title: Dick Klein (basketball)

texts: The National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls were founded in 1966 by <mask> land <mask>. He was the team's first general manager and later worked as a scout for the Phoenix Suns. <mask> grew up in Iowa and played basketball in college. The United States Navy's Great Lakes Blue Jackets traveled throughout the United States raising money for the Navy Relief Society. <mask> was a professional basketball player in the National Basketball League. He spent one summer as a pitcher in the Cleveland Indians' farm system. After his playing days were over, he moved to the Chicago suburbs and started distributing promotional items to banks and other companies.The late 1940s and early 1960s were a low point for professional basketball in Chicago. The American Gears folded in 1947 due to poor financial decisions. The Chicago Stags ceased to exist due to lack of fan interest. The NBA returned to Chicago with the Chicago Packers in 1961, but their poor first season record turned off many fans, and the team was sold to a group of Maryland investors in 1962. The Packers were going to move to Baltimore in 1963. The team adopted a new nickname. <mask> tried to purchase the team in 1963, but he failed and the team left the city after posting a 25-55 second season record.<mask> started recruiting local businessmen to help him find an expansion team in order to bring professional basketball back to Chicago. The failure of the Zephyrs and their predecessors made most investors skeptical of <mask>'s venture. The American Broadcasting Company supported <mask> in his negotiations with the

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texts: NBA for television rights. ABC believed a successful Chicago team would help boost ratings, and once <mask> had their support, he was able to attract more partners. On January 26, 1966, his group was awarded an NBA expansion franchise at a cost of $1.6 million, and <mask> was named general manager. <mask> had to come up with a nickname for the new Chicago team. He wanted the name to evoke images of the Chicago stockyards, which were close to the stadium where the team was expected to play.According to <mask>, he originally considered Matadors or Toreadors, but when his son said they were a bunch of bull, he decided to name the team the Chicago Bulls. He recruited a neighbor to design a logo for the Bulls. He went to Fort Madison High School, where he played basketball from 1934 to 1938, and chose the colors red and black. The Bulls' head coach and assistant coach were selected by <mask>. <mask> drafted his coaching staff through the NBA Expansion Draft because both of his former players were still under contract with their old teams. The core players for the Bulls were acquired by him. In support of the new team, <mask> and Kerr paraded through Chicago in a truck with a bull.The 1966–67 NBA season ended with a 33-48 record, but the Bulls still made the playoffs. This was the first time that an expansion franchise made the playoffs in their first year. They lost to the Hawks in the first round. <mask> said that the season was a success because they had good players led by good men. The Bulls won just 29 games in the following season, and as the team struggled to increase

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texts: attendance figures, tensions emerged between <mask> and Kerr. <mask> criticized Kerr in the local media, and he sent notes to his coaching staff, such as "That's seven turnovers this quarter". Kerr left the team in 1968 because he was tired of <mask>'s involvement.<mask> feuded with Motta as well. "You can't play with money; money won't play!", according to Motta. <mask> was ordered to consult with Motta before making any future trades. Facing pressure from other members of team management, <mask> stepped down as general manager before the start of the Bulls fourth season, but he retained his share of the ownership and saw the Bulls improve significantly under Motta during the next few seasons. During the 1970–71 season, the Bulls won 51 games and the next season, they won 57. In the summer of 1972, <mask> orchestrated the sale of several owners' shares of the Bulls to a new ownership group that included the Chicago Blackhawks owner. He later said that the Bulls were in good hands.The Bulls became one of the NBA's most profitable teams because of the presence of Michael Jordan in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of <mask>'s personnel selections blossomed into long-term NBA successes, including Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and sports magnate Jerry Colangelo, who worked in <mask>'s front office in the Bull's early years. <mask> served as a scout for the Phoenix Suns because of his friendship with Colangelo. He died in South Carolina in 2000. 1920 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American business people American men's basketball players United States Navy personnel of World War

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title: Olivier Ayache-Vidal

texts: <mask> was born on December 27 1969 in France. He began his career as a creative in an advertisement agency. In 1992 he became a photographer and worked for the UNESCO and the Gamma agency. He did thirty pieces in five years. The working method he would apply in his fictional works was shaped by his career in journalism. His research allows him to write stories that are as close to reality as possible. This vision of cinema, a "lived-in filmmaking" of sorts, aims to create fictional stories that are as documented as possible.Often tragicomical, his films present stories that are inspired by reality. The goal is to blur the frontier between our world and the fictional world. He applied this method for the first time in 1997. He attended the Red Flag Air Force Exercise at the Nellis Air Force Base, in Nevada, visited the Charles de Gaulle, Foch and Clemenceau aircraft carriers during high seas exercises, and visited French Air Force Bases to create this comic series. Over 90 000 copies of the Fox One series were sold. In 2002, he directed his first short film, Undercover, a seven-minute presentation which mixed cinema and a live show; it won multiple international awards. Coming-out was a comedy that was adapted to a live show by comedians.Mon dernier rle was directed by him in 2006 and starred Patrick Chesnais and Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. The grand prize of the Meudon short film festival and the grand prize of the Comedia Festival were won by this black comedy. He returned to his journalistic roots in 2007, shooting the documentary Htel du Cheval Blanc. Thousands of families are hosted in insanitary hotels every year and the living conditions are terrible. He went to China in 2008 to stage his first performance. 39 artists from the Chinese State Circus are on a world tour, which started in France in 2009. In 2012 he


title: Olivier Ayache-Vidal

texts: wrote and directed Welcome to China.Two brothers play their own roles in a short film. The story of a posh high school teacher in Paris that is transferred to the city's poorer suburbs is the subject of his first feature film. He began researching France's educational institutions. He spent three years in high schools on the outskirts of the french capital. The main setting of the film was the Barbara High School of Stains. The students of the High School became characters in the feature film. In 2016 the shooting started.Denis Podalyds played the main role in the film. The teacher was released in France. It was shown in cinemas all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Italy, Spain, Japan, Taiwan and Nigeria. The film was used by teachers in several countries. <mask>-Vidal is researching the world of gastronomy in order to prepare his future film projects. He worked as a photographic journalist for a number of publications and journalistic agencies, covering scientific, cultural and social subjects. He went on a mission to Southeast Asia.There, he photographed vulnerable populations that were helped by the programme, such as the Karen people of Thailand, the women of Bangladesh, and the children of the streets of Vietnam. Thirty pieces were made in fifteen countries, including Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, China, the United States, Jamaica, and Nepal. The first comic book written for "Fox One", Armageddon, was published in 1997. In 1999, the second tome was released, T.L.D. The comic book script Fox One was drawn by Philippe SA Armageddon. In 2008 he staged The Nutcracker made in China, a production of the Gruber Ballet Opera that mixes dance, theatre and acrobatics. He directed the acrobatic troupe.He directed M&M's in The Nutcracker Made in


title: Maheta Molango

texts: A Swiss-born sports executive and former professional footballer is named <mask>o. He played for Unin Adarve in group one of the Preferente de Madrid. He became the Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers' Association for England and Wales in June 2021. He is an Italian citizen and was born to an Italian mother and a Congolese father. After impressing Mark McGhee during a two-week trial for the club in the summer of 2004, he signed a three-year contract with the Seagulls. He scored his first goal in a Seagulls uniform just 12 seconds into his debut against Reading. Despite his goal, the Seagulls fell.After six appearances in the 2004–05 season, he wouldn't make another appearance due to a falling out with McGhee. In the summer of 2005, a move to another country was allowed by the city of BRIGHTON. On 3 August, after a successful trial with Lincoln City, a season-long loan was signed by Keith Alexander. He scored his first goal for Lincoln in a League Cup victory. In December 2005, while still at Lincoln City, he was told that he did not have a future with the Seagulls. After being sent back to BRIGHTON, he went on loan to UB Conquense for the rest of the 2005–06 season. He made eight league appearances for the club without finding the net after making his club debut in the January 2006 home draw with UD Almansa.He went on a month's loan to League One side Oldham Athletic at the start of the 2006–07 season. He scored his only goal for the Latics in a 1–0 win overSwansea City. His loan was not renewed after six appearances and one goal. After Jake Robinson fell ill, Dean Wilkins gave another


title: Raphaël Domjan

texts: <mask> is a Swiss explorer and lecturer. Between September 2010 and May 2012 he completed the first round-the-world trip using solar energy. The first polar solar navigation took place in 2015. He is the pilot of the first solar plane in the sky. He made the first solar free fall and the first jump off of an electric plane in August 2020. <mask> is a parachutist. He is a member of the Explorer Club of New York.Raphal <mask> was born on January 19, 1972 in Neuchtel, Switzerland. Horus Networks Srl was the world's first solar web server. <mask> launched his first round-the-world project in 2005. In 2007, he founded the PlanetSolar Foundation. Immo Stroeher financed the construction of the PlanetSolar catamaran. He traveled between Martinique and Dominica in the first solar boat to cross the Atlantic. He probably made the first dive from a solar boat.He was a part of the crossing of the United States north/south with Louis Palmer. He was the leader of the expedition on the first solar-powered round-the-world trip. <mask> is a member of the Global Speaker Association. He has lectured on his world tour and explained why he did it. The goal of the SolarStratos mission was to reach the stratosphere with a solar plane. He plans to do a record flight. He tried to make the first crossing of the Northwest Passage in a solar powered kayak.They had to turn back after 300 km because of the bad weather. The solar polar navigation is the first of its kind. The first jump off of an electric plane and the first free fall in solar history took place on August 25, 2020, when he jumped out of the SolarStratos HB-SXA solar plane. He reached a speed of 150 kmh after dropping several hundred meters. He was the first pilot to fly an electric plane with a head of state. They took off with a Pipistrel Velis128 from Nice airport in France with H.S.H. Albert II was the Prince of Monaco.The plane flew for 30 minutes. The MS Tranor PlanetSolar is the largest solar boat built

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texts: to date and the first to have sailed around the world powered by solar energy. The PlanetSolar and her crew followed a route close to the Equator after leaving Monaco. After traveling through the Atlantic Ocean, Panama Canal, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Suez Canal and Mediterranean, the boat reached Monaco. Raphal <mask> was the leader of the PlanetSolar crew during the first solar world tour. Patrick Marchesseau was the captain of PlanetSolar until Erwann le Rouzic took over. They were with Jens Langwasser, a boatman, and Christian Oschenbein, an electrical engineer.The first solar-powered round-the-world trip, the first trip around the world by solar boat, and the first crossing of the Indian Ocean with solar energy were all achieved by PlanetSolar. PlanetSolar is the largest solar boat in the world, and is the solar vehicle that traveled the longest distance. After the first round of the world trip by solar boat, La Poste Monaco issued a postage stamp with a value of 77 centimes representing PlanetSolar in Monaco. Raphal <mask> started the project in March of last year. Calin Gologan built the plane. Raphal <mask> wants to set an absolute altitude record. Raphal <mask> will be able to reach the stratosphere at more than 18,000 meters, an altitude never reached with a conventional aircraft.The goal of the project is to demonstrate that renewable energy can go beyond what is possible with conventional methods. The public saw the SolarStratos aircraft on December 7, 2016 After the record flight planned for 2022, Raphal <mask> and the SolarStratos team want to bring the technologies developed during the stratospheric mission to market. Publications Jaunin Roger, <mask> Raphal, and others. Jaunin Roger and <mask> Raphal had a tour called PlanetSolar. Javet Raphalle and <mask> Raphal wrote  Pionniers et auriers de l'énergie solaire. Filmography  la poursuite du soleil is a movie.SolarStratos  la naissance d'un rve  (2021) is a film

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title: Brad Ashford

texts: <mask> is an American politician who served in the Nebraska Legislature and the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. <mask> ran for the Republican nomination in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, but was defeated. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2015, defeating incumbent Representative Lee Terry. He served in the House of Representatives for two years and was defeated by Don Bacon in the Democratic primary when he tried to return to the House. <mask> was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on November 10, 1949. During World War II, <mask> was a bomber. The National Conference of Christians and Jews was formed due to local boycotts of Jewish businesses by Ellen's father Otto, who was a businessman in Omaha, Nebraska.<mask> graduated from a high school in Omaha. He graduated from Colgate University with a degree in 1971. He attended an anti-Vietnam War rally while he was an intern at Colgate University. He still enjoyed the movie even though he criticized it for depicting the wrong person. He graduated from the University with a Juris Doctor. He was a staff attorney for the Federal Highway Administration. <mask> considered running for the Democratic nomination in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district against incumbent Republican Hal Daub.He announced on January 15 that he would run in the 6th district in the state legislature as it would cost less than a congressional campaign. He officially announced his campaign on February 3. He was endorsed by the Democratic Party and defeated the Republican nominee. <mask> was appointed to serve on the Judiciary and Transportation committees during the 1987–1989 session after he was sworn into the legislature. During the 1989–1991 session, he was appointed to serve on the Appropriations and Executive Board committees. He served as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Cooperation committee during the 1993–1995 session. <mask> was going to switch to the Republican Party

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texts: in order to succeed Hal Daub as the representative from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.<mask> said on August 3 that he wouldn't run to succeed Daub if Cece Zorinsky ran for the Democratic nomination as polling showed her with 43% against <mask>'s 2%. <mask> announced on January 28, 1988, that he had changed his party affiliation to Republican. He was appointed to the finance committee of Bob Kerrey's senatorial campaign after he stated that he would support the Republican nominee. Senator Bob Dole was endorsed by eighteen other Republican state legislators. He announced on February 22, 1990 that he would seek reelection. <mask> and his wife supported Chuck Hagel in the Senate election in 1995 as he supported a ban on the sale of assault weapon and opposed abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother's life. They withdrew their support after Hagel became against abortion in all cases except for a threat to the mother's life.He ran for a delegate from the 2nd Congressional district in the 1996 Republican presidential primaries. He earned $500 as a lobbyist in 1997. He stated in 2005 that he was considering running for another term in the legislature. He decided to run in the 20th state district. He defeated CarolCasey in the general election. During the 100th legislative session of 2007, he was appointed to serve on the Education committee and as chairman of the Judicial committee. During the 101st legislative session from 2009 to 2011, he was reappointed to serve on the Education and Judiciary committees.He was rumored to run for the Democratic nomination in the Senate election, but he didn't. He endorsed Chuck Hassebrook in the Nebraska governor's race. On August 14, 1993, <mask> announced that he would not seek reelection to the state legislature and that he was interested in running for the Republican nomination in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. On October 2, he formally announced his intention to seek the Republican

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texts: 16, 2015, <mask> endorsed Hillary Clinton. He did not face any opposition in the primary. The Cook Political Report had predicted that Nebraska's 2nd congressional district would lean Democratic and <mask> had received more funding than his opponent. <mask> was the first incumbent representative in the 2nd congressional district to lose reelection after one term in office.During his victory speech, bacon praised <mask> as an honorable man and stated that he cried during <mask>'s concession speech. After twelve indictments were announced, <mask> accused Russian agents of hacking his emails during the 2016 election. Russian hackers obtained all of his email correspondence with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, but he did not believe that any information was given to his campaign. <mask> considered running against Bacon again after he voted for the American Health Care Act which would have partially repealed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. <mask> announced in June of last year that he would be running for the Democratic nomination. <mask> filed to run in the election on January 30, 2018, after formally announcing his campaign at the Old Mattress Factory in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a member of the Red to Blue program and received support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.Giffords, a gun control advocacy organization founded by former Representative Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, endorsed <mask>. He was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary by a woman who criticized him for being a member of the Republican Party in the past. Eastman was narrowly defeated in the general election. In February of last year, he was selected to serve as the head of Midtown 2050, an Omaha development group, but resigned in April. <mask>, the brother of Douglas County District Judge <mask>, died from a stroke. <mask> was hospitalized in May due to a fluid backup in his lungs. Ann Ferlic announced on February 1 that she would run

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texts: for the Democratic nomination in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.Former Senators Ben Nelson and Bob Kerrey, as well as former Lieutenant Governor Kim M. Robak, endorsed Ann during the primary campaign. Ann claimed that she was the only candidate who could win. In the Democratic primary, Eastman easily defeated Ann with over sixty percent of the popular vote. The <mask>s did not endorse Eastman after Ann's defeat. <mask> endorsed his former rival in October. In 1988, <mask>, Jerry Chizek, and Bernice Labedz sponsored legislation that would require all video-cassettes to be given a rating label. There were complaints that Faces of Death and other graphic movies did not have warning labels.An amendment that would have allowed the state legislature to confirm members of the appellate court failed in 1990. On April 3, 1991, he voted in favor of legislation changing Nebraska's method of electoral college allocation from winner-take-all to statewide winner and winner of each congressional district. The legislation was signed by the governor. In 1992, a legal challenge was brought against Pennsylvania's abortion laws. Nine hundred ninety-five state legislators signed a friend of the court brief to support a woman's right to get an abortion. <mask> was one of seven Nebraskan senators who signed the brief. He proposed an amendment to the abortion bill that would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-funded prenatal care.The illegal immigrants were getting abortions because they lacked Medicaid coverage. <mask> stated during the debate that he would have voted against the Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act because it lacked bipartisan support. <mask> criticized Don bacon after he voted for a partial repeal. In 1987, the Judiciary committee voted five to two in favor of legislation that would abolish the death penalty. <mask> stated that he wouldn't support the legislation when it went to the floor vote. The state legislature voted twenty-three to nineteen

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texts: against the legislation with <mask> voting in favor. He sponsored legislation to repeal the death penalty in Nebraska in 1992, but later withdrew his sponsorship.Same-sex marriage is supported by civil rights <mask>. He tried to reach a middle ground on Nebraska's same-sex marriage ban by allowing civil unions. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry. The Congressional Halt in Pay Increases and Cut Congressional Pay Act was introduced by Ashford and Loebsack. He, Gwen Graham, Scott Peters, and Ami Bera sponsored legislation that would prevent congressional salaries from being paid if the Department of Homeland Security shuts down. Shoplifters would have to pay up to $150 to their victims if the legislation was passed in 1987. The legislature voted against killing the bill after Chambers tried to kill it.The bill was unanimously approved by the legislature on April 29 as Chambers was not present. Thirty-one to thirteen legislators voted in favor of the legislation during the second round of voting on May 20. The legislature voted against Chambers' motion to kill the bill. A bill was introduced by Development Ashford that would allow a public-private partnership to build a veterans medical facility in Omaha, Nebraska, with help from the Department of Veterans Affairs and private donors. The legislation was signed by the president. He sponsored legislation in 1989 to transfer ownership of the castle from the Omaha Public School District to the Nebraska State Historical Society. The legislation was unanimously approved by the state legislature on February 5, 1990.He voted to approve the project in 2015. On March 20, 1989, <mask> proposed an amendment to a drug penalty bill that would ban semi-automatic weapons, but the speaker ruled that it was not germane. The sale and manufacture of semi-automatic weapons would be banned under an amendment proposed by <mask>. An attempt by <mask> to overrule his decision was


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texts: defeated by a vote of twenty-six to fourteen. In 1992, he introduced legislation that would prohibit the possession of a gun at a school or youth center with a first offense being a Class IV felony with a fine up to $10,000 and up to five years in prison and more violations being a Class II felony with up to twenty years in prison. It would be a crime to store a gun within the reach of a child under the age of 16. The Judiciary Committee voted seven to one against the bill and when it was brought to the assembly it failed to get the 30 votes needed.On March 20, the state legislature voted twenty-five to twenty-four against the repeal of the death penalty, with <mask> voting in favor. Carey Dean Moore's execution was the first in the state since 1997 when the process was restarted one week before the vote. <mask> stated that he would vote in favor of a federal ban on assault weapons. <mask> introduced a bill in 1989 that would require people trying to purchase handguns to fill out forms asking for their criminal record and mental health problems, as well as institute a seven-day waiting period. On February 9, he announced that he would ask the state legislature to place a constitutional amendment onto the 1990 general election ballot that would repeal the 1989 right to bear arms ballot initiative as the 1989 ballot initiative would render his gun control legislation unconstitutional. The Judiciary committee voted five to two in favor of moving the bill forward and five to two against the motion to kill it. The National Research Corporation conducted a poll of 450 Nebraskans on their opinion of Ashford's handgun control legislation.On January 23, The Lincoln Star published a poll that showed with a 4.6% margin of error that 85% of respondents approved, 11% disapproved and 2% had no opinion. The congressional districts ranged from 80% approval in the 3rd congressional district to 100% approval in the 1st congressional district. <mask> criticized Nebraska's 1989

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texts: ballot initiative at a Madison, Wisconsin news conference in January 1990 while campaigning against a right to bear arms amendment. <mask>, vice-chair of Handgun Control, Inc. supported the legislation and referred to it as the "Nebraska Brady Bill". The amendment reducing the waiting period to two days was approved with twenty-five to ten in favor. The state legislature voted twenty-one to twenty-one with seven members not voting, failing to reach the twenty-five votes needed. A two-day waiting period for handgun purchases was reintroduced by <mask> in 1991.The Judiciary committee voted on February 5 to advance the bill. He wanted to limit the effects of his bill to only three counties. The amendment was approved with twenty-six to sixteen in favor and would require an annual permit from local law enforcement. Thirty people voted in favor of Ashford's request to defer debate on his bill until May 8. Thirty-one to five legislators voted in favor of a compromised bill during the first round of voting. The new bill had a two-day waiting period, the certificates to purchase handguns would be valid for three years rather than one, and the certificates could only be denied based on a person's criminal and mental history. Thirty-four to eleven legislators voted in favor of the bill during the second round of voting on June 5.Legislation that would have required local and state agencies to verify the immigration status of people seeking benefits was proposed in 2008 by Governor Dave Heineman and Attorney General Jon Bruning. <mask> referred to the legislation as "partisan communications" after the Judiciary committee voted five to one to kill the bill. <mask> criticized Republicans for attacking Steve Lathrop for abstaining from the Judiciary committee vote. He introduced legislation to prohibit businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and to require employers to use E-Verify after December 31, 2010. <mask> for Congress campaign website has links to

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title: August Strindberg

texts: enemies. He started at the University on 13 September after passing his graduation examination in May 1867. He spent the next few years in Sweden, studying for exams and working in non-academic fields. As a young student, Strindberg worked as an assistant in a pharmacy in the university town of Lund in southern Sweden. He was a substitute primary-school teacher and a tutor for the children of two well-known physicians in Sweden. After leaving Uppsala in 1868 to work as a teacher, he later studied chemistry at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm in preparation for medical studies and later worked as a private tutor at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm. In May 1869, he failed his chemistry exam which made him not want to go to school.In January 1870, <mask> returned to Uppsala University to study and work on a number of plays. He learned about Charles Darwin's ideas at this time. He co-founded the Rune Society, a small literary club whose members adopted pseudonyms taken from runes of the ancient Teutonic alphabet and called themselves Fr (Seed), after the god of fertility. After abandoning a draft of a play about Eric XIV of Sweden halfway through in the face of criticism, he completed a one-act comedy in verse called In Rome about Bertel Thorvaldsen, which he had begun the previous autumn. The Royal Theatre premired the play on 13 September 1870. After watching it, he realized that it wasn't good and felt like he was dying, though the reviews were generally positive. He was influenced by works of Sren Kierkegaard and Georg Brandes that year.He began to use realistic speech in his


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texts: wrote. After an argument in January 1876 about the inheritance of the family firm, his relationship with his father was terminated and he did not attend his funeral. The secret meeting between <mask> and Siri began at the beginning of 1876 and ended at the same time as the divorce of her husband. In December, she became an actress at the Royal Theatre. They were married a year later on December 30, 1877. Their first child died two days after being born.On January 9, 1879, <mask> was declared bankrupt. The Red Room was published in 1879. It has been described as the first modern Swedish novel. It received mixed reviews in Sweden, but was hailed as a genius in Denmark. He became famous as a result of The Red Room. Edvard Brandes wrote that the novel made the reader want to join the fight against hypocrisy and reaction. In his response to Brandes, <mask> said that the daughter of him and his wife was born in February of 1880.The reception of The Red Room was enough to prompt the completion of The Secret of the Guild, a drama about the conflict between two masons over the completion of the city cathedral, which opened at the Royal Theatre on 3 May. He formed a friendship with a painter. The title of the collected edition was Spring Harvest. Edvard Brandes invited Strindberg to contribute articles to the Morgenbladet. In April he began work on The Swedish People, a four-part cultural history of Sweden written as a series of depictions of ordinary people's lives from the 9th century onwards, which he undertook mainly for financial reasons and which absorbed him for the next year. In the spring,

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texts: she became pregnant again and resigned from the Royal Theatre. They were on the island of Kymmend when their second daughter was born.A collection of essays from the past ten years was published that month. The five-hour long production of Master Olof opened on December 30, 1881, under the direction of <mask>, and received positive reviews. The play Lucky Peter's Journey, which opened on December 22, 1884, brought him his first significant success, although he dismissed it as a potboiler. Josephson cast his wife in two roles the following season after he wrote in a letter that his interest in the theatre was only focused on one goal: his wife's career as an actress. The New Kingdom was a collection of anti-establishment short stories written by <mask> in the summer of 1882. He wrote Sir Bengt's Wife in order to provide a lead role for his wife and as a reply to A Doll's House. It was south of Paris, France, where he moved to.They found Paris to be noisy and polluted. Income earned from Lucky Peter's Journey enabled him to move to Switzerland. He lived in Ouchy for a while. Hans was born on 3 April 1884. In 1884, <mask> wrote a collection of short stories called Getting Married, which he was acquitted of in Sweden. Most people in Sweden thought that Queen Sophia was behind the prosecution, as two groups led by influential members of the upper classes were supported by the right-wing press. "My view now is that everything is shit," he wrote at the end of the year.No way out. The skein is too tangled to be untangled. It can only be sheared. The building is very strong. It can only be destroyed.

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texts: the time when he wooed von Essen and their marriage. There are love letters between the two. Naturalism was discovered by <mask> in the late 1800s.After finishing The Father, he sent a copy to Zola for his approval, but he didn't like it. The drama revolves around the conflict between the Captain, a father, husband, and scientist, and his wife, Laura, over the education of their only child, a fourteen-year-old daughter. Laura got the Captain to doubt his fatherhood until he suffered a mental and physical collapse. While writing The Father, <mask> was having problems with his marriage and wondered if he was the father of his children. He suspected that Ibsen based The Wild Duck on Hjalmar Ekdal because he felt that Ibsen viewed him as a weak and pathetic husband. From November 1887 to April 1889, Strindberg stayed in the city. He was able to meet with both the Brandes brothers.The Father had its premire at the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen on November 14, 1887. It toured the Danes for eleven days after a successful run. Miss Julie is one of the most famous pieces of Strindberg's work. He wrote the play with the Thétre Libre in mind. He used Charles Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest and dramatized a doomed sexual encounter that crosses the division of social classes. It is believed that the play was inspired by the marriage of the son of a servant to a woman in the aristocracy. He referred to the psychological theories of the Nancy School in the essay On Psychic Murder.Sexual warfare was not motivated by desire but by will. The person with the strongest and most unscrupulous mind was

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texts: the winner. His view on psychological power struggles can be seen in works such as Creditors, The Stronger, and Pariah. After a separation and reconciliation with his wife, he founded the Scandinavian Experimental Theatre. He asked the writers to send him the script. He moved back to Sweden less than a year after the theatre and reconciliation ended. The final phase of the divorce was used for the basis of The Bond and the Link.There is a short drama called Quart d'heure. Gustave Guiche and Henri de Lavedan inspired him. His contribution was The Stronger. As a result of the failure of the theatre, he did not work as a playwright for three years. In 1889, he published an essay titled "On Modern Drama and the Modern Theatre", in which he argued that realism was not real. He was no longer sympathetic to Nietzsche's philosophy or atheism. During the "Inferno crisis," he had psychological and religious upheavals that influenced his later works.<mask>'s personal account of sinking deeper into some kind of madness, typified by paranoia and visions, is called "Inferno". James Spens talks about <mask>'s drinking habits and his possible effects on his mental health during the inferno period. There was a growing interest in transcendental matters by <mask>. At this time, symbolism was just beginning. Naturalism was dismissed as "shoemaker realism" by Verner von Heidenstam and Ola Hanson. Even though he had exhausted his literary potential, <mask> insisted that he was in a rivalry and had to defend naturalism. The works include Debit and Credit, Facing Death, Motherly Love, and The First Warning.His

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texts: play was inspired by the loss of his children. One of his comedies, Playing with Fire, was completed in 1893. He experienced writer's block in 1892 and it resulted in a drastic reduction in his income. He was depressed because he couldn't meet his financial obligations and support his children and former wife. There was an appeal in a magazine. He left Sweden and joined artistic circles in Berlin. The Father, Miss Julie, and Creditors were all performed in Germany by Otto Brahm's Freie Bhne theatre.He used to go to The Red Room and now goes to The Black Porker. He met a group of artists from all over the world. His attention turned to the younger woman. They were married in 1893. Their daughter Kerstin was born less than a year later and their marriage was not officially dissolved until 1897. In 1894, <mask> wrote a letter in which he said "I feel the hand of our Lord resting over me." Critics think that <mask> may have been insane in the mid-1890s.Evert Sprinchorn and Olof Lagercrantz believed that he turned himself into his own experiment. He wrote on subjects such as chemistry, and wrote a book about his "wilderness years" in Austria and Paris. As a result of the religious element, both volumes aroused curiosity and controversy; earlier, <mask> had been known to be indifferent or hostile to religion and especially priests, but now he had undergone some sort of conversion to a personal faith. The impact of Emanuel Swedenborg on his current work was noted in a postscript. "The Powers" was central to <mask>'s later work. "The Powers" were an outside force that had caused him physical and

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texts: faded in 1903. He had written plays about Martin Luther, Plato, and Jesus Christ. After the Royal Theatre persuaded him to write a new play for its sixtieth birthday, he wrote another historical drama in 1908. He wrote The Last of the Knights in 1909.The Gothic Rooms and Black Banners Genre Scenes from the Turn of the Century were both written by him. <mask>, an actor, wanted to put on a production of Miss Julie and wrote to Strindberg for permission. The first Swedish production of Miss Julie was staged in 1906. Both <mask> and Manda Bjorling played Jean and Julie. In 1909, the first woman and first Swede to win the award, was Selma Lagerlf. A fund-raiser was started by the leader of the Social Democrat Youth Alliance. Both Nathan Sderblom and Strindberg came under attack from circles close to the conservative party and the church because they were noted as donors.Most of the donors were workers, who collected more than 20,000 Swedish crowns. A few months before his death, Albert Bonniers frlag paid 200,000 Swedish crowns for the publishing rights to his complete works; the first volumes of the edition would appear in print. He invited his first three children to Stockholm and divided the money into five shares, one for each child, and the last one for himself. "This is for your mother - it's to settle an old debt", said Strindberg in a shy voice. When the children came back to Helsinki, they were surprised to hear that their mother had been included, but they were happy to hear that she would accept the money. The debt was less expensive than mental and emotional, and Strindberg knew he

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texts: had treated her unfairly during the later years of their marriage and at their divorce trial. She passed away a few weeks before him.<mask> was the stage director of The Intimate Theatre when it was founded in 1907. Max Reinhardt's Kammerspiel Haus was the inspiration for his theatre. The theatre was intended to be used for only Strindberg's plays and his plays only, but he wanted to try out a more chamber-oriented and sparse style of dramatic writing and production. The four chamber plays written by <mask> in time for the theatre's opening have been influential on modern drama. The theatre would be opened and operated by Strindberg. The theatre rules were drafted in a letter to <mask>. There was no liquor.2. There are no Sunday performances. 3. There were short performances without breaks. 4. No calls. 5.There are 160 seats in the auditorium. 6. There was no prompter. Music on stage. 7. The text can be purchased at the box office and lobby. There are 8.There are summer performances. The auditorium was decorated in a deep green tone. Mild daylight was created by the yellow silk cover on the ceiling lighting. The auditorium was decorated with six ultra modern columns with elaborate up-to-date capitals and the floor was covered with a deep green carpet. There was a lounge for the ladies and a smoking room for the gentlemen. The stage was 6 by 9 metres. The small stage and minimal number of seats were meant to make the audience feel more involved in the work.The Intima Teater was not a place where people could socialize. By setting up his rules and creating an intimate atmosphere, he was able

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texts: their respects. The funeral procession was supposed to start at 8am to avoid crowds, but large groups of people were still waiting outside his home as early as 7am.The coffin was taken outside for the funeral procession after a short service was conducted by Nathan Sderblom in the presence of three of Strindberg's children. Up to 60,000 people lined the streets after the procession was followed by groups of students, workers, members of Parliament and a couple of cabinet ministers. The king sent a wreath. Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Maxim Gorky, John Osborne, and Ingmar Bergman are some of the artists who have cited the influence of <mask>. In his acceptance speech for the Literature Prize, Eugene O'Neill referred to himself as "that greatest genius of all modern dramatists." He was my god, my god, for a time, my god, said the writer. Strindberg was often extreme.The Red Room made him famous. His plays were part of the Naturalistic movement. His works are often compared to Ibsen. Miss Julie is the best known play from this period. The People of Hems is one of his most popular works. He called it "greater Naturalism." He rejected the convention of a dramatic "slice of life" because he felt that the plays were mundane and uninteresting.True naturalism is a psychological battle of brains, where two people who hate each other in the immediate moment and try to drive the other to doom is the type of mental hostility that <mask> tried to describe. He wanted his plays to be objective and impartial. He dramatised his experiences after the "Inferno crisis" and wrote an important book in French.


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texts: He sent a few letters to Friedrich Nietzsche. After ending his association with Naturalism, <mask> began to produce works that were informed by Symbolism. He is a pioneer of modern European stage and expressionism. The Dance of Death is one of the well-known plays from this period.His plays are Master Olof, Miss Julie, and The Father. In his native Sweden, <mask>'s name is associated with novels and other writings, even though he is mostly remembered as a playwright. Rda rummet, Hemsborna, Giftas, and En dres frsvarstal are some of his most celebrated novels. He is often seen as Sweden's greatest author and a key figure in Swedish culture. <mask>priset is the most important contemporary literary award in Sweden. The first symphony was dedicated to <mask> in memoriam. It was difficult to pigeon-hole <mask> as a political figure.He wrote attacks on the military, the church, and the monarchy. He was seen as a major figure on the literary left and a standard-bearer of cultural radicalism, but he was also known for his conservative and religious views. Immediately preceding his death, he resumed his attacks on conservative society. Sometimes humorously over-stated, and with great force, Strindberg's opinions were typically stated. He was involved in a number of crises and feuds with the literary and cultural establishment of his day. His reputation as an enfant terrible of Swedish literature was transformed into the role of a giant of Swedish public life. Private communications have been collected in several annotated volumes.He spoke his political views privately to friends and literary

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texts: acquaintances in a no-holds-barred jargon. This private correspondence is where many of his most controversial political statements come from. The history of the 1871 Paris Commune influenced the view that politics is a conflict between the upper and lower classes. The Red Room and Master Olof were works that took aim at hypocrisy, royalty, and organized religion. He was an outspoken socialist who was influenced by libertarian socialist ideas. While socialism was utopian and undogmatic, it was also fiery anti-establishment and pitting "the people" against kings, priests, and merchants. He read a lot among socialists, including Cabet, Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Proudhon, and Owen."Terms like anarchism, socialism, and communism were used as synonyms and as different terms," writes Jan Olsson in her article, "Strindberg adopted ideas from everyone." Many young political and literary radicals in Sweden viewed <mask> as a champion of their causes. In contrast to the Marxist-influenced socialism then rising within the Swedish labor movement, <mask> had an older type of utopian, agrarian radicalism accompanied by spiritual and even mystical ideas. His views were eclectic and he could be out of step with the younger generation of socialists on certain issues. The young <mask> was a reactionary radical, whose writing was populist and democratic but who persisted in an antiquated romanticizing of agrarian life, according to Martin Kylhammar. Although he was an early advocate of women's rights, he became dissatisfied with what he viewed as an unnatural equation of the sexes. He could make misogynistic


title: August Strindberg

texts: statements in times of personal conflict and marital trouble.The defence of a fool was the inspiration for his troubled marriage with Siri von Essen, which ended in an upsetting divorce in 1891. Lawmakers were warned against granting citizens' rights to half-apes, lower beings, sick children, completely insane while pregnant, and irresponsible throughout the rest of their lives. The paragraph was removed before it was printed. The younger generation of socialist activists were at odds with Strindberg's misogyny. Strindberg's rhetoric was anti-Jewish. He attacked Jews and Judaism as well as Jewish enemies in Swedish cultural life. In the early years of the 20th century, there was an increase in the number of antisemitic incidents, including a chapter dedicated to heckling Swedish Jews and an unflattering portrayal of Albert Bonnier.According to Jan Myrdal, the entire liberal and democratic intelligentsia of the time distanced themselves from the older, left-wing antisemitism of <mask>. With time, Strindberg's opinions and passions changed. After declaring himself not to be an anti-Semite in 1884, he toned down and ended his anti-Jewish rhetoric. A self-declared atheist in his younger years, <mask> would also re-embrace Christianity, without necessarily making his peace with the church. The personal and spiritual crisis that Strindberg underwent in Paris in the 1890s, which prompted the writing of Inferno, had aesthetic and political implications. What is the purpose of having toiled through thirty years only to gain, through experience, that which I had already understood as a concept? I was

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texts: a sincere believer in my youth.I have become a free-thinker because of the powers that be. You have made me a religious believer out of a free thinker. I have praised socialism. You have proven to me that socialism is not reasonable. You have invalidated everything that once fascinated me. I am certain that you will disprove religion in ten years, presuming that I abandon myself to religion. trindberg, inferno, chapter XVDespite his reactionary attitudes on issues such as women's rights and his conservative, mystical turn from the early 1890s, <mask> remained popular with some in the socialist-liberal camp on the strength of his past radicalism and his continued salience as a literary modernizer. Several former admirers were disappointed and troubled by what they saw as <mask>'s descent into religious conservatism and madness. The author betrayed his ideals for a reactionary, mystical elitism and was dismissed as a "disaster" by his former ally and friend. The trail-blazer, the rouser from sleep, let us offer all our praise and admiration to the young <mask>, the trail-blazer, the rouser from sleep, in 1909, on the occasion of the author's sixtieth birthday. A place of rank on the Aeropagus of European erudition is offered to the writer in a more mature age. Let us wish, from our hearts, that the Strindberg of Black Banners and A Blue Book may have been converted to a belief in mysticism. Hjalmar was in Social-Demokraten on January 22, 1909.At the end of his life, <mask> would reestablish his role as a radical standard-bearer and return to the good graces of progressive Swedish opinion. In


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texts: April 1910, <mask> launched a series of unprompted, insult-laden attacks on popular conservative symbols, viciously attacking the nationalist cult of former king Charles XII. One of the most significant literary debates in Swedish history took place after the debate. It came to comprise about a thousand articles by various authors across some eighty newspapers, raging for two years until <mask>'s death in 1912. The Feud restored the reputation of <mask> as an implacable enemy of bourgeois tastes, while also reestablishing his importance to Swedish culture and politics. More than 100 red banners were in attendance at the funeral of Strindberg in 1912, which was co-organized by Branting and heavily attended by members of the Swedish labor movement. The daughter of Strindberg married a Russian Bolshevik of partially Swedish ancestry.Painting <mask> was also a telegrapher, theosophist, painter and photographer. He believed that chance was a crucial part of the creative process. For their time, <mask>'s paintings were unique, and went beyond those of his peers for their lack of adherence to visual reality. The paintings that are acknowledged as his were mostly painted within the span of a few years, and are now seen by some as among the most original works of 19th-century art. His best-known pieces are seascapes, which sell at high prices in auction houses. The fact that he painted only in times of personal crisis can be attributed to the fact that he was familiar with modern trends. A portrait was also done by Zorn.Among the best-known pictures of him are a large number of self-portraits

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texts: arranged in various environments. A series of camera-less images was embarked on by <mask>. He produced a type of photogram that encouraged the growth of crystals on the photographic emulsion, sometimes exposed for lengthy periods to heat or cold in the open air or at night facing the stars. The suggestiveness of these, which he called Celestographs, provided an object for contemplation, but for him they were also scientific. The Société Astronomique de France was founded in 1895 by <mask> and Flammarion. He gave the photographs to the society. For periods of his life, <mask> pursued a number of eccentric interests.In the 1897 work "Inferno", a dark, paranoid, and confusing tale of his time in Paris, written in French, which takes the form of an autobiographical journal, the narrator claims to have successfully performed alchemical experiments and cast black magic spells. The author was haunted by evil forces in Paris and was targeted by an "infernal machine" in his hotel. It's not clear what extent the book is an attempt at autobiography or exaggerates for literary effect. According to Olof Lagercrantz, the crisis was staged and imagined by Strindberg for his literary production. 3 daughters, 1 son, and one who died in infancy were all married to Strindberg. They were married at the age of 27. When they married, he was 44, she was 21, and he was 52.He met the young actress and painter, who was 41 years younger than him, late in his life. She wrote a book about his last years, but the nature of their relationship is not clear. It has been said that the news of her murder in 1901 caused him


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texts: to cancel his honeymoon with his third wife. He was related to one of August's cousins. Modern readers have interpreted Strindberg's relationships with women as misogynistic. As Sweden industrialized and urbanized at a rapid pace, marriage and families were being stressed. Prostitution and poverty were discussed by writers, critics and politicians.He criticized the traditional roles of the sexes imposed by society in his early writing. The last place that Strindberg lived was in central Stockholm. It's now a museum. There are several statues and busts of him in Stockholm, the most prominent of which is Carl Eldh's, which was built in 1942 in a park next to this house. The German Lieutenant, and Other, coll "Univers thétral", was published in 2004. The University of Chicago Press was published in 1997. The Cambridge University Press published an introduction to his life and work by Brita M. E. Mortensen and Brian W. Downs.M.: Insel-Verlag, 1981 Prideaux, Sue, is the author of A Life, New Haven, Connecticut. <mask> andVisual Culture was edited by J. Schroeder, A., and E. Szalczer. The Yale University Press published As Dramatist by Evert Sprinchorn. There was a review of the production of To Damascus at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1975. 2002. There is a dictionary of literary Biography.There is a new edition of Vol. Swedish writers before World War II. Detroit, MI: Marvin. 1993. Theories of the Theatre is a historical and critical survey from the Greeks to the present. An expanded ed. Hans-Gran and Ekman are authors of Ithaca and London.In 2000. There are studies in <mask>'s Chamber

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texts: plays. There are two places in New Jersey and London. 1998. The painting is from the 19th century. Christopher Innes is the author of New Haven: Yale UP. In 2000.A book about the theatre. The book was written in London and New York. 1984. <mask> was a writer. Trans. There is a person named Anselm Hollo. New York: Straus Giroux.1998. "Strindberg, August." The guide to theatre in Cambridge. Ed. Martin Banham. The city of Cambridge is called Cambridge UP. . Ward, John.1980. The plays were about social and religious issues. The city of London is called Athlone. The Father, Countess Julie, The Outlaw, The Stronger Comrades, Facing Death, Pariah, Easter Swanwhite, Advent, The Storm There are translations in the public domain. The confession of a foolish person. The National Library of Sweden has photographs by <mask>. A Dream Play is at the World Digital

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title: Henri Wittmann

texts: <mask> is a Canadian linguist. He is known for his work on Quebec French. <mask> was born in 1937. After finishing his studies at the Sorbonne, he moved to North America and taught at a number of universities, including the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University ofAlberta, the University of Windsor, and the University of Montreal. He retired from teaching in 1997 after spending a lot of time in France. He became the first Director of the Presses universitaires de Trois-Rivires in the following years. Wittmann contributed to the study of the Morphology of a number of languages and language families.Between 1963 and 2002 he worked with more than 140 items. He is a life member of the Linguistic Society of America. He co-founded the Linguistics Department with two other people. He served for 10 years as president, secretary general and organizer of the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of Quebec. He became the first Editor of the Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée in 1981 and stayed there for 20 years. Wittmann has strong links to the CNTU and is known for his anarcho-syndicalist sympathies. Collective bargaining in the academic world changed when he was at the center of a union conflict at the University of Quebec.He is a strong supporter of Quebec independence. <mask> is the first modern linguist to study non-standard forms of Quebec French in a theory-orientated and comparative framework. <mask>, a student of Martinet in the fifties, has been the first to apply the principles of chain reactions in phonology. Wittmann believes that the basic structure of the sentence is held together by functional items. In nature and subject to drift, position in functional space must maintain functional

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texts: equidistance and disturbances in functional equidistance. The push chain conveyor belt will eventually set off a push chain conveyor belt pressure in functional space, sending functionally close-by affixes down the path of attrition. The origin of agglutinating clitics of non-standard oral French from erstwhile lexical pronouns set off the attrition of functionally equivalent fusional means of inflection inherited from Old French and Latin.The drag chain effect occurs when functional items go down the path of attrition. The rise of postnominal means of expressing definiteness on the noun compensated for the origin of the agglutinating prenominal class markers. The input to the next cycle of morphological change is realized with the fulfilment of each cycle of change. There are parallels in the works of Gabriele Miceli. <mask>'s comparative approach to studying colonial varieties of French from Quebec, the Americas, and the Indian Ocean reveals that the structural gap with written French is inherent in the variety of oral French reflecting the speech of Paris exported from the cities of northern France from the early 17th century onwards. There are only a few features that separate non-creole varieties from French varieties. <mask> and his student Robert Fournier were able to debunk the extravagant African- origin hypotheses of Haitian Creole French.The non-creole koine and the creole varieties of colonial French are not "creoles" in the sense that creolists would have them. They are outcomes of normal processes of linguistic change. <mask>'s contributions to the study of other languages include languages that are claimed to be substratal to Creole French. The Selected bibliography was published in 1973. "C'est-tu un créole?"

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texts: comparée des variétés coloniales du franais populaire de Paris. Robert Fournier and <mask> edited "Le franais des Amériques". Trois-Rivires: Presses universitaires. 1995.The structure of the narrative is based on the contes and légendes. Pierre Laurette and Hans-George Ruprecht edited Potiques et imaginaires: francopolyphonie littéraire des Amériques. L'Harmattan is in Paris. 1996. Trois-Rivires is a part of the parler magoua. There is a Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique. 1996."L'Ouest des Amériques: le jeu des isoglosses morphologiques." L'Ouest franais et la francophonie nord-américaine was edited by Georges Cesbron. The Angers: Presses de l'Université d'Angers. 1996. "Contraintes sur la relexification: le limites imposées." There is a Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique. 1998."Le franais des Amériques" The International Congress of Linguists was held in Paris. Oxford: Pergamon. 1998. Trois-Rivires, parlé aux créolismes syntaxiques du franais. Franais d'Amérique: variation, créolisation, normalisation was edited by Patrice Brasseur. The Centre d'études canadiennes is in Avignon.1999. "Type as a metric to measure creoleness." The archives papers are on-line. 1999. "Non-existential analogues to be in West African Languages, in Haitian Creole and in Magoua French." The paper is from the 9th International Conference on Creoles Studies. 2001.The glottogenetics of creole French. The debate is part I-VI. The Linguist List includes Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. The archive.org has a link to the listserv.linguistlist.org. Some of <mask>'s most important writings can be found in the site with an extensive bibliography. <mask> had selected writings. The University of Paris alumni are Linguists

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title: Barbara Ehrenreich

texts: <mask> is an American author and political activist who has been called a veteran muckraker by The New Yorker. She was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is an award-winning columnist and author of 21 books. The memoir of Ehrenreich's three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum wage jobs was published in 2001. She received a Lannan Literary Award. <mask> was born in Butte, Montana, where she says she was "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town." She characterized her parents as strong union people with two family rules: "never cross a picket line and never vote Republican."Ehrenreich referred to herself as a "fourth-generation atheist" in 1999. She told The New York Times in 1993 that she had to decide if her parents were evil when she was a child. Her father was a copper miner who went to the Montana School of Mines. He became a senior executive at Gillette. Her parents separated. After her father graduated from the Montana School of Mines, the family moved to Pittsburgh, New York, and Massachusetts. After studying physics at Reed College, Ehrenreich changed to chemistry and graduated in 1963.Her senior thesis was about the electrical activity of the anode. She received her PhD in cellular immunology at Rockefeller University after starting a PhD program in theoretical physics. Ehrenreich gave birth to her daughter in New York. She told The Globe and Mail in 1987 that she was the only white patient. The doctor wanted to go home after inducing my labor because it was late in the evening. I was angry. The experience made me a feminist.Ehrenreich did not pursue a

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texts: California, Berkeley. She is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Society of American Historians. In 2000 and 2004, Ehrenreich encouraged voters to support John Kerry in the swing states.Ehrenreich supported Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. In 2004, while filling in for Thomas Friedman at The New York Times, Ehrenreich wrote about the fight for women's reproductive rights and how she disliked the women who didn't acknowledge their own abortions. In her 1990 book of essays, The Worst Years of Our Lives, she wrote that she regretted having abortions because they cost money that could have been spent on nicer things. In 2006 Ehrenreich founded United Professionals, a non-partisan membership organization for white-collar workers. People who bought the American dream that education and credentials could lead to a secure middle class life, but now find their lives disrupted by forces beyond their control, we reach out to them. In 2009, she wrote "Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America", a book that investigated the rise of the positive thinking industry in the USA. After being told she had breast cancer, she included her own experience in the book.She brought to light various methods of what Murray Gell-Mann calls 'quantum flapdoodle'. <mask> is a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a member of the editorial board of The Nation. She is a contributing editor toHarper's and has served on the editorial boards of Social Policy, Ms., Mother Jones, Seven


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title: Max Miller (jazz musician)

texts: <mask> was an American jazz pianist and vibraphone player. His career peaked in the 1940s and '50s. Many of his compositions were influenced by Stravinsky, Bartk, and Hindemith. <mask> was born in East Chicago, Indiana. He played in the high school band and learned to play the banjo at an early age. He joined the Musicians Union at the age of sixteen. He switched to guitar in 1927, performing with bands in Indiana and Michigan.He worked as a drummer and string bassist in Chicago. He started using the vibraphone. He played in several bands around Chicago, including with pianist Frank Melrose and drummer Dave Tough. He was a member of the Vincent Lopez Orchestra and was a guitarist and vocalist. He left Lopez to become musical director at WIND radio in Chicago at the age of 26 and stayed there for two years. He performed at the Off Beat Club with O'Day. O'Day was hired for her first singing job.This is documented in her book. They worked together again in 1948, including the Rag Doll in Chicago, the Continental in Milwaukee, and the Flame in St. Paul. She said that she had worked with her musical co-worker since 1939. <mask> is the end. I would love to do an album with <mask>. The Three Deuces club burned down in 1940 after his quintet performed there. Johnny Bothwell was a member of the group.He was the musical director for the band. Jimmy Raney was a part of the quartet that co-led in 1943. <mask> met Bechet when he, Smith, and Paul Edward <mask> traveled to Springfield to see him perform. They were with the band all night. Their first recording sessions were in 1944 and included Tony Parenti on clarinet, Bill Funkey on alto and tenor sax, and Ken Smith on drums. <mask>'s concert with Bechet and Parenti was reviewed in 1945. In 1945 he became the first

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title: Max Miller (jazz musician)

texts: jazz musician to perform at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, mainly presenting his compositions, with Muggsy Spanier part of his group.On October 13, 1946, he performed in a concert at the Civic Opera House as pianist for the Sidney Bechet Sextet and his trio. Jimmy McPartland was in the concert. They were together with George Barnes. <mask> recorded private sessions with Bechet during his visit to Chicago. He worked in California for a year and a half in 1947 at the Swanee Inn, the Red Feather, Angelino's, and the Haig. He worked in Milwaukee and Minneapolis after returning to Chicago. He recorded at least six songs for Life Record Company.He had performed "Heartbeat Blues", "Sunny Disposition", and "Fantasia of the Unconscious" at the Orchestra Hall concert. Columbia released an album of <mask> playing jazz standards in 1951. He was supported by Earl Backus on guitar, Bill Holyoke on bass, and Remo Belli on drums. He recorded at least four more sides before Life Records closed. He recorded for a record label. He bought his way out of the contract after learning he would lose the rights to his material. He performed with Bechet.There was a concert in Chicago with <mask> on piano, Bechet on saxophone, Bill Harris on trombone, and Sid Catlett on drums. The highlight of the year was their reunion. <mask> continued to record. His column "The Audio Workshop" in DownBeat magazine received equipment from top companies. Chubby Jackson and Bill Harris recorded many live recordings for him. The "Pace of Chicago" television show was filmed at the Garrick Theater in April 1952. <mask> shared the bill with Joe Williams and King Kolax.The site of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre is where "<mask>'s Scene" is located. He performed with Eddie South and Stuff Smith. He

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title: Max Miller (jazz musician)

texts: shared billing with two other people. The Woody Herman Band played at the Blue Note. He was a member of Paul Jordan's band at the Panther Room in Chicago. He was at London House for two weeks. Death <mask> died four days before his 74th birthday after a long fight with heart failure.Down Beat magazine gave him an award in the small combos category. He was compared to Red Norvo in the 1944 Jazz Book. He was the number one in 1945. 2 in the All American Band New Stars category. He was listed seventh among pianists in 1946, under Erroll Garner and above Count Basie. He was the winner of the New Star poll by Earl and Red Norvo. He placed in the top ten for vibes.The 1946 Jazz Book was the subject of the poll. According to Studs Terkel, he was called "The Angry Man of Jazz". He was called an "astonishing artist" by John H. Hammond. <mask> is a champion of good jazz, according to Paul Edward <mask>. He was listed in The Who's Who of Jazz as one of the leading figures on the Chicago jazz scene for many years. "Fantasia of the Unconscious" Part 1 and "Lumbar Ganglion Jump" are Piano Moods. 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66, 66,In the American Peoples Encyclopedia Yearbook for 1951, there were 37, 38, 59, 60, 64, 65, 80, 82, 91, 98, 99, 126, 127, 132, 134, 141 and 190. 70-74 and 136 and 166-170 Jazz was written by Nat Hentoff and Albert MaCarthy. Metronome, December 1946, by George Hoefer Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz, pp. The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz was written by Roger D. Kinkle. Leonard Feather wrote The Encyclopedia of Jazz. Who's Who of Jazz by John Chilton was published in 1972. Life records.July 31, 1909 births and 1985 deaths of American jazz

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title: Anson Chan

texts: <mask> On-sang is a retired Hong Kong politician and civil servant who was the first ethnic Chinese and woman to serve as Chief Secretary in the British colonial government. Enjoying wide popularity during her tenure and often dubbed as "Iron Lady" and the "Conscience of Hong Kong", <mask> became increasingly outspoken about pushing for a faster pace of democratisation in Hong Kong and defending the autonomy of Hong Kong. She was supported by the pan-democracy camp and was a member of the Legislative Council. After retiring from public life in 2008, she continued to lobby for Hong Kong to have its own government. <mask> was born into an affluent family in 1940. On the eve of the Communist victory of the Chinese Civil War, her father moved his family to the British colony of Hong Kong. When Anson was ten years old, her mother died suddenly, leaving eight children.The rest of <mask>'s family was left in the hands of his paternal grandmother and some of his aunts and uncles. Her paternal grandfather was a Kuomintang general who fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and her uncle was an appointed member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Her mother was a Chinese painting master and also tried to pursue her career as an artist. At the University of Hong Kong, Anson studied English literature. She worked as a clerk at Queen Mary Hospital for a year before going to university. She met her future husband through her interest in amateur dramatics. She joined the Hong Kong Civil Service after changing her mind about working in social work.She married Archie, who became a science teacher at St Joseph's College. <mask> was one of only two women to join the civil service when she joined the administrative service cadet. The men of equivalent grade were paid one-quarter of her salary. She moved to the Economics Section of the Finance Branch in 1962, followed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and finally the Department of Commerce and Industry. She was the first woman to work in the Finance Branch of the Colonial

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texts: Secretary. In 1970 she became a senior administrative officer. She helped set up the Association of Female Senior Government Officers to fight for better rights for women civil servants and push for wage parity with men.Director of Social Welfare <mask> was the first female civil service director. The Kwok Ah-nui incident, in which she was criticized for her handling of a child custody case, happened during her tenure. An investigation by unofficial members of the Executive Council found that <mask> had acted within the law in respect of her extreme powers, but recommended changes to the law and to the Social Welfare Department's procedures to prevent re-occurrence of similar cases. She kept her distance from the press for a few years because she was upset by the media pressure. She became the last Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong civil service in 1993. She oversaw the localisation of the civil service. She oversaw the construction of the new Chek Lap Kok Airport.<mask> was the first woman and the first ethnic Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong. Before Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China, the Governor was held by Britons. During this era, <mask> was often described as an "Iron Lady", with an iron fist in a velvet glove. She was the first Chief Executive of the SAR and the most powerful woman in Asia for her role as the deputy of the British Governor. Before and after the handover of Hong Kong, she was the most trusted high official in Hong Kong by both the UK and PRC government. She was sent to Hong Kong to assure the world that civil liberties would be upheld once it returned to China. Many people around the globe were reassured by her confidence.She had the support of the public in Hong Kong to be the first Chief Executive of the new administration, but decided against it in 1996. After Hong Kong's handover to China on 1 July 1997, <mask> stayed on as head of the civil service, a sign of stability and continuity for the new administration. One British-born civil

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title: Anson Chan

texts: servant said that "nothing would work without her" and that "Tung needs her more than she needs him." <mask>'s public statements were sometimes at odds with her husband. It earned her independence and the epithet of "Hong Kong's Conscience". <mask> advocated a faster pace of democratisation and showed greater support for democracy and freedom. The new Hong Kong International Airport construction at Chek Lap Kok was monitored by <mask> in 1998.Some blamed <mask> for the lack of supervision at the airport. When pro-government figures in Hong Kong attacked the Radio Television Hong Kong for being too critical of the Hong Kong and Chinese governments, <mask> flew to its defence. During the summer of 1999 there was a platform for Taiwan-Mainland China discussions. A local member of the PRC's National People's Congress, Tsang Hin-chi, urged the government-owned radio station to exercise self-censorship and not to provide a platform that expressed the splitting of China. Wang Fengchao, deputy director of Central Government's Liaison Office, delivered a speech titled "The Principle of One China and the Taiwan Issue" in 2000. Wang said that Basic Law should be enacted quickly in Hong Kong to protect China against treason and subversion. After Wang spoke about the importance of press freedom and publication, <mask> spoke for four hours.One of the main reasons for Beijing to view <mask> as a malefactor in Hong Kong politics was the constant criticism of mainland officials and policies. After there had been reports of disagreements between the two over the appointment of officials, the vice premier of the PRC told <mask> to support Tung. <mask> agreed to delay her retirement until June 2002. <mask> stepped down in April of 2001 after announcing her resignation in January 2001. When the chief executive and half of the legislature were not directly elected, she believed it was too early to introduce the Principal Officials Accountability System. After retiring from the civil service, <mask> rarely showed up in public. In December

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title: Anson Chan

texts: 2005, <mask> participated in a protest march against Donald Tsang's constitutional reform package.In July 2006 she criticized the Commission on Strategic Development, chaired by Donald Tsang, for being "rather slow and unsatisfactory", and announced her intention to start a "Core Group" to push for taking forward the debate on Hong Kong's constitutional reforms. The group would be made up of giants including Allen Lee, Christine Loh, Elizabeth Bosher, Professor <mask> and <mask> Nair. In a news conference on September 23, 2006 <mask> said she wouldn't run for the position of Chief Executive in 2007. On September 11, 2007, <mask> announced that she would run for the Legislative Council seat made vacant by the death of Ma Lik. Alex Tsui, a former ICAC official, accused <mask> of abusing her power by obtaining a 100% mortgage to purchase a flat when she was Chief Secretary. A City University commentator said that the issue marked the start of a campaign against <mask>, although she did not engage in politics that was free of innuendo. <mask> owned a 23% share of British American Tobacco when he was on the board of Richemont, the manufacturer of name brand luxury items.She resigned from the board of Richemont after learning of her board membership. In the early hours of December 2, 2007, <mask> was elected in a by-election, securing over half of the vote. Ip had 137,550 votes. <mask> spent more money than Ip. Sir Quo-wei Lee and his wife donated HK$250,000 each, as did Hong Kong Democratic Foundation chairman George Cautherley. The Democratic Party gave HK$65,840 and the Next Media chairman donated HK$200,000. <mask> will not be seeking re-election to the Legislative Council at the end of her term.<mask> <mask> launched a group called Hong Kong 2020 on the basis of the "Core Group" and "Citizen's Commission on Constitutional Development" to monitor and comment on the constitutional reform progress to achieve full universal suffrage. In April of last year, <mask> <mask> and Martin Lee, founder of Hong Kong's opposition

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texts: Democratic Party, went to the United States and met Vice President Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The activists spoke out against Beijing increasing control over Hong Kong and their fear of only candidates picked by Beijing would be allowed to take part in the Chief Executive election. Lee and <mask> said they were concerned about press freedom in Hong Kong and that Beijing was pressuring advertisers to shun critical media. Biden underscored Washington's long-standing support for democracy in Hong Kong and for the city's high degree of autonomy under the "one country, two systems" framework. China warned the US against interfering in Hong Kong's internal affairs after Biden met with <mask> and Lee. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it was against any countries interfering in the city's internal affairs.<mask> <mask> and Martin Lee met with the leader of the coalition's junior partner, the Liberal Democrats, and raised concerns over China's jurisdiction in the region, as well as questioning Britain's commitment to Hong Kong's democratic development. Britain will pursue every legal and other avenue available if China violates the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The PRC ambassador to Britain said that Martin Lee and <mask> <mask> were trying to undermine the stability of Hong Kong. <mask> <mask>, Charles Mok, and Dennis Kwok traveled to the United States in March to speak against Beijing's intervention in Hong Kong affairs and to meet with Vice President Mike Pence. The United States–Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 guaranteed the special trading relationship between Hong Kong and the United States. "If the US government's perception of 'one country, two systems' changes, then we must be concerned that something could be done to change the content of the Hong Kong Policy Act," said <mask>. Because of the one country, two systems principle, Hong Kong can enjoy a special trading status separate from that between mainland China and the U.S.Following the

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title: Anson Chan

texts: death of her daughter, <mask> announced that she was withdrawing from civic and political life. Twin sister Ninson ran a travel agency. He died after jumping from his home in Lantau, after working as a Chinese interpreter at the United Nations. One of the brothers is a former head of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and another is a lawyer. John was involved in a controversy over the death of his former lover in a flat he owned in 1995. A coroner's inquest ruled her death accidental. She was married to <mask> Tai-wing until he died.Six years after graduating from St Joseph's College, she was a director of Caltex Oil. He was a commandant in the Hong Kong auxiliary police from 1987 to 1996. The couple had five children, two sons and two daughters. She retired from political and civic life on June 25, 2020. She said in a public statement that she would step back from civic and political engagement and lead a quieter life. She decided to retire because she wanted to spend more time with her family, particularly her granddaughters and son-in-law, after her daughter's death in May 2020. Her statement ends with her urging the young people of Hong Kong not to lose hope for the future and to "continue to hold fast to the values that underpins our unique city but to do so in a law abiding and peaceful manner".The Hong Kong Grand Bauhinia Medal was awarded to <mask> in 1999 for her 34 years of public service to the British Crown. She was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2002 in recognition of her service with the Hong Kong government. Governors of Hong Kong were usually given the award before the transfer of sovereignty. She is a fellow of the university. <mask> <mask> was honoured by the Asian University for Women for her commitment to democracy and the empowerment of women, and for her service as the university's patron. See also List of graduates of the University of Hong Kong. Mrs <mask> <mask> and her Core Group Mrs <mask> <mask>'s Chinese blog/column at Yahoo " Anson" Anson <mask>'s

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title: Edward Oldcorne

texts: <mask>, also known as Hall, was an English Jesuit priest. He was caught up in the investigation of the Gunpowder Plot because he was known to people who knew of it. He was beatified in 1929. Oldcorne was the son of <mask>, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary, who was born in York in 1561 His mother was a Catholic and spent time in prison due to her faith. He attended St Peter's School in York and was friends with John and Christopher Wright. Oldcorne decided to enter the priesthood after he was educated as a doctor.After ordination in 1587, he became a Jesuit and went to the English College at Reims. Oldcorne returned to England in the company of Father John Gerard. He settled at Baddesley Clinton in the West Midlands in the early 1589's. He worked in Worcestershire for 17 years. Father Thomas Lister, another Jesuit, also supported Oldcorne's mission but found the requirements of the covert life difficult. Oldcorne stayed at the house of Thomas Abington, which was near Baddesley Clinton. He converted Thomas's sister.Nicholas Owen adapted the house to hide Catholic priests. Oldcorne made a pilgrimage to St Winefride's Well at Holywell in north Wales in order to find a cure for a cancer of the throat. Thirty people came back with him after he recovered from the cancer. Oswald Tesimond, Henry Garnet, and Nicholas Owen were among the priests in this group. Everard and his wife were in the group. The people involved in the

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title: Edward Oldcorne

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title: Toni Braxton

texts: The American singer, pianist, actress, and television personality was born on October 7, 1967. She is one of the best-selling female R&B artists of all time. She has won many awards, including seven American Music Awards. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame inducted <mask> in 2011. She received the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards. A group of sisters, known as The <mask>, began performing in the late 1980s and were signed to a record label. After attracting the attention of producers Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and being signed to LaFace Records, Braxton released her self-titled debut studio album in 1993.10 million copies of the album were sold worldwide. The singles "Another Sad Love Song" and "Breathe Again" became international successes. The album was nominated in the Best New Artist category. The album Secrets, which included the U.S. #1 hit singles "You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow" and "Un-Break My Heart", was released in 1996. More Than a Woman was released in 2002 amid contractual disputes and health issues. The duet album Love, Marriage & Divorce was nominated for a best R&B album award. Sex & Cigarettes was released under Island and Spell My Name was released under Def Jam/Universal.A television executive producer and personality is <mask>. She competed in the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. She is an executive producer and starred in a reality television series that aired on We TV. A spinoff reality TV series starring her younger sister, Tamar, was an executive producer. The firstborn of the <mask> family was born in Severn, Maryland

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title: Toni Braxton

texts: on October 7, 1967. Her father was a Methodist clergyman and power company worker, and her mother was an opera singer and cosmetologist. His maternal grandfather was a pastor.He is the oldest of the six siblings. She has a younger brother Michael Jr. and four younger sisters. They were raised in a strict religious household and had their first performing experience singing in a church choir. She decided to become a teacher after William E. Pettaway Jr. heard her singing to herself while pumping gas. She stated on her appearance on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! that she wasn't singing to herself at the gas station. Pettaway, working as an attendant at the service station, recognized her from local performances and introduced himself, saying he wanted to produce her. In her words, she decided to take a chance and accepted.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, The Braxtons, along with their four sisters, began performing as The Braxtons and were signed to Arista Records in 1989. "Good Life" was their first single. Antonio "L.A." Reid, a record executive, and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, a record producer, were interested in the song. The song "Love Shoulda Brought You Home" was written for the soundtrack of Eddie Murphy's film, "Boomerang", and was recorded by her. Baker, who was pregnant at the time, suggested that Braxton record the song. "Give U My Heart", a duet by Babyface and <mask>, was included on the soundtrack. She began recording her solo debut album immediately after signing to LaFace Records.LaFace released <mask>'s self-titled debut album in July 1993. It entered the top ten of

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texts: the albums chart in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom and peaked at number one in the US. "Another Sad Love Song" peaked at number seven on the Hot 100 and number two on the R&B Singles charts. The album's second single, "Breathe Again", peaked in the top five of both the Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. "You Mean the World to Me", "Seven Whole days", and "I Belong to You/How Many Ways" were released in 1994. In 1994 and 1995 she won two awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best New Artist for her debut album. She won two American Music Awards in 1994 and 1995 for Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist and Favorite New Adult Contemporary Artist.Sales of over 10 million worldwide have been achieved by the woman known as "<mask>", who was certified 8x Platinum in the USA. The second album Secrets was released in 1996. She reteamed with Babyface, but also worked with R. Kelly, Tony Rich, and David Foster on the album, which she co-produced. It reached the top ten on most international charts and peaked at number two on the billboard 200. After 92 weeks in the charts, Secrets was certified 8x Platinum, becoming <mask>'s second straight 8 million-seller. More than 15 million copies of Secrets were sold internationally. The album's first single, "You're Makin' Me High", was a number-one hit on the US Hot 100, while the follow-up, "Un-Break My Heart", was the biggest hit of the album.It was number one on the Hot 100 for eleven weeks in a row. At the end of the year, she topped several charts and won two awards, one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for

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texts: "Un-Break My Heart" and the other for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "You're Makin' Me High." An unsuccessful lawsuit was launched against LaFace Records by Braxton. She filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the public reaction to these events was very harsh. She made her Broadway debut in Beauty and the Beast in 1998 when she replaced Kim Huber. Alan Menken wrote and composed a new song for the musical, titled "A Change in Me", which he specially wrote and composed for <mask>, and was still being used in the musical as of late July.She left the production on February 28, 1999. It was the first time that a black woman played the leading role in a Broadway show. In the UK, there was a person who played the role in the West End. It was the first time a black woman would play a Disney character on Broadway. The lawsuit against LaFace Records was settled in 1999, giving her time to record The Heat, her first album in four years. After her three-year-long dispute with LaFace and Arista had been settled, she signed a new $20 million contract. The Heat was her third studio album.She took a more hands-on approach, co-writing and co- producing a few of the tracks which saw her adapting a more urban sound. It sold 199,000 copies in its first week and went double Platinum in the United States and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. "He Wasn't Man Enough," a worldwide top ten hit, won for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated for Best R&B Song at the 2001 Grammys. In 2001, she made her movie acting debut in Kingdom Come opposite an


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texts: ensemble that also included LL Cool J and Jada Pinkett Smith. The Christmas album Snowflakes consisted of R&B–led original songs co-penned with Keri Lewis and Babyface as well as several remixes and cover versions of Christmas standards and carols. It received a mixed reception by critics, many of whom compared its nature to <mask>'s other work but found the stylized production and original material too contemporary to conjure images of Christmas, and failed to reach the upper half of the Billboard 200, eventually going gold in the United States. She was pregnant with her second child when she was about to release her fourth studio album.She tried to get the album delayed until after she gave birth, but was unsuccessful. More Than a Woman was released in 2002. The album peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, but was less successful internationally. The release of no further singles was due to the lackluster sales of the first single, "Hit the Freeway". More Than a Woman was certified gold in the United States and sold more than one million copies. In April 2003 she signed with Blackground Records, which was headed by Barry Hankerson, her manager at the time. She played Aida until November 16, 2003 when she left the cast." Please", the first single from her fifth album, was released by her new label, Blackground/Universal. The album was supposed to be released in June, but was pushed back several times. The album peaked at number two on the Top R&B/ Hip-Hop Albums after selling 114,593 copies in the first week. The album has sold 679,000 copies since it was certified gold. In May


title: Toni Braxton

texts: 2005, she performed "In the Ghetto" with Taylor Hicks on the season finale of American IDOL 5. "The Time of Our Lives" was the official anthem of the 2006 World Cup. The song was performed at the opening ceremony in Berlin on June 9, 2005.The Flamingo Las Vegas had a new headline act in August of 2006). The show was to run through March 2007, and was to be performed six nights a week. She said that she was extending her show through August 2007. Due to its success, it was reported that <mask> would extend her show through to August 2008, though the show was later canceled in order for her to focus on her health after being diagnosed with microvascular angina. On January 12, 2007, <mask> filed a $10 million lawsuit against her former manager Barry Hankerson, accusing him of fraud, deception and double dealing. Hankerson placed his personal financial interests ahead of hers by using double-talk to compromise the relationship between her and her former label, according to the lawsuit. Hankerson would receive a percentage of the sales of her next album, as well as being forced to release her from her contract with him, as a result of the suit being settled.The companies with which Braxton could sign were limited by the settlement. Hankerson claimed that the problems began due to a number of disputes with Braxton and her desire to include her husband in her music. After the abrupt cancellation of her show, the insurance agency Lloyd's of London refused to honor her policy that she purchased for upwards of $70,000 that included financial compensations for financial losses. Lloyd's filed a