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texts: illustrated storyboards for the advertising industry. After about her sixth or seventh time showing her portfolio, Marvel editor Greg Wright gave <mask> her first illustration assignment, an 11-page Yellowjacket back-up story in Solo Avengers #12 (November 1988).Her other early work includes Excalibur and Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils for Marvel, Strip AIDS U.S.A. for Last Gasp in 1988, and Archie and The Adventures of Bayou Billy stories for Archie Comics in 1989-90. During this time, she worked with Marvel editor and artist Jimmy Palmiotti (now her husband), who often inks over <mask>'s pencils. From 1993–1994 she penciled issues #1–10 of Peter David and Richard Howell's creator-owned series, Soulsearchers and Company, which was published by Claypool Comics. In 1994 she penciled Barbie Fashion #43, a Marvel Comics title that was licensed from the Mattel doll. That same year she did her first Vampirella work with Vengeance of Vampirella, a mini-comic that was bundled with an issue of Wizard magazine. The following year she pencilled issues 2 - 11  of Marvel's Gargoyles, which was based on the Disney animated television series of the same name. In 1996 she pencilled Kid Death & Fluffy Spring Break Special #1 for Topps Comics and Tomoe #3 for Billy Tucci's Crusade Comics.She also returned to Vampirella with Harris' Vampirella Lives #1–3, which teamed her with writer Warren Ellis. In 1997 she illustrated the intercompany crossover Painkiller Jane vs. The Darkness for Event Comics. It was in working on this book that <mask> says that she found her niche in the industry, explaining that the licensed characters she had previously worked on, particularly Barbie and Vampirella (the latter of which she stresses she nonetheless enjoyed for the writers she worked with) had narrow emotional ranges, which limited the

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texts: facial expressions she was able to render. On PKJ v. the Darkness she discovered that it was possible to render material of a dark tone that incorporated black humor. <mask> returned to Painkiller Jane with a #0 issue, which recounted the character's origin. Her other comic book credits include Lois Lane, Codename: Knockout, and Birds of Prey for DC Comics, as well as Two-Step with writer Warren Ellis for the Cliffhanger!imprint of WildStorm Comics (owned by DC Comics); X-Men Unlimited for Marvel; Gatecrasher, which she co-created for Black Bull Comics; and The Pro, a creator-owned book for Image Comics with Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. In 2005, she illustrated the origin of Power Girl in JSA Classified #1-4. She also penciled a Blade comic to go with the special DVD edition. Her art has appeared on ABC'S Nightline, and in The New York Times and MAD magazine. She has also done promotional artwork for the reality television series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? and the 2007 feature film Underdog. She does spot illustrations in Revolver magazine each month.Her commercial art work includes illustrations for the New York City advertising agencies Kornhauser & Calene, and Kidvertisers, for such accounts as Arm & Hammer, Playskool, and Nickelodeon. Nike, Inc. commissioned <mask> and fellow comics artist Jan Duursema to design the Make Yourself: A Super Power advertising campaign in 2011. <mask> did modeling/art reference work for the Marvel miniseries Elektra: Assassin in the 1980s, and for artist Joe Jusko's Punisher / Painkiller Jane in 2000. <mask>, Palmiotti, and writer Justin Gray work together via their multimedia entertainment company PaperFilms. They collaborated on the Terra miniseries, which premiered in November 2008, and the first 12 issues of the Power Girl ongoing series, which were published between 2009 and

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texts: 2010, both of which <mask> penciled. in 2009, <mask> drew the Supergirl story in Wednesday Comics which also featured appearance by Krypto and Streaky the Supercat. Following her departure from Power Girl, <mask> wrote and pencilled a story published in Wonder Woman #600, which featured a team-up between Power Girl, Wonder Woman, and Batgirl.IDW Publishing released The Art of Amanda <mask> in April 2012 while DC Comics published DC Comics: The Sequential Art of <mask> the following November. In 2012–2013, <mask> drew the Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre limited series which she co-wrote with Darwyn Cooke. Cooke had insisted on having <mask> as a collaborator on the series, stating that "I knew I had something to say about Laurie, and I needed somebody to collaborate with who could help realize it. The only person I know alive that could do that was <mask>. So I kind of made it a fuck-or-walk situation, you know? [Laughs.] 'We get <mask>, or I can’t do this.'So that made it incumbent upon [DC co-publisher] Dan [DiDio] to bring <mask> into it." <mask> and Palmiotti launched a Harley Quinn ongoing series in November 2013. <mask> was a key contributor to the revitalization of Harley Quinn at DC Comics. Providing not only interior and cover art, her writing alongside Jimmy Palmiotti for over 100 different issues of the character returned Harley Quinn to the spotlight. Their work championed the popularity of the character again. Their stories, characters, designs and concepts heavily influenced the look and feel of the character, merchandising and Harley Quinn rise into both the theatrical and mainstream media/audience again. <mask>'s influence on Harley Quinn is highly associated with Harley's tendency to wear or create different costumes.This led to a major cosplay movement that pushed thousands of merchandising,

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 licensed ideas and variations based on her designs. With the thought that no woman wears the same outfit, <mask> pushed to have Harley Quinn rotate or change outfits. Additionally, she provided the design concepts for the DC Universe streaming Harley Quinn Animated series. Many of the story line ideas and dialog have been used for source material on the episodes. These concepts have also been launching points for both the Birds of Prey and Suicide Squad feature movies. <mask>'s art was featured in "The Perspiration Implementation", the October 19, 2015, episode of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. In the episode, comic book store owner Stuart Bloom asks the women for ideas on how to attract more women to his shop, and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) points out that an illustration hanging on one of the shop's walls, "Girl on a Leash", may not be conducive to attracting female customers.The image, which was illustrated by <mask> and colored by Paul Mounts, depicts a scantily-clad woman being held on a chain leash by a muscular, whip-wielding masked man. The piece was custom-drawn for the show by <mask>. In 2015, <mask> was voted as the #2 top female comics artist of all time. On May 18, 2019, at the Comic Con Revolution event in Ontario, California, <mask> was named the 2019 recipient of the Joe Kubert Distinguished Storyteller Award, which is given to "outstanding comic book creators who exemplify both Joe Kubert's artistic talent and his commitment to nurturing the comic book community." In February 2020, <mask> will be returning to write and draw the upcoming Harley Quinn and Birds of Prey Black Label series for DC Comics. Technique and materials

While reading each page of a script, <mask> does tiny thumbnail sketches with stick figures corresponding to the story indicated on each page, in order to help

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texts: her design the page's layout. She then does tighter, more elaborate sketches, though still fairly small compared with the finished artwork, approximately 4" x 6", and then blows those up on a photocopier to the proper original comic art size, which is 10 inches x 15 inches.She then uses "very tight pencils" to light-box it onto Bristol board, if she intends to have it inked by her husband and collaborator, Jimmy Palmiotti, but will do the pencils "lighter and looser" if she intends to ink it herself, as she already knows how she wants the artwork rendered. <mask> has created her own paper stock and blue line format on her drawing paper, because, she explains, she likes having those configurations pre-printed on the page, and feels that "sometimes the rough is too toothy and the smooth is too slick." The stock she uses is the 10" x 15" Strathmore 500 series, but she also orders a custom 8" x 12" stock because she sometimes finds those dimensions more comfortable and easier to work on more quickly. She also finds the Strathmore 300 series "pretty good", in that she appreciates its texture and greater affordability, but says that she must occasionally contend with getting a "bleedy batch". <mask> uses mechanical pencils with .03 lead because she finds it easier to use than regular pencils that require her to stop and sharpen them frequently. When working on one of her own projects, such as The Pro, she prefers to letter the art herself, before the inking stage, as she appreciates the handmade, organic look and feel of hand lettering, in contrast to the computer lettering with which most books are currently produced. To ink her own artwork, she uses Staedtler .03, .01 and .005 technical pen, and will sometimes use a Copic .005 for extremely fine work, as these implements feel better in her hands than crowquills and

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 brushes.As her artwork is open and lacks much shading, <mask> feels that Paul Mounts is a compatible colorist for her work, as he achieves "the right amount of bounciness or moodiness, depending on what's needed." <mask> has stated that her favorite things to draw are facial expressions and body language. Personal life
<mask> has lived in Los Angeles; Jacksonville, Florida; and Connecticut. She and her husband and frequent collaborator Jimmy Palmiotti lived in Brooklyn, New York City but now live in Florida, which Palmiotti referred to in an interview as the "sixth borough of New York." Awards
 2014 Inkpot Award. 2019 Joe Kubert Distinguished Storyteller Award

Bibliography

Archie Comics
The Adventures of Bayou Billy # 1–4 (1989–1990)

Black Bull Entertainment
Gatecrasher #1-6 (2000–2001)
Gatecrasher: Ring of Fire #1-4 (2000)

Claypool Comics
 Soulsearchers and Company #1–10 (1993–1995)

DC Comics

9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember, Volume Two (2002)
Ame-Comi Girls Featuring Wonder Woman #1 (2012)
Batgirl #65–66
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1–4 (2012)
Birds of Prey #47–49 (2002–2003)
Codename: Knockout #6, 9, 13–14 (2001–2002)
Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1 (2007)
Harley Quinn vol. 2 #0, 1–30, Annual #1 (2014–2016)
Harley Quinn vol.3 #1–26, 28-34 (2016-2018)
Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1–6 (2015–2016)
Harley Quinn: Futures End #1 (2014)
Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1 (2015)
Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International: San Diego #1 (2014)
Harley Quinn: Our Worlds at War #1 (2001)
Harley Quinn: Road Trip Special #1 (2015)
Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special #1 (2015)
Harley's Little Black Book #1–5 (2016–2017)
Joker: Last Laugh Secret Files #1 (2001)
JSA Classified #1–4 (2005)
Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 5 #13–14 (2006)
Looney Tunes #100 (2003)
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title: Sabirul Islam

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<mask> (; born 12 July 1990) is an English entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He has written three self-help books. His Teen-Trepreneur board game sold to over 550 schools in the United Kingdom and in 14 countries worldwide. Since 2011, he has spoken at over 700 events worldwide as part of his Inspire1Million campaign. Early life
<mask> was born in Tower Hamlets, London, England and grew up in London, England. He attended Swanlea School. In 2008, he left City and Islington College.<mask>'s parents are from Bangladesh with roots in Sylhet who came to London to work and live a better lifestyle. He has five siblings; two younger brother and three younger sisters. <mask> first visited Sylhet at the age of three. During his childhood, his parents never worked and mainly lived off state benefits in UK, and in his neighbourhood, violence, crime and drugs were regular issues. He was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 11 and his doctors opined that he could never travel in an airplane in his condition. Career

Early career
At the age of 13, <mask> was hired by his 14-year-old cousin in his company, The Royal Dragons, designing and printing calendars for teachers. <mask> was given the role of a production director, however after <mask> did not take it seriously and took it for granted, he was fired after two weeks.Proving his cousin wrong was the motivation behind setting up his first business. In September 2004, <mask>'s first business was a website design company for corporate businesses called Veyron Technology, which he ran with six friends, all 13 to 14 years old. They knocked on the doors of five renowned banks asking to design their website to every employee that happened to pass by. The sixth bank was Merrill Lynch and the executive director took notice of them and gave them a chance and they made £2000 within the first two weeks. Two years later he closed it down. His company had several other major clients, including ABN AMRO and Morgan Stanley and even won an award for 'Best Inner East London Company'. At the age of 16, whilst still studying at school, he was employed by Merrill Lynch as

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 junior stock trader, which provided him with a two-week programme to learn the basics about investment and trading in New York City.Three months later he became a part-time trader for a period of nine months. In 2006, he met Mybnk founder, Lily Lapenna, when he entered a competition to invest £10 into various items to sell on at a profit, he turned it into £200. Teen-Trepreneur Trilogy books and board game
At the age of 17, <mask> spent three months during lunch hours writing his first book. After being rejected by 40 publishers he edited, designed and marketed the book himself. In January 2008, using his own funds he self-published his first book The World at Your Feet. The book offers young people guidance and encouragement to turn their entrepreneurial vision into reality. His book launch allowed him to become a motivational speaker.In the first nine months following the launch, over 42,500 copies of his book were sold. At the age of 18, he got the book professionally published, the book then sold globally. The book has now sold 60,000 copies. <mask> invested £20,000 of his own money and spent 10 months developing and launching a business board game with six 11- to 15-year-olds. Teen-Trepreneur teaches key aspects of business from sales, to investment, expenses to loans and the even understanding the stock exchange. The game was intended to educate young people about enterprise, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. In June 2009, the game was launched, due to its multi-purpose in introducing 15 of 25 units taught for BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Business, the game has been integrated into the BTEC Business Qualification in over 500 schools across the UK.The game has sold over 300,000 copies in 14 countries worldwide. Alongside the board game, his second book The World at Your Feet: Three Strikes to a Successful Entrepreneurial Life was published. In February 2012, his third book Young Entrepreneur World was published. The book contained interviews with 25 of the most influential and successful entrepreneurs around the world, who share their journeys, thoughts and ideologies on a personal, business and

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 political level. The book contains interviews, personal success stories and how others could achieve similar success within their respective fields. Over 100,000 copies of his books have been sold to date, which have been published in multiple languages including Spanish and Bengali. October 2015, <mask> signed a deal with a local company, to launch Teen-Trepreneur to digital platforms.The digital version of the game will be called Teen-Trepreneur Fusion and will be free for download and available on android and IOS platforms. Business
In November 2010, <mask> launched Teen-Speakers Bureau, which is a speakers bureau consisting of 39 of the world's most influential young people, all under 25 on a single speaking platform who have stories and talk on a personal, business and political level to enforce change amongst society and striving to empower youth worldwide with a message that 'Generation Y' has what it takes to be successful. <mask> created a new business called The World at Your Feet after his first book, which comprises many small enterprises and programs that deliver inspiration, empowerment and entrepreneurial initiatives to youth across the world to open their gateway to success. He also developed a training programme called The Cycle of Success, which features three training books and DVDs to educate youth about entrepreneurship and setting up businesses through a 15 step programme, teaching self-discovery, personal branding and knowing when you are ready to set up a business. He has also created a publishing agency Teen-Publishers for young people aged 5 to 25 to publish their books professionally and sold through online retail channels. He also develops interactive websites for young entrepreneurs. Motivational speaking
His book launch of The World at Your Feet allowed him to become a motivational speaker.In the first nine months following the launch, at the age of 17, while studying at college, he shared his experience as a young entrepreneur at 379 events (including 333 schools schools, colleges and universities) across the UK. At the age of 18, he spent around £600 to be on a magazine that

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 was distributed to every single university in the UK. Six months later, a former Nigerian First lady called him personally to Nigeria to speak in front of a crowd which turned out to be over 3,500 people, after she was impressed with the article he wrote in the magazine. In November 2010, <mask> launched Inspire1Million, a campaign to inspire one million people around the world to achieve success in life by delivering a host of events and seminars. In 2010, at Junior Chamber International (JCI) Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award, <mask> took the opportunity to launch his Inspire 1 million campaign and asked for help to globalise this campaign. 45 nations came forward. He was then invited to Botswana to speak where he appeared in 43 events hosted in 10 cities over 12 days.200,000 people attended the events, which is almost 10% of the whole population of Botswana. Since May 2011, starting with the Maldives, he went on a round-the-world tour aiming to go to 20 countries in 12 months to inspire, engage, empower young people to reach their potential, and transform the lives of one million people globally to achieve success through enterprise and entrepreneurship. As of October 2013, he has travelled to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe, made over 63 international visits, spoken at over 777 events, to an attendance of 890,145 people worldwide. In November 2010, <mask> spoke at the TEDx Youth Event in Amsterdam. In 2013, he spoke at the TEDx event at Muscat, Oman. Since October 2013, <mask> has been a columnist for Prothom Alo. He writes a supplement 'Swapno Nie' every Sunday, called 'Nijer Pothe Choli'

<mask> is due to star in a new South African business reality television series for young entrepreneurs.The series is a 13-week youth business show, to encourage growth in entrepreneurship in South Africa which will now be produced in Bangladesh. Awards

In 2008, <mask> was awarded the Mosaic Entrepreneur of the Year by Charles, Prince of Wales and the Princess of Jordon. He was nominated by Merrill Lynch, and was the youngest person nominated for the award. In 2010, he was one of

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 Junior Chamber International (JCI) 10 Outstanding Young Persons of the World, honoured in the JA-YE Top 20 Young Entrepreneur in Osaka, Japan and shortlisted for Community Business Entrepreneur Award at the Spirit of London Awards. Other awards include the Growing Up CEO Award, which he was awarded at Harvard Business School. In January 2015, he was nominated for the Services to Creativity and Technology award at the British Muslim Awards. In January 2015, he was nominated for the Young Achiever of the Year award at the English Asian Business Awards.Personal life
From August to September 2013, <mask> visited Bangladesh for the first time in 20 years, where he spent two weeks promoting his Inspire1Million campaign through a number of events. He delivered speeches at six universities in Dhaka, visited 10 different universities and colleges at Chittagong, Sylhet and Brammanbaria to deliver his speech and share his experience. Books

See also
 British Bangladeshi
 List of British Bangladeshis

References

External links

 <mask> <mask> on Goodreads
 The World At Your Feet website
 Inspire 1 Million website
 Teen Trepreneur website
 Teen Speakers website
 Inspire 1 Million Bangladesh website

 Scheidies, Nick. Tart, Nick. <mask> <mask> Interview: Fired at 13, Founder at 14. JuniorBiz. 9 April 2010
 How a young entrepreneur sold over 42,000 copies of his book in 9 months – Interview with <mask> <mask>.Your Hidden Potential. 31 August 2010
 Lai, Christina. “The World Doesn’t Need Another Jay-Z Or Beyoncé” Meet Teen Entrepreneur <mask> <mask>. Live Magazine. 22 November 2012
 <mask> <mask>: Determined to Inspire. iamyoungpreneur. 15 February 2013
 Amin Nova, Tasnuva.<mask> <mask> motivates young entrepreneurs at DIU. ''Dhaka Tribune. 29 September 2013

1990 births
Living people
English Muslims
English people of Bangladeshi descent
English self-help writers
English motivational writers
English motivational speakers
Muslim writers
British Asian writers
21st-century English writers
Writers from London
Businesspeople from London
People from Stratford, London
People educated at Swanlea School
Alumni of City and

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title: Laurence Juber

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<mask> (born 12 November 1952), is an English musician, fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician. He played guitar in the rock band Paul McCartney and Wings from 1978 to 1981. Biography

Early life
Born in Stepney, East London, <mask> was raised and went to school in North London. By his own account, he began playing guitar the week that single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles was released. Beginning on a cheap acoustic guitar, he learned to read music early and the system of music notation. He began to earn money playing the guitar at 13, and began to study classical guitar at the age of 15. Studio work in London
Enraptured by the sounds on records of the mid- to late 1960s, he set his sights on becoming a session guitarist in London's music studios.While playing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, he earned his music degree at London University's Goldsmith's College, where he expanded his horizons by playing the lute. Upon graduation, he immediately began work as a session guitarist, working on his first project with former Beatles producer George Martin on an album for Cleo Laine. Amongst other studio work, in 1977, <mask> was booked by London-based orchestral contractor David Katz along with session drummer Peter Boita to go to Paris for a week to record in Barclay Records' studios to make an album with Charles Aznavour. Sung entirely in French, the album, Je n'ai pas vu le temps passer..., went on to become one of Aznavour's biggest selling French language albums of all time. Perhaps most famously, <mask> played the James Bond theme for the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Wings
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 when invited to join the band Paul McCartney and Wings in 1978. <mask> later said that he agreed to join immediately "because you don't turn down that kind of job".He played on the band's Back to the Egg album (1979), as well as their subsequent UK tour. In 1980, he garnered his first Grammy Award, when Wings' track "Rockestra Theme" won the award for Best Rock Instrumental. He was miscredited as Lawrence Tuber on the sleeve for Ringo Starr's album,  Stop and Smell the Roses. From this period dates his first solo album, Standard Time (only released on vinyl). McCartney and former Wings guitarist Denny Laine played on the track "Maisie". <mask> acknowledges that whilst he was a sideman with Wings, the role included considering himself a member of the band. Life after Wings
After Wings disbanded in early 1981, <mask> moved to the United States.In New York City, he met his future wife, Hope, and soon moved to her native California. He subsequently resumed work as a studio musician and played guitar for numerous television shows, including Happy Days, Family Ties, Home Improvement and 7th Heaven. He composed the music for A Very Brady Christmas (1988), World Gone Wild (1988) and Little Sweetheart (1990). He played guitar on Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You", Eric Carmen's "Make Me Lose Control" and "Time of My Life" and "She's Like The Wind" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. <mask> co-composed the soundtrack of the award-winning video game Diablo III and crafted the score to the Dateline NBC documentary Children of the Harvest. His music is also featured in the Ken Burns TV documentary The Tenth Inning. With his wife, <mask>, he has composed the

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 scores to the musical comedies Gilligan's Island: The Musical, A Very Brady Musical and It's The Housewives!In addition to his own recording and performances, <mask> has produced, arranged and played on Al Stewart's albums Between the Wars (1995), Down in the Cellar (2000), A Beach Full of Shells (2005) and Sparks of Ancient Light (2008), and occasionally performs with Stewart. In 2014 he released a "photo memoir" Guitar With Wings (published by Dalton Watson Fine Books) which featured previously unpublished pictures of his time working with Paul McCartney. Solo career
In 1990, <mask> released his second solo album, Solo Flight. During the next decade he would begin to explore altered tunings, especially "DADGAD". In 2000, <mask> released the solo album LJ plays the Beatles and The Collection and in 2003 the album Guitarist was released to critical acclaim. <mask>'s credentials as a top-tier fingerstyle guitarist continue to grow. Having been voted "Guitarist of the Year" by readers of Fingerstyle Guitar magazine, as well as one of the top acoustic players of all time by Acoustic Guitar magazine, <mask> is an ambassador for his instrument as well as his own music.He has released many critically acclaimed solo albums, and has earned a second Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental for his solo guitar arrangement of "The Pink Panther Theme" on the CD Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar. <mask> has also released a series of instructional CDs that teach basic music theory and arrangement techniques for guitarists and has three folios of his arrangements of pop songs published by Hal Leonard. Personal life
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 Sherwood was producer of Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch—she was a guest multiple times on the latter show. They have two daughters, <mask> and songwriter Ilsey <mask>. Discography

1982: Standard Time
1990: Solo Flight
1993: Naked Guitar
1995: LJ
1997: Winter Guitar
1997: Groovemasters with Preston Reed
1998: Mosaic
1999: Altered Reality
2000: LJ Plays the Beatles
2000: The Collection
2001: Different Times
2003: Guitarist
2004: Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar
2005: One Wing
2006: I've Got the World on Six Strings
2007: PCH
2008: Pop Goes Guitar
2009: Wooden Horses
2010: LJ Plays the Beatles Vol. 2
2011: Children of the Harvest
2012: Soul of Light
2013: Catch LJ Live! 2013: Under an Indigo Sky
2015: Fingerboard Road
2016: Holidays & Hollynights
2017: LJ Can't Stop Playing the Beatles!2018: Touchstones: The Evolution of Fingerstyle Guitar

Collaborations
 Nice to Be Around – Rosemary Clooney (1977)
 Stop and Smell the Roses – Ringo Starr (1981)
 Belinda – Belinda Carlisle (1986)
 Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow (1989)
 Musings - William Goldstein (2016)
 Unleash the Love – Mike Love (2017)
 Fine Line – Harry Styles (2019)

References

External links
Official site

<mask> Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2003)

1952 births
Living people
Musicians from London
People from Stepney
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Acoustic guitarists
English blues guitarists
English country guitarists
English expatriates in the United States
English folk guitarists
English jazz guitarists
English male guitarists
English rock guitarists
English session musicians
Fingerstyle guitarists
Lead guitarists
British male jazz musicians
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Ourania "<mask><mask> a.k.a. <mask> (; born 17 December 1960) is a Greek heterodox economist and Syriza politician. After the January 2015 election, MP Alexis Tsipras named her as the
Greek Alternate Minister for Combating Unemployment in his cabinet tasked to implement a job guarantee policy based on her previous work experience and a specific study for Greece with other colleagues at the Levy Economics Institute. She remains a Syriza member. On the 5th of September 2018 she was appointed by the Greek Government as the Permanent Representative of Greece (Ambassador) to the OECD in Paris, France, entrusting her to represent the country despite the severe media attack she had been subjected to a few months earlier. Between February and August 2015, she also was a member of the Hellenic Parliament. A former macroeconomic policy adviser for UN Women and consultant UNDP and the ILO, she is specialized in macroeconomic gender issues and job creation in extreme unemployment  economic environments.She is Associate Professor of Economics at New York Bard College and a senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute where she is involved with the Modern Monetary Theory school of post-Keynesian economics. A co-initiator of the Economists for Full Employment project, she has been a long-time supporter of a job guarantee with the state being employer of last resort. Following a job guarantee 2012 pilot project based in large part on her advocacy with the General Confederation of Trade Unions of Greece (ΓΣΕΕ), and subsequent empirical work she undertook at the Levy Institute for ΓΣΕΕ, she was appointed Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment in the Syriza-led Tsipras Government. In her ministerial office, she was specifically tasked with implementing a nationwide job guarantee program to combat long-term unemployment by creating at least 300,000 new jobs for the unemployed. Education and early career
When in 1997 Antonopoulou

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When in the January 2015 elections, <mask> was elected a Member of the Hellenic Parliament on Syriza's state list, new Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras appointed her Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment. Her portfolio also included the strengthening of the Social and Solidarity Economy sector (SSE) of the economy and she is credited with the enactment of the SSE law which was voted in parliament in October 2016. <mask> is the second Modern Monetary Theory scholar to assume a high-profile post in a government, following her former colleague at Bard College, Stephanie Kelton, who earlier in January was appointed Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. In her ministerial office, Antonopoulou was specifically tasked with implementing a nationwide "Job Guarantee" program to combat long-term unemployment, creating at least 300,000 new jobs for the unemployed. The program has been described both by herself and by others as being a centerpiece of a "Greek New Deal" as proposed by the Syriza government.Outlined in a Levy Institute research project and policy paper from October 2014, the program will be built on the experience of the 2012 pilot project  and won't be restricted to reskilling some of the unemployed for the private sector. The program, with precedents only in the Indian Rural Employment Guarantee, is rather set to create publicly funded long-term jobs to allow the unemployed fulfilling socially needed tasks at a minimum wage level. In a February 2015 interview with Deutsche Welle, Antonopoulos pointed out that "the main problem in Greece is lack of aggregate demand and consequent lack of jobs, not lack of skills." Results of the 2012 pilot project suggested that some 500,000 of the totaling

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 1.3 million unemployed in Greece would be willing to take up such a minimum-wage level job. Private life
Prior to her arrival in Athens to join the Greek Government's cabinet in September 2015, Antonopoulou lived in New York City since 1977, and is married to her colleague at Bard College, Greek American economist Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. In February 2018, it became public that she had been receiving a rent subsidy of 12.000 Euro each year. Despite the fact that all ministers who were non-Athens residents were eligible for a rent stipend through a law voted in parliamner in 2015, and hence there was no issue of legality ever raised, and, although several other cabinet members of the Syriza administration had been receiving the same subsidy benefit, a media character assassination was unleashed based on the argument that she was 'rich and did not need it'.It has wrongfully been reported in the international press that PM Tsipras dismissed her. She resigned on her own will, as the domestic media power proved unstoppable in diverting the attention of the public away of the Novartis scandal by focusing on the legal yet 'unethical' choice, a Syriza cabinet member had made. Selected publications

References

External links

 Profile of <mask> Antonopoulos at Levy Economics Institute
 Profile and papers at RePEc
 Responding to the Unemployment Crisis in Greece, lecture held on 25 November 2013 at Columbia University. Employment Guarantee Policies: Contributing to Pro-Poor Development, Promoting Gender Equality, webcast by <mask> Antonopoulos: full webcast (.wrf format, slides, audio stream)

1960 births
Politicians from Athens
Living people
Greek women economists
Modern monetary theory scholars
Labor economists
Gender studies academics
The New School alumni
Bard College faculty
Syriza politicians
Greek MPs 2015 (February–August)
Government ministers of Greece
New York University faculty
21st-century Greek politicians
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title: John Hendricks

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<mask> (born March 29, 1952) is an American businessman and is the founder and former chairman of Discovery, Inc., a broadcasting and film production company which owns the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet networks, among other ventures. On March 20, 2014, after 32 years at the helm, he made public his decision to retire as chairman of Discovery Communications after the annual shareholders' meeting of May 16, 2014. He moved on to found CuriosityStream, an ad-free, on-demand nonfiction streaming service. Early life
Born in Matewan, West Virginia, <mask>' father was a home builder and his mother a clerk for city government. In 1958, the <mask> family moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where <mask> grew up. His father died when he was 20, and his mother died when he was 30. He attended S.R.Butler High School where he met his first wife, Pattie Miller. <mask> graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and he received his bachelor's degree in history in 1974. While a student at UAH he worked in the audio visual department where he had the idea to bring documentaries to the public. He was hired as director of community and government relations for the University of Alabama in Huntsville the year he graduated, and became director of corporate and foundation relations for the University of Maryland in 1975. While at the University of Maryland, he co-founded a fund-raising consulting company, the American Association of University Consultants, with Edward M. Peabody, and published several newsletters aimed at academic disciplines such as chemistry. Commercial ventures
<mask> founded the Cable Educational Network, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1982

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 to provide documentary programming to cable broadcasters. On June 17, 1985, <mask> launched the Discovery Channel with $5 million in start-up capital led by the American investment firm Allen & Company.Today, Discovery's main shareholders include <mask>, chairman of Liberty Media, and Advance/Newhouse (publishers of Vanity Fair, New Yorker, and Vogue). <mask> helped found the Women's United Soccer Association in 1999. After operating for three seasons, WUSA ceased operations in 2003. In 2004, <mask> and a group of investors attempted a financial rescue of the league to revive professional women's soccer in the United States. In April 2007, the WUSA announced a revival of the league, to occur in 2008. The new league, Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), ran March 2009 to January 2012. In 2013, Harper Collins published his first business memoir, A Curious Discovery: An Entrepreneur's Story.His biography recounts the struggles and triumphs of turning his passion for documentary programs into the world's most widely distributed cable channel and parlaying its popularity into a leading global media company. In 2015, <mask> founded CuriosityStream, an online video on demand service. CuriosityStream provides documentaries and series about science, technology, history and nature. Family
<mask> married his current wife, Maureen Donohue, on January 10, 1981. <mask> and Maureen have two children, <mask> and <mask>. Elizabeth attended the Holton-Arms School and Princeton University, and serves as President of Hendricks Factual Media. Andrew attended the Landon School, and is President of Driven Experiences, a racing and automotive company invested in many forms of the

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 marketing media.Andrew is also a professional sports car driver in Grand-Am Road Racing. Charitable activity
In 1995, <mask> was appointed to the Lowell Observatory Advisory Board. In 2004, <mask> donated $1 million to the Observatory for the construction of the Lowell Discovery Telescope. In 2007, <mask> donated an additional $5 million to the Observatory to complete the telescope. The Planetary Research Center at the Observatory was renamed the Hendricks Center for Planetary Studies shortly thereafter in honor of the donation. <mask> serves on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit organizations including United States Olympic Committee, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Institute for Advanced Study, National Forest Foundation, and Discovery Learning Alliance. <mask> has organized two charitable foundations.The John and Maureen Hendricks Charitable Foundation was established in 2001. It receives donations from the <mask> family (roughly $1.1 million in 2005-2006, according to the foundation's Form 900 tax statement) and disburses grants to charitable causes. In total gifting, the Hendricks have donated over $30 million to numerous non-profit organizations supporting a wide variety of causes, from basic social services to science research. The John S. Hendricks Family Foundation was established in 1997. The foundation is used for specialized charitable purposes by the <mask> family, and had no income, assets or disbursements in calendar years 2003, 2004 or 2005 (according to the foundation's Form 900 tax statements). Honors
 6066 Hendricks asteroid named after him. In 2011, <mask> was honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment

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 to innovation throughout his career.In 1997, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. References

Dawtrey, Adam. "BBC, Discovery in Fact Pact." Variety. March 23, 1998. Eisenberg, Daniel. "TV's Unlikely Empire."Time. February 23, 2003. Fimea, Mike. "Lowell Seeking New Telescope." Arizona Business Gazette. January 1, 2004. French, Scott."<mask> Q&A: 'We're able to invest with confidence'." Sports Illustrated. January 21, 2001. Grove, Christopher. "<mask> Leads Global Discovery Mission." Variety. November, 2000."Hendricks Family Boosts Discovery Channel Telescope With Additional $5 Million Contribution." Press release, Lowell Observatory. March 19, 2007. Accessed July 18, 2007. Higgins, <mask>. "Back to Nature." Broadcasting & Cable. January 16, 2006.Hobgood, Cynthia. "A Dreamer's Discovery." Washington Business Journal. June 14, 2002. "<mask>: An Oral History." The Cable Center. September 2, 2003.Accessed July 18, 2007. Kaplan, Peter. "<mask>: Cable Pioneer Discovers Value of Putting Substance over Style." Washington Times. December 23, 1996. "Lowell Gets OK to Add $30 Million Telescope." Associated Press.October 18, 2004. Michaelis, Vicki. "WUSA Ceases Operations After Three Years." USA Today. September 16, 2003. Southwick, Thomas P. "Cable Television: The First 50 Years." Cable World.September 1998. "WUSA to Relaunch in 2008 With Eight Teams." Associated Press. April 18, 2007. External links

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People from Matewan, West Virginia
Discovery Channel people
American television executives
University of Alabama in Huntsville alumni
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International Emmy Founders Award

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title: Mary Taylor (women's rights advocate)

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<mask> (1817 – 1 March 1893) an early advocate for women's rights, was born in Gomersal, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Early life

<mask>'s father Joshua, a cloth manufacturer, and his wife Anne had six children of which she was the fourth. Her father, a radical and member of the Methodist New Connexion, was bankrupted in 1826, but determined to repay his creditors. <mask> was an impulsive, clever child who shared her father's independent traits. She met Ellen Nussey and Charlotte Brontë in 1831 at Roe Head School in Mirfield where they became firm lifelong friends despite having opposing views. At school <mask>, while quiet, was defiant, standing by her opinions and practising what she preached. Brontë, a visitor to the <mask>'s home, Red House, described the family's company as 'one of the most rousing pleasures I have ever known'.European Tour
<mask>'s father died in December 1840 and <mask> embarked on a European tour before joining her sister at the Château de Koekelberg, a finishing school in Brussels. Her correspondence with Charlotte Brontë described what she had seen on her travels inspiring her to go to Brussels in 1842. After her sister's death in October 1842, <mask> went to Germany where, challenging established convention, she found employment teaching young men. Life in New Zealand
In March 1845, <mask> followed her youngest brother, Waring, who had arrived in Wellington in 1842, to New Zealand. Here, she had a house built on Cuba Street, which she let out for rent whilst also earning as a piano teacher. In a letter, Charlotte Brontë writes <mask> was "in her element- because she is where he has a toilsome task to perform, an important improvement to effect- a weak vessel (Waring) to strengthen- she will remain in New Zealand as long as she can there find serious work to do - but no longer".

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texts: <mask> also attempted to earn a living by sending written articles to English magazines, only to be unsuccessful in getting them published.During her stay in Wellington, <mask> also wrote a 150-page novel that would be published 40 years later, rumoured to be "Miss Miles". In 1849, <mask>'s cousin, <mask>, arrived in New Zealand, and despite being 12 years her junior, boosted <mask>'s confidence and enthusiasm with much-needed companionship during her stay. They leased a subdivision of Town Acre 178 where the two women built a two-storey house and planned to open a drapery and garment business by 1850. Having observed much of the dealings of her brother's business in trading commodities such as wool, land, cattle and clothing, <mask> caught on and had met many prospective clients. Waring helped the two women with their bookkeeping and the business quickly took off. <mask> and Ellen hoped to make £300 - £400 annually from the shop. The drapery had a gabled roof, a generous  by  building footprint and served as both a business and place of residence for <mask> and Ellen in the upstairs rooms.In 1851, when Ellen fell ill to tuberculosis, <mask> nursed her cousin and after her death continued to work alone in the shop, where the business continued to grow. <mask> had to have the building extended and hire a sales assistant. An 1853 Wellington Almanack lists her shop as one of the most popular stores in the region. Before <mask> left Te Aro in 1859, she invested £400 of her capital from selling her business into land in Te Aro, one in Abel Tasman Street, another in Ghuznee Street. She never had intended to remain in New Zealand, and sold the shop that had provided her with a good income in a way a middle-class woman would have found impossible in England. She returned to Yorkshire before 1860. Return to Yorkshire and

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 death
When she was financially secure <mask> returned to Gomersal.High Royd, the house built for her, was her home for the rest of her life. She made annual visits to Switzerland where, aged almost 60 in 1875, she led a party of five women on an expedition to climb Mont Blanc and they published Swiss Notes by Five Ladies, an account of their ten-week adventure. News of her death in Yorkshire on 1 March 1893 was received in New Zealand in May 1893. Feminist Ideologies
<mask> was an avid reader of literature and used to read while running her drapery in New Zealand. Her home in Gomersal shows her love for reading where a clear path in the carpet indicates the constant pacing she would do while reading. In her time back in Yorkshire, between 1865 and 1870, <mask> published many articles for Victoria Magazine  illustrating her many feminist ideas which were compiled into the book, The First Duty of Women. Her great solace in reading and finding inspiration in it sheds insight on her opinions regarding women being discouraged from spending their time with books as she writes in First Duty of Women "Let them undertake, then, the duty of providing for their own mental progress, as they must bear the consequences of neglecting it".In these articles, she also states that women should be responsible for earning their own living and that to marry solely on the basis of money was demeaning. <mask> strongly negated the idea that women were bound in duty to sacrifice themselves for others, and criticized Charlotte Brontë for inducing the notion that a working life was not meant for all women. In her letter to Charlotte she writes: "You are a coward and a traitor. A woman who works is by that alone better than one who does not and a woman that does not happen to be rich and who still earns no money and does not wish to do so, is guilty

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 of a great fault- almost a crime." It is clear in <mask>'s many letters and in her writings that one of her central beliefs in life was that it was necessary for a woman to work in order to grant herself independence and happiness. In her book Miss Miles or a Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago, <mask> writes about the lives of five women in Gomersal and their attitudes towards work; where four of the women endure financially and mentally due to their working lives, whilst the fifth woman who doesn't have the motivation to pursue independent work is fated towards a woeful life. <mask> remarked that her time and efforts spent in Wellington would be the part of her life which she would consider most agreeable because of the attitudes of settlers and the equal opportunities available for all those establishing the new township regardless of their gender and age.In settler ideology, there was a strong opposition to snobbery and any efforts to impose class distinctions which wholly satisfied <mask>. In her letter to Brontë in June 1848, <mask> provides social commentary on lower class and middle-class women, writing, "Mrs <mask> Miss Knox and Mrs Logan sat in mute admiration while we mentioned these things, being employed in the meantime in making a patchwork quilt. Did you ever notice that the women of middle classes are generally too ignorant to talk to?, and that you are thrown entirely on men for conversation? There is no such feminine inferiority in the lower. The women go hand in hand with the men in the degree on cultivation that they are able to reach. I can talk very well to a joiner's wife, but seldom to a merchants." References

External links
  Text of "Swiss notes, by five ladies"

British women's rights activists
People from Gomersal
People from Wellington City
1817 births
1893 deaths
19th-century New Zealand

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title: Xiao Ni

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<mask> (蕭嶷) (444–492), courtesy name Xuanyan (宣儼), formally Prince Wenxian of Yuzhang (豫章文獻王), was an imperial prince during the Chinese dynasty Southern Qi. He was a son of the founder Emperor Gao (<mask>) and a brother of Emperor Wu (<mask>). Background
<mask> was born in 444 as the second son of <mask> and his wife Liu Zhirong (劉智容), four years younger than his older brother <mask>. Because <mask> was a Liu Song general who contributed in military campaigns, <mask> served in a number of low level government posts early in his life, including as a county magistrate and as an administrator in the census bureau. Around 466, when his father was given a greater title for his contributions in Emperor Ming of Liu Song's war for the throne with Liu Zixun, <mask> was given his father's old title of Marquess of Jinshou. He later served as a general under his father during the rebellion of Emperor Ming's brother Liu Xiufan (劉休範) the Prince of Guiyang in 474, early in the reign of Emperor Ming's son Emperor Houfei. By 477, the young but violent and arbitrary Emperor Houfei was universally feared by officials and the people, for he was in the habit of roving outside the palace with his guards, killing all humans or animals that they came in contact with.One night, Emperor Houfei and his guards descended on the <mask>s' old house in Qingxi (青溪), a suburb of the capital Jiankang, where <mask> was residing. <mask> had his guards perform a sword dance in the courtyard, and as Emperor Houfei saw it, he assumed that <mask> would be ready for any attacks, and so

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 left. Meanwhile, <mask>'s father <mask> was fearful for his own life and, as suggested by his distant cousin and associate <mask> (蕭順之), considered going to Guangling (廣陵, in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu) to start a rebellion there; <mask>, however, opposed, reasoning that rebellions from afar rarely succeeded, and that because of Emperor Houfei's arbitrary behavior, it would be easier to act against him from within the capital. <mask> agreed, and soon was able to conspire with Emperor Houfei's attendant Yang Yufu (楊玉夫) to assassinate Emperor Houfei and effectively take over the Liu Song, making Emperor Houfei's brother Liu Zhun emperor (as Emperor Shun), but in actuality his puppet. During this period, as <mask> prepared to take over the throne, <mask> carried the title of Duke of Yong'an, and in 478 (after <mask> defeated Shen Youzhi, who opposed his seizure of power) was made the governor of the key Jing Province (荊州, modern central and western Hubei). In 479, <mask> had Emperor Shun yield the throne to him, ending Liu Song and starting Southern Qi. He created <mask> the Prince of Yuzhang.Under Emperor Gao
Soon after the establishment of Southern Qi, Emperor Gao recalled <mask> back to Jiankang to serve as the governor of the capital region, Yang Province (揚州, modern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu), a highly important post, and a post that he would retain for the rest of his life. <mask> was very close to his older brother <mask>, who was created the crown prince after Emperor Gao took the throne. In one incident when Emperor Gao got exceedingly

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 angry at <mask> after being informed (while <mask> was outside the capital) that both Crown Prince Ze and his jester Zhang Jingzhen (張景真) were being overly wasteful and using items that were only appropriate for emperors, it was <mask> who rode on a horse to warn <mask> what the situation was, allowing <mask> to quickly return to Jiankang to react to the incident. Emperor Gao at one point considered replacing <mask> with <mask>, but because <mask> served his brother carefully, their relationship was not affected. In 482, Emperor Gao died. <mask> was said to be mourning so bitterly that his eyes and ears bled. Crown Prince Ze succeeded Emperor Gao, as Emperor Wu.Under Emperor Wu
Emperor Wu conferred a number of honorific titles on <mask>, and while publicly, <mask> did not participate in policy decisions, in private they often discussed important matters of state, and Emperor Wu almost always listened to <mask>'s suggestions. He also frequently visited <mask>'s mansion, where both he and <mask> would wear informal wear that brothers would wear while meeting with each other, rather than the formal clothing of an emperor and his subject. As a special honor, Emperor Wu also made <mask>'s wife Princess Yu be in charge of the ancestral worship of their parents and grandparents. <mask> was said to be tall and attentive to his appearance, but careful in his actions. Several times he sought to transfer the powerful governorship of Yang Province to Emperor Wu's son <mask>g (蕭子良) the Prince of Jingling, who was also a trusted advisor of Emperor Wu, but

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 Emperor Wu refused, telling <mask> that the post was his for life. Initially, <mask> did not have any sons, and probably sometime during Emperor Gao's reign, he adopted Emperor Wu's son <mask>iang (蕭子響) as his heir apparent -- a status that <mask>iang, by <mask>'s request, continued to hold even after <mask> had his own sons. However, in 488, after an incident where <mask>iang threw a temper tantrum over not being able to wear the same style as his brothers (because his brothers were princes, while he was just the heir apparent of a prince), the adoption was rescinded, and <mask>iang was returned to Emperor Wu's line and created the Prince of Badong.(<mask>iang was subsequently executed in 490 after he killed a number of his advisors.) In 492, <mask> died and was buried with great honors. In words that he left his five sons, he stated:

As for ability, some are capable and some are less capable. As for official posts, some are fortunate to be promoted while some are blocked. As for fortune, some are rich and some are poor. These are all natural phenomena, and you should not use your position to bully others. The high praise that <mask> received in official histories might be related to the fact that his son <mask> (蕭子顯) was the official who was later, in the succeeding Liang Dynasty, commissioned to author the official history of Southern Qi, the Book of Qi.References
 Book of Southern Qi, vol. 22. History of the Southern Dynasties, vol. 42. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 133, 134, 135, 136, 137. Liu Song dynasty people
Southern Qi imperial princes
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title: Gustave Cunéo d'Ornano

texts:
<mask>'Ornano (15 November 1845 – 17 May 1906) was a French lawyer, journalist and politician who was a Bonapartist deputy for the department of Charente for thirty years. He represented the rural constituency of Cognac, and often supported the distillers in parliament. Although he supported democracy, he was in favour of plebiscites and opposed the republicans of the French Third Republic for most of his career. He took every opportunity to speak out against the government in the chamber of deputies. At one point an article he had written led to a duel with another deputy. Early years

<mask>'Ornano was born on 15 November 1845 in Rome. His grandfather was a former comrade-in-arms of Napoleon who remained attached to the Bonaparte family.His parents were François Joseph Antoine Cunéo d'Ornano (1798–1863), former officer and prefecture councilor, and Adélaïde Françoise Dyonnet. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris, run by the  Marianists, as did the Royalist pretender and his main spokesman in the Chamber of Deputies, Fernand de Ramel(fr). He studied law and received a license. During the Second French Empire he was employed by the Prefecture of the Seine. During the Siege of Paris (1870–71) he served in Paris as a lieutenant in a battalion of Garde Mobile. He then joined the army of the Versailles government, and helped suppress the Paris Commune. Journalist

In 1872 Cuneo d'Ornano became one of the editors of the Courrier de France.From 1873 to 1874 he edited the Charentais in Angoulême. After contributing to la Presse for a short period, he

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title: Gustave Cunéo d'Ornano

texts: and often intervened in debates. In 1876, as a result of an article published in his le Suffrage universel, Cunéo d'Ornano fought a duel with André Duclaud(fr), a republican deputy in Charente.Cunéo d'Ornano supported the act of 16 May 1877 and supported the policy of the Broglie-Fourtou government. As official candidate in the 14 October 1877 elections he famously stated in his profession of faith that he would make "the republic and the republicans a meal that even dogs would not eat." He was elected by 9,911 votes to 7,704 for the republican candidate. In the Chamber he continued his opposition and interruptions in debates, and was often called to order. He voted against the election of Jules Grévy as President of France, against the law on freedom of the press, and constantly fought for the appel au peuple (referendum). On 8 December 1878 he attacked the persecution of La Jeune Garde by the government, saying, "there is no liberty if it does not exist equally for everyone". He said the republican government allowed shameful caricatures against religion and past regimes, but banned drawings that targeted republican officials.<mask> d'Ornano was reelected on 21 August 1881 by 8,621 votes against 8,132 votes for the republican candidate. He voted against the abrogation of the Concordat of 1801, against the cabinet of Jules Ferry and against the Tonkin credits. On 24 May 1881 he spoke out in the debate over the Treaty of Bardo that established a French protectorate over Tunisia. He stated that the government, in fighting a small war without being


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 sale.He was reelected in the first round on 20 August 1893. In the new legislature he submitted many proposals in favour of the distilleries. After the publication on 13 January 1898 of Émile Zola's open letter J'accuse…! attacking antisemites during the Dreyfus affair, Cunéo d'Ornano was one of a long list of Nationalist leaders who signed an appeal posted on the walls of Paris that urged the people to take to the streets to show their support for the army and opposition to the Jewish syndicate that was trying to undermine it. He was reelected in the first round on 8 May 1898 and on 27 April 1902. He was elected for the last time on 6 May 1906. <mask> Cunéo d'Ornano died of a stroke in Paris on 17 May 1906 before taking his seat in the new legislature.Publications
Cunéo d'Ornano made numerous speeches, proposals and reports as a deputy. Other publications include:

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1906 deaths
Politicians from Paris
Appel au peuple
Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 3rd Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 6th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 7th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 8th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
Members of the 9th Chamber of Deputies of the French


title: Phillip Ramey

texts: <mask> (born September 12, 1939 in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States) is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago. He later studied composition with Jack Beeson at Columbia University (1962–65). <mask> has had professional associations with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, William Schuman, David Diamond and Vladimir Horowitz. Thomson honored him with a musical portrait for piano titled "<mask>ey: Thinking Hard," and Copland dedicated two piano pieces to him: "Midsummer Nocturne" and "Proclamation." For many years, <mask> was a close friend and a neighbor of Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, where he has summered regularly. In 2017, the New York Public Library acquired <mask>'s archive of manuscripts, scores and recordings of his music, which will be catalogued and made available for scholarly research.<mask> is the composer of orchestral works, including three piano concertos, along with chamber music and many works for solo piano, among them ten sonatas. In 1993 his Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to celebrate its 150th Anniversary, was premiered by that orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with Philip Myers as soloist. On Nov. 14, 1985, Proclamation for Orchestra, <mask>'s orchestration of Copland's Proclamation for Piano, received an unusual bi-coastal premiere:

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 by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. (The New York Philharmonic concert was telecast as "Aaron Copland's 85th Birthday," episode 61 of the Live from Lincoln Center telecasts.) <mask>'s music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes, G. Schirmer, C. F. Peters and Edward B. Marks, among other firms. <mask> is the author of several hundred liner notes and interviews with American composers, and served from 1977 to 1993 as the annotator and Program Editor for the New York Philharmonic.He is also the author of Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time, which received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. <mask> appeared in the 1998 documentary Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles and the 2000 documentary Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles. He is presently Vice-President Emeritus of The Tcherepnin Society. Compositions

(Selected, with some titles linked to recorded performances archived at YouTube.com)
1959 - "Three Early Preludes for Piano"
1960-63 - "Suite for Piano" (revised 1988)
1960 - "Three Preludes for Solo Horn"
1960 - "Incantations for Piano"
1961 - "Piano Sonata No. 1"
1962 - "Sonata for Three Unaccompanied Timpani"
1962 - "Concert Suite for Piano and Small Orchestra" (revised, reorchestrated and expanded 1984 as "Concert Suite for Piano and Orchestra")
1962 - "Cat Songs for Soprano, Flute and Piano" (text: T. S. Eliot)
1965 - "Seven, They Are Seven: Incantation for Bass-Baritone and Orchestra" (text:

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 "Piano Sonata No. 10"
2015 - "Symphonic Song for String Orchestra"
2015 - "Dead End, An Existential Song for Baritone and Piano" (text by composer)
2016 - "Noir Nocturne for Piano"
2016 - "Two Duos for Violin and Horn"
2016 - "Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra"
2018 - "Lyric Duo for Violin and Horn"
2018-19 - "Concerto Episodes for Violin, Horn and Piano"
2019 - "Golgotha Prelude for Piano"
2019 - "Chromatic Poem for Piano"
2019 - "Nostalgic Variation on an Original Theme for Piano"
2019 - "Poem in Autumn for Oboe and Piano (or Oboe Solo)"
2020 - "Winter Daydream for Piano"
2020 - "Plague Prelude for Piano"
2020-21 - "Night Journey, Rhapsody for Piano"
2022 -"Cluster Palace: Soundpiece for Piano"

Recordings
2019 - Piano Sonata No. 10, Barbara Nissman, pianist, CD.Three Oranges Recordings 3 OR-26. 2017 - <mask>: Music for French Horn. Philip Myers, horn; Howard Wall, horn; Elmira Darvarova, violin; Virginia Perry Lamb, piano. Affetto Records (Naxos) CD  AF1704. Trio Concertant for Violin, Horn and Piano; Elegy for Horn and Piano; Gargoyles for Solo Horn; Two Duos for Violin and Horn; Dialogue for Two Horns; Sonata-Ballade for Two Horns and Piano. (Booklet notes by the composer.) 2017 - Symphonic Song for String Orchestra; Ukrainian Festival Orchestra, Paul Mann, conductor, CD.Toccata Classics, TOCC 0370. 2013 - <mask> Piano Music, Volume Four: 1959-2011. Stephen Gosling, pianist. CD. Toccata Classics, TOCC 0153: Incantations, Cossack Variations, Three Early Preludes, Piano Sonata No. 3, Epigrams Book Two, Lament for Richard III,

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texts: Piano Sonata No. 7.(Booklet notes by Benjamin Folkman and the composer.) 2011 - <mask> Piano Music, Volume Three: 1960-2010. Stephen Gosling, pianist. CD. Toccata Classics, TOCC 0114: Suite, Two Short Pieces, Toccata Giocosa, Slavic Rhapsody (The Novgorod Kremlin at Night), Burlesque-Paraphrase on a Theme of Stephen Foster, Bagatelle on "Dies Irae", Djebel Bani (A Saharan Meditation), Blue Phantom, Piano Sonata No. 6 (Sonata-Fantasia). (Booklet notes by Benjamin Folkman and the composer.)2008 - <mask> Piano Music, Volume Two: 1966-2007. Mirian Conti, pianist. CD. Toccata Classics, TOCC 0077: Diversions, Epigrams Book One, Leningrad Rag--Mutations on Scott Joplin, Winter Nocturne, Toccata No. 1, Ode for F.D.R., Toccata No. 2, Piano Sonata No. 4, Primitivo.(Booklet notes by Benjamin Folkman, Mirian Conti and the composer.) 2006 - <mask> Piano Music, 1961-2003. Stephen Gosling, pianist. CD. Toccata Classics, TOCC 0029: Color Etudes, Memorial--In Memoriam Alexander Tcherepnin, Chromatic Waltz, Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 2, Piano Sonata No.5--for the Left Hand, Piano Fantasy, Four Tangier Portraits, Toccata No. 2. (Booklet notes by Benjamin Folkman and the composer.) 1986 - American Piano Music, Volume Two. Etcetera Records, KTC 1036. CD. <mask>ey: Canzona, Bennett Lerner, pianist.1984 - American Piano Music. Etcetera Records, KTC 1019. CD. <mask>: Piano Fantasy, Bennett Lerner, pianist. 1978 - Opus One, No. 37. LP.Leningrad Rag, Piano Fantasy, Piano Sonata No. 4 (Subsequently retitled  Harvard Bells: Soundpiece), John Atkins,

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 pianist. 1975 - Carlos, Wendy (né Walter). Walter Carlos, By Request. LP. Columbia. Re-released as Wendy Carlos, By Request on enhanced CD in 2003 by East Side Digital (Minneapolis, Minnesota).Performed by Wendy Carlos, synthesizer; with <mask>, pianist (4th and 5th works: Dialogues for piano and two loudspeakers and Episodes for piano and electronic sounds). 1965 - Electronic Music. LP. Vox Turnabout. Carlos, Walter, Dialogues for piano and two loudspeakers with <mask>, pianist. <mask>, <mask>. Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time.Hillsdale, New York/Washington, D. C.: Pendragon Press, in association with the U. S. Library of Congress, 2005. <mask>, <mask>. Sergei Prokofiev: The Modern Classicist. Time-Life booklet, 1975. <mask>, <mask>. Rachmaninoff: His Life and Times. Funk & Wagnalls booklet, 1975

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Paul Bowles memoir
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title: Smoke Dawg

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Jahvante Jahqwane Sheldon Smart ( – ), known professionally as <mask>, was a Canadian rapper, singer and songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. <mask> was a part of hip hop collective Halal Gang alongside Mustafa the Poet, Puffy L'z, Safe and Mo-G who come together with the Prime Boys to make the supergroup Full Circle. His debut and only studio album Struggle Before Glory was released posthumously on November 29, 2018, and was rated 8/10 by Exclaim!. Career

Beginnings: 2013–2014
Smart began rapping at the age of 16 in 2013. He gained recognition in 2014 with the release of "Still" featuring Halal Gang member MoG, released on October 4, 2014. It gained over 1 million views within a month of release. This was two days before close friend Ano died.Mo-G and <mask> Dawg uploaded the song "Still" to YouTube in January 2015. In it, the two rappers and their friends rap, dance, and laugh in shadowy parking lots, fluorescent-lit apartment corridors, and an empty studio. Although the initial upload was deleted, its re-upload amassed over 4 million views within a year of being online. 2015–2016
Smart released the single "Trap House" on July 31, 2015. The single introded a dance move known as "flippin'" and gained the attention of artists including French Montana, who jumped on the official remix of the single and Toronto artist Drake. Drake went on to include Smart in many of his worldwide tours and he also headlined alongside ASAP Ferg. Safe released the single "Hang" in 2015 which saw a feature from <mask> Dawg.Smart subsequently went on to release the single "Overseas" alongside Skepta in October 2016. This was Skepta's second work with a Canadian artist, the first

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 being Tre Mission. The single was produced by Toronto native Murda Beatz. Smart also performed at Toronto's first independent hip-hop festival outside of OVO's own offering, 6 Fest. The two-day festival saw <mask> performing alongside his Halal Gang as well as Pusha T, French Montana and Roy Woods. Struggle Before Glory: 2017–2020
Smart was placed on Nows list of Toronto musicians to watch for in 2017. In February 2017, Smart released the song "Count it Up" where he went to London, UK to shoot the music video.He also headlined in London with supporting acts from Nafe Smallz, Drake and Splurgeboys. Whilst in the UK, <mask>g and Halal Gang affiliate Puffy L'z dropped a "Fire in the Booth" freestyle with Charlie Sloth in March 2017. He was also on the Boy Meets World Tour touring with Drake. During this month Smart also featured on Jimmy Prime's single "Humana" alongside Donnie. Toronto's most notorious music festival, uTOpia, was held during June 2017 and premiered showcase for the new generation of artists in the General Toronto Area. <mask> who was one of the main performers of the festival brought out Puffy L'z and Mo-G. The event was rated 7 by Exclaim!, who described Prime Boys and Halal Gang's performance as playing off of each other's energy, which ultimately brought the night together.In September 2017, Smart was featured in the documentary "Northside" which highlighted Toronto's fledgling rap scene. Noisey released a short documentary titled "Noisey Meets <mask> Dawg" in December 2017. The behind the scenes documentary caught up with <mask> in Toronto where he talked about his rise, the passing of his best friend, and how to break out of Toronto's

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 glass ceiling. Smart announced that he was working on his debut studio album  Struggle Before Glory in early 2018. However, before the album was officially released, he was shot and killed on June 30, 2018, in front of a nightclub in downtown Toronto. The lead single of the album "No Discussion" featured AJ Tracey and was produced by Murda Beatz. It was released a month after his death on August 13, 2018.<mask> Dawg's posthumous debut and only studio album Struggle Before Glory was released on November 29, 2018. The album was rated 8/10 by Exclaim!. The album features from the likes of Toronto artists Puffy L'z, Jimmy Prime, Jay Whiss and Safe, as well as UK artists Fredo, AJ Tracey and Giggs. The album was described as a "sum up of the late rapper's legacy". <mask> Dawg's younger brother, <mask>, provided a tribute on the outro of the album. Death
On June 30 2018, Smart was killed in a shooting in broad daylight by unknown assailants. The shooting took place in front of a downtown nightclub in the Toronto Entertainment District near the corner of Queen Street West and Spadina Avenue.The perpetrators allegedly shot multiple times and fled in a black SUV with tinted windows. Three victims, including <mask>g, were injured. Two were later pronounced dead in hospital. Affiliates of Smoke Dawg posted on social media that <mask>g and 28-year-old Prime Boys manager Koba Prime (birth name Ernest "Kosi" Modekwe) were killed in the shooting, with the Toronto Police Service confirming this as a fact the following day. Mayor John Tory blamed the shooting on gun violence and as a result met with the 6ixBuzz team and Director X to meet with members of the hip-hop

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 community to talk gun violence solutions and raise awareness on the issue. Both murders still remain unsolved and the perpetrators remain unknown. Posthumous appearances and tributes
Halal Gang affiliate Mustafa the Poet released a short film titled Remember Me, Toronto.The film aims to discuss the systemic structure working against the lower economies of Toronto and wanted to give these artists the opportunity to "rewrite their memories and the memories of those they lost". Smart was featured at the start of the clip in an archive footage of his speech on how he wishes to be remembered. Smart appeared on Puffy L'z debut album Take No L'z released on July 19, 2019, on the single "Boring" alongside Jay Whiss. He was also featured on Donnie's debut album From the Beginning to End released on November 22, 2019, on the track "Good as it Gets" alongside Jimmy Prime. Jay Whiss released the single "Mind in a Maze", the lead single for his debut album Peace of Mind. The song was a tribute to <mask> Dawg and has stated that it was his favorite song ever recorded. Smart was known for his adlib "Awhooley", in an interview with Now newspaper, Puffy L'z stated he uses the adlib to keep Smart's name alive.Discography
Studio albums
 Struggle Before Glory

SongsAs lead artistAs featured artist'

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title: Galina Brezhneva

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<mask> (; 18 April 1929 – 30 June 1998) was the daughter of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and <mask>. Life and death
<mask> was born on 18 April 1929 in Sverdlovsk. As a teenager, she refused to become a member of the Komsomol; later, she refused to study for an academic degree. She married for the first time to circus artist Yevgeny Timofeyevich Milaev (1910–1983) in 1951. He had twin children, Alexander "Sasha" and Natalya "Natasha" (born 1948) from his first marriage to Natalya Yurchenko who died from blood poisoning during childbirth. They had one daughter, Viktoria Yevgenyevna Milaeva (1952–2018). She was married briefly to Igor Kio, a union that lasted only nine days.By 1971, her father Leonid Brezhnev had become displeased with the way things were going in <mask>'s life. He wanted to arrange a marriage for her, after having her second marriage annulled. She ended up selecting Yuri Churbanov from a number of suitors. Churbanov was chosen even though he was already married and had children. By the end of Brezhnev's life, <mask> was much less visible, and during the reign of Yuri Andropov, she disappeared from the public eye altogether. <mask> made a public comeback during Konstantin Chernenko's short rule, and appeared in a conference commemorating International Women's Day. At the conference, she wore only one piece of jewelry, the Order of Lenin that she had been awarded by Andrei Gromyko in 1978 for her fiftieth birthday.Later, after Churbanov had been arrested on charges of corruption, <mask> divorced him. She married for a fourth and

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 final time at the age of 64, to a 29-year-old man. Before her death, <mask> was a guest on British television to talk about life in the USSR. In her later life, <mask> gradually became a heavy drinker, and her daughter placed her in a psychiatric hospital where she died on 30 June 1998, aged 69. Personal life and rumors
Historian Larisa Vasil'eva wrote in her book that "<mask> <mask> was an all-too-typical product of what came to be known as the Era of Stagnation". <mask> was a heavy drinker and was known to be heavy-tempered. She had little self-discipline, and had a seemingly natural tendency toward self-gratification.She was known for her passion for jewellery and diamonds. Why and how Brezhneva received her diamonds was unknown to the majority at the time, though according to a former director of Yuvelirtorg, the state-run jewellery company in the USSR, all jewelry and valuables seized from criminals were given to members of the nomenklatura. Many rumors circulated in Soviet society about Brezhneva, most notably during Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary; these rumors have been colloquially termed "diamond legends". In one such story, <mask>, during her visit to the Georgian SSR, visited a museum where she noticed two relics on display. She then demanded the two relics to be given to her as a gift. The museum director refused to comply and instead called the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party, Eduard Shevardnadze, to discuss the matter with General Secretary Brezhnev. Shevardnadze told Brezhnev that given her Georgian national heritage, her behaviour was

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 unacceptable; Brezhnev agreed and ordered his daughter back to Moscow.Others stories included personal favors provided by <mask> to Soviet and other communist politicians, including Erich Honecker together with his wife Margot Honecker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Fidel Castro together with Raul Castro and Che Guevara, Jiang Qing, Todor Zhivkov, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Zhu De, Gustáv Husák, János Kádár, Kim Jong-il, Erich Mielke, Babrak Karmal, Samora Machel, Zhou En-lai, Willi Stoph, Nicolae Ceaușescu together with his wife Elena Ceaușescu, Lê Duẩn, Walter Ulbricht, Lin Biao, Hilde Benjamin, Vo Nguyen Giap and Gus Hall. Stories such as these greatly affected Leonid Brezhnev. He said once to a party colleague that "The world respects you, but your own family causes you pain". At the height of perestroika, a reform initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, many of the rumours about <mask> became increasingly wild and questionable; new details and information, possibly apocryphal, were increasingly included in the rumours. In popular culture, these rumours helped depict the Brezhnev era as an "Era of Stagnation". Many of the rumours stemmed from the fact that most of <mask>'s friends and colleagues had earlier been arrested, and the majority of them had been linked to some sort of corruption or vice. Embezzlement
In January 1982, as part of Andropov's anti-corruption campaign while Leonid Brezhnev was still alive, several prominent jewellery smugglers who all had links with <mask> were arrested, some of them even receiving the death sentence.It was later proven that Brezhneva was smuggling jewellery

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 out of the Soviet Union on such a scale as to threaten the business of De Beers Consolidated Mines, a group of companies focused on the mining of diamonds. Brezhneva was detained by the authorities, being summoned in one instance to the KGB headquarters for questioning. Her being the daughter of Leonid Brezhnev resulted in dismissal of the charges against her; she was, however, internally exiled by the Andropov administration. When Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary, the criminal investigations against Brezhneva and her brother, Yuri Brezhnev, were resumed. Her brother, a former First Deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and her husband, Yuri Churbanov, were both arrested on charges of corruption. However, investigators were never able to produce any solid charges against Brezhneva for her post-1982 criminal activities. In her later life, Brezhneva had become an alcoholic and usually signed statements without reading them properly.References

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title: Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

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Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (), also known as <mask>-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaytham al-Umawī al-Iṣfahānī) (284–356AH / 897-967CE) was a litterateur, genealogist, poet, musicologist, scribe, and boon companion in the tenth century. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin and mainly based in Baghdad. He is best known as the author of Kitab al-Aghani ("The Book of Songs"), which includes information about the earliest attested periods of Arabic music (from the seventh to the ninth centuries) and the lives of poets and musicians from the pre-Islamic period to al-Isfahani's time. Given his contribution to the documentation of the history of Arabic music, al-Isfahani is characterised by Sawa as "a true prophet of modern ethnomusicology". Dates
The commonly accepted dates of al-Isfahani's birth and death are 284AH/897–8CE and 356/967, based on the dates given by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi which itself bases testimony of al-Isfahani's student, Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris. However, the credibility of these dates is to be treated with discretion. No source places his death earlier than 356/967, but several place it later.These dates are at odds with a reference in the Kitab Adab al-ghuraba ("The Book of the Etiquettes of Strangers"), attributed to al-Isfahani, to his being in the prime of youth (fi ayyam al-shabiba


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 wa-l-siba) in 356/967. Calculation of the approximate dates of his birth and death through the lifespans of his students and his direct informants suggests that he was born before 290/902 and died after 348/960. Biography
<mask>-Faraj al-Isfahani was born in Isfahan, Persia (present-day Iran) but spent his youth and made his early studies in Baghdad (present-day Iraq). He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in al-Andalus, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works. He became famous for his knowledge of early Arabian antiquities. His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its Hamdanid governor Sayf ad-Dawlah (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn 'Abbad, and elsewhere. Family
The epithet, al-Isfahani, refers to the city, Isfahan, on the Iranian plateau.Instead of indicating al-Isfahani's birthplace, this epithet seems to be common to al-Isfahani's family. Every reference al-Isfahani makes to his paternal relatives includes the attributive, al-Isfahani. According to Ibn Hazm (384–456/994–1064), some descendants of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan b. Muhammad (72–132/691–750), al-Isfahani's forefather, settled in Isfahan. However, it has to be borne in mind


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 genealogical, historical, and anecdotal reports).The variety of the narrators and their narrations enriched al-Iṣfahānī's literary output, which covers a wide range of topics from amusing tales to the accounts of the Alids' martyrdom. His erudition is best illustrated by <mask> al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi's (329–384/941–994) comment:

With his encyclopaedic knowledge of music, musicians, poetry, poets, genealogy, history, and other subjects, al-Iṣfahānī established himself as a learned scholar and teacher. He was also a scribe and this is not surprising, given his families’ scribal connections, but the details of his kātib activities are rather opaque. Although both al-Tanūkhī and al-Baghdādī refer to al-Isfahani with the attribute, kātib, they mention nothing of where he worked or for whom. The details of his job as a scribe only come later, with Yaqut, many of whose reports about al-Isfahani prove problematic. For instance, a report from Yaqut claims that al-Isfahani was the scribe of Rukn al-Dawla (d. 366/976) and mentions his resentment at Abū al-Faḍl b. al-ʿAmīd (d. 360/970). However, the very same report is mentioned by Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (active fourth/tenth century) in his Akhlāq al-wazīrayn, where the aforementioned scribe of Rukn al-Dawla is identified as Abū al-Faraj Ḥamd b. Muhammad, not Abū al-Faraj al-Isfahani.Thus, it is hard to know with


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 preferences, and beliefs
As a boon companion, al-Isfahani was unconventional in the sense that he does not seem to have been bothered to observe the social decorum of his time, as noted by a late biographical source: with his uncleanliness and gluttony, he presented a counterexample to elegance (ẓarf), as defined by one of his teachers, <mask>-Ṭayyib al-Washshāʾ (d. 325/937). His unconformity to the social norms did not hinder him from being part of al-Muhallabī's entourage or participation in the literary assemblies, but, inevitably, it resulted in frictions with other scholars and detraction from his enemies. Although al-Isfahani appeared eccentric to his human associates, he was a caring owner to his cat, named Yaqaq (white): he treated Yaqaq's colic (qulanj) with an enema (al-ḥuqna).In contrast to his uncomely modus vivendi, al-Isfahani's prose style is lucid, “in clear and simple language, with unusual sincerity and frankness”. Al-Isfahani's capacity as a litterateur is well illustrated by <mask>, who depicts al-Isfahani as "one of the finest writers of Arabic prose in his time, with a remarkable ability to relate widely different types of aḵbār in a rich, lucid, rhythmic, and precise style, only occasionally exploiting such formal effects as saǰʿ (rhyming prose). He was also a fine poet with an opulent imagination. His poetry displays preoccupations

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texts: because the people at that time were not impressed with the verses featuring tenderness and softness. Thus, he only records the Abbasid poetesses, with mention of the relevant fine verses or the pleasant tales, and arranges them in chronological order. There are 31 sections, addressing 32 poetesses, most of which are short and usually begin with al-Isfahani's summary of the subject. The Maqātil al-Ṭālibīyīn is a historical-biographical compilation concerning the descendants of <mask>, who died under the following circumstances: being killed, poisoned to death in a treacherous way, on the run from the rulers’ persecution, or confined until death. The Maqātil literature was rather common, amongst Shi'is particularly, before al-Isfahani and he used many works of this genre as sources for the Maqātil al-Ṭālibīyīn. Al-Isfahani does not explain the motivation behind this compilation nor mention any dedicatee, but, according to the preface of this work, he sets out as a condition to recount the reports about the Ṭālibids who were “praiseworthy in their conduct and rightly guided in their belief (maḥmūd al-ṭarīqa wa-sadīd al-madhhab)”.Like the al-Imāʾ, the work is structured in chronological order, beginning with the first Ṭālibī martyr, Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib, and ends in the year of its compilation — Jumādā I 313/August 925. For each biographical entry, al-Isfahani


title: Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

texts: author of Kitab al-Aghani ("The Book of Songs"), an encyclopedia of over 20 volumes and editions. However, he additionally wrote poetry, an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work.Kitāb al-Aġānī () 'Book of Songs', a collection of Arabic chants rich in information on Arab and Persian poets, singers and other musicians from the 7th - 10th centuries of major cities such as Mecca, Damascus, Isfahan, Rey, Baghdād and Baṣrah. The Book of Songs contains details of the ancient Arab tribes and courtly life of the Umayyads and provides a complete overview of the Arab civilization from the pre-Islamic Jahiliyya era, up to his own time.<mask>l-Faraj employs the classical Arabic genealogical devise, or isnad, (chain of transmission), to relate the biographical accounts of the authors and composers. Although originally the poems were put to music, the musical signs are no longer legible. <mask>l-Faraj spent in total 50 years creating this work, which remains an important historical source. The first printed edition, published in 1868, contained 20 volumes. In 1888 Rudolf Ernst Brünnow published a 21st volume being a collection of biographies not contained in the Bulāq edition, edited from MSS in the Royal Library of Munich.Maqātil aṭ-Ṭālibīyīn (}), Tālibid Fights, a collection of more than 200 biographies of the

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 descendants of <mask> ibn Abd al-Muttalib, from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to the writing of the book in 313 the Hijri (= 925/926 CE) who died in an unnatural way. As <mask>-Faraj said in the foreword to his work, he included only those Tālibids who rebelled against the government and were killed, slaughtered, executed or poisoned, lived underground, fled or died in captivity. The work is a major source for the Umayyad and Abbāsid Alid uprisings and the main source for the Hashimite meeting that took place after the assassination of the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd II in the village of al-Abwā' between Mecca and Medina.At this meeting, al-'Abdallah made the Hashimites pledge an oath of allegiance to his son Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya as the new Mahdi. Kitāb al-Imā'āš-šawā'ir'' () 'The Book of the Poet-slaves', a collection of accounts of poetic slaves of the Abbasid period. See also
List of Arab scientists and scholars
List of Iranian scientists and scholars

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title: Magnus IV of Sweden

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<mask> (April or May 1316  – 1 December 1374; Swedish <mask>) was King of Sweden from 1319 to 1364, King of Norway as <mask> (including Iceland and Greenland) from 1319 to 1355, and ruler of Scania from 1332 to 1360. By adversaries he has been called <mask> (English: <mask> Caresser). Referring to <mask> as <mask> II is incorrect. The Swedish Royal Court lists three Swedish kings before him of the same name. A few authors do not count <mask> as a Swedish king (though the Royal Court does) and have thus called this king <mask>. He is the second longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history, only surpassed by the current king Carl XVI Gustaf. Biography
<mask> was born in Norway either in April or May 1316 to Eric, Duke of Södermanland and Ingeborg, a daughter of Haakon V of Norway.<mask> was elected king of Sweden on 8 July 1319, and acclaimed as hereditary king of Norway at the thing of the Haugating in Tønsberg in August of the same year. Under the regencies of his grandmother, Helwig of Holstein, and his mother, Ingeborg of Norway, the countries were ruled by Knut Jonsson and Erling Vidkunsson. <mask> was declared to have come of age at 15 in 1331. This provoked resistance in Norway, where a statute from 1302 stipulated that a king came of age at the age of 20, and a rising by Erling Vidkunsson and other Norwegian nobles ensued. In 1333, the rebels submitted to King <mask>. In 1332 the King of Denmark, Christopher II, died as a "king without a country" after he and his older brother and predecessor had pawned Denmark piece by piece. King <mask> took advantage of his neighbour's distress, redeeming the pawn for the eastern Danish provinces for a huge amount of silver, and thus became ruler also of Scania.On 21 July 1336 <mask> was crowned king of both Norway and Sweden in Stockholm. This caused further resentment in Norway,

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title: Magnus IV of Sweden

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 where the nobles and magnates desired a separate Norwegian coronation. A second rising by members of the high nobility of Norway ensued in 1338. In 1335 he married Blanche of Namur, daughter of John I, Marquis of Namur, and Marie of Artois, a descendant of Louis VIII of France. The wedding took place in October or early November 1335, possibly at Bohus castle. As a wedding gift Blanche received the province of Tunsberg in Norway and Lödöse in Sweden as fiefs. They had two sons, Eric and Haakon, plus at least two daughters who died in infancy and were buried at Ås Abbey.Opposition to <mask>' rule in Norway led to a settlement between the king and the Norwegian nobility at Varberg on 15 August 1343. In violation of the Norwegian laws on royal inheritance, <mask>' younger son Haakon would become king of Norway, with <mask> as regent during his minority. Later the same year, it was declared that <mask>' older son, Eric would become king of Sweden on <mask>' death. Thus, the union between Norway and Sweden would be severed. This occurred when Haakon came of age in 1355. Because of the increase in taxes to pay for the acquisition of the Scanian province, some Swedish nobles supported by the Church attempted to oust <mask>, setting up his elder son <mask> as king (Eric XII of Sweden), but Eric died supposedly of the plague in 1359, with his wife Beatrice of Bavaria and their two sons. Peace of Nöteborg

On 12 August 1323, <mask> concluded the first treaty between Sweden and Novgorod (represented by Grand Prince Yury of Moscow) at Nöteborg (Orekhov) where Lake Ladoga empties into the Neva River.The treaty delineated spheres of influence among the Finns and Karelians and was supposed to be an "eternal peace", but <mask>' relations with Russia were not so peaceful. In 1337, religious strife between Orthodox Karelians and the Swedes

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