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<mask>, also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, (born October 13, 1973) is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also wrote regularly for The New York Times. Early life and education
After graduating from high school at the Latin School of Chicago in 1987, <mask> attended Vassar College, then transferred to and subsequently graduated in Psychology from Columbia University in 1991. While in school he began his career writing for Ear, an avant-garde magazine, and editing his first book, Radiotext(e), an anthology of radio-related writings for the postmodern publisher Semiotext(e). He moved on to The Village Voice, where, prior to becoming a reporter and critic, he took on tasks ranging from copyediting to fact-checking to writing copy. Career
<mask> was invited by Jon Pareles to become a music critic at The New York Times where he wrote the Pop Life column and front-page stories on Wal-Mart's CD-editing policies, music censorship, radio payola, and the lost wax figures of country music stars.He was then invited by Jann Wenner to become a contributing editor at Rolling Stone where he wrote cover stories on Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Orlando Bloom, the Wu-Tang Clan, Gwen Stefani, Stephen Colbert, and Marilyn Manson. He won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his coverage of Kurt Cobain's suicide for Rolling Stone and his profile of Eric Clapton in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section. <mask> also contributed to Esquire, Maxim, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Details, and The Source in addition to writing liner notes for albums by Nirvana and others. He has also appeared in Beck's music video Sexx Laws which also featured Jack Black, in Thirty Seconds to Mars' video Up in the Air, and he made a brief appearance as a cancer patient in episode 4, season six of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Game and the seduction community
After leaving The New York Times to ghostwrite Jenna Jameson's memoirs, <mask> joined a sub-culture of pick-up artists known as the seduction community, creating the persona of "Style" in 2001 and pseudonym of "Chris Powles", eventually publishing an article in The New York Times about his experiences in 2004. In 2005, he published The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Regan Books, 2005), a book about his transformation into "Style", a pickup artist under the tutelage of Mystery. In addition to documenting his experiences with pickup artists like Mystery, Steve P, Rasputin (Hypnotica), Ross Jeffries, and numerous others, it also describes his interactions with celebrities including Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, and Courtney Love.The book made a month-long appearance in The New York Times bestsellers list in September–October 2005, and reached the #1 position on Amazon.com immediately after its release in the United States. <mask> appeared on various TV shows, including The View and ABC Primetime, and he participated in many book signings. It was optioned to be made into a film by Spyglass Entertainment, with Chris Weitz adapting and producing. After publishing the book, <mask> temporarily retired as a pickup artist and settled with a longtime girlfriend Lisa Leveridge, who played guitar in Courtney Love's band The Chelsea. An article in the Sunday Mirror suggested that Leveridge broke up with <mask> in February 2006 to date Robbie Williams. <mask> denied the Williams rumor, but confirmed his breakup with Leveridge on his mailing list a few months later. His follow-up book, the graphic novel How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, was published on September 26, 2006.The same year, "Shoot", <mask>' short film about becoming a rock star, was released. He co-wrote, directed and performed in Shoot. Also in 2006, in collaboration with Dave Navarro and Entourage writer Cliff Dorfman, he created a one-hour TV drama The Product for FX. He also worked with James Gandolfini on a show, Roadies, for HBO. In 2007, he released a follow-up to The Game, Rules of the Game, a two-book boxed set. <mask> has continued to be involved with pickup artistry through his dating coaching company Stylelife Academy, founded in 2007. Most of the coaching is done by employed coaches, rather than <mask> himself, though he does make appearances at yearly conferences and in some video products sold by the company.In 2012, <mask> released a board game/party game as a follow up to The Game and Rules of the Game called "Who's Got Game? The Game with Benefits." <mask> is credited with popularizing the pick-up artist community and making its existence widely known. In an October 2015 interview he said of that community "there are some really damaged people with hateful and distorted views of reality gathering other people who share those views", attracting people with "neurotic wounds" and with "character disorders", trying to find help and to change themselves. Marriage and divorce
On August 31, 2013, <mask> married the model Ingrid De La O, whom he met in 2010. Before the wedding, he held a funeral-themed bachelor's party, laying to rest his 'Style' persona. In March 2015, <mask> had a child and shared the news on his website, along with information on his new book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, which was released on October 13, 2015.The Truth, a sequel to The Game, covers his struggles to build and maintain a relationship with Ingrid after his years of immersion in the seduction community. <mask> and Ingrid De La O divorced in October 2018. In February 2020, <mask> confirmed his divorce from Ingrid De La O on Gabrielle Reece's podcast and talked about his life after his divorce among other things. Other works
On March 4, 2009, The New York Times wrote that <mask> (along with rock biographer Anthony Bozza) had started his own publishing company, Igniter, as an imprint of HarperCollins. Igniter's first title was The Man Behind the Nose, published in 2010. It was followed by Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, published in 2012. <mask>'s book Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (Harper, 2009), for which he spent three years amongst survivalists, tax-dodgers, billionaire businessmen, and the government itself, was hailed by Rolling Stone as an "escape plan" for the current world crisis.It entered The New York Times bestseller list at No. 3. He received the presidents Volunteer Service Award for his search-and-rescue work during the writing of Emergency. The rights to the movie were picked up by Columbia Pictures, with Robert Downey Jr. attached as a producer and probable lead actor. In 2010, <mask> received the James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin. <mask>'s 2011 release entitled Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness was also a New York Times bestseller. Released March 15, 2011, the book is a compilation of 228 celebrity vignettes conducted throughout <mask>'s career as a pop culture journalist.<mask>'s 2015 release entitled The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships was also a New York Times bestseller. Released in October, 2015, this autobiographical book covers his attempts to form and maintain a long-term relationship following his years in the seduction community. It made the November 1, 2015 NYTimes bestseller list

Several detailed reviews were published in Grantland and the Chicago Tribune
after its publication. In June, 2017, I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons was published with co-author Kevin Hart and immediately was a #1 NY Times Bestseller. In 2019, <mask> launched To Live and Die in LA., a true crime podcast following the death of Adea Shabani. It hit No. 1 on the iTunes podcasts, and was in the top 10 for four months.<mask> also has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans. Notable works
 The Long Hard Road Out of Hell with Marilyn Manson (1998)
 The Dirt with Mötley Crüe (2001)
 How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale with Jenna Jameson (2004)
 The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)
 How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, illustrated by Bernard Chang (2006)
 Rules of the Game (2007)
 Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (2009)
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness (2011)
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons (2017)

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Latin School of Chicago alumni
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Naturalised citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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<mask> (born 1948 in New York City, United States) is a historian specializing in contemporary history, who has done extensive work on Catalan history. He is at present (2014) Senior Professor Emeritus at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona and coordinator of a Research Group on States, Nations and Sovereignties, linked to the UPF. Early life and education
He is the son of <mask> and Margarita Ucelay, Spanish exiles from the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and the nephew of Matilde Ucelay. Between 1965 and 1969 he studied at Bard College in New York City (now Bard University), graduated with a BA in 1969 and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship. Accepted at the Graduate School of the University of Columbia in New York City, he studied with Arno Mayer and Robert O. Paxton (with whom he worked briefly as "research assistant "). He completed his Ph.D. in 1979 with a dissertation titled Catalan State : Strategies of Separation of Catalan Radical Nationalism and Revolution (1919-1933) ( Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States: University Microfilms International), a thesis initially directed by Paxton and then by the scholar on Spanish politics Edward Malefakis. This thesis was largely based on systematic interviewing, and the location of Catalan printed materials, as much of the archival sources were still inaccessible in the 1970s.In 1972 he moved to Spain to research his dissertation. He was soon offered an instructorship at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), beginning in 1974. As Spanish legislation required citizenship for tenure status, Ucelay-<mask> somewhat disingenuously maintained his situation as professor by obtaining a degree in Contemporary (i.e. Modern) History at the University of Barcelona in 1980 and, in 1983, a doctorate in history at the UAB with a new thesis, written in Catalan, re-researched and with a slight change of temporal focus, El nacionalisme radical català i la resistència a la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera, 1923-1931, directed by Josep Fontana. To document this new text, Ucelay-<mask> worked in numerous archives of France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and of course, Spain, which, because of standard time access clauses (usually fifty years), were previously closed to investigators working on the 1920s. The documentary research did not produce significant changes in the narrative previously established by oral and press sources. In 1983 he obtained Spanish citizenship, and was granted tenure.University teaching
Accordingly, between 1983 and 1995, Ucelay-<mask> was tenured “Titular Professor” of Contemporary history at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. After the corresponding “opposition” or public contest for promotion characteristic of the Spanish University system, he became Senior Professor (“catedrático”) of contemporary history at the same university from 1995 to 2006. Since 2006, he has been senior professor of contemporary history at the Pompeu Fabra University, also in Barcelona. From 2009 to 2013 he participated in the Advanced Grant Project from the European Research Council (ERC) State Building in Latin America, at the UPF. Although he has not been particularly active in teaching abroad, he was  “visiting professor " at Duke University between February and April 1994, taught also at Venice International University (Italy)  in the spring semester of 2002, and received as " visiting scholar " at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des Hautes Etudes de Sciences Sociales) in Paris in April 2004. He directed the dissertations of historians, some whom have since gone on to very distinguished investigatory careers: as examples, one can cite Xavier Casals, who has become unquestionably the major specialist in Neo-Nazism in Spain; David Martinez Fiol, who pioneered research on the impact of the First World War in Catalonia; Joan Maria Thomàs, a top specialist on the Spanish Falange movement; and Joan Esculies, a rising figure among scholars of Catalan nationalism; among others. He has been open to work with researchers younger than himself.For many years, he collaborated closely with Francisco Veiga, the main Spanish researcher on Eastern Europe. More recently, he has also prepared books and projects on politically controversial topics in Catalan history together with Arnau Gonzàlez i Vilalta, a younger Catalan historian specializing in the diplomatic contacts of Catalan nationalism. Historical Work
Ucelay-<mask> has focused on his career production on the contemporary history of Spain and Catalonia, Spanish nationalism and Catalan nationalism, as well as specific issues such as the role of Catalan independence (the Estat Català movement, in particular) before and during the Second Spanish Republic, as well as during the Spanish Civil War. In broader terms, he has called for greater attention to regional dynamics in the explanation of 'national' history. He has insisted on themes such as the analysis of populism in Spain and its connections or analogies with Latin America. As regards the Spanish Civil War, he has called the use of the anthropology of religion as a means to interpret many trends considered usually as exclusively “political”. He has evinced a strong skepticism regarding many of the suppositions that govern the leading interpretations in contemporary Spanish history.Publications
<mask> Ucelay-Da Cal has published over two hundred articles in academic journals and other history serial publications, as well as in books in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, and Italian. He also reviewed books. Much of his work is available in pdf format on his personal webpage. His major books are:

 1982: La Catalunya populista: Imatge, cultura i política en l'etapa republicana, 1931-1939. Barcelona: La Magrana (). 1984: Francesc Macià. Una vida en imatges.Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya (). 1985: Macià i el seu temps. Barcelona: Diputació de Barcelona; 2nd edition, 1988 (). 1987 (editor): La Joventut a Catalunya al segle XX: materials per a una història. Barcelona, Diputació de Barcelona (). 1997: La paz simulada: una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991, co-authored with Francisco Veiga and Ángel Duarte. Madrid: Alianza Editorial; 2nd edition, 2006 ().2003: El imperialismo catalán. Prat de la Riba, Cambó, D'Ors y la conquista moral de España. Barcelona: Edhasa (. 2005: Notícia nova de Catalunya: consideracions crítiques sobre la historiografia catalana als cinquanta anys de Notícia de Catalunya de Jaume Vicens i Vives, co-directed with Josep Maria Fradera. Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (). 2012: Contra Companys 1936: Contra Companys. La frustración nacionalista ante la Revolución, co-edited with Arnau González Vilalta.València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València (). 2014: 6 d'Octubre. La desfeta de la revolució catalanista de 1934, co-edited with Arnau González i Vilalta and Manel López. Barcelona, Editorial Base, (). 2015: Macià al país dels soviets, with Joan Esculies. Barcelona: Edicions de 1984 (). 2017: Joan Lluhí i Vallescà.L'home que va portar la República, with Arnau González i Vilalta. Barcelona: Editorial Base (). 2017: El proceso separatista en Cataluña. Análisis de un pasado reciente (2006-2017), co-edited with Steven Forti and Arnau González i Vilalta. Granada: Editorial Comares (). 2017: "Tumulto". Meditacions sobre l'octubre català (2017), with Arnau González i Vilalta and Plàcid Garcia.Planas.Maçanet de la Selva: Editorial Gregal (). 2018: El catalanisme davant del feixisme, 1919-2018, co-edited with Arnau González i Vilalta and Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas. Maçanet de la Selva: Editorial Gregal (). 2018: Breve historia del separatismo catalán. Barcelona: Ediciones B (). 2019: L'aparença d'un poder propi. La mancomunitat de Catalunya i el catalanisme, co-edited with Arnau González i Vilalta and Josep Pich Mitjana.Catarroja-Barcelona, Editorial Afers, 2019 (). References

External links
 Personal webpage. Blog of the Grup de Recerca en Estats, Nacions i Sobiranismes, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Entrevista (in Catalán) en L'Avenç, num. 286, 2003, December. "El recuerdo imaginario como peso del pasado: las transiciones políticas en España", edited by Carlos Waisman, Raanan Rein & Ander Gurrutxaga Abad, Transiciones de la dictadura a la democracia: los casos de España y América Latina, [Zarautz], Servicio Editorial UPV/Argitalpen zerbitzua EHU, 2005, ps. 37-83."Historia de Nosaltres Sols!" in  Diccionari dels Partits Polítics de Catalunya, segle XX, edited by Isidre Molas, Enciclopedia Catalana, 2000. "Buscando el levantamiento plebiscitario: insurreccionalismo y elecciones" in Ayer, num. 20, 1995. "¿Más que un club? Examen de un relato persistente. El mito de la sociedad civil catalana" ein Barcelona Metropolis.Revista de información y pensamiento urbanos , num. 71, 2008. "Els separatistes catalans entre el 1916 i el 1936" in El Pais, Quadern, May 2, 1991. "Llegar a capital: Rango urbano, rivalidades interurbanas y la imaginación nacionalistaen la España del siglo XX" in Papers de la Fundació Rafael Campalans, num. 137, 2002. "Galicia y los otros pueblos de la Península Ibérica" in Actas VII Congreso Internacional de Estudos Galegos: mulleres en Galicia : Galicia e os outros pobas da península: Barcelona, 28 ó 31 de maio de 2003, edited by Helena González Fernández & María Xesús Lama López, 2007. "Por qué no puedo imaginarme una cultura de paz que no resulte opresiva" in 3er.Congreso Virtual de Psiquiatría, 2002. Spanish historians
Spanish educators
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title: Ryan Conroy

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<mask> (born 28 April 1987) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left-winger for Peterhead. He can also play as a left-back. <mask> has previously played for Celtic, Queen of the South, Partick Thistle on loan, Dundee, Raith Rovers and Airdrieonians. Club career

Celtic
<mask> was born in Vale of Leven, Scotland. He consistently impressed throughout his time with the Celtic youth system and ahead of the 2005–06 season, he signed his first professional contract. In 2007, Manager Gordon Strachan considered calling up <mask> into the first team as cover. He made his first team debut on 11 December 2007, during Celtic's 4–0 defeat of Falkirk, playing at left back.After making his debut, <mask> said he hoped he could earn himself a longer-term deal with Celtic. On 6 July 2009, <mask> signed a new deal with Celtic for another year. The arrival of the returning Charlie Mulgrew led <mask> to state that he thought Mulgrew's arrival would not affect his chance of making a breakthrough at Celtic. Partick Thistle (loan)
<mask> was loaned to Partick Thistle for whom he played 15 games, all in the league, in the second half of the 2009–10 season. He returned to Celtic when the deal had expired on 5 May 2010. Queen of the South (loan)
On 28 August 2010, <mask> joined Dumfries club Queen of the South on loan, scoring on his debut in the league game against Ross County on the same day. This was the first goal of his senior career.He became the fourth of the 2006 Scotland under-19 squad to play for the Palmerston Park club after Jamie Adams, Brian Gilmour and Scott Fox. His second goal for QoS was away in the league against top of the table opposition. Scoring from 18 yards after a Derek Holmes flick on, this was the only goal in the 1–0 win against Raith Rovers on 6 November 2010. He scored again the following week, hitting QoS' second goal (again from 18 yards) after a Derek Holmes knock down in the 3–0 home win against Cowdenbeath at Palmerston. <mask> returned to Celtic after the weather ruined three chances to play a final game at Palmerston. <mask> said, "I must say that I've really enjoyed those few months I've spent with Queen of the South. They're a good club and treat their players well.The fans have also been most supportive and I really appreciate that too. I would have liked to have stayed longer but the terms of the loan deal didn't allow that. I've really enjoyed my spell at Palmerston and wish the club all the best for the future." Following the end of his loan at Queen of the South, <mask> was linked with a move to Ross County. Dundee
After his contract with Celtic expired at the end of the 2010–11 season, <mask> left Celtic to join Dundee. After the move, <mask> said he wanted to achieve promotion with the club to the Scottish Premier League and show Celtic manager Neil Lennon he made a mistake letting him leave the club. <mask> made his debut for the club, in the first round of the Scottish Challenge Cup against Arbroath, where he provided a cross for Stephen O'Donnell, in the 92nd minute, as Dundee won 2–1 in extra time.<mask> made his league debut in the club's opening match of the season, in a 1–0 win over against Partick Thistle. Having made eleven appearances, he scored his first goal for the club, on 5 November 2011, in a 1–0 win over Raith Rovers and scored again in the next match, which turned out to be the winning goal and he also provided an assist for Gavin Rae, in a 2–1 win over Morton. Later in the 2011–12 season, <mask> would add nine more goals to his total, including a brace against Morton in a 2–0 win on 17 March 2012. He went on to make forty-two appearances in all competitions, scoring twelve times and during the season, <mask> reverted from playing at left-back to either left-wing or left-midfield. In the 2012–13 season, Dundee were promoted to the Scottish Premier League to replace Rangers who went into liquidation and had to re-apply and start again in the Third Division. <mask> scored his and Dundee's first goal of the season, with the winning goal from a penalty, in a 1–0 victory against Hearts, giving the club their first win of the season on 2 September 2012. Four weeks later, on 29 September 2012, he scored again, from the penalty spot, in a 3–1 loss against St Johnstone.Then, on 17 March 2013, <mask> scored as Dundee drew 1–1 against Dundee United in the Dundee derby. Manager John Brown commented about <mask>, saying: "<mask> is a really talented lad, If van Persie had hit the kind of goal he got in the derby then we would all have been raving about it. It was such a good strike and it showed what <mask> has to offer when he is in that kind of form. He just needs to believe in himself more and once he has that confidence he can do even greater things. Not many people have the sort of left foot he has. <mask> can make things happens and I have asked him to do that." During the 2012–13 season, he made thirty-eight appearances in all competitions, scoring seven times, making him Dundee's top scorer for the season, however, the club was relegated after a draw with Aberdeen.Ahead of the 2013–14 season, <mask> signed a new deal with the club. He scored seven goals as Dundee won promotion to the Scottish Premiership by winning the 2013–14 Scottish Championship, but he was released by the club in June 2014, having been among players expected to leave in the summer. Raith Rovers
On 10 July 2014, <mask> signed with Raith Rovers. At the time of his release from Dundee, Raith Rovers confirmed their interest in signing <mask>. He scored on his debut, against Forfar Athletic on 2 August 2014, in a 4–2 win in the Scottish Challenge Cup. His first league goal came seven days later on 9 August 2014, in the opening game of the season, in a 3–1 win over Dumbarton, followed up his second goal, in a 1–0 win over Alloa Athletic in his second appearance. Following his good display, Manager Grant Murray believed <mask> could be a key player for the club.Queen of the South (Second spell)
On 28 May 2015 it was announced that <mask> had signed for Queen of the South. He scored on his second debut for the club against Stranraer in the Challenge Cup, and followed that up with another goal on his second appearance against Annan Athletic in the Scottish League Cup. Airdrieonians
<mask> joined Scottish League One side Airdrieonians in July 2016, signing a two-year deal with the club. At the end of the 2018–19 season, he was among a group of players made available for transfer by the club, and on 3 July 2019, he left Airdrieonians after agreeing a mutual termination of his contract. Following his departure, <mask> criticised the club for making the list of available players public. Peterhead
In August 2019, <mask> signed for Peterhead until the end of the season. Career statistics

International career
<mask> was part of the Scotland under 19 squad that made it to the final of the 2006 European Championships played in Poland.<mask> played in the last four of Scotland's five games and scored the opener in the group phase win against Turkey. He was also included in the Scotland under–20 squad that played in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Honours
Dundee
Scottish Championship: 2013–14

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<mask> profile Dundee official website. 1987 births
Living people
Scottish footballers
Scotland youth international footballers
Scotland under-21 international footballers
Celtic F.C. players
Partick Thistle F.C. players
Queen of the South F.C. players
Dundee F.C.players
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title: Joan Comorera

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<mask> (or <mask>; 5 September 1894 – 7 May 1958) was a Spanish Communist politician, journalist and writer from Catalonia who spent several years in Argentina before returning to Spain in 1931 at the start of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a Catalan nationalist, and was elected chairman of the Socialist Union of Catalonia in 1933. In 1936 he became Secretary General of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), in alliance with the Spanish Communist Party. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) he built up his party into a major political force during the struggles among the supporters of the Republic between Socialists, Stalinists, Trotskyists and Anarcho-syndicalists. After the Republicans were defeated by the right-wing forces led by Francisco Franco he went into exile, living in Mexico and then in France. In 1949 he was expelled from the Communist party for his Catalan nationalism, and survived an assassination attempt. In 1951 he moved back to Catalonia using a false name.He was arrested in 1954 and died in prison four years later. Early years: 1895–1930

<mask> i Soler was born in Cervera, Segarra, Catalonia on 5 September 1894. He took a teacher's training course in Lérida, but never taught. In 1913 he began work as a journalist, acting as the Madrid correspondent of the newspaper La Publicidad. In the summer of 1913 he founded the anticlerical magazine La Escuela in Cervera. In 1914 he moved to Barcelona, where he became involved in the republican movement. He was a cofounder of the Bloc Republicà Autonomista (BRA), and then of the Partit Republicà Català (PRC).He was active in journalism as a regular contributor to La Lucha and editor of El Pueblo. In 1916 he married Rosa Santacana. <mask> lived in France from 1917 to 1919. In 1919 he published La trágica ignorancia española (The Tragic Ignorance of Spain). He emigrated to Argentina in 1919, where he continued to work as a journalist. He joined the Argentine Socialist Party. He was naturalized and headed the bilingual weekly paper Nación Catalana (Catalan Nation) from 1923 to 1930.He was forced to leave Argentina after the coup of General José Félix Uriburu in September 1930. He moved to Uruguay that year. Second Republic: 1931–1936

With the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931 <mask> returned to Catalonia, where he joined the Socialist Union of Catalonia (Unió Socialista de Catalunya, USC). He headed the socialist weekly Justicia Social  (Social Justice) from 1931 to 1936. <mask> was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in November 1932, and was elected chairman of the executive committee of the USC in April 1933. He was Minister of Agriculture and Economy in the first government of Catalonia formed by president Lluís Companys, from January to October 1934. He organized the Higher Council of Cooperation and the Agricultural and Cooperative Bank of Credit.Comorera participated in the events of 6 October 1934 and was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. A meeting of the six Marxist parties of Catalonia was held on 3 February 1935 to prepare for the formation of the partido socialista catalán. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Unió Socialista de Catalunya (USC), Federación Catalana del PSOE, Partit Comunista Catalá (PCC), Bloc Obrer i Camperol (BOC) and the Izquierda Comunista. <mask>'s USC took the position that the Socialists should unify into one group, the Communists into another, and then the two groups should join. This was the start of extended negotiations in which a liaison committee was formed to resolve issues between the Socialist groups. The growing strength of the Trotskyist POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) encouraged the PCC to enter into negotiations with the liaison committee. On 24 November 1935 the committee held a meeting in Barcelona which the PCC was invited to attend.Comorera wrote from prison urging a quick union of the groups, and the PCC joined the committee in the first half of January 1936. When the Popular Front gained power in February 1936 <mask> was released and returned to the Ministry of Agriculture and Economy. <mask> led the USC into unification with the Proletarian Catalan Party (Partit Català Proletari) in April 1936, followed by formation in July 1936 of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC)
Comorera was appointed PSUC secretary general. In the government of the Catalan Generalitat named by President Companys on 31 July 1936 the PSUC was given three ministries. <mask> was Minister of the Economy, Rafael Vidiella was Minister of Communications and Estanislau Ruiz Ponsetti was Minister of Supplies. However, the dominant CNT-FAI objected to the inclusion of the PSUC, and on 6 August 1936 a new government was formed that excluded the PSUC. Civil War: 1936–1939

During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Comorera held various ministerial positions in the government of Catalonia.He was active in the movement to unify the Anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the PSUC, and attended plenary meetings of the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España PCE). At the end of November 1936 the Trotskyist POUM denounced the Soviet Union for preventing them from joining the Madrid Defense Council. On 13 December 1936 <mask> said, "the POUM has initiated a shameful campaign of attacks and slanders against the great proletarian country and friend, using exactly the same arguments as the fascist Germans and Italians." The CNT chose to ignore the dispute between the POUM and the PSUC, arguing in favor of the unity government. However, a new "syndical" government was formed on 17 December 1936 that excluded POUM members and included <mask>, Rafael Vidiella and Miquel Valdés of the PSUC. <mask> was Minister of Supplies in the "syndical" government, and was soon accused of causing the shortage of bread in Barcelona. In turn, the PSUC accused the CNT's supplies committees of causing the problem.On 22 February 1937 CNT unions confiscated 15,000 sacks of flour from a Barcelona warehouse. On 27 February Comorera introduced bread rationing throughout Catalonia. The cabinet was reshuffled frequently. On 3 April 1937 <mask> became Minister of Labor, and on 16 April became Minister of Justice. An article in the CNT newspaper Solidaridad Obrera on 17 April 1937 stated that "[The] way to prevent the sacrifices of our comrades from being reduced to naught is... to create an army that will guarantee victory in the war and the Revolution and to remove <mask>, Aiguadé, Rodríguez Salas, etc. from the public life of Catalonia." <mask> was Catalan Minister of Justice when emergency tribunals began to operate around the end of April 1937 to examine "acts of disaffection against the regime not provided for or sanctioned under the Common Penal Code or in the special penal laws" and to consider crimes of factionalism.The Anarchists controlled the telephone exchange in Barcelona from October 1936 onward. In a speech on 2 June 1937 <mask> said, "All the interior controls of the telephone exchange were in the service, not of the community, but of one organization, and neither President Azaña nor President Companys, nor anyone else, could speak without an indiscreet controller overhearing." At the PSUC conference in July 1937 <mask> attacked the policy of the POUM and the CNT. He turned his party into a major political force during the civil War. The PSUC was the only communist organization that did not represent a state to be admitted to the Communist International. <mask> was a leading member of the government of Catalonia until the Republican collapse in 1939. Last years: 1939–1958

After the civil war <mask> went into exile in France.He moved to Moscow in May 1939, then to Mexico in August 1940. The Spanish Communist leader Pedro Checa died in Mexico on 6 August 1942 due to complications from an appendectomy. The guard of honor for his body consisted of <mask>, Antonio Mije, Ángel Álvarez and Federico Melchor. After Comintern was dissolved in 1943 the PCE made continued efforts to absorb the PSUC, which <mask> resisted. Until the mid-1940s the PSUC under Comorera combined Catalan nationalism, communism and opposition to Franco. The PSUC continued a policy of armed resistance to Franco until 1947, and suffered intense persecution by the Francoists. <mask> moved to Cuba, then to France in 1945.He was opposed by Santiago Carrillo and his followers in the PCE. <mask> was temporarily made a member of the PCE politburo with the intent of forcing him to submit to its discipline. Dolores Ibárruri was head of the Spanish communists, and <mask> should submit to her, just as Tito  should submit to Stalin. With his Catalan nationalism, his inability to comprehend the incompatibility between bourgeois nationalism and internationalism, <mask> was called the Catalan equivalent of Tito. The PCE Central Committee expelled him on 10 November 1949 for having betrayed the party, the working class and the people. After this PCE pressure to absorb the PSUC slackened. <mask> formed his own organization and newspaper, while saying he remained loyal to Stalin and hostile to the "degenerate traitor" Tito.However, he was isolated, denied support by the Cominform or by other communist parties, and attacked by the PCE and the new leaders of the PSUC. His own daughter, Nuri <mask> Santana, denounced him as a traitor in the PSUC journal published in Paris in March 1950. <mask> was blamed by the PCE for having betrayed Gregorio López Raimundo. Enrique Líster is reported as saying that in 1949 Carrillo ordered the execution of <mask>, who was saved by the precautions he took. <mask> took refuge in Cerdanya, then secretly moved to Spain in April 1951 where he settled in Ripoll under a false name. He continued to be politically active, and published 32 issues of the workers' magazine Treball. <mask> was arrested on 9 June 1954 and on 23 August 1954 was sentenced to thirty years in prison and taken to the Burgos penitentiary.PCE attacks on <mask> continued after his arrest. At the October 1956 PSUC party congress he was blamed for the "cult of personality" in the party. <mask> died in Burgos prison on 7 May 1958. In 1986 the PCE issued a manifesto that named <mask> and others heroic freedom fighters, a belated rehabilitation. Publications

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title: Naomi Novik

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<mask> (born April 30, 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. She is best known for the Temeraire series, an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and the standalone fantasy novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, which were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards. Film rights to her novels Uprooted and A Deadly Education have been purchased by Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures. Early life
<mask> grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. She is a second-generation American; her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Polish Catholics. Displaying an interest in reading at a young age, she read The Lord of the Rings at age six, and developed a love for Jane Austen soon afterward.She received a bachelor's degree in English literature at Brown University, and holds a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University. She participated in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide, until she discovered that she preferred writing to game design. Career
Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire in the UK), which commences the Temeraire series, is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world in which dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat. His Majesty's Dragon won the Compton Crook Award in 2007, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Temeraire: In the Service of the King, an omnibus volume collecting the first three books of the series (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War), won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. In September 2006, Peter Jackson optioned the rights to the Temeraire series, intending to produce three or more live-action films, but the rights have since reverted to Novik. The Temeraire series has also been released in audiobook format.The first five audiobooks were released by Books on Tape, beginning in 2007, and read by Simon Vance. The sixth audiobook was released by Tantor Audio in September 2010, also read by Vance. In September 2007, Novik was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2006. In 2011, Novik wrote Will Supervillains Be on the Final?, a graphic novel about the next generation of high-flying costumed crusaders. Yishan Li illustrated the comic with "manga-styled art". In 2015, Novik published Uprooted, a standalone novel "set in a fantasy world inspired by the Kingdom of Poland", which won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel,  and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to Uprooted; Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman signed on to produce the film through their production company, A Very Good Production.In 2016, Novik published "Spinning Silver", a short story retelling the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, in the fantasy anthology The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. Two years later, she expanded the story into her second standalone novel, Spinning Silver, which won the 2019 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2019 Alex Award, and the 2019 Audie Award for Fantasy. In 2020, Novik published A Deadly Education, the first in a trilogy set in the Scholomance, a school of black magic from folklore. The main character, Galadriel "El" Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress, must survive to graduation while controlling her destructive abilities. Universal Pictures purchased the film rights to the Scholomance series in advance, assigning Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman of Mandeville Films to develop and produce the films. Upon its release, A Deadly Education was criticized for a passage where the hairstyle known as dreadlocks is described as susceptible to an infestation of bug-like magical creatures. Novik later apologized for "evok[ing] a racist stereotype" about Afro-textured hair.She revised the passage for future reprints, and promised that the sequel novels will not be sent to reviewers and publishers before "revisions are fully complete and a final sensitivity read has happened." Activism
<mask> helped to organize and in 2007 was one of the three directors of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of fan-media including fan fiction, fan videos (vids), and real-person fiction. <mask> was a co-founder of Archive of Our Own (AO3), a project of OTW that began in 2007 to create an online archive of fan fiction. When, at the 2019 Hugo Award ceremony, AO3 won the award for Best Related Work, Novik accepted the prize on behalf of all AO3's creators and readers. Personal life
<mask> is married to the entrepreneur and writer Charles Ardai. They live in Manhattan. They have one child, a daughter named <mask> Ardai, who was born in 2010.Awards and nominations
<mask> has won the British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards, and received nominations for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

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<mask> (born 20 December 1951) is a German scientist and author. He published the first German monograph on issues of cold shortening and electrical stimulation,
but he became mainly known for his books about Jesus of Nazareth and early Christianity in which he doubts the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth. He also argues that the development of Christianity is a result of religious and political disputes on the basis of ancient pagan sources. <mask> was born in Koethen (Anhalt). He studied at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and graduated in 1978 with a doctoral thesis to Dr. rer. nat. In 1986 he obtained his post-doctoral qualification at the Humboldt University of Berlin to Dr.-Ing.habil. in the field of food technology. In 1987 he became a university lecturer at the Technical University Koethen and later at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Activity as a scientist and author
As chemist and food technologist Specht worked mainly on problems of air separation and also catalysis and cold treatment of meat. He was a member of the German Chemical Society and also of editorial advisory boards as well as of brain trusts. In addition to publishing numerous scientific publications <mask> operated increasingly also as a filmmaker and book author. He wrote screenplays, film commentaries and novels but mainly non-fiction books on cultural, historical, philosophical and religious studies topics (see works – book selection).Here <mask> argued that some contents of the New Testament are not historical occurrences but are compiled inventions of the second century and later. Furthermore, he doubts the Paul's authorship of the St. Paul's epistles. Works (book selection)
Kaelteverkuerzung und Elektrostimulation bei Fleisch – Untersuchungen an Schaf- und Rindfleisch, Leipzig, 1990, . Von Isis zu Jesus – 5000 Jahre Mythos und Macht, Leipzig 2004, . Geschichte(n) der Dummheit – Die sieben Sünden des menschlichen Schwachsinns, Leipzig 2004, . Geschichte(n) der Lust – Zwölf Kapitel Leidenschaft und Laster, Leipzig 2005, . Geschichte(n) der Lüge – Amüsantes und Skandalöses rund ums 8.Gebot, Leipzig 2006, . Die Geburt des Abendlandes – Band 1: Der Tempel der Weisheit und die zweiundsiebzig Namen Gottes, Leipzig 2008, . Die Geburt des Abendlandes – Band 2: Das Buch der Weisheit und die Spuren des Lichts, Leipzig 2008, . Jesus? Tatsachen und Erfindungen, Leipzig 2010, . Der Jahwe-Code – Auf den Spuren der heiligen Zahl 72, Leipzig 2011, . Liebe, Laster, Leidenschaft – Geheimnisse großer Gemälde, Leipzig 2014, .Das Erbe des Heidentums – Antike Quellen des christlichen Abendlands, Marburg 2015 and Baden-Baden 2017, . Reviews and reception (selection)
H. Sielaff, Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, review in journal “Fleisch”, 43 (7), 1989. K. O. Honikel, Institut für Fleischforschung Kulmbach, review in journal “Fleischwirtschaft”, 70 (9), 1990. G.J.D. Soares, J.A.G.Areas, J.P.Batistuti: "Effect of High Voltage Electrical Stimulation on Buffalo Meat Conditioning", review in Rev. Bras.de AGROCIÊNCIA, v.1, No. 2, p 61, 1995. H. Detering: “<mask>: Jesus? Tatsachen und Erfindungen”, review in journal „Aufklaerung und Kritik”, Zeitschrift für freies Denken und humanistische Philosophie, Nuernberg, 18. Jahrgang, 2/2011 ISSN 0945-6627, p. 241 ff
D. Walz: “Als ich noch der Pontius Pilatus war. Ein Wiedergänger schreibt Geschichte", Leipzig 2013, Chapter 9. R. Weber: “Was bleibt vom Christentum ohne Jesus?”, review in journal: “Saekulare Humanisten”, Giordano Bruno Stiftung GBS Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim 09/2014, p 1.R. Weber: “Denken statt glauben – Wie das Christentum wirklich entstanden ist”, Norderstedt 2015, p 212 ff. S. R. Krebs: “Ueber das Erbe des Heidentums im ‘christlichen’ Abendland”, review in: “Ein Freigeist, Ein Forum aus Weimar”, Weimar 05/2016. W. Müller: "Ueber das Erbe im 'christlichen' Abendland", review in: "Wissen bloggt. Humanismus Hic Habitat", Unterfoehring 05/2016. S.R. Krebs: "Nicht nur Satire: Christlicher Klerus und menschliche Sexualität", in: "Ein Freigeist, Ein Forum aus Weimar", Weimar 07/2016
S. R. Krebs: “Verborgenes Wissen um die Zahl 72 in einem ‘Bibel-Code’?, review in: “Ein Freigeist, Ein Forum aus Weimar”, Weimar 08/2016. A. Markt-Huter: “<mask>: Das Erbe des Heidentums”, review in: Lesen in Tirol, Tiroler Bildungsservice, 08/2016.W. Roble: “Lichtachsen, Pentagramme und der Goldene Schnitt-Die Wiederentdeckung der Stadtplanung von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit”
D. Wolf: “Das christlich-patriarchale ›Feindbild Frau‹”, archemama, 20.Sept. 2016
S. R. Krebs: "5000 Jahre Mythos und Macht: Von ISIS zu Jesus und Maria", review in: "Ein Freigeist, Ein Forum aus Weimar", Weimar 08/2016
M.B. : "Das Erbe des Heidentums", review in "De omnibus dubitandum – Radikalkritik – Beiträge zur historischen Kritik der fruehchristlichen Geschichte", 11. Dec. 2016,
H.-G. Weiske: "Die Erfindung des Christentums", Books on Demand, 2017
A. Markt-Huter: "<mask>, Jesus? Tatschen und Erfindungen", review in: Lesen in Tirol, Tiroler Bildungsservice, 4.1.2017
 Encyclopedia AnthraWiki: Lemma "Zweiundsiebzig Sprachen", first reference: <mask>: Der Jahwe-Code. Auf den Spuren der heiligen Zahl 72, Leipzig 2011, , 7. Febr.2017, see: https://anthrowiki.at/Zweiundsiebzig_Sprachen
G. Vobig: "Wenn Kleines groß geschrieben wird", 24.4.2017 in: https://guidovobig.com/2017/04/22/wenn-kleines-gross-geschrieben-wird/
S. Karlhuber: "Vom Blut des Adonis und den Wurzeln der Anemone – Ueberlegungen zum Ursprung des Wortes 'Anemone' im Zusammenhang mit dem Adonismythos", BoD Norderstedt, Paperback, 12. Juni 2017, p. 73 and 187,
S.R. Krebs: "Problemfall Priesterkaste II – Religions-und kirchenkritische Rezensionen 2015–2017", Reutlingen 2017, p. 83–89, p. 92–94, p. 96–100, p. 109–113, 121–128, p. 131–136, p. 151–156
R. Weber: "Jesus Römer Christentum – Makaberste Tragödie des Abendlands", Norderstedt 2017
H. Detering: "Christi Brueder – Wie heidnische Mythen das Christusbild prägten", Vol. I, Wroclaw 2017, p. 89, p. 95,
Έ. Μυθικιστές: "Ο πάστορας Hermann Detering και ο Μυθικισμός στη Γερμανία", 8. Dec. 2017
D. Wolf: "Wer war ECHNATON? : Eine etwas andere Sicht auf den weltberühmten ›ersten Monotheisten"
A. Müller: "Zur Entwicklung des religiösen Glaubens – Eine kurze Literaturauswertung mit Ergänzungen zur Entstehung und Weiterentwicklung des Glaubens an Geister, Seelen und Götter", pp. 47, 49, 67f
 "Kraft-Buch des Monats: 'Geschichten der Lust – Zwölf Kapitel Leidenschaft und Laster' (Harald Specht, 2005, Engelsdorfer Verlag)", review in: Newsletter 9 der AnuKan Buddies, September 2017, p. 3
 D. Wolf: "Das andere Aegypten-Buch – Der Kampf gegen Weisheit und Macht der matriarchalen Urkultur Aegyptens.

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<mask> (Tzvi<mask>  (January 30, 1883, Lübeck, German Empire – March 26, 1942, Biķerniecki forest, near Riga, Latvia) was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist (Naturwissenschaftler). Early life and family

Carlebach was the eighth child of Esther Adler (1853–1920), the daughter of the former rabbi of Lübeck, Rabbi Alexander Sussmann Adler (1816–1869), and Lübeck's then Rabbi <mask> (1845–1919). In 1919 <mask> and his former pupil Charlotte Preuss (1900–1942) married. They had nine children. One of them is rabbi <mask>. Education and early career
<mask> became rabbi, like many of his brothers, to wit <mask>, <mask> (rabbi in Memel and Cologne), <mask> (rabbi in Berlin, Baden near Vienna and New York), and <mask> (rabbi in Leipzig). <mask> completed extensive studies in natural sciences.From 1901 on he studied at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin natural sciences, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and history of art. The quantum physicist Max Planck and the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutics) were among his teachers. In 1908 he graduated as high-school teacher (Oberlehrer-Examen) of natural sciences (at summa cum laude). In the same time Carlebach attended the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin. In 1905 to 1907 Carlebach interrupted his studies in Germany and taught at the Lämel-School in Jerusalem. There Carlebach learned to know a number of excellent rabbis. In 1909 Carlebach passed degrees in mathematics, physics and Hebrew at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg.There he also did his doctorate on the mathematician Levi ben Gershon (Lewi ben Gerson als Mathematiker). Carlebach gained academic reputation by books on Levi ben Gershon as well as on Albert Einstein's relativity theory in 1912. From 1910 to 1914 Carlebach finished his studies at the rabbinical seminary under rabbi David Hoffmann. In 1914 Carlebach was ordained rabbi. World War I service
During World War I Carlebach served in the imperial German Army, at the beginning as telegraphist. In 1915 he was assigned as educator - after recommendation by his brother-in-law Leopold Rosenak, a German Army Field Rabbi active in promoting German culture among the Jews in Lithuania and Poland during the German occupation (1915–1918). Erich Ludendorff's intention was to evoke pro-German attitudes among Jews and other Poles and Lithuanians, in order to prepare the installation of a Polish and a Lithuanian state dependent on Germany.Part of the effort was the establishment of Jewish newspapers (e.g. the folkist Warszawer Togblat, וואַרשעווער טאָגבלאַט), of Jewish organisations (e.g. <mask>'s brother German Army Field Rabbi <mask> (*1874-1927*) initiated in Łomża the foundation of the hassidic umbrella organisation Agudas Yisroel of Poland, part of a non-Zionist movement founded in Germany in 1912) and of modern educational institutions of Jewish alignment. <mask> founded the partly German-language Jüdisches Realgymnasium גימנזיום עברי (academic high school) in Kaunas (Kovno; the interwar capital of Lithuania) and directed it until 1919. The school was based on the German Torah im Derech Eretz model. The school provided both Jewish and secular studies both for men and women (separately) and was the model for the Yavneh network that <mask> later founded in collaboration with Leo Deutschlander. In 1925 Yavneh was taken over by <mask> Bloch (*1860-1930*), who relocated it to Telšiai (Russ.: Telshe, Yidd. : Telz טעלז) and incorporated it into the Rabbinical College of Telshe, which managed to re-establish in 1942 in the USA. From 1919 to 1921 he was rabbi of his native home town Lübeck. In 1921 Carlebach became headmaster of the Talmud Torah high school in Hamburg. Between 1925 and 1936 he served as chief rabbi of the Hochdeutsche Israeliten-Gemeinde zu Altona, after which he changed as chief rabbi to the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde zu Hamburg, where he served until his deportation into death in 1941. The renowned Israeli jurist Haim Cohn described the effect Carlebach had on his students (as well as illustrating Carlebach's fairly unusual position that Orthodox Jews may visit churches):

He spent a full day with the boys in the Cologne Cathedral, expertly explaining every detail of the statues, the glass windows, the ornaments, and the intricacies of the Catholic faith and ritual; but I was not allowed to participate, being a Cohen who may not be under the same roof with a corpse or with tombs, lest he become impure; and although, according to the letter of the Law, it is only the Jewish dead the contact with whom renders impure, and not the non-Jewish dead, still Carlebach held that the least possibility that among the dead buried in the cathedral may have been a person of Jewish origin (even though ultimately converted to Christianity), sufficed to make the place taboo to me. Persecution and Murder under Nazi regime

After Nazi Germany banned Jewish students from attending German schools together with "Aryan" German children, Rabbi Carlebach set up a number of schools throughout Germany to educate Jewish children.His schools bore his name and were known as <mask>-Schulen. He was deported to the Nazi concentration camp Jungfernhof by the Nazis, where he was murdered on March 26, 1942 during the mass shooting of approximately 1600 Jews, mostly older people and children, that became known as the Dünamünde Action. This occurred in the Biķerniecki forest, near Riga, Latvia, which was the site of numerous other shootings perpetrated by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators, in particular, the Arajs Kommando. His wife and younger children were also killed during the Holocaust. Of his surviving children, one son Rabbi Shlomo <mask> became the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor" [of students]) at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York City after the war, and his third daughter Professor Miriam Gillis-Carlebach emigrated to Israel in October 1938. She taught Education and Hebrew reading at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan. In 1992 she became the head of the Joseph Carlebach Institute at Bar-Ilan University and has dedicated herself to researching her father's writings as well as the writing of other Jewish leaders of the same time period.Rabbi <mask>'s wife managed to send her elder children to England, and they survived the war. Commemoration and legacy

On 18 August 1954 Jerusalem honoured <mask>'s work, among others at the local Lämel-School, by naming a street, Rekhov Carlebach/Karlibakh רחוב קרליבך, after him in the neighbourhood of Talpiot. The memory of <mask> is held in great honor by the City of Hamburg and its Jewish community. In 1990, part of the University Campus, the Bornplatz, the former location of the Main Synagogue of Hamburg and Carlebach's last pulpit, was named as the "Joseph-Carlebach-Platz". In honor of his 120th Birthday in 2003, the "<mask>-Carlebach-Preis" (<mask> Carlebach prize) for Jewish studies was established, awarded every two years, by the State University of Hamburg. Works
<mask>, <mask>. Die drei grossen Propheten Jesajas, Jirmija und Jecheskel; eine Studie.Pp. 133. Frankfurt am Main: Hermon-Verlag, 1932
<mask>, <mask>. Les trois grands prophetes, Isaie, Jeremie, Ezechiel. Traduit de l'allemand par Henri Schilli. Pp. 141.Paris: Editions A. Michel, 1959
<mask>, <mask>. Moderne paedagogische Bestrebungen und ihre Beziehungen zum Judentum. Pp. 19. Berlin, Hebraeischer Verlag "Menorah", 1925
<mask>, <mask>. Mikhtavim mi-Yerushalayim (1905–1906): Erets Yi'sra'el be-reshit ha-me'ah be-`ene moreh tsa`ir, ma'skil-dati mi-Germanyah. (Ed.and transl. Miryam Gilis-Karlibakh). Pp. 141, ill. Ramat-Gan: Orah, mi-pirsume Mekhon Yosef Karlibakh; Yerushalayim: Ariel, c1996
<mask>, <mask>. Ausgewaehlte Schriften mit einem Vorwort von Haim H. Cohn; herausgegeben von Miriam Gillis-Carlebach. 2 vols. Hildesheim; New York: G. Olms Verlag, 1982
<mask>, <mask>.Lewi ben Gerson als Mathematiker; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik bei den Juden. Von Dr. phil. 238, [2]. Berlin: L. Lamm, 1910
Carlebach, <mask>. Das gesetzestreue Judentum. Pp. 53.Berlin: Im Schocken Verlag, 1936. <mask>, <mask>. Juedischer Alltag als humaner Widerstand: Dokumente des Hamburger Oberrabiners Dr. <mask> aus den Jahren 1939-1942. Ed. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach. Pp. 118, ill. Hamburg: Verlag Verein fuer Hamburgische Geschichte, 1990
Gerhard Paul; Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (Eds.).Menora und Hakenkreuz: zur Geschichte der Juden in und aus Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck und Altona (1918–1998)''. Pp. 943, ill. Neumuenster: Wachholtz Verlag, 1998

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 Joseph Carlebach Institute
 Personality of the Week - Carlebach at www.bh.org.il
Review of the book: Ish Yehudi: The Life and the Legacy of a Torah Great, Rav <mask>zvi Carebach

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title: Johann Gottlieb Christaller

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<mask> (19 November 1827 – 16 December 1895) was a German missionary, clergyman, ethnolinguist, translator and philologist who served with the Basel Mission. He was devoted to the study of the Twi language in what was then the Gold Coast, now Ghana. He was instrumental, together with African colleagues, Akan linguists, David Asante, Theophilus Opoku, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Akuapem dialect of Twi. Christaller was also the first editor of the Christian Messenger, the official news publication of the Basel Mission, serving from 1883 to 1895. He is recognised in some circles as the "founder of scientific linguistic research in West Africa". Early life and education
<mask> was born in Winnenden, near Stuttgart in Germany. His father was a tailor and a subsistence farmer of modest background, who was keen on books and had a large personal library with more than 2000 books.<mask>r had two sisters, <mask> and Christiane. His father died when Christaller was only a year old, throwing the family into extreme poverty. To make ends meet, his mother and sister started a sewing business and lending books from his late father's library. J. G. Christaller spent his childhood days honing his talent in philology and linguistics by reading his father's books. Christaller received basic additional private instruction in Latin and Greek. He was a brilliant student and won a bursary, freeing his family from paying tuition at school. Christaller, influenced by the Pietist movement within the German Lutheran church, decided very early in his life to become a missionary.Later, from 1841 to 1844, Christaller was an apprentice and an assistant to a town clerk in the mayor's printing office in Winnenden Among his options after his apprenticeship were entering the public service, going to a university to study languages or going to the seminary in Basel. He opted to enroll at the seminary. In May 1847, Christaller applied for admission to the Basel Mission Seminary and Training School in Basel, Switzerland, starting his studies in September 1848 at age of 20. At Basel in 1852, he started learning the Twi language through Hans Nicolaus Riis whose uncle was the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis. He was ordained as a pastor on 7 November 1852. During his studies there, he helped edit the grammar of the Twi language. By the end of his seminary education, in addition to his native German, he had become fluent in English, Greek, Hebrew and Latin.Literary work on the Gold Coast
According to scholars, Christaller was “deeply influenced by the sociohistorical theories of <mask> Herder (1744–1803), whose views on the life cycle of communities and on the equality of different cultures was opposed to the historical conception of the Enlightenment, which considered Western civilization as superior to other cultures and as the ideal and goal toward which other cultures did or should aspire.”

In 1853, <mask>r was posted to Ghana by the Basel Mission Home Committee, stationed at Akropong, about 32 miles (51 km) north of Accra while his classmate August Steinhauser was sent to Christiansborg, Osu. Christaller arrived at Osu, now a suburb of Accra, on 25 January 1853. At the Akropong mission station, he met other missionaries, Widmann,  Dieterle and Joseph Mohr. After his arrival on the Gold Coast, he became an instructor at the recently founded Basel Mission Seminary at Akropong-Akuapem, established in 1848. The seminary had ten students at the time. The Basel Mission by that time had also started a boys' school that had forty-one pupils and a girls' school with thirty-two pupils. It became apparent to Christaller that without a written local language, the efforts by the mission to propagate the Gospel would prove futile.His giftedness in linguistics allowed him to transform an oral language into written form. His main assignments included the translation of the Bible and complex Christian literary works for the growing native Christian communities, after quickly mastering the Twi language. Christaller also stayed at Aburi, 20 miles (32 km) north of Accra, from 1862 to 1865. From 1865 to 1867, he was based at Kyebi in Akyem Abuakwa, 50 miles (80 km) north of Accra. He again lived in Akropong from 1867 to 1868. There were variations in Twi as Christaller encountered and the language was known as Odschi, Oji, Tschi or Twi in that period. Hans Nicolaus Riis who he had earlier met in Basel had done philological work on the Gold Coast in 1845: Elemente des Akwapim Dialects de Odschi Sprache (1853) and Grammatical Outline and Vocabulary of the Oji Language with Special Reference to the Akuapem Dialect Together with a Collection of Proverbs by the Natives (1854).These works were a useful guide to Christaller. Based on these literary works, Christaller chose the Akuapem dialect to be the written form of Twi even though he learnt the version spoken at Akyem Abuakwa while living in Kyebi. Moreover, the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast had its headquarters at Akropong and the dialect of spoken Twi first assumed a written form by 1853. He justified this selection in one of his published books, Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tschi (1875): "The Akan and Fante dialects do not differ so much as ancient Greek dialects or as the different English and German dialects; neither are they spoken by as many individuals. And when more than forty millions of Germans enjoy a common book-language, half a million Fantes may more easily be brought to a common medium of communication by writing." He further commented on the choice of Akuapem Twi for his literary works, "It is an Akan dialect influenced by Fante, steering in the middle course between other Akan dialects and Fante in sounds, forms and expressions; it admits peculiarities of both branches as far as they do no contradict each other, and is, therefore, best capable of being enriched from both sides." To buttress his point, his fellow linguist and native Akan missionary, David Asante added, "Akuapem easily admits of enrichment and admixture from Akyem and even Fante; and Fante also admits and receives such foreign elements; but if the same should be done in the Akyem dialect, it would not sound well.”

Due to ill health, he returned to Germany between 1858 and June 1862 just before he was stationed at Aburi.The Acts of the Apostles and the Four Gospels were published in Twi in 1859 and 1864 respectively. Different volumes of the entire New Testament became publicly available in 1863 followed by Psalms and Proverbs in 1866. The Twi translations of several Pauline epistles were also published in Basel: Letter to the Romans, 1 and 2 Peter, James and Jude, 1, 2 and 3 John, Revelation (1861); 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and 1 and 2 Thessalonians (1862); 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews (1863). After the death of his wife in 1866, he relocated to Akropong. He worked on translating the complete text of the Bible into Twi together with David Asante and Theophilus Opoku. The fully corrected manuscript was finally published in Basel in December 1871. The work on the second edition of the Twi Bible was carried out from 1897 to 1900 and eventually published by British and Foreign Bible Society.He stayed largely in Ghana until 1868 when he went back to Europe and settled in Schorndorf. Christaller published his scientific grammar of the Twi language in 1875. The Dictionary of the "Asante and the Fante Language—called Twi" (two volumes) was published in 1881 which by all accounts was the masterpiece of his literary career. This dictionary was a lexicon of Akan socio-cultural and religious customs. Between 1883 and 1895 Christaller became the editor-in-chief of the Christian Messenger, which is the oldest continuously perating faith-based newspaper in Ghana. The first edition of that newspaper was published on 1 March 1883. In an appraisal of his work, the scholar, Noel Smith noted, "Christaller’s work achieved three things: it raised the Twi language to a literary level and provided the basis of all later work in the language; it gave the first real insight into Akan religious, social, and moral ideas; and it welded the expression of Akan Christian worship to the native tongue.”

In his later years, he was an Elder in his local church and attended several Pietist fellowships in the area.From time to time, he visited his old colleagues in Basel. Other views
Translation as a mediation tool

J. G. Christaller believed that had the British colonial administrators known the depth and breadth of literary work conducted in Twi, the Sagrenti War between 1873 and 1874 during which the British invaded Asante could have been prevented. In his grammar book published in 1875, Christaller noted that a letter written in English from the then British Governor, Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Nana Kofi Karikari, which suggested a peace treaty between the British and Asante could have been authored in the Twi language. That letter was intercepted by Amankwa Tia, a subject of the Ashanti stool. Fante literary work by English scholars

Christaller did not have a high opinion on the literary work, Mfantsi Grammar (1868) written by British philologists, D. L. Carr and J. P. Brown and printed in Cape Coast. The book mimicked English principles in phonetics and orthography which Christaller saw as ill-suited for the Akan language in general. In 1913, an updated second edition was published by J. P. Brown in response to Christaller's criticism.Personal life

<mask>r married Christiane Emilie Ziegler, a fellow missionary and a native of Waiblingen on 27 January 1857 at Akropong. Ziegler had earlier arrived on the Gold Coast in December 1856. Her parents were Christian Ludwig Ziegler and Rosine Kübler. They had five children in all, four sons and a daughter. They include Erdmann Gottreich Christaller, a Protestant pastor and writer, Theodor Benjamin Christaller, "Empire" school teacher in Cameroon and Hanna Christaller, who wrote "Kolonial novellen (Togo)". Emilie died on 13 August 1866 at Kyebi in Akyem Abuakwa at the age of 37. She was buried under a palm tree at the old Basel Mission cemetery in Keybi.He returned to Germany in 1868. He later married Bertha Ziegler, sister of his late wife Christiane in 1872. They also had four sons and a daughter. Publications and awards
His best known publications include  A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Twi, Chee) Based on the Akuapem Dialect with Reference to Other (Akan and Fante) Dialects published in 1875 and  A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Twi, , published in 1871 followed by an updated edition in 1881 and a revised version in 1933. These were both done in Basel. He also wrote a book on Catechism (1857) as well as Hymnbooks (1878–1891) and Twi Proverbs, a Collection of 3600 Twi Proverbs (1879). He was awarded the Volney Prize by the Institut de France in 1876 and 1882.Selected works
The following publications are some of Christaller's literary works:

 Christaller, J. G. (1875)  “A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tschi (Chwee, Twi) Based on the Akuapem Dicalect, With Reference to Other (Akan and Fante) Dialects” – “Twi mmebusem mpensa-ahansia mmoaano”, Basel
 Christaller, J. G., Asante, David, Opoku, Theophilus (1871) “Anyamesem anase Kyerew Kronkron Apam-dedaw ne Apam-foforo nsem wo Twi kasa mu” (“The Holy Bible translated from the original tongues into the Twi language”), Basel
 Christaller, J. G., Locher, C. W., Zimmermann, J. (1874) “A Dictionary, English, Tshi (Asante), Akra; Tshi (Chwee) Comprising as Dialects: Akan and Fante; Accra connected with Adangme; Gold Coast, West Africa,” Basel
 Christaller, J. G., (1879) “A collection of 3,600 Tshi Proverbs In Use Among the Africans of the Gold Coast as Speaking the Asante and Fante Language, Collected, Together with their Variations, and Alphabetically Arranged,” Basel
 Christaller, J. G., (1881) “A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tschi (Chwee, Twi) With a Grammatical Introduction and appendices on the Geography of the Gold Coast and Other Subjects,” Basel, 2nd rev. ed., edited by J. Schweizer in 1893, published as “A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Languages Called Tshi (Twi),” Basel
 Clerk, N. T. and Christaller, J. G. (1890), "Neue Reise in den Hinterländen von Togo, nach Nkonya, Buem, Obooso, Salaga, Krakye, 2. Dezember 1889 bis 5. Februar 1890," Mitteilungen der geographischen Gesellschaft für Thüringen, vol. IX, pp. 77 – 98 [An account of the northern Volta of the Gold Coast, written entirely in German in the "Missionsgeorgraphischer Teil" of the periodical, Journal of the Geographical Society of Thuringia]
 Christaller, J. G. (1892), “Die Sprechen Afrikas,” Stuttgart
 Christaller, J. G. (1929) Missionar J. G.Christaller: Erinnerungen aus seinem Leben Stuttgart and Basel

Death and legacy
Christaller died on 16 December 1895, just before undergoing surgery.His last words were, "My work is coming to an end and my Sabbath is coming. The marked hands and legs [of Christ] have done all of that for me." Akrofi-Christaller Institute
The Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture is a postgraduate research and training Institute located at Akropong which awards its own degrees. It promotes "the study and documentation of Christian history, thought and life in Ghana and in Africa as a whole, in relation to their African setting and to world Christianity". It was named after ethnolinguists, Clement Anderson Akrofi and <mask>b Christaller. Literature
Friedrich Agster, Winfried Maier-Revoredo, Margarete Henninger: "... destined for Africa". On the 100th anniversary of the death of the missionary and linguist <mask>b Christaller.Protestant church community and city Winnenden, Winnenden 1995
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Christaller, <mask>tlieb. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, , Sp. 1001-1002. (Biographical Bibliographic Church Lexicon)
Paul Steiner: Christaller, Joh. Gottlieb.In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 480-483. Diedrich Hermann Westermann: Christaller, <mask>b. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, , p. 219 ( digitized). See also
Basel Mission

References

External links
Literature by and about <mask> Christaller in the Catalog of the German National Library
Bibliography for "Who was Christaller?"Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture
Biography of <mask> Christaller on Dictionary of African Christian Biography

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German Protestant missionaries
German philologists
Gold Coast (British colony) people
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Protestant missionaries in Ghana
Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong faculty
Missionary linguists

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title: Rikki Beadle-Blair

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Richard Barrington "<mask>" Beadle-Blair MBE (born July 1961) is a British actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, singer, designer, choreographer, dancer and songwriter of British/West Indian origin. He is the artistic director of multi-media production company Team Angelica.<ref>Laura Barnett, "My Edinburgh" (interview with , The Guardian, 20 August 2007.</ref>

Early life
Blair was born in Camberwell and raised in Bermondsey, both in south London, by a single mother, Monica Beadle (who was born in 1944 in Jamaica). She had moved to Britain when she was 12 and was the first black child in her school in Peckham. <mask> was brought up with a brother, Gary Beadle (also an actor, of Eastenders fame), four years younger, and a sister, eight years younger. He attended Lois Acton's Experimental Bermondsey Lampost Free School. Career

When he was 17 he performed a capella concerts at the Gay's the Word bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, with fellow singers Robert Chevara and Michelle Baughan. The group went under the name of "Three People".He was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). In 1979 he won the Evening Standard′s Edward Bond's Young Playwright award for the play A-Z. In the film Sirens he played Blue, a punky Scouse heroin junkie. His band Boysie included Sean Mayes on piano, Leonard Davies on bass, Baden Hill on guitar and Martin Harmer on drums. In 1994, he wrote the screenplay for Nigel Finch's film Stonewall, about the Stonewall Riots. In 1999 he wrote Native, a Radio 4 play that became a short film directed by Rene Mohandas. In 2000 he wrote and performed a series of short radio plays for Radio 4 – including Fares Fair, Puppy Love, Finders Keepers, Silly Me and Open Pores.In 2001 he adapted Boy George's autobiography Take It Like A Man for a BBC film. This has not yet been produced. In March 2001, he wrote, produced, and directed the Channel 4 television series Metrosexuality in which he played a lead role. This also featured Noel Clarke, who went on to write and star in the movie Kidulthood. Beadle-Blair co-wrote and co-produced the soundtrack album with Mark Hawkes. On the album he sings a duet with Davie Fairbanks who played "Bambi" in the series. Noel Clarke contributes two raps to the album, which also features a track performed by Mat Fraser.The same year, he hosted the Big Up Yourself And Be Proud show at The Brixtonian during Mardi Gras Festival in aid of GMFA, a London-based gay men's health charity whose Big Up initiative (targeting black men) he is supporting. In 2002, his documentary Roots of Homophobia, for BBC Radio 4 won the Sony Radio Academy Awards for Best Radio Feature. There he brings his own experience as a gay black man to inform his investigation into homophobic attitudes in Jamaican pop music. He was the Executive story editor for both seasons of the US TV series Noah's Arc. He was also a writer on season two (credited for eps 2 & 4). He was supervising director for the South African organisation for first-time filmmakers  Out of Africa. in 2004 and 2005

Beadle-Blair has written songs for Kevin Marques.His theatre company, Team Angelica, is resident at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden, London. In 2005, Beadle-Blair wrote and directed the play Bashment for Theatre Royal Stratford East. The play tackled homophobia in the ragga/hip-hop music scene and ran two seasons in May and September. Beadle-Blair also wrote the music. Bashment was nominated for "Best New Play" at the national TMA Awards. Beadle-Blair has adapted his own screenplay of Stonewall for the stage and his production company Team Angelica, which he took to the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. He also directed, produced, designed both sets & costumes, & choreographed on the show.The play was nominated for "Best Ensemble" at The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence. In May 2006, Beadle-Blair wrote and directed Jucy for Queer Contact at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, as part of the Queer Up North Festival. In Autumn 2007, FIT, a play for young people commissioned by the Manchester-based arts organisation queerupnorth and the gay equality organisation Stonewall, went on tour around the UK. The play was developed to help tackle homophobic bullying in Britain's schools. The play was performed at The Drill Hall in London, The Birmingham Rep, The Contact Theatre in Manchester, the Unity Theatre in Liverpool, and the CCA in Glasgow. The show was performed in schools in London, Greater Manchester, Bournemouth, Brighton and Glasgow. Beadle-Blair, directed, choreographed, composed and wrote the show.His "painful" comedy play Familyman opened for a month at Theatre Royal Stratford East in May 2008 – the lead role of "Caesar Ramsay" was being played by Gary Beadle, his brother. The play was named "Show of the Week" for Time Out. In May 2008 he directed Best Man by Greg Owen at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Greg Owen won the Oscar Wilde Award for New Writing. The play was developed under the Team Angelica umbrella. Beadle-Blair previewed a trio of new plays in June 2008 at the Tristan Bates Theatre, all written simultaneously: Screwface – about nine teenage murderers in a prison drama workshop, Touch – centred on gay life in Iraq today, and Home – which looked at teenagers emerging from the care system into their own accommodation and sperm donor offspring who are searching for their siblings. In October–November 2008 there was a second shorter but higher-profile tour of FIT, touring to Edinburgh, Birmingham, Liverpool and London, including shows at St Stephen's in Edinburgh, The Birmingham Rep and the Drill Hall Theatres.In November 2008 he was the M.C. for the "Liverpool is Burning" Vogue Ball at the Adelphi Ballroom in Liverpool, produced by Duckie for Homotopia. In January 2009 Team Angelica, in association with the fledgling Achilles Productions, founded by actors Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin staged a one-off theatrical presentation of Beadle-Blair screenplay KickOff at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. In February 2009 he curated Louder than Words at the Tristan Bates Theatre, a season of new writing featuring 14 plays by mostly first-time writers. He directed 10 of the plays. Beadle-Blair has a long-standing creative association with fellow writer John R Gordon, who was also a writer for Noah's Arc. Beadle-Blair Directed John's first short film script, Souljah (2007), which premiered in the London Film Festival and is currently touring the Film Festival circuit.He also appeared in John's first play, Wheels of Steel, which John R. Gordon directed. The two-hander also featured Karl Collins, who went on to play Beadle-Blair's ex-husband Jordan in Metrosexuality. Gordon now runs the Team Angelica books division. He has helped to develop new work by playwrights Matt Harris, Jai Rajani, John R. Gordon, Greg Owen, Stephen Hoo & Hannah Chalmers. He teaches a six-week course at the Actor's Centre called "In the Room" that mentors Actors and creatives. He has developed an advanced module called 'Seizing the Room'. In June 2008 he was included in the Independent on Sunday newspaper's "Pink List" as one of the UK's most powerful/influential gay people.In July 2008 his short film Souljah won the award for best short film at the Rushes Soho Shorts festival. Written by John Gordon and produced by Beadle-Blair, Gordon and Carleen Beadle. In June 2009 he hosted the Urban Stage at London Pride. In June 2009 he completed the 35min short 7 Dials, in which the lives of 33 characters intersect and intertwine in the Seven Dials area of London's Covent Garden. Beadle-Blair wrote and directed this showcase for the participants of BBC Talent Boost – A scheme to increase visibility for minority actors in the UK. In June/July 2009 he shot the feature film Kickoff – a Team Angelica co-production with Achilles Entertainments and Shorthouse Productions. Post-production was completed in November 2009.In August or 2009 he was a course director at the National Youth Theatre for the second year running. In September 2009 he wrote and directed, the Feature-Film/DVD version of Fit, featuring the original cast members, along with 36 other actors. The film was financed by Stonewall, and produced by Diane Shorthouse, Carleen Beadle and <mask> Beadle-Blair for Stonewall, The Shorthouse Organisation and Team Angelica. On 19 November 2009, Beadle-Blair/Team Angelica staged a double-bill of plays at the Drill Hall Theatre – Fucking Charlie and The Grope Box. In December 2009 he directed Stripped at the Tristan Bates Theatre, written and performed by Hannah Chalmers. Stripped was originally written and developed with the guidance of Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon as part of the "Louder than Words" season in February. Stripped ran for a month in Edinburgh at the Gilded Balloon.In June 2010 he wrote and directed the feature-film version of Bashment, featuring members of the original cast. In December 2010 he wrote and directed the Team Angelica production twothousandandSex – featuring 35 actors – at the Drill Hall Theatre. In March 2011 he was awarded an achievement award by the Outfest/Fusion festival in Los Angeles. The award was presented by Guillermo Diaz, who played LaMiranda in the movie of Stonewall at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The ceremony was accompanied by a gala screening of Fit. In April 2011 he was commissioned by the Royal Albert Hall to write direct and design the short film Butterfly. It was based on the winning entries from a schools competition in which students had to pitch a modern version of Madam Butterfly.In October–November 2011 he wrote, directed and designed Shalom Baby at Theatre Royal Stratford East. In November 2011, Beadle-Blair along with John R. Gordon, established Team Angelica Books. Its first publication was Beadle-Blair's first book What I Learned Today, compiled from a year's worth of his Facebook statuses. Subsequently, the company has published Fairytales for Lost Children, a book of short writings by gay Somalian Diriye Osman, plus two novels by John R Gordon, Faggamuffin and Colour Scheme.In 2011, 2012 2013, 2014, Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon ran the Angelic Tales new-writing festival, mentoring several new writers of varied experience, staged readings were performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Several of the plays went to full productions – including Crowning Glory by Somalia Seaton at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Lean by Isley Lynn at the Tristan Bates and Stepby Lynette Linton. In September 2012, One of the Angelic Tales plays Slap by Alexis Gregory was invited to present another more-developed staged reading at Channel 4's London HQ, directed by Beadle-Blair.The Q&A was hosted by Gok Wan

In January 2013 Beadle-Blair directed and designed a full production of Step, written by first-time playwright Lynette Linton and performed Theatre Royal Stratford East's Young Actor's company. The tour included the Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East. The play had been developed through the Angelic Tales New Writing Festival at Theatre Royal Stratford East. In May 2013 he wrote, directed and designed Gutted at Theatre Royal Stratford East. The cast was headed by Louise Jameson of Dr Who fame, and also featured Ashley Campbell, Frankie Fitzgerald, Gavin McClusky, Jamie Nichols, Jennifer Daley, James Farrar, and Sasha Frost. In November 2013, Beadle-Blair with guitarist Joni Levinson, performed a number onstage at the Kings Head in London as part of Robert Chevara's production of Die Fleidermaus. In February 2014, the US independent feature Blackbird premiered as the closing film at the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles.The movie was co-written by Beadle-Blair and Patrik-Ian Polk and starred Oscar-winning actress Mo'Nique. In March 2014, Beadle-Blair, directed, designed and co-produced a short run of slap by Alexis Gregory at Theatre Royal Stratford East. This was a special "immersive" production with the audience integrated into the set of the show, sometimes touching the actors. In March 2014, Beadle-Blair completed and premiered FREE, the "sibling" film to FIT, also co-produced and released by Stonewall. This film was created to challenge homophobic bullying in primary schools and was made available to every school in the UK. Beadle-Blair was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Selected plays

 Kick-Off – January 2009, Riverside Studios
 Fit (Autumn 2008) St Stephen's Edinburgh, Birmingham Rep Theatre, Drill Hall Theatre and Schools in Liverpool, Edinburgh and London
 Home – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008)
 Touch – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008)
 Screwface – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008).Familyman – Theatre Royal Stratford East (May 2008, directed by Dawn Reid). Text published by Oberon Books.FIT (2007) – National Tour – adapted for filmStonewall (2006/7) – stage adaptation of the BBC film. Taken In (2005) – Set in a halfway house for homeless youths.Bashment (2005) – explores the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics  – Theatre Royal Stratford East. Text published by Oberon Books.Totally Practically Naked in My Room on a Wednesday Night (2005) – a night in the life of 17-year-old Dylan, desperate to lose his virginity. South London Passion Plays trilogy (Gutted, Laters and Sweet) (2004) – Tristan Bates TheatreCaptivated (1997) – the story of a gay black man imprisoned for murder. Shane corresponds with an Asian pen pal who writes him as an act of charity. Shane's self-hatred turns into a soul-searching journey from cockiness to agonised self-reflection, and finally ultimate gratitude for his unseen friend.This was released on video (now deleted) Directed by David SquireAsk and Tell – homosexuality and the Army.twothousandandSex – an ensemble play about sex and sexuality featuring 35 actors – at the Drill Hall Theatre. Four one-hour ensemble plays
 Exposures Street Art The Grope Box Fucking Charlie Below the Radar – a straight guy/gay guy pair of roommates and their sexual misadventures in New Orleans.Human – two terminally ill cancer patients get together for a final riotous love affair.Prettyboy – described as a 'Dogma Style Musical"  at the Oval House Theatre.Gunplay (he did not direct)Wild at Heart Riverside Studios (1988)

Beadle-Blair directed Greg Owen and Nick McGarrigle in their play Best Man at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. The play won the writers the Oscar Wilde Award for best writing. He directed and appeared in Matt Harris's comedy play Venom at the Oval house 2003. He directed the staged readings of Jai Rajani's onenight.com at the Tristan Bates and the Contact Theatre Manchester in 2007. He performed as part of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots at the Southbank Centre. Other speakers/performers included Professor Jeffrey Weeks, Peter Tatchell, Lindsay River, and Michael Twaits, 9 July 2009.See also
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

References

External links and sources
Personal MySpace
Team Angelica MySpace

The Guardian: Theatre that's FIT for purpose: tackling homophobia, November 2008
Pink News: FIT playwright on why we must fight homophobia in schools – December 2007 (republished November 2008)
Interview on Rainbow Network, 6 June 2005
<mask> Beadle-Blair on Metrosexuality
interview in Closer Magazine, April 2002 ? script of Roots of Homophobia (scroll down to No 6)
Interview of Beadle-Blair in The Independent, August 2007
 Interview of Beadle-Blair in The Guardian'', August 2007

Living people
1961 births
Black British male actors
English people of Jamaican descent
English gay actors
Gay artists
English gay musicians
British gay writers
LGBT Black British people
LGBT theatre directors
LGBT dancers
LGBT musicians from England
LGBT writers from England
Members of the Order of the British Empire
National Youth Theatre members
People from Bermondsey
People from Camberwell
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people
LGBT singers from the United Kingdom
LGBT television directors

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title: Rasak Ojo Bakare

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<mask> ( Born November 8, 1964)  is the first professor of  Choreography and Performing Aesthetics from Nigeria. A former Dean of Postgraduate School, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti,, former Chief  Executive Officer (CEO),and Artistic Director,Abuja Carnival and member,National Academy of Letters. <mask> started his career in theater arts as a  theater apprentice under Jimoh Aliu and Chief Hubert Ogunde ,afterward he pursued the profession in the academic world.. As an apprentice, he premiered in " Aropin N'Teniyan"  a celluloid film by Hubert Ogunde, 1981/82.. He graduated with a B.A(Hons) in Theater Arts and M A in Play Directing and Playwright  from  the University of Calabar, Rivers State and  he later obtained a Ph.D. in Choreography and Dance Studies from Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria. As an academic, he started as Graduate Assistant in 1990. By1992, he was a Lecturer II and at the end of 1992 he has become Lecturer 1. He rose to the position of  a Senior Lecture by the year 2000.In 2005, he was an Associate professor and full Professor in 2011.As of  2003,  <mask> was the Artiste- Scholar in – residence at the University of West Indies, Edna Monkey School of Performing Arts and National Dance Theater Company. In the same year, he was at the University of Pretoria, South Africa for collaborative research on African Musical Arts Education. As a result of his commitment to the field of theater arts in Nigeria, he became the first Nigerian scholar to bag all the three Fellowship in the field of performing arts: a Fellow of Theater Arts (NANTAP), Fellow, Society of Nigeria Theatre Artisities, and Felow, Dance Guild of Nigeria. He has anchored many presidential inaugurations for Nigerian former presidents : Jagunmolu , Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Voyage, Alhaji Musa Yaradua. and Langbodo . Dr.Goodluck Jonathan.. In recognition of his impact in Art and Culture in Ekiti state,  Bakare and the other 13 professional indigenes of Ekiti were honored as Cultural Ambassador by Governor Kayode fayemi.As of January 2020, he was the commissioner for Art, Culture and Tourism in Ekiti State. His professional career has taken him outside the shore of Nigeria ; between 1994–1996, <mask> worked as Choreographer to the Gambia's National Troupe. <mask>, married to Dr.Lilian, a specialist in Costume and a lecturer at the Department of Theater and Media Arts,Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Aramoko Ekiti in 1964. As a child , he grew up with love for singing, dancing and watching masquerade performances. <mask> and his father were not on a good term because of  his intention to study theater arts. On one of the occasions, his father bought him a  JAMB form to study Law at a Nigerian University, he felt otherwise and tore the form.He was later reconciled with his dad after his international exploit in Bulgaria

He started his education from the College of Education, Ikere, Ekiti where he studied Yoruba Language and Religious Studies. After obtaining his National Certificate Education ( NCE), <mask>, moved to the University of Calabar to study Theater Arts. At the same institution, he obtained his B.A(Hons) in Theater Arts and M.A in Play Directing and Playwright while he earned a PhD in Choreography and Dance Studies from Ahmadu Bello University, Abu, Zaria. As a 200 level student, he represented Nigeria in a dance competition and won a gold medal. Career
<mask> started his career as a theater apprentice under Chief Jimoh Aliu, Herbert Ogunde. Between 1981/82,  he featured in " Aropin N'Teniyan"  a celluloid film produced by Chief Ogunde. After graduating from the College of Education, he was employed at Ondo State Radiovision Corporation as an Assistant Drama Producer, actor and Yoruba Chants Presenter.From here, he got admission to the University of Calabar to study Theater Arts. In 1990, he was retained as a Graduate Assistant at the same university. He was promoted to the position of  lecturer in 1992. In 2000, he became a Senior Lecturer. In 2005, after five years of academic work, he became an Associate Professor and later in 2011 he earned his full Professor. He was Artiste- Scholar in – residence at the University of West Indies, Edna Manley School of Performing Arts and National Dance Theater Company, Jamaica in 2003. In the same year, he got a grant for collaborative research on African Musical Arts Education.He became a member of the Carnival Research Roundtable, Trinidad and Tobago, 2012 and by 2013, he was a member of the Teaching Artists Research Group, Oslo, Norway. He has represented Nigeria in many international competitions; Friendship International Festival, North Korea, 1997, Afrika- in Tyrol Festival, Austria, 1999, Africa Peace Tour, Mozambique, 2002, Gauteng Carnival, Soweto, South Africa, 2010. He was a leading member of Nigeria’s contingent to Cervantino Theatre Festival, Mexico in 2001. Between 1994-1996, he was the Choreographer, Gambia National Troupe and the Artistic Director/ CEO Nigeria National Carnival, Abuja ,2009-2013. As a performance director, he has directed over 200 performances among them are the three Presidential Inauguration command performances: Jagunmolu,1999, Voyage, 2007 and Langbodo , 2011. He directed the culture content of the Heart of Africa project with performances in London, Paris and other cities of the World. <mask> is also a member of International Dance Council ( CID),UNESCO, Member,National Academy of Letters.He is  the first Nigeria Scholar with the three Fellowship available in  the field of Performing Arts in Nigeria; Fellow of the Guild (fdgn),2013, Fellow of the Learned Academic Society (Fsonta) ,2018 and Fellow of the industry,2019. At one time or the other in his academic career, he has worked as lecturer at  University of Calabar, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, University of Uyo and University of Abuja. He has also worked in Imo State University, Delta State University, Kogi State University,  Olabisi Onabanjo University and Federal University Oye Ekiti. References

Living people
University of Calabar faculty
1964 births
Yoruba academics
University of Calabar alumni
Ahmadu Bello University alumni
People from Ekiti State

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