title: Astrid Lindgren

texts: A Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays was born in 1907. She is the author of several children's book series, including Pippi Longstocking and the Six Bullerby Children. At the Rabén & Sjgren publishing house in Sweden, <mask> worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board and wrote more than 30 books for children. She was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author and the fourth most translated children's writer after Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. 165 million books have been sold by <mask>. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1994 for her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children and respect for their individuality. Many of her books are based on her memories of growing up in Ns, near Vimmerby, Smland, Sweden.She was the daughter of Samuel August Ericsson and Hannah Jonsson. She had a brother who became a member of the Swedish parliament. After finishing school, <mask> worked for a newspaper in Vimmerby. The chief editor proposed to her after she became pregnant, but he was married at the time. She moved to the capital city of Sweden to become a stenographer, and later wrote most of her drafts in stenography. She left her son in the care of a foster family after she gave birth. She spent most of her time on the train back and forth between the two cities, saving whatever she could, even though she was poorly paid.She left him in the care of her parents until she could afford to raise him in Sweden. She married her boss at the Royal Automobile Club in 1931 after he left his wife for her. In 1934, <mask> gave birth to her second child, who would become a translator. The character Pippi Longstocking was invented to amuse her daughter. The tale was created in response to a request from Karin, who suddenly said to her, "tell me a story about Pippi Longstocking." The family moved in 1941 to an apartment on Dalagatan, with a view over Vasaparken, where <mask> lived until her death in 2002 at the age of 94. She died in her home.Her funeral was held in the Storkyrkan. The royal family and Prime Minister Gran Persson attended. The closest you can get to a state funeral is at the ceremony. Before becoming a full-time author, <mask> worked as a journalist and secretary. She was a secretary for the Swedish Summer Grand Prix. In the early 1940s, she worked as a secretary for criminalist Harry Sderman, and this experience has been cited as an inspiration for her fictional detective Bill Bergson. The novel "Britt-Marie Unburdens Her Heart" was 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780She won the first prize in the competition with the chapter book Pippi Lngstrump, which had been rejected by Bonniers. The book was published by Rabén & Sjgren with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman. It has become one of the most popular children's books in the world and has been translated into 60 different languages. The irreverent attitude towards adult authority that is a distinguishing characteristic of many of her characters has drawn the ire of some conservatives. Damernas Vrld sent <mask> to the United States in 1948 to write short essays. She was upset by the discrimination against black Americans. The book Kati in America was published a few years later.The German-language edition of "Mio, My Son" won the Children's book award. Only Mio, My Son won a prize in its category of the Children's Book and Picture Book longlist. In 1959 she received the second Hans Christian Andersen medal for her novel, which was filmed in 1955. The International Board on Books for Young People is considered the highest lifetime recognition available to creators of children's books. Prior to 1962, the Board cited a single book. She was declared International Swede of the Year 1997 by Swedes in the World on her 90th birthday. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy named <mask> the foremost Swedish contributor to modern children's fantasy.Her niche in children's fantasy remains secure and exalted. Her stories can never be forgotten. By 2012 the books had been translated into 95 different languages. The first chapter of Ronja the Robber's Daughter has been translated into Latin. Up until 1997 her books had sold a total of 165 million copies around the world. Joan Tate translated many of her books. There was a scandal in Sweden in 1976 when it was discovered that the marginal tax rate had gone up to 102 percent.She published a story in Expressen on March 3, 1976, called Pomperipossa in Monismania, attacking the government and its taxation policies. In 1976, self-employed individuals were required to pay both regular income tax and employers' deductions because of a marginal tax rate. She raised the issue of the lack of women involved in the Social Democrats' campaign after attracting criticism from Social Democrats and even from her own colleagues. In that year's general election, the Social Democratic government was voted out for the first time in 44 years, and the Lindgren tax debate was one of several controversies that may have contributed to the result. Ingmar Bergman was charged with tax evasion after he wrote his farewell letter to Sweden. She remained a Social Democrat for the rest of her life. In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, she made a speech.She was against the punishment of children. She collaborated with scientists, journalists and politicians to achieve a non-violent upbringing. The law against violence against children was introduced in Sweden in 1979. There was no such law until then. In the 1980's and 90's, <mask> wrote about animal protection and mass production in Swedish magazines. They wanted to raise awareness about the treatment of animals in factory farming. Their activities led to the creation of a new law called Lex Lindgren, which was presented to <mask> <mask> at her 80th birthday.It was the strictest animal welfare law in the world. They weren't satisfied with it. Minor changes occurred because not enough had been done. The articles were published in a book. She was known for her support for children's and animal rights and her opposition to the EU. She received the Right Livelihood Award for her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature. The publisher Rabén & Sjgren established an annual literary prize to mark the 60th birthday of the author.Every year on <mask>'s birthday, the prize is awarded to a Swedish-language children's writer. The award was instituted in her memory by the government of Sweden. Five million Swedish kronor is the world's largest monetary award for children's and youth literature. The Royal Library's collection of original manuscripts was placed on the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005. On 6 April 2011 Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank announced that <mask>'s portrait will be on the 20 kronor banknote. In the run-up to the announcement of the persons who would feature on the new banknotes, <mask>'s name had been the one most often put forward in the public debate. The asteroid was named after her.The name of the Swedish microsatellite was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the instruments after characters in the books. A memorial sculpture was created next to her childhood home, named "Astrid's Wellspring" in English. It is at the spot where the first fairy tales were heard. A young person's head is flattened on top in the corner of a pond and a ring of thorn is attached to it. The people of Vimmerby objected to the idea of the sculpture being part of a fountain in the city center. She never wanted to be depicted as a statue. There is a statue of <mask> in the city center.The culture council of Vimmerby sponsored the memorial. <mask>'s childhood home is open to the public. There is a museum in her memory. There is a theme park located in Vimmerby where the author is buried. The main theme of the permanent exhibition at the children's museum is devoted to the author of the books, and at the heart of the museum is a train ride through the world of the books. In the 1940s and 1950s, she collaborated with her friend Olenius, a pioneer in the Swedish children's theater, to create many of the plays. The stories were written for the theater.They have been translated into several other languages. The majority of <mask>'s plays have not been translated into English. Akter hos Pippi Lngstrump serverat, Kalle Blomkvist. This is a chronological list of filmography. There are live action films. Sweden and Russia made the most films. Further reading about <mask> <mask>.Strmstedt was Margareta. Rabén & Sjgren were born in 1977. Paul Berf is the author of the ed. There is a person named <mask> <mask>. It's Donnerdrummel! Ein Werk-Portrt ist. The name of the place is Zweitausendeins, and it is located in the 2000 edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition of the edition ofLand der Mrchen und Abenteuer. Oetinger wrote "Jenseits von Bullerb" in 1997. The Astrid Lindgren ist die Lebensgeschichte. The Weinheim 2006 Knob Jrgloch was written by Beltz and Gelberg. The title of the book is A4-Arbeitsvorlagen Klasse 2–6, AOL-Verlag. 10. Margareta Strmstedt: <mask> <mask> is an ed.The book is called Ein Lebensbild. Oetinger wrote a book about Pippi Lngstrump. Ihren internationaler Kontext ist die deutsche Rezeption Astrid Lindgrens. Eva-Maria: Astrid Lindgren was written by Francke and Tbingen. The official site of the theme park Astrid Lindgrens Ns is produced by the Astrid Lindgren museum and culture center.

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title: Simon Salinas

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texts: <mask> is a politician. From 2000 to 2006 he was a member of the California State Assembly. His district included all of Salinas. <mask> was a County Supervisor, a City Council Member, a community college instructor, and an elementary school teacher. <mask> is a Democrat. In 2006 he left the assembly. He didn't challenge Jeff Denham for the California State Senate district 12.In 2006 <mask> was elected to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, representing District 3. <mask> has lived in the Salinas area for most of his life. He has a son. One of twelve children of migrant farmworkers, <mask> was born in Slaton, Texas. His mother attended school until the 3rd grade in the Mexican state of San Luis Potos. His father came to the United States under the Bracero Program in the 1940s and had no formal education. After returning to Mexico, he married and settled in Texas with his family in the 1950s.This was the beginning of his experience as a farmworker over the course of 15 years, during which he worked in cotton and orange fields in Texas and California. At the age of 9, Simn picked strawberries in the central coast region of California. Simn never fully settled for long periods of time in one place due to the seasonal farmwork they followed. His parents retired in 1985. <mask> settled in the city ofWatsonville, California at the age of 18 so that he could focus on his education. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the college in 1978 after graduating from the high school. Simn graduated with a J.D. from San Jose State University in 1984.Santa Clara University Law School is in California. The motivation to succeed was instilled in <mask> by his parents. He points to the example set by his father who, without any formal education, taught himself to read and write. <mask> was encouraged to take advantage of the educational opportunities his parents never gave him. At Bardin Elementary School, <mask> was a bilingual 6th grade teacher. He was a professor at Hartnell College from 1989 to 1993. In June 1989 <mask> was elected as the first Mexican-American to serve on the Salinas City Council.Mr. <mask> was the Mayor Pro-Tem. <mask> was first elected to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1993 and reelected in 1997. He was the first Mexican-American to serve on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in over 100 years when he was elected Chair of the Board during his second term. <mask> ran for the California state Assembly in 2000. He won a hard-fought general election against Jeff Denham, who went on to be elected state Senator. On December 4, 2000 <mask> was sworn in to represent the 28th District in the California State Assembly. Legislation addressing issues in affordable housing, agriculture, healthcare, public safety, transportation, local government, and education was authored by him.He was named "Legislator of the Year" by Skills USA-VICA, California Transit Association, the League of California Cities, and the American Planning Association for his legislative efforts on these and other issues. In his first year in the Legislature, <mask> sent 11 bills to the Governor and 9 were signed into law. <mask> was a member of the Agriculture, Education, Health and Housing, Community Development Committees and other non-profit organizations. He was the chair of the Select Committee on Rural Economic Development and the vice president of the non-profit organization that provides services for at-risk youth. <mask> was a supporter of the bond measures. He was a supporter of raising taxes, universal healthcare, and improving social services. <mask> became a Monterey County Supervisor on January 9, 2007, representing the 3rd district.He retired from the Board of Supervisors.

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title: Lana Turner

texts: <mask> was an American actress. She achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life, over the course of her nearly 50-year career. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest stars, with her films earning more than $50 million for the studio. <mask> is a popular culture icon of Hollywood glamour and a screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema. Before her family moved to San Francisco, <mask> spent her childhood in northern Idaho. <mask> was discovered at the Top Hat Malt Shop when she was 15. She was signed to a personal contract when she was 16 by Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy.She played a murder victim in her film debut, LeRoy's They Won't Forget, and later moved into supporting roles, often appearing as an ingénue. <mask> appeared in a number of MGM's top films during the early 1940s, including the noir Johnny Eager, the musical Ziegfeld Girl, and the horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. <mask>'s reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the noir The Postman Always Rings Twice, a role which established her as a serious dramatic actress. In The Bad and the Beautiful, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. <mask>'s daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed <mask>'s lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death in their home during a domestic struggle, sparking intense media scrutiny. She received a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Madame X, which was one of the greatest commercial successes of her career. <mask> made her final film appearance in 1980.She played a recurring guest role in the high ratings television series Falcon Crest in 1982. <mask> died of throat cancer three years after he was diagnosed in 1992. <mask> was born on February 8, 1921, at Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho, a small mining community in the Idaho Panhandle region. She was the only child of a miner from Montgomery, Alabama and a woman from Lamar, Arkansas who had English, Scottish and Irish ancestry. She gave birth to her child four days before her 17th birthday. <mask>'s parents met when the daughter of a mine inspector visited Picher, Oklahoma, with her father. John was 24 years old at the time, and his father objected to the courting.The two eloped and settled in Idaho. The family relocated to Wallace in 1925 after <mask>'s father opened a dry cleaning service in the local silver mines. <mask> was known to her family and friends as Judy. At a young age, she performed short dance routines at her father's lodge. At a charity fashion show when she was three years old, she performed an impromptu dance routine. After her parents separated, the <mask> family relocated to San Francisco. On December 14, 1930, her father won some money at a traveling craps game, stuffed his winnings in his left sock, and headed for home.On the edge of San Francisco's Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch District, he was found murdered with his left shoe and socks missing. His death had a profound effect on <mask>. She said that her father's warmth and tragedy have never been far from her. There was a sense of loss and growing up too fast. <mask> lived with family friends to help her mother save money. They lived in Sacramento and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. <mask> was treated like a servant by a family who physically abused her after her father's death.<mask>'s mother worked 80 hours per week as a hairdresser to support herself and her daughter, and sometimes lived on crackers and milk for a week. <mask> attended Mass with the Hislops, a Catholic family with whom her mother had temporarily boarded her in California. When she was seven, her mother allowed her to convert to Roman Catholicism, after she became "thrilled" by the ritual practices of the church. <mask> wanted to become a nun and attended the convent in San Francisco. After <mask>'s mother developed respiratory problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate, the two moved to Los Angeles in 1936. <mask>'s discovery is considered a show-business legend and part of Hollywood mythology. <mask> claimed that her discovery was the result of a reporting error that began circulating in articles published by Sidney Skolsky.<mask> said she was a junior at Hollywood High School when she bought a Coca-Cola at the Top Hat Malt Shop on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place. William R. Wilkerson is publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. She replied "I'll have to ask my mother first" after she was asked if she was interested in appearing in films. <mask> was referred to Marx by her mother's permission. <mask> was signed to a $50 weekly contract by Warner Bros. on February 22, 1937, after Marx introduced her to LeRoy. LeRoy suggested that she take the stage name <mask>, a name she would legally adopt several years later. <mask> made her feature film debut in LeRoy's They Won't Forget, a crime drama in which she played a teenage murder victim.<mask>'s performance was "worthy of more than a passing note", according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film earned her the nickname of the "Sweater Girl" because of her form-fitting attire. When <mask> saw a sneak preview of the film, she was profoundly embarrassed and "squirming lower and lower" into her seat. She said that it was the first time she was aware of her body. <mask> made a sweater look like something Cleopatra was saving for the next visiting Caesar, according to a Modern Screen journalist. She had a small role in James Whale's The Great Garrick, a biographical film about British actor David Garrick, shortly after completing They Won't Forget. LeRoy asked Jack L. Warner to allow <mask> to relocate with him to MGM after he was hired as an executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Warner believed <mask> wouldn't "amount to anything". <mask> signed a contract with MGM for $100 a week. She had a minor role in The Adventures of Marco Polo as a maid. The Sea-Wolf, co-starring Clark Gable, was to be her first starring role for MGM. She was assigned opposite Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the film Love Finds Andy Hardy. <mask> was able to graduate high school that year after completing her studies with an educational social worker. <mask>'s appearance in the film as a flirtatious high school student convinced the studio head that she was the next Jean Harlow, a sex symbol who had died six months before <mask>'s arrival at MGM.She played the sister of a poor woman romanced by a wealthy man in the comedy Rich Man, Poor Girl and Dramatic School, two films that helped further <mask>'s career. She was referred to as the "Kissing Bug" from the film. <mask> was screen-tested for a role in Gone with the Wind. She played a sympathetic bad girl in MGM's second entry in the Dr. Kildare series. These Glamour Girls was a comedy in which she portrayed a taxi dancer invited to attend a dance with a male coed at his elite college. <mask> was described as the answer to "oomph" by a review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. <mask> was given the first billing in Dancing Co-Ed, which was about a professional dancer who enters a college as part of a rigged national talent contest.<mask> appeared on the cover of Look magazine after the film's commercial success. <mask> got a lot of attention when she eloped to Las Vegas with Artie Shaw, her co-star in Dancing Co-Ed. <mask> said that after their first date, the two decided to get married. MGM executives grew concerned over <mask>'s "impulsive behavior" because their marriage only lasted four months. <mask> had an abortion in the spring of 1940 after discovering she was pregnant. She had been hospitalized for exhaustion. Shaw treated her like an untutored blonde savage, and took no pains to hide his opinion.She starred in We Who Are Young, a drama in which she played a woman who married her coworker against her employer's policy. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 The film was marketed as featuring <mask>'s "hottest, most daring role". She had a lead role in her second musical, which starred James Stewart, Judy Garland and Hedy Lamarr. She portrayed an alcoholic in the film. <mask> claimed that the film was the first role that got her interested in acting, and the studio marketed the film as featuring her in the best role of the biggest picture to be released by the industry. The film's high box-office returns elevated Turner's profitability, and MGM gave her a weekly salary raise as well as a personal makeup artist and trailer.<mask> and Garland lived in houses next to each other in the 1950s, after completing the film. <mask> played an ingénue in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, opposite Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman. MGM initially cast <mask> in the lead, but Tracy requested Bergman for the part. <mask> was given top billing despite the studio changing her role. While the film was financially successful, Time magazine panned it, calling it "a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic." <mask>, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast are as wooden as their roles. <mask> was cast in the first of four films in which she would play opposite Clark Gable. gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two made the Turner-Gable films more successful.The production of Somewhere I'll Find You was halted for several weeks after Gable's wife died in a plane crash. <mask> denied rumors that he and Gable were romantically involved. She later recalled that she was just friends with Mr. Gable. "When six o'clock came, he went his way and I went mine." Johnny Eager was her next film and was a violent mobster film. James Agee of Time magazine was critical of co-star Robert Taylor's performance and noted: "<mask> is similarly handicapped: Metro has swathed her best assets in a toga, swears that she shall become an actress, or else." The stars are working under wraps.At the start of World War II, <mask>'s image was painted on the noses of U.S. fighter planes with the nickname "Tempest <mask>". She and Gable embarked on a 10-week war-bond tour throughout the western United States in June 1942. During the tour, she began promising kisses to the highest war bond buyers; while selling bonds at the Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, she sold a $5,000 bond to a man for two kisses, and another to an elderly man for $50,000. After arriving to sell bonds in her hometown of Wallace, Idaho, she was greeted with a banner that read "Welcome home, <mask>" and a large celebration during which the mayor declared a holiday in her honor. <mask> sold $5.25 million in war bonds after completing the tour. <mask> made regular appearances at U.S. troop events and area bases, even though she found visiting the hospital wards of injured soldiers difficult. <mask> met her second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur Joseph Stephen "Steve" Crane, at a dinner party in Los Angeles in July 1942.They got married in Las Vegas a week after they started dating. Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized, which led to their marriage being nullified by <mask> four months later. <mask> and Crane were married in March 1943 after <mask> discovered she was pregnant. She starred in the comedy Marriage Is a Private Affair, which was filmed while she was pregnant. <mask> had Rh-negative blood, which made it difficult to carry a child to term, because she wanted multiple children. <mask> carried the child to term despite being urged by doctors to have a therapeutic abortion. Her daughter, Cheryl, was born on July 25, 1943.<mask>'s blood condition resulted in Cheryl being born with a life-threatening disease. <mask>'s remarriage to Crane led MGM to play up her image as a sex symbol in Slightly Dangerous, with Robert Young, Walter Brennan and Dame May Whitty, in which she portrayed a woman who moves to New York City and poses as the long-lost. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that "no less than four Metro writers must have racked their brains for all of five minutes to think up the rags-to-riches." There is a chance that they didn't even bother to think. <mask>'s performance in the film was praised by the critic. She is the same person as Theda Bara was yesterday. She doesn't look like a vampire.She allows her audience to relax. <mask> divorced Crane because of his gambling and unemployment. During the 1944 presidential election, she spent the rest of the year campaigning for Roosevelt. Keep Your Powder Dry was a war drama about three women who join the Women's Army Corps. She was cast as the female lead in a remake of the Grand Hotel in which she played a stenographer. The film made a lot of money. <mask> was cast in a lead role opposite John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice, a film noir based on James M. Cain's debut novel of the same name.She portrayed an ambitious woman married to a stodgy older owner of a roadside diner who falls in love with a drifter and their desire to be together motivates them to murder her husband. <mask>'s first role as a femme fatale was in the classic film noir. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that <mask>'s performance in the film was "the role of her career". Life magazine named the film "Movie of the Week" in April 1946, noting that both <mask> and Garfield were well-cast and created more fireworks than the Fourth of July. <mask> commented on her decision to take the role, "The Postman Always Rings Twice became a

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title: Lana Turner

texts: major box office success, which prompted the studio to take more risks on <mask>, casting her outside of the glamorous sex-symbol roles for which she had come to be known." In August 1946, it was announced that she would replace Hepburn in Green Dolphin Street, a role for which she lost 15 pounds. Carey Wilson insisted on casting <mask> based on her performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice.She played the daughter of a wealthy family who is in love with a man who is in love with her sister. <mask> said she was the most un-Hepburnish actress on the lot. It was what I wanted to do. Her first starring role was not about her looks. <mask> said in an interview that he went running in the jungles of New Zealand in a dress that was filthy and ragged. I don't wear makeup and my hair is messy. She insisted she wouldn't give up her glamorous image.<mask> and Power were having an affair in the midst of filming Green Dolphin Street. She had an abortion when she discovered she was pregnant with Power's child. She had romantic affairs with both Frank Sinatra and Howard Hughes during this time. In <mask>'s next film, she played a young woman in love with an older judge, a role for which she had also been considered. <mask> was set for the role as early as 1946, but her schedules with Green Dolphin Street almost prevented her from taking it. <mask> was exhausted because it was shot in between the re-enactments of Green Dolphin Street. Variety noted that <mask> is the surprise of the picture due to her top performance.She rarely fails to acquit herself creditably in a role that allows her from being a man's woman to a remorseful wife. In August 1947, <mask> agreed to appear as the female lead in the World War II-set romantic drama Homecoming, in which she was againpaired with Clark Gable, portraying a female army lieutenant who falls in love with an American surgeon. She was the studio's first choice for the role, but it was reluctant to give her the part because of her busy schedule. The team that generated steam was <mask> and Gable. <mask> was not only MGM's most popular star, but also one of the ten highest-paid women in the United States, with an annual earnings of $226,000. <mask> was cast as Lady de Winter in The Three Musketeers in late 1947. She began dating Henry J around this time.Dan Topping, the owner of the New York Yankees, is the brother of "Bob" Topping Jr. Topping proposed to her at the 21 Club in New York City by dropping a diamond ring into her martini, and they married in April 1948 at the Topping family mansion in Connecticut. <mask> was late to the set of The Three Musketeers because of her wedding celebrations. <mask> used her box-office draw with MGM to negotiate an expansion of her role in the film, as well as a salary increase amounting to $5,000 per week, after the studio head threatened to suspend her contract. The Three Musketeers went on to become a box-office success, earning $4.5 million, but <mask>'s contract was put on hold after production finished. <mask> gave birth to a stillborn baby in New York City in 1949 after discovering she was pregnant after the release of The Three Musketeers. <mask> was to play a woman who aspires to be a model in George Cukor's film A Life of Her Own.<mask> told journalists in December 1949 that the script was a pile of junk. I'm anxious to start. It will be almost three years since I last appeared in a movie, in The Three Musketeers. I don't think it's a good idea to stay off the screen for that long. <mask> agreed to appear in the film after executives promised her suspension would be lifted if she did so. Cukor's film A Life of Her Own received unfavorable reviews and low box-office sales. <mask> left her handprints and footprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 24, 1950.<mask> was cast in musicals in response to the poor reception for A Life of Her Own. Mr. Imperium was a flop and had <mask> starring as an American woman who is wooed by a European prince. She said the script was stupid. I lost the fight against doing the picture. One critic from the St. Petersburg Times wrote that Mr. Imperium would be a better picture without <mask>. <mask>'s personal finances were in disarray and she was facing bankruptcy. She tried to kill herself in September 1951 by cutting her wrists in a locked bathroom.She was saved by her business manager who broke down the bathroom door. She began filming her second musical, The Merry Widow. <mask> began an affair with her co-star Fernando Lamas, which ended after Lamas physically attacked her, and also caused Lamas to lose his MGM contract upon the production's completion. <mask>'s previous musical, Mr. Imperium, received unfavorable reviews, but The Merry Widow proved to be more successful. <mask> played an alcoholic movie star in The Bad and the Beautiful, a drama about the rise and fall of a Hollywood film mogul. The Bad and the Beautiful was both a commercial success and a critical success. <mask> divorced her third husband, Bob Topping, a week before the film's release.She claimed Topping's drinking problem and excessive gambling was the reason for her divorce. Lamas had originally been cast in Latin Lovers, her next film. He was replaced by someone else. <mask> relocated to Europe for 18 months in the spring of 1953 to make two films under a tax credit for American productions shot abroad. <mask>'s fourth and final film appearance was opposite Clark Gable in Betrayed, in which she played a woman who takes advantage of a musician. Bosley Crowther wrote about Betrayed in The New York Times. It has taken the audience through a lengthy and tedious amount of detail that has made them tense and has made them impatient as well.<mask> and Barker had been dating since their first meeting at a party held by Davies in the summer of 1952. <mask> had her first CinemaScope feature, The Prodigal, in 1955, in which she starred as a pagan temptress. She was reluctant to appear in the film because of the character's "atrocious" costumes and "stupid" lines, and she struggled to get along with her co-star Edmund Purdom, who she later described as a young man with a high opinion. The film was described by Variety as a big-scale spectacle and only fair entertainment. <mask> played a spy aboard a ship in John Farrow's The Sea Chase, which starred John Wayne. One month after The Prodigal, the film was a commercial success. <mask> was given the role of Diane de Poitiers in the period drama Diane (1956), which had originally been optioned by the studio in the 1930s for Greta Garbo.<mask> was lent to 20th Century-Fox to play the wife of Richard Burton in a remake of The Rains Came in 1939. The production was rushed to accommodate a Christmas release and was completed in three months, but it received unfavorable reviews from critics. Diane was given a test screening in December of 1955 and received a poor response from the audience. MGM decided not to renew <mask>'s contract after the film flopped in the box office. <mask> told a reporter that she was walking around in a daze. I was sprung. After 18 years at MGM, I'm a free agent and I used to go to the front office and ask for a decent story.Give me a good story and I'll work for nothing. What happened? The last time I asked for a good story, they gave me The Prodigal. <mask>'s films had earned the studio more than $50 million. <mask> gave birth to a stillborn baby girl seven months after discovering she was pregnant with Barker's child. In July 1957, she filed for divorce from Barker after her daughter Cheryl accused him of molesting and raping her over the course of their marriage. <mask> forced Barker out of their home at gun point, according to Cheryl.<mask> began filming 20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place, in which she had been cast in the lead role of a New England mother struggling to maintain a relationship with her teenage daughter, after her divorce. The film was adapted from Grace Metalious' best-selling novel. <mask>'s favor was helped by the fact that she agreed to take a percentage of the film's overall earnings instead of a salary. For the first and only time, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, as Variety noted that "<mask> looks elegant" and "registers strongly". <mask> felt that it was not one of her better roles, even though she was grateful for the nomination. The Lady Takes a Flyer, a romantic comedy starring <mask>, was released in January of 1959. She had begun receiving phone calls and flowers from Johnny Stompanato, using the name "John Steele", while shooting the film the previous spring.Stompanato had close ties to the Los Angeles underworld and Mickey Cohen, which he feared would deter her from dating him. He sent various gifts to <mask>. <mask> began casually dating him. She confronted Stompanato after learning that he was actually a friend. Over the course of a year, Stompanato had a relationship filled with violent arguments, physical abuse and reconciliations. <mask> would claim that he drugged her and took nude photographs of her while she was unconscious, potentially to use as blackmail. In 1957, Stompanato visited <mask> in London, where she was filming Another Time, Another Place.They started fighting after their meeting was initially happy. Stompanato became suspicious when <mask> wouldn't allow him to visit the set and, during one fight, he violently choked her. <mask> and her makeup artist called Scotland Yard in order to have Stompanato deported. Stompanato showed up on the set with a gun, threatening her and Connery. Stompanato ran off the set after Connery grabbed the gun out of his hand. <mask> and two Scotland Yard detectives went back to the rented house where she and Stompanato were staying. The detectives escorted Stompanato out of the house and to the airport, where he boarded a plane back to the U.S.Stompanato physically attacked her after he did not attend with her. On Friday, April 4, Stompanato arrived at <mask>'s rented home in Beverly Hills. Stompanato threatened to kill <mask>, her daughter Cheryl and her mother after they argued in the bedroom. Cheryl ran to <mask>'s defense because she was afraid that her mother's life was in danger. According to testimony provided by <mask>, Stompanato died at the scene when Cheryl stabbed him in the stomach when <mask> tried to get him out of the bedroom. <mask> saw blood on Stompanato's shirt when she realized he had been stabbed. The case became a media sensation because of <mask>'s fame and the fact that her daughter was involved.The April 12, 1958 inquest was described by attendees as "near-riotous". After four hours of testimony and 25 minutes of deliberations, the jury decided the killing was justified. When a juvenile court hearing was held on April 24, the judge expressed concerns over Cheryl receiving proper parental supervision. She was released to the care of her grandmother, and was ordered to visit a psychiatrist with her parents. Life magazine published a photo of <mask> testifying in court along with stills of her in courtroom scenes from three of the courtroom scenes. The release of Another Time, Another Place was met with poor box-office receipts and a lackluster critical response. The wrongful death suit was filed by Stompanato's family against <mask> and Crane.Stompanato's son alleged that <mask> was responsible for his death, and that his daughter took the blame. In May 1962, the suit was settled for $20,000. The 1962 novel Where Love Has Gone by Harold Robbins was inspired by the event. In the wake of negative publicity related to Stompanato's death, <mask> accepted the lead role in Ross Hunter's remake of Imitation of Life. She was portraying a struggling stage actress who made personal sacrifice to further her career. <mask> had a panic attack on the first day of filming due to the recent events of her personal life. <mask> cried for three days after filming a scene in which Moore's character dies, according to her co-star.Moore said that she couldn't work when she returned to the set. <mask> earned more than two million dollars by opting to receive 50% of the film's earnings rather than a salary, despite the fact that it was one of the year's biggest successes. The film made more than $50 million at the box office. Variety praised her performance, writing: "<mask> plays a character of changing moods, and her changes are remarkably effective, as she blends love and understanding, sincerity and ambition." The growth of maturity is reflected in her portrayal. The plots of Peyton Place and Imitation of Life seemed to mirror certain parts of <mask>'s private life, resulting in comparisons she found painful. The relationship between a single mother and her daughter was depicted in both films.<mask>'s daughter Cheryl came out as a lesbian to her parents, who were both supportive of her. Cheryl ran away from home many times and the press wrote about it. <mask> worried that Cheryl was still suffering from the trauma of Stompanato's death and sent her to the Institute of Living in Connecticut. <mask> was cast in a lead role in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, but walked off the set over a wardrobe disagreement, which resulted in him dropping out of the production. Lee Remick replaced her. <mask> took the lead role in Portrait in Black, a film that was a box-office success despite bad reviews. <mask> is like a fashion model with a tight-fitting shoe, according to Ray Duncan of the Independent Star-News.<mask> married her fifth husband, Frederick "Fred" May, a rancher and member of the May department-store family, in November 1960. <mask> moved in with him on his ranch in Chino, California, where the two took care of horses and other animals. She made her final film at MGM with Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise, a romantic comedy about an investigative writer working on a book about the wives of a lavish California community; the film received a mostly positive critical reception. <mask> collected the last $92,000 from her pension fund. By Love Possessed was based on a novel by James Gould Cozzens. TWA showed the film to its first-class passengers, making it the first in-flight movie to be shown on a regular basis.

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texts: <mask> starred in Who's Got the Action?, a comedy in which she played the wife of a gambler.<mask> and May separated in September of that year. They were friends throughout her life. She met Robert Eaton, who was ten years her junior, through business associates. The couple got married at his family's home in Arlington, Virginia. <mask>'s last major starring role was in the courtroom drama film Madame X, in which she played a lower-class woman who married into a wealthy family. When she takes the stand in the final scene, her face resembles a dust bowl victory garden, it's the most devastating denouement since Barbara Fritchie poked her head out, according to a review in the Chicago Tribune. "Her performance, I think, is far and away her very best, even rating Oscar consideration in next year's Academy Award race, unless the culture snobs gang up against her," wrote Kaspar Monahan of the Pittsburgh Press.<mask> received a David di Donatello Golden Plaque Award for Best Foreign Actress. In late 1968, she began filming the low-budget thriller The Big Cube, in which she portrayed a glamorous heiress being dosed with LSD by her stepdaughter in hopes of driving her insane and receiving the family estate. <mask>'s acting in the film was deemed "strained and amateurish" by one critic. <mask> filed for divorce in 1969 after four years of marriage because he had been unfaithful to her. On May 9, 1969 she married Ronald Pellar, a nightclub hypnotist whom she had met at a Los Angeles disco. <mask> claims that Ronald Dante, also known as Dr. Dante, lied about being raised in Singapore and having a PhD in psychology. <mask> is going to appear in a television series called The Survivors.The series was given a major national marketing campaign, with billboards featuring life-sized images of <mask>. Despite ABC's extensive publicity campaign and the presence of other big-name stars, the program flopped and was canceled halfway into the season in 1970. After six months of marriage, <mask> discovered that her husband had stolen money from her. She accused him of taking $100,000 worth of jewelry from her. No charges were filed against him after he denied the accusations. She claimed to be celibate for the rest of her life after she filed for divorce. <mask> said she wanted to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.<mask> returned to feature films with a lead role in a 1974 British horror film, in which she played a disturbed wealthy woman tormenting her son. <mask>'s performance as Carrie, the perverted dame of the English manor, has reasonable composure. <mask> spoke at a New York City retrospective in 1975, attended by Andy Warhol, Sylvia Miles, Rex Reed and numerous fans. She played the mother of a woman who inadvertently married her half-brother in Bittersweet Love. The New York Times' Lawrence Van Gelder wrote that the film reminded him that <mask> was not a subtler actress. <mask>'s first theater production was Forty Carats, which toured various East Coast cities in 1971. Miss <mask> always could wear clothes well, and her Forty Carats is a fashion show in the guise of a frothy, little comedy.It wasn't much of a play even when Julie Harris was doing it, and it all but disappears under the old-time Hollywood glamor of <mask>'s star presence. The Pleasure of His Company was performed at the Arlington Park Theater in Chicago by <mask>. She was in a touring production of Bell, Book and Candle from 1976 to 1978. <mask> was the bright spot in an otherwise mediocre play according to Elaine Matas. She played the role of a San Francisco divorce attorney in an original play in Chicago in 1978. <mask> was the hardest working broad I've known, according to a stagehand. "Though she is still a very nervous and inexpert actress, she is giving by far her most winning performance", wrote Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune.<mask> appeared in Murder Among Friends, a murder-mystery play, in various U.S. cities between 1979 and 1980. <mask> was in the middle of a hill slide. She was suffering from an alcohol addiction that began in the late 1950s and was missing performances. <mask>'s last film appearance was in the comedy horror film Witches' Brew. She began practicing her Catholic faith again after having a religious awakening. <mask> received an award from the National Film Society. <mask>'s first television role in 12 years was in an episode of Falcon Crest.Her appearance was a ratings success and her character returned for five more episodes. In 1982, <mask> reprised her role in Murder Among Friends, which toured throughout the U.S. and earned a combined gross of $400,000. <mask> released an autobiography called <mask>: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth. She appeared on an episode of The Love Boat in 1985. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 During her contract with MGM, photographs that showed her holding cigarettes had to be altered in order to hide her smoking. <mask> was unable to stop smoking because she stopped drinking.She was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 She stated in a press release that the cancer had not damaged her vocal cords. She had exploratory surgery to remove the cancer, but it had spread to her lungs and jaw. <mask> announced in 1993 that she was in full remission after undergoing radiation therapy. The cancer came back in July 1994. <mask> was confined to a wheelchair for most of the event at the San Sebastin International Film Festival in Spain in 1994. She died nine months after being diagnosed with cancer at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, with her daughter by her side.<mask> had just completed seven weeks of radiation therapy and had appeared to be in good health, according to Cheryl. <mask>'s remains were cremated and given to Cheryl. Multiple accounts have the ashes in Cheryl's possession, while other accounts say the ashes were scattered in the ocean. <mask>'s personal effects and $50,000 in his will were bequeathed to Cheryl and Joyce LeRoy. According to court documents, her estate was worth more than $1 million. <mask> left most of her estate to her maid, Carmen Lopez Cruz, who had been her companion for 45 years. Cruz said that the majority of the estate was consumed by legal fees and medical expenses.When <mask> was discovered, MGM executive Mervyn LeRoy thought of her as a replacement for Jean Harlow and began developing her image as a sex symbol. She embodied an "innocent sexuality" in They Won't Forget. The girl who'd rather kiss than get wet in the water was represented by Jeanine Basinger. <mask> didn't color her auburn hair in her early films because she was billed as the red-headed sensation who brought "it" back to the screen. <mask>'s blonde hair, which she wore for much of her life and DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch DropCatch "If <mask> will behave herself and not go completely berserk she is headed for a top spot in motion pictures," wrote columnist Louella Parsons after <mask>'s first marriage in 1940. Since Jean Harlow, she is the most glamorous actress.She said that she and Clara Bow used their hearts instead of their heads. <mask> has acted hastily and been guided more by her own ideas than any studio gave her. By the mid-1940s, <mask> had been married and divorced three times, had given birth to her daughter Cheryl, and had many publicized affairs. Her image in The Postman Always Rings Twice marked a departure from her strictly-sex symbol screen persona. <mask>'s rocky personal life and the roles she played were noted by both critics and audiences by the 1950s. <mask> portrayed single mothers struggling to maintain relationships with their teenage daughters in both films. <mask>'s career was marked by a high degree of interpenetration between her publicly available private life and her films.<mask> was often "cast only in roles that were symbolic of what the public knew, or thought they knew, of her life from headlines she made as a person, not as a movie character," Basinger said. Her person became her persona. <mask> was credited by Basinger with being the first mainstream female star to take the male prerogative openly for herself. Jessica Hope Jordan suggests that <mask> used her real-life image and star image to mask the fact that she was the ultimate femme fatale. Historians have cited <mask> as one of the most glamorous film stars of all time, an association that was made both during her lifetime and after her death. She once told a journalist that forsaking glamour was like forsaking her identity. 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She favored the designers. Women made up a large part of <mask>'s fan base in the later years, according to film historians.<mask> was described as "the glitter and glamour of Hollywood" in a 1966 film review. She was vocal about her dedication to acting and her reputation as a versatile, hard-working performer while embracing her glamorous persona. She named her favorite actress to be Bette Davis. Being discovered at a soda fountain has become almost as cherished an ideal as being born in a log cabin because of <mask>, who has been noted by historians as a sex symbol, a popular culture icon and a symbol of the American Dream fulfilled. <mask> came to crystallize the opulent heights to which show business could bring a small-town girl, as well as its darkest, most tragic and narcissistic depths, according to Leonard Maltin. She has been cited by scholars as a gay icon because of her glamorous persona. While discussions surrounding <mask> have largely been based on her cultural prevalence, little scholarly study has been done on her career, and her legacy as an actress has divided critics.John Updike wrote in The New Yorker that <mask> was a faded period piece, an old-fashioned glamour queen whose fifty-four films over four decades didn't amount to much. <mask>'s performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice is an argument for the value of her work according to Defenders of <mask>'s acting ability. <mask> has been associated with film noir and the femme fatale in critical circles because of her role in the film. <mask> was referred to as a master of the motion picture technique in a retrospective on her career. <mask>'s acting has been praised by Jeanine Basinger, who wrote of her performance in The Bad and the Beautiful: "None of the sex symbols who have been promoted as actresses have ever given such a fine performance." <mask> is included in critical discussions about the Hollywood studio system because of her high-profile, glamorous persona and storied, often troubled personal life. Basinger considers her the epitome of Hollywood machine-made stardom.<mask> has been cited in discussions of women's sexuality. <mask> has been depicted and referenced in many works. She was depicted as a minor character in James Ellroy's novel L.A., as the subject of the poem "<mask> has collapsed". The book was Confidential. Harold Robbins wrote Where Love Has Gone after the Stompanato murder. <mask> was the source of <mask> Rey's stage name, as well as being referenced in songs recorded by Frank Sinatra andNina Simone. <mask> was included in an outdoor mural on the auditorium of Hollywood High School in 2002.<mask> has a star on the Walk of Fame. Complex named her the eighth most notorious actress of all time. There are links to <mask>'s media archive at the University of

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texts: A Greek composer and pianist is named <mask>. He has performed in theaters and auditoriums all over the world, including the Concertgebouw, the Belém Cultural Center, the Royal Theater Carré, the Athens Concert Hall, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. Growing up in Athens, <mask> had a passion for music. At the age of 4, he had the ability to memorize classical music and play it on the piano almost intact. He began his studies at the Athens Conservatoire under the guidance of the late Marika Papaioannou. Thanks to a fellowship from the French government, he traveled to Paris to continue his studies after receiving his piano degree. He attended courses in composition, conducting, and cinema music.Pierre Boulez and other renowned music masters taught in these classes. While in Paris, Stefanos became acquainted with a famous Argentinian pianist, Martha Argerich. It was thanks to Martha that Stefanos dream came true. The true value of music as well as techniques that only a master of that caliber could transfuse was learned by Stefanos in his short apprenticeship with Horowitz. The first prize for modern ballet composition at the Val-de-Marne International Music Festival was won by Stefanos. He performed a repertory consisting of his own works as well as works by great Russian composers, such as Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Prokofiev. His performances received rave reviews and continue until today.<mask> was able to work with some of the greatest singers, singing his own music. He has collaborated with many people around the world, including: Alfredo Kraus, José Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Dulce Pontes, Luca Carboni, Vittorio Grigolo, and others. He collaborated with the famous Portuguese artist Dulce Pontes and was her permanent conductor, orchestrator and pianist, as well as working with Academy Award Winner Ennio Morricone. Some of the important collaborations are with Greek people. He collaborated with many important artists in Greece. He wrote the music for the play "Theodora", which was directed by Michael Cacoyannis. During his musical adolescence, he included modern Greek music in his activities without giving up the classical concerts.Orchestras he has collaborated with include the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart and others. He has performed under the baton of some of the best conductors in the world. He has performed in many great theaters and auditoriums around the world, including the Concertbaum (Netherlands), the Opera de la Corunia, the Centro Cultural de Belem (Portugal and Brazil), the Carre Theatre of Amsterdam, and the Athens Concert Hall. He was invited to perform. The Russian Air Force Anthem was composed for the 85th anniversary of the Federal Air Transport Agency and was performed in the Kremlin by him. The ambassador of Mikis Theodorakis' music is <mask>. In May of last year, at the request of Theodorakis, he presented the works of the latter in Cologne, in the presence of the composer himself, and in September of last year, he again appeared at the Herodes Atticus theatre, in the framework of a charity concert to supportThe song of the Union "Mazi gia to pedi - Together for the child" and the Anthem of the Special Olympics have been composed by him. The concert had an enormous success and the revenues, which reached the amount of 153,000 euros, were distributed to 10 clubs of the Union. After finishing his last project abroad entitled Bloody Faeries, a production of legendary British producer Haydn Bendall, he continues to give concerts in Greece and worldwide as a soloist in recitals and in collaboration with famous orchestras. Sophia Manousaki, a very young and talented singer of the new generation, won rave reviews for her performance at the most recent concert he gave. In front of a large audience, the brand new institution "rt in the square" was launched by <mask> and Sophia Manousaki. The charity concert "sing me an angel", which took place at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Athens Herodion), in collaboration with the internationally renowned tenor Mario Frangoulis and Norwegian Soprano Sissel, was a huge success. The Russian-Cypriot charity event took place in the gardens of the Presidential Palace in Cyprus.The new album of Stefanos was released in Greece and Cyprus. In this double CD, for the first time, Stefanos, as a piano soloist, touches pieces from all over the musical spectrum of the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The double CD received excellent reviews and on October 17, 2015, the award ceremony of the gold disc took place at the Athens Concert Hall, with the presence of Mikis Theodorakis, who, after the ceremony and the concert, and while the audience was. This never happens! He was the only one who did this. Through words and acts, Stefanos shows his love and devotion to my music. He combines Apollo and Dionysus when he plays the piano.He can become either Apollo or Dionysus. This is very difficult. It makes you feel light. The concert entitled "SINANTISI" has traveled in twenty cities across Greece. In some cities the concerts were repeated because of the high attendance of the world. The reviews were very bad. The tour "SINANTISI" is considered the success of this year's winter by many people.In November 2016 the project "SINANTISI" was presented in Paris, at the Alambra Theatre, where it received an enormous success from the French public. There were two sold out concerts at the bookstore "IANOS" where the new double CD SYNANTISI II was presented by <mask> and Sophia Manousaki. The two circle of songs are from the song "Betrayed Projects" by Theodorakis. On January 16, 2017, the award ceremony of the gold disc took place at the bookstore "IANOS", after the double CD received excellent reviews. In April of last year, <mask> released his new album "I should like to relate to this memory" which includes songs and orchestral works inspired by Constantine P. Cavafy's poems. Greek pop musicians 1960 births 21st-century pianists are mentioned.

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title: Judy Grahn

texts: <mask> is an American poet and author. She became a feminist poet because of her experiences of being a butch lesbian. Her work is influenced by Metaformic Theory, a philosophy that traces the roots of modern culture back to ancient menstrual rituals. At the California Institute for Integral Studies, Grahn teaches women's mythology and ancient literature. <mask> was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a photographer's assistant and her father was a cook. A poor and depressed New Mexico desert town near the border of West Texas was where Grahn grew up.She married a student named Yvonne at a nearby college when she was eighteen. Yvonne opened her eyes to gay culture. She joined the United States Air Force. She was discharged for being a lesbian at twenty-one. Grahn was beaten up for her butch attire and experienced a fair amount of homophobia while working odd jobs. She mentioned in an interview with Tongue that she learned everything she could about the oppression of Gay people. Grahn was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217She wanted to become a poet after overcoming her illness. Grahn was abused and mistreated for being an open lesbian. Grahn stated that if he was going to do what he had set out to do in his life, he would have to go all the way with it. I decided that I wouldn't do anything that would keep me out of my art. Grahn became active in the feminist poetry movement of the 1970s on the west coast. There were many rumors about Grahn's weight and possible eating disorder. Poor eating habits, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee are what causes Grahn's thin frame.She received her PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Grahn was the director of the Creative Inquiry and Women's Spirituality programs at the New College of California. Grahn teaches at the California Institute for Integral Studies, the New College of California, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. She teaches Metaformic Consciousness, a philosophy created by Grahn, and Uncommon Kinship, a course that uses theories from her Metaformic philosophy. Career Grahn knew she was a poet by the time she was nine, but it wasn't until she was twenty-five that she consciously committed herself to her work after overcoming her illness. The first lesbian-feminist collective on the West Coast was founded in 1969 by Grahn and the Gay Women's Liberation Group. Wendy Cadden and Grahn produced books, poems, and graphics.The Women's Press Collective tried to devote "itself exclusively to work by lesbians disfranchised by race or class" The women's bookstore A Woman's Place was founded by GWLG. The poems of Grahn were important documents of lesbian feminism. Her work did not reach a commercial audience until the late 1970s, but it did reach an underground audience before 1975. The explosion of lesbian poetry that began in the 70s was fueled by Grahn's work. Grahn's poetry is free verse and infused with her feminist lesbian identity. She covers racism, sexism, classicism, and the struggles of being female and a lesbian in her works.The Poetry Foundation describes her as an "etymological curiosity that often shuns metaphor in favor of incantation." Grahn does more than just write poetry, she also works with other artists such as Anne Carol Mitchell and Anne Blethenthal. Heterosexist biases and the patriarchy are critiqued in her writing. Metaformia is an online journal about menstruation and women's culture. Her first poetry collection, Edward the Dyke and Other Poems, was released in 1971 and was combined with She Who and A Woman is Talking to Death in a poetry collection called The Work of a Common Woman in 1978. She read poetry from the first two books at an event organized by the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. Grahn stated that On A Woman is Talking to Death began a redefinition for him of the subject of love.The Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry was won by a collection of selected and newer poems. Grahn's poetry has been used as a source of empowerment and a way to reestablish possession of words and signs of lesbian culture that are often used as derogatory by outsiders. "I am the dyke in the matter, the other is the wall with the womanly swagger, and I am the dragon, the dangerous dagger," she wrote in a poem from the She Who collection. In 1993, Grahn wrote her second book, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, which focuses on menstrual rituals as the origin of human civilization by using anthropology, history, archeology, myths, and stories. Her Common Woman collection became "touchstones for the women's movement in the seventies, such as 'the common woman is as common as the best of bread'." According to Theory, Grahn's poem, "A Woman is Talking to Death" is her best work. She attributes this to "Grahn's assumption of an utterly believable, vulnerable poetic voice that fearlessly and scrupulously speaks the truth to an overwhelming but nonetheless nameable, identifiable, and therefore negotiable power.""BACKUS, MARGARTA GAY" is the name of the person. The Lesbian Invocational Elegy: Testimonial and Prophetic Responses to Social Death in 'A woman is Talking to Death' was written by <mask>n. There are signs in this edition of signs. 18, No. According to Backus, Grahn's poetic voice may have come from works by Shakespeare and Donne. In "A Woman is Talking to Death", the central themes of the elegy and the love lyric interpenetrate in complex and innovative ways. Metaformic Theory is a theory that traces the roots of culture back to ancient menstrual rituals.She wrote Blood, Bread, and Roses. She states that her Metaformic philosophy was inclusive despite the fact that she was involved in lesbian feminism. The woman in three pieces is a poem by Grahn. Grahn emphasizes language's formal properties by straining its ability to make sense, and ultimately calling into question the speaker's relationship to language. Grahn has received other awards for her work. She has received several awards, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She received a lifetime achievement award from Publishing Triangle.The <mask>n Award for Lesbian Nonfiction was established in 1997 by Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing. A mother tongue works for Nonfiction Another Mother Tongue. The Beacon Press was published in Boston. The Lesbian Poetic Tradition and The Highest Apple are both from Spinster's Ink 1985. Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World was published in 1993. The Making of an Activist Poet is a book. Gina Covina and Laurel Galana were with them.The lesbian reader. Barn Owl books were published in 1975. with Lisa Maria. <mask> is a reader. Aunt Lute books was in San Francisco. There is a fiction world. The Crossing Press was published in 1988.The Collected Poetry of <mask>n was published in 1977. The Crossing Press was published in 1984. A simple revolution. Aunt Lute books was published in November. The Common Woman Poems are from the Women's Press Collective. There are poems by Edward the Dyke. A Woman is Talking to Death is from the Women's Press Collective.Collected poetry is the work of a common woman. St. Martin's Press was published in 1982. The queens of wands TheCrossing Press was published in 1982. The Queen of Swords was published in 1987. Love is for those who do the feeling. Red Hen Press was published in 2008.Hanging on our Own Bones was a winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Further reading Dehler, Johanna. H.D., <mask>, and Monique Wittig wrote Fragments of Desire. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. The person is Stein, by the way. There is an encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson/Gale was published in 2004.Bonnie. "Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia" was published. Garland Publishing, Inc. A Simple Revolution: Community Dialogue with <mask>n website was created by Aunt Lute Books to honor the history and legacy of the Bay Area lesbian movement. A companion to the anthology of modern American poetry. The Serpentina website was founded by Dianne Jenett and <mask>. The 1940s saw the birth of American women poets Lesbian feminists American lesbian writers Living people Writers from Chicago.

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title: Judith A. Bense

texts: A former president of the University of West Florida, <mask> is an American academic. She served as a faculty member and department chair in the anthropology program at the University of West Florida and is the chairwoman of the Florida Historical Commission. She was president of the university for 7 years. She was the executive director of anthropology and archaeology at UWF. She drafted the legislation for the Florida Public Archaeology Network. <mask> was born in New Jersey but grew up in Panama City, Florida, on her family's dairy farm. She was influenced by her family's trips to historical state parks when she decided she wanted to be an archaeologist.She graduated from Panama City's Bay High School in 1963. <mask> graduated from Florida State University with a degree in anthropology. She received her master's degree in anthropology from this institution in 1969. The shell ring located in Wakulla County, Florida was the focus of her thesis research. <mask> worked for the Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management after graduating from FSU. <mask> received her PhD in anthropology from Washington State University in 1972. <mask> worked with archaeologists Richard Daugherty and Frank C. Leonhardy.The lower Snake River was the focus of her research. <mask> moved back to Florida in 1972 to take care of her family in the wake of her parents deaths. <mask> spent the next five years working on her family's farm. She began teaching anthropology and archaeology at UWF in 1977. The first field school was taught by UWF. The St. Marks National Wildlife refuge on the Florida Gulf Coast was headed by <mask>. This project was followed by a testing project along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi.She was appointed as a senior research archaeologist for the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama. She managed a lot of large projects. If UWF agreed to allow her to establish an anthropology program, <mask> would bring her contracts to the school. The UWF Archaeology Institute was started in 1980 by <mask>. She became a full professor in 1994. She collaborated with the UWF History department to create a master's program in historical archaeology. She introduced a master's program in anthropology two years after she became the department chair.Some of the town's colonial history was destroyed when a new city hall was built in 1984. <mask> recognized the importance of educating local community members and leaders about the archaeological and historical resources in their backyard when he led a short salvage project. As the city underwent an urban renewal, a massive urban archaeology project headed by Bense was started to preserve and detail the Spanish and British colonial history of the city. Bense worked with Gulf Power on a large public archaeology program. The company was building a new headquarters on the site of a historic African American neighborhood. Bense was able to conduct archaeological excavations for two years. Through a series of programs, publications, and exhibits, the information was accessible to the public.Bense and Gulf Power were awarded the National Public Service Award from the Department of the Interior for the project in 1986. Over the next few decades, cultural resources management or public archaeology became a mainstay. The Spanish fort of Santa Mara de Galve on the Naval Air Station was one of the sites that were excavated. The Emanuel Point, a 16th century Spanish shipwreck, was discovered in the early 1990s by the Bureau of Archaeological Research. The excavation was finished in 1997 by BAR and UWF Anthropology. <mask> decided that the UWF curriculum needed to include underwater archaeology. She felt that the underwater resources in the area needed more attention.The remains of the flagship of the Spanish Windward Fleet were excavated in 1999. The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) was started by <mask> in 2004, after she wrote the legislature and obtained funding for it. She started a radio show on the UWF NPR channel. <mask> was the conference chair for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in 1984 and served on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Society of American Archaeology. <mask> served as interim president of the University of West Florida from 2008 to 2016 She was the first woman president of the college and the first anthropologist to be president of a public university in the US. She took her approach of involving the community in archaeology to her position as president and has sought to involve the UWF community within the community of Pensacola.She secured a grant to establish a football program when she was president. The Society for Historical Archaeology gave an Award of Merit in 2002. The University of West Florida gave a distinguished teaching award in 2001. The Society for American Archaeology for Leadership in Government Affairs gave a Presidential Award in 1999. The Ripley P. Bullen Award was presented in 1998. The National History Award medal came from the American Revolution. The official directory of the University of West Florida writes about the appointment of Dr. <mask>.

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title: Harold Bride

texts: The junior wireless officer on the Titanic was a British merchant seaman named <mask>. The survivors of the Titanic were picked up by the Carpathia after <mask> and JackPhillips relaying CQD messages to ships in the vicinity. The men were at their posts until the ship's power went out. <mask> was washed off the ship as the boat deck flooded, but managed to scramble onto the upturned lifeboat, and was rescued by the Carpathia later in the morning. He helped <mask>, the Carpathia's wireless operator, transmit survivor lists and personal messages despite being injured. <mask> was born in Nunhead, London, England, in 1890 to <mask> and Mary Ann Lowe. <mask> was the youngest of five children.<mask> worked in his family's business to help pay for training after he decided he wanted to become a wireless operator. He completed his training for the company in July of 1911. His first sea assignment was as a wireless operator, and he later worked on the LaFrance, the Lusitania, and the Anselm. <mask> joined the crew of the Titanic in 1912 as the junior wireless operator and assistant to JackPhillips. <mask>hillips before the Titanic. The Titanic left on her maiden voyage to New York City. During the voyage, <mask>hillips worked from the wireless room on the Boat Deck, sending out passengers' personal messages and receiving warnings from other ships.On 11 April, a day after the ship set sail,Phillips and <mask>hillips' 25th birthday with pastries brought from the first class dining room <mask> went to bed early on the night of April 14, 1912 in order to relieve JackPhillips at midnight two hours earlier than normal. Phillips was busy catching up on personal messages being sent to Cape Race, Newfoundland, because the wireless had not been working earlier. The Titanic hit the iceberg and began to sink. The bride woke up and asked what was happening. The <mask>hillips and began to get ready to go on duty. <mask>hillips were ready to send out a distress signal when Captain Edward Smith came into the wireless room.He came in after midnight and told them to ask for help. The <mask> took messages from the Captain about which ships were coming to help the Titanic. The Carpathia would not reach the Titanic until after she sank. At one point <mask> joked that it may be the last chance to send it, as the new code was "soothing". <mask> took over the wireless afterPhillips took a break. The forward part of the ship was flooded and they should put on more clothes and life vests. The bride was getting dressed while the man worked on the machine.When Captain Smith arrived, he told the men that they had done their duty and that they were relieved. The Bride was gathering money and personal belongings. The bride remembered howPhillips continued working. A crew member sneaked in and tookPhillips' life vest. The woman might have hit the man with an object. The crewman fell after they ran out of the wireless room and the water began to flood the room. The bride thought the man was a stoker.The bride wrote that she did her duty. I want to finish the man. I don't know. We left him on the floor of the radio room. The men split up, <mask>s heading away. The last time the bride saw him was this one. The bride was helping to remove the last of the two life boats from the officer's quarters.The boat was washed off the deck after the crew was unable to launch it. The bride was washed off the deck and found under the overturned boat. He and fifteen other men were able to survive, although the collapsible was slowly sinking, because he swam out from under and climbed onto the boat. <mask> and the others on B were taken to the Carpathia, where they were assisted into other boats. On the Carpathia, the seriously injured <mask> rested, and later helped the Carpathia's wireless operator, <mask>, send out the large number of personal messages from the survivors. <mask> and Cottam were good friends and had met before the disaster. They were in contact for many years after the tragedy.Post-Titanic <mask>, who had to be carried off the Carpathia because of injuries to his feet, was met in New York City by Guglielmo Marconi and The New York Times, which gave him $1,000 for his exclusive. In the American and British inquiries into the Titanic disaster, the bride gave testimony about what had happened the night of the disaster. <mask> was questioned about ignoring requests for information, while on the Carpathia, by the press and the U.S. Navy, which wanted to know the fate of Butt. <mask> claimed that priority was given to personal messages and survivor lists over answering questions from the press and 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 The New York Times interview with <mask> was set up by the Marconi Company, but they denied the accusations. <mask> was considered one of the heroes of the disaster because this matter was not pursued. <mask> kept a low profile after the sinking despite being a key witness.He got married to Lucy Downie on April 10, 1920, but he broke off his engagement in September of 1912. Records show that <mask> was a Marconi Operator in August of 1912. In 1922, <mask> and Lucy moved to Glasgow, where <mask> became a salesman. Lucy was born in 1921, John in 1924 and Jeanette in 1929. Death <mask> died of lung cancer at the age of 66. His ashes were scattered in the garden of the crematorium's chapel after he was cremated. Portrayals David McCallum, Barry Pepper, Craig Kelly, and Martin Moran all starred in Titanic.

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title: Elisabeth Welch

texts: Her career spanned seven decades and she was an American singer, actress, and entertainer. Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town". She lived in Britain for most of her career. According to her birth certificate, she was born in New York City. Her father was a gardener. Her parents were both of Scottish and Irish descent. She began singing in a church choir after being brought up in a Baptist-Christian family.She wanted to go from high school to social work, but decided to become a professional singer. She moved to Europe in 1929 after starting her career in New York in 1922. In 1923, she was the first singer of the Charleston in the show Runnin' Wild. She appeared in two African-American Broadway theatre shows in the 1920s. She didn't make a lot of recordings. She made one record before moving to Europe, "Doin' The New Lowdown", b/w 'Digga Digga Do', as vocalist for the Hotsy Totsy Gang. In 1929, "Blackbirds of 1928" was taken to the Moulin Rouge in Paris and it was there that <mask> began her career as a cabaret singer.She was asked to return to New York, where she replaced a singer in The New Yorkers and sang Cole Porter's "Love for Sale". The composer invited her to perform his song "Solomon" in London in 1933 after meeting her in Paris. She was given permission to perform in London in Dark Doings, in which she sang "Stormy Weather", before this show was available. She took the song as her signature tune. Ivor Novello saw her performance in Nymph Errant and gave her a part in his show Glamorous Night, in which she stood out again singing his blues song "Far Away in Shanty Town". She included the new song "As Time Goes By" in her cabaret act almost a dozen years before it became famous. She was one of the first artists to perform on British television, and she appeared in films as a singer and as a leading lady in Paul Robeson's Song of Freedom and Big Fella.During World War II, she was in London. She entertained the armed forces. She was in many West End theatre shows after the war. She was on both radio and television. She had a number of one-woman shows. In 1979 and 1985 she was in the Royal Variety Performance. She sang "Stormy Weather" in the film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.She appeared in Black Broadway in New York in 1980, and in 1986 she received an Obie Award for her one-woman show. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance. She was the subject of This Is Your Life in October 1985 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside London's Palace Theatre. Her final performance was in 1996 for Black Divas, a Channel 4 television documentary, in which she sang "Stormy Weather" at the age of 92. She was married to a musician, but they separated after a few months. He died in 1936. They didn't have any children.On July 15, 2003 there was a death at Denville Hall. The English Heritage blue plaque at Ovington Court was unveiled in February 2012 by writer Bonnie Greer. She was a guest on Desert Island Discs twice, once in 1952 and once in 1990. The Who's Who of Stage Musicals is published by Guinness. C. Larkin. References External links Photos 1904 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from New Jersey American expatriates in the United Kingdom


title: Tony P. Hall

texts: <mask> was an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 2002. <mask> was a member of the Ohio General Assembly. <mask> was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and the chief of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome. <mask> collaborated with the Center for the Study of the Presidency on a Middle East peace initiative. <mask> was born in Dayton, Ohio. <mask> was the Republican mayor of Dayton. <mask> graduated from a high school in Ohio in 1960.He received a bachelor's degree from Denison University. In college, <mask> was named Little All-American football tailback and the Ohio Conference's Most Valuable Player. <mask> served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand in 1966 and 1967, teaching English and contributing to his interest in world hunger issues. He worked in the real estate business. In a change from his father's affiliation, Ohio Legislature <mask> joined the Democratic Party. He served as an Ohio state senator from 1973 to 1979 and as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1969 to 1973. <mask> lost to Ted W. Brown in 1974 for Ohio Secretary of State.Representative <mask> was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He won the election with 54 percent of the vote, but would never face another contest. He was reelected 11 times and never dropped below 57 percent of the vote. Even though Ronald Reagan won the district in a landslide, he was not up for reelection in 1984 because he was popular in the Dayton area. He faced no major-party opposition in the 1980's and 2000's. <mask> changed his position on abortion from abortion rights to pro-life in the 1980's after becoming an evangelical Christian. His voting record was liberal.<mask> was focused on trying to alleviate world hunger. He traveled to more than 100 countries where hunger was common. The Select Committee on Hunger was chaired by him. <mask> fasted for 22 days in protest after the committee was abolished. He founded the Congressional Friends of Human Rights Monitors. <mask> was appointed to the House Rules Committee in 1981 after serving on the foreign affairs and small business committees. <mask> twice introduced legislation that would have apologized for slavery in the United States.The Democratic National Convention was held in 2000. U.S. Ambassador <mask> was nominated by George W. Bush to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. <mask>'s confirmation to the post was held up for several months, but he was confirmed and sworn into the post in September 2002 by U.S. Secretary of State <mask>. He was the chief of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, which included the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Changing the Face of Hunger: One Man's Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and People of Faith are Joined Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed was written by <mask>. In March 2007, <mask> announced he was committed to fostering a Middle East peace initiative by working with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and religious leaders of the Holy Land.Under a $1 million grant from the U.S. Secretary of State, <mask> was to work with religious leaders to prepare the way for peace in the Middle East. <mask> didn't get a salary for his work. He is an executive director of The Alliance to End Hunger. The Board of Advisors of Opportunity International is a charity that seeks to end poverty through microcredit lending to entrepreneurs. <mask> is fighting hunger in his hometown. He created the Hall Hunger Initiative in order to create a just and equitable food system. He led a successful effort to raise $5 million for the Gem City Market.Ambassador <mask> was nominated for the Peace Prize three times for his humanitarian and hunger-related work. Ambassador <mask> and the Hunger Committee received the 1992 Silver World Food Day medal for their work on hunger legislation and for their proposal for a Humanitarian Summit in the Horn of Africa. Ambassador <mask> received a number of awards, including the United States Committee for UNICEF 1995 Children's Legislative Advocate Award. He received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Loyola College in Baltimore. <mask> and his wife, Janet Sue Dick, were married in 1973. They had two children together. Matthew died of leukemia at the age of 15.See also List of United States political appointments that crossed party lines.

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