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<mask> (, born 2 September 1948) is an Israeli politician and former government minister. A follower of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, he heads Agudat Yisrael, part of the United Torah Judaism alliance, in the Knesset. He previously served as Minister of Health and Minister of Housing and Construction. Biography
<mask> was born on 2 September 1948 to Polish survivors of the Holocaust, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. When he was two years old, the family immigrated to the East New York section of Brooklyn, and then to the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, where he grew up. In 1966, at age 17, he immigrated to Israel, and continued his Torah studies. Litzman is married, has five children, and lives in Jerusalem.He is quoted as saying that, "in some respects, I envy the low profile the Haredi community in the United States has been able to retain by staying out of politics". He also said that, in Israel, the media attention makes for misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the Haredi community. Career

His first job was as principal of the Hasidic Beis Yaakov girls' school in Jerusalem. He became active in politics under the guidance of the then-Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Simcha Binem Alter. Over time, Litzman became known as the rebbe's right-hand man, a role he continues under the present Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi <mask> Arye Alter. In 1999, the present rebbe asked Litzman to join the Agudat Yisrael faction of the United Torah Judaism list for the Knesset elections that year. He was subsequently elected, and became Chairman of the Finance Committee.He headed the UTJ list for the 2003 elections, and was re-elected, again becoming the Chair of the Finance Committee. He has since served as the leader of the UTJ and Agudat Yisrael faction in the Knesset, in which he consults the Gerrer Rebbe on a daily basis. <mask> was re-elected again in 2006, retaining his chairmanship of the Finance Committee, and for a fourth time in 2009, after which UTJ joined the new government, in which Litzman was appointed Deputy Minister of Health, despite having no medical training or expertise. After Litzman was re-elected in 2013, UTJ were excluded from the coalition government. However, following the 2015 elections, he was re-appointed Deputy Minister of Health. Subsequently, Litzman appointed the first non-physician to serve as general-director of the Ministry of Health, in a move that was criticized by the Israel Medical Association. Litzman was appointed on 27 August 2015, Minister of Health, after a court challenge filed by Yesh Atid.Litzman served on the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee from 1999 to 2001, and as the Deputy Chairman of the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee. As part of the coalition agreement with the ruling government of Ariel Sharon in 2001, Litzman was appointed chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, a position he held until 2003, and again from 2005 to 2007. He formally resigned as health minister on 26 November 2017, in protest of railroad repair work happening on the Sabbath, becoming deputy health minister instead, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominally held the office, with Litzman acting as de facto minister. When Netanyahu was forced to resign the health office, among others, due to the pending prosecution of three criminal cases against him, on 29 December 2019, despite a recommendation by Israeli police to criminally prosecute Litzman in two separate cases, he was again appointed health minister. The move prompted backlash, including an open letter to Netanyahu from Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler calling the promotion of Litzman "a slap in the face to the Australian Jewish Community, the Australian people, the community of Australian [immigrants] in Israel, and, most shockingly, to the survivors of Malka Leifer's alleged abuse". Coronavirus pandemic

Litzman has served as minister of health from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and has been criticized for an "unprofessional handling" of the crisis. Due to his exceptionally lenient attitude toward enforcing health guidelines in ultra-Orthodox communities from the start of the crisis, major outbreaks appeared in ultra-Orthodox communities throughout Israel.In an interview in March 2020, Litzman stated: "I am sure that the messiah will come by Passover and save us the same way God saved us during the exodus, and we were freed. The messiah will come and save us all." Later in March, an open letter was penned to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz by many heads of hospital departments and senior doctors, as well as medical officials, lamenting years of neglect that left the country's health care system at its lowest point during the time of coronavirus outbreak, and urged that Litzman be replaced as a result. On 2 April 2020, Litzman and his wife tested positive for COVID-19, while acting as Minister of Health. He was the first member of the cabinet to be infected. As a result, he self-quarantined, and began working from home. Israel's Shin Bet reviewed Litzman's phone after his COVID-19 diagnosis to track his movements, and the Health Ministry maintained that anyone who came into contact with him has been contacted personally.Top ministers in Israel's government were furious at Litzman for flouting social distancing guidelines after he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, with senior officials accusing Litzman of putting his colleagues' lives in danger, while knowingly breaking his own ministry's safety rules regarding the virus. Litzman was spotted praying at the home of a fellow member of his Hasidic sect three days after government guidelines went into effect barring such services. Additionally, after the guidelines had further intensified, Litzman was again spotted praying at a synagogue just outside his home. With the Thirty-fifth government of Israel, Litzman resigned from the Knesset as part of the Norwegian Law, and was sworn in as Minister of Housing and Construction. On 13 September 2020, Litzman resigned as Minister of Housing and Construction, in protest over a nationwide coronavirus shutdown scheduled to begin over the High Holidays of Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, beginning on the first night on Rosh HaShanah, 19 September, for at least three weeks. On 18 November, he was re-appointed as Minister of Housing and Construction. Other acts

Statement on LGBT rights
During a February 2016 discussion in the Knesset about Israeli health authorities becoming more sensitive towards LGBT people, Litzman compared LGBT people to the sinners who danced around the Golden Calf.Smoking regulation
Litzman has been criticized over policies and statements that seemed to serve the interests of the tobacco companies, including hindering some efforts to curb cigarette ads. For example, in his first tenure as deputy health minister (2009-2013), Litzman opposed warning labels and stickers that depict the effects of smoking, despite their role in reducing the habit in other countries. Litzman argued that the images of dirty lungs and teeth aimed at discouraging children and youth from smoking were "unaesthetic", stating, "With the help of God, we won't approve this... We don't need to disfigure the State with such images." In his second tenure (starting 2015), Litzman was criticized for opposing legislation prohibiting tobacco advertising in newspapers. Litzman argued that such laws would bankrupt newspapers, which rely on the advertising revenue. It was pointed out that Litzman had a conflict of interest due to his close association with ultra-Orthodox publications (Hamodia in particular) that rely on revenue from the many tobacco ads that they publish. Specifically, Litzman had a particularly strong conflict of interest concerning Hamodia, due to the fact that it is published by his Agudat Yisrael party (part of UTJ), and employs his wife.A bill restricting the marketing of tobacco was finally agreed upon after other MKs threatened to vote against a bill restricting retail operations on Shabbat and Jewish religious holidays. However, Litzman stipulated that he would only agree to the legislation on the (unusual) condition that the ban would not include printed publications (ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to abhor the Internet, making printed publications their primary form of media, hence Litzman's primary concern). Malka Leifer
Litzman is accused of obstructing the extradition of Malka Leifer, the accused in the Adass Israel School sex abuse scandal. According to Israeli media, he attempted to obtain false psychiatric evaluations that would deem Leifer unfit to face trial in Australia. Israeli police recommended on 6 August 2019 that Litzman be indicted for "fraud and breach of trust" (both related to the Leifer case), as well as bribery in another case. In May 2021, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that he will indict Litzman for obstruction of justice and breach of trust. United Hatzalah
Eli Beer, the president of Israel's United Hatzalah ambulance service, while hospitalized in serious condition in Miami after contracting the coronavirus, lambasted Litzman from his hospital bed for sidelining his medics by refusing to allow Hatzalah's 6,000 volunteers to play any role in assisting the Health Ministry and Magen David Adom with conducting virus tests.Litzman argued that Hatzalah staff were less professional. References

External links

 Minister <mask> Wins Poll As Most Liked Minister
 Poll ranks Health Minister <mask> higher than Netanyahu - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
 “LGBT People Know That They’re Sinners” - AWiderBridge

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<mask> (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry. Biography

Youth and education
<mask> was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of <mask> (b. Aug. 12, 1767, d. Mar. 20, 1820), a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell (b. Dec. 4, 1768, d. May 6, 1847).The genealogy of his mother traces back to passengers on the Mayflower: John Alden (b. 1599, d. 1687), his wife Priscilla Mullins and her parents <mask> and Alice Mullins. The story of the romance between John and Priscilla is the subject of a famous narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish. He was also the nephew of <mask>, a Vermont seamstress who is the subject of Rachel Hope Cleves's 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. <mask> <mask> described their relationship: "If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of two maiden ladies who dwell in this valley. I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years." Charity and Sylvia Drake are buried together at Weybridge Hill Cemetery, Weybridge, Vermont.<mask> and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. The <mask> Cullen <mask> Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum. After just one year at Williams College (he entered with sophomore standing), he hoped to transfer to Yale, but a talk with his father led to the realization that family finances would not support it. His father counseled a legal career as his best available choice, and the disappointed poet began to study law in Worthington and Bridgewater in Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar in 1815 and began practicing law in nearby Plainfield, walking the seven miles from Cummington every day. On one of these walks, in December 1815, he noticed a single bird flying on the horizon; the sight moved him enough to write "To a Waterfowl". <mask> developed an interest in poetry early in life.Under his father's tutelage, he emulated Alexander Pope and other Neo-Classic British poets. "The Embargo", a savage attack on President Thomas Jefferson published in 1808, reflected Dr. <mask>'s Federalist political views. The first edition quickly sold out—partly because of publicity attached to the poet's young age. A second, expanded edition included <mask>'s translation of classical verse. During his collegiate studies and his reading for the law, he wrote little poetry, but encounters with the Graveyard Poets and then Wordsworth regenerated his passion for "the witchery of song." Early poetry

"Thanatopsis" is <mask>'s most famous poem, which <mask> may have been working on as early as 1811. In 1817 his father took some pages of verse from his son's desk, and at the invitation of Willard Phillips, an editor of the North American Review who had previously been tutored in the classics by Dr. <mask>, he submitted them along with his own work.The editor of the Review, Edward Tyrrel Channing, read the poem to associate editor Richard Henry Dana Sr., who immediately exclaimed, "That was never written on this side of the water!" Someone at the North American joined two of the son's discrete fragments, gave the result the Greek-derived title Thanatopsis ("meditation on death"), mistakenly attributed it to the father, and published it. After clarification of the authorship, the son's poems began appearing with some regularity in the Review. A portion of <mask>’s poem, Thanatopsis, is at the base of the <mask> Cullen Bryant Memorial behind the New York Public Library which was dedicated in 1911. "To a Waterfowl", published in 1821, was the most popular. On January 11, 1821, <mask>, still striving to build a legal career, married Frances Fairchild. Soon after, having received an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society at the school's August commencement, <mask> spent months working on "The Ages", a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States.As it would in all collections he subsequently issued, "The Ages" led the volume, also entitled Poems, which he arranged to publish on the same trip to Cambridge. For that book, he added sets of lines at the beginning and end of "Thanatopsis" that changed the poem. His career as a poet was now established, though recognition as America's leading poet waited until 1832, when an expanded Poems was published in the U.S. and, with the assistance of Washington Irving, in Britain. Editorial work
From 1816 to 1825, <mask> depended on his law practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to sustain his family financially, but the strain of dealing with unsophisticated neighbors pushed him to trade his unrewarding profession for New York City and the promise of a literary career. With the encouragement of a distinguished and well-connected literary family, the Sedgwicks, he quickly gained a foothold in New York City's vibrant cultural life. His first employment, in 1825, was as editor of the New-York Review, which within the next year merged with the United States Review and Literary Gazette. Although literary historians have neglected his fiction, <mask>'s stories over the seven-year period from his time with the Review to the publication of Tales of Glauber Spa in 1832 show a variety of strategies, making him the most inventive of practitioners of the genre during this early stage of its evolution.In the throes of the failing struggle to raise subscriptions, he accepted part-time duties with the New-York Evening Post under <mask>; then, partly because of Coleman's ill health, traceable to the consequences of a duel and then a stroke, <mask>'s responsibilities expanded rapidly. From assistant editor he rose to editor-in-chief and co-owner of the newspaper that had been founded by Alexander Hamilton. Over the next half century, the Post would become the most respected paper in the city and, from the election of Andrew Jackson, the major platform in the Northeast for the Democratic Party and subsequently of the Free Soil and Republican Parties. In the process, the Evening-Post also became the pillar of a substantial fortune. Despite his Federalist beginnings, <mask> had shifted to being one of the most liberal voices of the century. An early supporter of organized labor, with his 1836 editorials asserting the right of workmen to strike, <mask> also defended religious minorities and immigrants, and promoted the abolition of slavery. He "threw himself into the foreground of the battle for human rights" and did not cease speaking out against the corrupting influence of certain bankers in spite of their efforts to break down the paper.According to newspaper historian Frank Luther Mott, <mask> was "a great liberal seldom done justice by modern writers". He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855. Despite his once staunch opposition to Thomas Jefferson and his party, <mask> became one of the key supporters in the Northeast of that same party under Jackson. <mask>'s views, always progressive though not quite populist, in course led him to join the Free Soilers, and when the Free Soil Party became a core of the new Republican Party in 1856, <mask> vigorously campaigned for John Frémont. That exertion enhanced his standing in party councils, and in 1860, he was one of the prime Eastern exponents of Abraham Lincoln, whom he introduced at Cooper Union. (That "Cooper Union speech" lifted Lincoln to the nomination, and then the presidency.) In the 1860 presidential election, he elected Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin as a presidential elector.Later years
<mask> edited the very successful  Picturesque America, which was published between 1872 and 1874. This two-volume set was lavishly illustrated and described scenic places in the United States and Canada. In his last decade, <mask> shifted from writing his own poetry to a blank verse translation of Homer's works. He assiduously worked on the Iliad and The Odyssey from 1871 to 1874. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the Unitarian Church, both legacies of his father's influence on him. In 1843, <mask> bought a house he christened Cedarmere (for the cedar trees around the pond, or "mere") in Roslyn Harbor, on Long Island. In 1865, he bought the farmhouse in Cummington, where he'd grown up, and summered there annually until his death.He made substantial improvements to the houses at both properties. He was known for his attention to trees on his land, and later in life he expressed concerns that deforestation in the United States would prove disastrous for American agriculture. <mask> died in 1878 of complications from an accidental fall suffered after participating in a Central Park ceremony to honor Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. He is buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, New York. Critical response

<mask> became one of the most significant poets in early American literary history. He is typically included among the group of poets referred to as the fireside poets, along with Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. They are considered to be among the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets, both at home and abroad and are so named because their writing was a source of entertainment for families gathered around the fire at home.<mask>'s poetry has been described as being "of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers." Edgar Allan Poe praised <mask> and specifically the poem "June" in his essay "The Poetic Principle":
The rhythmical flow, here, is even voluptuous—nothing could be more melodious. The poem has always affected me in a remarkable manner. The intense melancholy which seems to well up, perforce, to the surface of all the poet's cheerful sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to the soul—while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill. The impression left is one of a pleasurable sadness. Editor and children's writer Mary Mapes Dodge wrote that <mask>'s poems "have wrought vast and far-reaching good in the world." She predicted, "You will admire more and more, as you grow older, the noble poems of this great and good man."Poet and literary critic Thomas Holley Chivers said that the "only thing [<mask>] ever wrote that may be called Poetry is 'Thanatopsis', which he stole line for line from the Spanish. The fact is, that he never did anything but steal—as nothing he ever wrote is original." <mask>'s poetry is tender and graceful, pervaded by a contemplative melancholy, and a love of solitude and the silence of the woods. Though he was brought up to admire Pope, and in his early youth imitated him, he was one of the first American poets to throw off his influence. <mask> had an interest in science and in geology especially. Thomas Cole was a friend and both, at different times, considered the "geological structure" of Volterra in Italy. He met Charles Lyell in England in 1845.As a writer, <mask> was an early advocate of American literary nationalism, and his own poetry focusing on nature as a metaphor for truth established a central pattern in the American literary tradition. Some however, argue that a reassessment is long overdue. It finds great merit in a couple of short stories <mask> wrote while trying to build interest in periodicals he edited. More importantly, it perceives a poet of great technical sophistication who was a progenitor of Walt Whitman, to whom he was a mentor. Legacy

Although born in and with deep family ties in New England, <mask> for most of his lifetime was thoroughly a New Yorker—and a very dedicated one at that. He was a major force behind the idea that became Central Park, as well as a leading proponent of creating the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was one of a group of founders of New York Medical College.He had close affinities with the Hudson River School of art and was an intimate friend of Thomas Cole. A statue of <mask> <mask> was one of the statues of “Eminent Americans” that surrounded the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California. The <mask> <mask> Memorial, in Bryant Park, includes a bronze of the same work by sculptor Herbert Adams. Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library, in New York bears his name. In 1884, New York City's Reservoir Square, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, was renamed Bryant Park, and later Herbert Adam's statue was placed, in <mask>'s honor. Just outside New York City, the Long Island village of Roslyn Harbor, New York is home to the <mask> Cullen <mask> Preserve, located on land he formerly owned next to what is now the Nassau County Museum of Art. <mask> is also the namesake of the Bryant Library in Roslyn, New York, located near his Cedarmere Estate.Other locations named after <mask> include: Bryant, a neighborhood in Seattle; Bryant Woods, one of the four original villages in Columbia, Maryland; Cullen Bryant Park in Toronto, Ontario; the Bryant Free Library in Cummington, Massachusetts; and the Bryant House at Williams College. Several schools are named after <mask>, including <mask> Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City, New York, and elementary schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Long Beach, California, Cleveland, Ohio, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A rural schoolhouse in Sanford, Maine was also named for <mask>. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted <mask> in his speech "Give Us the Ballot", when he said, "there is something in this universe which justifies <mask> <mask> <mask>: An American Voice by Frank Gado ()<mask> Cullen <mask> by Charles H. Brown ()

Further reading
 Muller, Gilbert H. <mask> <mask>: Author of America. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. Symington, Andrew James.<mask> <mask>: a biographical sketch : with selections from his poems and other writings''. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880. Internet Archive. External links

Works

 <mask>'s edition of the Odyssey
 "THE SKELETON'S CAVE" by <mask> <mask>; taken from "Tales of Glauber Spa" (1832)
Other
 Essay on <mask> <mask> by Wynn Yarborough
 Mr. Lincoln and Friends: <mask> <mask>
 William Cullen Bryant Homestead in Cummington, Mass. "Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project" by Paul P. Reuben

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title: Paolo Vitelli (businessman)

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<mask> was born in Turin on October 4, 1947. He founded Azimut in 1969, while still a university student in the Faculty of Economics and Business. He is currently president of Azimut Benetti Group. From March 2013 to September 2015, he was a member of parliament in Italy’s Legislature XVII, after being elected in the Civic Choice List with Monti for Italy. He was Honorary Consul of Norway from 1974 to 2018. Career
<mask> graduated in June 1970 with a degree in economics and business, after a four-year course of study. Azimut
<mask>’s business career began in March 1969, when at the age of 22 and still at university he set up Azimut to build and market pleasure boats, using money saved while working student jobs.The following year he graduated with a degree in economics and business and took his company to the Genoa International Boat Show, where it was noticed by Amerglass, Europe’s most advanced shipyard at the time, which chose Azimut to import its models into Italy. <mask> then started to build boats under his own brand, which enjoyed continuous growth and evolved into Azimut Yachts. 1988 saw the creation in Avigliana of a new and extremely modern shipyard that was to become an industry leader, with one of the world’s widest and most comprehensive ranges in the market. Azimut|Benetti Group
In over half a century, the Company has grown rapidly to become the world’s leading builder of motor yachts over 24 metres in length, while remaining a private business with a great capacity for innovation and technology. The company’s growth has been almost entirely organic, with the exception of the 1985 rescue of the Benetti shipyard in Viareggio, an emblem of Italian excellence, resulting in the company name being changed to Azimut|Benetti. The Group now builds motor yachts from 10 to over 100 metres in length, under the Azimut Yachts and Benetti brands, in six shipyards: Avigliana in Piemonte, Savona in Liguria, Viareggio and Livorno in Tuscany, Fano in Le Marche and Itajai in Brazil. It posts annual sales of around one million euros and employs around 2,000 people in its shipyards, while nearly 5,000 people work in its permanent supply chain.Azimut|Benetti sells 95% of its production abroad through a global network of dealers in 70 countries, supported by offices managed directly by the company in the world’s main yachting centres. <mask> currently manages the Company, led by Group CEO Marco Valle [2][3][4], with his daughter Giovanna. Over half a century of yachting industry innovation
Under the guidance of <mask>, Azimut|Benetti Group has become prominent over the years for a series of technological and design innovations introduced on board models that have written the history of Italian yachting. 1975: AZ 43 Bali is the first model produced by Azimut, in collaboration with Amerglass;
 1978: nicknamed the “Ford Model T” of the seas, AZ 32 Targa is the smallest boat for safe cruising on a limited budget. Packed with smart solutions inspired by the car industry, including an opening sunroof, it enables helmsmen to steer the boat in a standing position, with the wind in their hair;
  1982: building of the first megayacht over 30 metres in length made entirely of fibreglass, AZ 105 Falaika;
 1988: Azimut|Benetti competes in the Blue Ribband, the gripping transatlantic challenge that allows no refuelling, with the 27-metre Azimut Atlantic Challenger, built for the occasion to a design by Pininfarina. The rules require at least one paying passenger, so billionaire Winthrop Rockefeller climbs on board for the price of one dollar. The boat comes very close to beating the record for the crossing, but in any case enjoys worldwide attention thanks to its technological prowess and avant-garde design;
 1991: using a solution borrowed from the car industry, windows are now glued rather than fixed to the frames, making it possible to increase their surface area;
 1998: introduction of the Benetti Classic range, a line of semi-custom fibreglass yachts featuring the quality and exclusiveness of the shipyard’s bespoke megayachts.It is an unprecedented success, with over 100 units sold;
  2000: Azimut|Benetti Group takes over refit and repair specialist Lusben, with shipyards in Viareggio and Livorno;
 2001: launch of the Atlantis Collection following the acquisition of Cantiere Gobbi. 2019 is also the year of the Giga Season for Benetti, which completes the multi-year process to build three Giga yachts, each over 100 metres. These three yachts are launched one after the other in the space of just 100 days. One of them, the MY Luminosity, has the distinction of being the world’s largest hybrid yacht;
 2020: Azimut Yachts commissions award-winning director Gabriele Muccino to make a short film to launch the new Magellano 25 Metri. In the same year, Benetti launches the Oasis 40M, a stunningly designed superyacht featuring the revolutionary Oasis Deck®, with wings that open out to create extra space;
 2021: for the 22nd year running, according to the Global Order Book 2021, the annual ranking drawn up by the highly reputed UK magazine Boat International, Azimut|Benetti Group is the world’s leading builder of yachts over 24 metres in length, with a record 128 projects under construction (equivalent to 4,601 metres in length, far more than any other player in the sector);
 2021: Azimut Yachts launches Trideck, the largest yacht ever built by the brand, with extremely innovative architectural solutions, such as its cascaded terraces. Other projects
<mask> has always diversified his business interests, with a series of major industrial projects including the construction of modern tourist ports in Varazze, Viareggio and Livorno in Italy, in the old town in La Valletta, Malta, and on Lake Chimki (Moscow) in Russia. He has also created a small chain of “Hotels de Charme” by restoring old buildings in Chamonix in France and Champoluc and Mascognaz in the Italian region of Valle d’Aosta, which conferred on him the title of “Amis de la Vallée d’Aoste”.From 1974 to 2018, he was the Honorary Consul of Norway. From 1998 to 2006, he was the president of Ucina (now Confindustria Nautica), a Confindustria (Confederation of Italian Industry) association grouping businesses in the Italian yachting industry. In this period he did much to boost the industry’s development, promoting the introduction of law 172/2003 and the approval of yacht leasing and other measures that have contributed to the sector’s success. From March 2013 to September 2015, he was a member of the Italian parliament, elected in the Civic Choice List with Monti for Italy. He was a member of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR) and the Transport and Finance Commissions. Honours

 1996 - Cavaliere del lavoro (Order of Merit for Labour)
 “An economics and business graduate, he founded Azimut SpA in 1969, when still only 21, to build and market pleasure craft. In its 27 years in business, the company has grown into Europe’s leading industrial group in the yachting sector.In this period, continual research and an unwavering focus on product quality has enabled the company to grow at annual rates of between 20% and 25%, even in the years of crisis in the industry (1992-1994), increasing exports to account for 95% of sales . 2004 - Honorary degree[15] in mechanical engineering from Politecnico di Torino
 2006 – Confindustria “Champions of growth” award as best Italian business in the five-year period 2001-2006 in terms of growth, innovation and internationalisation;
 2011 - Amis de la Vallée d’Aoste “for his contribution to the development of tourism in various locations by creating quality hotels in old rural buildings. External links
"Mega-yacht maker pushes out the boat" by Jorn Madslien, BBC News. Italian businesspeople
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title: Hugh Kenner

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<mask> (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003) was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. He published widely on Modernist literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period, The Pound Era, argued for Pound as the central figure of Modernism, and is considered one of the most important works on the topic. Biography

Early years and education
<mask> was born in Peterborough, Ontario, on January 7, 1923. His father H. R. H<mask> taught classics and his mother Mary (Williams<mask> taught French and German at Peterborough Collegiate Institute. <mask> attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, <mask> studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book Paradox in Chesterton, about G. K. Chesterton's works.<mask>'s second book, The Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951) was dedicated to McLuhan, who had introduced <mask> to Pound on June 4, 1948, during Pound's incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC, where <mask> and McLuhan had driven as a detour from their trip from Toronto to New Haven, Connecticut. (Pound, who became a friend of <mask>'s, had suggested the book be titled The Rose in the Steel Dust.) Later, <mask> said of McLuhan, "I had the advantage of being exposed to Marshall when he was at his most creative, and then of getting to the far end of the continent shortly afterward, when he couldn't get me on the phone all the time. He could be awfully controlling." Later, when McLuhan wrote that the development of cartography during the Renaissance created a geographical sense that had never previously existed, <mask> sent him a postcard reading in full: "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, Yours, <mask>." In 1950, <mask> earned a PhD from Yale University, with a dissertation on James Joyce, James Joyce: Critique in Progress, for Cleanth Brooks. This work, which won the John Addison Porter Prize at Yale, became Dublin's Joyce in 1956.Academic career
<mask>'s first teaching post was at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1951 to 1973); he then taught at Johns Hopkins University (from 1973 to 1990) and the University of Georgia (from 1990 to 1999). <mask> played an influential role in raising Ezra Pound's profile among critics and other readers of poetry. The publication of The Poetry of Ezra Pound in 1951 "was the beginning, and the catalyst, for a change in attitude toward Pound on the American literary and educational scenes." The Pound Era, the product of years of scholarship and considered by many to be <mask>'s masterpiece, was published in 1971. This work was responsible for enshrining Pound's reputation (damaged by his wartime activities) as one of the greatest Modernists. Though best known for his work on modernist literature, <mask>'s range of interests was wide. His books include an appreciation of Chuck Jones, an introduction to geodesic math, and a user's guide for the Heathkit H100/Zenith Z-100 computer; in his later years he was a columnist for both Art & Antiques and Byte magazine.Kenner was a friend of William F. Buckley, Jr., to whom Kenner introduced word processing, and a contributor to National Review. He also shared a close correspondence with Guy Davenport, the noted scholar and fiction writer. Personal life
<mask> was married twice: his first wife, Mary Waite, died in 1964; the couple had three daughters and two sons. His second wife, whom he married in 1965, was Mary-Anne Bittner; they had a son and a daughter. Death
<mask> died at his home in Athens, Georgia, on November 24, 2003. Selected bibliography

 Paradox in Chesterton (1947)
 The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1951)
 Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook (1954)
 Dublin's Joyce (Indiana University Press, 1956; rpt., Columbia University Press, 1987)
 Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature (1959)
 The Art of Poetry (1959)
 The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (1959; rev. ed, 1969)
 Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study (Grove Press, 1961; rev.ed., 1968)
 T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (editor) (Prentice-Hall, 1962)
 The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett (1962) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
 Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson (editor) (1964)
 Studies in Change: A Book of the Short Story (editor) (1965)
 The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Indiana University Press, 1968; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
 The Pound Era (University of California Press, 1971)
 Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (William Morrow, 1973)
 A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
 A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975)
 Geodesic Math and How to Use It (1976)
 Joyce's Voices (University of California Press, 1978)
 Ulysses (George Allen & Unwin, 1980; rev. ed., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
 A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
 The Mechanic Muse (Oxford University Press, 1987)
 A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers (1988)
 Mazes: Essays (North Point Press, 1989)
 Historical Fictions: Essays (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
 Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (1994)
 The Elsewhere Community, CBC Massey Lectures (1998)
  A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of <mask> and Adaline Glasheen ed. Edward M. Burns (University College Dublin Press, 2008)
 Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and <mask>, ed. Edward M. Burns (Counterpoint Press, 2018)

References

External links
<mask> Kenner: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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title: Abhijit Banerjee

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<mask> (; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born naturalized American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <mask> shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". He and Esther Duflo, who are married, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize. <mask>f Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan). He is a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. <mask> was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Econometric Society. He also has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.He is the co-author of Poor Economics. He also serves on the academic advisory board of Plaksha University, an upcoming science and technology university in India. His new book, co-authored with Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, was released in October 2019 in India by Juggernaut Books. He was sent to Delhi's Tihar Jail for 10 days for participating in protests at Jadavpur University in 1983. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born to a Bengali father and to a Marathi mother in Mumbai. His father, Dipak <mask>, was a professor of economics at Presidency College, Calcutta, and his mother Nirmala <mask> (née Patankar), a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His father, Dipak <mask>, earned a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.He received his school education in South Point High School, a renowned educational institution in Calcutta. After his schooling, he took admission at Presidency College, then an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta and now an autonomous university, where he completed his BSc(H) degree in economics in 1981. Later, he completed his M.A. in economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi in 1983. While studying in JNU, he was arrested and imprisoned in Tihar Jail during a protest after students gheraoed the then Vice Chancellor PN Srivastava of the university. He was released on bail and charges were subsequently dropped against the students. Later, he went on to obtain a PhD from Harvard University in 1988.The subject of his doctoral thesis was "Essays in Information Economics." <mask> is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he has taught at Harvard University and Princeton University. His work focuses on development economics. Together with Esther Duflo he has discussed field experiments as an important methodology to discover causal relationships in economics. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He was also honored with the Infosys Prize 2009 in the social sciences category of economics. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of social sciences (economics).He also served on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2018. In 2012, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Business Book with co-author Esther Duflo for their book Poor Economics. In 2013, he was named by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to a panel of experts tasked with updating the Millennium Development Goals after 2015 (their expiration date). In 2014, he received the Bernhard-Harms-Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. In 2019, he delivered Export-Import Bank of India's 34th Commencement Day Annual Lecture on Redesigning Social Policy. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their work alleviating global poverty. <mask> and his co-workers try to measure the effectiveness of actions (such as government programmes) in improving people's lives.For this, they use randomized controlled trials, similar to clinical trials in medical research. For example, although polio vaccination is freely available in India, many mothers were not bringing their children for the vaccination drives. <mask> and Prof. Esther Duflo, also from MIT, tried an experiment in Rajasthan, where they gave a bag of pulses to mothers who vaccinated their children. Soon, the immunization rate went up in the region. In another experiment, they found that learning outcomes improved in schools that were provided with teaching assistants to help students with special needs. Personal life
<mask> <mask> was married to Dr. Arundhati Tuli <mask>, a lecturer of literature at MIT. <mask> and Arundhati had one son together and later divorced.Their son, born in 1991, died in an accident in 2016. In 2015, <mask> married his co-researcher, MIT professor Esther Duflo; they have two children. <mask> was a joint supervisor of Duflo's PhD in economics at MIT in 1999. Duflo is also a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Publications

Books

 <mask>, <mask> Vinayak ( 2019 ). A Short History of Poverty Measurements. Juggernaut Books.Awards

<mask> <mask> was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 along with his two co-researchers Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". The press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted: "Their experimental research methods now entirely dominate development economics." The Nobel committee commented:
"<mask>, Duflo and their co-authors concluded that students appeared to learn nothing from additional days at school. Neither did spending on textbooks seem to boost learning, even though the schools in Kenya lacked many essential inputs. Moreover, in the Indian context <mask> and Duflo intended to study, many children appeared to learn little: in results from field tests in the city of Vadodara fewer than one in five third-grade students could correctly answer first-grade curriculum math test questions. "In response to such findings, <mask>, Duflo and co-authors argued that efforts to get more children into school must be complemented by reforms to improve school quality." The Nobel Prize was a major recognition for their chosen field - Development Economics, and for the use of Randomised Controlled Trials.It evoked mixed emotions in India, where his success was celebrated with nationalistic fervour while approach and pro-poor focus were seen as a negation of India’s current government’s ideology as well as broader development discourse. He was awarded the Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by the University of Calcutta in January 2020. See also
 Amartya Sen, economist and the first Indian to receive a Nobel prize in the field

References

External links
 <mask> <mask>'s Home Page at MIT including his CV with comprehensive lists of awards and publications
 Poverty Action Lab

 Publications at the National Bureau of Economic Research
  including the Prize Lecture 8 December 2019 Field experiments and the practice of economics

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title: Benjamin Hornigold

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Captain <mask> (1680–1719) was an English pirate who operated during the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Born in England in the late-17th century, Hornigold began his pirate career in 1713, attacking merchant ships in the Bahamas. He helped to establish the "Republic of Pirates" in Nassau and by 1717 was the captain of one of the most heavily armed ships in the region, called the Ranger. It was at this time he appointed Edward Teach, best known in history books as "Blackbeard", as his second-in-command. Mindful not to attack British-led ships during his career, his crew eventually grew tired of the tactic and Hornigold was voted out as captain. In December 1718, Hornigold accepted a King's Pardon for his crimes and became a pirate hunter, pursuing his former allies on behalf of the Governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers. He was killed when his ship was wrecked on a reef near New Spain during the hurricane season of 1719.Early career
Hornigold's early life is unrecorded, although sometimes people claim he was born in the English county of Norfolk, where the surname <mask> or Hornagold appears. If so, he might have first served at sea aboard ships whose home port was either King's Lynn or Great Yarmouth. His first documented acts of piracy took place in the winter of 1713–1714, when he employed periaguas (sailing canoes) and the sloop Happy Return, alongside Daniel Stillwell, John Cockram, and John West to menace merchant vessels off the coast of New Providence and its capital Nassau, where he had established a 'Privateers' or 'Pirates' republic. Hornigold himself sailed a ship named the Marianne. After a mutiny in the summer of 1716, he and his supporters were left with a captured sloop. By 1717, Hornigold had at his command a thirty-gun sloop he named the Ranger, which was probably the most heavily armed ship in the region, and this allowed him to seize other vessels with impunity. Hornigold's second-in-command during this period was Edward Teach, who would later be better known as the pirate Blackbeard.When Hornigold took command of the Ranger, he delegated the captaincy of his earlier sloop to Teach. In the spring of 1717 the two pirate captains seized three merchant ships in quick succession, a Spanish one carrying 120 barrels of flour bound for Havana, another a Bermudian sloop with a cargo of spirits and the third a Portuguese ship travelling from Madeira with a cargo of white wine. In March 1717, Hornigold attacked an armed merchant vessel sent to the Bahamas by the Governor of South Carolina to hunt for pirates. The merchantman escaped by running itself aground on Cat Cay, and its captain later reported that Hornigold's fleet had increased to five vessels, with a combined crew of around 350 pirates. In April 1717 Hornigold is recorded as operating alongside Captain Napin (or Napping), looting several ships off Jamaica, Puerto Bello, and Cuba before being chased away by the warship HMS Winchelsea. Hornigold had earlier forced aboard a surgeon named John Howell but released him on Nassau; when French pirate Jean Bonadvis tried to force Howell aboard his ship later in April 1717, Hornigold accepted Howell back aboard to protect him. After parting ways with Napin in June or July they sailed together sporadically until October 1717.Hornigold is recorded as having attacked a sloop off the coast of Honduras, but as one of the passengers of the captured vessel recounted, "they did us no further injury than the taking most of our hats from us, having got drunk the night before, as they told us, and toss'd theirs overboard". In September 1717, <mask> and Teach met Major Stede Bonnet and his ship Revenge. Bonnet, having been wounded in battle, ceded his command to Teach. In October, another sloop was added to the fleet. Overthrow and pardon
Despite his apparent maritime supremacy, Hornigold remained careful not to attack British-flagged ships, apparently to maintain the legal defence that he was a privateer operating against England's enemies in the War of the Spanish Succession. This scrupulous approach was not to the liking of his lieutenants, and in the summer of 1716 a vote was taken among the combined crews to attack any vessel they chose. Hornigold opposed the decision and was replaced as captain of Marianne by Samuel Bellamy, whose friend Paulsgrave Williams was elected quartermaster.Hornigold and his supporters were left with a captured sloop which was commanded by Teach after Hornigold acquired the Ranger. He continued piracy operations from Nassau until December 1717, when word arrived of a general pardon for pirates offered by the King. Hornigold sailed to Jamaica with the Ranger and one of the other sloops in January 1718 and received a pardon from the governor there. He later became a pirate hunter for the new governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers. The King's Pardon of 1717 and 1718

On 5 September 1717, King George I Issued the Proclamation of 1717 "For Suppressing Pirates in the West Indies". This document granted a pardon to all pirates who surrendered themselves to any colonial governor or governor under the domain of the British Empire safe passage and were guaranteed a "clean slate" of their record. However, word of this did not get out to the West Indies and so in December 1718 another proclamation, or more famously known as the King's Pardon of 1718, was issued for the same purpose.In both of these documents, not only were pirates granted a clean slate on their record, but they were also offered a large sum of money for the capturing of other pirates who were guilty of piracy, murder, and treason against His Majesty. More specifically, for every captain who was captured, the person responsible would receive £100, , and for every lieutenant and boatswain a reward of £40 (£) was offered. Each level of member on a pirate ship had a reward placed on their heads from this point on. Pirate hunter and death
Rogers commissioned Hornigold to hunt down any and all recusant pirates, including some ex-comrades such as his former lieutenant, Teach (Blackbeard). He stalked but could not apprehend Charles Vane, capturing Vane's associate Nicholas Woodall instead, followed by John Auger, both of whom had accepted the same pardon as Hornigold, but later slid back into piracy. In December 1718 Governor Rogers wrote to the Board of Trade in London commending Hornigold's efforts to remedy his reputation as a pirate by hunting his former allies. At some point late 1719, Governor Rogers commissioned Captain <mask> and a few other of Rogers' most trusted captains to help safeguard and facilitate the trade of valuable wares with the Spanish.During the voyage <mask>'s ship was caught in a hurricane, somewhere between New Providence and New Spain, and was wrecked on an uncharted reef. The incident is referred to in the contemporary account A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson, which states, "in one of which voyages ... Captain <mask>, another of the famous pirates, was cast away upon rocks, a great way from land, and perished, but five of his men got into a canoe and were saved." The specific location of the reef remains unknown. Popular culture
Hornigold is in the 2006 television miniseries Blackbeard. He is portrayed by Stacy Keach. Hornigold appears as a non-player character in the 2013 video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. He is voiced by Ed Stoppard.Hornigold is a supporting character in the Starz series Black Sails. He is portrayed by actor Patrick Lyster. <mask> is portrayed by Sam Callis in the 2021 Netflix original series The Lost Pirate Kingdom. See also
 Richard Noland, who had sailed with Hornigold early in his career, later accompanied Samuel Bellamy after Hornigold was voted out as Captain, and was eventually employed as Hornigold's agent and recruiter on Nassau. References

Bibliography

External links
<mask> at TheWayofthePirates.com
<mask> at AgeofPirates.com

<mask> at The Pirates Hold
Captain <mask> at SevenOceans.com

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title: Princess Therese of Bavaria

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Princess <mask> of Bavaria (; 12 November 1850 – 19 December 1925) was an ethnologist, zoologist, botanist, travel writer and leader in social care. Therese was the third child and only daughter of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, and of his wife Archduchess Augusta of Austria. Life
Therese descended from the House of Wittelsbach, one of Europe's most powerful royal families which had ruled Bavaria for 738 years. However, by the time she was born, the Bavarian crown's political power had been reduced and the 19th Century Wittelsbach kings were mostly remembered for their cultural patronage and the architectural legacy. She was born Princess <mask> of Bavaria in Munich and was the only daughter of the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and his wife, Augusta of Austria, the granddaughter of Ferdinand III of Tuscany. Through her mother she was also related to Empress Maria Theresa. As a child, she was instructed at home alongside her two brothers, Arnulf and Ludwig (later King Ludwig III, the last Bavarian king).She was particularly close to Arnulf, with whom she shared a keen interest in geography. Theresa showed an extraordinary ability for languages, as well as a keen interest in plants. She would eventually become fluent in 12 languages, both spoken and written. She was tutored in modern Greek and Russian together with Arnulf. Although she did attend some public courses for ladies, most of her education was provided by private tutors. While she had some enthusiasm for mathematics, her interest for natural sciences and foreign lands was significant. She also engaged in physical activities, such as swimming, bicycling and mountain walking.In 1864, when <mask> was 13, her mother died of tuberculosis. As the only female member of her immediate family, <mask> took over the management of the household with the help of her aunt. That same year, her cousin, 18-year-old Ludwig became Ludwig II of Bavaria. Scientific practice
<mask> made a substantial contribution to plant and animal geography. She engaged in scientific practice for more 30 years,  foreshadowing the vigor of science in the 20th century. Her interests in geology, botany, anthropology and zoology required her to attain tutors, since women at the time were not allowed to study at universities. Women were finally allowed into universities in 1903, when Theresa`s father, Prince Regent Luitpold, legalized their admission.In 1871, at the age of 21, she started a series of journeys, first to Italy and Greece, then throughout Europe and North Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. In 1888, she visited Brazil, and, in 1893, North America and Mexico. A tour of South America followed in 1898. Before visiting a country, she studied the history of the land and its people, the local language and literature. She would usually travel with a group of people who served her, including a lady-in-waiting, and usually chose to travel incognito. She wrote a number of books about these excursions in which she described the natural history of the places she visited. Her early works were published under the pseudonym "Th.v. Bayer". Expedition to Brazil
<mask> arrived on the mouth of the Amazon River on the 25 June 1888. In the company of a servant trained in taxidermy, a lady in waiting, and a Kavalier for her protection, she travelled 1000 miles upriver to Manaus. From there they traveled up the Rio Negro. Along the way, <mask> collected plants and animals, such as monkeys, birds, snakes, and butterflies. She hired a creole guide who spoke 15 native Indian dialects and, with his help, bargained for ethnological artifacts. She collected weapons, such as spears, darts with iron tips, wooden arrows, but also pottery and utensils.She then traveled down the coast to Rio de Janeiro, with a considerable collection that included live animals. A railway trip through the high mountains of the Campos country followed, where she acquired a sizable collection of mineral specimens and visited the Academy of Mines in Ouro Preto. The collection of artefacts was continued throughout her trip along the Rio Santa Maria. Where she could, she visited local museums and botanical gardens, studying the collections of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro in great detail. In Rio de Janeiro she also met with Princess Imperial of Brazil Isabel, who had sponsored scientific expeditions and helped to establish collections that publicised Brazilian gems, minerals, plants, flowers, birds, butterflies and insects. After <mask> returned to Bavaria, it took her nine years to compile an analysis of the Brazilian collection. Her publication Meine Reise in die Brasilianischen Tropen (My Trip to the Brazilian Tropics), an illustrated travel journal of botanical, geological, and zoological information, was published in 1897.Engagement with Munich’s academic institutions
In 1892, <mask> became the first woman to be given honorary membership in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The same year, she became an honorary member of the Munich Geographical Society. In 1897, she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She was also a corresponding member of the Berlin Entomological Society and her collection of anthropological materials from South America became part of the collection of the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich. Later years
<mask> died in Lindau. Honours
  : 629th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa - . Honorary doctorate, from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
 Honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Science

A species of Peruvian lizard, Microlophus theresiae, is named in her honour.Published works
 Ausflug nach Tunis (Excursion to Tunis). 1880. Reiseeindrücke und Skizzen aus Russland (Impressions and Sketches from Russia). Stuttgart 1885. Über den Polarkreis (On the Polar Circle). 1889. Über mexikanische Seen (On Mexican lakes).Wien 1895. Meine Reise in den Brasilianischen Tropen (My Trips in the Brazilian Tropics). Dietrich Remmer, Berlin 1897. Einiges über die Pueblo-Indianer. In: Völkerschau, 2 1902, 4-6, 38-42. Reisestudien aus dem westlichen Südamerika (Study Trips to the western part of South America). 2 volumes.Berlin 1908. Ancestry

References

Films
 Wolfgang Voelker: Prinzessin <mask> von Bayern - Forscherin, Sammlerin, Weltreisende. Dokumentarfilm, 1997, gesendet auf Phoenix am Sa, 15. Februar 2003, 21.00 Uhr (Google-Cache der Phoenix-Seite)

External links
Digitised version of Meine "Reise in den brasilianischen Tropen"
Therese on the International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Therese-von-Bayern-Stiftung

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title: Sterling Morrison

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<mask>. (August 29, 1942 – August 30, 1995) was an American guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock group the Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals. Unlike bandmates Lou Reed, John Cale, Maureen Tucker and Nico, <mask> never released a solo album or made recordings under his own name. He was nevertheless an essential element of the group's sound as a guitarist whose percussive and syncopated rhythm playing and melodic lead parts provided the foil for Lou Reed's improvisational rhythm and lead guitar riffs. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born on August 29, 1942, in the Long Island town of East Meadow, New York. He had two brothers and two sisters. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother remarried. He first met future Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker during childhood, through her brother Jim, who attended Division Avenue High School in Levittown, New York, with <mask>.Originally playing trumpet, <mask> switched to guitar after his teacher was drafted. <mask> majored in English at the City College of New York. While visiting his friend Jim Tucker at Syracuse University, he met Lou Reed, a friend of Tucker and a fellow English student. Before Reed graduated in 1964, they met again in New York City in 1963. By this time, Reed had met John Cale and was interested in starting a band, so when they encountered <mask>, he was invited to join. The Velvet Underground (1965–1971)

Reed, Cale, <mask> and percussionist Angus MacLise constituted the original line-up of the Velvet Underground, taking the name from Michael Leigh's sadomasochistic novel of the same name. Reed sang and played guitar, <mask> played guitar, Cale played viola, bass and keyboards and MacLise was playing bongos, hand drums, tabla, tambourines and the cimbalom.MacLise was soon replaced by Maureen Tucker. <mask> primarily played guitar on the band's first two albums, although when Cale, the band's usual bassist, played viola or keyboards in the studio or on stage, <mask> often filled in on bass. Some songs (including "Heroin" and "Sister Ray") had Reed and <mask> on their usual guitars while Cale played viola and Vox Continental organ respectively, with no bass guitar. There were at least three songs where Cale played both piano and bass while Reed and <mask> played guitars and these were "I'm Waiting for the Man", "Femme Fatale" and "White Light/White Heat" and two songs where Cale played both viola and bass with Reed and <mask> on guitars: "Here She Comes Now" and "The Black Angel's Death Song", the former of which saw Cale doubling on piano. Although <mask> was a proficient bassist (as exemplified by his performances on "Sunday Morning", "Venus in Furs", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "Lady Godiva's Operation"), he disliked playing the instrument. After Cale left the group in 1968, <mask> usually exclusively played guitar; however, photographic evidence indicates that he continued to play bass onstage for certain songs if Doug Yule, Cale's replacement, was occupied with organ. Additionally, <mask> frequently sang backing vocals and the occasional lead vocal spot (he recited many verses of Reed's poetry in "The Murder Mystery" and sang one line in "I'm Sticking With You").<mask> repeatedly remarked that "Venus in Furs", from the band's debut album, was his personal favorite of all of The Velvet Underground's songs, as he felt that the group had achieved with that one track, to a greater degree than any other, the sound the band had in mind. In 1970, when the band was back in New York City to play an entire summer's engagement at Max's Kansas City, <mask> seized the opportunity to complete his undergraduate degree at the City College of New York. He remained in the Velvet Underground as lead guitarist after Reed left the band in acrimonious circumstances in August 1970. In 1971, however, he began graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he would earn a PhD in medieval literature (with a dissertation on the four signed poems of Cynewulf) in 1986. <mask>'s last performance with the band was on August 21, 1971, at Liberty Hall (Houston, Texas). When it was time for the band to return to New York, <mask> packed an empty suitcase and accompanied them to the gate of their departing plane, before finally telling them he was staying in Texas and leaving the band, the last founding member to quit. Post-Velvet Underground life (1971–1990)

<mask> began to work on Houston tugboats as a deckhand to supplement his income in the mid-1970s; when he was forced to relinquish his teaching assistantship some years later, he was licensed as a master mariner and became the captain of a Houston tugboat, a vocation he pursued throughout the 1980s.After leaving the Velvet Underground, <mask>'s musical career was primarily limited to informal sessions for personal enjoyment, though he played in a few bands around Austin, Texas, most notably the Bizarros. <mask>'s tenure in the capital of Texas made him a well-loved and admired member of the local music community as well as an influential voice. During John Cale's renaissance in the late 1970s, <mask> occasionally sat in with his former bandmate on stages such as the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. From the mid-1980s on, he occasionally recorded or performed with Cale, Reed, and particularly Tucker, who had by then started a solo career of her own. <mask> was part of her touring band for most of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Velvet Underground reunion
In 1992, the core Velvet Underground line-up of Reed, Cale, <mask> and Tucker decided to reform for a tour and possible album. <mask> argued that Doug Yule, who had replaced Cale in 1968, should be included to fill out the sound, but Reed and Cale vetoed him.The band extensively toured Europe in 1993, alternatively as headline act or supporting U2. <mask>'s playing held up well, and his performances were generally agreed to be top-notch. But by the end of the tour, relationships had soured again and plans for a US tour and MTV Unplugged album were scrapped and as a result, the European tour turned out to be the last for the Velvet Underground. <mask> joined Maureen Tucker's band for a tour in 1994. Death
In late 1994, <mask> was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and as his health deteriorated, he could no longer play guitar. He was visited by his former bandmates Reed and Tucker and according to Reed, when he visited <mask> for the last time, he was bedridden, had lost weight and his hair, but never complained about his lymphoma and described it as "leaves in the fall". <mask> died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on August 30, 1995, one day after his 53rd birthday.Legacy
Upon their induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, Reed, Cale and Tucker performed a song titled "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend", which was dedicated to <mask>. In March 2001, <mask> was remembered through a tribute set at the Austin Music Awards during the South by Southwest Festival. John Cale performed "Some Friends", a song he had composed in <mask>'s memory, with Alejandro Escovedo, who played the Galaxie 500 song "Tugboat", also written for <mask>. An SXSW panel on Sterling successfully convened that year, with Cale and others remembering their fallen friend. <mask> was also the subject of an oral history, Velvet Underdog, in The Austin Chronicle that year. The story utilised quotes by Cale, Reed, Tucker, and other <mask> associates. The Galaxie 500 song "Tugboat" alludes to <mask>'s post-Velvet Underground career.<mask> was a major influence on Dean Wareham. Personal life
<mask>'s surviving family includes his widow, Martha (whom he married in 1971), his son, Thomas, and his daughter, Mary Anne, all of whom reside in Poughkeepsie, New York. Guitar style
During the Cale era, there was no established "lead" or "rhythm" guitar hierarchy in the Velvet Underground; both Reed and <mask> traded roles regularly. From the third album on though, <mask> almost always took the role of lead guitarist as Reed concentrated more on his singing and rhythm playing. <mask> and Reed's guitars were essentially duelling guitars that complemented each other, alternating between lead lines and rhythm parts interchangeably and with no assigned roles on who was lead or rhythm. Relative to Reed's improvisational and experimental guitar style, <mask>'s guitar style was generally syncopated and more percussive with cleaner melodic lead parts. Praising his late bandmate's guitar playing, Reed told David Fricke, "Sometimes, I think his guitar playing is very much like his first name – sterling.It's involved. And yet it has a grace and elegance to it, even in the fast-note runs. You could play me a hundred guitars, and I could spot <mask>." Doug Yule, who joined the Velvet Underground later, stated that <mask>'s greatest influence as a guitarist was Mickey Baker, a blues and R&B stylist known for "Love Is Strange", a hit single from 1957 as part of Mickey and Sylvia. Songwriting credits
Whilst Reed was the main writer, there has been some conjecture that both <mask> and Cale made more songwriting contributions than is specified in the credits as <mask> later told Victor Bockris, "Lou really did want to have a whole lot of credit for the songs, so on nearly all of the albums we gave it to him. It kept him happy. He got the rights to all the songs on Loaded so now he's credited for being the absolute and singular genius of the Underground, which is not true.There are a lot of songs I should have coauthorship on, and the same holds true for John Cale. The publishing company was called Three Prong because there were three of us involved. I'm the last person to deny Lou's immense contribution and he's the best songwriter of the three of us. But he wanted all the credit, he wanted it more than we did, and he got it, to keep the peace." Nevertheless, <mask> got co-writing credits on "European Son", "Here She Comes Now", "The Gift", "Sister Ray", "Hey Mr. Rain", "Ride into the Sun", "Foggy Notion", "Ferryboat Bill", "I'm Gonna Move Right In", "Coney Island Steeplechase" and "Guess I'm Falling in Love". He also co-wrote "Chelsea Girls" with Reed, the title track to Nico's debut solo album.Discography with the Velvet Underground
Only recordings with <mask> are listed. For the band's full discography, please see the Velvet Underground article. Singles
"All Tomorrow's Parties" / "I'll Be Your Mirror" (1966)
"Sunday Morning" / "Femme Fatale" (1966)
"White Light/White Heat" / "Here She Comes Now" (1968)
"What Goes On" / "Jesus" (promo, 1969)
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title: Hesdy Gerges

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<mask> (, born February 20, 1984) is an Egyptian-Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist, fighting out of the Vos Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He held the It's Showtime World Heavyweight title between 2010 and 2012. <mask> has competed in the K-1, It's Showtime, SUPERKOMBAT and GLORY promotions. <mask> was convicted and sentenced to 54 months in prison for drug-trafficking, but didn't had to do any jail time on the condition that he wouldn't commit a crime in Belgium over the next five years. Biography and career
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he began training in kickboxing in 2001. He joined the Chakuriki Gym and trained under Thom Harinck who has also trained Badr Hari. <mask> was a notorious delinquent outside of the ring who, according to Harinck, was even worse than Badr Hari.On October 17, 2009, at Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights in Amsterdam he defeated Ruslan Karaev by unanimous decision. On May 29, 2010, at It's Showtime 2010 Amsterdam he won the It's Showtime Heavyweight title after being fouled by Badr Hari. On October 2 Gerges was a fan voted fighter to fight at the K-1 Final 16 in Seoul, South Korea. He fought four-time and current champion Semmy Schilt. Although fighting very well in the 1st and 3rd round against the much favored Schilt Gerges lost by Majority decision. Because he was only two points away from a draw and had battered the legs of Schilt like no other fighter had ever managed to do before he was chosen to fight at the finals on December 11, 2010, in a reserve fight against Yusuke Fujimoto. This was Fujimoto's retirement match and Gerges won by TKO (3 knockdowns).However, in 2011 <mask> was not over impressive in his performances, despite going 2-1 by beating Daniel Ghiță and Chris Knowles. He lost to Rico Verhoeven by a narrow split decision in a superfight at the SUPERKOMBAT Fight Club. On January 28, 2012, he lost to Ghiță in the rematch, by first-round knockout. As a result, he lost his Showtime Heavyweight Title. He faced Sergei Lascenko at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo Final 16 on October 14, 2012. He was able to block the majority of Lascenko's punches while battering the Ukrainian with low kicks, and took the unanimous decision victory. He faced Carter Williams in a non-tournament bout at the SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix 2012 Final in Bucharest, Romania on December 22, 2012, and won by a third-round knockout.At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final on March 15, 2013, in Zagreb, Croatia, he faced Ismael Londt in the quarter-finals and bowed out from a broken nose in round three after receiving a flying knee from Londt. He defeated Pavel Zhuravlev by unanimous decision at Final Fight Championship 6 in Poreč, Croatia on June 14, 2013. He joined Glory in July 2013. He lost to Errol Zimmerman by third-round TKO in the tournament reserve match at Glory 11: Chicago - Heavyweight World Championship Tournament in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States on October 12, 2013. He defeated Ewerton Teixeira by unanimous decision at Glory 13: Tokyo - Welterweight World Championship Tournament in Tokyo, Japan on December 21, 2013. He defeated Jhonata Diniz via second-round TKO at Glory 15: Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey on April 12, 2014. <mask> won via disqualification when he was attacked while downed by Jamal Ben Saddik just seconds into their bout at Qabala Fight Series #1 in Qabala, Azerbaijan on June 29, 2014.In June 2018, <mask> announced that he had signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator and that he would compete both as a Bellator mixed martial artist and kickboxer. <mask> will make his kickboxing return during Enfusion 98, when he will face Mohamed El Bouchaibi. <mask> defeated El Bouchaibi by a first-round TKO due to low kicks. <mask> will fight Rico Verhoeven in the semifinals of a four-man heavyweight tournament, held at Glory 77. <mask> lost the semifinal bout against Rico Verhoeven by unanimous decision. Personal life
<mask> was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to an Egyptian father and a Dutch mother. He is married to women's MMA fighter Denise Kielholtz.Drug-trafficking conviction
On February 15, 2011, <mask> <mask> was arrested in Amsterdam under suspicion of being part of a drug deal involving  of cocaine. His half-brother was arrested May 2010 in a warehouse in Belgium that contained 128 kg of cocaine. <mask> was already out of the picture in the investigation of 2010, but for some reason the investigation had stalled and he was put back in the picture on February 15, 2011. There was no cocaine or any weapons found in Hesdy residence. His trainer, Thom Harinck spoke with the Dutch Metro News on February 21, and outright said, "<mask> has been framed. He wakes up at 7:30, at 10:00am he trains with me, rests in the afternoon, then in the evening does strength and conditioning and is in bed by 10:00 PM. I cannot imagine that he still would have time for things like this."On February 25, 2011, <mask> <mask> was released from Belgium police. At the beginning of May 2011, <mask> was extradited to Belgium to be dealt with as the Belgian authorities suspected that the trafficking ring was going through Belgium. On May 13, 2011, <mask> was released again and stays with his claim that he is 100% innocent." At a later trial <mask> was convicted and sentenced to 54 months in prison for drug-trafficking, but didn't had to do any jail time on the condition that he wouldn't commit a crime in Belgium over the next five years. Failed drug test

GLORY 51
On April 20, 2019, it was announced that <mask> failed a drug test prior to Glory 51: Rotterdam. He was issued with an official reprimand. Badr Hari, who faced Gerges at the event, also failed the drug test and was issued with a 19-month suspension after tests on samples provided indicated a violation of Doping Autoriteit Netherlands rules regarding prohibited substances for competitive athletes.Titles
 It's Showtime
 2010 It's Showtime World Heavyweight Champion
 World Full Contact Association
 2009 W.F.C.A. Super Heavyweight Champion
 2008 W.F.C.A. European Super Heavyweight Champion
 2008 W.F.C.A. Benelux Super Heavyweight Champion
 2007 W.F.C.A. Dutch Super Heavyweight Champion

Kickboxing record

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| 2021-01-30 || Loss ||align=left| Rico Verhoeven || Glory 77: Rotterdam Semi Final || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2020-10-3|| Win ||align=left| Mohamed El Bouchaibi || Enfusion 98 || Alkmaar, Netherlands || TKO (Low kicks) || 1 ||  1:58
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| 2018-03-03 || NC ||align=left| Badr Hari || Glory 51: Rotterdam || Rotterdam, Netherlands || No contest || 3 || 3:00
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! R. Decision (unanimous) || 4 || 3:00
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| 2015-06-07 || Win ||align=left| Andrey Gerasimchuk || Kunlun Fight 26 - Super Heavyweight Tournament, Semi Finals || Chongqing, China || Decision (split) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2015-03-17 || Win ||align=left| Konstantin Gluhov || Kunlun Fight 21 - Super Heavyweight Tournament, Quarter Finals || Sanya, China || TKO (low kicks)|| 3 || 0:35
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| 2015-02-01 || Win ||align=left| Igor Bugaenko || Kunlun Fight 18: The Return of the King - Super Heavyweight Tournament, Final 16 || Guangzhou, China ||TKO (low kicks)|| 2 ||
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| 2014-11-07 || Loss ||align=left| Benjamin Adegbuyi || Glory 18: Oklahoma || Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2010-03-13 || Loss ||align=left| Brice Guidon || Oktagon presents: It's Showtime 2010 || Milan, Italy || Ext.R Decision || 4 || 3:00
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| 2010-02-27|| Win ||align=left| Ashwin Balrak || Amsterdam Fightclub presents: Amsterdam vs Rotterdam || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2010-01-09|| Win ||align=left| Paul Slowinski || Ring Sensation Championship: Uprising 12 || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-12-12|| Win ||align=left| Sebastian van Thielen || Backstreet Fights II || Cologne, Germany || KO || 2 ||
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| 2009-10-17 || Win ||align=left| Ruslan Karaev || Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-05-31 || Win ||align=left| Mo Boubkari || Next Generation Warriors || Utrecht, Netherlands || TKO (referee stoppage) || 2 || 1:28
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| 2009-03-28 || Loss ||align=left| Semmy Schilt || K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Yokohama || Yokohama, Japan || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-03-21 || Loss ||align=left| Anderson Silva || VIP Fight Night 2009 || Neuss, Germany || TKO (doctor stoppage/leg injury) || 1 || 2:28
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| 2009-03-21 || Win ||align=left| Kevin Klinger || VIP Fight Night 2009 || Neuss, Germany || TKO (injury) || 1 || 0:00
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| 2009-03-21 || Win ||align=left| Aytac Yahsi || VIP Fight Night 2009 || Neuss, Germany || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-03-08 || Win ||align=left| Brian Douwes || Beatdown || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-11-08 || Win ||align=left| Jan Muller || Ice Cold Assassins ||  || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2008-10-05 || Win ||align=left| Jerrel Venetiaan || Tough Is Not Enough || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (split) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-09-21 || Win ||align=left| Mutlu Karabulut || SLAMM Events presents "Back to the Old School" || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-07-05 || Win ||align=left| Ricardo van den Bos  || Amsterdam Fightclub || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-02-17 || Loss ||align=left| Mourad Bouzidi || K-1 MAX Netherlands 2008 The Final Qualification || Utrecht, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-09-23 || Win ||align=left| Wendell Roche || Rings Holland: Risky Business || Utrecht, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-06-02 || Win ||align=left| Bob van Boxmeer || Gentleman Fight Night 2007 || Tilburg, Netherlands || TKO (doctor stoppage/injury) || 1 || 3:00
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| 2007-06-02 || Win ||align=left| Mo Boubkari || Next Generation Warriors || Tilburg, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-03-12 || Loss ||align=left| Ginty Vrede || Rings "The Chosen Ones" || Utrecht, Netherlands  || TKO (referee stoppage) || 1 ||
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| 2006-09-17 || Draw ||align=left| Rick van Soest || Rings Kickboxing Gala in Amsterveen || Amstelveen, Netherlands || Decision || 3 || 3:00
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| 2006-06-02 || Loss ||align=left| Daniele Petroni || The King of Kings II || Milan, Italy  || Decision (unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
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<mask>, known as <mask> (born 11 March 1950)
was a physician from Greenville, Texas, who a former Republican member of the Texas Senate. He entered office in 2003 and represented the ten counties of Senate District 2 in the northeastern portion of the state. His term ended in 2015. <mask> was narrowly unseated in the runoff election held on May 27, 2014; he polled 17,930 (49.6 percent) to intraparty challenger <mask>'s 18,230 (50.4 percent). Deuell had led a three-candidate field in the primary on March 4, with 23,847 votes (48.5 percent). Because he fell short of a majority, he was placed in the runoff with the number-two candidate, <mask>, who in the primary polled 19,085 votes (38.8 percent). The remaining 6,240 votes (12.7 percent) went to the third candidate, Mark Thompson.Background

<mask>, was educated at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the Medical College of Virginia. He is a partner in Primary Care Associates in Greenville, Texas. He is a member of the American Medical Association and Texas Medical Association. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. Deuell and his wife, Marilyn, reside in Greenville in Hunt County. They have three children, Paul, Brian, and Jennifer. Legislative history
During the Seventy-ninth Texas Legislature (2005), Deuell passed legislation to help ensure firefighters and other first responders who contract diseases in the line of duty receive the benefits they deserve (Senate Bill 310), created a statewide stroke emergency plan with the Texas Stroke Act (Senate Bill 330), authorized a medical dispatch program for rural areas (Senate Bill 523) and set up a Medicaid buy-in program for the working disabled (Senate Bill 565).Deuell also worked to ensure passage of bills dealing with issues such as education, transportation, lawsuit reform and family issues. In the Eightieth Texas Legislature Senator Deuell was tapped by Lt. Governor David Dewhurst to carry Jessica's Law legislation, aimed at protecting society's most vulnerable population from child predators. Governor Rick Perry signed this bill into law on July 17, 2007. Deuell also worked to advance issues as diverse as Medicaid reform and incentives programs to attract film and television production to Texas. For his work in this Session, Deuell was named as one of Texas Monthly's Best Legislators. In 2013, Deuell co-authored legislation that would require abortion providers to abide by the same regulations as ambulatory surgical centers.Critics characterized the bill as a TRAP law that would enact a "virtual ban on abortion in Texas." During the 83rd Legislative Session, which was his first as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Deuell worked for passage of several bills to help ensure the Texas economy continues to lead the nation. Key measures include:

Renewal of the Texas Economic Development Act (SB 1647 by Sen. Deuell / HB 3390 by Representative Harvey Hilderbran) - this successful state program has brought over $60 billion in capital investment, over 6,500 jobs, and almost $600 million in direct payments to school districts since 2001. In renewing the act, Deuell added strong taxpayer protections such as an annual ongoing audit and monetary penalties for failure to meet job-creation requirements (any penalties collected will go to Foundation School Fund). Research and Development Incentives (SB 859 by Sen. Deuell / HB 800 by Rep. Murphy) - A study by Texans for Innovation indicates that this legislation could result in $13 billion in increased economic activity, $4.5 billion in increased wages and income, and 97,000 new permanent jobs. Current District 113 state Representative Cindy Burkett of Sunnyvale is a former legislative aide and deputy regional director for Senator Deuell. Honors

From early on in his legislative career Deuell received recognition for his service through awards and accolades such as the “Fighter for Free Enterprise Award,” from the Texas Association of Business, the “CLEAT Legislative Award” from the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, being named “Outstanding Senator”' by the Texas State Association of Fire Fighters, receipt of the “Patient Advocacy Award” from the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, being named “Freshman Senator of the Year” by the Texas Young Republican Federation, and receiving an “A++” rating from the Texas Right to Life Committee.In addition, Deuell was honored with the “Patient Protectorate Award’ and was named one of “Texas Medicine’s Best” by the Texas Medical Association. In February 2005 Deuell was honored by Goodwill Industries of Texas for advocacy in support of Texans with disabilities. The “Goodwill Distinguished Service Award,” the first of its kind to be awarded to a member of the Texas Legislature, is presented for “exemplary service and outstanding advocacy on behalf of persons with disabilities.”

Following the conclusion of the 79th Legislative Session, Deuell received the American Heart Association's “Heart of Honor” award for contributions in reducing the death and disability of heart disease and stroke in Texas. The “Heart of Honor” is the top honor given by the American Heart Association. In July 2005 Deuell received the “Legislative Crimefighter of the Year” Award from the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas for his work on behalf of the law enforcement community in the 79th Legislature. Leadership while in Senate
Deuell was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, serving on the Senate Finance and Natural Resources committees, and  was vice-chair of both the Health and Human Services and State Affairs committees. In addition, Deuell was selected by Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst to serve on the Senate Select Committee on Water Policy.He was a vice-chair of the Rural Caucus. Senator Deuell is a former chair of the Senate Republican Caucus. Music
 Before entering medical school in the late 1970s, Deuell enjoyed a career as a professional drummer and played behind such disparate artists as Ike & Tina Turner and <mask>. He sat in with the veteran Western Swing band Asleep at the Wheel at an inaugural ball for George W. Bush in January 2005. While much of his time today is taken up by his official duties and his medical practice, Deuell still plays the drums whenever asked for charitable events. In addition, his appreciation for music is such that he is known as the “Senator for Texas Music” because of legislation authored such as Senate Resolution 292, which made March 3, 2005 “Bob Wills Day” at the Texas Capitol, and Senate Bill 1100 which would have created the "Texas Music History Tour" to promote Texas Tourism and the state's rich musical heritage. Deuell currently plays drums for the worship band at the non-denominational Aldersgate Church in Greenville.Election history

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References

External links
Senate of Texas - Senator <mask>l official TX Senate website
bobdeuell.org official campaign website
Project Vote Smart - Senator Robert E. '<mask>' <mask> (TX) profile
Follow the Money - <mask>l
2006 2004 2002 2000 campaign contributions
Texas Monthly's 10 Best and Worst Belo Blog, June 2007
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