hoffmann Interiors 1902-1913 (contributor) (Prestel Verlag/Neue Galerie New York)
 2003 — Viennese Silver — Modern Design 1780-1918 (editor and author) (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern for the Neue Galerie New York and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
 2001 — The Place of Beginning: On the Huey, Mautz, Lebzelter, McGowan Families and Their Kin

References

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Facebook page

American contemporary artists
Amherst College alumni
People from Traverse City, Michigan
1964 births
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title: Leslie L. Irvin

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<mask> (September 10, 1895 – October 9, 1966) was a stunt-man for the fledgling Californian film industry. Flying in balloons, he performed using trapeze acrobatics and parachute descents. For the 1914 film Sky High, <mask> made his first jump out of an airplane while flying at 1,000 feet above the ground. In 1918, he developed his own life-saving static line parachute, jumping with it several times and promoting it to the US Army. <mask> joined the Army Air Service's parachute research team at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio where he made the first premeditated free-fall jump with the modern parachute on 28 April 1919. Biography
<mask> was born on September 10, 1895 in Los Angeles, California. A protégé of Charles Broadwick, the adventurous and athletic <mask> made his first parachute jump at age 16.In 1914, he first jumped from an airplane at 1,000 feet above the ground in a stunt for the movie Sky High. <mask>, while working for the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in Buffalo, developed a 32-foot diameter free-fall parachute, tested it with dummies dropped from Curtis airplanes and applied for a US patent. While in Buffalo, his designs moved from cotton to light weight silk with the help of silk merchant and business partner George Waite. <mask> joined the Army Air Service's parachute research team at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio which developed the first modern parachute. After the WWI Armistice, Major E. L. Hoffman of the Army Air Service led an effort to develop an improved parachute for exiting airplanes by bringing together the best elements of multiple parachute designs. Participants included <mask> and James Floyd Smith. The team tested 17 parachute configurations using test dummies.The results favored Smith's

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