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<mask> (born 15 March 1966) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments. Nicknamed The King, he has reached seven PDC major TV finals and reached a peak of No. 4 in the PDC Order of Merit. Early life
<mask> first took up the game at the age of 12, playing with an old rolled-cardboard dartboard given to him by his father. His father insisted that he played darts using competition distance and height. By the age of 13, he had ambitions to become a professional player as he was playing county darts at Superleague level. His first county A game was at the age of 14 and he won his local men's singles league at that age.Additionally, <mask> hit his first ever nine-dart leg of 501 aged 14 in a practice match with his father. BDO career
<mask> made his professional debut as a 28-year-old in the 1994 World Masters where he lost in the last 32 to Andy Fordham. His first title in the BDO came in the 1996 French Open where he beat Leo Laurens in the final. <mask> has won several Open titles since he came onto the darts scene in 1995, including the Dutch Open in 1997. He made his debut at BDO World Darts Championship in 1997 as a 30-year-old. He reached the semi final of the event beating Ronnie Baxter and Roland Scholten before losing to eventual champion Les Wallace. He won £8,700 for his performance.<mask> reached twelve major finals whilst playing in the BDO and converted only three of them into tournament victories. In 2004, he claimed his first BDO major title when he won the World Masters in Bridlington, defeating Tony O'Shea 7–6 in the final having trailed 3–5. His two other major victories to date have both taken place in the Netherlands. The first of these was the 2005 International Darts League, where he defeated O'Shea again in the final, this time by 13–11 in legs. Later the same year he added the Dutch Grand Masters beating Martin Adams 5–4 in the final. His first major final came in the 2000 World

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texts: Masters where he beat such players as Peter Manley and Colin Monk before eventually narrowly falling to John Walton 2 sets to 3. <mask> went into the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship as number 4 in the event seedings and reached the final, losing to Australian Tony David.<mask> beat Raymond van Barneveld in the quarter-finals 5–3 whilst averaging 101.67 before beating Colin Monk in the semi-finals to reach his first World Championship final. As well as winning £24,000 for reaching the final, he also earned a further £2,000 for a 170 finish, the highest checkout in the tournament. 2003 proved to be a good year for <mask> as he reached two major finals and the semi-final of the World Championships. He began the year with the 2003 BDO World Darts Championship and was seeded third for the tournament. He whitewashed Colin Monk 5 sets to 0 in the quarter-finals before losing out to Raymond van Barneveld in the semi-finals, denying him a second consecutive World Championship final appearance He went on to reach the finals of the 2003 International Darts League and World Darts Trophy losing out to Raymond van Barneveld on both occasions. In 2004, <mask> had another successful year as he reached two semi-finals and two finals, winning one, in the four BDO majors. He began the year ranked third in the seedings for the second consecutive year.In the 2004 BDO World Darts Championship, he narrowly beat Ritchie Davies 5 sets to 4 in the quarter finals before convincingly beating Tony O'Shea in the semi-finals 5–1. Despite this he lost in the final for the second time in three years losing to Andy Fordham 3 sets to 6. After his good World Championship form he went on to reach the semi-finals of the 2004 International Darts League and World Darts Trophy narrowly losing to Tony David and Martin Adams 8–9 and 4–5 respectively. He ended the year winning his first BDO Major in the World Masters as he beat Tony David in the semi-finals 6–2 before winning the tournament

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 prevailing against Tony O'Shea in a tight encounter which ended 7–6 in favour of <mask> handing him his first major title after his sixth final. In 2005, he had his worst World Championship performance in four years, as he made only the quarter-finals, losing out to André Brantjes 2 sets to 3. <mask> spoke of his poor form and prior to the 2005 BDO World Darts Championship. <mask>'s next tournament that year was the International Darts League.He beat Ted Hankey, Co Stompé and Simon Whitlock before facing Tony O'Shea for the second time in a major final, and won 13–11 to secure his second major BDO title. Also in 2005, <mask> made the final of the World Darts Trophy for the second time and on this occasion he was beaten again losing 4–6 against Gary Robson. This was to be <mask>'s last major final before his controversial switch to the Professional Darts Corporation. In 2006, <mask>'s form declined and his best result came in the 2006 World Darts Trophy where he made the quarter-finals narrowly losing to Michael van Gerwen 4–5. He also made only the second round in the 2006 BDO World Darts Championship whitewashing Brian Woods 3 sets to 0 before losing to eventual champion Jelle Klaasen 2–4. His last tournament as a BDO affiliated player came in the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship where he made the semi-finals before losing 4–5 against eventual champion Martin Adams. <mask> was surrounded by controversy during this tournament following speculation about his future and a possible switch to the PDC.This would prove to be his last tournament as a BDO player. PDC career

PDC switch and beginnings
<mask>'s switch from the BDO to rival organization the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) created much debate and controversy. During the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship there was much speculation that <mask> and three fellow BDO players (Michael van Gerwen, Jelle Klaasen and Vincent van der Voort) would be switching to the PDC after the World Championships.

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 <mask> was angry that rumours had surfaced and even threatened to quit the tournament as the speculation heightened even stating, "I'm really not happy with the treatment I've had today, not just from one person but from a lot of people who I have known for many years". Despite claiming to BDO press officer Robert Holmes that he would "rather pack up darts than play for the PDC" <mask> announced his switch to the PDC on 6 February 2007 in a bid to "further his career". Having reached the semi-final of the 2007 BDO World Championships losing to eventual champion Martin Adams, <mask> had signed a contract confirming he would play at the 2008 tournament due to a clause in all contracts of BDO players stating that if they reach the semi-finals of the World Championship they are obliged to return the following year, with champions committing themselves to three years. <mask>'s switch meant that the BDO threatened legal action against <mask>.<mask> made his PDC debut at a non-televised event, the Southern Regional Final of the UK Open on 4 March 2007. He reached the quarter-finals before losing to Wayne Mardle. During his first year in the PDC, he performed well on the 2007 PDC Pro Tour, reaching one final, two semi-finals and four quarter-finals. He also gained a place in the 2007 World Matchplay where he reached the quarter-finals before losing to eventual champion James Wade. His performances in his first year helped him steadily climb the world rankings and qualify for his first PDC World Championship. 2008
In his debut at the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship, he fell to Dutchman Roland Scholten in the second round. 2008 proved a successful year for <mask> as he reached two semi-finals in PDC premier events as well as his maiden PDC premier final in the inaugural 2008 Championship League Darts where he lost 7–5 to Phil Taylor.His first PDC title came at the Scottish Players Championship in Glasgow in April 2008 where he beat Taylor on his way to a 3–0

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 victory over Mark Dudbridge. He also won a Pro Tour title in the Netherlands, beating Raymond van Barneveld. He also had two semi-final appearances in the 2008 World Grand Prix and the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts losing to Raymond van Barneveld and Phil Taylor respectively. <mask> ended the year and went into the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship as world number 13 in the PDC Order of Merit. His first year performances saw him win the Best Newcomer prize at the annual PDC awards dinner. 2009
<mask> went into 2009 competing in the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship, and this turned out to be his best result in the PDC World Championship to date. He beat Barrie Bates in the quarter-finals before falling to Phil Taylor 2–6 with Taylor averaging 103.44.His performance in the World Championship meant that he moved up to 6 in the PDC Order of Merit and therefore qualified automatically for the 2009 Premier League Darts. <mask> carried on his good form into the 2009 World Matchplay in July. He defeated Mark Dudbridge, Steve Beaton and Vincent van der Voort before meeting Phil Taylor in the semi-final. Taylor prevailed 17–6, averaging 106.54, and went on to win the tournament. In the next PDC Premier event of the 2009 season, the 2009 European Championship, he reached the quarter-final before losing to James Wade 6–10. This was after beating Colin Osborne in the second round 9–6 recording a 104.00 average. <mask>'s successful run in the 2008 Championship League Darts continued into the 2009 tournament as he reached the semi-final before losing to eventual champion Colin Osborne 1–6.Also in 2009, <mask> achieved his first televised nine dart finish. It came in September 2009 at the South African Masters against James Wade, and was the first ever televised nine dart finish outside of Europe. 2009 Premier League

<mask> made a great start to his Premier League career as he opened up with an 8–1 victory over Sky wildcard Wayne Mardle. He then went on to record three more

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 victories on the bounce beating James Wade 8–1, John Part 8–2 and Jelle Klaasen 8–4. He then faced defending champion Phil Taylor in Newcastle, recording a 7–7 draw despite leading 7–5 with both players averaging over 100. <mask>'s form then dropped, only winning two more games in Birmingham and Glasgow against Mardle and Wade respectively. <mask> was also a controversial figure during the tournament, often letting the crowd get to him and affect his mood and darts.During a 2009 Premier League match with Taylor, he threw a dart over Taylor as he stooped down to pick up his flight. During the post-match interview, neither of them would look at each other. His final position of 4th in the league was influenced by the illness of Mardle, as he was withdrawn from the competition. Therefore, all results that included Mardle were annulled, including <mask>'s two victories over Mardle. <mask>'s fourth place in the overall league meant that he faced Taylor in the play-off semi-finals at the Wembley Arena. <mask> won 10–6 to end Taylor's winning streak in Premier League competitions. Despite this victory he was to finish runner-up as he lost the final 13–8 to Wade, who beat Raymond van Barneveld 10–8 in the other semi-final.Wade led <mask> 8–2 before a mini comeback from <mask> but Wade was able to see the game out to claim his maiden Premier League Darts title. 2010
<mask> went into the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship as number 5 in the PDC Order of Merit. Despite a poor performance in the Championship where he lost 2–4 in the second round to Co Stompé, he still qualified for the 2010 Premier League Darts <mask> reached his third PDC major final in the 2010 Players Championship Finals. Having beaten James Wade, Jelle Klaasen, Wayne Jones and Colin Osborne in earlier rounds, he narrowly lost in the final to Paul Nicholson 13–11. This was his third PDC Premier event final without victory. <mask> also reached the last 16 in the 2010 UK Open, losing 8–9 to Gary

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 Anderson. <mask> hit his second televised nine-dart finish during the match.2010 Premier League

King started the 2010 Premier League with wins over James Wade and Adrian Lewis. His first loss of the season came in Belfast as he lost 6–8 to Ronnie Baxter. His rivalry with Phil Taylor continued in Manchester, where <mask> recorded a 7–7 draw. <mask> lost his last three round-robin matches to Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock, but he still made it to the semi-finals for the second consecutive year, again finishing 4th in the table. He finished on the same number of points as Baxter, but qualified due to a better leg difference. Just like in the previous year, he played against Taylor in the semi-final. This time, Taylor resoundingly won 8–1, averaging 107.98 in the process Despite losing badly against Taylor, <mask> beat Whitlock in the third-place play-off.2011
<mask> went into the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship ranked 6th in the PDC Order of Merit. His 2011 World Championship were ended in the second round, where he was beaten 3–4 by Andy Smith. After the World Championship, <mask> dropped out of the automatic qualifying places for the 2011 Premier League Darts, and was not awarded a wildcard. His successful streak in the Players Championship Finals continued as he again reached the semi-final for the second consecutive year. He lost in the semi-final to Phil Taylor 8–10. He lost in the third round of the 2011 UK Open tournament, losing 9–5 to Mark Walsh. He qualified for the 2011 World Matchplay Darts as the 9th seed., but lost 6–10 against Justin Pipe in the first round, reporting a complaint of tennis elbow.At the 2011 European Championship, he beat Co Stompé 6–1 in the first round, before losing 3–10 to Taylor in the second round. He also qualified for the 2011 Championship League Darts winner's group by beating Simon Whitlock 6–3 in the final of group five. In the winner's group finished second in the table before losing to Paul


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<mask> played Geoff Kime in the first round of the 2012 World Championship and outplayed his opponent, winning 3–0 without dropping a leg.However, he was knocked out in the second round for the third successive year as he was beaten 1–4 by Michael van Gerwen. At the UK Open <mask> beat his old BDO rival Ted Hankey and Gareth Cousins, before losing 7–9 to van Gerwen in the last 32. Due to dropping out of the top 16 in the PDC rankings, <mask> was due to play seed Phil Taylor in the first round of the 2012 World Matchplay. Despite a strong performance where he hit eight maximums to Taylor's one, <mask> crucially missed three darts to lead the match 9–8 and instead lost 8–10. At the World Grand Prix in October, <mask> reached his first major final in two years. In his first round match against Terry Jenkins, <mask> survived five missed match darts from his opponent to edge the game 2–1 in sets, and then saw off Dave Chisnall (3–1) and Robert Thornton (3–0 in 31 minutes) to meet home favourite Brendan Dolan in the semi-finals. <mask> came back from 0–2 down in the first set to take it and from there was in control of the match as he won 5–2 and met Michael van Gerwen in the final.<mask> led 3–0 and 4–1 in the final, but from there on only won three more legs as he lost the match 4–6. <mask> afterwards admitted he was unhappy with the crowd, as they were loudly booing his starting and finishing doubles, but the £40,000 runner-up prize saw him climb to 13th in the world. <mask> won all three of his group games at the Grand Slam of Darts, but was defeated by Kevin Painter 5–10 in the last 16. After all 33 ProTour events of 2012 had been played, <mask> was 20th on

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 the Order of Merit, comfortably inside the top 32 who qualified for the Players Championship Finals. He reached the quarter-finals, where he lost 7–10 to Justin Pipe. 2013
<mask> lost in the first round of the PDC World Championship for the first time in its 2013 edition 2–3 to Dean Winstanley. The match has been described as a classic with both players missing darts to win before Winstanley took the deciding set 6–4.His first final of the year came at the eighth UK Open Qualifier in April, having won seven games including defeats over James Wade, Wes Newton and Robert Thornton, but he was then whitewashed 0–6 by Michael van Gerwen. He was the seventh seed for the UK Open itself. <mask> reached the final of the Austrian Darts Open by beating Joe Cullen 6–0 in the quarter-finals with an average of 103.66 and Steve Beaton 6–5 in the semis. He faced van Gerwen once more in the final and was defeated 3–6. He also played van Gerwen in the third round of the UK Open and was defeated 5–9. <mask>'s second European Tour final of the year came in September at the German Darts Masters where he edged past Peter Wright 6–5 in the third round, whitewashed James Wade 6–0 in the quarter-finals and beat Wayne Jones 6–4 in the semis. He faced Steve Beaton and with the final on throw with Beaton 4–3 ahead <mask> incredibly burst his score when on 134 as he hit a treble 20 with his last dart instead of a single to leave 40.Beaton replied by finishing 160 and, even though <mask> fought back to take the match into a deciding leg, he never had a dart for the title as Beaton won 6–5. <mask> could not replicate his performances at the World Grand Prix from last year as he was defeated 2–0 in sets by Wayne Jones in the first round. 2014
<mask> overcame Darin Young and Ricky Evans to face Adrian Lewis in the third round of the 2014 World Championship. He lost nine of the first eleven legs and could never recover as he was beaten 4–1 in sets. <mask>'s first final of the year came in

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 February at the Dutch Darts Masters, but he was defeated 6–4 by Michael van Gerwen whilst averaging 107.40. Despite playing with a bad sciatica in his back, <mask> reached the semi-finals of the UK Open for the first time in his career. He fell 3–0 down to Lewis and was denied a place in the final with a 10–6 defeat.In the first round of the World Matchplay, <mask> was 5–4 ahead of Kim Huybrechts and then won five legs in a row to advance 10–4 with an average of 101.06. He could not replicate his form in the next round however, as he averaged 89.59 in a 13–8 loss to Lewis. In September, <mask> ended a run of three defeats in European Tour finals to win the European Darts Grand Prix by beating Michael Smith 6–5. In a tight match in the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix, <mask> was defeated in a final leg decider against Van Gerwen as he was unable to checkout 120. He went a stage further at the European Championship, but lost 11–8 to Terry Jenkins. <mask> continued his fine form at the Masters by beating Simon Whitlock and Justin Pipe and then produced a superb performance to exact revenge over Van Gerwen 11–9 with a 121 finish on the bull. He built on his momentum in the final against James Wade to lead 5–0 after the first session with an average of 110 and was also 9–2 in front.Wade rallied to trail 9–6 before a 158 finish from <mask> saw him stand one leg away from his first PDC major title. However, he would miss a total of eight championship darts as Wade completed his comeback with an 11–10 win. The misses didn't seem to affect him at the Grand Slam, as he punished every mistake from Gary Anderson in a second round 10–4 win and then beat Stephen Bunting 16–9 to face Phil Taylor in the semi-finals. <mask> couldn't keep pace with Taylor as he fell 12–2 down and, though he briefly rallied, was eliminated 16–9. Taylor also knocked <mask> out of the Players Championship Finals, 10–7 in the second round. 2015
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After edging out Russia's Aleksandr Oreshkin 3–2 in the first round of the 2016 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–2 to Jelle Klaasen in round two. He won through to the semi-finals of the Dutch Darts Masters, which included recovering from 5–0 down to Benito van de Pas in the quarters to win 6–5, and was beaten 6–2 by Michael van Gerwen. He lost 9–7 to Van de Pas in the third round of the UK Open.<mask> inflicted James Wade's first ever first round defeat at the World Matchplay by beating him 10–5 and then saw off Brendan Dolan 11–8 to play in the quarter-finals of the event for the first time in seven years. In an extremely tight match he narrowly lost 16–14 to Phil Taylor, with the 16-time world champion stating that it was the best he had seen <mask> play for two or three years. He lost in the opening round of both the World Grand Prix and Players Championship Finals and James Wilson edged out <mask> 10–9 in the second round of the European Championship. 2017
<mask> was on the brink of being knocked out in the first round of the 2017 World Championship as he was 2–0 down in sets to Steve West.


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 In the third set, West was on 36 for the match, but <mask> took out a 136 finish, won the set and levelled the match at 2–2. In the deciding set West missed two match darts and <mask> would win 3–2 and was in tears on stage afterwards. In the second round Michael Smith missed five darts to beat <mask> 4–1.<mask> then hit a match saving 130 checkout to help him close to 3–3 and Smith missed three more match darts in the deciding set, but eventually got over the line to edge <mask> out 4–3. <mask> reached his first final since 2014 at the third Players Championship and was defeated 6–5 by Rob Cross. 2018
At the 2018 World Championship, <mask> lost 3–2 in the first round to Zoran Lerchbacher. 2019
At the 2019 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–2 in the third round to Brendan Dolan. 2020
At the 2020 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–1 in the third round to Simon Whitlock. In November he reached his first major final in 6 years at the Players Championships Finals, where he eventually lost 11–10 to defending champion Michael van Gerwen. 2021
At the 2021 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–1 in the fourth round to eventual champion Gerwyn Price.At the Masters, he lost 11–8 in the final to Jonny Clayton. 2022
At the 2022 World Championship, <mask> had his best run since 2009 by beating Ryan Joyce, Steve Lennon and Raymond Smith, but was eventually whitewashed 5–0 in the quarterfinals by James Wade. World Championship performances
<mask> has reached two World Championship finals and four semi-finals since making his debut in the BDO version in 1997. He went as far as the semi-final in his debut year, losing to eventual champion Les Wallace. During his run he hit thirty 180s, setting a new record for the tournament at the time. Since switching to the PDC, his best performance came in the 2009 World Championship when he reached the semi-final, losing 2–6 to Phil Taylor. He reached his first BDO World Championship final in 2002.He narrowly beat Raymond van Barneveld 5–3


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 in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals he convincingly beat Colin Monk 5–1. He lost the final 4–6 to Tony David. <mask> spoke on David's performance congratulating him and commented, "I just wish I could have played half as well as he did." In 2003, <mask> beat Steve Coote, Dennis Harbour and Monk before losing to van Barneveld 5–2 in the semi-finals. In 2004, <mask> again reached the world final. During his run he beat Rick Hofstra 3–1, Jarkko Komula 3–2, Ritchie Davies 5–4, Tony O'Shea 5–1, before meeting Andy Fordham in the final.The match ended in a 6–3 victory for Fordham, making it the second time in three years that <mask> had finished runner-up. Again <mask> told of his disappointment commenting "I don't think it was a fantastic game. I just did not turn up". His last appearance at the BDO World Championship was in 2007, where he narrowly lost a semi-final to Martin Adams 5–6. <mask>'s most successful PDC World Championship was in the 2009, when he beat Mark Walsh and Dennis Smith before beating Barrie Bates 5–2 in the quarter-finals. This run set up a semi-final clash with Phil Taylor. <mask> lost to Taylor 2–6.However, since then he has been knocked out in the second round every year to Co Stompé, Andy Smith and Michael van Gerwen in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. Controversy
<mask> has been the subject of controversy during his career. In 2003 following his semi-final defeat to Raymond van Barneveld, he subsequently blamed the air conditioning being on. The following year in his first round match against Rick Hofstra, when tied at 1–1 in sets, <mask> complained that the length of the oche was not right; the players were forced to leave the stage whilst officials measured, <mask> was incorrect. The players returned with the majority of the crowd against <mask>, though he went on to win the match 3–1. In the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, <mask> played then-BDO player John Henderson in his last group game. Despite winning the game 5–4, he


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 exchanged heated words with Henderson towards the end of the match and was visibly unhappy.Whilst refusing to reveal the precise reason to his actions, it was understood through television analysis that <mask> felt Henderson, after having to move across the oche for a better shot with his third dart, had stepped across the oche line and thrown from a closer distance to the board, thus believing he had gained an unfair advantage. Personal life
<mask>'s father died in September 2010, which <mask> later admitted left him 'devastated', and this led to a loss of form. At the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship, <mask>'s wife cheered him on accompanied by a crown in remembrance of his father. <mask> is good friends with and lives close to fellow darts player Peter Wright and they often practice together. He lives in Bradwell in Norfolk. He is also a keen motor enthusiast and revealed that when younger he gave up his chance of becoming a racing driver to continue his fledgling darts career. <mask> currently travels and practices with upcoming darts player and 2012 Youth World Champion James Hubbard who <mask> has described as a player to watch in the future.During the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in 2020, <mask> undertook work as a delivery driver for online retail company Amazon, and in 2021 set up a construction company. Awards
PDC Newcomer of the Year 2008. PDC Televised Performance of the Year 2009 (v Phil Taylor, Premier League Darts Semi-Final). Preliminary round; (DNQ) Did not qualify; (DNP) Did not participate; (NH) Not held

Performance timeline

Nine-dart finishes

References

External links
<mask> <mask> Official Website

Mervyn <mask> Profile on PDC.tv
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<mask> (born October 22, 1969) is an American art photographer and artist from Des Moines, Iowa. She is best known for her photographic series that she calls "elliptical narratives" which are similar to the works produced by Cindy Sherman. Like Sherman, <mask>'s works are influenced by film and painting, rather than the typical conventions of photography. She lives and works in New York. Early life and education
<mask>'s mother was an evangelical Christian who brought <mask> and her brother along on "wild pilgrimages throughout the Midwest," where they would witness miracles being performed, acts of healing, people speaking in tongues, and other Charismatic Christian practices. She claims that she does not remember anything strange about these acts, "but more a feeling of excitement and a security in the faith that [she] felt from everyone there." <mask> says that her work revolves around a similar idea of faith, believing the possibility of the impossible and suspension of disbelief.After studying for two years at Bennington College, she received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992. In 1995, she received her MFA from Yale School of Art, studying under Gregory Crewdson. Career

<mask> stages all of her scenes, using the style of "narrative photography," wherein each scene exists only to be photographed. <mask> pioneers a new discourse of contemporary photography where within each of her series, the narrative of her photographs is disrupted, "its fragments functioning like film stills excised from their context but suggesting a missing whole." There are gaps of space and time left between each photograph, evoking a "vivid and dreamlike world." In a 2002 interview with curator Matthew Drutt of the Menil Collection, <mask> describes her creative process and the inspiration she draws from other sources in the following way: "The stories and events that I choose to use as jumping-off points

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 are simply that. They are only a part of what goes into the work, and perhaps a useful reference for viewers.[...] Trying to combine fiction, fact, and my own personal mishmash of life into something new is how I make my work. Into all of this, I try to insert a degree of mystery that ensures that the dots may not connect in the same way every time." 1990s

1996

In haunting photographic scenes of preadolescent girls, <mask> alludes to well-known children's literature, such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which can be found in two of her series: wonder (1996–97) and override (1997). <mask> made her international debut with the twenty photograph series, wonder (1996–97), the first series <mask> created after receiving her MFA at Yale University School of Art. wonder, which draws the viewer in with stained-glass coloration intensified by lamination, features two identically dressed Alices photographed together and separately and at oblique angles that recall the disorienting experiences of Alice in Wonderland. For example, in Untitled #1 of wonder, one of the Alices is pictured treading in a pool of her tears, "her body grotesquely distorted by the refraction of light on the water" and in Untitled #2, one Alice leans over the other, plugging her nose, seemingly about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. These two photographs also demonstrate how <mask> takes on the role of "unreliable narrator" within her series by her "use of photography as a format which invites the suspension of disbelief, with her codings and fragmentations of the frames exposing the viewer to the inconsistencies and assumptions that are held in place by realist photographic as well as narrative conventions.”  Through the use of different sized photographs, <mask> displays an instability in Alice by referring to the character's growth spurts and shrinking spells.1997

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 Adventures in Wonderland are made again, as in wonder, but in this series, the scenarios are drawn from <mask>'s own imagination. override features seven versions of Alice which alternate between roles of victim and aggressor. A description about the series written by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curators states, "[The seven versions of Alice] try to control the changes to her body by literally, physically holding her in place — a potent metaphor for the anxiety and confusion experienced by children on the verge of adolescence." Color and chiaroscuro play a large role in <mask>'s work as they lead the viewer to the main source of action in each piece. While the wonder series features cool blue tones, the photographs featured in override were captured in the "golden hues of Twilight." The constantly changing scale of the photographs, the physical stretching and pulling actions performed by the models, and the range of size of the photographs themselves (6 x 7 1/4 inches to 60 x 90 inches) all relate to the central metaphor of Alice in Wonderland: change. <mask>'s film Floater repeats in a backwards sequence a scene of an Ophelia-like young woman in a pool of water, trying to decide whether she should drown or save herself.The theme of this cycle of indecision is seen again in her series half life in 2002. 1998

In her photographic series, hide, <mask> references a lesser-known Brothers Grimm tale, "The Magic Donkey." This series features young girls alone in a gothic mansion, creating a sense of dread and underlying sexual intrigue that takes its impetus from the tale of a young woman forced to hide beneath animal skins to hide from the matrimonial desires of her father. The name of the series is drawn from the children's game hide-and-seek, the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the literal skin, or hide, that creates a boundary between the inside and the outside, the self and the other. 1999

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 1999, <mask> produced two series, Sally Salt says and by proxy, both of which featured Sally Salt, the female protagonist in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a 1988 British comedy film based on the tall tales told about 18th-century German baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchausen. by proxy takes on a darker tone by combining the fictional, gullible, and lovable Sally Salt character with a real-life serial killer, Genene Jones, a pediatric nurse who, in the early 1980s, was found guilty of the murder of several children in Texas. <mask>'s models in by proxy wear white nurse's outfits.The girls in the photographs represent Genene Jones at different stages in her life, battling with her own tormented mind. The title of the series draws from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a type of child abuse in which a caregiver purposefully makes a child under their care ill, usually to attract the attention or sympathy of others upon themselves. Though all of her series are imbued with a sense of darkness, compared to the fictional stories depicted in her previous series such as override and wonder, by proxy is all the more unsettling in that it highlights real-life and disturbing subjects such as Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the Jones murders. 2000s

2002

<mask>'s half life—drawn from stories such as Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, <mask>'s (no relation) "The Old Nurse's Story," and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw—began as an idea for a film installation and evolved into an exhibition combining still and moving images with ten photographs and a film installation. The unnamed central character of Rebecca, a tale from 1938 about an ingénue who goes abroad, marries a middle-aged patrician, and follows him back to his ancestral estate in Cornwall. There the young woman finds the house filled with the memory of the man's dead first wife, Rebecca, which torments the heroine to the brink of suicide. half life draws from the

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 idea of Rebecca's presence in the estate and the heroine's mind.This series explores the human psyche, including the experiences of fear, isolation, and uncertainty. As seen in her previous works, the protagonist of half life is a young woman who finds herself between "the purity of youth and the gradual loss of innocence that comes with maturity." Differing itself from previous series, the question of identity is pushed to a new level in half life by the almost total exclusion of the main figure. When shown, the woman often has her back to the camera or remains hidden behind her hair. <mask> uses dynamic camera angles and elaborately decorated interiors in her photographs in half life creating a sense of vertigo or claustrophobia. The accompanying 21-minute film, similar to her piece, Floater (1997), features a woman floating under water in a state of non-being, neither fully dead or alive. 2007

In her video, Acting Lessons, <mask> plays the protagonist, an actress who is performing a monologue and is continuously interrupted by an acting coach off screen.In this piece, <mask> adopts "a mundane living room as the setting for her portrayal of emotional power struggles." Aperture at 50, Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York
 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2007
 Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
2012
 Exquisite Corpses. Drawings and Configuration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Reception

Grace Glueck, writing in The New York Times in 2004, described <mask> as an established "maker of spooky, tension-filled feminine fictions", her work recalling Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. In Glueck's view, <mask>'s method is "to create a narrative expectation without fulfilling it", each


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 picture hinting at a situation or story, provoking the viewer to speculate. Glueck does not necessarily approve of this, calling the process of challenging the viewer to make a story "do[ing] the artist's work". Robert Mahoney, reviewing <mask>'s first exhibition of color photographs in 1997, calls the show a "masquerade" with a pair of "pretty twins" playing at Alice in Wonderland in blue pinafores, white tights and "black Mary Jane shoes". Mahoney calls this an intense search for identity, observing that the use of twins brings out the "mirror-like clarity" of Alice's dream journey.In his view, the blue and white coloration recalls the Virgin Mary, while the use of young women to represent "prepubescent girls" brings sexuality into the images. Christopher Mooney, writing for ArtReview in 2014, reviews an exhibition in Paris of <mask>'s photographs alongside her ex-partner Douglas Gordon's "wall, floor, and corner works". Mooney calls it a swan song, the exhibition featuring swan taxidermy in "many" of Gordon's works, and a Bolshoi ballet prima ballerina, Svetlana Lunkina, who "danc[es] across <mask>'s screens". Mooney finds Lunkina the strongest element in the show, <mask>'s photographs displaying her as both graceful and "affecting". Awards
 Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize (2000). Nancy Graves Foundation Grant (2002). Des Moines Art Center Artists Residency, Des Moines (2005)
 KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, best film in the art category: Erasers (2005)
 NYFA Grant (2010)
 Artslink Grant (2010)
 Bohen Foundation Grant (2010)
 Recollects Residency, Paris (2011)

References

External links
 Guggenheim Collections

1969 births
Living people
Photographers from Iowa
American women photographers
Artists from Des Moines, Iowa
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Yale School of Art alumni
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
20th-century women photographers
21st-century


title: Tito Mboweni

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<mask> (born 16 March 1959) is a South African politician who served  as Minister of Finance of South Africa in the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa from 2018 to 2021. <mask> was the eighth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and the first Black South African to hold the post. He was sworn in as Minister of Finance on 9 October 2018, following Nhlanhla Nene's resignation. <mask> is a founding member of Mboweni Brothers Investment Holdings and a former international advisor of Goldman Sachs International. He has been appointed as a non executive Director for South Africa at the New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank). Early life and career
The youngest of three children, <mask> was born on 16 March 1959. He grew up in Tzaneen in the then Transvaal Province.He attended the University of the North between 1979 and 1980, where he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He did not complete his studies there and left South Africa to go into exile in 1980. While in exile in Lesotho, <mask> joined the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's current governing party, and was an activist for the party in many capacities. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in economics and political science from the National University of Lesotho in 1985. In 1988 he obtained a Master of Arts in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia in England. Political career
Prior to his appointment as Minister of Labour, <mask> was Deputy Head of the Department of Economic Policy in the ANC. He also represented the ANC on several domestic and international platforms.<mask> was a member of the ANC's National Executive and National Working Committees and was also Chairperson of the National Executive Committee's

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 Economic Transformation Committee, which coordinated the development of ANC economic policies. <mask> served as Minister of Labour from May 1994 to July 1998 in South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet. While Minister of Labour <mask> was the architect of South Africa's post-Apartheid labour legislation, which allowed for collective bargaining and the establishment of labour courts. He became one of the World Economic Forums Global Leaders of Tomorrow in 1995. In 1997 <mask> was appointed head of the ANC's Policy Department which was responsible for managing ANC policy processes. Upon joining the South African Reserve Bank, he resigned all of his elected and appointed positions in the ANC. <mask> joined the South African Reserve Bank in July 1998 as Advisor to the Governor.On 8 August 1999 he succeeded Dr. Chris Stals as Governor of the Reserve Bank. As governor, he oversaw the launch of the inflation targeting policy to help the bank achieve price stability and dealt with the rand's plunge due to global and local events. During his tenure, <mask> was appointed honorary Professor of Economics at the University of South Africa for 2000 to 2003. The Governor was also elected Chancellor of the University of the North-West and was installed as Chancellor on 23 February 2002. The University of Stellenbosch appointed the Governor Professor Extraordinary in Economics for the period 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2005. Career in the private sector
In June 2010, <mask> was appointed an International Adviser of Goldman Sachs International, where he provided strategic advice to the firm on business development opportunities, with a particular focus on South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also served as chairman of bullion

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 producer AngloGold Ashanti, among other company directorships.Minister of Finance, 2018–2021
On 9 October 2018, <mask> was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as the new Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Africa with immediate effect following Nhlanhla Nene's resignation. From the beginning of his tenure <mask> often found himself at odds with the ruling ANC policy and ideology. The ruling ANC has always inclined itself towards socialist policies, a stance which has been viewed as a form of appeasing its alliance partners, the South African Communist Party and COSATU. On the other hand, <mask> has continuously proffered liberal solutions such as his 2019 economic recovery growth plan which has been rejected by SACP and COSATU. His economic growth plan was widely criticised in the Public Sector. In an opinion piece, Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko slammed <mask>'s proposed reforms for the ICT sector, particularly plans related to the rollout of spectrum, as being "ill-thought-out". However the response was different in the private sector, CEO of Bridgement Daniel Goldberg during his Sage tour to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban hailed the plan, saying "it will improve the rate at which big state owned enterprises pays its suppliers consequently increasing efficiency in the economy.Phumlani Majozi in his opinion piece on Finance 24 argued that "<mask>'s ideas on how to revamp this economy, presented in his recent paper, titled "Economic Transformation, Inclusive Growth and Competitiveness: Towards an Economic Strategy for South Africa", are what will get this country back on track." In June 2020, Mboweni proposed a new austerity policy, to cut the state's wage bill of R160.2 billion over three years and to

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 adopt a Zero-based budget system in order to avoid a sovereign debt crisis in 2024. On 5 August 2021, <mask> resigned as finance minister. He was succeeded in the post by Enoch Godongwana. Joining the private sector
On 31 January 2022, <mask> resigned as an ANC Member of the National Assembly to take up a position in the private sector. He has been appointed as chairman and independent non-executive director of Accelerate, a property fund company. Other activities
 World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2018–2021)
 Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Member (2018–2021)
 Asia School of Business, Member of the Board of Governors (since 2015)

Recognition
 2015 – Honorary professor, School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
 2001 – Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Natal

Controversy
In August 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa “strongly reprimanded” <mask> over comments he made on Twitter about the dismissal of Zambia’s central bank governor Denny Kalyalya.In a statement, the presidency explained that “in one of his tweets, Minister Mboweni is promising to mobilise if not given reasons why the Central (bank) Governor has been fired,” citing the need for central bank independence. References

External links
<mask> biography, at African National Congress site, retrieved 2008-08-20

1959 births
Living people
African National Congress politicians
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
AngloGold Ashanti
Finance ministers of South Africa
Goldman Sachs people
Government ministers of South Africa
Governors of the South African Reserve Bank
National University of Lesotho alumni
People from Tzaneen
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Lee Sang-hyeok (; born May 7, 1996), better known as <mask> (), is a South Korean professional League of Legends player for T1. Formerly known as GoJeonPa () on the Korean server, he was picked up by LCK team SK Telecom T1 in 2013 and has played as the team's mid laner since. He is widely considered to be the best League of Legends player of all time. Lee is renowned for his high mechanical skill and extremely versatile champion pool. He is best known for playing LeBlanc, Zed, Syndra, Azir, Ahri, and Ryze. He is the first player to have reached 1,000 and 2,000 kills in the LCK, the second to have played 500 games, and the first to have played 600 games. Lee is one of the only two players to have won the League of Legends World Championship three times, having done so in 2013, 2015 and 2016.He has also won the All-Star Paris 2014, the Mid-Season Invitational tournament in 2016 and 2017, and the IEM World Championship in 2016. He owns three different League of Legends skins as a result of winning World Championship, which include SKT T1 Zed (2013), SKT T1 Ryze (2015) and SKT T1 Syndra (2016). Lee became a part owner of T1 Entertainment & Sports in early 2020. Early life
Lee was born in Seoul on May 7, 1996. He and his brother were raised by their grandparents and their father, Lee Kyung-joon, in Gangseo District, Seoul. Lee always loved puzzles and video games, often playing custom maps for Warcraft III and the MOBA Chaos during his teenage years. He discovered League of Legends in late 2011, and quickly became adept at the game.He attended Mapo High School, the same high school that Deft of DRX attended, but dropped out to join SKT T1 K and pursue a career in esports. Career

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Anthony M<mask> (; born 20 November 1952) is a former professional footballer who currently works as assistant academy director of Manchester United. He is responsible for the Under-9 to Under-16 player development programme. Early career
<mask> was born in Salford, Lancashire, and grew up as a Manchester City fan in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. He attended St Anthonys Sec Modern in Blackley, North Manchester for a short while then after the family moved to Partington, Whelan attended St Paul's Secondary Modern School in Urmston, where he captained his school team, as well as the local schoolboy representative team, Stretford Boys. Whilst playing for Stretford Boys, Whelan was spotted by Manchester United scout Joe Armstrong and invited to sign associated schoolboy forms in 1967. He signed apprentice professional forms upon leaving school in July 1968 and advanced through the various junior teams featuring in the FA Youth Cup team that reached the semi-finals in both 1969 and 1970. They also won the prestigious FC Blue Stars Youth Tournament in Zurich, Switzerland in May 1969.He signed as a full professional in December 1969 and, in May 1970, aged just 17, he was selected to go on the first team's three-week tour of Bermuda, Canada and the United States, where he played against Eintracht Frankfurt and the Bermuda national football team. The remainder of his tenure with the club was spent on the fringes of the first team, playing for the Reserves, for whom he was the leading scorer in 1971–72. Manchester City and Rochdale
In February 1973, Whelan was on the verge of signing for Bolton Wanderers when his mother received a phone call from Manchester City manager Malcolm Allison. He was offered a month-long trial with the club, and within three

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title: Mark Dooley

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<mask> (born 12 January 1970) is an Irish philosopher, writer and newspaper columnist. A specialist in continental philosophy, theology and the philosophy of religion, he is the author of several books, including The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), Roger Scruton: The Philosopher of Dover Beach (2009), and Why Be a Catholic? (2011). <mask> has been a guest on Irish radio and has written for several newspapers, including The Irish Times, and the Daily Mail. Early life and education
<mask> grew up in Dublin, where he attended the Synge Street CBS. He studied history and philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD), graduating with a BA in 1991 and obtaining his MA in philosophy in 1993. He earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1997, also from UCD, with a thesis on Kierkegaard; the thesis was published by Fordham University Press as The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Responsibility (2001).In the course of his research on Kierkegaard, he was awarded a Hong Kierkegaard Fellowship at St Olaf College, Minnesota. Career

Academic positions
Dooley taught philosophy and theology at University College Dublin (UCD) from 1993, where he was a John Henry Newman Scholar in theology. He was a visiting lecturer in philosophy at Maynooth University in 1998 and 1999, and returned as lecturer between 2006 and 2011. Writing and broadcasting
Dooley is a regular broadcaster on Ireland's national radio (RTÉ, Newstalk, Today FM). Since 2002, <mask> has contributed to The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Examiner, Prospect Magazine and The Dublin Magazine. Between 2003 and 2006, he wrote a column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. This column covered notably the conflict in the Middle East, the war in Iraq, and the use of

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 Ireland as a European base for radical Islamist activities.<mask> reported on the headquartering in Ireland of several radical Islamic organisations (the Muslim Brotherhood, the European Council for Fatwa and Research and the International Union of Muslim Scholars). He became the spokesman and champion of the moderate and progressive Muslims in Ireland suffering from intimidation and seeking integration and peaceful coexistence. Since 2006 <mask> has worked as a cultural and political columnist for the Irish Daily Mail. He is the author of the paper's 'Moral Matters' Wednesday column and also writes occasional 'Saturday Essays'. <mask> lives in Co. Dublin with his wife and their three children. Works and themes

Søren Kierkegaard
In The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), Dooley offers a new interpretation of Kierkegaard as a precursor of the ethical and political insights of Jacques Derrida. He argues that the connections between the two run much deeper than previously suggested.He shows Kierkegaard as being a proponent not of asocial individualism, but rather of the notion of an open quasi-community which has influenced Derrida's work. Postmodern ethics and Christianity
Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy (1999), co-edited with Richard Kearney, is a major overview of debates about contemporary European ethical thought bringing together the world's foremost philosophers. Including original essays by Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida and Karl-Otto Apel, it considers the challenges posed by ethics and the transformation of philosophy by critical thinking. It discusses contemporary ethical issues related to historiography, memory, revisionism, responsibility and justice, democracy, multiculturalism and the future

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 of politics. Questioning God (2001) comprises fifteen essays based on a conference organised by the editors (<mask>, Michael J. Scanlon and John D. Caputo) at Villanova University in 1999. It explores contemporary thinking about God with special attention to the phenomenon of forgiveness. Contributors include John Milbank, Richard Kearney, Jean Greisch, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Kevin Hart and Jacques Derrida.A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus (2002) is the first detailed study of the works of John D. Caputo. It features contributions from Jacques Derrida, W. Norris Clarke, William J. Richardson, Merold Westphal, Thomas R. Flynn, Richard Kearney & Edith Wyschogrod. In particular, it includes an interview of Derrida by <mask> which contains Derrida's definitive statement on religion: ‘The Becoming Possible of the Impossible.' Jacques Derrida
In 2007, Dooley co-authored The Philosophy of Derrida which presents the core philosophical ideas of Jacques Derrida and an appraisal of their impact. In this book, Derrida appears less as an iconoclast for whom deconstruction implies destruction than as a sensitive writer animated by a respect for institutions and a certain form of conservatism. His correspondence with Derrida was included in the extensive archive of Derrida papers kept at the Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine near Caen, Lower Normandy, France. Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton.The Philosopher of Dover Beach (2009) offers the first synoptic analysis of Roger Scruton’s philosophical thought. In the book, Dooley brings out the core ideas contained in 40 books written by Scruton over four decades, and provides the philosophical background to understand their genesis and their articulation. The composition of the book is pedagogic in that each chapter builds on the

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 philosophical work about home and rootedness, memory and identity, loss and love. Analyzing the alienation experienced by the self when disengaging from the social sphere surrounding it, Dooley shows how the self can become re-rooted to time and place and restored to full humanity whilst moving in the virtual, hyperconnected world. Bibliography
Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1999), co-edited with Richard Kearney
The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (Fordham University Press, 2001)
Questioning God (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001; ), edited with Michael J. Scanlon and John D. Caputo. A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003; )
Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (2001), translated with Michael Hughes
The Philosophy of Derrida (London: Acumen Press, 2006; Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007), co-authored with Liam Kavanagh
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher of Dover Beach (London & New York: Continuum, 2009)
The Roger Scruton Reader (London & New York: Continuum, 2009)
Why Be a Catholic? (London & New York: Continuum, 2011)
Moral Matters. A Philosophy of Homecoming (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2015)
 Conversations with Roger Scruton (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)

References

External links
 <mask>'s website

1970 births
Living people
20th-century Irish philosophers
21st-century Irish philosophers
Irish philosophers
Alumni of University College Dublin
Academics of University College Dublin
Academics of Maynooth University
Irish journalists
Irish columnists
Catholic philosophers
Sunday Independent (Ireland) people
Daily Mail journalists
Irish Daily Mail people
21st-century Irish writers
21st-century Irish male writers
20th-century Irish


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 has composed songs for the TV shows "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? ", "Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? ", "Out Of The Box", "The Book Of Pooh", "The Damn Show", "Brickleberry", Science Mission 101, and the feature film "Teddy P. Brains". Early life
<mask> grew up in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York.His musical talent was recognized early on, as he starred in many school musicals and claims to have charmed female classmates with "hallway serenades". At age seventeen, <mask> turned pro, performing on the New York City nightclub circuit with David Yazbek as Moon Pudding, a Simon & Garfunkel-styled teen duo. At Brown University, <mask> majored in political science, but focused primarily on singing college a cappella with The High Jinks and fronting Blind Dates, his rock group that released two national college radio hits. <mask> continued with Blind Dates after graduating from Brown in 1984, moving from Providence to New York City in search of a record deal. The group dissolved in 1987, just as Rockapella's career began. Rockapella years

After graduating from Brown together, <mask> and fellow High Jinks member Elliott Kerman joined classmates Steve Keyes and David Stix to form a new a cappella group called Rockapella. Rockapella began its career humbly, performing on street corners in New York City while Altman still focused primarily on his Blind Dates work.The group's repertoire consisted of a mix of barbershop arrangements and a cappella renditions of classic doo-wop pieces. As the group grew in experience and <mask> honed his vocal arranging skills, they began to

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texts: focus less on oldies and barbershop, and more on contemporary rock music. A dinner party performance for television personality Kathie Lee Gifford led to the group's 1988 appearance on the ABC TV show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Rockapella's performance of <mask>'s signature arrangement of the calypso novelty standard "Zombie Jamboree" caught the eye of producer Gerard Brown, who invited Rockapella to perform on the PBS Great Performances TV special Spike Lee & Company – Do it A Capella, which featured established a cappella acts Take 6, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Rockapella's idols The Persuasions. Elektra Records released Rockapella's live recording of "Zombie Jamboree" as a single, and the group's recording career was launched. Producers of the future PBS Kids game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? took note of Rockapella's talents and signed the group to appear as the show's comic troupe and vocal house band.The half-hour game show aired daily for five years, catapulting Rockapella into mid-level television celebrity and making the Rockapella-performed theme song (penned by <mask> and his childhood friend David Yazbek) into one of the best known television themes in history. <mask> is particularly remembered for his trademark blond braids, which were ceremoniously sheared in the last episode of the fifth and final season by the show's host Greg Lee. The soundtrack to the show features five of <mask>'s original songs, including the aforementioned theme song and a duet with The Persuasions on "My Home". A sequel album co-produced by <mask>, with collaborators Billy Straus and

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 David Yazbek, was entitled Carmen Sandiego: Out Of This World and contained four <mask> compositions as well as contributions from the rock bands XTC and They Might Be Giants. While Carmen Sandiego ran in the United States and Canada, Rockapella released seven albums in Japan, on which appeared a total of 14 original songs written by Altman both solo and in collaboration with others. The group also toured Japan briefly during this time. Solo career
After Carmen Sandiego finished after five seasons and Rockapella had put out two independent albums in the United States, <mask> left the group in April 1997 to better focus on his solo career.He promptly released his debut CD, seanDEMOnium, about which the Philadelphia Daily News wrote: "Imagine Dion meeting Marshall Crenshaw at the Beatles' house, with the Kinks, Beach Boys, Four Seasons and Persuasions all dropping by for a song swap. The words have a cynical edge, but what really grabs you is the old-fashioned sweetness and punch of his neo-doowop vocals playing off incredibly hook-happy tunes." After releasing seanDEMOnium, <mask> assembled a backup band, played New York City rock clubs for two years, garnering accolades for his live shows. The Village Voice called him "an absurdly talented performer... a power-pop mensch and an aspiring teen cult leader." He released alt.mania, his second CD of original music in 2002, about which Hits magazine wrote: "This record rocks....Rockapella mastermind, internet entrepreneur and divorcé Altman tells barbed, musically diverse tales of romantic misadventures....A dark, funny, resilient, postmodern concept

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 album about love and loss." <mask> is the only three-time winner of the Contemporary A Cappella Society's "Original Song of the Year" award, and has also been a "Best Male Vocalist" award recipient. He currently records and performs a cappella with some other ex-Rockapella members in The GrooveBarbers (featured as The Astelins in TV commercials for Astelin nasal spray), bittersweet pop songs as a solo artist, and comedy songs in Jewmongous.He has vocal-arranged and produced a cappella albums for the groups Minimum Wage and Kol Zimra. <mask> was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards and was a 2005 Kerrville New Folk finalist. He is a member of The Loser's Lounge tribute series in New York and serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call. In June 2011, <mask> released the song "MOT: Members of The Tribe" with Jordan B. Gorfinkel. The song highlights the contrasts in different observance levels within Judaism. It promotes tolerance and respect. Personal life

In 2003, <mask> married operatic soprano Inna Dukach.They live in Harlem, New York City. They have a daughter named Ruby, who was born in November 2008. Altman is Jewish. Solo discography

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Guest appearances/various releases

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JEWMONGOUS
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title: Loren Reid

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<mask><mask> (August 26, 1905 – December 25, 2014) was a communication professor and an author. In addition to shorter terms of service with other universities, he had a 31-year career at the University of Missouri, including two terms as chair of the Department of Communication. He served in a number of professional organizations related to speech and communicating, including standing as the 43rd president of the National Communication Association. He lived to 109 years of age, making him a centenarian. Personal life and education
Born in 1905 in Gilman City, Missouri, <mask> was the son of Gilman City Guide editor <mask> and his wife Josephine. As a youth, <mask> worked at his father's paper, both operating the linotype machine and writing up his interviews with travelers. After his parents took over the Osceola, Iowa paper Tribune in 1921, they relocated.<mask> graduated from Osceola High School in 1922 and entered Grinell College, receiving degrees in history and English in 1927. While there, he met Augusta "Gus" Towner who would later become his wife and herself a professor, of English. Towne and <mask> wed in 1930, during their studies at the University of Iowa. In 1932, <mask> graduated from UoI with one of the first doctoral degrees awarded in the field of speech in the United States. Augusta "Gus" <mask> (June 23, 1907 – August 1, 2009), was herself a centenarian at 102 years old. <mask> died at age 109 on Christmas Day, 2014. The couple were survived by their four children, 15 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren.Teaching career
<mask> began teaching English after receiving his undergraduate degree in a response to an invitation from a high school in Vermillion, South Dakota. Following his PhD pursuit in Iowa, he relocated to Kansas City, serving at Westport High School for two years as the head of its department of speech. In 1935, he started a four-year term in the English Department of the University of Missouri, where he would spend the bulk of his career. After breaking for five years to serve as an assistant and then

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 associate professor of speech at Syracuse University, <mask> returned to serve on the faculty of the new Department of Speech and Dramatic Art (now Department of Communication) at the University of Missouri. From 1946 to 1951, <mask> served as department chair, a service he repeated from 1965 to 1966. During his time at the University of Missouri, <mask> took occasional visiting professorships at other schools. He served at the University of California in the summer of 1947, at the University of Maryland, Overseas Division in 1952-53, at Louisiana State University and San Diego State College in 1954, at the University of Hawaii in 1957 and the University of Iowa in 1958.Service
Within the University of Missouri, <mask> served in a number of areas. On the committee of and one time acting director of the University of Missouri Press, he was also on the committee of Student Publications. A proponent of campus-based instructional television, which he helping bring to UoM, he moderated both the Showcase series and the Missouri Forum. He was also active among faculty, serving the University Faculty Club for a year in 1945 as president. He was an active member of the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity and an honorary member of Kappa Tau Alpha and Delta Sigma Rho. Beyond the confines of the college, <mask> was active in many professional organizations. He was executive secretary of the Central States Communication Association in 1937.He founded the New York State Speech Communication Association in 1942 and the Missouri Association of Teachers of Speech in 1943. He served the National Association of Teachers of Speech as its executive secretary from 1945 to 1951. He served as president of the National Communication Association in 1957. Research and writing
<mask>'s particular focuses in his research were British rhetoric and public speaking. He collaborated with writers Bower Aly and Wilbur Gilman in writing Fundamentals of Public Speaking, and he also had several works of his own varying from speech textbooks Speaking Well and Teaching Speech, to the autobiographical Professor on the

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 Loose, to the partially autobiographical reflections on small-town life and work Hurry Home Wednesday, and Finally It's Friday. Other notable works include his biography Charles James Fox: A Man of the People and American Public Address: Studies in Honor of Albert Craig Baird, which he edited. Honors and legacy
<mask> was honored many times throughout his career and after.Among them, he received the University of Missouri's Alumni Achievement Award in 1970 and received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1971. He was selected Sesquicentennial President of the University of Missouri near the date of the University's Columbia Day Tribune. The National Communication Association recognized him in 1981 with its Distinguished Service Award and in 2002 with its Mentor Award. The Central States Communication Associated inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2005. <mask> was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society for the research he completed for his book on Charles James Fox. That book received the Elizabeth G. Andersch Award from Ohio University, the distinguished alumnus award from Grinnell College and the National Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book Award and Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. Hurry Home Wednesday and Professor on the Loose received awards from the Missouri Writers' Guild, with the former also being awarded by the Missouri Library Association.The University of Missouri dedicated the <mask> <mask> Library in Switizler Hall in 1995 and created the <mask> <mask> Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series in 2005 in his honor. The UoM also remembers <mask> in a number of academic awards named for him, including the <mask> <mask> Outstanding Senior Award for Department Service and Leadership and the <mask> <mask> Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. References

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Interview with <mask>, 109, Columbia Missourian. University of Missouri faculty
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Baron <mask> () (February 24, 1847 – December 31, 1921) was a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire. Biography
<mask> was from a Baltic German nobility (with a Swedish title, obtained when Livonia and Pomerania were Swedish territories) that included musicians and military leaders. One of his ancestors, another Baron <mask>, won distinction in command of the Astrakhanskii Cuirassier Regiment at the Battle of Borodino on September 7, 1812 for which he was noted in the official battlefield report to General Barclay de Tolly. A Washington Post article dated July 5, 1905 claimed that "Baron <mask> is of Swedish ancestry, his forebears having followed Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus in his invasion of Russia and settled there. He was chargé d'affaires at Tokyo and later at Washington, and was acting in a judicial capacity as the mouthpiece of an international tribunal that was regarded as discourteous to Japan. ... As judicial minister, he reformed the judicial system of Siberia." Actually, the family was originally from Bohemia (Habsburg territory) and included one Marshal of France and one Austrian Field-Marshal.<mask>’s mother was a Georgian, Elizabeth Sulkhanishvili. Early career
<mask> graduated from the University of Dorpat and the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, and joined the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Asiatic Department, rising to head the Japan Bureau in 1875. He helped draft the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), in which Japan exchanged its claims over Sakhalin for undisputed sovereignty over the entire Kurile islands chain. He served as First Secretary of the Russian legation at Yokohama from 1875-1883. <mask> was then appointed to the Consulate-General of Russia in New York City in 1884, and then as temporary charge d’affaires to Washington DC from 1886-1889. In 1891, he opened the Russian legation in Mexico City, remaining in Mexico until 1893. He then returned to Europe, and was appointed ambassador to Serbia, staying in Belgrade until 1897.Career

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 in the Far East
During a short term as Russian minister to Tokyo in 1897–1898, <mask> concluded the Nishi-Rosen Agreement between Russia and Japan, whose articles recognized Japanese supremacy in Korea in exchange for an implicit recognition of Russia's exclusive rights to the Kwantung Leased Territory. However, after he was publicly critical over increasing Russian military activity on the Korean coast and the Yalu River, he was suddenly transferred to the rather symbolic post as Ambassador of Russia to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1899. In 1900 his diplomatic career revived when he exchanged Munich for Greece, and in April 1903 his most important period commenced when he was reinstalled as Minister in Tokyo. <mask> was in Tokyo at the start of the Russo-Japanese War, which he had made every effort to prevent. When United States President Theodore Roosevelt attempted to mediate the hostilities, <mask> was chosen as new Russian ambassador to the United States in May 1905 and as Sergei Witte's deputy within the Russian peace delegation. <mask> traveled to New Hampshire for negotiations in a cessation of hostilities and a peace treaty. The resulting Treaty of Portsmouth was a diplomatic triumph, which ended the war on very favorable terms for Russia.Later career
<mask> stayed in the United States until autumn 1911, when he was recalled to St. Petersburg to retire from the diplomatic service. He was subsequently appointed by Tsar Nicholas II to the State Council of Imperial Russia. He held this membership in the Russian parliamentary Upper House under the Constitution of 1905 until the overthrow of the monarchy by the February Revolution in 1917. After the Bolshevik takeover in November 1917 October Revolution and the subsequent persecution of the old political and social elites, <mask> and his family managed to escape from Russia with the help of Western diplomatic friends in the end of the year 1918. He spent his last years in poverty, working as a translator and

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 business consultant. He got hit by a taxi while walking down the street on the night of December 14, 1921, in Manhattan, New York City. This accident resulted in the fracture of his shin bone, and despite the fact that he was initially "cheerful[ly] unconcern[ed]" about this accident, Baron <mask> died due to lobar pneumonia resulting from this accident on December 31, 1921, a little more than two weeks after this accident occurred.<mask> wrote a series of articles about European diplomacy and politics for The Saturday Evening Post covering the period from his first exile in Sweden to his life in the United States. The series was published in 41 parts from 1919–1921 and was posthumously issued as a 2-volume-book "Forty Years of a Diplomat's Life" in 1922. Awards
 Order of St. Stanislaus,  1st degree, (1894)
 Order of St. Anne, 1st degree (1898)
 Order of St Vladimir, 2nd degree (1900)
 Order of the White Eagle, (1897)
, Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, (1911)

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References
 Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan. (1905). The Russo-Japanese war; a photographic and descriptive review of the great conflict in the Far East, gathered from the reports, records, cable despatches, photographs, etc., etc., of Collier's war correspondents  New York: P. F. Collier & Son. OCLC: 21581015

 Korostovetz, J.J. (1920). Pre-War Diplomacy The Russo-Japanese Problem.London: British Periodicals Limited. External links
 The Museum Meiji Mura
online A bibliography of <mask>'s articles in The Saturday Evening Post

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<mask> better known as <mask> (born May 21, 1989) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2010, <mask> made a name for himself fighting all over his home country of Brazil, and is the former interim Jungle Fight Featherweight Champion. Background
Coming from a well-off family, Carneiro started training judo at the age of eight. He attended university in order to become a lawyer, but dropped out after two years to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career
After an undefeated professional record in eight fights, <mask> faced Ismael Bonfim for the interim Jungle Fight Featherweight Championship. He won the fight via submission in the first round. Ultimate Fighting Championship
On December 12, 2014 it was announced that <mask> signed with the UFC, and was scheduled to replace Rony Jason against Tom Niinimäki on 10 days notice at UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Dollaway.He won the fight via submission in the second round. <mask> later was scheduled to fight Mirsad Bektic on May 30, 2015 at UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves, but he pulled off the bout due to an injury and was replaced by Lucas Martins. On March 14, 2016 it was announced that <mask> would face Zubaira Tukhugov at UFC 198. for his second UFC appearance. He was the underdog to the fight but won via split decision. <mask> was expected to face Mike De La Torre on September 24, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 95, but was forced to pull out with injury and was replaced on short notice by Godofredo Pepey. For his third fight, <mask> faced Jeremy Stephens on April 15, 2017 at UFC on Fox 24 He won the fight by split decision. Moicano faced Brian Ortega on July 29, 2017 at UFC 214.He lost the fight via submission in the third round. This fight earned Fight of the Night bonus. After the fight with Ortega, <mask> moved from

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 Brazil to United States in order to train at the American Top Team. <mask> faced Calvin Kattar on April 7, 2018 at UFC 223. He won the fight by unanimous decision. <mask> faced Cub Swanson on August 4, 2018 at UFC 227. He won the fight via a rear-naked choke.This win earned him the Performance of the Night award. <mask> was scheduled to face Mirsad Bektic on December 8, 2018 at UFC 231; however, it was reported on 15 November 2018 that Bektic was forced to pull out of the bout due to an undisclosed injury and the bout was cancelled. <mask> faced José Aldo on February 2, 2019 in the co-main event at UFC Fight Night 144. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round. <mask> faced Chan Sung Jung on June 22, 2019 at UFC on ESPN+ 12. He lost the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Damir Hadžović in a lightweight bout on March 14, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 170.He won the fight via a submission in round one. <mask> was scheduled to face Magomed Mustafaev on October 18, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 180. However, <mask> pulled out of the fight in mid-September for undisclosed reasons. Two weeks later, it was reported that <mask> is scheduled to face Rafael Fiziev on November 28, 2020 at UFC on ESPN: Blaydes vs. Lewis. In turn, <mask> pulled out on November 28 after testing positive for COVID-19 and the bout was rescheduled for UFC 256. He lost the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Jai Herbert on June 26, 2021 at UFC Fight Night 190.He won the fight via a rear-naked choke in round two. <mask> faced Alexander Hernandez on Feb 12, 2022 at UFC 271. He won the bout via rear-naked choke in the second round. After Rafael Fiziev was forced to pull out of a fight with Rafael dos Anjos scheduled for UFC 272, <mask> said he would be willing to replace Fiziev. He was sought out, and the fight was officially booked for UFC 272 on Mar 5, 2022. Personal life
<mask> and his wife have a son (born

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Captain <mask> or <mask> (1530–1603) of Jordanhill (an estate in the West End of Glasgow, part of which is now a college and hospital near Victoria Park) was a trusted confidant of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots and a retainer of the Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (Darnley's father). He famously planned the assault and led a small force of 150 men in 1571 that scaled the cliffs and embattlements to expel the castle garrison loyal to Catholic Queen Mary from Dumbarton Castle. Six years later, he became Provost of Glasgow, establishing a bursary for a student at the university and saving the cathedral from destruction. Family
<mask> married first, Marion, daughter of Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, widow of Robert, Master of Boyd. They had a daughter:
 Marion, m. Sir Robert Fairlie of Fairlie

He married second, Janet, eldest daughter of Robert Ker of Kersland (the elder). They had issue:
 Daniel, who assumed the name of his mother's family to becom Ker of Kersland. Hew
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Early career
<mask> was born about 1530, a son of <mask> of Kilbirnie Place near Kilbirnie in what is now North Ayrshire.As youngest of six sons, his career options were open, and he became a professional soldier. In 1547, he was at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, but had the misfortune of being taken prisoner, and was detained till ransomed. In 1550, he went to France and entered the service of King Henry II as one of the Gens d’Armes, under the command of the Earl of Arran. <mask> acquired the land and title of Jordanhill from Bartholemew Montgomerie (the chaplain of Drumry) following his return to Scotland from France with Mary, Queen of Scots in either 1560 or 1562. To secure this position, <mask>

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 became a retainer of the 4th Earl of Lennox, grandfather of the future James VI. Ultimately, he became the Earl's deputy, second only to the Earl's Chamberlain, John Cunningham of Drumquhassle. He notability increased in 1569 following the murder of Queen Mary's husband, Lord Darnley, by suspected agents of the Queen.William Maitland of Lethington (and Sir James Balfour) were publicly accused of Darnley's murder by <mask>; Balfour escaped, but Lethington was imprisoned and was released by William Kirkcaldy of Grange, commander in Edinburgh Castle, which subsequently became the fortress of Mary's cause during the Lang Siege in the ensuing civil war. Assault on Dumbarton Castle

<mask> planned the assault and led a force of 150 men in the early hours of 2 April 1571 that scaled the cliffs and embattlements to expel the castle garrison loyal to Catholic Queen Mary from Dumbarton Castle. In this task he was assisted by John Cunningham of Drumquhassle, Matthew Douglas of Mains (both also retainers of the Earl of Lennox) and a traitor from the castle garrison called Robertson. He was once warden of the castle, knew the topography of the rock well and in particular, knew how it could be scaled. It seems that while in the service of the Governor, his wife was accused of theft and publicly flogged. This episode appears to have provoked Robertson to leave Queen's supporters in the castle and offer his services to the King's supporters, initially to Robert Douglas, who introduced him to Drumquassle. A truce between supporters of the King and supporters of the Queen expired on 1 April 1571.That evening, <mask> set out from Glasgow with Robertson and a company of men. He had sent a small advance group of horsemen

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texts: ahead of him to stop all wayfarers (who might betray the mission), and he made his way to an agreed meeting place within a mile of the castle, (Dumbuck) where he was joined by Drumquhassle and Captain Hume. Here he equipped the soldiers with ropes and scaling ladders. The night was foggy and the escalade relied upon stealth, because the number of ladders that could be employed was limited. On the first attempt, the ladders slipped while the soldiers were on them; if the watch of the garrison had been more aware of the danger, the noise could have given warning of the attack and the castle might have been successfully defended. However, no alarm was raised. On the second attempt, the ladders were fixed more securely, and, their 'craws' or steel hooks being lodged firmly into the crevices of the rock.The leaders of the party then took hold of a small intermediate ledge where an ash tree was growing. They attached their ropes to the tree and pulled up the remainder of their company. However, they were still only halfway to the base of the curtain wall. They positioned their ladders again and began scaling the next stage. At this point, one of the soldiers climbing a ladder was seized with a fit. In his convulsion, he gripped the ladder so firmly and in such a way that no others could pass by him or remove him. <mask>'s solution to this problem was to tie the unfortunate soldier to the ladder and turn it round (with the man suspended beneath it), so the passage was clear again.All-but-one of the party thus reached the bottom of the garrison wall, a precarious and narrow ledge. <mask>'s ensign and two other soldiers scaled the wall and then came under attack by three guards until they were joined by the rest

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 of the party. The wall (which was in poor repair) collapsed, opening a breach through which <mask>'s men were able to rush in, shouting, "A Darnley, a Darnley!" (<mask>'s watchword). The wall was breached on the north east side of the castle where it is highest and therefore presumed to be the least well guarded. The eastern peak of the rock (The Beak) was quickly gained, and the cannon there was captured and turned on the garrison, who attempted very little resistance, preferring to escape rather than fight back. The castle governor (Fleming) managed to escape through the postern gate which opened onto the River Clyde and reached Argyllshire.Key supporters of Queen Mary found within the castle included de Verac, the French ambassador, who was allowed to go free, but was subsequently caught aiding the Queen's supporters in Edinburgh Castle. John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews was also found in the castle wearing items of armour (a mail shirt and helmet). The wife of the governor (Lady Fleming) was also detained, but was permitted to go free with her possessions. Hamilton was hanged within a matter of days at Stirling Castle. As important as the arrest of key people was the capture of documents, including some implicating Queen Mary with <mask>, 4th Duke of Norfolk and the Ridolfi plot. An Act of Parliament was passed on 28 August 1571 in favour of "Johnne Cuningham of Drumquhassel, Matho Dowglas of Manys, Captain <mask> of Jordanhill, and others takeris of the Castell of Dumbartane," discharging them of any criminal or civil liabilities incurred in the recapture of the castle. Subsequent life

Two years later, he advised on operations to end the siege of Edinburgh Castle.This eliminated the final

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 barrier to a reunification of Scotland under Queen Mary's son, Protestant King James, in 1573. His lineage became known as <mask> of Jordanhill, his estate in the present-day suburbs of Glasgow, of which he was made provost in 1577. He was also the first person to provide a bursary out of his own wealth at Glasgow University, (16 bolls of oatmeal from the mill at Partick) - an amount large enough to completely support one student. It was while <mask> held the office of Provost that Glasgow Cathedral was threatened with destruction (as part of the religious unrest during the Reformation). According to one story, it was <mask> who saved the medieval building. He is reported to have said to those who were eager for its demolition, and pressing him to give permission for their action:-
     "I am for pu'ing doon the auld kirk, but no till we ha'e first built a new ane"
     (I am in favour of pulling down the old church, but not until we have first built a new one). <mask> retired to his childhood home of Kilbirnie Place, where he died on 3 January 1603 and is entombed with his wife Janet Ker of Kerlsand at Kilbirnie Auld Kirk.The family sold the estate in 1750. External links
  <mask>'s tomb and effigy at Kilbirnie Auld Kirk. Video and commentary on <mask> and Janet Craufurd's tomb in Kilbirnie. Clan Crawford Association
 The Crawfords of Donegal, Robert Crawford MA. Published by Ponsonby and Weldrick, 1897

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<mask> (March 22, 1895 – May 5, 1968) was an American pediatric surgeon and one of the earliest physicians to focus on the surgical treatment of heart problems in children. <mask> set up one of the country's first pediatric surgery programs at Children's Memorial Hospital (later renamed Lurie Children's Hospital) in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, <mask> was known for introducing a surgery to address the heart defects that resulted in blue baby syndrome; the procedure became known as the Potts shunt. In addition, <mask> performed the first successful repair of a cardiovascular abnormality known as a pulmonary artery sling. He also invented several surgical instruments, with a particular emphasis on devices used in surgery on major blood vessels. <mask> remained a surgeon at Children's Memorial Hospital and a faculty member at the Northwestern University Medical School well into the 1960s. He retired to Sarasota, Florida, where he died of a heart attack at the age of 73.Early life
Born in 1895 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, <mask> moved with his family to a farm in nearby Cedar Grove when he was four years old. After his father died, <mask> and an older brother ran the farm. Once he earned enough money, he enrolled in a private school in Cedar Grove and then studied at Hope College in Michigan. <mask>, who had learned Dutch from his grandparents, studied Latin, Greek and German at Hope. During his senior year there, he joined the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and fought overseas in World War I. After the war, <mask> resumed his studies in Chicago in 1919. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Science.(Upon his graduation, Hope College awarded him a Bachelor of Arts.) <mask> applied to medical school at the University of Chicago, which at that time involved two years at the University of Chicago and two years at Rush Medical College. He

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 was one chemistry credit short of the requirements for admission to medical school, but chemistry department head <mask> allowed him to complete the credit if he could submit the required work in the 18 days that were left the university's academic term. Medical career

Beginnings
Having completed the chemistry course, <mask> was able to enroll in medical school. He held a job at a restaurant so that he could afford school. After graduating from medical school, he undertook general surgery training at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago and at Rush Medical College. In 1925, <mask> opened a general practice as a physician and surgeon in Oak Park, Illinois.He did not make much money at first, but by 1930 he had sufficient funds to go to Frankfurt for further surgical training. After spending 1930 and 1931 in Frankfurt, <mask> returned to Chicago and practiced general surgery there for several years. In 1942, he went to the Pacific to serve in World War II, setting up the 25th Evacuation Hospital. When he was discharged three years later as a colonel. Return to Chicago
Returning to Chicago after World War II, <mask> decided to focus on problems in pediatric surgery. He worked briefly as Chief of Surgery at West Suburban Hospital. In late 1946, he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief at Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH).His position came with a faculty appointment at the Northwestern University Medical School. At the time of <mask>' appointment at CMH, only a few childhood illnesses could be addressed surgically; appendicitis and pyloric stenosis were two of the most common pediatric surgical problems. <mask> recruited experts in several surgical specialties and asked them to commit themselves to developing surgical solutions for pediatric problems. As he was setting up the pediatric surgery program, <mask> went to Boston Children's Hospital for three months to observe the workings of that pediatric surgery

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