title: Nando Reis

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<mask> (, born <mask>; January 12, 1963) is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais. He has also produced a few albums, including some related to Cássia Eller, who has made several significant partnerships with him, and Marisa Monte. In 2012, <mask> was listed among the top ten Brazilian artists at the ECAD list of artists who earned the most from copyright in the first semester of that year. In 2016, he was at the 15th position, besides being 6th in the ranking of earnings from live performances and topped the ranking of earnings from music played in public places. Childhood
<mask> was born in São Paulo to Cecília Leonel and <mask>. He was given his prename "José" just like his brothers, José Carlos, the oldest of the children, and José Luiz (who is deaf), the younger. His two sisters also shared the same prenames: Maria Cecília, the older, and Maria Luiza, the youngest of the five, who developed cerebral palsy.His mother was an acoustic guitar teacher and his father was an engineer. José Carlos taught him a little bit of Rock 'n' Roll, showing him Rolling Stones's album Between the Buttons. Maria Cecília taught him to play the acoustic guitar and took him to a show of Gal Costa and Gilberto Gil. He was given his first acoustic guitar by his grandmother, at the age of 7, and was taught his first chords by his sister. However, most of his skills were acquired alone, when he learned songs of Caetano Veloso all by himself. He also had lessons with Paulinho Nogueira, who also taught his mother. Some friends of José Carlos played in a rock band.Once, he took <mask> to a small performance at the garage of the bassist house. Impressed with the solos of the guitarist, he asked him to teach him, but he never made it. He also tried the drums, but gave up. He decided then to play the bass guitar, as his attempts to play the electric guitar and the drums failed. Other artists, such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper kept joining his main influences. At the age of eleven, he had classes of classic guitar and harmony with Alexandre ("Maranhão"), a friend of José Carlos. His first compositions were all based on poems.Most of them were long, showing his appreciation for long songs. In 1978, he entered Equipe School. There, he formed a band called "Os Camarões" (The Shrimps) with some friends, and managed to win a local music festival. When he met Paulo Miklos and Arnaldo Antunes, who took part of the festival, he made the first compositions with what would later become Titãs. When the high school was over, he made three attempts on the Mathematics yearly vestibular at University of São Paulo, but ended up studying at Federal University of São Carlos. The university occupied most of his time. Therefore, he decided to quit it in order to focus on the band.By then, he was also a percussionist and crooner in Sossega Leão, a salsa band. Career with Titãs
In 1982, Titãs (at that time "Titãs do Iê-Iê") made their first live presentation at Mário de Andrade Library with <mask> as a drummer, an instrument he son abandoned. They recorded several tapes and sent them to recording labels until they signed up with Warner Music label. In 1984, Titãs released their first album, Titãs, and <mask> played the bass guitar in some tracks although initially he was supposed to be a backing vocalist only. After this release, he briefly left the band for two weeks in order to focus on Sossega Leão, which was making more money, but he changed his mind and was accepted back. In the late 1980s, Titãs caught a plane to London, for their first international show. On June 19, 1989, his mother Cecília died of cancer.In the early 1990s, he started producing his first albums, with artists like Marisa Monte and Cássia Eller. In 1995, he recorded his first solo album, 12 de Janeiro. In 2000, Titãs changed to Abril Music, and after recording As Dez Mais in Seattle, <mask> released his second solo album, Para Quando o Arco-Íris Encontrar o Pote de Ouro, with some special participations like Cássia Eller, Rogério Fausino (from Jota Quest) and Peter Buck (from REM). In 2001, he was nominated for the Multishow Brazilian Music Award for "Best solo new artist", but lost to Wanessa Camargo. On June 13, 2001, Titãs' guitarist Marcelo Fromer died after being rammed by a motorcycle (see Marcelo Fromer's Death). On December 29, he lost another friend: Cássia Eller. In 2002, he released Infernal, his third solo work.He then decided to leave Titãs on September 9, 2002, partially due to the impact both friends' deaths caused in his life, but mainly due to a "thought incompatibility". In a later interview, he said that he left the group also due to his will to give more attention to his solo works. He even proposed that the band stopped for one year after the album release. He also said that his isolation as a composer grew more evident in more recent albums, with more and more songs being composed just by him. Nowadays, Reis and Titãs are in good terms. In 2001, he produced and guest performed in Eller's Acústico MTV album, which was later nominated for 2002 Latin Grammy Award for Best Brazilian Rock Album; and won it. Solo career
In 2003, he released his fourth album, A Letra A.He followed that up by releasing the successful Mtv-produced live album with his band Os Infernais (MTV Ao Vivo), and in early 2006, released another studio album, Sim e Não. This was followed by another Mtv-produced live album with Os Infernais (Lual MTV). His next studio album, entitled Drês includes several personal songs: "Conta", a tribute to his mother, and "Só Pra So", another tribute for his daughter Sophia, as well as "Pra Você", a duet with Ana Cañas. His cover version of "Eu Nasci Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás", a song by Raul Seixas, was featured in the Rede Globo's telenovela India – A Love Story soundtrack. In 2011, "De Repente" (suddenly), a song co-written by him and Samuel Rosa, from Brazilian pop rock quartet Skank, was nominated for the 2011 Latin Grammy Award for Best Brazilian Song and won. <mask> spent most of 2012 in Seattle recording his seventh solo album, Sei, released in October. This time, he worked with producer Jack Endino, who had already produced four studio albums for Titãs.On October 6, 2012, <mask> performed live with his ex-band Titãs for the first time since his departure, in a venue in São Paulo. The special performance was a celebration of the 30th year of the band's career. Arnaldo Antunes and Charles Gavin, other ex-members, were also present at the concert. It was the first time since 2002 that he used his bass guitar. <mask> performed at Sunset Stage of Rock in Rio 5 on September 15, 2013, along with Samuel Rosa, guitarist and vocalist of Skank, whose then upcoming album Velocia would feature some songs co-written by <mask>. In 2014, <mask> received his third Latin Grammy Award nomination, this time for Best Brazilian Rock Album, for his live album Sei Como Foi em BH. Also in 2014, he announced he would enter the studio in 2015 to start recording a new album.In February 2016, it was revealed that the album would feature guest performances of Reis' ex-colleagues from Titãs Paulo Miklos, Branco Mello, Sérgio Britto and Arnaldo Antunes (the latter also an ex-member of the band), besides singers Pitty, Luiza Possi and Tulipa Ruiz. Afterwards, it was announced that Peter Buck (ex-R.E.M.) and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam, Mad Season), as well as four children of <mask> (Zoé, Sophia, Theo and Sebastião; the two latter form the duo 2Reis), would be featured in the album as well. In the same month, it was announced that the singer, together with the band Os Paralamas do Sucesso and singers Paula Toller and Pitty, would take part of a tour promoted by the project Nivea Viva!, which takes place every year and takes artists on Brazilian tours. The series of seven shows will pay tribute to Brazilian rock. Later in that year it was announced that <mask> would guest sing in some songs by American supergroup Levee Walkers, formed by Mike McCready, Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver) and Barrett Martin (Mad Season/Screaming Trees) – the latter having worked with reis in some of his albums. In November 2016, he released his album Jardim-Pomar.The cover was drawn by artist Vânia Mignone. On September 16 of that year, he released the first single, "Só Posso Dizer". In October 2018, he released the single "Rock 'n' Roll". Clocking at almost nine minutes, the song features Jack Endino on the guitar and discusses politics, society and the environment. On 18 September 2020, he released "Espera a Primavera" (Wait for Spring), featuring Endino, Lulu Santos, Walter Vilaça, Céu and his son Theo. The song alludes to a "multi-color love", which according to him is opposed to the "negationist, reductionist and obscurantist" speech that he believes is being put in practice by the Brazilian government. In 2021, his EP Duda Beat & Nando Reis (with Duda Beat) and his song "Espera a Primavera" were nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album and Best Portuguese Language Song, respectively.Also in 2021, <mask> released two re-recordings of previous hits of his career. On 11 June, he released a new version of "Um Tiro no Coração" (feat. Pitty), a song originally performed by Sandra de Sá and Cássia Eller. On 26 November, he released "Não Vou Me Adaptar", originally recorded by Titãs on the album Televisão (1985) and written by Arnaldo Antunes, who guest performs on the new version. Both songs were released in preparation for his Nando Hits tour, which started on 23 December in São Paulo. Personal life
<mask> <mask> was married twice. The first marriage was with Vânia Passos, a former classmate, and the wedding took place on February 14, 1985.His four children are Theodoro Passos <mask>, born on January 16, 1986, Sophia Passos <mask>, born on July 1, 1988, Sebastião, born on May 13, 1995, and Zoe Passos <mask>, born on September 27, 1999. In September 2003, he ended his marriage with Vânia, and married Anna some months later. In November 2005, he ended this second marriage. He dated Nina, and she gave him his fifth child, Ismael. Some years later, he started dating Vânia again. He also dated fellow musician and occasional partner Marisa Monte. His daughter Sophia Reis was a VJ for MTV Brasil.She has also worked as actress and starred in the film Meu Tio Matou um Cara. Theodoro <mask> is also an artist and performs in the band Zafenate. <mask> <mask> is a self-declared atheist and bisexual. He supports São Paulo FC, having written a book about his passion for football entitled Meu Pequeno São-Paulino (My Little São Paulo Supporter). He also had a column about sports at O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. <mask> has a history of drug and alcohol abuse, which he had so far quit. He states that he has contemplated suicide twice: once via a lexotan overdose (which led him to the hospital), and another time by jumping.One of <mask>'s cousins was Vange Leonel, who was famous for her work with the post-punk band Nau. <mask> would produce her debut full-length solo album, Vange, in 1991. <mask> owns a property in Jaú, São Paulo state, where he recovers the riparian forest and keeps bees and an agriforest.

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title: Yves Montand

type: original

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Ivo Livi (), better known as <mask> (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer. Early life
<mask> was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer, and Giuseppina Simoni, a devout Catholic, while her husband held strong Communist beliefs. <mask>'s family left for France in 1923 because of Italy's Fascist regime. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), and later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act. Career

Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films.His recognizably crooner songs, especially those about Paris, became instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at Bruno Coquatrix's Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai ?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing "C'est si bon" but <mask> refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it. <mask> was also very popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57.During his career, <mask> acted in American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old <mask> gave one of his best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived <mask>'s profile in the US, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. Personal life
In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although <mask> had a number of well-publicized affairs, notably with Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her last films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her prior marriage, Catherine Allégret.<mask>'s only child, Valentin, his son by his second wife, Carole Amiel, was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that rocked France, another woman accused <mask> of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him. <mask> refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have <mask> exhumed and a sample taken. The results indicated that he was probably not the girl's biological father. He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended Communist festivals and meetings. In later life he supported right-wing causes.Signoret and <mask> had a home in Autheuil-Authouillet, Normandy, where the main village street is named after him. In his later years he maintained a home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence, until his death from a heart attack in November 1991. In an interview, Jean-Jacques Beineix said, "[H]e died on the set [of IP5: The Island of Pachyderms]... On the very last day, after his very last shot. It was the very last night and we were doing retakes. He finished what he was doing and then he just died. And the film tells the story of an old man who dies from a heart attack, which is the same thing that happened!" <mask> is interred next to his first wife, Simone Signoret, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.In 2004, Catherine Allégret, Signoret's daughter from her first marriage to director <mask>, alleged in her autobiography Un monde a l'envers (A World Upside Down) that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of five; his behaviour apparently continuing for many years. and that he had a "more than equivocal attitude to her" as she got older. However she also claimed to have been reconciled to him in the latter years of his life. Filmography

Discography

1952: Chante (Odéon)
1953: Chante ses dernières créations (Odéon)
1953: Chante Paris (Odéon)
1953: Récital au Théâtre de l'Étoile 1953 (Odéon, live)
1954: Chante ses derniers succès (Odéon)
1954: # 54 (Odéon)
1955: Chansons populaires de France (Odéon)
1957: 13 ans déjà ! 1 (Frémeaux)
2001: Inédits, rares & indispensables (Mercury, 4-CD boxset)
2004: Sensationnel – Intégrale 1949–1953 – Vol. 2 (Frémeaux)
2007: Une étoile à l'Étoile – Intégrale 1953–1954 – Vol. 3 (Frémeaux, live)

References

External links

 International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation

1921 births
1991 deaths
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male film actors
Italian male film actors
Italian emigrants to France
Male actors from Marseille
People from the Province of Pistoia
David di Donatello winners
Musicians from Marseille
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French male singers

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title: Hubert Hamilton

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Major General <mask>  (27 June 1861 – 14 October 1914) was a senior British general who served with distinction throughout his career, seeing battle in the Mahdist War in Egypt and the Second Boer War in South Africa, before being given command of the British Third Division at the outbreak of the First World War. Just two and a half months later at the height of the Race for the Sea, General <mask> was killed by artillery fire whilst surveying the front line, the first British divisional commander to be killed in action during the conflict. He had received several honours for his service and was popular amongst his men, who nicknamed him "Hammy" and expressed sorrow at his death; each regiment in his division despatched representatives to his funeral, despite being involved in heavy fighting less than a mile away. Early life
Born in 1861, <mask> was the son of General <mask>, CB, and one of four brothers to enter military service, including General Sir <mask> (1857-1936). As a child the brothers were surrounded by military figures; in addition to their father, their brother-in-law was General Sir George Pomeroy Colley, who was killed in action at the battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. <mask> was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and, following attendance at the Royal Military College, entered service with the 2nd Foot Regiment (Queen's Royal Regiment) in 1880. Military career
In the early 1880s he travelled to India with his regiment, and there was involved in the Burma Expedition 1886 to 1888, remaining in the country as Adjutant from 1886 to 1890 and winning the campaign medal with two clasps.He was promoted to Captain in December 1890. By 1896 he was back in England, and was appointed an ADC to Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, commanding an Infantry brigade at Aldershot Garrison. In the following year, he was involved in the Mahdist War, when he accompanied Lord Kitchener's army against the Mahdist forces, fighting at the battle of Atbara and the battle of Omdurman, and in November 1899 as Deputy Adjutant general in the final advance against the Khalifa during the Battle of Umm Diwaykarat. He was mentioned in Despatches (5 September 1898) and rewarded for his service with the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Imperial Ottoman Order (Fourth Class) from the Khedive of Egypt. In late 1899 he left Egypt and immediately engaged in another war, against the Boers in South Africa, where he was again appointed ADC to Major-General Kelly-Kenny, by now commander of the 6th Division. From January 1900 he was a staff officer with the role of Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, and performed so well in this position that he was advanced to Assistant Adjutant-General in July 1900 and recommended to Lord Kitchener as a personal aide-de-camp and Military Secretary from November 1900. He was engaged in operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony and also saw action at the battle of Paardeberg, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches three times (31 March 1900, 16 April 1901, 29 July 1902) and awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps and King's South Africa Medal with two clasps.For his field service, he was appointed ADC to the King, and given a brevet promotion to Colonel. With the war's successful conclusion, <mask> returned home in June 1902, carrying the peace despatches from Lord Kitchener to the government and the King, who received him at Windsor Castle. Less than six months later, <mask> accompanied Kitchener to India, again as his Military Secretary, and received the substantive rank of Colonel on 28 November 1902. In 1906 he left Kitchener's service to assume command of the 7th Brigade and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1908 <mask> left 7th Brigade for a promotion to Major General and an appointment as Chief of General Staff in the Mediterranean. In 1909 he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. His last peacetime appointment was in England, commanding the North Midland Division of the Territorial Force from 1911.First World War
<mask> received command of the 3rd Division in June 1914, and at the outbreak of the First World War immediately took the force to France with the British Expeditionary Force in the II Corps under General Horace Smith-Dorrien. During August and September, <mask>'s force was almost continuously engaged, fighting at the battle of Mons, Le Cateau and along the lines of the Marne River. In exhausting combat, casualties were massive and <mask> came close to death on 26 September when a shell landed just feet away from where he and two other generals were discussing operations. Luckily for them however, the munition did not detonate. In spite of difficult conditions of the campaign, <mask> shared his men's hardships and was frequently in the front line, earning the affectionate nickname "Hammy" from his subordinates. Death
<mask>'s luck did not last. As British, French and German units raced for the Picardy coast during the Race for the Sea, <mask>'s division was in the vanguard and was heavily engaged in the opening weeks of October.On 14 October, <mask> and several aides-de-camp traveled to the village of La Couture near Béthune on the front lines to witness the situation and had just dismounted from their horses when a large shrapnel shell detonated yards overhead. The officers who accompanied him were unhurt but a single bullet entered General <mask>'s forehead, killing him instantly. An aide of General <mask>, William Congreve, wrote in his diary: "14 October, La Couture, Hammy is dead, and we lose a splendid soldier and I a very good friend." <mask> was buried in the churchyard at La Couture, against the church wall with General Smith-Dorrien in attendance and a representative of each regiment in the division as an honour guard. The only light was provided by car headlamps, and shellfire occasionally forced the chaplain to pause in the service. Indeed, fighting was so close during the brief ceremony that enemy bullets occasionally struck the walls and nearby graves, although none of the mourners were hit. General Smith-Dorrien concluded the service with the words "Indeed a true soldier's grave.God rest his soul." Legacy
Once the fighting had moved on, his body was exhumed and returned to England, before being reburied at St Martin's Church in Cheriton. His gravestone quotes a verse from Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. A memorial tablet bearing his portrait in profile was placed inside the same church. A large plaque was also dedicated to him anonymously in St Peter's Church at Marchington, Staffordshire (where he lived before the war) stating "I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept faith".Years after his death his collected papers, mainly pertaining to the Second Boer War, were donated to the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London, where they are still available. Notes

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1861 births
1914 deaths
British Army generals
British Army generals of World War I
British military personnel killed in World War I
British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Burmese War
British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Queen's Royal Regiment officers
People from the Borough of East Staffordshire

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title: Michael Wood (historian)

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<mask>,  (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. <mask> has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Moss Side, Manchester. He attended Heald Place Primary School in Rusholme. When he was eight, his family moved to Paulden Avenue, Wythenshawe where he could see historic Baguley Hall from his bedroom window.He went to Benchill Primary School. At Manchester Grammar School, he developed an interest in theatre, playing Grusha in the first British amateur production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and later Hamlet in Hamlet. He took A-levels in English, French and History. <mask> studied history and English at Oriel College, Oxford, touring the United States for six weeks in his final year, and graduated with a second class Bachelor of Arts degree. Later, he undertook post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history at Oriel. Three years into his research for a DPhil, he left to become a journalist with ITV. Career
In the 1970s <mask> worked for the BBC in Manchester.He was first a reporter and then an assistant producer on current affairs programmes before returning to his love of history with his 1979–81 series In Search of the Dark Ages for BBC2. He quickly became popular with female viewers for his blond good looks (he was humorously dubbed "the thinking woman's crumpet" by British newspapers), his deep voice and his habit of wearing tight jeans and a sheepskin jacket. <mask>'s work is also well known in the United States, where it receives much airplay on PBS and on various cable television networks. The series Legacy (1992) is one of his more frequently broadcast documentaries on US television. Since 1990 <mask> has been a director of independent television production company Maya Vision International. In 2006 he joined the British School of Archaeology in Iraq campaign, the aim of which was to train and encourage new Iraqi archaeologists, and he has lectured on the subject. In 2013, <mask> joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Public History.Personal life
His girlfriend for ten years, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was the late journalist and broadcaster Pattie Coldwell. He currently lives in north London with his wife, television producer Rebecca Ysabel Dobbs, and two daughters, Minakshi and Jyoti. <mask> was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society until 2007. In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by Sunderland University. This was followed by the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Leicester in 2011 and in 2015 he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy. Having previously been President of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, in 2017 he accepted the position of Honorary Life Vice President, offered in recognition of his work on the documentary series <mask>'s Story of England. <mask> is currently the president of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, an organization founded in 1965 to promote understanding and friendship between the British and the Chinese people.<mask> was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008. <mask> was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to public history and broadcasting. Television series
 In Search of the Dark Ages (1979–81)
 Great Railway Journeys ("Zambezi Express", 1980)
 Great Little Railways (episode 3: "Slow Train to Olympia", 1983)
 In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
 Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England (1986)
 Greece: The Hidden War (1986)
 Art of the Western World (1989)
 Legacy: A Search for the Origins of Civilisation (1992)
 Lifeboat (1993)
 In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997)
 Conquistadors (2000)
 In Search of Shakespeare (2003)
 In Search of Myths and Heroes (2005)
 The Story of India (2007)
 Christina: A Medieval Life (2008)
 In Search of Beowulf (2009) (a.k.a. <mask> on Beowulf)
 <mask>'s Story of England (2010)
 The Great British Story: A People's History (2012)
 King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons (2013)
 The Story of China (2016)

Documentaries
 Darshan: An Indian Journey (1989)
 Traveller's Tales: The Sacred Way (1991)
 Saddam's Killing Fields (1993)
 Secret History: Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail (1999)
 Gilbert White: Nature Man (2006)
 Christina: A Medieval Life (2008)
 Alexander's Greatest Battle (2009)
 Shakespeare's Mother; The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman (2015)
 Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor (2017)
 How China Got Rich (2019)
 Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet (2020)

Bibliography
 In Search of the Dark Ages (BBC Books, 1981)
 In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
 Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England (1988)
 Legacy: A Search for the Origins of Civilization (1992), London: Network Books/BBCbooks/London BCA. The Smile of Murugan: A South Indian Journey (1995)
 In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997)
 In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past (1999)
 Conquistadors (2000)
 In Search of Shakespeare (2003)
 In Search of Myths and Heroes (2005)
 India: An Epic Journey Across the Subcontinent (2007)
 The Story of England (2010)
  The Story of China  (2020)

References

External links

Michael Wood at the British Film Institute

Writings
The Story of the Conquistadors
In Search of Shakespeare
In Search of Myths and Heroes
"The Life of an Anglo-Saxon Princess". The Guardian, 2010
Interview
 2012 video interview

1948 births
Living people
English historians
English documentary filmmakers
Historians of antiquity
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
People from Moss Side
Recipients of the President's Medal (British Academy)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire

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title: Giacinto Scoles

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<mask> (born 1935 in Torino, Italy) is a European and North American chemist and physicist who is best known for his pioneering development of molecular beam methods for the study of weak van der Waals forces between atoms, molecules, and surfaces. He developed the cryogenic bolometer as a universal detector of atomic and molecule beams that not only can detect a small flux of molecules, but also responds to the internal energy of the molecules. This is the basis for the optothermal spectroscopy technique which Scoles and others have used to obtain very high signal-to noise and high resolution ro-vibrational spectra. Biography
<mask> was born in Italy and raised there through the Second World War. A few years after the war he moved, with his family, to Spain, where Scoles spent his adolescence. He returned to Italy and graduated the University of Genoa in 1959 with a degree in Chemistry. His publication record started with “Vapour Pressure of Isotopic Liquids I” published 1959 in Il Nuovo Cimento.Starting his interdisciplinary research between chemistry and physics, in 1960 he was appointed Assistant Professorship in the Physics Department of the University of Genoa where he taught a lab course and conducted experiments on isotope separation during physical adsorption (physisorption). In 1961, he changed research area and joined Jan Beenakker’s group at the Kamerlingh-Onnes Laboratorium of Leiden University in the Netherlands. There he coauthored one of the first papers [1] on what became soon known as the Senftleben-Beenakker effect: The influence of an external magnetic or electric field on the transport properties of dilute polyatomic gases. The idea behind this effect is that every polyatomic molecule – even a simple paramagnetic one like N2 – has a magnetic moment, due to its end-over-end rotation, which can be used as a handle to make it precess in an external magnetic field. If the precession frequency is sufficiently large compared to the collision frequency, the average kinetic cross section will change, and so will the transport properties. Likewise, for polar molecules one may employ electric fields to achieve the desired precession. This field has yielded a wealth of information on the non-spherical part (i.e.the angle dependence) of the intermolecular potential. In addition, several new phenomena were later discovered that had been believed to be non-existing in neutral gases, like transverse transport effects in a magnetic field, comparable to the Hall effect in electrical conduction. In 1964, <mask> <mask> returned to the University of Genoa as Assistant Professor of Physics. In Genoa he stayed until 1971 and in those years established a renowned molecular beams laboratory devoted to the investigation of intermolecular forces in gases. Most significant was the development of the cryogenic bolometer to detect molecular beams. Bolometers detect tiny heat input (with noise on the order of 10−14 watts per square root hertz) and had previously been developed as detectors of Infrared Radiation but here they are used to measure the internal and translational energy of a beam of atoms or molecules. The test apparatus set up together with M. Cavallini and G. Gallinaro [2] offered great advantages with respect to conventional techniques used at that time and reduced the cost of building beam machines.Scoles and his colleagues published a series of key papers which include the determination of the energy dependence of the integral collision cross section of He scattered by He [3], the observation of “Rainbow Scattering“ between two crossed beams of Argon [4],  the first measurement of orbiting resonances in the scattering between two atoms (Hg and H) [5]. In 1971, <mask> moved to the University of Waterloo, Canada as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. There, he set up the first successful crossed molecular beam laboratory in Canada. He help establish the Waterloo Centre for Molecular Beams and Laser Chemistry, the Centre for Surface Science in Technology, as well as the weekly chemical physics seminars and annual Symposium on Chemical Physics, both of which continue to this day. He was the initial (Acting) Director of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, the first true inter-university graduate program in Canada. Scoles performed crossed beam differential scattering cross-section studies of atom-atom, atom-molecule and molecule-molecule interactions, using his bolometer detector. He also began using helium atom diffraction to study the structure of surfaces, both of pure crystals which often undergo change from the bulk structure (reconstruction) and also the structure of overlayers of atoms and molecules absorbed on surfaces.With Terry Gough and then graduate student Roger Miller, Scoles introduced the technique of bolometer-detected optothermal spectroscopy of molecular beams where vibrational excitation of a beam of molecules is detected by the bolometer. They used this technique to studies vibrational dissociation of a complex of two or more molecules held together by Van der Waals forces. By the early 1980s, Scoles began the first studies of the spectroscopy of molecules adsorbed in or on clusters of rare gas atoms. In the mid-to-late 1970s <mask> spent part of his time at the University of Trento, Italy where he established a new molecular beam laboratory. The activity of the Trento lab was mainly focused on opto-thermal spectroscopy and atomic hydrogen scattering experiments. <mask> <mask> moved to Princeton University in 1986. One of the experiments that Scoles brought to Princeton was the study of IR spectroscopy of molecules attached to inert gas clusters, particularly Ar and Xe clusters.In this work, he developed the now widely used “pickup technique” [6] and set the stage for his later pioneering work on superfluid helium nanodroplets, for which he recently shared the Benjamin Franklin Award in Physics. The helium experiments, started with students S. Goyal and D. Schutt, provided the first molecular spectra of solutes in liquid helium, a unique superfluid solvent [7]. Frank Stienkemeier joined the group as a postdoc and together with graduate students John Higgins and Carlo Callegari (and sabbatical visitor Wolfgang Ernst) established the “Alkali age” of the group which provided a rich vein to explore chemical dynamics in this fascinating state of mater [8]. Graduate student James Reho brought time resolved spectroscopy techniques into the mix [9]. Erik Kerstel did a thesis on subdoppler spectroscopy of hydrogen bonded complexes, including the first such spectra in the vibrational overtone region [10]. Brooks Pate brought <mask> and Kevin K. Lehmann together for what proved to be a long series of experiments (and many Ph.D. theses) that characterized Intramolecular Vibrational energy Redistribution. They first studied the hydrogen stretching fundamental and first overtone spectral regions and observed Lorentzian lineshapes due to irreversible relaxation for large molecules with a very high density of states [11].They developed IR-microwave and later IR-IR double resonance methods to provide unambiguous quantum assignments of even highly congested spectra and to reach higher in energy [12]. The work by Andrea Callegari on benzene, long a model system for such studies is noted among many such studies. After this work, Carlo Callegari converted the apparatus into a helium droplet machine, which was used for the first study of overtone vibrational transitions in helium nanodroplets. Also, the pure rotational spectra of HCCCN and HCN in helium were observed [13]. This established that a single droplet could absorb several thousand photons without "optically pumping" out of resonance. Scoles was instrumental in the establishment of the Princeton Materials Institute and became a close collaborator of Peter Eisenberger, its first director. <mask> also brought to Princeton his Helium Diffraction Spectrometer for the study of surface structure [14].His focus turned from inorganic overlayers to the study of self-assembled monolayers, particularly alkane thiols on Au(111) [15]. Scoles collaborated with Eisenberger in using X-Rays as a complementary surface structure tool and showed the power of the combination of the two methods. <mask> developed expertise in atomic force microscopy (AFM) to study surface structure and more recently, tip induced surface modification using the nanografting technique [16,17] which had been previously developed by his former student Gang Yu Liu. In collaboration with Steve Bernasek, <mask> has also studied the influence of vibrational excitation (again for the first time in the first C-H overtone region) on the sticking probability of a molecule (methane) on a metal surface [18]. Starting in 2003, <mask> returned part-time to Italy, taking appointments at the Trieste  Synchrotron Elettra and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA),  In SISSA he joined the Condensed Matter group where he began collaborating on theoretical problems dealing with helium nanodroplets and with physisorption. At the same time, he started an experimental group in Elettra, focusing on nanoscience, with particular attention to self-assembled monolayers and their properties [19,20]. Later, Scoles expanded his research into nanoscale biological processes, biophysics, and nanomedicine, in connection with the local Consortium of Molecular Biomedicine.Awards and honors
2006 -  Research Prize of the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Bochum
2006 -  Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (with Jan Peter Toennies) from the Franklin Institute. 2003 -  Creativity Award from the NSF 2003-5
2004	-  Texas A&M University, Frontiers in Chemical Research Lecturer
2004	-  Moscowitz Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, October 2004
2003	-  Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville. 2003	-  Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy from the American Physical Society (with Kevin K. Lehmann). 2002	-  Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
2001	-  H. E. Gunning Lecturer, Dept. of Chem., University of Alberta
2000	-  Elected Foreign Member of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2000	-  Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Waterloo
1999	- Samuel M. McElvain Lecturer, University of Wisconsin–Madison
1997	-  Elected Fellow of The Royal Society (United Kingdom)
1996	 -   Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Physics from the University of Genoa
1995	-  Recipient of a Senior Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1995	- Recipient of the 1995 Lippincott Award of the Optical Society of America, the Coblentz Society, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy
1986	- Senior Killam Fellowship. See also
 List of University of Waterloo people

References

[1] J.J.M. Beenakker, G<mask>, H.F.P.Knaap and R.M. Jonkman, Phys. Lett. 2, 5-6 (1962). [2] Cavallini M. Gallinaro G. Scoles G., Z.Naturforsch 24a, 1850, (1969). [3] Dondi, M.G., <mask>, G., Torello, F., Pauly, H., J. Chem. Phys., 51: 392(1969).[4] Cavallini, M., Gallinaro G., Meneghetti L., <mask> G. and Valbusa U., Chem. Phys. Lett. 7, 303(1970). [5] Schutte A., Bassi D., Tommasini F. and <mask> G., Phys. Rev. Lett.29, 979, (1972). [6] D.J. Levandier, J. McCombie, R. Pursel and G<mask>, J. Chem. Phys. 86, 7239 (1987). [7] S. Goyal, D.L. Schutt, and G<mask>, Phys.Rev. Lett. 69, 933 (1992). [8] F. Stienkemeier, J. Higgins, W. E. Ernst and G<mask>, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74(18), 3592-95 (1995).[9] J. Higgins, C. Callegari, J. Reho, F. Stienkemeier, W. E. Ernst, K. K. Lehmann, M. Gutowski and G<mask>, Science 273 629-631 (1996). [10] H. Meyer, E.R.Th. Kerstel, D. Zhuang and G<mask>, J. Chem. Phys. 90, 4623 (1989). [11] E. Kerstel, K.K. Lehmann, T.F.Mentel, B.H. Pate and G<mask>, J. Phys. Chem. 95, 8282 (1991). [12] E.R. Th. Kerstel, K.K.Lehmann, J. E. Gambogi, X. Yang and G<mask>. J. Chem. Phys. 99 8559-8570 (1993). [13] I. Reinhard, C. Callegari, A. Conjusteau, K. K. Lehmann and G<mask>,  Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 5036-5039 (1999). [14] C.E.D. Chidsey, G.-Y. Liu, P. Rowntree and G. <mask>, J. Chem. Phys. 91, 4421 (1989). [15] N. Camillone III, P. Eisenberger, T.Y.B.Leung, P. Schwartz, G<mask>, G.E. Poirier and M.J. Tarlov,   J. Chem. Phys. 101, 11031 (1994). [16] Y. Hu, A. Das, M.H. Hecht, and G<mask>, Langmuir 21(20), 9103-9109 (2005). [17] C. Staii, D.W. Wood, G<mask>, J.Am. Chem. Soc. 130(2), 640-646 (2008). [18] J. Higgins, A. Conjusteau, G<mask>, and S.L. Bernasek,  J. Chem. Phys.114(12), 5277-5283 (2001). [19] R. Mazzarello, A. Cossaro, A. Verdini, R. Rousseau, L. Casalis, M.F. Danisman, L. Floreano, S. Scandolo, A. Morgante, and G<mask>, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98(1), Art. No.016102 (2007). [20] M. Castronovo, F. Bano, S. Raugei, D. Scaini, M. Dell'Angela, R. Hudej, L. Casalis, and G<mask>, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129(9), 2636-2641 (2007). 1935 births
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<mask> ( Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress, author, and philanthropist whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. <mask> studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent roles in movies, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1970), Elliott Gould in Little Murders (1971), Steven Keats in Hester Street (1975), Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test (1978), Robert Carradine in Number One with a Bullet (1987), and Cady McClain in Simple Justice (1989), among many others. She achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in Remington Steele from 1983 to 1987 and her co-starring role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the long-running CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). Towards the end of her acting career, she also had a prominent role opposite Tyler Perry in Madea's Witness Protection (2012). She appeared as a guest on many talk and variety shows, as well as a panelist on several game shows.She was an advocate of animal rights and animal rights activism, supporting groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights. Early life
<mask> Green was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She was raised by her mother, Ann (née Meltzer), and her maternal grandparents in The Bronx, New York, after her father, Larry Green, deserted the family. <mask>' stepfather, whose surname she took as her own, was Chester H<mask>. Chester and <mask>' mother operated the Z.L. Rosenfield Agency, a stenographic service catering to playwrights and actors. Career

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<mask>' acting career began in 1951 with a role on the TV series Studio One.She appeared in episodes of The Naked City (1958-1963), Way Out (1961), Ben Casey (1963), and The Defenders (1962-1963). In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild (1961). She appeared in such 1960s/1970s films as A Lovely Way to Die, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Honeymoon Killers, Such Good Friends, Little Murders, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. In 1978, she appeared in a film about John F. Kennedy's assassination, Ruby and Oswald, in which she played Jack Ruby's sister. She also appeared very briefly in The Rose, as the mother of the title character played by Bette Midler. In an interview with the Archive of American Television, Rue McClanahan confirmed that in 1972 she was approached by Norman Lear during the taping of an All in the Family episode to be a late replacement for <mask>, who was originally intended for the role of Vivian on Maude. (<mask> later guest starred in a 1976 All in the Family episode, "Edith's Night Out" as a bar patron who befriended Edith.)<mask> played Theresa Falco on Angie, and later appeared as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele. After Remington Steele ended, she starred in the TV movie remake of If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) and the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). She appeared on Alice, playing the mother of the title character (played by her former Broadway co-star Linda Lavin); on Barney Miller in two different roles, as the wife of a man who secretly visits a sex surrogate, and (in three episodes) as the harried wife of a middle-aged man who occasionally makes erratic decisions to give his life meaning; and on Full House as Danny Tanner's mother, Claire. She played the unhinged Flo Flotsky on four episodes of Soap; Dorelda Doremus, a faith healer, on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; and lonely Aunt Edna on Step by Step. <mask> achieved much of her fame for her role as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond. She was reportedly one of 100 actresses considered for the role. For her work on the series, she was nominated for seven Emmy Awards (and won four times) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.She had previously won an Emmy for a guest appearance on St. Elsewhere, playing a homeless woman, and was also once nominated for her role on Remington Steele. She was nominated for appearances on Perfect Strangers and a PBS special called The Sunset Gang. In 2003, she made a guest appearance as Gordo's grandmother in Lizzie McGuire. The same year, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006, she starred in Our House as a wealthy woman who took in homeless people into her own house, and in Grandma's Boy. In 2007, she made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.In 2008, she appeared in the romantic comedy Play the Game alongside Andy Griffith, who plays a lonely widowed grandfather re-entering the dating world after a 60-year hiatus. <mask> appeared in the 2009 film Aliens in the Attic, which was filmed in Auckland, New Zealand. She played George Needleman's mother in Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection (2012). On September 23, 2010, she played Ms. Rinsky, Brick Heck's teacher in the second-season premiere episode of The Middle. This appearance reunited her with Patricia Heaton, her co-star from Everybody Loves Raymond. The two women's characters, of course, clash, with Heaton's Frankie Heck always managing to get pushed out of sorts into disastrous action usually resulting in some kind of public chastisement by <mask>' Rinsky, an expert at passive-aggressive manipulation. <mask> returned in two other episodes that season, "The Math Class" and the finale, "Back to Summer".In 2013 she was a special guest star in the Major Crimes episode "There’s No Place Like Home". <mask>' stage career began in the 1950s on Broadway. She appeared in numerous Broadway shows including William Marchant's The Desk Set (with Shirley Booth), Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (with James Coco and Linda Lavin) and Terrence McNally's Bad Habits. She starred in McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion at the LaJolla Playhouse in June 2009. Honors
In May 2005, <mask> received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the University of South Carolina. She was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 7, 2011. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2003, at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.Advocacy and other work
On September 4, 2002, <mask> testified before a U.S. Congressional panel that age discrimination was prevalent in Hollywood. She was a registered Democrat. An animal rights advocate, <mask> worked with the group Puppies Behind Bars, which works with inmates in training guide dogs and assistance dogs for the physically disabled and elderly, as well as dogs trained in explosives detection to be used by law enforcement agencies. She was also active with the Children with AIDS Foundation, where she served as chairwoman. With Danelle Morton, <mask> wrote Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna. The book was published by St. Martin's Press in 2003, and serves as a memoir as well as a collection of some of <mask>' recipes.Personal life
<mask> married Michael Cannata in 1956; they divorced in 1962. They had one son. She had three grandchildren. Her second husband was writer William Goyen and they were married from 1963 until his death from leukemia in 1983. Death
<mask> died in her sleep on April 17, 2016, at her home in Los Angeles following a stroke, at the age of 90. She had also suffered from pulmonary hypertension for many years before her death. Just a month after her death she was memorialized in New York City, where a public tribute was held at the Ambassador Theatre, where she appeared in 1972 in The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild with Maureen Stapleton.Among the stars attending the service were Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton (her co-stars from Everybody Loves Raymond) and actor David Hyde Pierce. Romano said of <mask>:

In another interview Romano jokingly referred to the kissing thing that <mask> would do off-camera: "You know how great she was then!" He also added: "We had a little get together for her. She was one of a kind. She can outwork it, outdrink it, good kisser, I was joking! I appreciated her." Just a month after her death, he said:  Her ashes are interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, California.Filmography

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Actresses from St. Louis
Actresses from New York City
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American people of Russian-Jewish descent
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Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
People from the Bronx
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21st-century American Jews
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title: Justin Edgar

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<mask> (born 18 August 1971) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. Early life
Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, <mask> left school with no qualifications because he regularly played truant to watch movies at the nearby Odeon. He had a string of dead-end jobs before enrolling on a Sutton College media course from 1991 to 1993 where he used the basic equipment to make films. "It was really, really bog standard stuff and the edit suite was simply two VHS machines joined together. But I used to stay there until last thing at night until the caretaker came to kick me out." He graduated from Portsmouth University in 1996 with a first class degree in film. In a 2020 interview, <mask> spoke about his grandfather, who was a committed pacifist and conscientious objector during World War Two.He also mentions his mother, a peace activist for the Peace Pledge Union. Career
In 1998 he directed the short comedy Dirty Phonecalls for ITV's First Cut scheme. As with all of his work it was shot in his native Birmingham. It became a worldwide festival hit and won the 1998 BBC Drama Award at the Birmingham Film Festival. The success of Dirty Phonecalls led to his first feature film Large, which was released in UK cinemas in 2002. Shot on a budget of £1.6 million, Large was backed by Film Four and went straight in at number one in the UK video charts. It sold to over twenty countries around the world.His 2005 short Special People won Best Film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival, Best Drama at the 2006 Royal Television Society Awards, the BBC New Filmmakers Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 Oscars, BAFTAs and Turner Classic Movies Prize Shorts. Also shot in 2005, real-time crime drama The Ends won best short at the 2005 Raindance Film Festival in London and was nominated for the Golden Horseman Award at Dresden film festival. It also won the Big Issue Film Award and was shown on Channel 4 and cable TV throughout Europe. His second feature film Special People premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival in competition for the Michael Powell Award, gaining great public and critical acclaim. It opened the 2008 London Disability Film Festival and won best film at the Britspotting Film Festival in Berlin. The film was released in the United Kingdom in November 2008 and currently holds a 90% fresh rating on critical aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. <mask> shot his third feature film We are the Freaks in March 2012.It was screened at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival  in competition for the Michael Powell Award. It was released in the UK by Metrodome and Netflix on 25 April 2014 Guy Lodge in Variety called the film "crass but cute" and Allan Hunter in Screen Daily said it was a "likeable, breezy British teen comedy". Andrew Blair in Den of Geek noted the film's "political bent" and "anger bubbling under its surface". His fourth film The Marker premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017 to generally positive reviews. It is described as a noir thriller starring Scottish actor John Hannah, Frederick Schmidt, Golden Globe nominated actress Cathy Tyson and Romanian actress Ana Uluru. The Wee Review stated it was "A well-crafted noir thriller that satisfies the sadistic cinema goer with its darkly uncompromising take on the genre". Another critic commented “A shocking, dark, vicious, violent, forceful, engrossing, touching, beautiful film!The film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.” In February 2018 it premiered on Netflix. Birmingham
<mask> has said that the UK city of Birmingham "has become my film set and I love it". He regularly uses the city as a location. He contributed to the book Remaking Birmingham - The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration in which he outlines the importance of architecture in the city's cinematic representations. He discusses the heritage of Birmingham as a base for broadly comic cinema in his essay "Take me Higher - Birmingham and Cinema". He cites his own short film Round which used the architecture of Birmingham's iconic Rotunda building as a location prior to its renovation in 2003. His company 104 Films is named after a bus route in the city.Film and disability
<mask> runs 104 Films, a company established in 2004 which provides training and opportunities for disabled people in the film industry. <mask> himself is hard of hearing and has said that it is a personal passion of his to put "disability in the conscience behind the camera as much as in front of it". The company have completed many projects for London Olympics, the British Film Institute and Creative Skillset. In 2013 <mask> was invited to meet Her Royal Highness the Queen in respect of his work in disability and film. 104 Films have produced or co-produced feature films related to disability including Special People, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, and I am Breathing. Notes on Blindness, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was released in UK cinemas in June 2016. It went on to be nominated for three BAFTAs including Best British Film  and won the BIFA for Best Documentary.104 films also invested in the documentary Unrest about a woman with ME which was shortlisted for the 2018 Best Documentary Oscar and Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story which was also critically acclaimed and nominated for a BIFA following a premiere at SXSW. <mask> has written about representations of disability and film in the UK's The Guardian arguing for more disabled talent behind the camera. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 4 proposing a disability version of the Bechdel Test for film called the 104 test which states that 1) The film must have a disabled actor playing a disabled character or a disabled writer or director; 2) The disabled character does not have to overcome adversity 3) The disabled character is not able-bodied either at the beginning or end of the film On Channel 4 News in 2019 he was interviewed and spoke of how depictions of disability are damaging because they "are about loss". He has also contributed to the diversity debate in events such as Screen Internationals round table on diversity in the film industry and BAFTA's Diversify conference. The credits of We Are the Freaks end with the phrase "Powered by disability". In 2020 <mask> created his first visual arts exhibition about a fictional disabled armed resistance movement, Reasonable Adjustment, funded by the Arts Council of England. This collection of made-up artefacts, documentaries, photographs and press cuttings included a television camera which exhibition promotional materials claim had been shot by activists during a raid on BBC Pebble Mill television studios.The exhibition opened at The Art House contemporary art gallery in Wakefield in January 2020 and was due to tour to The Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester and the Southbank Centre in London, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the photographs of Reasonable Adjustment graffiti were taken by <mask> as an art student in the 1990s. Make Film Equal
In 2018, <mask> ran the successful crowdfunding campaign #MakeFilmEqual  The campaign part funded a documentary entitled The Social Model to highlight the plight of underrepresented disabled film talent and the work of 104 films. Directed collaboratively by the 104 films collective, the film received a positive review from Disability Arts Online and has screened widely at film festivals. Following a premiere at the Belfast Film Festival it played at the Together and Fragments Film Festivals in London and the Picture This Film Festival in Calgary where it won the Thomas Poulsen Award. Filmography (as director)
2001 Large
2007 Special People
2013 We Are the Freaks
2017 The Marker
2019 Stalked

See also
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 Disability art

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title: John Clarkson

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<mask> (July 1, 1861 – February 4, 1909) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played from 1882 to 1894. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, <mask> played for the Worcester Ruby Legs (1882), Chicago White Stockings (1884–1887), Boston Beaneaters (1888–1892), and Cleveland Spiders (1892–1894). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963. Career overview
<mask> compiled a career 328–178 record, placing him twelfth on the MLB list of all-time wins. <mask> pitched over 600 innings in a season twice and won a career-high 53 games in 1885. In MLB history, only Charles Radbourn has won more games in a single season (59 in 1884).In just five seasons from 1885 to 1889, <mask> won 209 games. <mask> had a wide variety of curve balls and was considered to be a calculating, scientific pitcher who carefully analyzed every hitter's weaknesses. Hall of Fame hitter Sam Thompson said of <mask>: "I faced him in scores of games and I can truthfully say that never in all that time did I get a pitch that came where I expected it or in the way in which I guessed it was coming." At the time <mask> retired from the game, he was the winningest pitcher in National League history. Aside from being a great pitcher, <mask> was also a fair hitter. His 24 career home runs (in the deadball era) ranks 7th on the List of Major League Baseball all-time leaders in home runs by pitchers. He also had 232 career RBIs and 254 runs scored.Total Baseball ranked <mask> as the fourth best pitcher of all time behind Hall of Famers Cy Young, Christy Mathewson and Lefty Grove, though Bill James ranks him lower at number 42 in his The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. <mask>'s election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963 was by the Veterans Committee. Early years
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, <mask> was one of five sons of a prosperous jeweler. <mask> had two brothers who were also major league pitchers: <mask> and <mask>. The three <mask> brothers rank third in wins by brothers behind the Niekro and Perry brothers. The <mask>'s also had two maternal cousins, Walter Hackett and Mortimer "Mert" Hackett who played professional baseball. After attending business school and playing semipro ball, <mask> signed as a free agent with Worcester of the National League in 1882.<mask> played his first major league game at age 20 on May 2, 1882. He played in three games for the Ruby Legs, finishing with a 1–2 record in 24 innings. The Worcester team folded after the 1882 season, and <mask> pitched in the minors the following two years. Chicago White Stockings (1884–1887)
Chicago manager Cap Anson saw <mask> pitching for Saginaw in the Northwest League in 1884. On August 24, 1884, the White Stockings purchased him from Saginaw. The White Stockings finished in fifth place in 1884, but <mask> put in a strong performance, going 10–3 in 13 starts after being acquired from Saginaw. His .769 win percentage was the second best in the league, and his 2.14 ERA was sixth best.<mask> was known to be extremely sensitive to criticism. Shortly after his death in 1909, former Chicago player/manager Cap Anson noted that "not many know what amount of encouragement it took to keep him going." Anson recalled: "Scold him, find fault with him, and he would not pitch at all. Say to him after a game: 'Grand work, <mask>, I will probably use you again tomorrow, for we've got to have that game,' and he would go out the next day and stand all batters on their heads.'" Alfred H. Spink, The National Game (1910), quoted in Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001), p. 873. A 53-win season in 1885
In 1885, <mask> became Chicago's principal starting pitcher. In a remarkable feat of durability, <mask> appeared in 70 games that year, pitched 623 innings and threw 68 complete games.He also won 53 games with an ERA of 1.85 (Adjusted ERA+ of 165). On July 27, 1885, he pitched the only no-hitter of his career with a 4–0 win over the Providence Grays. His 50th win of the season occurred on September 19, 1885, a 10–3 victory over Boston. The White Stockings won the 1885 National League pennant with 83 wins, 53 of which came from <mask>. <mask> started three games in the 1885 World Series against the St. Louis Browns, with a record of 1–1 and an ERA of 1.12, allowing only two earned runs in 16 innings. <mask>'s performance in 1885 led the National League in wins (53) and strikeouts (308) and ranks as one of the most remarkable in major league history. His 53 wins is the second highest single season total in MLB history.His 68 complete games is the seventh highest single season total in MLB history. His 70 games started is the eighth most in MLB history. His 632 innings pitched is the eighth most in MLB history. A 36-win season in 1886
In 1886, <mask> shared the pitching load with Jim McCormick and Jocko Flynn, each of whom won at least 23 games and pitched over 250 innings. <mask> had a record of 36–17, with 50 complete games and an ERA of 2.41 (Adjusted ERA+ of 150) in  innings pitched. He also led the league with a career-high 313 strikeouts. On August 8, 1886, <mask> struck out a team-record 16 batters against Kansas City.The 1886 White Stockings finished with a record of 90–34 with a winning percentage of .726 that ranks as one of the highest in baseball history. After winning the National League pennant by  games over the Detroit Wolverines, the White Stockings faced the St. Louis Browns in the World Series for the second consecutive year. <mask> pitched four games (three of which were complete games) in the 1886 World Series. He had a record of 2–2 with 28 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.04 in 31 innings pitched. The sixth game, at St. Louis, was considered one of the greatest games ever played to that time. With the Browns ahead three games to two, Anson called on <mask> to start his fourth game in six days. <mask> responded with seven shutout innings, but gave up three runs in the eighth inning, and the game went to extra innings.In the bottom of the tenth inning, the Browns' center fielder Curt Welch singled (only the fourth hit off <mask>) and moved to third on a sacrifice. Welch and Browns’ third base coach Arlie Latham tried to distract <mask> with heckling and faking moves toward home. When Welch finally attempted the steal, Chicago's catcher, King Kelly, had called for a pitchout, but <mask> threw a wild pitch, and Welch scored the World Series winning run. A 38-win season in 1887
In 1887, <mask> was 38–21 for Chicago with 56 complete games and a 3.08 ERA. However, King Kelly was sold to Boston before the season began, and the team began a decline, dropping to third place in 1887. <mask>, always a touchy temperament, reportedly became more difficult to handle after Kelly's departure. Boston Beaneaters (1888–1892)

A 33-win season in 1888
On April 3, 1888, the White Stockings sold Clarkson to the Boston Beaneaters for $10,000—a huge sum at the time.<mask> followed teammate King Kelly, who had been sold from Chicago to Boston the previous year. Boston had paid $10,000 apiece for Kelly and <mask>, and they became known as the "$20,000 Battery." <mask> pitched five great seasons for Boston. He was 33–20 in 1888, starting 54 games and pitching 53 complete games with an ERA of 2.76. A 49-win season in 1889
The 1889 season was <mask>'s best for Boston. He started a career-high 72 games and had an astounding record of 49–19 with 68 complete games, 284 strikeouts, and a 2.73 ERA in 620 innings pitched. While <mask>'s 1889 numbers are comparable to those he posted in 1885, the game and distance to the plate had changed, and no other pitcher pitched nearly as many games or innings as <mask> in 1889.As a measure of his dominance, <mask>'s 49 wins were 11 more than any other pitcher; his 620 innings were 200 more than any other pitcher; and his 68 complete games were 22 more than any other pitcher. He also had twice as many shutouts as the next best pitcher. He was only the fourth pitcher to win the pitching Triple Crown, by leading the National League in wins, ERA and strikeouts. On June 4, 1889, <mask> became the first pitcher in major league history to throw an immaculate inning, striking out all three batters on a total of nine pitches in the third inning of a 4–2 win over the Philadelphia Quakers. Later years in Boston
<mask> became involved in the players' rebellion in 1890, but then opted to remain with the Beaneaters. In 1891, <mask> helped lead the Beaneaters to the National League pennant. <mask> led the team with a 33–19 record, 47 complete games, and  innings pitched.During a game that carried into the dusk hours, <mask> once pitched a lemon to the plate to persuade the umpire, Jack Kerins to call the game due to darkness. Kerins called the lemon a strike, and when shown by Boston's catcher that he had called a lemon a strike, Kerins finally called the game. Cleveland Spiders (1892–1893)
On June 30, 1892, after 16 starts and an 8–6 record, Boston's new manager, Frank Selee, released <mask>. He was signed as a free agent by the Cleveland Spiders. <mask> went 17–10 for the remainder of the 1892 season, for a season record of 25–16. <mask> was no longer the ace with the Spiders. The Spiders’ pitching staff included Cy Young, who won 36 games in 1892 and 34 games in 1893.In 1893, <mask> had the first losing record of his career, finishing 16–17 with a career-high ERA of 4.45. After the 1893 season, <mask> went on a hunting trip with his close friend Charlie Bennett, who had been his catcher from 1888 to 1890. Bennett got off the train in Wellsville, Kansas and when he tried to reboard, Bennett slipped and fell under the train's wheels. Bennett lost both of his legs in the accident. <mask> witnessed the incident, and it was said to have severely affected his already unstable nature. In 1894, <mask> pitched his final year in the major leagues, playing his last game on July 12, 1894, and finishing 8–10 in 18 starts for the Spiders. Life after baseball
After his baseball career ended, <mask> moved to Bay City, Michigan and ran a cigar store there until 1906.In either 1905 or 1906, <mask> suffered a breakdown, was declared insane, and was committed to an insane asylum. <mask> spent much of the next three years in mental hospitals. During a visit with family in 1909, <mask> fell seriously ill, and was admitted to the McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, a well-known psychiatric clinic.

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<mask> (born January 25, 1962) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3, 2006. In addition to serving on the bench, Judge <mask> is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking, as well as an adjunct law professor and author. Early life and education
Born in Evanston, Illinois, <mask> graduated from Northwestern University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984. She received a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Northwestern in 1987 and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1992 where she attended night school while raising her three preschool-aged children. Career
Following law school graduation, she worked as a law clerk for Judge George M. Marovich of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1992 to 1995. U.S. Department of Justice
Prior to joining the bench, <mask> worked for the United States Attorney's Office in Chicago and tried numerous federal jury trials involving white collar crime, insurance fraud, police corruption, public corruption, child molestation, and racketeering.While at the United States Attorney's Office in Chicago, she served as Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division, Child Exploitation Coordinator, and Coordinator of Project Safe Neighborhoods. <mask> helped to create and then served on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee which reviewed all child exploitation cases that impacted multiple jurisdictions. Federal judicial career
<mask> was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on September 28, 2005, by President George W. Bush. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2005 on a voice vote and received her commission on January 3, 2006. <mask> served for six years on the Judicial Conference's Judicial Codes of Conduct Committee where she was responsible for drafting changes to the Codes of Conduct in a number of areas, most notably on social media. <mask> holds leadership roles in numerous bar organizations including the Federal Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Her leadership positions have included Co-Chair of the Human Trafficking Committee, the Jury Innovations Committee, and the Access to Justice Committee with the Litigation Section of the ABA; co-chair of the Human Trafficking Committee with the Criminal Justice Section of the ABA; serving on the presidential task force for both the ABA and the IBA; and serving on the Federal Judiciary Committees of both the Federal Bar Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.<mask> also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federal Judges Association. <mask> is committed to opening her courtroom regularly to students where she encourages young students to strive to practice law through her role on the Judicial Advisory Committee of Just the Beginning Foundation, the Cristo Rey Network, and numerous local schools dedicated to integrating students of color and of other underrepresented groups into the practice of law. <mask> is an active member of Cornell University's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, as well as the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization dedicated to the empowerment of women in impoverished and politically underrepresented environments around the world. Domestic and international training
<mask> travels extensively both domestically and internationally to train judges, trial attorneys and investigators in the areas of trial law, rule of law, ethics, terrorism trials, crimes against women and children, human trafficking and public corruption. Internationally, she has traveled through the State Department, the Department of Justice, Lawyers Without Borders, and various bar associations to Kenya, Zambia, Liberia, Cyprus, India, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, the UK, and Japan to teach judges and trial attorneys. Domestically, she created a human trafficking training module for task forces and for judges and she regularly holds seminars to educate them and the public. She also regularly presents ethics training to the federal judiciary and judicial employees.Teaching and writing
<mask> has been an adjunct professor of law for over twenty years and currently teaches law courses in trial practice, federal litigation, and human trafficking at University of Chicago Law School, Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She has authored numerous articles on a variety of topics including international human rights, human trafficking, and transnational investigations. <mask> is the co-author of the treatise, Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses. Aside from her own writing, she also serves as an editor of Litigation Magazine and is a member of the American Law Institute where she is currently working as an Advisor to the drafting of a model penal code for sexual offenses. She currently lectures extensively both domestically and internationally in the areas of trial practice, public corruption, ethics, electronic discovery, patent litigation, social media, internet and computer investigations, intellectual property case management, child exploitation, human trafficking and judicial training. Awards and honors
For her work as a federal prosecutor, <mask> received the Chicago Crime Commission's Star of Distinction Award in 2005; the Department of Justice's Service Award in 2003; and the FBI Director's Letter of Recognition in 1998.<mask> has received numerous other awards including both the St. Robert Bellarmine Award and the Damen Award from Loyola University for her distinguished legal work and her service to the community; the Rape Victim Advocate's Visionary Award for her work with victims of sexual violence; the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Award for her being a courageous and compassionate role model, the Women and Gender Rights Leadership Award from DePaul University School of Law, and an honorary degree from Dominican University, which she received with her husband for their dual work serving the community. Judge <mask> also received the 2015 Women of Achievement award from the YWCA Lake County for her role in combating human trafficking. References

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<mask>. (born January 10, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed Big Dog and The Chosen One, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1994 to 2005 for the Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, and San Antonio Spurs. <mask> attended Purdue University, was the first overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, and is the father of <mask>, who played college basketball at the University of Michigan and last played in the NBA with the Sacramento Kings. Early life
<mask> was born to Christine Bridgeman in Gary, Indiana. With his mother being an unmarried teenager, <mask> rarely saw his father. Not receiving the best grades at school, his mother once pulled him off the basketball team, and he took a job at an air-conditioning and refrigeration shop. High school career
<mask> attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Gary, where he started playing organized basketball during the 9th grade.He was a member of three IHSAA Sectional title teams, two Regional title teams and a State Championship team. During his senior season (1990–91), he led the Panthers to an Indiana state basketball championship, winning the final game against Brebeuf Jesuit and their star Alan Henderson; this highly anticipated showdown was captured in The Road to Indianapolis. and Indiana High School Basketball 20 Most Dominant Players. <mask> won the 1991 Indiana Mr. Basketball award, the oldest such award in the nation (inaugurated in 1939). He was selected as a McDonald's All-American and along with Chris Webber was one of the MVPs of the Dapper Dan Roundball classic. College career

1991–1993
After high school, <mask> attended Purdue University to play under head coach Gene Keady and his recruiter/assistant coach Frank Kendrick. A school custodian gave him the nickname of "Big Dog" before he played a game for Purdue.<mask> subsequently got a tattoo of a "snarling bulldog wearing a spiked collar" on his chest. Due to struggles with NCAA eligibility, resulting from Proposition 48 which requires minimum academic standards, he had to redshirt for his freshman season. He worked as a welder during the summers while at Purdue. Eligible for his sophomore season, <mask> led the Boilermakers with 24.1 points and 9.4 rebounds a game in his first season as a Boilermaker. He led them to an 18–10 record in the regular season and an NCAA tournament appearance. He received First Team All-Big Ten and Second Team All-American honors. 1993–1994
In his junior season, <mask> built upon his previous season's averages with 30.3 points and 11.2 rebounds a game, while becoming the first player since 1978 to lead the Big Ten Conference in both categories.Along with teammates Cuonzo Martin and Matt Waddell, he led the Boilermakers to a Big Ten Conference Title and an Elite Eight appearance, finishing the season with a 29–5 record and a 3rd overall ranking. In his last college game against a Grant Hill-led Duke team in the NCAA Tournament, <mask> was held to only 13 points, his season low, while suffering from a back strain he sustained against Kansas in the prior game. Leading the nation in scoring and becoming the conference's all-time single season points leader with 1,030 points, <mask> was unanimously selected as the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year. He also unanimously received the John R. Wooden Award and Naismith Award, the first national player of the year-honored Boilermaker since John Wooden himself did it in 1932 (who also wore the jersey #13). <mask> also was the recipient for the USBWA College Player of the Year. College notes
<mask> left Purdue after becoming the only Boilermaker to have more than 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 100 steals, 100 assists and 50 blocked shots in a career during his two seasons at Purdue, along with a school weightlifting record with a 309-pound clean-and-jerk. His 1,030 points during his junior year made him only the 15th player in college history to score 1,000 points in a season.In September 2010, the Big Ten Network named <mask> Icon No. 35 on its list of the biggest icons in Big Ten Conference history. Purdue's campus bookstores sold T-shirts featuring <mask>'s image and his nickname "Big Dog" before <mask> complained and they discontinued the practice. Professional career

Milwaukee Bucks (1994–2002)
<mask> was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, the first Boilermaker to be selected as the first pick since Joe Barry Carroll in 1980. At the draft, <mask> wore a gold suit and black alligator slip-ons. Before he could take the court, he and the Bucks became involved in a contract holdout that lasted until the beginning of training camp after it was rumored that he desired a 13-year, $100 million contract. <mask> eventually signed a rookie-record 10-year, $68 million deal that  stands as the richest NBA rookie contract, as a salary cap for rookies was implemented the following season.During his first year in the NBA, <mask> was twice named the Schick NBA Rookie of the Month and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team after leading all rookies with an average of 21.9 points per game. <mask> finished third in Rookie of the Year voting behind Grant Hill and Jason Kidd, who shared the award, but was named Rookie Of The Year by Basketball Digest magazine. While playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, <mask> recorded some of the best statistical seasons in franchise history. Early in his career, <mask> shared the frontcourt with teammate and All-Star Vin Baker. On December 7, 1996, <mask> scored 44 points on 70% shooting, alongside 7 rebounds and 6 assists, in a 126-118 victory over the Washington Bullets. Despite another strong statistical season from <mask>, the Bucks would again fail make the NBA playoffs. After several trades, one of which had Baker go to Seattle, <mask> teamed with Ray Allen and Sam Cassell, and helped lead the Bucks to several postseason appearances.On May 11, 1999, <mask> scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a narrow 108-107 playoff loss against Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers. The underexperienced Bucks (was both <mask>'s and Allen's first postseason appearance) would eventually lose the series. On January 29, 2001, <mask> sored 25 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, and recorded 5 steals in a 99-96 loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves. On February 25, 2001, <mask> scored a career-high 45 points in a 122-95 win against the Golden State Warriors. That season, <mask> and the Bucks would reach the 2001 Eastern Conference Finals, losing to the Philadelphia 76ers in a 7 game series. In the final game of that series, <mask> scored 24 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and recorded 4 assists in a losing effort. It would be the closest the Bucks would get to the finals until 2019, when another Bucks Forward, Giannis Antetokounmpo, helped end their 18 year conference finals drought.<mask> was the second place all-time leading scorer in Milwaukee Bucks history, only trailing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar until surpassed by Giannis Antetokounmpo. <mask> averaged at least 20 points per game in seven of his eight seasons in Milwaukee. He made back-to-back NBA All-Star Team appearances in 2000 and 2001. Atlanta Hawks (2002–2003)
<mask> was traded by Milwaukee to the Atlanta Hawks for Toni Kukoč, Leon Smith, and a 2003 first-round pick on August 2, 2002. In <mask>'s debut as a Hawk in the season opener, he scored 34 points, had 10 rebounds and 8 assists against the New Jersey Nets. During the 2002–03 season, he averaged 20.8 points a game and shot a personal-best 87.6 percent from the free throw line. Philadelphia 76ers (2003–2004)
After a year in Atlanta, he was traded on July 23, 2003 with a 2006 second-round pick to the Philadelphia 76ers in a four-team deal.In his tenth overall and only season playing with the Sixers, <mask> averaged 16.6 points and 1 steal per game as second scoring option to teammate, Allen Iverson. After his year in Philadelphia during the 2003–04 season, <mask> did not play a game for the 76ers in 2004–05, largely due to an injury. On February 24, 2005, he was traded to the New Orleans Hornets in exchange for forwards Rodney Rogers and Jamal Mashburn. <mask> was waived by the team almost immediately and never suited up for them. San Antonio Spurs (2005)
<mask> signed with the San Antonio Spurs on April 4, 2005 to establish an additional veteran shooting presence as the team prepared for the playoffs. As a role player in the 2005 playoffs, <mask> helped the Spurs win the championship. The games in the NBA Finals would be <mask>'s last in the NBA, capping off his 11-year career with a title.<mask> was forced to retire due to injuries, particularly to his knees. He finished his career with 14,234 career points, averaging 20.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.2 steals per game, also playing in two league all-star games. He was replaced by Gary Payton. Personal life
His oldest son, <mask>, played basketball for the University of Michigan and started for the national runner-up 2012–13 team. Following the 2012–13 Big Ten season he was  an honorable mention All-conference selection and All-freshman honoree by the coaches. <mask> currently plays in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings. His younger son, Gelen (class of 2014), is the 2013 Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA)  wrestling champion, the 2013 IHSAA shot put runner-up, the 2013 IHSAA discus runner-up, and a repeat (2012 and 2013) winner of The Times of Northwest Indiana Football Defensive Player of the Year and as a result the 2012–13 Times of Northwest Indiana Athlete of the Year.Gelen played for the Purdue University football team and signed with the CFL BC Lions in 2018. He currently plays rugby for the LA Giltinis of Major League Rugby (MLR). <mask> also has a daughter named Jaimie who competes in track and field. On May 16, 2003, <mask> was convicted in Cook County, Illinois of domestic battery and assault charges involving his former fiance on July 20, 2002 in her Chicago Heights home. References

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<mask> (born August 22, 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was a writer and producer for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received his first Emmy nomination. With Aziz Ansari, <mask> co-created the Netflix series Master of None, which premiered in 2015 to critical acclaim. The series was awarded a Peabody Award, and at the 68th Emmy Awards in 2016, <mask> and Ansari won for  Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None and became the first writers of Asian descent to win in the category, which was also nominated in the  Outstanding Comedy Series category. <mask> also was the screenwriter of the 2014 comedy Date and Switch. In 2018, <mask> co-created the Amazon Video series Forever. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Riverside, California.His parents were originally from Taiwan. His father is a retired OB-GYN from Huwei and his mother is a high school math teacher. <mask> attended high school at Riverside Poly High School in Riverside, California. He studied biology at Harvard University, graduating at age 20. While at Harvard, <mask> wrote for the college's humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon, where he first began doing comedy. <mask> said in an interview that he chose to study Biology when his parents told him math and science were a "safe zone" for people of color. While at Harvard, <mask> began following the Boston Red Sox in college and developed an interest in baseball.This led to writing for "Fire Joe Morgan", a sports journalism blog, under the pseudonym "Junior." He wrote the blog alongside Michael Schur, who was a producer and writer for The Office at the time. The two would later work together on Parks and Recreation and The Good Place. Career

Writing
After graduating from Harvard, <mask> tried to break into a career in comedy writing—with law school as a fall back. <mask> was named "10 Screenwriters to Watch" by Variety Fair magazine in 2009. He wrote for Last Call with Carson Daly and contributed to South Park before he landed a job in 2008 as a staff writer for the then-upcoming NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. He was hired six months before the job began, so he wrote two screenplays, White Dad and Gay Dude.White Dad was sold to Sony in 2008 and Gay Dude was on the Hollywood blacklist before being sold to Lionsgate Films in 2011 and was released in 2014 as Date and Switch. <mask> wrote the Funny or Die short, Parks and Recreation is the Wu Tang of Comedy (2010) directed by Dean Holland and Michael Schur, starring Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler,  as well as RZA and Questlove. In 2012, <mask> started writing a sitcom about a father-son relationship; when Parks and Rec producer Greg Daniels suggested he make the characters Asian, <mask> declined as he assumed it would not be successful. On Parks and Recreation, however, he became friends with actor/comedian Aziz Ansari, and the two later co-created Master of None, which debuted November 6, 2015 on Netflix. The series was well received—especially for its diverse cast and subject matter—and earned four Emmy nominations, and <mask> and Ansari shared the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for their Master of None episode, "Parents." <mask> said in an interview that Brian's character in the episode, played by Kelvin Yu, was largely based on himself and his family. "It's based on my dad, Aziz's dad, and our families in general.A lot of that stuff was written as conversations that Aziz and I would have." <mask> and Ansari were also awarded a Peabody Award in May 2016. According to <mask>, while topics on the show include racial diversity and racism, the main goal is to be authentic to their life experiences. "We try to do a blend in our show of what we talk about in our real lives", he told Variety in June 2016. "There's an episode or two about being Indian or Asian on TV, about dealing with your parents who are immigrants — but we fall in love, we have work trouble, we have all these other stories that make the characters more well rounded." The second season was released in 2017. In 2016, <mask> began writing for The Good Place, and was credited for the second episode.He also directed an episode in the show's second season. In 2018, he reunited with Matt Hubbard, who worked on Parks and Recreation with <mask>, to create Amazon's Forever, a comedy-drama series starring Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph. <mask> is also currently working on producing Little America, a show he describes as "like Black Mirror, but instead of being super-dark sci-fi stories, it is immigrant stories." Directing and producing
For Parks and Recreation, he has directed two episodes: "New Beginnings" (2014) (Season 6, Episode 11) and "Swing Vote" (2013) (Season 5, Episode 21). In addition to being a writer on the show and writing 16 episodes, <mask> served as a story editor for 24 episodes and an executive story editor for 6 episodes. He also occasionally appears as a member of Andy's band, Mouse Rat. <mask> also directed the Jay-Z music video "Moonlight", revised by Zong Yu.The music video was supposed to be a depiction of the American show Friends with an all African-American cast. He also served as an executive producer for Master of None, as a co-executive producer, supervising producer, producer and co-producer on Parks and Recreation, an executive producer on Date and Switch (2014), a consulting producer on South Park (the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs A Boy" (2006)), a producer on the Funny or Die short Parks and Recreation is the Wu Tang of Comedy (2010), and as an associate producer on Last Call with Carson Daly. He served as a consultant for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. <mask> produced the Amazon series Forever, which is a drama/comedy show about a married couple and their adventures in Riverside, California, <mask>'s hometown. Acting
<mask> has appeared as "Chang" (or "Bass Player" or "<mask>") on 14 episodes of Parks and Recreation. He also appears in the short film Food Club (2014), directed by Eric Wareheim, and on Kroll Show as a contestant on the episode "Sponsored by Stamps" (2014). He also is a performer on the song "5,000 Candles In The Wind" on two episodes of Parks and Recreation ("Moving Up: Part 2" and "Lil' Sebastian").Other work
He is friends with chef David Chang and was featured in the Netflix non-fiction original series Ugly Delicious episode "Fried Rice" where he discussed Chinese cuisine. <mask> has also done standup comedy in a small local stand-up comedy club. Filmography

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Living people
1983 births
American writers of Taiwanese descent
American male screenwriters
The Harvard Lampoon alumni
Harvard College alumni
Writers from Riverside, California
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Peabody Award winners
Screenwriters from California
American comedians of Asian descent

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