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<mask> (: August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in the world. Biography
<mask> was born on August 23, 1924 by the name of Ferenc Hoffmann into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. In his youth he knew neither Hebrew nor Yiddish. His father worked as a bank manager and his mother was a former secretary. Kishon also had a sister who was a writer. His writing talent became evident in his youth.In 1940 he won his first prize for writing a novel for high school students. Due to the racial laws applied in Hungary during World War II, he was not allowed to continue his studies at the university and therefore he began to study jewelry making in 1942. During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive, as he played chess with the guards. In another camp, the Germans lined up the inmates and shot every tenth person, but passed him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive". He eventually managed to escape the concentration camps while being transported to the Sobibor extermination camp in Nazi German Occupied Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovak laborer.After the war when he returned to Budapest he discovered that his parents and sister had survived, but many other family members had been murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. In 1945, he changed his surname from Hoffmann to <mask> and returned to Hungary, where he continued to study art and writing. In 1948 he completed his studies in metal sculpturing and art history and began publishing humorous articles under the name Franz Kishunt. In 1949 he immigrated to the newly founded state of Israel, together with his first wife Eva (Chawa) Klamer, to escape the Communist regime. When arriving in Israel an immigration officer officially Hebraicized his name to "Ephraim <mask>". According to Kishon, the Jewish Agency clerk asked him for his name and when he answered "Ferenc" the clerk said: There is no such thing, and wrote "Ephraim", and afterwards he went ahead and Hebraicized his family name as well, Kishon being a river near Haifa, the Israeli city on  Mount Carmel. His first marriage to Eva (Chawa) Klamer in 1946 ended in divorce.In 1959, he married Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. Kishon had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968). In 1981, Kishon established a second home in the rural Swiss canton of Appenzell after feeling unappreciated in Israel, but remained a staunch Zionist.<mask> died on January 29, 2005 at his home in Switzerland at the age of 80 following a cardiac arrest. His body was flown to Israel and he was buried at the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. Being a popular Israeli writer, he still felt he was getting negative treatment from the Israeli media due to the fact he was rather right wing in his political views. Literary career
<mask> initially lived in the "Sha'ar Ha'Aliyah" transit camp near Haifa, and soon afterwards moved to Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh, in which he worked as a nurse while learning the Hebrew language during his free time with the help of his neighbor Joseph Bilitzer. During this period he wrote several humorous lists for the Hungarian newspaper "Új Kelet". Afterwards <mask> moved to a housing project. He studied Hebrew at the Ulpan "Etzion" in Jerusalem, and soon became proficient in the language.Nevertheless, his heavy Hungarian accent accompanied him throughout his life. Mastering the Hebrew language with remarkable speed, in 1951 <mask> began writing a satirical column in the easy-Hebrew daily, Omer, after only two years in the country. Later on <mask> began writing for the newspaper "Davar" (which was very influential at the time) in which he published a satire called "The Blaumilch Canal". That same year he published his first book in Israel "Ha-ole Ha-Yored le-Chayenu"- "The Pestering Immigrant", (a pun on the Hebrew word for "Immigrant") which was written in Hungarian and translated into Hebrew by Avigdor Hameiri. The book was mostly about the life experiences of new immigrants in Israel during the 1950s. In 1952 <mask> began writing a regular satirical column called "Had Gadya" ("One Young Goat" in Aramaic, taken from the Passover Seder liturgy) in the daily Hebrew tabloid "Ma'ariv". <mask> kept writing the column for about 30 years, while in the first two decades he published a new column almost every day.Within a few years after launching his writing career in Israel <mask> became one of the most prominent humorists and satirists in the country. <mask>'s extraordinary linguistic inventiveness and flair for creating characters was carried over into his work for the theater. Collections of his humorous writings have appeared in Hebrew and in translation. Among the English translations are Look Back Mrs. Lot (1960), Noah's Ark, Tourist Class (1962), The Seasick Whale (1965), and two books on the Six-Day War and its aftermath, So Sorry We Won (1967), and Woe to the Victors (1969). Two collections of his plays have also appeared in Hebrew: Shemo Holekh Lefanav (1953) and Ma´arkhonim (1959). <mask>'s books have been translated into 37 languages and sold particularly well in  Germany.<mask> rejected the idea of universal guilt for the Holocaust. He said: “It gives me great satisfaction to see the grandchildren of my executioners queuing up to buy my books.” Until his death in 1979, Friedrich Torberg translated his work into German. Thereafter <mask> did the German translations himself. Chess
Kishon was a lifelong chess enthusiast, and took an early interest in chess-playing computers. In 1990, German chess computer manufacturer Hegener & Glaser together with Fidelity produced the Kishon Chesster, a chess computer distinguished by the spoken comments it would make during a game. <mask> wrote the comments to be humorous, but were also carefully chosen to be relevant to chess and the position in the game. Published works

Books

 Ha-ole Ha-Yored le-Chayenu (1951)
 Thousand of Gadia and Gadia (1954)
 Ein Kamonim (1955)
 Do not worry (1957)
 Skeches (1959)
 It all depends (1958)
 Be-Echad Ha-Emeshim  (1961)
 He and She (1963)
 Somersaults (1964)
 Bone in the throat (1966)
 So sorry we won!(1967) (with illustrations by Dosh)
 Gomzim Gomzim (1969)
 For (1970)
 Oh, winners (1970)
 Department of Ephraim Kishon (1972)
 Wole in the screen (1973)
 Partachia my love (1974)
 My Family Right or Wrong (1977)
 Smile drought (1978)
 Family Book (1980–current)
 Jonathan voyage (1981) children books
 The cup is ours (1981) children books
 Uncles on the wires (1981) children books
 Unfinished adventure (1981) children books
 Gum with stripes (1981) children books
 Seven Comedies (1981)
 Satire book I (1981)
 Arbinkea (1991)
 Satire book II (1991)
 Satire book III (1992)
 58 Skeches (1995)
 Ants war (1995) children books
 Hercules and the seven midgets (1995) children books
 The Taming of the Shrew dog (1995) children books
 Hairy, hell (1998)
 state protocol (1999)
 The Redhead with the Key (2002) children books
 Book of Travels (2003)
 Partachia (2004)
 Picasso's Sweet Revenge (2004)

Plays

 His reputation precedes him (1953)
 Black on White (1957)
 Ha-Ketubbah (1959)
 No word to Morgenstein (1960)
 Take the plug out (1968)
 Oh, oh, Juliet (1972)
 Salah Shabati the musical  (1988)
 Open for renovation  (2004) not yet seen
 The Policeman (2009)

Kishon's sketches and plays have been performed, in translation, on stages and television networks worldwide. Films
Kishon expanded into cinema in the early 1960s. He wrote, directed and produced five feature films (all of them comedic /satirical movies). Three movies were nominated for major international awards (The Golden Globe award), two were nominated for the Oscar:
 Sallah Shabati (1964), nominated for Oscar for best foreign language film), Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success. It also introduced actor Chaim Topol (Fiddler on the Roof) to audiences worldwide. Ervinka (1967), written and directed by Kishon.The film, starring Topol, is a comical tale of a con man who falls in love with a police officer. Blaumilch Canal, also known as The Big Dig (1969, nominated for Golden Globe 1971), an Israeli comedy which depicts the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality's reaction to the actions of a lunatic. Ha-Shoter Azoulay (literally, Constable Azoulay), also known as The Policeman (1971, nominated for Oscar for best foreign language film, awarded 1972 Golden Globe for best foreign language film). It won several other awards, such as best foreign film in the Barcelona film festival and best director in the Monte Carlo festival. In Israel it is considered a cinematic classic. The Fox in the Chicken Coop (1978), based on <mask>'s satirical book by the same name (Hebrew: Ha Shu'al B'Lool HaTarnegolot), features many prominent Israeli actors of the time, most notably Shaike Ophir and Seffy Rivlin. The film takes a satirical, comic look at the old generation of Israeli politicians.Awards
 In 1953, <mask> won the Nordau Prize for Literature;
 In 1958, he won the Sokolov Prize for Journalism;
 In 1964, he won the Kinor David Prize;
 In 1998, he was the co-recipient (jointly with Nurit Guvrin and Aryeh Sivan) of the Bialik Prize for literature;
 In 2002, he was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement & special contribution to society and the State of Israel. Upon receiving the prize, he remarked: "I've won the Israel Prize, even though I'm pro-Israel. It's almost like a state pardon. They usually give it to one of those liberals who love the Palestinians and hate the settlers." <mask> was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three times for a Golden Globe Award. He won two Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film Awards, for Sallah Shabati (1964), and The Policeman (1971). See also
List of Bialik Prize recipients
List of Israel Prize recipients
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film#1960s.References

External links

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TimesOnline obituary

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Jewish dramatists and playwrights
Jewish concentration camp survivors
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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<mask> ( ; born June 7, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from New Mexico since 2021. He served as the U.S. representative for  from 2009 to 2021 and the assistant House Democratic leader (officially the "Assistant Speaker") from 2019 to 2021. He served as a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission from 2005 to 2008, where he also served as chairman. <mask> was selected as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in 2014 and led the Democrats to win a House majority in the 2018 elections. He was the first Hispanic to serve in this role. In his role as assistant House Democratic leader, <mask> was the highest-ranking Latino in Congress. On April 1, 2019, <mask> announced his intention to seek the United States Senate seat being vacated by two-term Democratic incumbent Tom Udall in the 2020 election.He defeated Republican Mark Ronchetti in the general election on November 3, 2020, and took office on January 3, 2021. Early life and education
<mask> <mask> was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the last child of Carmen (<mask>) and <mask>, and has two older sisters and an older brother. He was raised in Nambe, New Mexico. His father, <mask>, went into politics in 1970, when he was elected to the County Commission, and from 1975, <mask> was a longtime member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, serving as majority whip and Speaker of the House. After graduating from Pojoaque Valley High School, <mask> worked as a blackjack dealer at a Lake Tahoe casino and a Northern New Mexico tribal casino. After his stint as a dealer, he attended the University of New Mexico and later received a BBA degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Early career

Public Regulation Commission
Luján was elected to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission in November 2004.He represented PRC district 3 which encompasses northeastern, north central and central New Mexico. His served as chairman of the PRC in 2005, 2006 and 2007. His term on the PRC ended at the end of 2008. He helped to increase the Renewable Portfolio Standard in New Mexico that requires utilities to use 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. Luján also required utilities to diversify their renewable use to include solar, wind and biomass. <mask> joined regulators in California, Oregon, and Washington to sign the Joint Action Framework on Climate Change to implement regional solutions to global warming. U.S. House of Representatives

Elections
2008

In 2008, Luján ran to succeed U.S. Representative Tom Udall in New Mexico's 3rd congressional district.Udall gave up the seat to make what would be a successful bid for the United States Senate. On June 3, 2008, <mask> won the Democratic primary, defeating five other candidates. His closest competitor, developer Don Wiviott, received 26 percent to <mask>'s 42 percent. <mask> faced Republican Dan East and independent Carol Miller in the general election and won with 57% of the vote to East's 30% and Miller's 13%. 2010

<mask> won reelection against Republican nominee Thomas E. Mullins with 56.99% of the vote. 2012

<mask> won reelection against Republican nominee Jefferson Byrd with 63.12% of the vote. 2014

<mask> won reelection against Byrd again, with 61.52% of the vote.2016

<mask> won reelection against Republican nominee Michael H. Romero with 62.42% of the vote. 2018

<mask> won reelection against Republican nominee Jerald Steve McFall with 63.4% of the vote. Tenure
<mask> has been a proponent of health care reform, including a public option. In October 2009, he gave a speech on the House floor calling for a public option to be included in the House health care bill. In June 2009, Luján voted for an amendment that would require the United States Secretary of Defense to present a plan including a complete exit strategy for Afghanistan by the end of the year. The amendment did not pass. In September 2009, <mask> wrote a letter urging the Obama administration not to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.In his letter, he drew on conversations he had with General Stanley A. McChrystal and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In 2011, <mask> was a co-sponsor of Bill , the Stop Online Piracy Act. Energy policy
According to his campaign website, <mask> has been active in environmental regulation. He chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ Green Economy and Renewable Energy Task Force. <mask> has initiated several pieces of legislation regarding renewable energy such as the SOLAR Act. He co-authored the Community College Energy Training Act of 2009. He also supports natural gas usage and the New Alternative Transportations to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2009.Luján has high ratings from interest groups such as Environment America and the Sierra Club. <mask> serves on the bipartisan Congressional PFAS Task Force. He has introduced legislation to provide relief to communities and businesses impacted by PFAS/PFOA contamination in groundwater around Air Force bases in New Mexico and across the country. In addition to supporting the Green New Deal, an economic stimulus package that aims to address climate change and economic inequality, <mask> has developed legislation to put the United States on a path to net zero carbon emission and address climate change. Education policy
<mask> has been supported by the National Education Association. He supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and student loan reform. He cosponsored the STEM Education Coordination Act in an effort to produce more scientists and innovators in the United States.<mask> has pressed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bridge the digital divide to expand opportunities for rural communities. In 2018, he joined FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on a bus ride where students learned to code during their drive time. Native American issues
<mask> has supported increased funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service. He opposed the Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012 and was in favor of preserving sacred Native American ground. Luján worked to create legislation enabling tribes to directly request disaster assistance from the president. <mask>'s district contains 15 separate Pueblo tribes as well as tribal lands of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Navajo Nation. In February 2009, Luján introduced a series of five water accessibility bills that, along with improving access to water for the many communities in the district, would also give federal funds to Indian tribes.Along with Harry Teague (D-NM) and Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), <mask> sponsored an amendment to the House health care bill that would extend the current Indian Health Care system until 2025. Tribal governments were major donors to his 2012 reelection campaign. <mask> has worked with the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to protect the greater Chaco Canyon region from oil and gas drilling and methane emissions. He participated in a Congressional Delegation visit to Chaco Canyon and Santa Fe, New Mexico, in May 2019, to study the effects of methane emissions on sacred sites. Committee assignments
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Subcommittee on Health
Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection
Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Caucus memberships
Congressional Arts Caucus
Congressional Hispanic Caucus

U.S Senate

Elections

2020

On April 1, 2019, <mask> announced he was running to succeed retiring Senator Tom Udall in the 2020 election. On June 2, 2020, <mask> won the Democratic primary unopposed. He defeated Republican nominee Mark Ronchetti in the general election 51.7% to 45.6%.Tenure

117th Congress (2021–present)
<mask> was sworn into the Senate on January 3, 2021. He was accompanied by the outgoing Senator, Tom Udall. On January 6, 2021, he was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. He called the attack a "siege" and "a direct attack on our nation's democracy." In the wake of the attack, <mask> said he would vote to convict Trump "for inciting an insurrection." Energy
In February 2021, <mask> was one of seven Democratic U.S. Senators to join Republicans in blocking a ban of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking.Committee assignments

 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
 Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy
 Committee on the Budget
 Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
 Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband (Chair)
 Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security
 Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change and Manufacturing
 Subcommittee on Space and Science
 Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security

 Committee on Indian Affairs

Personal life
<mask> is a Catholic. On January 27, 2022, <mask> was hospitalized in Santa Fe after feeling fatigued and dizzy. He was found to have had a stroke affecting his cerebellum and was transferred to the University of New Mexico Hospital for treatment, which included a decompressive craniectomy. A statement from his office said that "he is expected to make a full recovery". Electoral history

See also
 List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress

References

External links

<mask>. <mask> official U.S. Senate website
<mask><mask> for U.S. Senate

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<mask> (born January 7, 1956) is a retired American actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002-2012). He also appeared in the films An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood (both 1982), Twins (1988), Kiss of Death (1995) and Proof of Life (2000). Early life
<mask> was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and <mask>, a magazine and newspaper editor. He is of Irish and Italian descent. His father left the family when <mask> was two years old, forcing him to "end up fathering myself". Raised as a Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974.Caruso worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to 80 movies a week. He said that he and his co-workers would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were at the back of the theater. In this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. He said:  "The ethics of certain actors certainly had a power over me. These guys taught me how to be what I consider the real scum of the earth." Career

1980s
<mask>'s first movie appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted as Danny. He credits his role as Topper Daniels, "the cadet who nearly drowned", in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) as what got him noticed.Caruso then spent most of the decade in supporting roles in films including First Blood (1982), Blue City (1986), China Girl (1987) and Twins (1988). On television, Caruso had a recurring role as Tommy Mann, leader of the street gang The Shamrocks, in seven episodes of the NBC police drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–83). He portrayed U.S. Olympian James Brendan Connolly in the 1984 miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896, and also appeared in two episodes of the series Crime Story. Caruso featured in the music video for the song "Voyage, voyage" by the French singer Desireless, released in 1986. 1990s
Caruso had supporting roles as police officers in the crime films King of New York (1990) and Mad Dog and Glory (1993). While filming 1991's Hudson Hawk, he employed method acting, refusing to talk to anyone on set because his character, Kit-Kat, was mute, having had his tongue bitten off. In 1993, Caruso landed his first major role as Detective John Kelly in the police procedural series NYPD Blue, for which he won a Golden Globe Award.TV Guide named him as one of the six new stars to watch in the 1993–1994 season. He made news by leaving the highly rated show the following year (only four episodes into the second season) after failing to obtain the raise he wanted. His decision to leave the series would later be listed in a 2010 issue of TV Guide as #6 on a list of TV's 10 biggest "blunders". He was unable to establish himself as a leading man in films. His appearances in the 1995 thrillers Kiss of Death and Jade were met with a negative reception from critics, with both films receiving mixed reviews and poor box-office takings, and Caruso was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star for these two roles. In 1997, Caruso returned to television as a New York City-based federal prosecutor in the short-lived CBS law drama series Michael Hayes, which aired for one season. 2000s
Caruso returned to film with a supporting role as Russell Crowe's mercenary associate in Proof of Life (2000).In 2001, he had a lead role in the cult psychological horror film Session 9, directed by Brad Anderson. Dave Kehr, writing in The New York Times, praises his performance, stating that "it is good to see <mask> back in action, with a little more technique and a little less ego." In 2002, Caruso returned to television in his first successful role since NYPD Blue, starring as police Lieutenant Horatio Caine in the CSI spin-off series CSI: Miami. He was the first actor in the franchise to appear as the same character on three of the four CSI programs. He was known for frequently using one-liners at the beginning of each episode. Many of these include him putting on his trademark sunglasses mid-sentence, then walking off-screen just as the main theme starts. On an episode of the Late Show with <mask>man that aired on March 8, 2007, actor and comedian Jim Carrey professed to being a fan of the show and went on to do an impersonation of Caruso, asking for an "intense close-up" from the camera, speaking in a raspy voice and putting on sunglasses.<mask> later said in an interview with CBS that he was impressed with the impersonation. In 2012, CSI: Miami was cancelled after 10 seasons due to a decline in ratings and the climbing cost of production. <mask> was the only actor to appear in all 232 episodes of the series. After the end of the show, Caruso quietly retired from acting to become involved in the art business. Personal life
<mask> is founder of DavidCarusoTelevision.tv and LexiconDigital.tv, as well as co-owner of "Steam on Sunset", a clothing store in South Miami. <mask> has a daughter, Greta, with his second wife, actress Rachel Ticotin. He and former girlfriend Liza Marquez have two children together: a son Marquez and a daughter Paloma.In April 2009, Marquez filed papers against <mask> for fraud, breach of their settlement agreement and emotional distress. In March 2009, a woman was placed in custody in Tyrol, Austria, on charges of stalking <mask>. She had twice failed to appear in court to answer the charges before fleeing to Mexico; following her deportation from Mexico, Austrian officials took her into custody to await trial on the stalking charges. Awards and nominations
In 1994, Caruso won a Golden Globe Award for his John Kelly role on NYPD Blue for which he was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In 2001, he was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Suspense for his role as Dino in the film Proof of Life. Filmography

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See also
 List of people from Queens

References

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 <mask> Bio at CBS - CSI: Miami

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Sir <mask> (also spelled <mask>) (died 1711), Sheriff, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, was one of the first directors of the Bank of England, an adventurer with the London East India Company and the proprietor of the trading firm Sir Richard Levett & Company. He had homes at Kew and in London's Cripplegate, close by the Haberdashers Hall. A pioneering British merchant and politician, he counted among his friends and acquaintances Samuel Pepys, Robert Blackborne, John Houblon, physician to the Royal Family and son-in-law Sir Edward Hulse, Lord Mayor Sir William Gore, his brother-in-law Chief Justice Sir John Holt, Robert Hooke, Sir Owen Buckingham, Sir Charles Eyre and others. Early life and career beginnings

Although born into a once-powerful Sussex Anglo-Norman family (its surname derives from the village of Livet in Normandy),  the future Lord Mayor grew up in straitened circumstances after the family lost much of its medieval wealth. <mask>'s father was an intruding minister and he was ejected in 1660 after the Restoration when the legitimate incumbent returned to the living. Although born with connections, <mask> and his brother Francis were thrown onto their own resources, and were as much pioneers in business as they were in society. Despite their impressive Norman lineage, the <mask> brothers were strictly middle-class.They represented an emerging England, an England of meritocracy and hard work that trumped the old aristocratic England. (Perhaps it was not an accident that their father, Rev. <mask>, had Puritan sympathies.) The enterprising brothers demonstrated that through hard work and pluck, ordinary Englishmen could move into the upper-middle classes. The <mask> brothers were abetted in their rise by profound changes in the evolving English economy, with trade opening and feudal privileges diminishing in favour of a growing mercantile middle class. Although <mask> was a nominal Tory, he was a free market capitalist by practice. <mask> and his brother Francis began as small haberdashers, trading everything from tobacco to textiles.The sons of a country parson in Rutland, the two <mask> brothers imported goods into England, which they then sold to chapmen at fairs across the country, including those at Lenton, Gainsborough, Boston, Beverley and elsewhere. As the British Empire began to expand, bolstered by increasing military might, aggressive merchants like the <mask>s leapfrogged other foreign and domestic competitors. From their small operation grew a behemoth, with the <mask> brothers using their own ships to import everything from tobacco to linens. Eventually, their empire became among the largest factors of its day in England, with an immense working capital estimated between £30,000 and £40,000 in 1705, buying tobacco and other goods around the world for import into the English market. The firm they set up came to embrace trade with the Levant (principally Turkey and Syria), India, Africa, the West Indies, North America, Ireland and even Russia. Contemporaneous records show <mask> often immersed in the details of arranging shipping terms and trading voyages to places as disparate as French Guinea, Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere. In 1705, for instance, <mask> sent a letter to the Board of Trade and Plantations to complain about interference with his ships."The Governors of Virginia and Maryland", <mask> complained to the Board, "had refused to permit two ships of theirs to saile from those colonies with their ladings.... And it being alleged in the petition that the masters of those two ships (who came away in ballast) were obliged to give security to touch at the Maderas in their way home." The Board directed its agent to "write to the said masters at Bristol for further information in that matter." The building of a business empire

By the early eighteenth century, the firm of Sir Richard Levett and Company had become one of England's largest, dominating especially the enormous tobacco trade with the Virginia Colony, as well as the tobacco coming from Turkey. Detailed records of tobacco transactions at the time between Levett and Virginia planters reveal that the London merchant drove a hard bargain. <mask> eventually was named a merchant adventurer of the London East India Company, one of the first directors of the new Bank of England, and even, on 17 February 1698, a member of the New England Company. With his deep interests in shipping, <mask> was also one of the earliest investors in what became Lloyd's of London, the insurance firm. He was knighted at Kensington in 1691.In the close-knit world of London traders at the dawn of the eighteenth century, <mask> often found himself acting in conjunction with, or competing against, most of the other large traders known to him. At a meeting of the Governors and adventurers of the London East India Company held on 30 April 1701, for instance, <mask> found himself in the company of his fellow London traders and ranking India servants "Gov. T. Cooke, Deputy Sir Samuel Dashwood, Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Sir Jonathan Andrews, Sir John Fleet, Sir William Gore, Sir Henry Johnson, Sir William Langhorne, Sir William Prichard and Mr. Vansittart." In the year of 1695, <mask>'s increasingly powerful firm accounted for 3,894,864 pounds of tobacco imported into England. Of that, the firm subsequently re-exported some 1.3 million pounds to Holland, Germany and the Baltic. Acting as middlemen in an increasingly vertically integrated corporation, which was coming to resemble a modern trading company, <mask> and his partners began raking in enormous profits, partly due to their access to large amounts of capital, as well as their access to a proprietary shipping fleet.As their trading grew, <mask> became a prominent fixture on the London scene. He was elected Master of the Haberdashers' Company (1690 and 1691), Sheriff of the City of London for 1691, an Alderman, and eventually, in 1699, Lord Mayor of London. As Master of the Haberdashers' Company, <mask> played a key role in building fellow Master of the Haberdashers' Company Sir Robert Aske's Hospital, with <mask>'s friend Robert Hooke serving as architect. From his home in Cripplegate, formerly the home of Sir Thomas Bloodworth, a previous Lord Mayor, <mask> conducted his trading empire and the mayoral business. <mask>'s home, formerly that of the controversial Bloodworth, who served as Lord Mayor at the time of the Great Fire of London, was a large mansion on the old Noble Street near Lily Pot Lane. (The home was later occupied by printer Charles Rivington.) Home and family life

Also available for <mask>'s use were two country homes at Kew, including the Dutch House (now Kew Palace), as well as the large estate surrounding them.(After <mask>'s death, his daughter Mary Thoroton leased the Dutch House to Queen Caroline, wife of King George II, for use as a children's nursery, likely accounting for the decision of Frederick, Prince of Wales, to settle at Kew with his wife, Augusta, Princess of Wales. Both Levett homes as well as the estates surrounding them were sold to the Royal family in 1781 by Sir <mask>'s grandson <mask> Blackborne, Esq., a prominent Lincoln's Inn barrister). Sir <mask> was married to Mary Crispe, likely the daughter of merchant adventurer Sir Nicholas Crispe of Fulham, London. The couple were prominent in London during the years following the Restoration. <mask> was mentioned by Samuel Pepys in his diaries; he was frequently mentioned in contemporary accounts of weddings and soirées of the age, and became a philanthropist, donating to charities like St. Thomas' Hospital in Southwark, and church charities in the West Country and Ireland. Sir <mask>'s wife, in particular, was a generous donor to religious causes. Edmund Calamy, the English Nonconformist churchman, refers to "Lady Levett" in his memoirs as his great "friend", and Mrs. <mask> was noted in other accounts as a generous donor to religious and educational causes.Minister Calamy even dedicated a sermon to Lady <mask>. Samuel Pepys, the diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty (and friend of Robert Blackborne, who held the same job), apparently socialised with <mask>. "After staying here a great while at Westminster", Pepys noted in his diary of 14 March 1668,  "we (went) back to London, and there to Philips's, and his man directed us to Mr. <mask>'s, who could not come, and he sent us to two more, and they could not; so that, at last, <mask> as a great kindness did resolve he would leave his business and come himself, which set me in great ease in my mind." <mask> also figures prominently in the recently published diaries of politician Roger Whitley, Member of Parliament from Wales and then from Chester. Whitley was a prominent figure in Chester and a major Whig politician. Whitley's massive diaries reveal frequent meetings between the two men. Death and legacy

Sir <mask> died in 1711.He and his wife and several of their daughters are buried in the churchyard at Kew, where there are memorials to them in the church as well as to the Blackborne family with whom they intermarried. The inscription carved into a mural slab set in the tower of Saint Anne's Church, Kew, reads: "Within this vault lie the remains of Sir <mask>, Knight, of Kew. Also of Lady <mask>, his wife, who died October 15th, 1722." Sir <mask>'s son <mask>, also an Alderman (1722) and Sheriff of London, inherited his father's interests, but apparently mismanaged them, filing for bankruptcy in 1730. Consequently, many heirlooms of the <mask> family of Sussex passed to the family of the Lord Mayor's daughter and her husband, the Hulse family of Hampshire, and are today at Breamore House, the Hulse family seat. (Alderman <mask>, son of the Lord Mayor, died and was buried in Temple Church in 1740). The third brother of <mask> and <mask> was Rev.Dr. <mask>, principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Dean of Bristol. The brothers' uncle, brother of their father Rev. <mask> of Rutland, was courtier <mask> Esq., who accompanied King Charles I during his flight from Cromwellian forces, and thence to his imprisonment at Carisbrooke Castle and to his eventual execution. Some twelve years following Sir <mask>'s death, his wife Mary, by then living at Bath, changed her will to exclude two paintings she had previously bequeathed to a friend at Bath upon discovering that the portraits of King Charles I and his Queen were painted by the artist Anthony van Dyck. Given the discovery, Dame <mask> made a codicil to her will directing that the valuable paintings be sold with the proceeds going to her granddaughters. Presumably the <mask> family had inherited the paintings from the Lord Mayor's uncle, groom of the bedchamber to the late King. References

Sources
 The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese <mask> Haszard, Milford, Staffordshire, privately printed
 The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660–1730, Peter Earle, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989
  The Thorotons, Myles Thoroton Hildyard, privately printed, 1991

External links
 "Biography of Sir <mask> ( -1711), and his family" The University of Nottingham
  Seal (Coat of arms) of Mayor Sir <mask>, Haberdasher, Son of the Reverend <mask> of Ashwell in the County of Rutland, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, John Strype, hrionline.ac.uk
 Portrait of Sir <mask>, The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Vol.X, W. Paley Baildon, Reynell & Son, London, 1908

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title: Titian Peale

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<mask> (November 2, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was an American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a scientific illustrator whose paintings and drawings of wildlife known for their beauty and accuracy. Peale was a member of several high-profile scientific expeditions. In 1819–1820, he and Thomas Say accompanied Stephen Harriman Long on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains. He was also a member of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). Peale is also known for his contributions to photography during his last decades. Peale was one of the first naturalists to expose the scientific fraud of John James Audubon.Biography

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Peale was born in Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, on November 17, 1799. The youngest son of the polymath Charles Willson <mask> and his wife Elizabeth de Peyster, Peale was named after his dead half-brother, also named <mask> <mask> (1780–1798). The family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where Peale began collecting and drawing butterflies and other insects. Some of his drawings were published in Thomas Say's American Entomology as early as 1816, but most remained unpublished until recently. Like his older brothers Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and Rubens Peale, Titian helped his father in the preservation of the museum's specimens for display. Scientific career and expeditions

Peale was a member of the "first private, museum sponsored exploration in the United States", when he joined William Maclure, Thomas Say, and George Ord on an expedition to Florida and Georgia in 1817, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP). In 1819–20, he and Say joined a government-led expedition to the Rocky Mountains led by Stephen Harriman Long, during which Peale made a large collection of drawings of natural objects and scenery.In the winter of 1824–25, Peale traveled to South Carolina and Florida to collect bird specimens for Charles Lucien Bonaparte's forthcoming quasi-continuation of Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1825–1833). In Florida, he boarded for a short time at the farm of Bonaparte's cousin, Achille Murat, and returned to Philadelphia in April 1825. In 1831–32, Peale explored the Magdalena River valley in northern Colombia. According to a notice published by Constantine S. Rafinesque in 1832: "Mr. Peale is just returned from his voyage to South America, and travels in 1831 up the R. Magdalena to Bogota. He has brought a fine zoological collection for the Philadelphia Museum, among which are 500 birds and 50 quadrupeds, which were not there. It is expected that he will publish an account of his zoological travels and discoveries. He asserts the very singular fact that the R. Magdalena has no shells and but few fishes."In 1833, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. From 1833–1836, Peale managed the Philadelphia Museum which had been founded by his father Charles Willson <mask>. In 1838, Peale boarded the Peacock and served as chief naturalist for the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) led by Lt. Charles Wilkes. The other naturalists on the expedition were James Dwight Dana and Charles Pickering. As chief naturalist, he collected and preserved various specimens of natural history, many of which he packed and shipped back to Philadelphia. During the expedition, Wilkes named Peale Passage after <mask> <mask>. In 1848, he was removed from the payroll of the scientific corps.In 1851, a fire at the Library of Congress destroyed nearly all of the 100 copies of Peale's expedition report, Mammalia and Ornithology (1848), and its publication was delayed. John Cassin was hired to produce a corrected volume, which was published in 1858. Scientific collections
Peale was the second ornithologist known to collect a female Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera), and the first to illustrate it. Thomas Jefferson collected one in 1782. Peale shot his specimen in 1824 near Camden, New Jersey, and his drawing was engraved by Alexander Lawson and published in Plate 1 of Bonaparte’s American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1825). Peale developed an effective method for storing butterflies in sealed cases with glass fronts and backs, and parts of his collection of over 100 species still survive.He was the curator for the Peale's Museum and was a notable scientific illustrators of Central Plains flora and fauna for several decades. He also designed coins for the United States Mint. Later years and death
Peale was employed at the United States Patent Office until 1873. He died on March 13, 1885 in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Section 8, Lot 74, in an unmarked grave. Public collections

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, holds Peale's butterfly and moth collections
American Museum of Natural History, New York City, holds <mask> <mask>'s unpublished manuscript of The Butterflies of North America
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, holds additional specimens collected by Peale
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Museum of Nebraska Art, University of Nebraska
National Museum of American History, Photographic History Collection
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, holds Peale's original manuscript, Drawings of American Insects; Showing Them in Their Several States, Together With Such Minute Insects as Require Investigation by Microscope. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, holds five of Peale's sketchbooks from the Stephen H. Long Expedition

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Peale, T. R. 1831. Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing Direction for the Preservation and Preparation of Objects of Natural History.Legacy
Peale designed the reverse of the Gobrecht dollar minted from 1836 to 1839 and recycled for obverse of the Flying Eagle cent of 1856–1858. In 1923, Peale Island, one of the three islands surrounding the lagoon at Wake Atoll was named for Peale by Alexander Wetmore, lead scientist of the Tanager Expedition. In 1873 Robert Ridgway named the biggest subspecies of the peregrine falcons, the Peale's falcon, after him. See also
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
Samuel Seymour (artist) who was the landscape artist of Long's Expedition of 1820

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The Historic Titian Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Scientist of the Day-Titian Ramsay Peale at Linda Hall Library

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title: Yitzhak Yosef

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<mask> (, born January 16, 1952) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (known as the Rishon LeZion), the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a set of books on halakha (Jewish law) called Yalkut Yosef. <mask> is the son of <mask>, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and bases his halakhic rulings on his father's methodology. His books are considered foundational among large sectors of Sephardic Jews in Israel and the world. For these books, he has won the Rabbi Toledano Prize from the Tel Aviv Religious Council, as well as the Rav Kook Prize. Biography
<mask> was born in Jerusalem in 1952, the sixth son of the former Shas spiritual leader and Israeli Chief Rabbi, <mask>. He attended school at Talmud Torah Yavneh in the Independent Education System. At age 12, he began his studies at the junior yeshiva of Porat Yosef in Katamon, Jerusalem.After that, he studied at Yeshivat HaNegev in Netivot, and from there, at Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. <mask> did not finish high school, and called secular studies "nonsense". In 1971, when he was 18 and studying at Yeshivat HaNegev, <mask> collected halakhic rulings from the five volumes of Yavia Omer, the book of his father's responsa, that had been published by then, and published them in the book Yalkut Yosef. The book was published with his father's support and supervision. It is often considered one of his father's books, since not only is it a summary of his father's rulings, but the latter also went over it section by section and added his own comments. <mask> is married to Ruth, daughter of the kabbalist Rachamim Attia. They have five children.His eldest son, named after his father Ovadia, is married to the daughter of Shlomo Amar. His daughter Margalit is married to the son of Yehuda Deri. His youngest daughter is married to the son of Meir Sage. <mask> lives in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem. Rabbinic career

In 1973, with his father's election as Chief Rabbi of Israel, together they established the Kollel Hazon Ovadia. In 1980, <mask> was ordained as a rabbi and judge, along with the rest of the first class of the graduates, by the chief rabbis of Israel and by the chief rabbi of Jerusalem Shalom Messas. With the beginning of the second class, he was appointed head of the school.In 1975 <mask> was appointed rabbi of the moshavim Nes Harim and Mata, both near Jerusalem, and began to deliver classes on halakha several times a week and care for other Jewish matters in the villages. As part of his responsibilities, he gave lectures and classes in the secular public schools and strengthened religious education there. In 1992 <mask> expanded Hazon Ovadia to a yeshiva for boys high school age and older. This was necessary because of unrest among the Sephardi Haredi community stemming from disagreements with the Ashkenazi Litvak yeshiva. On 24 July 2013 <mask> was elected to serve as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rishon Lezion, a position he will hold for a decade. The inauguration took place on 14 August 2013 at the official residence of the President of Israel. With the death of <mask>'s father, the Shas political party lost its spiritual leader.Having been elected Sephardi Chief Rabbi, <mask> appeared to be in a healthy position to inherit the authority of his father as the spiritual leader of Shas. But since he holds a position of public office, <mask> is prohibited by law from being politically active. Until the election, he never held any formal public office. On 21 August 2013 <mask> released a psak halakha stating it is an obligation and mitzvah for parents to have their children vaccinated for polio virus. In 2021 he endorsed the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States and serves as its Halachic guide. Controversy

In March 2016, <mask> called for religious Jews to keep their children away from secular or traditional members of their family because they could be a negative influence. Later that month, when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot told military staff that rules of engagement must respect the law, and soldiers should not kill an attacker who has already been subdued, <mask> said soldiers must kill anyone who comes to attack them regardless of legal or military repercussions.Later he said: "If they no longer have a knife, they must be put in prison for life until the Messiah comes and says who are Amalekites, and then we can kill them." He also said that according to Jewish law, gentiles "should not live in the Land of Israel" unless they practice the seven Noahide Laws. Should they refuse to do so, they should be sent to Saudi Arabia. He added that non-Jews are allowed in Israel to serve the Jewish population. Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned <mask>'s statements and called for their retraction. Jonathan Greenblatt and Carole Nuriel of ADL Israel called the remarks ignorant and intolerant. He was eventually pressured into retracting his comments.There is constant controversy surrounding the authority of the Chief Rabbis over things like the conversion process, marriages, and semikhah (rabbinic ordination); due to the majority of Israel being secular or far less religious than the standards imposed by the Chief Rabbis. In 2016, it was revealed that they held a list of beth dins whose conversions it will recognize, and maintained a secret blacklist of rabbis whose conversions they would not recognise. This list caused controversy, since there were a number of well-regarded Orthodox rabbis on the list, including Avi Weiss and Yehoshua Fass. These lists were kept secret, offering no opportunity for outside review or appeal, and led to some confusion. The situation became even more difficult when it was revealed that Haskel Lookstein, an Orthodox rabbi in the USA, was included on the blacklist, and some of his students were not permitted to marry in Israel. Lookstein was the officiating rabbi at Ivanka Trump's conversion and created some difficulties between Israel and the United States, since this was revealed shortly after the election of her father to the presidency. It was reported that even David Lau was opposed to <mask>'s policy in regards to recognition of US converts.Soon after that, the rules were amended so that Trump's conversion was accepted, although there were some questions about whether that was done merely to curry favor with the new US president. In December, he said that it was "not the way of the Torah" for women to join the IDF or even sign up for civilian national service: "All the great sages through the generations, including all Israel's chief rabbis, believe that it is forbidden for girls to go into the army... not just to the army – but to national service too." In May 2017, <mask> compared secular women to animals because they dressed immodestly. On 18 March 2018, <mask> allegedly likened people of black African descent to monkeys. He was speaking on the topic of the Meshaneh HaBriyot blessing in the Talmud concerning the sight of an unusual creature, either person or animal ("Blessed are you, Lord our God...who makes creatures different."). Examples of people given include "an (unusually) black, red, or white person, a giant, a dwarf, or one with spots", and of animals, examples include "an elephant, monkey, or vulture". In referring to black people, <mask> used the ancient term kushi, the term present in the Talmud.The term is considered derogatory in modern Hebrew, but in the Talmud it is equivalent to saying "African" (see Kingdom of Kush). He said: "Seeing a black person, you say the blessing. What black person? One who had a white mother and father, and came out black. Not on every black person do you make a blessing. When you walk in the streets of America, every five minutes, you see a black person. Will you say on him the blessing?Rather, it only needs to be on a black person whose mother and father are white. If, you know, two people birth a monkey or something like that, then you say the Different Creatures blessing." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tweeted that his comments were "utterly unacceptable". In January 2020, he was criticized for calling immigrants from the former Soviet Union "Communist, religion-hating" gentiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called <mask>’s remarks "outrageous" and said the immigrants from the former Soviet Union are a "huge blessing to the State of Israel and the Jewish people." <mask>'s remarks also were slammed by others in the Knesset, including Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, who immigrated from Ukraine in 1987, and by Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Avigdor Liberman, who immigrated from Moldova. <mask> stood by his comments, saying they were distorted by politicians who had been inciting against Jews and Judaism and that he was only referring to a minority of immigrants.In January 2021, <mask> was criticized for flouting the coronavirus health restrictions;

In June 2021, he said science and math are "nonsense", and students should only study Torah instead, adding proudly that he himself never finished school or received a diploma. Critics accused <mask> of promoting dependence on government handouts and charitable donations instead of advancing self-reliance. The large majority of ultra-Orthodox boys do not study the core curriculum of math, English, science and computer studies at elementary school level, and the overwhelming majority do not study this curriculum at high school level. Socioeconomic experts have warned that this failure to provide a basic education to boys in the Haredi sector combined with its high rate of population growth means the economy will be imperiled with an inadequate workforce for the 21st century. In July 2021, the rabbi stated that it's "better to live abroad than among secular Israelis". References

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title: Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore

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<mask>, 6th Baron Baltimore (6 February 1731 – 4 September 1771), styled The Hon. <mask> until 1751, was an English nobleman and last in line of the Barons Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Province of Maryland, he never once set foot in the colony, and unlike his father, he took little interest in politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant, often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert, but he left England soon afterwards, and never recovered from the public scandal that surrounded the trial. Dogged by the criticism and poor health, he contracted a fever and died in Naples at the age of 40. Early life
<mask> was born in 1731, the eldest son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron <mask>, 3rd Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751).He was named after his godfather, <mask>, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George II, and father of George III. The young <mask> was sent to Eton College to be educated, where he acquired some proficiency in the classics. Calvert had two sisters, Caroline Calvert, born about 1745, and Louisa Calvert. Adulthood and inheritance

In 1751 Charles Calvert died, and <mask>, aged just 20, inherited from his father the title <mask> Baltimore and the Proprietary Governorship of the Province of Maryland, becoming at once both a wealthy nobleman in England and a powerful figure in America. Maryland was then a British colony administered directly by the Calverts. <mask> benefited from an income of some £10,000 a month from taxes and rents, an immense sum at the time. In addition he controlled shares in the Bank of England, and an estate at Woodcote Park, in Surrey.Maryland
Calvert's inheritance coincided with a period of rising discontent in Maryland, amid growing demands by the legislative assembly for an end to his family's authoritarian rule. Calvert, however, took little interest in the colony and, unlike his predecessors, never set foot there. Instead, he lived in England and on the European continent, particularly in Italy and, for a time in Constantinople, whence he was eventually forced to leave after being accused of keeping a private harem. Calvert lived a life of leisure, writing verse and regarding the Province of Maryland as little more than a source of revenue. During the 1750s, during the French and Indian War, when funds were needed to finance the common defence of the colonies, Maryland alone refused its share. Calvert was prepared to pass an Act raising taxes but only if his own vast estates were exempted. Benjamin Franklin later wrote: "It is true, Maryland did not then contribute its proportion, but it was, in my opinion, the fault of the Government, and not of the people".The colony was ruled through governors appointed by Calvert, such as Horatio Sharpe and later Robert Eden. Governor Sharpe was keenly aware of the difficulties placed upon his subjects by Lord Baltimore's intransigence, but his hands were tied. Calvert oversaw the end of the long-running Penn–Calvert Boundary Dispute. Marriage
On 9 March 1753, he married Lady Diana Egerton (3 March 1732 – 13 August 1758), youngest daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater by Lady Rachel Russell. The union was not a success, and the couple spent most of their married life apart. They had no children, and in May 1756 they were formally separated due to "incompatibility of temper". In 1758, Lady Diana "died from a hurt she received by a fall out of a Phaeton carriage", while accompanied by her husband.Although Calvert was suspected of foul play, no charges were brought. European travels

Calvert's reputation for exotic living spread quickly. In 1764 James Boswell (1740–1795) began his Grand Tour of Europe, having heard that Baltimore was "living at Constantinople like a Turk, with his seraglio all around him"." Boswell also observed that Baltimore "... lived luxuriously and inflamed his blood, then he became melancholy and timorous, and was constantly taking medicines... he is living a strange, wild, life, useless to his country, except when raised to a delirium, and must soon destroy his constitution". Calvert spent a good deal of time in Italy, where the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) described him as being "one of those worn-out beings, a hipped Englishman, who had lost all physical and moral taste". Such was Calvert's fascination with the Ottoman Turks that in 1766, on his return to England, he pulled down part of his London house, rebuilding it in the style of a Turkish harem. In 1767 Calvert published an account of his travels in the East, titled A tour to the East, in the years 1763 and 1764: with Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks.Also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom. The book, said Horace Walpole, "deserved no more to be published than his bills on the road for post-horses", adding that it demonstrated how "a man may travel without observation, and be an author without ideas". It gains a mention from a character in Tobias Smollett's epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Calvert's spending was prodigious, and he spent considerable sums of money on his family estate at Woodcote Park. According to Walpole, Calvert spent a great deal of money making the interior of the house "tawdry" and "ridiculous" in the "French" style. Trial, scandal and decline

In 1768, Calvert was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. He was indicted at Kingston Assizes, and put on trial, pleading not guilty by reason of consent.After deliberating for an hour and twenty minutes the jury acquitted Calvert, believing that Woodcock did not make adequate attempts to escape. Much salacious gossip accompanied the trial, and in the same year one of Calvert's mistresses, Sophia Watson, wrote an autobiography entitled Memoirs of the Seraglio of the Bashaw of Merryland, by a Discarded Sultana (London, 1768) Such was Baltimore's reputation that her readers were in no doubt as to whom she was referring. Sultana Watson offered many intimate details of life in the seraglio, including the perhaps unkind suggestion that <mask> himself was barely able to satisfy one, let alone eight, mistresses. Following his acquittal <mask> left England, presumably hoping that his notoriety did not extend to Europe. In this he seems to have been at least partly correct, as in July 1769 the British Ambassador to Russia reported that "Lord <mask> arrived here last week from Sweden, I had the honour to present him to the Empress who was pleased to receive his Ld extremely graciously". In any event, Calvert's brush with the law does not appear to have affected his unconventional living arrangements. Count Maximilian von Lamberg wrote of his travels:

In 1769 my Lord was travelling with eight women, a physician, and two negroes, which he called his corregidores, who were entrusted with the discipline of his little seraglio.With the aid of his physician he conducted odd experiments on his houris: he fed the plump ones only acid foods and the thin ones milk and broth. He arrived at Vienna with the train I have described; when the chief of police requested him to declare which of the eight ladies was his wife, he replied that he was an Englishman, and that when he was called upon to give an account of his sexual arrangements, if he could not settle the matter with his fists, it was his practice to set out instantly on his travels again. By this time it is evident that he was suffering from financial difficulties, and in 1768 he sold the family's great estate at Woodcote Park, apparently to a wealthy Soho upholsterer. Death in Naples
Calvert never returned to his native England. He remained on the continent, "constantly moving ... that he might not know where he should be buried", and it was in Naples in September 1771 that he contracted a fever and died. His body was returned to London, lying in state at the Great Room of Exeter Exchange, Strand, and was interred in his family's vault at St. Martin's "with much funeral pomp, the cavalcade extending from the church to the eastern extremity of Epsom". According to Gentleman's Quarterly: "His Lordship had injured his character in his life by seduction, so that the populace paid no regard to his memory when dead, but plundered the room where his body lay the moment it was removed".He was buried in Epsom, Surrey. Family and children

Calvert had numerous illegitimate children by various women, though he does appear to have attempted to support them. He is said to have left, on his death "a whole seraglio of white, black, etc, to provide for",

Calvert had two children by Hester Whelan:
Henry Harford (1758–1835), the last Lord Proprietor of Maryland. Frances Mary Harford (1759–1822) who married <mask> Wyndham (1763–1828) on 21 July 1784. Their son George Wyndham became the 4th Earl of Egremont. In 1765, he fathered twin daughters with Elizabeth Dawson of Lincolnshire, Sophia and Elizabeth Hales. He had another daughter, Charlotte Hope, born in Hamburg in 1770, with Elizabeth Hope of Münster, Germany.Maryland and the War of Independence
In his will, Calvert left his proprietary Palatinate of Maryland to his eldest illegitimate son, Henry Harford, then aged just 13. This was done against the wishes of his family, though Calvert did provide for cash payments to his sisters, specifically £20,000 to be divided between Louisa and Caroline. The colony, perhaps grateful to be rid of <mask> at last, duly recognised Harford as Calvert's heir. However, the will was challenged by the family of Calvert's sister, Louisa Calvert Browning, who did not recognise Harford's inheritance. Before the case could grind its way through the Court of Chancery, events in America changed Maryland forever. Unfortunately for the young Henry, by the time he had reached adulthood, Maryland had become engulfed by the American Revolution and by 1776 was at war with Britain. Henry Harford ultimately lost almost all his colonial possessions, though he remained wealthy due to his extensive inheritance in Great Britain.Reputation and legacy

Calvert was not generally well regarded by his contemporaries. One characterised him as "Feeble in body, conceited, frivolous, and dissipated, but withal generous and sympathetic ... [a man] who gave himself up to a life of pleasure". Another described him as "a disreputable and dissolute degenerate". Posterity has been little kinder to his reputation. Some have said that Frederick County, Maryland, is named after the last Baron Baltimore, but this remains unproven. The official flag of the State of Maryland, uniquely among the 50 states, bears witness to his family legacy. Published works
A tour to the East, in the years 1763 and 1764: with Remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks.Also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom, London (1767). Gaudia poetica Latina, Anglica, et Gallica Lingua Composita, London (1770). See also
Baron Baltimore
History of Maryland in the American Revolution
Province of Maryland

Arms

References

Andrews, Matthew Page, History of Maryland, Doubleday Doran & Co, New York City (1929)
Cross, Anthony, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia, Cambridge University Press (2007). Retrieved 24 January 2010
Flynn, Carolo Houlihan, p. 55, The body in Swift and Defoe. Retrieved 26 January 2010
Lamb, Susan, Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century, University of Delaware Press, (2009). Retrieved 24 January 2010
Russell, George, p. 9, The Ark and the Dove Adventurers.. Retrieved 28 January 2010
Shearer, Benjamin F., p. 546, The Uniting States: Louisiana to Ohio.. Retrieved 28 January 2010
Walpole, Horace, p. 278, A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland: With Lists of Their Works:, Vol 5. Retrieved 24 January 2010
Yentsch, Anne E., p. 262, A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: a Study in Historical Archaeology.. Retrieved 22 March 2010

External links

 Retrieved 24 January 2010
<mask> at genealogy pages.Retrieved 24 January 2010
Calvert Family Tree. Retrieved 10 July 2013

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Barons Baltimore
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English expatriates in the Ottoman Empire
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title: Kamarudin Jaffar

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<mask> (Jawi: قمرالدين بن جعفر; born 3 November 1951) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Minister Saifuddin Abdullah since August 2021. He served his first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Hishammudin Hussein from March 2020 to August 2021 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bandar Tun Razak since May 2018. He served as the Deputy Minister of Transport in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Anthony Loke from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and MP for Tumpat from November 1999 to May 2018. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the ruling PN coalition and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH opposition coalition, Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a former component party of the former opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalitions and United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. Earlier Kamarudin was a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a major component in Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition before switching to PAS in 1999. While a member of UMNO, he was considered a close associate of then Deputy Prime Minister and later Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, and was held in custody with Anwar under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Kamarudin made his debut contesting but lost the Tumpat parliamentary constituency in 1995 general election when he was still in UMNO.Since switching to PAS, <mask> was elected to the Tumpat seat in the 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2013 elections. For the 2004 election, he was the PAS Secretary-General. He subsequently contested and won the Bandar Tun Razak constituency in the 2018 elections after joining PKR. <mask> was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Transport from 2 July 2018 until 24 February 2020, which is part of Prime Minister Mahathir's 7th Cabinet. Biodata
<mask> bin <mask> was born on 3 November 1951 at Wakaf Bharu, Tumpat, Kelantan. Attended SRK Sultan Ibrahim, Pasir Mas, Kelantan (1958-1963). At the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (1964-1970) he studied with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.He furthered his studies at University of Kent, Canterbury, England (1971-1974) later at the University of London (1975-1976). Family
His wife Kamariah Kamarudin died on 11 November 2009 for colon cancer after receiving treatment at the Subang Jaya Medical Center (SJMC) including chemotherapy. At that time, Kamaruddin Jaafar was in Qatar. The body was prayed at Nurul Yaqin Mosque, SS7 Kelana Jaya and was buried at Bukit Kiara after Asar prayers. They have four children, two sons and two daughters:
 Nur Adilah
 Saiful Adli
 Shahid Adli
 Nur Shifa

Kamaruddin Jaafar married for the second time with Datin Yushazlinda Yaacob on 10 March 2011. The wedding ceremony was held at Tengku Kelana Jaya Mosque Petra, Kelana Jaya, Selangor. His wife is from Melaka.Also present were Mahfuz Omar, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli. Career
 Assistant Secretary, Research Division, Prime Minister's Department (1974-1975)
 Lecturer, National University of Malaysia (1975-1985)
 Political Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Ghafar Baba (1986-1991)

Politics
 Malaysian UMNO Youth Exco
 Kelantan UMNO Youth chief
 Tumpat Umno Division chief 1998
 Secretary of the Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) Session 1983-1987
 PAS Secretary General Session 2005-2007 and 2007-2009 session
 Member of the Central Committee of PAS Session 2003-2005
 PAS Liaison Committee 2003-2005
 Tumpat PAS District Treasurer (2003 until 2015)

Joining UMNO
Kamaruddin Jaafar is seated with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim when advancing the Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia and Yayasan Anda Akademik in the Valley of the Coast near the University of Malaya. While Anwar Ibrahim joined UMNO and became the Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, he was among the main leaders of ABIM who put their trust in UMNO with the intention of giving UMNO a deeper perspective. It was here that he was appointed chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, a think tank founded by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Other ABIM leaders joining UMNO were Kamaruddin, Anuar Tahir and Mohd Nor Monutty and many others surrounded Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar Ibrahim, surrounded by the people of ABIM, is disliked by the ranks of UMNO leaders such as Sanusi Junid. In 1995 he contested in Tumpat on BN/UMNO tickets but lost to a PAS candidate.ISA Detention
On 22 September 1998, he and 12 other leaders were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) Section 73(1)(A). The detainee was
 Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
 Ruslan Kassim, Negeri Sembilan Umno Youth chief
 Kamaruddin Mat Noor, Semarak state assenblyman
 Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, UMNO Youth chief and Bagan Datoh MP
 Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman, President of ABIM
 Mukhtar Redhuan, ABIM's Vice President
 Shaharuddin Badaruddin, ABIM's Secretary-General
 Abdul Halim Ismail, ABIM's Vice President
 <mask> <mask>, Chairman of the Institute for Policy Studies
 Tamunif Mokhtar, Cheras UMNO Division Chief
 Abdul Manan, President of the Islamic Student Association of Malaysia
 Prof. Dr. Sidek Baba, UIAM

Dismissed from UMNO and joined PAS
On 6 July 1999, the UMNO Supreme Council fired nine party members, including Tumpat Umno division chief Datuk Kamaruddin Jaafar, for involvement in assisting and joining opposition parties following the dismissal of his ABIM partner, Anwar Ibrahim. Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and UMNO vice-president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sent a show cause letter to them. Also dismissed were Ismail Yusof, Haji Said Othman, Tarmizi Ismail and Jumri Sabran from Umno Bukit Gantang. Abdullah Badawi (UMNO Johor Bharu), Senator Hamzah Mohd Zain (Chenderoh) and Saufi Daud and Mohamad Noor (UMNO Tumpat). On 21 July 1999, he declared to join PAS Tumpat during a talk by PAS President and PAS Spiritual Leader Dato' Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. To him, there is no room in UMNO to implement the political way of Islam.Joining PKR
On 11 September 2015, Kamaruddin with Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib has left PAS and joined PKR. During the internal upheavals of PAS in 2015, he was seen closely with PAS split-off group Gerakan Harapan Baru (GHB), which later formed the National Trust Party (AMANAH). Both figures say that their participation in PKR is aimed at strengthening the new coalition of the opposition and at the same time staying with AMANAH. Election results

Honours
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  Knight Commander of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (DSNS) - Dato' (1994)

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Malaysian Islamic Party politicians
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title: Nick Collison

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<mask> (born October 26, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who is a special assistant for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He spent his entire career with the Seattle SuperSonics, later renamed the Thunder in 2008. He was drafted by the SuperSonics in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft and retired as a member of the Thunder in 2018. As a college player, Collison went to two Final Fours with the Kansas Jayhawks. Early life and high school career
<mask> was born in Orange City, Iowa and grew up in Fort Dodge and Iowa Falls. He attended Iowa Falls High School and was a McDonald's All-American in 1999. College career
Teaming with fellow Iowan Kirk Hinrich to form one of the best duos in college basketball, Collison helped KU reach two consecutive Final Fours (2002 and 2003).<mask> finished his college career as the leading scorer in the history of the Big 12 Conference (a mark since surpassed). In 2003, his Jayhawks lost to Carmelo Anthony and the Syracuse Orange in the National Championship game, 81–78. He also played for the United States national team at the 2002 FIBA World Championship. <mask>'s no. 4 jersey was retired by the Kansas Jayhawks on November 25, 2003 during halftime of the Kansas-Michigan State game in recognition of his achievements over his four-year career (2002–03 Player of the Year, consensus first-team All-America, Big 12 Player of the Year). Professional career

Seattle SuperSonics / Oklahoma City Thunder (2003–2018)

Draft year injury and relocation (2003–2008)

<mask> was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 12th overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft, but missed the 2003–04 season with injuries to both shoulders. He made his NBA debut on November 3, 2004, recording two points, five rebounds and two assists in a 114–84 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.He appeared in all 82 games in his rookie season, averaging 5.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 17.0 minutes per game. He played in all 82 games for a second time during the 2006–07 season. On January 9, 2007, he had a career-best game with 29 points and 21 rebounds in a 113–102 loss to the Phoenix Suns. In 2008, the franchise relocated to Oklahoma City and rebranded as the Thunder. Finals appearance and later years (2008–2018)
On December 19, 2010, Collison scored a season high 19 points and added 8 rebounds in a 113–120 loss to the Phoenix Suns. In the game he also drew his 15th charge of the season, a majority of the 22 charges the Thunder had drawn as a team to that point in the season. That postseason, on May 15, 2011, Collison helped  the Thunder to a Western Conference Semifinals Game 7 win over the Memphis Grizzlies, with 8 points and a playoff career high 12 rebounds.The next round, Collison and the Thunder lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the Conference Finals. In 2012, he helped the Thunder make the leap to the next level, and reach the NBA Finals, where they lost in five games to the Miami Heat, whom were led by <mask>'s fellow 2003 draftees LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh. On February 3, 2015, Collison signed a two-year, $7.5 million contract extension with the Thunder. On July 21, 2017, Collison re-signed with the Thunder to a one-year, minimum salary deal. On May 10, 2018, <mask> announced his retirement from professional basketball. On January 12, 2019, the Thunder announced that they would be retiring Collison's No. 4 jersey, becoming the first number retired by the Thunder.Post-playing career
Following his retirement as a player, he joined Thunder in the position of basketball operations representative. On August 10, 2021, he was promoted to the position of special assistant to executive Vice President and general manager. Personal life
After the Sonics relocated to Oklahoma City, Collison continued to make his home in Seattle. Collison appeared on the cover of the 989 Sports video game NCAA Final Four 2004. The game was released on November 11, 2003 for the PlayStation 2. Collison has a daughter named Emma. His younger brother, Michael, played college basketball for their father's alma mater, Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.

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title: John Navone

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<mask><mask>. (born October 19, 1930 – died December 25, 2016) was a Jesuit priest, theologian, philosopher, educator, author, raconteur, and Professor Emeritus of Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Having reached the mandatory age, he retired from the Gregorian, returned to the Society's Oregon Province, and taught at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Early life
<mask> was born in Seattle, WA on 19 October 1930, the son of Giacomo "Jack" <mask> and <mask>. At the time of his birth, his father was not yet a US Citizen, so Navone has dual citizenship in the United States and Italy (and therefore the European Union). He has five siblings: Joseph, James, George, Helen, and Catherine. He received his primary education at St. Anne School.His first three years of High School were spent at O'Dea High School, operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. He transferred to the Jesuit Seattle Preparatory School for his senior year, graduating from there in 1948. Education

Navone matriculated at Seattle University his freshman year before entering the Jesuit novitiate of St. Francis Xavier at Sheridan, OR on 14 August 1949 and studied there for four years. The next step of his education was at the Mount St. Michael Philosophate, then a Jesuit Seminary associated with Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He received his master's degree in philosophy from Gonzaga in 1956. From 1959 to 1963 he studied theology at Regis College, University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. From 1963 until 2009, he resided in Rome, where he received his doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1966  His doctoral dissertation, "History and Faith in the Thought of Dr. Alan Richardson" was published in 1966 by the SCM Press, London, marking the first time a Catholic doctoral dissertation was published by this Anglican - Protestant press.The book appeared in the Contemporary Theology Series to which Barr, Macquarrie, Moltmann, Ogden and Torrance contributed. Academic career
In 1956 through 1959, he taught Latin, French, German, and Sociology at Seattle Preparatory School. Navone began teaching biblical theology at the Gregorian University in 1967, spending his career in that department. He also taught courses in theology of history, narrative theology, and the theology and spirituality of beauty. His interests in research, writing, and teaching never led him to an official administrative position at the Gregorian, but in the earlier years of his tenure there, the University lacked a formal organization for institutional development, and Navone began informal work along those lines. Because of his outgoing personality, he soon became an unofficial spokesperson for the University, particularly with the American media. These activities led to relationships with various bureau chiefs which in turn led to a number of articles in the media concerning "the Greg".These articles often contained comments made by Navone. Navone made significant and relatively early contributions to the discipline of narrative theology. Leading sociologist Andrew Greeley wrote:

"There are, it seems to me, three tendencies in contemporary American Catholic theology, two positive and one disgraceful". . . "The second tendency, linked closely to the first in basic themes, but very different from it in approach is "story theology" or "narrative theology" with its paradigm of religious experience, religious symbol and religious story. <mask> and <mask> are the best known and the best practitioners. Their work is compatible with and accessible to some of the most exciting developments in American social scientific and humanistic thinking at the present time and has immediate practical implications for homiletics, catechetics and apologetics. Story theology is the greatest and, I think, most important theological development of our time and will so be judged for decades and centuries to come."Navone's seminal work and collaboration with Catholic Theologian Johann Baptist Metz on Narrative Theology, also called "The Theology of Story", have led to several Catholic and Protestant seminaries worldwide using his books as Theology textbooks. As of 2010, Navone has involved himself with teaching a course of Thomistic philosophy and theology for the Catholic Studies program of the History Department of Gonzaga University, where he serves as an Adjunct Professor. in the spring of 2010, he taught a course on Leadership and Spirituality for the Professional Leadership Department at Gonzaga. Navone’s book Tellers of the Word was America’s Book of the Month Club selection for May 1981. Religious career
<mask><mask> entered the Society of Jesus in 1949 and was ordained in 1962. Of Navone's twenty-three books, five have been associated with the development of narrative theology and the work of Bernard Lonergan, his teacher and eventual colleague at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Two of his most recent books have won recognition in both Europe and the United States for his contribution to the theology and spirituality of beauty.Gesa E Thiessen [Theological Aesthetics: A Reader (London: SCM, 2004)] ranks Navone among 95 contributors to this field from the time of Justin Martyr in 165. Edward Farley of Vanderbilt University Divinity School calls attention to Navone's work in this field as one of the "five significant twentieth-century Catholic theologies of beauty" in his book Faith and Beauty: A theological Aesthetic (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 74–81. Navone was in Rome for the final years of Vatican II and was acquainted with many of the participants, including the observers from the Church of England. He forged friendships that led to the writing and publication of several of his books during these years. Navone was keynote speaker at the Anglican clergy conference at St. George's House, Windsor Castle, England, Dec. 4 to 8, 1978. He addressed the 50 Anglican priests daily on "Communicating Christ", a subject which is the title of his book published in 1976.Quotations in major media

<mask> has been quoted in books and major media, which illuminates his career as a theologian as well as his love for people, the humanities, and nature. Quotation in Pope Francis' 2013 book, Papa Francesco: Il Nuovo Papa si Racconta

(Translation from Italian)  "It (patience) is a theme that I (Pope Francis) have pondered over the years after my having read the book of <mask>, an Italian American author, with the striking title, The Theology of Failure, in which he explains how Jesus lived patiently. In the experience of limits, he (Pope Francis) adds, patience is forged in dialogue with human limits/limitations. There are times when our lives do not call so much for our "doing" as for our "enduring," for bearing up (from the Greek hypomone) with our own limitations and those of others. Being patient – he explains – means accepting the fact that it takes time to mature and develop. Living with patience allows for time to integrate and shape our lives." Quotations in Time magazine

Friendship with Gore Vidal
Father Navone developed a friendship with author Gore Vidal during his years in Rome.When Time magazine did a cover article on Vidal, the friendship was mentioned:

"Vidal seems to delight in the company of clerics. One of the people he dines with in Rome is American Jesuit <mask>, a theologian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. When Navone once brought a group of visiting Jesuits to Vidal's apartment, Vidal greeted them with the question "Out for a night in Transylvania?" On another occasion, at dinner, Vidal teased Navone: "Now, <mask>, tell us what your idea of heaven is…all about those angels." Navone gently replied: "There are no harps. We are already there. Heaven is communicating with friends."Moved, Vidal had nothing to say. Satanism
From Time cover story "Satan Returns"

Magician Playmate

Mixed with the desire for mystery, though, is undoubtedly a desire for mere novelty. Jesuit Theologians <mask> of Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, who held a "Devil Day" at the Gregorian recently to discuss the theology of the Devil, so far is not seriously alarmed by the recrudescence of Satanism. In modern Devil cults, he argues, the Devil " is more often a type of magician playmate, the product of a Playboy culture rather than the malign personal being found in Scripture. These cults tend to use the Devil for a type of arcane amusement; whereas the unamusing Devil that appears in Scripture manages to use men for his dark purposes." In Search of a Pope
From Time cover story "In Search of a Pope":

<mask>, an American who teaches at the Jesuits' Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, says such perplexities "no longer can be solved by a one-man fiat. The new Pope must avail himself of the wisdom of the church by calling a Vatican III to resolve the monumental doctrinal, disciplinary and moral problems."Who Was Jesus? From Time cover story "Who was Jesus"

Says Father <mask> of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome: "A kind of intellectualist bias has grown up: unless you are aware of the very latest academic theory about the Bible, you might as well not read it. The result is a dangerous gap between the thinking of elite universities and the beliefs of thriving congregations." The Opus Dei Code
From Time cover story "The Opus Dei Code":

Asserts <mask>, a Jesuit theologian at Gregorian University: "They're (Opus Dei) in the forefront of the Vatican." Quotation in Life Magazine

A Wind of Change
Father Navone as quoted in Life Magazine:

For the "Greg," as its students calls it, is the Church's Oxbridge, Sorbonne and Yale-Harvard, all combined in one. The Greg's Father <mask>vone calls it "the Crucible of Catholicism." It is the university for any seminarian who aspires to prestige and power in the Church: of today's cardinals, 35 percent attended the Gregorian; so did the last eight Popes.Who The Devil Is
Father Navone wrote in his Life article:

"In traditional theology, the devil is a malfunctioning, deranged angel. Devils are a category of angels that slipped. There is a radical distinction there. They don't think right. They don't love right. Something that was created good went wrong. I think the basic Catholic does believe that there is a real devil and there are real devils."Quotations in The Times
Father Navone was featured in a 1989 Times article:

Under the guise of obedience to the US church – which is so tolerant of those who criticize basic items of faith –they (dissidents) can attack teaching from Rome, and still appear to be good Catholics. As Father <mask>, of the Gregorian University of Rome says, this will have the effect of eliminating from theology all Vatican teaching that is not declared infallible. Theologians are in effect putting themselves above the church. The Pope is now calling his theologians to order. Dissent is feasible, even under this Pope, but it has to be loyal. "To do the opposite," says Father Navone, "to prize dissent and contradiction for their own sake, is often to author theology that is immediately

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