title: Yvonne Maldonado

texts: <mask>Bonnie<mask> is an American physician, pediatrician, and professor of health research and policy with a focus on infectious diseases. She is the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity at the School of Medicine. She was the first in her family to attend college and was raised in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the school. She stayed for her fellowship in infectious diseases after she finished her residency in pediatrics. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.She was interested in how to prevent the spread of HIV from mothers to their babies in developing countries. She started the children's HIV Clinic while she was a professor at the university. She served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee through the United States Department of Health and Human Services and was a member of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine Advisory Council. She is a senior fellow at the center for innovation in global health and chair of the committee on infectious diseases at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity at the time. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases. She has worked on programs to prevent gender-based violence.The group collaborated with the non-profit "Ujamaa-Africa/No Means No Worldwide" to develop and implement a 12-hour empowerment program to teach girls verbal and physical techniques to prevent sexual harassment and assault. The intervention increased the likelihood that girls would report sexual assault. Maldonado's research interests include preventing HIV transmission through breastfeeding and maximizing prevention strategies in developing countries. She and her colleagues found that treating infants with the anti-retroviral drug nevirapine for their first six months of life reduces HIV transmission through

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texts: breastfeeding. The research program focuses on the development and implementation of vaccines. Her group received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to understand the factors that underlie the poor immunogenicity of the oral vaccine among children in three communities in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico with the goal of understanding how to improve it. She studies the circulation and epidemiology of vaccine-derived polioviruses.The live vaccine is still being used in developing countries because it is cheaper and manufacturers are still working to ramp up production of the inactivated vaccine, which is five times more expensive. Some European countries have implemented mandatory vaccination policies. She found that the elimination of non-medical vaccine exemptions for students entering school in 2016 led to an increase in vaccine coverage. <mask> and her colleagues have advocated for interventions to combat misinformation and address vaccine hesitancy, despite the fact that mandates are effective in increasing immunization. <mask> and her team have been involved in many studies looking at the biology and epidemiology of the disease. She worked on a study of the accuracy of three different self-administered nasal swab techniques, which would allow individuals to test themselves for infections without having to go to the hospital. She has spoken of the importance of drive-through COVID-19 testing, which was implemented to minimize the risk of spreading the disease at hospitals.She launched a study to understand how COVID-19 is transmitted. Adults who come into the hospital for COVID-19 were asked to perform at- home nose swab tests, along with all members of their household, as well as keep a symptom log to understand when infection is spread and whether that spread occurs before or after symptoms have disappeared. The test to determine if someone had contracted COVID-19 was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in early April 2020. Awards and honors include Epidemic Intelligence Service Alumni Award, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Multicultural Alumni Hall of

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title: John Lester

texts: <mask> was an American cricketer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the Philadelphian cricketers who played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I was <mask>. He was described as one of the great figures in American cricket in his obituary. 47 of the 53 matches he played for the Philadelphians were considered first class. From 1897 until his retirement in 1908, <mask> captained all the international home matches and led the batting averages in Philadelphia. He was born in Penrith in Cumberland, England in 1871. He started playing cricket at a young age.He met Dr. Sharpless while playing a game in Yorkshire. Sharpless invited him to the United States to attend the school. He was described as a very indifferent cricketer when he was a student at Cumberland's Ackworth School. He developed his batting style after entering Haverford. As a student at Haverford, <mask> excelled as an athlete and a scholar and played football, track, tennis, and soccer. He averaged 100.5 runs per outing during his freshman year. He won the bat every year.In his final season with the school in 1896, he scored 1,185 total runs and took 40 wickets for an average of 81 and 21.2, respectively. On his first appearance at Lord's, he captained Haverford on their first overseas tour, scoring 105 against the MCC. He prepared himself for the Philadelphian's tour of England the following year by having an average of over 84 on this tour.

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texts: The Philadelphian cricketers undertook a tour of England in 1897. The tour was arranged mainly for educational purposes and few of those on the American side expected to win many matches. The tours used to involve amateur English sides as opponents, with a low level of competition. All of the top county cricket teams, the Oxford and Cambridge University teams, the Marylebone Cricket Club, and two other sides were included in a schedule prepared in 1897.The tour began in June at Oxford and ended in July at The Oval. Many English fans lost interest after the Philadelphians met the full Sussex team in June. The victory was sealed with his batting, thanks to a dominant bowling performance by Bart King. In the firstinnings, King and <mask> were partners in a fourth-wicket stand of 107, with King top- scoring with 92. He had 34 not out in the second half of the game. The Americans did not fare well despite the excitement surrounding their performances. Only two of the 15 matches were won, and the team lost nine of them.The other win was against Warwickshire. In the first and second day of the match, <mask> scored 67 and 35 runs, respectively. After scoring 72 not out in his first match, <mask> went on to score 891 runs for an average of 37.12 for the Philadelphian side. He was offered contracts to play in England. The Philadelphians were on tours to England in 1903 and 1908 and <mask> was chosen to lead them. In August 1903, he made his highest score in first-class

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texts: cricket. He made 126 not out in the first game and 64 in the second game.In his last first-class match, he was called the "one batting (among the Philadelphians) who may almost (be) described as great" and that he "would soon be one of the greatest men of his day". The Philadelphians lost to Kent by a score of 4-2. <mask> helped to lift Philadelphia cricket to the highest levels of international play with his leadership and understanding of the sport. According to Cricket Scores and Biographies, he was a good hitter who could hit well and had plenty of strokes and strong defence. A Century of Philadelphia Cricket was a definitive history of the game in the area. The foundation of the C.C. was established by <mask>. Cricket, with a history and literature second to none, should be given a permanent home in the United States according to Morris Cricket Library.He made his last public appearance in 1969 at a cricket function. After receiving his PhD in education from Harvard University in 1901, he went on to work as a university professor and head of the English department at The Hill School. He died in 1969 and the pavilion at the field is named after him. The United States of America played Canada in 1901 and 1906 in two non-first-class matches. New York: Brace and Company. A century of Philadelphia cricket. The University of Pennsylvania Press was published in 1951.There are external links to births 1969 deaths Cricketers from Philadelphia and American

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title: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

texts: An American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Los Angeles Lakers is named <mask>-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar was a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. Abdul-Jabbar was a member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two more as an assistant coach. He was a member of the league's 35th, 50th and 75th anniversary teams. He was called the greatest basketball player of all time by Pat Riley, Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving. Power Memorial, a parochial high school in New York City, won 71 consecutive basketball games with him on the team. He was recruited by Jerry Norman, the assistant coach at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he played for John Wooden on three consecutive national championship teams.He was the most Valuable Player of the NCAA Tournament three times. Alcindor was the first overall pick in the 1969 NBA draft and spent six seasons in Milwaukee. After leading the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA championship at age 24 in 1971, he took the name of a Muslim. He established himself as one of the league's top scorers by using his trademark "skyhook" shot. He played the final 14 seasons of his career in which the Lakers won five additional NBA titles. The "Showtime" era of Lakers basketball was powered by Abdul-Jabbar's contributions. In his 20-year NBA career, his teams made the playoffs 18 times and got past the first round 14 times.At the age of 42, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in


title: Rupert Downes

texts: Major <mask> was an Australian soldier, general, surgeon and historian in the first half of the 20th century. <mask> received his medical degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1907. He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree after returning to the university. Major <mask>, the son of a British Army officer, joined the Army as a trumpeter while he was still in school. He joined the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914 as its youngest lieutenant colonel after being commissioned as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He combined the post of ADMS AIF Egypt with that of assistant director of medical services in the newly formed ANZAC Mounted Division in 1916. He became the deputy director of medical services in 1917.The section on the campaign for the official history was written after the war. <mask> was a consultant at the Royal Children's Hospital, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and the Prince Henry's Hospital. He was president of the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association in 1935. He lectured on medical ethics at the University of Melbourne. He was the Victorian State Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance brigade for 25 years and the president of the St John Ambulance Association for eight years. <mask> became the Australian Army's most senior medical officer with the rank of major general in 1934. Major military hospitals were built in the capital cities.In 1944 he accepted a commission to edit the medical series volumes of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1939–1945 but was never able to do so as he was killed in a plane

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texts: Australian Army Medical Corps. He returned to the university to pursue a doctorate after serving his residency at the hospital. His thesis on the relationship between the Thymus and death with an account of cases of abnormality was accepted in 1911. He received a Master of Surgery degree in 1912.<mask> and Mary Robb were married on November 20, 1913 at St John's Church, Toorak, Victoria. Rosemary Major, born in 1914, was one of the three children they had. On October 2, 1914, <mask> assumed command of the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance with the rank of lieutenant colonel, making him the youngest officer of that rank in the AIF. The unit was renamed after he took command. On February 2, 1915, the unit embarked for Egypt on the transport Chilka after training at the Broadmeadows Army Camp. The 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance left Alexandria on 17 May 1915. In June it moved to Lemnos, where it operated a hospital, but in August it came back to ANZAC Cove.<mask> missed the operation as he was on Lemnos supervising the hospital. He left for Lemnos and Egypt on 13 November. <mask> was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services of the newly formed ANZAC Mounted Division on 15 March 1916. He was promoted to colonel on February 20, 1917. <mask> combined this post with the one from ADMS AIF Egypt. <mask> had to travel back and forth to Cairo. A deputy ADMS was appointed to assist him.The health of the Anzac Mounted Division was good, but the Sinai Peninsula still had its challenges, especially for medical officers unfamiliar with conditions in the Middle East. The Battle of Romani showed

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texts: the importance of transportation. A poorly organised casualty evacuation effort caused a lot of preventable hardship and suffering for the wounded, and resulted in a number of avoidable deaths. <mask> was called to testify after the inquiry was held. The inquiry's recommendations were implemented by the Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. There was a problem of providing adequate quantities of water. There were diseases such as typhus and bilharzia.<mask> obtained the services of the Lieutenant Colonel Charles James Martin to investigate these diseases. <mask> reduced the rates of disease among Australian and New Zealand troops as a result of aggressively tackling the problem. The idea that heat exhaustion and heat stroke were not the result of faulty evaporation, as had previously been believed, was advanced by Martin. <mask> was converted to believe that provided water is available in adequate amount the heat mechanism of the body can defy all ordinary climatic ranges of temperature even under conditions of hard work. Discipline in this area was initially slack, as it had been with disastrous results at Gallipoli, because of the large number of people and horses. Measures were taken to improve the situation. <mask> clashed with the British medical officers of the EEF, especially Colonel Alfred Keble, who he regarded as endangering his troops.In March 1917, she went to Egypt to visit her husband. By June, the Third Battle of Gaza was starting to take shape and as a result, the mother of the unborn child decided to return home. On her return journey to Australia in

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texts: from the AIF but remained in the Army as a reserve. At the Royal Children's Hospital, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and the Prince Henry's Hospital, he was an associate professor of surgery. He became president of the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association in 1935 and was a founding fellow of the College of Surgeons of Australasia in 1927.He established a reputation as one of Melbourne's leading paediatric surgeons, but found himself in disagreement with some medical practices. He looked at 100 cases of tonsillectomy in children and concluded that most of them were unnecessary. It would take four decades for the medical profession in Australia to accept this. He lectured on medical ethics at the University of Melbourne from the late 1930s until his death in 1945, and wrote a course textbook on the subject. In addition to his medical writings, <mask> wrote a book-length section on the Sinai and Palestine campaign for Volume I of the Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914– 1918. During a visit to Egypt in 1918 to inspect the medical records of the AIF, the two men discussed the prospect with each other. <mask> published an article in the Journal of the British Army Medical Corps entitled "The Tactical Employment of the Medical Services in a Cavalry Corps" in 1926, which was expanded into one of the chapters of the Official History.<mask>' manuscript was edited extensively before it was published in 1930. <mask> helped get the funding necessary to complete the project. <mask> was chairman of the Masseurs' Registration Board, a


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texts: member of the Victorian division of the Australian Red Cross, and chairman of the Red Cross National Council. He worked for the St. John Ambulance brigade for 25 years. He was chairman of the Victorian Civil Ambulance Service from 1937 to 1938 and president of the St John Ambulance Association for eight years. He became a Knight of Grace of the order in 1937 after being appointed a Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1930. In recognition of her fund raising efforts for the Victorian branch, she became an Officer of the Order of Saint John.She was a member of the council from 1942 to 1953. <mask> was instrumental in persuading the various state branches to come together as a national organisation. <mask>, the son of <mask>, fell ill with the disease in his first year as a boarder. John died at the age of 10 despite the best efforts of two medical practitioners. <mask> abandoned his medical career after modern medicine failed to save his son. <mask> was in the Army during the inter-war period. On January 8, 1920, he became a colonel in the Australian Army Medical Corps.He was the DDMS of the 3rd Military District (Victoria) from July 1, 1921 to June 26, 1933. He was the head of the medical services of the Royal Australian Air Force. In 1927, the Minister for Defence decided that the Army's Director General of Medical Services should be responsible for the administration of the RAAF's medical services. <mask> was answerable to the Air Board. He was a doctor to the Governor General of Australia from July 1927 to June 1931. <mask> became the Director General of Medical

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texts: Services on August 20, 1934. He wanted to increase the number of medical professionals in the Army.Major General Sir Thomas Blamey doubled the size of the Army in 1939 after people thought another war was imminent. <mask>' efforts at recruiting were more modest. The number of part-time officers in the AAMC increased by only 32 per cent by 1939. 335 medical practitioners, 37 dentists and 13 pharmacists were included. <mask> pushed for all doctors to be prepared for either military service or direction by civil authorities, as he was acutely aware that a large Army would require mobilisation of the country's doctors. He oversaw a large effort to store drugs and medical equipment. Most of this was delivered by July 1939 with the help of the Department of Health.<mask> began a tour of military and other medical centers in India, the Middle East, the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Canada in 1939. He arranged for the King and Queen of the United Kingdom to receive a gift from the wife of the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. <mask> predicted a major war, fought in the islands to the north of Australia. He tried to get the services of two Australian physicians, the surgeon Sir Thomas Dunhill and Neil Hamilton Fairley, an expert on tropical diseases. <mask> returned to Australia in October 1939 after curtailing the North American leg of his tour due to the Second World War. Major military hospitals in the capital cities were pushed for by Second World War <mask>. They should be handed over to the Repatriation Commission for the care of sick and disabled


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texts: ex-service personnel after the war.<mask> won his case despite strong opposition. The major military hospitals in the state capital cities, the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, the Austin Hospital, and the Greenslopes Private Hospital are his greatest legacies. There were shortages of medicals stores in the Middle East in the late 1940s. Units were sent to the Middle East with the expectation that the British Army would make up the difference, but British policy was that all possible sources had to be exploited before any demands could be made. The Commander in Chief of the AIF recognised that something had to be negotiated between the two governments, but medical officers in the Middle East blamed <mask> for the situation. Before he went to the Middle East to see the situation for himself, the Minister of the Army decided that <mask> should become the Director of Medical Services, AIF. Major General Samuel Burston was appointed to that post by Blamey on arrival in the Middle East with the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee.They didn't know that Blamey had the authority to make such an appointment, but on seeing the situation for himself, Spender confirmed Burston's appointment. <mask> was appointed to the newly created post of Inspector General of Medical Services (IGMS) by Spender after he returned to Australia. <mask> visited all the Australian states and overseas locations where Australian troops had been sent, including the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), India and East Africa. When Blamey


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texts: reorganised the Army on his return to Australia in 1942, he appointed Burston as Director General of Medical Services. On April 6, 1942, <mask> became the leader of the Second Army. He joined the Second AIF as a major general on June 27, 1942. <mask> held this post until August 1944.The Second Army had less and less to do due to the run-down of the Army. He was invited to write the medical history series of the official history of Australia in the war. Major General George Alan Vasey's 6th Division had encountered an atabrine-resistant strain of malaria in the Aitape-Wewak campaign, so he decided to go with him. The aircraft they were travelling in crashed into the sea about from Machans Beach, just north of the mouth of the Barron River. <mask> and Vasey were killed along with nine other Australian service personnel. They were buried in the war cemetery with full military honours. <mask> was survived by many people.The memorial service was held at St Paul's Cathedral. He was the third most senior Australian officer to die in the Second World War, after General Sir Brudenell White and Lieutenant General Henry Wynter. The Australian War Memorial contains <mask>' papers. The <mask> Memorial Lecture was established by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The subject of the lecture is related to some aspect or aspects of military surgery, medical equipment (military and civil), the surgery of children, neurosurgery, general surgery, medical ethics or medical history, which <mask> was particularly interested in. Major General Samuel Burston gave a lecture on medical aspects of

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title: Angela Lansbury

texts: <mask> is an Irish-British actress and singer who has played many film, theater, and television roles. Her work has received international attention, as her career has spanned over 80 years in the United States. <mask> was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2020. <mask> was born to an upper-middle-class family in central London. She moved to the US in 1940 to study acting in New York City. She got her first film roles in Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray, earning her two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in 11 more MGM films, mostly in minor roles, after her contract ended in 1952.Although largely seen as a B-list star during this period, her appearance in the film The Manchurian Candidate in 1962 received widespread praise and is said to be one of her finest performances. <mask> earned her first Tony Award for her role in the Broadway musical Mame in 1966 and established her as a gay icon. <mask> moved from California to County Cork, Ireland in 1970, amid difficulties in her personal life, and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade. In addition to leading roles in the stage musicals, Sweeney Todd, and The

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title: Angela Lansbury

texts: King and I, there were also roles in the hit Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Murder, She Wrote, which ran for 12 seasons until 1996, was one of the longest-running and most popular detective dramas in television history. <mask> was the executive producer of the final four seasons of the series through the company she co-owned with her husband. She contributed to animated films like Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Don Bluth's Anastasia.Since then, she has toured in a variety of international productions and made occasional film appearances such as Nanny McPhee. <mask> has won a number of awards, including five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and an Olivier Award. She has been nominated for various industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions. Queen Elizabeth II made <mask> a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the subject of three biographies. <mask> was born to an upper middle class family in the district of St Pancras in central London in 1925. Her birthplace is sometimes given as East London.<mask> was born in Regent's Park, Central London. Moyna Macgill was an actress who starred in several films and appeared on stage in the West End. A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain,

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title: Angela Lansbury

texts: her father was a wealthy English timber merchant and politician. <mask>, the leader of the Labour Party and an anti-war activist, was her paternal grandfather. Isolde was the daughter of Moyna's previous marriage to a writer and director. In January 1930, when she was four years old, her mother gave birth to twin boys, Bruce and Edgar, and the Lansburys moved to a house in Mill Hill, North London. <mask> retreated into playing characters as a way to cope with her father's death from stomach cancer.Lansbury received an education at South Hampstead High School from 1934 until 1939 after her mother moved into the house of a Scottish colonel. She was mostly self-educated, learning from books, theatre and cinema. She became a complete movie maniac, visiting the cinema regularly and imagining herself as certain characters. She began studying acting at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in West London in 1940, first appearing as a lady-in-waiting in the school's production of Maxwell Anderson. Isolde remained in Britain with her new husband, the actor Peter Ustinov, after Macgill decided to take her and her family to the United States. Macgill secured a job supervising 60 British children who were being evacuated to North America aboard the Duchess

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texts: of Atholl, arriving in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in mid-August. She went by train to New York City, where she was sponsored by a Wall Street businessman.<mask> studied at the Feagin School of Drama and Radio, where she appeared in performances of William Congreve's The Way of the World and Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. She graduated in 1942 and the family moved to a flat on Morton Street. Macgill secured work in a Canadian touring production of Tonight at 8.30 and was joined in Canada by her daughter, who gained her first theatrical job as a nightclub act at the Samovar Club. Her act consisted of singing songs by Nol Coward and earned her $60 a week. She returned to New York City in August 1942, but her mother and brothers moved to Los Angeles in order to revive her movie career. <mask>'s mother, Moyna, was fired from her job at a Los Angeles department store because she was incompetent, leaving the family to scrounge up $28 a week for Lansbury's wages. While befriending a group of gay men, <mask> became aware of the city's underground gay scene and attended lectures by the spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti.At a party hosted by her mother, <mask> met John van Druten, who had recently co-authored a script for Gaslight, a mystery-thriller based on Patrick

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texts: Hamilton's 1938 play Gaslight. The film was being directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman in the role of Paula Alquist, a woman who was being harassed by her husband. It was suggested that <mask> would be perfect for the role of Nancy Oliver, a cockney maid, but since she was only 17 at the time, a social worker had to accompany her on the set. She was signed to a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, earning $500 a week and using her real name as her professional name. Variety magazine claimed in August 1943 that <mask> had gone from unknown to movie star in four days. The film earned six Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actress for Lansbury, despite receiving mixed reviews. National Velvet was a major commercial hit, with <mask> developing a lifelong friendship with her co-star Elizabeth Taylor.The Picture of Dorian Gray was an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name, which was set in Victorian London. <mask> was cast as a singer in a music hall who falls in love with the main character. Although the film was not a financial success, <mask>'s performance once more drew praise, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture, and she was again nominated for Best


title: Angela Lansbury

texts: Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, losing to Anne Revere, her co-star in <mask>'s acting career came to a halt after she married Richard Cromwell. Cromwell was gay and had married <mask> in the hopes that he would be heterosexual. They were friends until his death, despite the fact that the marriage ended in less than a year. She met Peter Pullen Shaw at a party held by former co-star Hurd Hatfield.Shaw was signed to MGM and had recently left a relationship with Joan Crawford. He and <mask> lived together before she proposed to him. The couple wanted to get married in Britain, but the Church of England wouldn't marry them. They were married in a Church of Scotland ceremony in London in August 1949. Returning to the U.S., where they settled into <mask>'s home in Rustic Canyon, Malibu, in 1951 both became naturalised U.S. citizens and retained their British citizenship via dual nationality. After the success of Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray, MGM cast Lansbury in 11 more films until her contract ended in 1952. MGM used her less than similar-aged actresses, and biographers believed that the majority of these films weremediocre, doing little to further her career.Cukor believed that <mask> had been miscast by MGM. She was made to portray older women,

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texts: often villainous, and as a result became increasingly dissatisfied with working for MGM, commenting that "I kept wanting to play the Jean Arthur roles, and Mr Mayer kept casting me as a series of venal bitches." The company slashed their film budgets and staff due to the slump in cinema sales. Judy Garland's character in The Harvey Girls was slapped by Lansbury's character "Em", who was her first American character. She appeared in The Hoodlum Saint, Till the Clouds Roll By, If Winter Comes, Tenth Avenue Angel, The Three Musketeers, State of the Union and The Red Danube. She was first lent by MGM to the United Artists for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, and then by Paramount for the movie. She was a maid in Kind Lady and Mutiny.In 1948 she appeared in an audio adaptation of Of Human Bondage for NBC University Theatre and the following year she starred in their adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She appeared in a 1950 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. The Citadel was written by Cronin. In the year that her son was born, <mask> told her manager to end her contract with MGM because she was unhappy with the roles they were giving her. After the birth, she joined the East Coast touring productions of two former-Broadway plays: Howard Lindsay and


title: Angela Lansbury

texts: Russel Crouse's Remains to Be Seen and Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State. Margaret Bonanno stated that <mask>'s career had hit an all-time low. Her daughter was born in April of 1953.Shaw had a son by a previous marriage, David, and after gaining legal custody of the boy in 1953, Shaw brought him to California to live with the family; with three children to raise, the Shaws moved to a larger house on SanVincente Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. <mask> said that she felt like a stranger in Hollywood because of her British roots. The family moved to Malibu in 1959 after escaping the Hollywood scene and were able to send their children to a local public school. <mask> was typecast as a woman older than herself in many films in which she appeared during this period. She stated that Hollywood made her old before her time, noting that in her 20s she was receiving fan mail from people who thought she was in her 40s. She played minor roles in A Life at Stake, A Lawless Street, and The Purple Mask before describing the last as the worst movie she had ever made. In Please Murder Me, she played the role of a wife who kills her husband.She played two roles in The Long Hot Summer and The Reluctant Debutante. <mask>'s status as an "A-picture actress" was restored after


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texts: she appeared in two more movies. She continued to make appearances on television and became a regular on a game show. <mask>'s performances as sinister characters in All Fall Down and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs drew critical praise, as did her sympathetic role as Mavis in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. She was cast for the role based on her performance in All Fall Down. The actor who played her son in the film was three years older than <mask>. She agreed to appear in the film after reading the original novel, which she described as "one of the most exciting political books I have ever read".The role was considered "her enduring cinematic triumph" and "the strongest, most memorable and the best picture she ever made". <mask> lost to Patty Duke in the Best Supporting Actress category for The Miracle Worker, which was her third nomination for the film. In the Cool of the Day was one of the worst films of all time, but <mask> played it as well as she did in The World of Henry Orient and Dear Heart. The lead in The Killing of Sister George and the role of Nurse Ratched were both declined by <mask>. Something for Everyone was filmed in Hohenschwangen, Bavaria, where she played the role of the Countess von Ornstein. In 1971 she played the middle-aged


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texts: English witch Eglantine Price in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks; this was her first lead in a screen musical, and led to her publicising the film on television programmes like the David Frost Show. She said that the film secured an enormous audience for her.In 1978's Death on the Nile, <mask> was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, but she spent most of the 1970s on stage rather than on screen. The Lady Vanishes was a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's earlier film released in 1938. She played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd, a film based on an Agatha Christie novel. <mask> wanted to get away from the depiction of the role by Margaret Rutherford, instead reverting to Christie's description of the character. She was supposed to play Miss Marple in two sequels, but they never were made. <mask> provided the voice of a witch in an animated film. <mask> played the roles of Beauty and the Beast and She Wrote in the television show Murder, She Wrote.She co-hosted the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty with Kirk Douglas. She played the mother of a victim of the real-life Korean Air Lines Flight 007 plane crash in Shootdown (1988) and appeared as the mother in Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1988).


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texts: Lansbury starred in The Love She Sought as an American school teacher who falls in love with a Catholic priest while visiting Ireland and was featured in The Shell Seekers as an Englishwoman recovering from a heart attack. The film adaptation of the novel Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris' was directed by her son and executive produced by her stepson. She had the highest profile role since The Manchurian Candidate and she considered it a gift to her three granddaughters. The title song to the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Grammys Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or OtherVisual Media. Lansbury made a surprise appearance in the audio guide of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first ever exhibition about Walt Disney and his Studios.She told an interviewer that working on Nanny McPhee helped her out after her husband's death. She appeared in a film with Jim Carrey. In 2012 it was announced that <mask> was set to star in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel; however, she had to back out of the project due to prior scheduling conflicts with the Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy. She received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors


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texts: Awards. Both Emma Thompson and Geoffrey Rush paid their respects. Mary Poppins Returns is a sequel to the 1964 original film, set 20 years later in Depression-era London, and features Emily Blunt as the title character. The film was released in December of last year and received positive reviews.Lansbury was invited to the American Film Institute's luncheon to give the annual benediction where she talked about her experiences at MGM, the craft of acting and the importance of a film community. A group of film and television stars gave her a standing ovation when she appeared. "As you leave here today and are invited to endure a seemingly endless parade of programs that label you a 'winner' or a 'loser', I've been there," Lansbury said. She made her Broadway debut in 1957 at the Henry Miller Theatre in Hotel Paradiso, directed by Peter Glenville. She earned good reviews for her role as "Marcel Cat" in the play, which ran for 15 weeks. She said that if she hadn't appeared in the play, her career would have ended. <mask> said that she gained a great deal of satisfaction from playing Helen, the abusive mother of Josephine.During the show's run, <mask> developed a friendship with Plowright, as well as with Plowright's lover and future husband. <mask>'s flat on East

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texts: 97th Street was where Plowright and Olivier got married. After appearing in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and A Breath of Scandal, she appeared in Blue Hawaii, where her son was played by Elvis Presley. She commented that she agreed to appear in the film because she was desperate. Anyone Can Whistle was her first appearance in a musical. It opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in April 1964, but was panned and closed after nine performances. When the show closed, <mask> was happy because she faced personal differences with Laurents, but she loved the score.She appeared in a second-season episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. As a wealthy and flamboyant actress. She was cut from the final edit of The Greatest Story Ever Told, a movie about Jesus. She played Lady Blystone and Gloria in Mister Buddwing and Harlow, respectively. Despite her well-received performances in a number of films, "celluloid superstardom" evaded her, and she became increasingly dissatisfied with these minor roles, feeling that none allowed her to explore her potential as an actress. She starred as Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, a film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name, as well as singing on a recording of The Beggar's Opera. This was followed by an appearance


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texts: as the grandmother in The Company of Wolves.<mask> appeared in a television film with Bette Davis called Little Gloria. Happy at Last was released in 1982. She described The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as the most unsophisticated thing you can imagine. She agreed to play a wheelchair in A Talent for Murder in order to work with her co-star, as she described it as a rush job. The First Olympics: Athens 1896 and Lace were both featuring <mask>. <mask> made her Broadway debut in 1966 as Mame Dennis in Jerry Herman's musical adaptation of Auntie Mame. The director's first choice for the role was Rosalind Russell, who played Mame in Auntie Mame, but she declined.<mask> wanted the role to mark a change in her career. When she was chosen, it came as a surprise to theatre critics, who thought that it would go to a better-known actress; <mask> was forty-one years old, and it was her first starring role. Mame Dennis was a glamorous character with over twenty costume changes throughout the play, and <mask>'s role involved ten songs and dance routines which she trained extensively for. Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1966. Auntie Mame was popular among the gay community, and Mame gained <mask> a cult gay following, something that she later

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texts: attributed to the fact that Mame Dennis was "every gay person's idea of glamour." Reviews of Lansbury's performance were very positive. <mask> is a singing-dancing actress, not a singer or dancer who also acts.She has a cool demeanor in this role. <mask> received her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Margaret Bonanno claimed that Mame made <mask> a "superstar", with the actress herself commenting on her success, "Everyone loves you, everyone loves the success, and enjoys it as much as you do." It lasts as long as you are on that stage and as long as you keep coming out of that door. <mask> was able to make more appearances on television because of his fame through Mame. Her fame allowed her to engage in a variety of high-profile charitable endeavors, for instance she was the guest of honor at the March of Dimes annual benefit luncheon. She was invited to star in a musical performance for the 1968 Academy Awards ceremony, and co-hosted that year's Tony Awards with her brother-in-law.She was elected "Woman of the Year" by the Hasty Pudding Club. When the film adaptation of Mame was put into production, <mask> hoped to be offered the part, but it went to Lucille Ball, an established box-office success. This was one of the most disappointing

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texts: 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 She played the title role in the musical based on Jean Arnold's The Rape of Prettybelle. Set in the Deep South, it dealt with issues of racism, with Lansbury as a wealthy alcoholic who seeks sexual encounters with black men. The play opened in Boston but received poor reviews and was canceled before it reached Broadway. The play was described as a complete and utter fiasco by Lansbury. In 1970, Peter underwent a hip replacement, Anthony overdosed on heroin, and the family's Malibu home was destroyed in a brush fire. After Anthony stopped using cocaine and heroin, they purchased Knockmourne Glebe, a farmhouse constructed in the 1820s which was located near the village of Conna in rural County Cork, and took him there to recover from his drug addiction.The family moved to Ireland to be near their children. <mask> didn't work for a year so she could be with Anthony and Deidre while they recovered from their addiction. He moved into television directing after graduating from the Webber-Douglas School, his mother's alma mater. <mask> and her husband split their time between County Cork and New York City. <mask> returned to London's West End in 1972 to perform in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Edward Albee's All Over. Although


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texts: the play's reviews were mixed, <mask>'s acting was praised. She returned to the West End to play the role of Rose in the musical "gypsy" after touring the United States in a revival of Mame.When the show started in May 1973, she earned a standing ovation and rave reviews, even though she initially turned down the role, not wanting to be in the shadow of Ethel Merman, who had portrayed the character in the original Broadway production. She had dinners held in her honour when she moved into a Belgravia flat. <mask> was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago after the conclusion of the London run. The success of the show earned <mask> her third Tony Award. In the summer of 1975, Gypsy toured the country again after several months' break. Lansbury decided that she wanted to appear in a production of one of William Shakespeare's plays to move on from musicals. She played the role of Gertrude in the National Theatre Company's production of Hamlet.The production was directed by Peter Hall and ran from December 1975 to May 1976 and received mixed reviews. <mask> had her mother's body cremated and the ashes scattered near her own home after she died in California in 1975. She was in two one-act plays by Edward Albee, Counting the Ways and


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texts: Listening, performed side by side at the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut. <mask> was praised again, despite the mixed reviews of the production. This was followed by another tour of the show. <mask> played the role of Mrs Anna in the 24 performances of the revival of The King and I that took place in April 1978. She played a novelist and murder victim in Death on the Nile, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1937 novel of the same name that was filmed in both London and Egypt.<mask> was in a film with Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis. The role earned <mask> an award from the National Board of Review. <mask> first appeared in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in March 1979. She played the role of Sweeney Todd in the Broadway show. She jumped on the chance to play the role due to the fact that she loved the wit and intelligence of the lyrics, she commented that she loved "the extraordinary wit and intelligence of his lyrics". The musical received mixed reviews, but it earned <mask> her fourth Tony Award and After Dark magazine's Ruby Award for Broadway Performer of the Year. She reprised her role in October 1980 for a ten-month tour of six U.S. cities, and the production was filmed and broadcast on the Entertainment Channel.Her son Anthony also

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texts: starred in A Little Family Business, a farce set in Baltimore in which she was an upper middle class housewife. After opening in Los Angeles, it moved on to Broadway's Martin Beck Theatre. It was accused of racism by the Japanese-American community. <mask> appeared in a Mame revival at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre the year after he was in the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The show was a flop, with <mask> noting that it's not a show of today. It is a period piece. <mask> returned to the theatre after Murder, She Wrote.She withdrew from The Visit due to her husband's health issues. In January 2003 Peter died of heart failure at the couple's home in California. <mask> didn't want to take on any more major acting roles after this event, so she might make a few cameos but nothing more. Wanting to spend more time in New York City, she purchased a $2 million condominium in Manhattan. <mask> returned to Broadway after 23 years in the play "Deuce", which opened at the Music Box Theatre in May 2007. <mask> was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the play. She reprised her role as Madame Arcati at the Shubert Theatre in March of 2009.This was her fifth Tony Award, tying her with the previous record holder for the number of Tony Awards, Julie Harris, although all of


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texts: Harris' Tonys were for Best Leading Actress. The first Broadway revival of A Little Night Music was held at the Walter Kerr Theatre in June 2010. The role earned her a seventh Tony Award nomination, and in May 2010 she was awarded an honor degree from the Manhattan School of Music. <mask> played a women's rights advocate in the Broadway revival of The Best Man. <mask> starred in an Australian tour of Driving Miss Daisy with James Earl Jones. <mask> reprised her performance as Madame Arcati at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End, her first London stage appearance in nearly 40 years. She made an appearance at the film festival in London to see some of her best known films.She joined the tour from December to March. In April 2015, aged 89, she received her first Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Arcati, and in November 2015, she received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre. On June 2, 2016 it was announced that <mask> would return to Broadway in a revival of The Chalk Garden. Scott Rudin produced the play. <mask> stated in an interview that she won't be performing in The Chalk Garden because she wants to be with her family more. <mask> returned to Broadway portraying Lady Bracknell in a


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texts: one-night benefit staging of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest for Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. According to Variety magazine, <mask> has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.<mask> was offered two main television roles, one in a Norman Lear sitcom opposite Charles Durning and the other in a detective series by William Link and Richard Levinson of Columbo fame. She did the detective series despite her agents telling her to accept the sitcom. Murder, She Wrote centered on the character of Jessica Fletcher, a retired school teacher from the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, who became a successful detective novelist after her husband's death, also solving murders encountered during her travels. The character was described as an American Miss Marple by Lansbury. The series was created by a group of people who had success with Columbo, including William Link and Richard Levinson. The first season of the show began on September 30, 1984, with the rest of it airing on Sundays from 8 to 9 p.m. The pilot had a ratings of 18.9 and the first season was rated top in its time slot.<mask> commented that "best of all, there's no violence", despite the fact that the show did not depict violence or gore. I


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texts: don't like violence. <mask> was protective of Jessica Fletcher, having creative input over the character's costumes, makeup and hair and rejecting pressure from network executives to put her in a relationship, believing that the character should remain a strong single female. <mask> ensured that the script was changed when she believed that a scriptwriter had made Jessica do things that didn't fit with her personality. She thought Jessica was a role model for older female viewers because of her universal appeal. The series paved the way for later series like The Golden Girls because it had an older female character as the main character. "I think it's the first time a show has really been aimed at the middle aged audience, and although it was most popular among senior citizens, it gradually gained a younger audience," <mask> said.One third of viewers were under the age of 50. It gained high ratings throughout most of its run, outdoing rivals in its time slot. The Law & Harry McGraw was a short-lived spin-off. Lansbury assumed a bigger role behind the scenes as the show continued. The show was co-produced by her company and Universal. She stated that the 1990–21 season would be the last for the show. She became an executive producer for the 1992–93 season,


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texts: something that made it more interesting to her.The show's setting for the 8th season was New York City, where Jessica had taken a job teaching criminology at Manhattan University. <mask> was encouraged by the move and it was an attempt to attract younger viewers. The show's ratings improved in the early 1990s as it became a Top Five programme. CBS executives wanted to gain a larger audience so they moved it to Thursdays at 8pm. <mask> believed that the move ignored the show's core audience. The final episode of the series ended with <mask> saying goodbye to Jessica. The title of the show's last episode, "Death by Demographics", is a protest.Murder, She Wrote is a victim of commercial television's mad youth mania. At the time, it was tied with the original Hawaii Five-O as the longest-running detective series in television history, and the role would prove to be the most successful and prominent of <mask>'s career. <mask> wanted to make a Murder, She Wrote television film with a musical score by Jerry Herman. The project was turned into Mrs Santa Claus, in which <mask> played Santa Claus' wife, which proved to be a ratings hit. <mask> was hired to appear in advertisements and infomercials for Bufferin, Mastercard and the Beatrix Potter Company as a result of her


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texts: higher profile gained from Murder, She Wrote. In 1988 she released a video called Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well- Being, in which she outlined her personal exercise routine, and in 1990 she published a book with the same title co-written with Mimi Avins, which she dedicated to her mother. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Prince of Wales at a ceremony in Los Angeles.While living most of the year in California, <mask> spent Christmases and summers at her farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at Ballywilliam, near Churchtown South, Cloyne, County Cork, which she had specially built as a family home in 1991. In 2005, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. <mask> played Aunt March on Little Women. "That's Aunt March, played with magnificent imperiousness by <mask>, wielding power by lording her wealth over all" was written by Variety film critic Jaqueline Cutler. <mask> is praised by Daniel Feinberg at The Hollywood Reporter as "towering over a solid cast...rests on no laurels and steals her every scene." Lansbury has an English accent. She is an Irish citizen."Meticulous" is how biographer Martin

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texts: Gottfried characterized her. It is cautious. There is self-editing. Deliberate. She said that she was as concerned, as sensitive, and as sympathetic as anyone might want in a friend. He said that she had a profound sense of privacy. <mask> married the actor Richard Cromwell when she was just 19 and he was 35.On September 27, 1945, Cromwell and <mask> were married in a small civil ceremony. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1946, but they remained friends until his death. She married Peter Shaw in 1949 and they were together for 54 years. David was from Shaw's first marriage. They had two children of their own. Deirdre Ann was born in 1952. There was a time when the word was "1953."Lansbury admitted that she had to leave her children in California for long periods when she was working elsewhere. She brought up her children to be Episcopalians, even though they weren't members of a congregation. She believes that God is within all of us, that we are perfect, precious beings, and that we have to put our faith and trust in that. The counterculture movement grew in the late 1960s and Anthony and Deirdre started using recreational drugs. Anthony was addicted to cocaine and heroin and gave it up in 1971. Anthony was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217

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texts: King and I. She is known for her performances in plays such as The Best Man and Nol Coward's comedy blithe the spirit. She gained international fame for her role in Murder, She Wrote. The New York Times referred to <mask> as the "First Lady of Musical Theatre" in the 1960s. <mask> said that she could sing and that she had a strong voice, even though she had a limited range. <mask> was described as an American icon by her biographer. She was described as "one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved" by an interviewer for The New York Times.According to The New Statesman, she has the kind of pulling power many younger and more ubiquitous actors can only dream of, while an article in The Independent suggested that she could be considered Britain's most successful actress. She is a gay icon, and has asserted that she is very proud of the fact that she is popular among the LGBT community because of her performance in Mame. She has been honored for her accomplishments in Britain. <mask> received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. <mask> was promoted to a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours for her services to drama, charitable work, and philanthropy. <mask> was made a Dame


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texts: Awards where the ceremony was held, Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies presented her with the Oscar saying in part "<mask> has been adding class, talent, beauty, and intelligence to the movies ever since" her film debut in 1944. The Oscar statue pays tribute to an icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters inspiring generations of


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texts: Z.<mask> was an American watercolor painter who gained national attention in the 1930s and 40s for her paintings of scenes in Eastern Washington. She painted with a bold, Precisionist style not commonly associated with watercolor, rendering landscapes, industrial scenes, and houses with a Magic Realist touch that gave them a lonely, isolated quality similar to Charles Sheeler and Edward Hopper. She spent most of her career in the Pacific Northwest, but was popular in New York art galleries, was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and was included in a major exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. After moving to Los Angeles with her husband, the post-war rise of abstract expressionism slowed her career, as well as the health problems of both her and her husband. They died a few days apart. Helder's work was out of fashion and largely forgotten by the public, but the power of her art has gradually been rediscovered, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane has her twenty-two piece series relating to the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in its permanent collection, which is considered her masterwork.In Whatcom County, Washington, a baby was born on May 30, 1904. Helder disliked the name "Zama", which was taken from the ancient Carthaginian battle site where Hannibal was defeated by the Romans, which was believed to be a place of spiritual energy. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a music and art lover. R. Wright Helder was a professional photographer. At an early age,<mask> became proficient in landscape painting with watercolor. She studied at the University of Washington and won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. She studied under a number of well-known artists.Helder had a career in New York. She gained

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texts: Artists Council for Defense after the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1943, her work was selected for inclusion in American Realists and Magic Realists, a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A dozen of her paintings were hung alongside works by other artists. Helder moved to Los Angeles to be with her husband, who had moved there for work. She was a member of the California Watercolor Society, volunteered with wounded soldiers, lectured on art, and had a solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She taught at the Los Angeles Art Institute from 1952 to 1955.Helder was squeezed out of the New York galleries due to the popularity of abstract expressionism. Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Anderson, and other artists of the "Northwest School" overshadowed her in the Pacific Northwest. She was a well-respected "WPA artist" and a master of watercolor. The complete collection of the Grand Coulee series was sold to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society in 1954. Helder cared for her husband in the last years of his life because of his poor health. She died a week after her husband in Los Angeles. The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Oakland Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have all exhibited Legacy Works by <mask>er.A major retrospective of her work was presented by the Tacoma Art Museum and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture displayed her Grand Coulee series. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her art has been documented in a number of books. The Federal Art Project artists are American women


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texts: <mask> is an American businessman, television producer, professional wrestling booker, and on-screen personality. He is best known for his work as an Executive Producer and later Senior Vice President of World Championship Wrestling. <mask> was the Executive Producer of Impact Wrestling when he worked with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. With an amateur background in martial arts, <mask> also occasionally performed as an in-ring competitor, becoming a one-time WCW Hardcore Champion and teaming with "Hollywood" Hogan against Diamond Dallas Page and Jay Leno at the 1998 Road Wild pay-per-view event. In 2006 he wrote an autobiography called Controversy creates Cash. The American Wrestling Association (AWA) was owned by Verne Gagne and <mask> started working for him in 1986. Bischoff hosted the AWA until the company folded in 1991.<mask> became an on-air personality at the last minute after working in the sales department for the AWA. Larry Nelson, who at the time was employed by the AWA, was arrested under suspicion of a drunk driving. Because of Nelson's unavailability, Verne Gagne and his son, Greg, decided to recruit <mask>, who initially had no desire to be in front of the camera, to fill-in on the interviews. <mask> thought he would be a good replacement due to his availability in the television studio and the fact that he was already wearing a suit and tie. After the demise of the AWA, <mask> tried to get a job with the World Wrestling Federation, but was not hired. <mask> joined World Championship

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texts: Wrestling as a C-show commentator in 1991. Jim Ross was the Vice President of Broadcasting at WCW and Tony Schiavone was the producer.After Bill Watts resigned from the company, <mask> went to Bill Shaw and Bob Dhue to apply for the job of Executive Producer. <mask> was hired in Watts' place, despite the fact that Ross and Schiavone were the two top candidates. Ross was granted his release from WCW and went to work for the WWF, while Schiavone remained a producer and commentator. <mask> and Dhue clashed over the direction of the company when they were partners. In 1994, <mask> was promoted to Senior Vice President and in charge of everything. Dhue, Sandefeur, and Barnett resigned. In order to compete with the WWF, Bischoff convinced Turner executives to better finance WCW.He moved the production to Disney-MGM Studios. The man who was filming a show at Disney-MGM Studios was approached by two men and signed a contract with them. He invested money in production values and increased the number of pay-per-views. He started a weekly live program that went against WWF's flagship Monday Night Raw. As the latter show was not always aired live, Bischoff spoiled Raw results to boost ratings. The Monday Night Wars created what became known amongst fans as the Monday Night Wars, as both WWF and WCW fought for viewers and in the process kick-started a new level of mainstream popularity for pro wrestling. In 1995 the company made a profit for the first time in its history.<mask> was the President of World Championship

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texts: Wrestling by 1997. Scott Hall, better known as "Razor Ramon", was signed by <mask> in 1996. Hall and Kevin Nash became "The Outsiders" two weeks later on Nitro. The duo were depicted as WWF rebels by Bischoff. In order to avoid legal action by the WWF, <mask> asked point blank if they worked for the WWF, which both Hall and Nash denied. The Outsiders became the New World Order (nWO) after perennial fan-favorite Hulk Hogan aligned himself with them. The company was depicted as engaging in a hostile takeover of the company.The angle grew more complex with a mixture of main-eventers, mid-carders, executives, referees, managers, and commentators involved. As a result of the nWo storyline, the WWF was overtaken by the WCW as the number one wrestling promotion in America with Nitro defeating Raw in the ratings by a wide margin for 84 weeks in a row. <mask> joined the nWo as a manager and moved from his role as a commentator. His television character, dubbed "Eazy E" by Hall, became a dictator and egomaniac as the nWo boss. In the summer of 1998, <mask> hosted a Tonight Show like segment with Miss Elizabeth. When the nWo was getting to be a more prominent storyline, <mask> replaced Ted DiBiase with another person, but he was still hired to be the spokesman and financial backer. <mask> appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as well as on the show Arli$$.When the WWF rebranded their product as "WWF Attitude" and began to focus on new superstars such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and The Rock, this

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texts: eventually resulted in the downfall of WCW. WWF ended WCW's year and a half run on top of the ratings war. Despite losing in the ratings to WWF, WCW continued to post strong ratings and attendance. On July 6, 1998 at the Georgia Dome in front of 39,919 people, Bill Goldberg was given the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, making him one of the first hometown superstars in the company. Kevin Nash was promoted to head booker. Despite Goldberg drawing at the box office and doing three shows in December and January that did nearly a $1 million gate, the decision was made to put the belt on Nash. On January 4, at the Georgia Dome, Nash dropped the title to Hogan in a match that became known as the Fingerpoke of Doom, and the nWO was rebranded.By March ratings began to fall, and WCW began to lose ratings. In 1999, Bischoff reverted to focusing on aging WCW stars such as Hogan, Diamond Dallas Page, Randy Savage, Sting, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Nash. Several celebrities such as Master P., Chad Brock, Megadeth, Dennis Rodman, and Kiss were focused on by WCW in an effort to improve ratings. Bischoff had a deal with the members of the rock band Kiss to have their own wrestling character known as The Kiss Demon. It was losing $5 million a month by late 1999. Ratings and attendance were down. The decision to relieve Bischoff of power was made on September 10, 1999.<mask> was relieved of his management position with WCW on September 10, 1999. The job title was eliminated. Bill Busch was named Senior Vice President and


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texts: was responsible for the creative of the company with Brad Siegel handling the day to day operations. One of Busch's first acts in charge was the addition of former WWF head writer Vince Russo and his colleague Ed Ferrara, both of whom had worked on Raw when the show began to overtake Nitro in the ratings. The New Blood was formed in April 2000 as a result of <mask>'s return as an on-air character. At the Bash at the Beach 2000 pay-per-view, <mask>'s last on-camera role, Russo did a promo on Hogan. Siegel accepted Bischoff's offer to purchase the company when it was facing financial troubles.Due to the terms of a settlement, the WWF had the right to bid on WCW's properties should they ever be up for sale. The Bischoff-Fusient consortium signed a new letter of intent after Viacom objected to a WWF show on a competing network. Jamie Kellner, the new head of Turner Broadcasting, canceled all WCW programming. Even though Thunder was the highest-rated show on TBS at the time, Kellner believed that wrestling didn't fit the demographic of either network and wouldn't be good enough to get advertisers to buy airtime. In the book NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans, it is said that Fusient wanted control over time slots on the networks. The decision to cancel WCW programming was influenced by this. Fusient's offer depended on being able to continue to air WCW programming on the Turner networks, which was not possible with no network on which to air its programming.It

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texts: made no sense for us to do the deal under those circumstances. The company's key assets were purchased by the WWF in March 2001 for a substantially lower price than what had been offered. <mask> was briefly the President of Matrats, a youth-based wrestling company. The general manager of Raw was hired by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002. Although primarily an on-screen role, <mask> had a wide range of contacts within WWE to whom he could pitch creative ideas. He was the first general manager of Raw. He reprised his smarminess with the general manager position, again playing the arrogant heel character he had employed as the nWo boss.He told the audience about how he forced Vince McMahon to change the way he does business and how he was president of WCW. <mask> is the second longest serving general manager in the history of the company. Theodore Long surpassed <mask>'s record with a combined number of six years. The "Raw Roulette" and the "Elimination Chamber" were two of the wrestling innovations of <mask>. McMahon is the General Manager and Heyman is the former Extreme Championship Wrestling owner. <mask> had his head shaved after he failed to beat his nephew. After his head was shaved, Bischoff began a face turn.He was a big fan of face wrestlers. After allowing Randy Orton's team to become General Managers for up to four weeks, Bischoff took a vacation. John Cena, who was drafted to Raw in June 2005, refused to participate in <mask>'s vendetta against an impending ECW revival. As a result,

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texts: Bischoff made wrestlers such as Chris Jericho and Christian try to take away the WWE Championship from John Cena. Bischoff aligned himself with Kurt. After several months of Raw and SmackDown! Bischoff lost to SmackDown.Theodore Long was the general manager of Survivor Series. On the December 5 episode of Raw, <mask> was "fired" as general manager, when he was slammed and Vince McMahon tossed him into a garbage truck, following a "trial" where his history of unscrupulous actions were listed. The rest of the year was spent sitting out and writing a book called Controversy creates Cash. <mask> was against writing a wrestling book initially, as he believed that most are bitter, self-serving revisionist history at best, and monuments to bullshit at their worst. On September 25, 2006 <mask> appeared on WWE television for the first time in a year, and after being brought into the ring by Jonathan Coachman, he proceeded to promote his recently finished book. Without Monday Nitro, there would be no Monday Night Raw, without the nWO, and without <mask> there would be no Mr. McMahon. <mask>'s microphone was cut off, Coachman's music played and he was escorted from the arena by security.John "Bradshaw" Layfield conducted a four-part interview with <mask> a few days later. During the interview, <mask> discussed a number of topics, such as his feelings towards Lex Luger, his thoughts on ECW promoter Paul Heyman, his decision of giving Kevin Nash booking power, and his overall reaction to the Monday Night Wars. The

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texts: book was a New York Times best seller. The special guest referee for the D-Generation X versus Rated-RKO match at Cyber Sunday was chosen by 60% of the vote. He cheated out of the win, leaving Randy and Edge to win. <mask> was back as General Manager on the next night. If he didn't like the outcome, he would restart the matches.He got revenge on Maria by making her face, forcing John to take the night off, and banning him from the building. He started the match between Jeff Hardy and Johnny Nitro after he won the Intercontinental Championship. <mask> started the match as a No Disqualification match and Nitro used Melina to distract Hardy and hit him with the title belt. At the end of the show, DX interfered in the main event when <mask> tried to help Edge and Randy Orton win the World Tag Team Championship, and forced him to be humiliated by "Big Dick Johnson" as revenge for costing them their match the night before. On March 5, 2007, <mask> made a brief appearance on Raw in Phoenix, Arizona to give Vince McMahon his thoughts on the match against Donald Trump. <mask>'s contract expired in August of 2007. On December 10, 2007, <mask> appeared on Raw for its 15th Anniversary Special, and was confronted by Chris Jericho, the man whom he fired on Raw on August 22, 2005.In October 2009, <mask> helped negotiate a deal for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. On January 4, 2010, he was on the show with Hogan. An alliance to take over and rebuild the franchise. He was also an executive producer. Despite being a bad


title: Eric Bischoff

texts: guy when dealing with the likes of Jeff Jarrett, Mick Foley and A.J., Bischoff refereeed his first match at Against All Odds, favoring the face challenger Samoa Joe over the heel champion A.J. There is a match for the world title. During the match, as part of the storyline, Bischoff punched out Styles' manager, but the distraction caused Styles to retain his belt.On the March 15 episode of Impact! Bischoff tried to shave Mick Foley bald as a punishment for trying to help Jeff Jarrett in a handicap match the previous week, but was shaved bald himself when Mick turned the tables on him. The Lethal Lockdown match was won by Team Hogan. Sting and Kevin Nash claimed that they knew that <mask> and Hogan were going to do something. During this time, Hogan was turned on and went on a rampage, attacking Rob Van Dam to the point that he was forced to give up the title. On the October 7 episode of Impact!, <mask> presented Carter with paperwork that would have resulted in the firing of Abyss if he had lost his match with Rob Van Dam at Bound for Glory. At Bound for Glory, Bischoff turned on Hogan and helped Jeff Hardy win the title.They aligned themselves with Jeff and Abyss. On the next episode of Impact! It was revealed that Bischoff tricked Carter by telling her that the company was going to be turned over to him and Hogan. <mask>'s and Hogan's new stable formed an alliance with Flair's Fortune. On the November 4 episode of Impact!, Bischoff challenged Mr. Anderson to a match, only for Matt Morgan to take his

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texts: two exceptions," <mask> said in 2019. Diamond Dallas Page was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. On the 25th anniversary of Raw, <mask> made a guest appearance on the show, as well as a segment with other former Raw general managers. <mask> was replaced by Bruce Prichard on October 15 due to his background in the television industry. According to Bryan, Bischoff did not know about the product or the wrestlers, and that he heard zero good things about him.Since promises were made that we don't feel were upheld, <mask> was released. "I knew about six weeks in, eight weeks in, it just wasn't going to work out," Bischoff said in March 2020. I knew I wasn't fitting and it wasn't a secret. It was not right. I wasn't able to do it in time because I had to fit in the system. <mask> blamed his failure to adapt to the new job for why his tenure was so short and said the problem was more of a "chemistry issue" than anything else. <mask> pointed out that Vince had the most say in the company's creative direction, and that he had little creative control over SmackDown.On April 6, 2021, he was in the WWE Hall of Fame. He appeared on the December 27 episode of Raw, as the officiator for the renewal of The Miz and Maryse's vows, and on the January 21 episode of SmackDown, during a backstage segment with Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville. On August 5, 2020, <mask> moderated a debate between Chris Jericho and Orange Cassidy on AEW Dynamite, his first appearance on the network since 2000. He didn't sign with the promotion and


title: Eric Bischoff

texts: referred to his appearance as a cameo. <mask> would return to Dynamite on October 28, 2020 to ask Jericho and MJF questions during a town hall meeting, provoking the two wrestlers and setting up a match at Full Gear. He was part of an Inner Circle press conference on March 3, 2021. Bischoff hosted a party for the Inner Circle on May 28, 2021.During the event, members of the Inner Circle were attacked. Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment was a production company that primarily produced reality TV shows. They produced a live Girls Gone Wild pay-per-view event from Florida in 2003 and a pay-per-view about the South Dakota motorcycle rally in 2004. Scott Baio Is 45...and Single, Scott Baio Is 46...and Pregnant, and Billy Ray Cyrus... Home At Last are some of the shows they produced. One celebrity is voted off weekly on the wrestling reality show called Celebrity Championship Wrestling, in which ten celebrities were trained to wrestle. <mask> was one of the judges on the show. In November 2009, Bischoff helped produce a tour of Australia.The Food Network is developing a show where pro wrestlers take on celebrity chefs in cooking and then tag-team with them in a wrestling match. The television series Hardcore Pawn: Chicago was produced by Bischoff and Hervey. The online gaming company MX Digital was formed by Bischoff, Hervey and McFadden. In Europe and North America, the company develops and distributes online and mobile celebrity-themed games. The first game to be released by the company was Hulkamania, which was


title: Eric Bischoff

texts: on Sky Vegas. The Hoff was released in Europe in February of 2013). The Blues Brothers online casino game was to be launched in Europe by his company.The games were called "MX Casino" and launched on Facebook. Slot-machine-style games that could be played on a Facebook app included "socialized" versions of Hogan's films, as well as a similarly Facebook-friendly version of The Hoff. A bunch of new celebrity-themed games were released in October of that year, starring the likes of Dennis Rodman, James Dean and Chuck Norris. Bischoff had a number of jobs before he became a professional wrestler. He acted in a training video for bank employees regarding fair lending practices, owned a successful construction landscape company, competed as a professional kickboxer, and ran a butcher shop. At the end of the 1996 WCW pay-per-view event Bash at the Beach in Daytona Beach, Florida, Hulk Hogan said that if it wasn't for him, <mask> would still be selling. Bischoff has homes in Wyoming, Arizona, Connecticut, and Los Angeles, California with his wife.He has two children, son Garett and daughter Montanna. Garett became a wrestler under his real name after becoming a referee under the ring name Jackson James. <mask> announced on May 5, 2011, that he was starting a company. The first beverage they produced was called Buffalo Bill Cody Beer. Bischoff on Wrestling was on the radio on July 27. He quit the show because he wasn't paid enough. <mask> and Conrad Thompson co-hosted 83 weeks with <mask>.Bischoff collects live

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texts: recordings of concerts from Vermont-based jamband Phish. One of the most controversial figures in professional wrestling history is <mask>. The creation of the New World Order was a major factor in the success of the Monday Night Wars. His place in history is this and it will always be this - he's the only person to come along and kick Vince McMahon hard enough that he forced WWF's product to evolve and get better. His legacy is that he made pro wrestling change for the better in the mid 1990s, regardless of whether he won the ratings for 83 weeks or one week. However, R.D. The authors of the book The Death of WCW were critical of many of the decisions Bischoff made as head of the company and believe that he contributed to the decline of the company.Vince was critical of the time they spent working together, stating that <mask> likes to be the boss. <mask> likes being in charge. <mask> likes to do little physical work. When we worked together, I think we both tried to make it work, but I don't think the chemistry was there. <mask> has contributed to professional wrestling in a tremendous way. He was dating back to his early days at the AWA. AEW promoter Tony Khan credits <mask> with paving the way for his promotion, stating: "I wouldn't be here and there wouldn't be an AEW without him."<mask> was described as a "pioneer behind the scenes in sports-entertainment, as well as an incredibly entertaining performer in front of the camera" by the company. Feud of the Year vs. Vince McMahon and the World

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title: Andrus Kivirähk

texts: <mask> was born in 1970 and is a writer, playwright, and satirist. In 2004, 25,000 copies of his novel Rehepapp ehk November had been sold, making him the most popular 21st century Estonian writer. His book "Mees, kes teadis ussisnu" was one of the top selling books in the country. He is a member of the Estonian Writers' Union. The weekly radio show, Rahva Oma Kaitse (People's Own Defense), is hosted by <mask>k and Mart Juur. On top of the live broadcast, Juur and Kivirhk air a special on Raadio 2. The 9th ed. was published in 1999.A Frog Kiss, Varrak, is a film about a Frog Kiss.

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title: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

texts: Major General <mask> was the chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. Loan gained international attention when he executed a prisoner in Vietnam on February 1, 1968. Nguyn Vn Lém was a member of the Viet Cong. V Su is a cameraman for NBC and Eddie Adams is a photographer for the Associated Press. The photo and film were used in American journalism. <mask> was born to a middle-class family in Hu in 1930, and was one of eleven children. He joined the Vietnam National Army after studying pharmacy at Hu University.He befriended Nguyn K at the officer training school. Loan served with the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) for the next decade after receiving pilot training in Morocco. He was able to speak English by the time he rose to prominence in the late 1960s because of additional training he received in the United States. Loan flew as wingman to K, now commander of the RVNAF, despite gradually taking on administrative tasks. Loan was appointed director of the Military Security Service when K became prime minister of South Vietnam. Loan control of both military intelligence and security was given simultaneous control by the appointment of the director of the Central Intelligence Organization. The director general of the Republic of Vietnam National Police was made in 1966.Loan oversaw the suppression of the early 1966 uprising of K's rival General Nguyn Chnh Thi and dissident Buddhists. In order to retain power, K relied on the support Loan provided by Nguyn Vn Thiu. Loan refused to give Americans special treatment in his jurisdiction. In December 1966 he insisted that only South Vietnamese authorities could arrest and detain South Vietnamese

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title: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

texts: citizens after rejecting the arrest by American military police. U.S. civilians, including journalists, fell under the jurisdiction of South Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson regarded Loan as a troublemaker because of his uncompromising stand. Loan was skeptical of the U.S. CIA's plan to attack and destroy the VC infrastructure.<mask>'s men were involved in the arrest of two VC operatives on August 15, 1967, who were involved in sending peace feelers to U.S. officials behind the back of the South Vietnamese. The Americans were angered by his stand against "backdoor" dealing and his opposition to releasing one of the communist negotiators, so they kept both him and the South Vietnamese up to date. <mask> was promoted to brigadier general after leading an airstrike on VC forces at B p. <mask> submitted his resignation after the Americans were displeased with his promotion. <mask>'s resignation was rejected by the South Vietnamese cabinet. The execution of Nguyn Vn Lém Nguyn Vn Lém, also known as By Lp, was a VC member. On February 1, 1968, he was captured in a building in the Cho Lon quarter of Saigon, near the n Quang pagoda.At the time of his capture, Lém wore civilian clothing. According to Max Hastings, Lém personally executed a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel, his wife, five of their six children, and the officer's mother less than 36 hours prior to the execution. Loan shot him on the street using his sidearm, a.38 Special Smith & Wesson Bodyguard, Model 49 revolver. The execution was captured on video by NBC News cameraman V Su. <mask> told Adams that they killed many of his people. V Su reported that after the shooting, Loan went to a reporter and said

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texts: ''These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me.'' He stated that he understood Fallaci's point of view when she regarded him as a cold-blooded killer and that he was aware of the indignation he caused.He stated that he killed Lém because he was angry with the VC. He said that he can't respect a man who shoots without wearing a uniform. It's too easy to kill and not be noticed. I respect a North Vietnamese because he takes the same risks as I do, even though he's dressed as a soldier. I was filled with rage when I saw a Vietcong in civilian clothes. The anti-war movement was galvanized by the photograph and footage. The 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography was won by Eddie Adams.Adams regretted he wasn't able to get a picture of that group of people. A few months after the execution picture was taken, <mask> was seriously wounded by machine gun fire that led to the amputation of his leg. His picture hit the world press again, this time as Australian war correspondent Pat Burgess carried him back to his lines. He was taken to Australia and then to the United States. <mask> stayed in the United States for an extended period as Thiu consolidated his power. He was appointed to a position that involved long-range planning, but lacked power. Loan fled South Vietnam to the United States during the fall of Saigon.He moved to Dale City. He opened a restaurant in Burke, Virginia at Rolling Valley Mall. The restaurant served hamburgers, Vietnamese cuisine, and pizza, but was described as more of a pizzeria. Loan was a secretary in a Washington firm. Loan stated that they want to be left alone. Adams apologized to General Nguyn and his

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texts: family for the damage his photograph did to his reputation. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received a list of Vietnamese officials who may have committed crimes.The Library of Congress was requested by Harold Sawyer. Loan was accused of committing a war crime by the INS after a report by the Library of Congress concluded that the summary execution of Nguyn Vn Lém was illegal because he was a permanent resident of Vietnam. Loan was allowed to stay despite the fact that they approached Adams to testify against him. The deportation was halted by the intervention of United States President Jimmy Carter. Loan praised the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He retired after closing his restaurant. "We know who you are, you fuck" was written on a toilet wall on Adams' last visit to the pizza parlor.Nguyn <mask> died of cancer at the age of 67. The guy was praised by Adams after his death. America needs to be crying. I don't want people to know anything about him. Eddie Adams killed the general with his camera and wrote a eulogy to Loan in Time. The most powerful weapon in the world is still photographs. Even without manipulation, photographs do lie.Half-truths are what they are. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?" Personal life Loan had five children with Chinh Mai. There are links to photos of the execution. The execution picture shows the location of the event on the west section of "L Thi T" street. People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph are Generals of


title: Anthony Powers

texts: <mask> is a British composer. His works have been performed both in Great Britain and abroad, and he has received a number of commissions. He was nominated for a British Composer Award. <mask> took private tuition from Harrison Birtwistle and other people in Paris from 1972 to 1973. He graduated from the University of York in 1976 with a DPhil in Composition. <mask> taught at Dartington College of Arts for two years and was a composer-in-residence at Southern Arts. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Professor of Composition at the University of Wales.Between 1995 and 1997 he was the Chairman of the Association of Professional Composers. <mask> has written over sixty works, including four string quartets, two symphonies, a cello concerto, a horn concerto, and many choral and chamber works. He has done settings of texts by many authors. Orchestral Stone, Water, Stars is the third part of a trilogy inspired by the architecture of Venice. <mask> references two works in this piece, one of which is the Chamber Concerto, which is one of the works that belong to this trilogy. The King's Lynn Festival commissioned a piece for cello written for Stephen Isserlis and dedicated to the artistic adviser of the festival. There is a piano piece in the opening passage of the work.Some of the writing for the soloist and orchestra is quite turbulent, but a number of critics have commented on the "reflective" nature of the piece. The 'Winter Journeys' and 'Madrigals of Love and War' movements were written for the horn player Michael Thompson. The theme was similar to his previous work, and was described by John Warnaby as "an element of conflict that is gradually superseded by affirmative lyricism". It was influenced by

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texts: <mask>' visits to Czechoslovakia in 1986 and 1988 and it seemed to be a history in music of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1989. <mask> did not set out to write a symphony. <mask> received assistance from the David James Music Trust to complete the work. Nicholas Jones commented on the 'assuredness of <mask>'s handling of the symphonic genre' and Andrew Burn noted how it demonstrated'mastery of extended large-scale structures'.The symphony was completed between 1998-99. The first performance of 2 by the symphony orchestra was in 2002. A Picture of the World is a setting of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, following in the footsteps of his mentor. <mask> explained the use of a counter-tenor as 'Wittgenstein had an unusual high speaking voice', with the vocal and clarinet acting as the voice of the philosopher. The piece was broadcast on Radio 3 and commented on by Harry Eyres in the Guardian. Airs and Angels was commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival in 2003 and was an interpretation of seven John Donne poems. The dark and intense setting of 'A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day' was conceived by John Donne in seven sections.The composer reworked and edited nine poems into a narrative that included a male speaker and a small ensemble, as well as the role of the poet in the story. At the West Cork Music Festival in Ireland in 2005, the work received its Irish premiere and the male speaker role was performed by Seamus Heaney. Lullo by Lollo is one of the others. Another Part of the Island is a chamber work that was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 1982. The piece refers to the imaginary island from Shakespeare's The Tempest, where the instruments can be seen as

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texts: playing characters from the play. His chamber works include a number of solo works. Flyer is one of the works written by <mask>.The piano duet No. 1 was written in 1983. There are 2 and Sensing. The best known of his piano works is The Memory Room, which was written for and dedicated to William Howard. The work consists of sixteen short pieces. According to Nicholas Jones, <mask> integrates these keyboard styles into his own style so effectively that they are mere ghosts or shadows of their former selves. In 2003 <mask> wrote a second piece for Howard, entitled Vista, which was the first piece in a planned sequence of pieces all reflecting on or interpreting aspects of Italian renaissance and baroque gardens. Oxford University Press profile 1953 births Living people 20th-century classical composers English classical composers Alumni of the University of

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title: Dick Molpus

texts: <mask> was an American politician and businessman who served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1984 until 1996. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Molpus was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi in 1971. He was the Vice President of Manufacturing for the company. The Governor's Office of Federal-State Programs, an agency in disarray from the previous administration, was the first appointment of Governor William Winter. He was selected as Mississippi's Public Administrator of the Year by the American Society of Public Administrators for his work in bringing managerial efficiency to that troubled agency. Ray Mabus, known as the "Boys of Spring" who helped guide Governor Winter's historic Education Reform Act of 1982 to passage, was among several younger staff members.He ran for Secretary of State of Mississippi in 1983 and won. He was re-elected in 1987 and 1991. The Secretary of State's Office was taken from an agency that was a tax drain of $200,000 to a profit maker of over $2,000,000 per year. During his time as Secretary of State, he