title: Zade Dirani

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<mask> (Arabic: زيد ديراني, born in 1980), is a Jordanian American pianist, composer, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East and North Africa, of Damascene descent, whose genre blending songs are inspired by Latin, pop, and classical music. He has performed before thousands around the world including Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, amongst others. He has released eight CDs, which reflect his studies of each culture while attending the National Music Conservatory in Amman and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Audiences throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the United States have attended his performances held in various places. His albums have reached #3 on the US Billboard chart. The CD for <mask>'s project: One Night in Jordan debuted on Billboard at #2 on the New Age Chart, #5 on the Classical Crossover Chart, and #11 on the Overall Classical Chart. <mask>'s accompanying DVD also debuted on Billboard's Top DVD/Music Video Charts at #18.<mask> has toured extensively throughout the U.S and has performed in Spain, France, England, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon, Morocco, Kuwait, and Egypt. Career

Early Years
<mask>'s father is a prominent architect in Amman, and his parents assumed he would join the family firm when he was growing up. From a young age he enjoyed listening to Richard Clayderman's music. His early piano studies were of French songs of Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. <mask> began playing the piano and composing music at the age of 13 for piano and orchestra. He held his first public concert at the age of 19, at the Citidal in Amman, which is sited of the Temple of Hercules. With his first song, he related a story of how his mother, who is not a musician, helping him write it.He was accompanied by the National Music Conservatory Symphony Orchestra founded by Queen Noor, at which he had studied. People described him as a 'piano prodigy'. He moved to the United States in 1988 to study at Santa Clara University and later at Berklee College of Music, majoring in music composition and business and management. When he began touring the United States, he toured virtually nonstop appearing in grassroots style venues such as guest houses, churches, and synagogues, and peoples homes. Travelling by Greyhound and Amtraks throughout the country, he played as many as 200 events in one year. He made a personal connection with his audience through his music and has been compared to Bob Hope in the way he embraced the role of ambassador through his performances developing a wide ranging fan base. Some of his early self-released recordings are reaching the Billboard charts even now,  while  currently he splits his time between Los Angeles and Miami Beach.His album Beautiful World, which features classical piano compositions, also includes some Middle Eastern rhythms. Reviewers have described his mostly pop length music which merges with classical, as 'more accessible' and 'the structures are easy to grasp.' Princess of the Night

Princess of the Night was a favourite of <mask>'s, and his latest release brings him together with Richard Clayderman, in a duet with two pianos. It was composed by French composer and producer Olivier Toussaint. This modern version is full of sensuality and honesty. <mask> believes that music requires honesty, regardless of technique. He says, "There is no room for masquerading in music".Un Piano Y Amigos
In February 2020, <mask> released his 8th album entitled Un Piano y Amigos, produced by Spanish hitmaker David Santisteban, and featuring vocal collaborations with some of Spain's top artists including India Martinez, David DeMaria, Pitingo, Ana Mena, Eva Ruiz, Lerica, Lorena Gomez, Soraya, and Paula Rojo. <mask> released  a music video with Pitingo for the song Las Pulseras Del Verano, as the official single from the album. Performances for public figures
<mask> was invited by King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan to join them on the official state visit to the United Kingdom where he performed before Queen Elizabeth and the British royal family in London. In May 2005, <mask> performed at the Library of Congress in Washington DC in celebration of Jordan's National Day by invitation from the Jordanian Ambassador to the United States. He also was invited to perform at the World Economic Forum Extraordinaire 2003 in Jordan. <mask> has graced the stage at a tribute to President Nelson Mandela organized by the United Nations Foundation and the Mosaic Foundation in Washington, DC. Other distinctive appearances include "Exploring Jordan" held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.Humanitarian Work

Zade Foundation for International Peace and Understanding
To continue cross-cultural understanding through the arts, <mask> launched The Zade Foundation for International Peace and Understanding in 2005, aimed at helping young musicians share with the world a deeper understanding of their cultures by offering them a unique opportunity to expand their roles from musicians to proactive peace builders and future community leaders. Roads To You: Celebration of One World

In 2006, <mask> launched an ambitious project entitled Roads to You, celebration of One World  in Washington, DC under the patronage of Queen Noor of Jordan. Titled Roads to You: Celebration of One World, <mask> led 40 musicians from 18 countries, in a project that showcased participants from war-torn regions coming together and working in an atmosphere of trust and team spirit. He had the idea of doing this while on a hiking trip in New Hampshire. Musicians performed and shared their heritage with fellow tour members; participated in more than 100 cultural presentations at educational institutions and community/civic functions in each city; with their host families and friends; and with their own families at home upon their return. Proceeds supported charities and causes. The Roads to You concert tour featured compositions from <mask>'s three recordings which include his CD, Beautiful World released May 2006, inspired by his Middle Eastern heritage.<mask>'s vision of musicians as world leaders who make connections through music and culture, was manifested in the tour. His second CD, Roads to You, was released in June 2004 in the United States featuring Arabic and Latin influences performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. One of the cuts from the CD, titled Kingdom of Peace, was featured at the 2006 Winter Olympics as the Japanese Female Figure Skating Team competed to this song. That song, and the Roads to You CD is the collective effort of more than one hundred musicians from different parts of the world, and was recorded in Miami, Beirut, Prague, and Los Angeles. Roads to You remained on the Billboard Charts more than 20 weeks. His debut CD, self-titled Zade, was released in April 2003, and featured a host of guest musicians from the Middle East and the United States including Charlie Bisharat on Violin, Chris Chaney on Bass Alanis Morissette, Jane's Addiction, Gabriel Gordon on electric guitar, Natalie Merchant, and Imane Houmsey on Kanoon, Fairouz, and Julia Boutros. The album remained on the Billboard Charts for 13 weeks.The CD was supported with performances worldwide, and an extensive "house concert tour" in the U.S.

One Night In Jordan: A Concert for Peace

One Night in Jordan was an unprecidented event in which more than 90 elite musicians from over 40 nations were led by <mask> at one of the oldest Roman Amphitheaters in the world in Amman, Jordan. The concert included London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ashley Irwin. Led by Danny  O'Donovan, the production crew was flown in on chartered planes from Dubai, London and Los Angeles, with over 50 tons of state of the art equipment,  including 15 HD cameras, and an aerial helicopter was also used to film the event. A Television Special was broadcast worldwide later in the year. The album was released on February 9, 2010 by ZD Records and distributed by EMI. The concert DVD was released on March 9, 2010 by ZD Records and distributed by EMI. The concert was aired on PBS stations in 2010 and 2011.Work with UNICEF
<mask> works with both aspiring and world renowned musicians, to promote cultural understanding, and  spread a message of peace and co-existence. He was appointed UNICEF Regional Ambassador for the Middle East and North Africa in August 2016, with a focus on advocating for children caught in violence, conflict and poverty. With UNICEF,  he performed at Al Zaatari Refugee camp in Jordan, which later inspired the creation of Musiqati or ''My Music'',  the world's first music therapy program designed specifically for children in refugee camps, which he launched at Azraq Refugee Camp. The programme helps Syrian refugee children cope with trauma and loss by making music, while also enhancing their skills to communicate and express themselves, and group cooperation. The program was designed by child protection and music therapy experts in consultation with children and adults living in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. The evaluation of the program, which was piloted for a year in Azraq refugee camp at children friendly Makani centres for over 4,000 children, shows that 65 per cent of child participants displayed significant progress in terms of their participation, ability to wait and take turns, decision-making, working with others, and ability to express themselves confidently. <mask> also collaborated with UNICEF on the creation of the song Heartbeat.The song is composed by <mask> with production by David Santisteban and lyrics by Jad Rahbani. The song is performed by 10 year-old Ansam, an internally displaced girl in Syria who was born blind. The video was filmed in an area of Syria heavily damaged by the fighting. Children performing as part of the choir are all internally displaced and participate, along with Ansam, in UNICEF psychosocial support programmes. They are shown having fun in the video, as children should. He donated the song as “a message of hope from Syria’s children to the children and people of the world, with a simple request to get their childhood back.”

Recollect Beirut
At 6.30 p.m. forty days after the Beirut Port explosion <mask> joined other prominent artists in Lebanon near Beirut Port, to comfort the bereaved and pay trube to those who were lost, in the performance of Recollect Beirut;. 250 singers performed from across Lebanon to honor the victims.Discography

Albums

Singles and EP's

Compilations

Awards
In October 2004, <mask> was awarded the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Distinguished Achievements Award for his work that promotes global understanding through the arts. He has also received The Jordanian Ministry of Education Award for the Arts and The Arab-American Music, Art, and Literature (AMAL) Award. References

External links
Official website
Official Twitter account
Official Facebook account
Official YouTube channel
Official Instagram account

Living people
Jordanian people of Arab descent
Jordanian musicians
People from Amman
1980 births
Jordanian composers
Jordanian pianists
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
American musicians of Jordanian descent
American composers
American pianists
Latin pop pianists
People of Damascene descent

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title: Ryan Foerster

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<mask> (born 1983) is a Canadian visual artist recognized for his ‘zines, photographs, videos, and sculptural installations which frequently incorporate found objects, salvaged materials, and natural elements. The artist’s reuse of discarded materials to create new artworks is a generative process of discovery and transformation integral to Foerster’s practice as well as a reaction to excessive waste. Foerster’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. He is also the founder of RATSTAR press. Early work

'Zines
Foerster started creating ‘zines while he was in high school. Using the copy machine at his father’s office, Foerster and his friends printed Dear Henry Wang, a ‘zine composed of “random writing, stuff [they] found in dumpsters, photos, jokes, and interviews with punk bands from around Toronto.” Issues were available in Toronto's cooperative-run store Who's Emma? where punk bands played in the basement.The ‘zine offered Foerster an opportunity to “get involved, voice ideas, and meet people” and provided Foerster's introduction to photography, as he photographed and interviewed many of the bands in the Toronto punk scene in the late 1990s. Foerster moved to New York in 2005 to attend the International Center of Photography, but dropped out after three months. Traditional photographic processes were not of interest to Foerster who has stated, “Photography with insane production value really grossed me out. I didn’t want to need thousands of dollars to make art. It was more satisfying to make art out of nothing, out of things other people didn’t want.” However, a course Foerster took at the ICP on photography and sculpture taught by the artist Sam Samore did have an influence on Foerster's interest in mixing photography with “found-object books and sculptures.” In an interview with Bomb magazine Foerster notes, “The first shows I did in my apartment in Brooklyn were a mix of photos I took and sculptures I’d made from shit on the street. It’s funny that I’m basically doing the same thing ten years later.” In 2008 Foerster presented his photographs and sculpture in a solo exhibition at Swiss institute, New York, for which he also printed a ‘zine. Early photographs
Foerster’s early photographs from this period are largely diaristic: observations from daily life, natural phenomena, and photos of his friends and travels.His images were featured in VICE magazine and on the artist Tim Barber’s website tinyvices, an online showcase for emerging photographers, as well as in an exhibition at White Columns, New York in 2007. Val Kilmer
Between 2004-06 Foerster, along with others, graffitied the name ‘Val Kilmer’ and pasted a black-and-white image of the actor's head on buildings, doorways, and other locations in the streets of Toronto and New York. Speculation regarding the inspiration for the graffiti and its auteur was covered by the New York Post, Gawker, and other outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Foerster also made a ‘zine featuring the image. Later work

Alternative processes, photograms
The artist Allen Frame suggested Foerster get a membership at the Camera Club of New York, the historic co-operative dark room whose past members include Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Avedon, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, and Berenice Abbott. Foerster couldn’t afford the membership fee to use the labs and darkrooms, so he got a job doing maintenance on the club’s color processor. Not having the money for expensive photographic materials, Foerster began using discarded photographic paper he found in the darkrooms, including the sheets of photo paper he used to clean the color processors.“People would discard faulty materials around the building—photo paper with chemicals spilled across it, expired film.” Foerster would use them to print his own photographs. By using these “faulty” salvaged materials, Foerster allowed an element of chance to dictate the outcome of his photographs. From these experimental works, Foerster had a further realization. He recounts, “[One day] there was a stack of [prints] and they were blowing. So I put, like, a beer can or a coffee cup or something on them. And the condensation underneath it lifted up the emulsion and made it corrode.” Inspired by this chance accident, Foerster began “to experiment with photosensitive paper, exposing it to the elements—rain, heat, bird shit—weighting the paper with rocks and earth to hold it in place, which then became an encrusted layer over the image.” These photograms revealed the uncontrollable influence of nature on his materials, and were an inflection point in the artist's process moving him away from his earlier style of image-making further toward a non-purist approach to the medium. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy caused flooding in Foerster's Brighton Beach home.The water damage affected boxes of Foerster's early photographs. Rather than discard the prints, he chose to present them as new works, relishing the changed and bleeding colors, staining, and buckling. He states, “At first I thought about them as ruined, but now I’m not sure that’s what really happened. It’s just one way of looking at it.”

Found objects, sculptural assemblages, and installations
During the 2009 financial crisis, when Foerster's day job assisting artists was tenuous and he had limited resources but more time, he would walk around his neighborhood observing and collecting. He notes,

“I would walk around a lot since I was in a weird transitional period, not photographing and feeling depressed. I would find stuff on these walks that I thought was interesting enough to bring home. I mostly picked up scrap metal and wood.I played with seeing these objects on my walls and adding the photos I had at home. It seemed right. It was closer to my actual train of thought and how I interacted with things...It all added different layers to how I understood seeing and remembering things.”

Foerster transforms the discarded objects and natural elements which he collects into sculptural assemblages, integrating them into his installations, presenting these individual objects and arrangements in congress with his photo-based artworks, paintings, drawings, and videos. In his installations Foerster has incorporated mining slag residue from mines in Ontario, the salvaged ink-stained metal printing plates used to print his ‘zines, wooden benches he made with his grandfather, and sundry items the artist finds on the streets of New York or on the beach near his home in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Foerster has noted he is particularly interested in the “in-between stage when something still exists but it no longer functions the way it was intended to." He has stated, "I think composting is a really good metaphor for my work—the entire cycle where old work generates new work—it’s the in-between stage where discarded food gets turned into a rich soil again to grow more food." The artist's process is propelled by his interest in creating “something from nothing”.He has remarked, “I was sick of waste and all this excess shit that was here.”

Exhibitions and awards
Foerster's work has been exhibited at the Abrons Art Center, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; White Columns, New York; Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York; Pioneer Works, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Split; Columbus Museum of Art; Aspen Art Museum; and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. Foerster's work was also included in “Rockaway!” organized by MOMA PS1, Rockaway Beach Surf Club, New York 2014. ‘Zines by Foerster were included in the Museum of Modern Art Library exhibition “Millennium Magazines”, 2012. Foerster has shown at Clearing Gallery; Ribordy Thetaz Gallery; Martos Gallery; Kerry Schuss Gallery; Cooper Cole Gallery; The National Exemplar; and Hannah Hoffman Gallery. Foerster's books and 'zines are in the collections of the New York Public Library, Yale University Library, and the Museum of Modern Art library. In 2011 Foerster curated the exhibition “Harvest Moon” featuring works by his artist friends including Elaine Cameron-Weir, Erik Lindman, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Jacob Kassay and others. Mirroring Foerster's own process of subjecting artworks to the elements, and his democratic approach to installing works in various media, Foerster placed the artworks in the backyard and other areas around his Brighton Beach home which was formerly owned by the artist Silvianna Goldsmith.In 2014 Foerster curated the exhibition “Silvianna Goldsmith” at White Columns, NY 2014. He has also curated exhibitions at ribordy contemporary, Geneva 2014, and Martos Gallery, New York, 2014. Foerster was the recipient of the Artadia NADA award in 2013 and received a Pollock Krasner foundation grant in 2012. Personal life
<mask> was born in 1983 in Newmarket Canada. He lives in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn New York. References

External links
 https://www.worldcat.org/title/ryan-foerster/oclc/903570567&referer=brief_results

Canadian contemporary artists
Canadian installation artists
Canadian photographers
1983 births
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title: Gerald Harris

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<mask> (born November 19, 1979) is an American retired mixed martial artist and current middle school science teacher, who most recently fought in Bellator. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter 7 and has also competed in World Series of Fighting, the UFC, DREAM, the Portland Wolfpack in the IFL, Shark Fights, Tachi Palace Fights, and Legacy Fighting Championship. Early life
<mask> attended East Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then wrestled in college for Cleveland State University where he owns the all-time record for wins on the wrestling team. Also while attending CSU, <mask> was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Mixed martial arts
<mask> stumbled into mixed martial arts by accident after a friend convinced him to do it for fun and with <mask> needing money, he agreed. He took an exhibition fight for $200, with the money he bought a "ragged Mustang to get around town." He beat his opponent so badly that he was invited to join the tournament and thus his professional fighting career began in August 2006.<mask> won his first five matches before losing a controversial split decision to Fabio Leopoldo in his IFL debut. After being on The Ultimate Fighter, <mask> went to train with Rampage Jackson for five weeks in Liverpool, England, and was very close to signing with Bellator Fighting Championships and taking part in their first season middleweight tournament. When <mask> fell into financial problems, he was forced to move with his mother to Arizona, resulting in <mask> asking to be cut from his fight team, Team Quest. In Arizona he began training with C.B. Dollaway, Jamie Varner and Ryan Bader at Arizona Combat Sports. He left the team not long after starting and moved to Denver, Colorado to train with Trevor Wittman at the Grudge Training Center. The Ultimate Fighter
<mask> was on the Spike TV reality show The Ultimate Fighter as a member of Team Rampage.He got on the show by defeating Mike Madallo  but lost by knockout in the second round to Amir Sadollah, who was the eventual winner of that season. Ultimate Fighting Championship
<mask> was signed to the UFC after calling into MMA Junkie Radio with the special guest being President of the UFC, Dana White. <mask> called the show, changing his voice, and began praising himself in the third person. Finally, <mask> came out and identified himself, then he informed White of his desire to fight for the promotion and told him of his current winning streak. White congratulated <mask> and told him to call the office for a talk, the talk entailed getting <mask> signed to a four fight deal with the UFC. He was set to make his debut for the UFC against Mike Massenzio on January 11, 2010 at UFC Fight Night 20, replacing an injured Tim Credeur. Instead he fought John Salter, who stepped in for the injured Massenzio.He would later go on to defeat Salter by TKO in the third round and win Knockout of the Night. In his second appearance in the UFC, he fought on the UFC Fight Night 21 card against recent signing Mario Miranda. The fight took place March 31, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. <mask> won the fight by TKO due to punches in the first round. <mask> next faced Renzo Gracie BJJ black belt, David Branch, on the under card of UFC 116. <mask> won via knockout after a brutal slam at 3:25 of the third round. The knockout was awarded "Knockout of the Night," giving <mask> his second post fight bonus and an extra $75,000 to his pay.The knockout was also shown on numerous sport's highlight shows, including ESPN's Sportscenter. <mask> was expected to face Alessio Sakara on August 28, 2010 at UFC 118, replacing an injured Jorge Rivera. However, Sakara was also forced off the card with an injury and replaced by Joe Vedepo. Then on August 18, it was announced that the <mask> bout had been scrapped from the card. <mask> was brought in as an alternative for the week of the event, and was given a fight purse for dieting, training and flying out to Boston. Once again, <mask> faced a UFC newcomer in Maiquel Falcão on November 20, 2010 at UFC 123  <mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision and in a surprising move to many observers,  was subsequently released by the promotion despite having won all 3 of his fights in it. Post UFC
Following his release, <mask> fought James Head on February 11, 2011 for Oklahoma's Xtreme Fight Night MMA.The fight was back and forth throughout the three rounds. <mask> lost the fight via decision. <mask> then fought at Tachi Palace Fights 9 against journeyman Anthony Ruiz. He went on to win that fight via unanimous decision, and ended up breaking his hand in the process. DREAM/ Legacy FC
On July 25, 2011, <mask> announced on his personal Twitter that he had signed a multi-fight deal with Japanese promotion, DREAM. In his debut, <mask> faced fellow UFC veteran Kazuhiro Nakamura at Dream 17. He won the fight via split decision.<mask> fought Eric Davila on Feb. 24, 2012 in the main event of Legacy Fighting Championship 10. He won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> fought Mike Bronzoulis in his welterweight debut on May 11, 2012 at Legacy Fighting Championship 11. He defeated Bronzoulis by split decision. World Series of Fighting
<mask> signed with World Series of Fighting in late 2012 and made his promotional debut at WSOF 1 on November 3, 2012 against Josh Burkman. <mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision. In his second fight with the promotion, <mask> fought Jorge Santiago at WSOF 4.The bout had a confusing first round where <mask> slammed Santiago and believed he had tapped. However, the referee was stopping the action to deduct a point from Santiago for blatantly grabbing the cage during <mask>' slam. Despite the confusion, <mask> went on to win the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> announced his retirement from MMA on April 22, 2014. MMA return
After two-and-a-half years away from the sport, <mask> returned to active competition in December 2016. He faced Aaron Cobb at Legacy Fighting Championship 63 on December 2, 2016. What was originally scheduled to be a welterweight bout turned into a heavyweight bout after Cobb missed weight by showing up more than 50 pounds above the welterweight limit.<mask> won the fight via knockout due to a slam in the first minute of the first round. On October 21, 2017, <mask> stepped into the cage for his last professional fight against Matt McKeon at Xtreme Fight Night at Tulsa Oklahoma. He went into retirement with a win via a violent slam. Bellator MMA
<mask> stepped in as a last-minute replaced for John Salter against Rafael Lovato Jr. at Bellator 198 on April 28, 2018. Due to the lateness of the booking, the bout was contested at a catchweight of 188 pounds. <mask> lost the bout via submission in the first round. Soon after the Lovato fight, <mask> signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator.In his second fight for the promotion, <mask> faced Yaroslav Amosov at Bellator 202 on July 13, 2018, losing via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Anatoly Tokov at Bellator 218 on March 22, 2019. <mask> managed to drop Tokov during the fight, but Tokov recovered and eventually submitted <mask> via ten-finger guillotine choke. Following the loss, <mask> announced that the fight was the last fight of his contract, and retired for the second time in his career. Despite retiring earlier in 2019, <mask> returned to the competition again with hopes to jumpstart his career and faced Seth Baczynski at C3 Fights 48 on November 23, 2019. He won the fight via unanimous decision and once again declared his retirement from the sport. Personal life
<mask>'s brother Corey was killed in March 2009.A teenage driver making a quick left turn had collided with his motorcycle, killing him instantly. Despite this <mask> fought 7 days later and dedicated his victory to his brother. <mask> also teaches Social Studies in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. <mask> is married to his wife Nicci and they have a blended family of 8 children. Previously in an interview, <mask> revealed that his biological children were taken away from him the weekend he fought Josh Burkman in 2012 during his divorce which was eventually overturned and he regained custody. In that same interview he said that he actually didn't retire from the sport in 2013, but was forced on a hiatus due to the ongoing divorce and custody issues but is now happily married.

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title: Alice Prin

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<mask> (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French model, chanteuse, actress, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in French). She became one of the most famous models of the 20th-century and in the history of avant-garde art. Early life
Born as an illegitimate child in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d'Or, <mask> had "a wretched childhood that could only lead to laughter or despair." She was raised in abject poverty by her grandmother. At age twelve, she was sent by train to live with her mother, a linotypist, in Paris in order to help earn an income for her family. Harsh, degrading jobs followed, and she worked in printing shops, shoe factories, and bakeries.During this time, she began her lifelong joy of decorating herself. She "would crumble a petal from her mother's fake geraniums to give color to her cheeks and was fired from a nasty job at a bakery because she darkened her eyebrows with burnt matchsticks." By the age of fourteen, Prin's "large and splendid body" had garnered the artistic and sexual attention of various Parisian denizens, and she began surreptitiously posing nude for sculptors. "It bothered me a little to take off my clothes," Prin wrote her in her memoirs, but "it was the custom." Her decision to become a nude model created discord with her mother. One day, her mother unexpectedly intruded into an artist's studio in a rage, denounced Prin as a shameless prostitute, and disowned her forever. Now without money or a roof over her head, the teenage Kiki determined to make her living exclusively by posing for artists.As a beautiful dark-haired French girl, she soon found herself in popular demand. At the time, she had scant pubic hair and, when posing, she occasionally would draw on fake hair with a piece of charcoal. As her fame grew, she became a local celebrity who symbolized the Montparnasse quarter's nonconformity and its rejection of petite-bourgeois social norms. [[File:Kiki de Montparnasse (Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris) (12254857035).jpg|thumb|Kiki de Montparnasse, a 1928 bronze by Pablo Gargallo (1881–1934) ]]

 Modeling career
Adopting a single name, "Kiki", Prin became a fixture of the Montparnasse social scene and a popular model, posing for dozens of artists, including Sanyu, Chaïm Soutine, Julian Mandel, Tsuguharu Foujita, Constant Detré, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Arno Breker, Alexander Calder, Per Krohg, Hermine David, Pablo Gargallo, and Tono Salazar. Moïse Kisling painted a portrait of Kiki titled Nu assis, one of his best known. In his 1976 book Memoirs of Montparnasse, Canadian poet John Glassco recalled that:

In Autumn 1921, Prin met the American visual artist Man Ray, and the two soon entered into a stormy eight-year relationship. She lived with Man Ray in his studio on rue Campagne-Première until 1929 during which time he made hundreds of portraits of her.She became his muse at the time and the subject of some of his best-known images, including the surrealist image Le violon d'Ingres (Ingres' Violin) and Noire et blanche (Black and White). She also appeared in nine short and frequently experimental films, including Fernand Léger's 1923 Dadaist work Ballet mécanique without any credit. By 1929, Prin had reached the zenith of her fame. A symbol of bohemian and creative Paris and of the possibility of being a woman and finding an artistic place, she was elected the Queen of Montparnasse at the age of twenty-eight. Despite her local fame, she continued to live a hand-to-mouth existence. Even during difficult times, she maintained her positive attitude, saying "all I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red [wine]; and I will always find somebody to offer me that." Artwork and autobiography

A painter in her own right, Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her paintings in 1927 at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris.Signing her work with her chosen single name, Kiki, her drawings and paintings comprise portraits, self-portraits, social activities, fanciful animals, and dreamy landscapes composed in a light, slightly uneven, expressionist style that is a reflection of her carefree manner and boundless optimism. In 1929, she published an autobiography titled Kiki's Memoirs, with Ernest Hemingway and Tsuguharu Foujita providing introductions. In 1930, the book was translated by Samuel Putnam and published in Manhattan by Black Manikin Press, but it was immediately banned by the United States government. A copy of the first US edition was held in the section for banned books in the New York Public Library through the 1970s. However, the book had been reprinted under the title The Education of a Young Model throughout the 1950s and 1960s (e.g., a 1954 edition by Bridgehead has the Hemingway Introduction and photos and illustrations by Mahlon Blaine). These editions were mainly put out by unscrupulous publisher Samuel Roth. Taking advantage that banned books did not receive copyright protection in the U.S., Roth put out a series of supposedly copyrighted editions (which were never registered with the Library of Congress) which altered the text and added illustrations—line drawings and photographs—which were not by Prin.After 1955, Roth appended an extra 10 chapters falsely credited to Prin twenty-three years after the original book, including an invented visit to New York where she met with Roth himself. None of this was true. The original autobiography finally saw a new translation and publication in 1996. For a few years during the 1930s, Prin owned the Montparnasse cabaret L'Oasis, which was later renamed "Chez Kiki." Her music hall performances in black hose and garters included crowd-pleasing risqué songs, which were uninhibited, yet inoffensive. She later departed Paris to avoid the occupying German army during World War II, which entered the city in June 1940. She did not return to live in the city immediately after the war.Death and legacy
Prin died at the age of fifty-one on 29 April 1953 after collapsing outside her flat in Montparnasse, apparently of complications of alcoholism or drug dependence. At the time of her death, she weighed 175 lbs or 79 kg. A large crowd of artists and admirers attended her Paris funeral and followed the procession to her interment in the Cimetière parisien de Thiais. Her tomb identifies her as:

In the wake of her death,  Life magazine featured a three-page obituary of Prin in its 29 June 1953 edition, concluding with a memory from one of her friends who said: "We laughed, my God how we laughed." Tsuguharu Foujita remarked that, with Kiki's passing, the glorious days of Montparnasse were buried forever. Long after her death, Prin remains the embodiment of the outspokenness, audacity, and creativity that marked the interwar period of life in Montparnasse. She represents a strong artistic force in her own right as a woman.In 1989, biographers Billy Klüver and Julie Martin called her "one of the century's first truly independent women." In her honor, a daylily has been named Kiki de Montparnasse. Gallery

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 1923: L'Inhumaine by Marcel L'Herbier
 1923: Le Retour à la Raison by Man Ray, short film
 1923: Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger, short film
 1923: Entr'acte by René Clair, short film
 1923: La Galerie des monstres by Jaque Catelain
 1926: Emak-Bakia by Man Ray, short film
 1928: L'Étoile de mer by Man Ray
 1928: Paris express or Souvenirs de Paris by Pierre Prévert and Marcel Duhamel, short film
 1930: Le Capitaine jaune by Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
 1933: Cette vieille canaille by Anatole Litvak

 Kiki's Memoirs

 Kiki's Memoirs (1996) translation by Samuel Putnam (original ed. pub by J. Corti, Paris)

 Souvenirs, introduction by Ernest Hemingway and Tsugouharu Foujita, forward and notes by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, translation by Dominique Lablanche, Hazan, 1999. Souvenirs retrouvés, preface by Serge Plantureux, José Corti, 2005. Kiki's Memoirs (2009) [Recuerdos recobrados] translation by José Pazó Espinosa (in Spanish – published by Nocturna)
 Kiki Souvenirs, 1929 (2005) translation by N. Semoniff (in Russian – published by Salamandra P.V.V., 2011)
 Kiki's Memoirs, 1930'' (2006) translation by N. Semoniff (in Russian – published by Salamandra P.V.V., 2011)

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title: Matthew Bourne (musician)

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<mask> (born 6 October 1977) is an English multi-instrumentalist, primarily working with piano and keyboards. Childhood and education
<mask> was born in Avebury, England, and grew up in a small village situated in the Cotswolds, where he took up the trombone aged nine. In 1989, <mask> attended Kingham Hill School and began playing cello the following year. After seeing Frank Sinatra play on television in 1993, <mask> began to teach himself the piano. <mask> enrolled at Leeds College of Music in 1995 where he began to explore contemporary classical composition and avant-garde. During his time at the college, he performed Michael Daugherty's piano concerto "Tombeau de Liberace" and John Cage's "Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra". In 2001, <mask> graduated from the MMus jazz studies course.<mask> has subsequently taught as a part-time lecturer at Leeds College of Music and has a PhD in performance from the University of Leeds. Career
<mask>'s success began in 2001 when he was named the Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year. His success continued the following year when he was awarded the prize for Jazz Innovation at the BBC Radio Jazz Awards. In this period, <mask> was profiled in The Observer Music Monthly as "the future sound of jazz". In 2005, he won the International Jazz Festivals Organisation International Jazz Award. His first solo album, The Molde Concert, was recorded live at the Molde International Jazz Festival and received positive reviews. This performance showcased <mask>'s inventive use of samples (including audio clips from The Simpsons and other TV shows) as well as his "cyclonic energy and virtuosity" and "ramblingly self-deprecating and sometimes off-mic announcements".By this stage, <mask> had also become co-leader of The Electric Dr M, Distortion Trio and Bourne/Davis/Kane, and was beginning to work in a wider context, leading to notable collaborations with artists and groups such as Nostalgia 77, Marc Ribot, Paul Dunmall, Annette Peacock, John Zorn, Pete Wareham, Barre Phillips and Tony Bevan. <mask> has been commissioned to write works for Bath International Music Festival, London Jazz Festival, Leeds Fuse Festival as well as from the pianist Joanna MacGregor and Faber Music. <mask>'s work has been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes. In 2012 <mask> released Montauk Variations on The Leaf Label. The album began a long and fruitful relationship with the label and was awarded the Leftfield Album of the Year award by the Sunday Times. Its "lyrical and romantic"  mood marked a change in musical direction from the avant-garde tone of his earlier work. Montauk Variations caught the attention of Amon Tobin and Nancy Elizabeth, both of whom invited <mask> to rework their material, and Simon Green of Bonobo selected the composition "Juliet" for inclusion in his release of the Late Night Tales compilation series.In 2015, <mask> embarked on a UK tour with an audio/visual project entitled Radioland. This was a collaboration with Antoine Schmitt and Franck Vigroux to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Radio-Activity by Kraftwerk. The Anglo-French trio "take the album’s melodies and textures as the starting point for avant-garde explorations" that saw <mask> performing on a variety of analogue synthesisers as well as singing in German through a vocoder. An album of this music, entitled Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited, was released digitally on The Leaf Label in December, with physical copies available in January 2016. <mask>'s second solo album, moogmemory, was released on The Leaf Label on 4 March 2016. This is the only album ever recorded with only the Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog, a Memorymoog synthesiser converted by Rudi Linhard in a process which is the "equivalent of open heart surgery" replacing "1,300 components over eight weeks". A companion EP entitled moogmemory plus was released in November 2016.The first three tracks were composed during the process of creating moogmemory, but the release also includes new material and a cover version of "Sussudio" by Phil Collins. <mask> returned to the piano for 2017's Isotach. The music was recorded over an 18-month period at <mask>'s home in West Yorkshire, mostly captured in snatched moments between soundtrack scores and session work. The Guardian described the record as "spartan, hypnotic and beautiful, if gloriously unresolved" and stated that <mask> was playing "as if...thrilled by the sound of a piano". In 2018 <mask> was featured on the album Nightports w/ <mask> by Nightports. Material for the album was recorded over three sessions in two locations. First at <mask>'s house near Keighley, West Yorkshire in March 2015.The second and third sessions took place at Besbrode Pianos in Leeds in October 2015 and June 2016. Material from Nightports w/ <mask> was premiered on three pianos with live manipulations at Middleton Hall as part of the Hull City Of Culture programme. <mask> collaborated with Leaf Label partner Keeley Forsyth on her 2020 album Debris and EP Photograph, as well as releasing an EP of remixes of music from his moogmemory plus EP featuring Graham Massey, Sam Hobbs, Nostalgia 77, Broadway Project, Chris Sharkey, and Rex Rebo. This was made available as a Bandcamp exclusive. Friday 10 - Saturday 11 July 2007

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title: Heide Fasnacht

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<mask> (born 12 January 1951) is a New York City-based artist who works in sculpture, drawing, painting and installation art. Her work explores states of flux, instability and transformation caused by human action (architectural and cultural change, war, economics) and natural events (weather, geological processes). Since the mid-1990s, she has been known for sculptures and drawings that recreate momentary phenomena such as sneezes, geysers and demolitions—in sometimes abstract or cartoony form—that are temporally and spatially  "frozen" for consideration of their aesthetic, perceptual, social or sensate qualities. In the late 2010s, she has expanded these themes in paintings that examine lost and neglected childhood sites, such as playgrounds and amusement parks. ARTnews critic Ken Shulman has described her work as "chart[ing] the fluid dialogue between second and third dimensions, motion and inertia, creation and ruin." <mask> has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Anonymous Was A Woman, among others. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center.Work and reception
After receiving early recognition for her abstract sculpture in the 1980s, Fasnacht began creating stop-action-like sculpture and precise drawings of ephemeral, sudden or violent events in the mid-1990s, based on photographs from dated science textbooks and magazines. Critics connected them to work by Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Vija Celmins, but distinguished Fasnacht by her translation of two-dimensional sources into sculpture (rather than painting) that was "emphatically handmade" and open to fantasy, slippage of meaning, and abstraction. Fasnacht's work plays with space, scale and time and in this sense relates to 1970s art that engaged in phenomenological explorations of experience, perception and objectivity. Nancy Princethal notes its focus on events that "fall at the threshold of visibility, in the realm of things that, while not imperceptible are more or less impossible to visualize in any stable, conventional way." Working at table-top to larger-than-human scale, Fasnacht has depicted cataclysmic events in miniature and minor experiences (e.g., sneezes) at great magnification, creating dissonances that lend moral ambiguity, paradox, and a sense of the absurd to her art. Her work's suspension of time converts moments of violence, loss or catharsis into objects of contemplation—of visual pleasure, danger, wonder, intellectual stimulation, foreboding or, paradoxically, humor—that Raphael Rubinstein described as "a kind of poetics of catastrophe." Her later paintings approach time differently, collapsing change and loss in the built environment across decades in single images.Abstract sculpture (1977–1995)
Fasnacht initially worked within the materials and process-oriented language of Postminimalism, producing abstract, mixed-media wall reliefs that were also informed by Constructivist geometry and African art. They often consisted of built-up planes of raw, painted and distressed laminated wood in combinations of cones, ovals on tilted axes, globes or spirals that The New York Times described as bristling with energy, impulsive and balletic. In the later 1980s, she shifted to spiky, skeletal, machine-like freestanding works that critics related to the early modernist interest in circuses, sideshows and performance. Her early 1990s work signaled a turn to the human body, with slow, pensive objects made of rusted iron or sheets of thick rubber whose drooping forms conjured tongues (Terra Lingua, 1990) or peeling skin. Photography-based work (1996– )
Fasnacht broke from overtly abstract work around 1996 in transitional wall reliefs that used preexisting schematic renderings and photographs of star clusters or land masses as a point of departure (e.g., Strange Attractors, 1997). In subsequent sculpture and drawings, she borrowed from stop-action photographs of explosive forces involving wind, air, movement and space. Among the first was Little Sneeze (1997), a delicate sculpture with clumps of black and white polymer clotted around radiating vectors of wire, which issued from a wall.This work developed into larger works created by spraying neoprene through wire mesh that erupted from floors in a more unruly fashion: the graphite-coated Big Bang (1998) and Explosion (1998), which delineated different types of smoke in black, gray and white. Two installation-like works from 2000 were later noted for their uncanny prophetic quality in light of the subsequent 9-11 attacks. Demo froze the implosion of a building in mid-air, complete with highly textured, blackened falling bricks and signage letters, flying shards and oozed neoprene smoke resembling popcorn; it references vanished 1950s landmarks from Fasnacht's native Midwest. The more violent and unsettling Exploding Plane offers a complex sense of space, drawing viewers' eyes into, around and through the work and its aluminum-gray scattering parts (including suitcases) suspended in midair. After 9/11, Fasnacht turned from explosions to more celebratory and meditative drawings of civic parades and fireworks, exploding champagne bottles, and water occurrences that suggested both mourning and renewal. Between 2005 and 2008, Fasnacht created a series of perceptually challenging wall and floor drawings/installations executed in tape, which collapsed gallery and drawing spaces with anamorphic optical effects that read like dematerialized architectural renderings. The centerpiece of one show, Jump Zone (2005–8), occupied a corner, exploiting perspective and visual illusion to suggest a solid, three-dimensional object exploding outward with flying girders and popcorn-like smoke and detritus; ARTnews described it as a "masterly representation of anxiety and disorientation."Similar works include New City (2007), which featured three wall drawings of exploded, skeletal one-room buildings with studs, beams and partial sheathing visible, and Stack (2008, Smack Mellon), which extended off corner walls onto the gallery floor. From 2008 to 2012, Fasnacht researched and examined the historic pilfering and destruction of artistic and cultural materials during times of war and authoritarian repression, from World War II to the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas. This work culminated in her show "Loot" (Kent Gallery, 2012), which featured black-and-white historical images of seized artifacts and personal effects, store rooms and rubble that she digitally altered and cut out, in formats from small framed pieces to wall-sized installations. In later work, Fasnacht continued to explore architectural, geological and cultural instability. Suspect Terrain (2014–5) was a 50-foot-wide temporary installation commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park, which derived from a photograph of a massive sinkhole that opened in Guangzhou, China. It was constructed out of jagged, centrifugally sloping plywood plates atop exposed struts, out of which a peaked-roofed house shaded with raster dots and surrounded by irregularly placed painted cracks appears to sink. Functioning like a low-tech playground or stage set, it provided spectators the visceral, unprescribed experience of safely traversing a natural disaster, while using plate tectonics as a means of questioning notions of stability, the reliability of appearances and perception.New Frontier (2015) and Sands Debris (2017-18) depicted the aftermaths of two Las Vegas hotel/casino demolitions, referencing material transformation and the volatility of boom economies and architecture. Works on paper (1996– )
Fasnacht has made consistently drawings alongside—rather than as preparation for—parallel sculpture and installation series. Her drawings have been noted for their refinement, drafting skill and varied mark-making, which can include crosshatching, newsprint-like rendered dots and actual holes, among other techniques. Critics have compared them to Impressionist landscapes or Agnes Martin grid paintings that metamorphose upon close inspection, the Pop-Conceptualist hybrids of Sigmar Polke, and the drawings of Alberto Giacometti, which render transient qualities as sculptural or stable. Her drawing series include: "REM" (1996–7), constellation-like graphite works based on eye-movement charts observed in viewers of famous paintings; the colored-pencil and graphite "Explosions/Implosions" (1997–2003); "The ERR Project" (2007–8), depicting looted artifacts in artist's tape and dry transfer textures on vellum; the graphite and colored-pencil "Book Burnings" (2009–13); and the colored-pencil and graphite "Casinos" and "Casino Countdowns" (2015–7), which depict Las Vegas demolition sites, fireworks and light shows. Paintings (2018– )
In 2018, Fasnacht returned to her first medium of painting, producing haunting, photo-based mixed-media works that explore changes to the built environment over time. Her "Dead Resorts" and "Lost Architecture" series (both 2018) featured buildings, malls, theme parks and bars that were collaged, drawn and painted on a range of surfaces (colored floor tiles, vinyl, wood, Polystyrene, cardboard) in lyrical or graphic, blueprint-like fashion.The "Playgrounds & -topias" series (2019–20) focuses on the ghosts of rural or suburban, 1950s and 1960s sites of childhood play: swing sets, seesaws, rollercoasters and jungle gyms that explore memory and fallibility, possibility and danger, loss and "unclaimed reminiscences," according to Nancy Princenthal. The large, often nocturnal paintings retain Fasnacht's interest in the dissolution of matter and the kinetic; they convey a bodily sense of gravity-defying exhilaration modulated by nostalgia and melancholy, as well as disorientation created by distorted spaces that flip, roll and sometimes dissolve into the snow of old TV screens. Painted on grounds of digitally manipulated, tiled inkjet prints of Internet images, their surfaces are activated by layered passages of brushy paint, invented structural elements, and occasional, sketchy notional figures. Works such as Big Jungle Gym and Invertigo A and B offer scaffold-like, skeletal tangles of bars, ladders to nowhere and struts, while others present the spooling, elliptical shapes of rollercoasters (e.g., Turbulence or Alpen Geist). Education and career
Fasnacht was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951 and studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and New York University. She began exhibiting regularly with her first solo show at PS1 in 1979, followed by others at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery and Germans van Eck Gallery (both New York) in her first decade. She subsequently had solo exhibitions at the Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston, 1996–2007), Bill Maynes Gallery (1997–2000) and Kent Gallery (2003–12) in New York, Worcester Art Museum (2000) and Virginia Commonwealth University (2004, mid-career retrospective), among others.She has been featured in Documenta 6 and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum at the Equitable Center, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and SculptureCenter. She has taught fine arts at Parsons the New School for Design since 1995 and been an instructor at UCLA, Princeton University, Harvard University  and SUNY Purchase. Awards and collections
Fasnacht has received the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1990), and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2010, 1999), New York Foundation for the Arts (2007), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2001), National Endowment for the Arts (1994, 1990) and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1986), among others. She has been awarded artist residencies from organizations including MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Edward F. Albee Foundation and Yaddo. Her work belongs to the permanent museum collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Aargauer Kunsthaus (Switzerland), Cincinnati Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, High Museum of Art, Museum Arnhem (Netherlands), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rose Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Fundacio Sorigue (Spain), among others. References

External links
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<mask> Fasnacht, One Question, Romanov Grave, 2015

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title: Gregory C. Carr

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<mask><mask> (born 1959) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His most notable philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's famous Gorongosa National Park, which has been ravaged by civil war and environmental destruction. He has pledged more than $100 million over 35 years to restore and protect the Park's biodiversity, and to assist communities living adjacent to the Park with health care, education and agriculture-- in a public-private partnership with the Government of Mozambique. Biography
<mask> was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1959. His parents are Taylor H. and Betty O<mask>. He attended Utah State University as an undergraduate, majoring in history, and received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1986. Later that year, inspired by the breakup of AT&T, he and Scott Jones founded Boston Technology, one of the earlier firms to sell voice mail systems to telephone companies.<mask> served as the chair of Boston Technology until it was purchased by Comverse Technology (CMVT) in 1998. From 1996 to 1998 he was chair of Prodigy, an early global Internet service provider (ISP). He also co-founded Africa Online in 1996 and served as its chair until 1998. In 1998 <mask> resigned from his for-profit boards and dedicated himself to humanitarian activities. He formed the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in 1999. Through research and teaching, the Carr Center seeks to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy in the United States and throughout the world. In 1999 he also founded the Gregory C. Carr Foundation, a non-profit organization through which he has been involved in various projects including the Gorongosa Restoration Project.The Carr Foundation is currently committed to the 30 year restoration of Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique as well as to the sustainable development of the communities surrounding the park. The Gorongosa team has reintroduced species to the ecosystem, worked with the Mozambican government to extend the park's boundaries to include Mount Gorongosa and planted more than three million trees on the mountain, created an international restoration ecology science research center, established eco-tourism in the Park, and provides health and education programs to the local communities living near the Park's borders. National Geographic Television chronicled the Park's restoration in their film "Africa's Lost Eden", as well as the CBS News program "60 Minutes" on October 26, 2008. <mask> has been active in human rights activities in his home state of Idaho. In 2000, he co-founded the Museum of Idaho located in Idaho Falls, and in 2001 he opened the Market Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The theater was known for showcasing small independent and experimental productions. In 2001 he purchased the compound of the Aryan Nations, near Hayden Lake, Idaho, after it was seized by court order following a successful lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the Nazi group.The land, donated to North Idaho College, is now a peace park. He was a close friend of biologist E. O. Wilson and served on the
board of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation until Professor Wilson's passing on December 26,2021. Here's how to help
UNDP: STIMULATING GROWTH - Growing coffee to restore the rainforest and lift people out of poverty also reinforces Africa's greatest wildlife restoration initiative
Idaho Statesman - Zoo Boise set to open its first exhibit in more than a decade. Here’s what you’ll see. Idaho Statesman - A people ravaged by civil war found new life in Idahoan’s team’s effort to plant coffee
Associated Press - Mozambique peace accord brings hope of economic growth
New York Times: "Wild Pups Romp Again in an African Paradise" by Natalie Angier
Associated Press - Coffee growers help reforest Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa
TIME Magazine - World’s Greatest Places 2019 - Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique
Associated Press - Thousands in Mozambique rebuild after devastating cyclones
Seasons Greetings from Gorongosa Park - Message by <mask>
Wired - The wild experiment to bring apex predators back from the brink
CNN Travel: Inside Africa - The women behind the comeback: How one of Africa's national parks is thriving after war
Mountain Journal - The Awakening: How Hope Was Reborn In Gorongosa
New York Times: "How This Spot (in Mozambique) Got Its Leopard"
Africa Geographic: "Gorongosa"
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Publius <mask> was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium. By defending the narrow end of the bridge, he and his companions were able to hold off the attacking army long enough to allow other Romans to destroy the bridge behind him, blocking the Etruscans' advance and saving the city. Background
<mask> was a member of the ancient patrician house of the Horatii, celebrated in legend since the combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii in the time of Tullus Hostilius, the third Roman king. He was a nephew of the consul, <mask>, and is said to have obtained his agnomen, Cocles, meaning "one-eyed", because he lost an eye in the Battle of the Sublician Bridge. However, this may be a later elaboration, as the famous statue of Horatius, lame and one-eyed, which was still visible, though heavily weathered, in the time of Pliny the Elder, was probably intended as a depiction of the god Vulcan, and only became identified with <mask> when its original subject was no longer recognizable. In 509 BC, King Lars Porsena was at the head of an army that marched on Rome. Concentrating his forces on the Etruscan (west) side of the Tiber, Porsena assaulted Janiculum hill and seized it and all its materiel from the terrified Roman guard.Porsena left an Etruscan garrison to hold it, then proceeded towards the Pons Sublicius, the only regional bridge across the Tiber. The Romans awaited in the Naevian Meadow between Porsena and the bridge. The Tarquins commanded the Etruscan left wing facing the Roman troops of Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius. Octavius Mamilius commanded the Etruscan right wing consisting of rebel Latins; they faced Romans under Marcus Valerius Volusus and Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus. Porsena commanded the center, facing the two Roman consuls. Porsena had the Romans outnumbered and intended to intimidate them into retreat. Battle ensued.The Etruscan right wing was successful in wounding Valerius and Lucretius, the commanders of the Roman left wing. After both were carried off the field, the Romans began to panic and ran for the bridge. The enemy pursued. <mask> at the bridge

Three Romans now defended the Pons Sublicius; the right wing's commanders Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, plus Publius <mask> <mask>, a junior officer "on guard at the bridge when he saw the Janiculum taken by a sudden assault and the enemy rushing down from it to the river ...."

The three defenders withstood sword and missile attacks until the Roman troops had all crossed. Livy's briefer and more skeptical account tells of no battle, only that <mask>' "own men, a panic-struck mob, were deserting their posts and throwing away their arms"; however, <mask>' courage manages to shame the two veteran commanders, Herminius and Lartius, to assist him momentarily with his defense of the bridge. Dionysius' account explains, "Herminius and Lartius, their defensive arms being now rendered useless by the continual blows they received, began to retreat gradually." They order Horatius to retreat with them, but he stood his ground.Understanding the threat to Rome if the enemy were to cross the river, he ordered his men to destroy the bridge. The enemy was shocked not only by Horatius' suicidal last stand, but also by his decision to use a pile of bodies as a shield wall. <mask> was struck by enemy missiles many times including a spear in the buttocks. Hearing word from his men they'd torn up the bridge, he "leaped fully armed into the river and swimming across ... he emerged upon the shore without having lost any of his weapons." Livy's version has him uttering this prayer to Father Tiber: "Tiberinus, holy father, I pray thee to receive into thy propitious stream these arms and this thy warrior." Horatius was awarded a crown for his valor (akin to a modern military decoration) and conducted into the city by a singing crowd joined by a grateful city. <mask> was now disabled and so could no longer serve in the army or hold public office, but he was provided "as much of the public land as he himself could plow around in one day with a yoke of oxen," and each citizen of Rome was obligated to give him one day's ration of food.He would also be honoured with a bronze statue in the comitium. Polybius' account uses <mask> as an example of the men who have "devoted themselves to inevitable death...to save the lives of other citizens....[H]e threw himself into the river with his armor, and there lost his life as he had designed." Aftermath
<mask>' defense stymied Lars Porsena's direct assault on the city walls, forcing him into a siege. The siege would  conclude with a peace treaty, leaving Rome intact. Skeptical points of view
The story of Horatius at the Bridge appears in many ancient sources, including Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Livy. Florus tacitly acknowledges the extraordinary nature of the story: "It was on this occasion that those three prodigies and marvels of Rome made their appearance, <mask>, Mucius and Cloelia, who, were they not recorded in our annals, would seem fabulous characters at the present day." Tacitus notes in passing that "when [Rome] was surrendered, [Lars Porsena] did not violate the seat of Jupiter" (Rome's most important temple).This could be understood to mean that Rome surrendered during or after this battle. Livy viewed the story as legendary, dubious of <mask>' fully armed swim, noting "though many missiles fell over him he swam across in safety to his friends, an act of daring more famous than credible with posterity." T.J. Cornell deems these various accounts invented by "unscrupulous annalists" as "face-saving victories in the immediate aftermath of these defeats", insisting "The annalists of the first century BC are thus seen principally as entertainers...."

Later uses of the theme

The story of the redoubtable <mask> at the Bridge began to be depicted in art during the Renaissance, but was never an especially popular theme. It tended to be shown by artists who favored recondite classical stories, and appear in the minor arts, such as plaquettes and maiolica. Napoleon, after the battle of Klausen, nicknamed General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas "The Horatius Cocles of Tyrol" for his solo defense of a bridge over the River Eisack. The story of "Horatius at the Bridge" is retold in verse in the poem "Horatius" in Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, which enjoyed great popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The details of the poem often vary from the traditional tale by poetic license.Winston Churchill wrote that while he "stagnated in the lowest form" at Harrow, he gained a prize open to the whole school by reciting the whole "twelve hundred lines" of "Horatius". A biographical film about Churchill, Into the Storm (2009), begins with the much older Churchill reciting from "Horatius": "And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods." Later in the film, the same verses feature prominently in a nostalgic and morose address Churchill delivers to his war cabinet. Churchill also recites from "Horatius" in a scene from the biographical film Darkest Hour, and these lines occur in numerous works of fiction. "A Nation Once Again" was a popular Irish rebel song, written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845) in furtherance of Irish nationalism. First published in The Nation on 13 July 1844 (two years after Macaulay's Horatius), the first verse refers to the heroism of "ancient freemen, For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, three hundred men and three men", references the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae, and the three defenders at the Pons Sublicius. Horatius figures prominently in Jessie Pope's 1915 poem "The Longest Odds" about the exploits of a highlander who single-handedly clears an entire German trench before being killed.His actions are likewise compared to both the Spartans and the Roman defenders. The story of Horatius is echoed in a poem about Sven Dufva, "The Tales of Ensign Stål," recounting the story of a simple-minded but honest and dutiful soldier in the Finnish War who heroically holds back an attack by Russian forces at a bridge by himself, but dies in the effort. In the 2013 film Oblivion, the protagonist paraphrases Macaulay's "Horatius", and quotes many parts of the poem before confronting an overwhelming enemy. See also
 Horatia gens
 Vulcanal, a statue in honour of Horatius <mask> was said to have been set up here. Footnotes

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 Polybius, Historiae (The Histories). Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities). Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis (Natural History). Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae. Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum Omnium Annorum DCC (Epitome of Livy: All the Wars of Seven Hundred Years). Michael Grant, Roman Myths, Dorset Press (1971). T.J. Cornell, "The Formation of the Historical Tradition of Early Rome", in Past Perspectives: Studies in Greek and Roman Historical Writing, T.J. Cornell, I.S. Moxon, John Woodman, eds., Cambridge University Press (1986). External links

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title: Alan F. Segal

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<mask> (August 2, 1945 – February 13, 2011) was a scholar of ancient religions, specializing in Judaism's relationship to Christianity. Segal was a distinguished scholar, author, and speaker, self-described as a "believing Jew and twentieth-century humanist." Segal was one of the first modern scholars to write extensively on the influences of Judaism (including Second Temple Rabbinic texts, Merkabah mysticism, and Jewish apocalypticism) on Paul of Damascus. <mask> was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Amherst College (B.A., 1967), Brandeis University (M.A., 1969), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Bachelor of Hebrew Letters, 1971), and Yale University (M.A., 1971; M.Phil., 1973; and Ph.D., 1975). At the time of his retirement, Segal was Professor Emeritus of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Barnard College and held a concurrent appointment as Adjunct Professor of Scripture at Union Theological Seminary. He had also taught at Princeton University and the University of Toronto.<mask> was an expert in the field of history and religious traditions of Judaism and Christianity of the Roman period, and on the Semitic languages in use in Israel in that period. His scholarly reputation commenced with his landmark book, Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and Gnosticism (1977), in which he explored early references in rabbinic texts that he proposed were directed against beliefs of Jewish Christians and gnostics. His 1986 book, Rebecca's Children, was a sensitive study showing that rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity were sibling developments from the parent biblical tradition. His award-winning book, Paul the Convert (1990) was Editor's Choice and main selection of the History Book Club's summer 1990 list, and a selection of the Book of the Month Club. The 368 page text is a collection of studies that interprets Paul within the context of Jewish mysticism and history, providing unique depth and insight for Biblical exegetes and Jewish historians. His last book, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion (2004) was a massive study of beliefs spanning from ancient near-eastern civilizations to the present and across various religious traditions. Life After Death is "considered one of the definitive treatments of that weighty subject — and was weighty in its own right, at 731 pages."It was a selection of the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Behavioral Science Book Club. It also featured on the Leonard Lopate Show, Talk of the Nation, and was the cover story of the Globe and Mail Book Review Supplement (Toronto). In addition, he wrote numbers articles and chapters in scholarly books. <mask> gave conference presentations and lectures internationally. He was a founding member of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, and the SBL program unit on Divine Mediators in Antiquity. In 1988, he was the first Jewish member of the Society for New Testament Studies to address the society. He was elected a member of the American Society for the Study of Religion and the first American living outside Canada to be elected President of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies.Until <mask>'s book Paul the Convert was published in 1990, most modern Biblical scholars failed to take into account the Jewishness of Paul and the vast majority of Jewish historians ignored Paul altogether because of his perceived anti-Semitic writing. <mask> argues in Paul the Convert that despite Paul's polemical rhetoric, the Jewish community must nevertheless consider the historical value of Paul's epistles because of the insights he provides into first century Hellenistic Judaism. <mask>'s exegetical concern is with the Jewish context of Paul's religious struggle following his conversion. He reads Paul's epistles in light of the social sciences, borrowing from modern sociological and psychological studies (especially those pertaining to conversion). He also examines Paul through the lens of Jewish Merkabah mysticism and the Rabbinic tradition – a pioneering method of study of the New Testament. <mask> argues that in order to understand Paul thoroughly, one must understand the circumstances of his time and culture. Segal draws similarities between things like Paul's description of his conversion on the road to Damascus (2 Cor.12:1-9) and Ezekiel and Enoch's heavenly ascent. He argues that Paul's emphasis on the Glory of God (Kavod) in these stories is characteristic of the Merkabah mystic tradition. The type of exegesis that <mask> engages in provides a rare insight into first century thinking. Segal understands Paul as part of Jewish history; he interprets Paul's conversion as an apostasy and a break from Judaism because of his insistence on transformation in Christ, although Paul never perceived his actions as outside the Jewish community (Acts 21:24). Paul, Segal argues, never felt that he had left Judaism, "He began as a Pharisee and became a convert from Pharisaism. He spent the rest of his life trying to express what he converted to. He never gave it a single name."Paul's conversion experience, Segal argues, forced him to re-evaluate his faith and understanding of the Torah; he was made to reconcile his revelation with his Pharasaism. Segal was a frequent media commentator on St. Paul and other issues to deal with early Christianity and Judaism. <mask>, who wrote on Christian and Jewish beliefs in an afterlife, explained to reporters that belief in an existence beyond death persists among Americans no matter how little they observe their religion. During September 2007, Segal became part of the controversial tenure battle concerning Barnard anthropology professor Nadia Abu El Haj. <mask>, who was opposed to Abu El Haj's tenure bid, told The New York Times that "there is every reason in the world to want her to have tenure, and only one reason against it — her work, I believe it is not good enough." <mask> wrote a critique of Abu El Haj's book Facts on the Ground for the Columbia Daily Spectator, in which he said that the reasons for which he opposed tenure for Abu El Haj were professional, not personal. Selected bibliography
 Deus Ex Machina: Computers in the Humanities
 Jews and Arabs: A Teaching Guide
 Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religions, Doubleday, 2004. .The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity Scholars Press, 1987. Paul the Convert: The Apostasy and Apostolate of Saul of Tarsus Yale University Press, 1990. Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World, Harvard University Press, 1986. .
 Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism E.J. Brill, 1977
 Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How The Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth. Columbia University Press, 2012. References

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title: William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk

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<mask>, 1st Duke of Suffolk,  (16 October 13962 May 1450), nicknamed Jackanapes, was an English magnate, statesman, and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He became a favourite of the weak king Henry VI of England, and consequently a leading figure in the English government where he became associated with many of the royal government's failures of the time, particularly on the war in France. <mask> also appears prominently in Shakespeare's Henry VI, parts 1 and 2. He fought in the Hundred Years' War and participated in campaigns of Henry V, and then continued to serve in France for King Henry VI. He was one of the English commanders at the failed Siege of Orléans. He favoured a diplomatic rather than military solution to the deteriorating situation in France, a stance which would later resonate well with King Henry VI. <mask> became a dominant figure in the government, and was at the forefront of the main policies conducted during the period.He played a central role in organizing the Treaty of Tours (1444), and arranged the king's marriage to Margaret of Anjou. At the end of Suffolk's political career he was accused of maladministration by many and forced into exile. At sea on his way out, he was caught by an angry mob, subjected to a mock trial, and beheaded. His estates were forfeited to the crown but later restored to his only son, John. His political successor was the <mask> of Somerset. Biography

<mask> <mask> was born in Cotton, Suffolk, the second son of <mask> <mask>, 2nd Earl of Suffolk by his wife <mask> Stafford, daughter of <mask> Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, KG, and Philippa <mask>. Almost continually engaged in the wars in France, he was seriously wounded during the Siege of Harfleur (1415), where his father died from dysentery.Later that year his older brother Michael, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, was killed at the Battle of Agincourt, and <mask> succeeded as 4th Earl. He served in all the later French campaigns of the reign of Henry V, and in spite of his youth held high command on the marches of Normandy in 1421–22. In 1423 he joined Thomas, Earl of Salisbury in Champagne. He fought under John, Duke of Bedford, at the Battle of Verneuil on 17 August 1424, and throughout the next four years was Salisbury's chief lieutenant in the direction of the war. He became co-commander of the English forces at the Siege of Orléans (1429), after the death of Salisbury. When the city was relieved by <mask> Arc in 1429, he managed a retreat to Jargeau where he was forced to surrender on 12 June. He was captured by a French squire named .Admiring the young soldier's bravery, the earl decided to knight him before surrendering. This dubbing has remained famous in French history and literature and has been recounted by the writer Alexandre Dumas. He remained a prisoner of Charles VII of France for three years, and was ransomed in 1431, after fourteen years' continuous field service. After his return to the Kingdom of England in 1434 he was made Constable of Wallingford Castle. He became a courtier and a close ally of Cardinal Henry Beaufort. Despite the diplomatic failure of the Congress of Arras, the cardinal's authority remained strong and Suffolk gained increasing influence. His most notable accomplishment in this period was negotiating the marriage of King Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou in 1444, which he achieved despite initial reluctance, and included a two years' truce.This earned him a promotion from Earl to Marquess of Suffolk. However, a secret clause was put in the agreement which gave Maine and Anjou back to France, which was partly to cause his downfall. His own marriage took place on 11 November 1430 (date of licence), to (as her third husband) Alice Chaucer (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and granddaughter of the notable poet <mask> and his wife, Philippa Roet. With the deaths in 1447 of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (shortly after his arrest for treason), and Cardinal Beaufort, Suffolk became the principal power behind the throne of the weak and compliant Henry VI. In short order he was appointed Chamberlain, Admiral of England, and to several other important offices. He was created Earl of Pembroke in 1447, and Duke of Suffolk in 1448. However, Suffolk was suspected of responsibility in Humphrey's death, and later of being a traitor.On 16 July [what year??] he met in secret with Jean, Count <mask>, at his mansion of the Rose in Candlewick street, the first of several meetings in London at which they planned a French invasion. Suffolk passed Council minutes to Dunois, the French hero of the Siege of Orleans. It was rumoured that Suffolk never paid his ransom of £20,000 owed to Dunois. The Lord Treasurer, Ralph Cromwell, wanted heavy taxes from Suffolk; the duke's powerful enemies included John Paston and Sir John Fastolf. Many blamed Suffolk's retainers for lawlessness in East Anglia. The following three years saw the near-complete loss of the English possessions in northern France (Rouen, Normandy etc.).Suffolk could not avoid taking the blame for these failures, partly because of the loss of Maine and Anjou through his marriage negotiations regarding Henry VI. When parliament met in November 1449, the opposition showed its strength by forcing the treasurer, Adam Moleyns, to resign. Molyens was murdered by sailors at Portsmouth on 9 January 1450. <mask>, realizing that an attack on himself was inevitable, boldly challenged his enemies in parliament, appealing to the long and honourable record of his public services. However, on 28 January he was arrested, imprisoned in the Tower of London and impeached in parliament by the Commons. The King intervened to protect his favourite, who was banished for five years, but on his journey to Calais his ship was intercepted by the ship <mask> of the Tower. Suffolk was captured, subjected to a mock trial, and executed by beheading.He was later found on the sands near Dover, and the body was probably brought to a church in Suffolk, possibly Wingfield. He was interred in the Carthusian Priory in Hull by his widow Alice, as was his wish, and not in the church at Wingfield, as is often stated. The Priory, founded in 1377 by his grandfather the first Earl of Suffolk, was dissolved in 1539, and most of the original buildings did not survive the two Civil War sieges of Hull in 1642 and 1643. Descendants
Suffolk's only known legitimate son, John, became the second Duke of Suffolk in 1463. Suffolk also fathered an illegitimate daughter, <mask> <mask>. Her mother is said to have been a nun, Malyne <mask>. "The nighte before that he was yolden [yielded himself up in surrender to the Franco-Scottish forces of Joan of Arc on 12 June 1429] he laye in bed with a nonne whom he toke oute of holy profession and defouled, whose name was Malyne <mask>, by whom he gate a daughter, now married to Stonard of Oxonfordshire".<mask> <mask> (died 28 February 1494) was married before 1450 to Thomas Stonor (1423–1474), of Stonor in Pyrton, Oxfordshire. Their son Sir <mask>, Kt, was married to Anne Neville, daughter of John, Marquess of Montagu and had two children: John Neville, married to Mary Fortesque, daughter of Sir John Fortesque of Punsburn, Hereford, but died without issue; and Anne Stonor, married to Sir Adrian Fortesque, who distinguished himself at the Battle of the Spurs; he was beheaded in 1539. Thomas Stonor and <mask> <mask>'s two other sons were Edward and Thomas. Thomas Stoner married <mask> Brecknock, daughter of Sir David Brecknock. His great-great-grandson Thomas Stoner (18 December 16262 September 1683) married in 1651 Elizabeth Nevill (born 1641), daughter of Henry, Lord Bergavenny and his second wife Katherine Vaux, daughter of George Vaux and sister of Edward, Lord Vaux of Harrowden. Thomas's son John Stoner (22 March 165419 November 1689) married on 8 July 1675 Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Jane Conyers, daughter of Sir John Conyers. Jackanapes

Suffolk's nickname "Jackanapes" came from "Jack of Naples", a slang name for a monkey at the time.This was probably due to his heraldic badge, which consisted of an "ape's clog", i.e. a wooden block chained to a pet monkey to prevent it escaping. The phrase "jackanape" later came to mean an impertinent or conceited person, due to the popular perception of Suffolk as a nouveau riche upstart; his great-grandfather had been a wool merchant from Hull. Portrayals in drama, verse and prose
Suffolk is a major character in two Shakespeare plays. His negotiation of the marriage of Henry and Margaret is portrayed in Henry VI, Part 1. Shakespeare's version has <mask> fall in love with Margaret. He negotiates the marriage so that he and she can be close to one another.His disgrace and death are depicted in Henry VI, Part 2. Shakespeare departs from the historical record by having Henry banish Suffolk for complicity in the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Suffolk is murdered by a pirate named Walter Whitmore (fulfilling a prophecy given earlier in the play proclaiming he will "die by Water"), and Margaret later wanders to her castle carrying his severed head and grieving. His murder is the subject of the traditional English folk ballad "Six Dukes Went a-Fishing" (Roud #78)
Suffolk is the protagonist in Susan Curran's historical novel The Heron's Catch (1989). He plays a role in many of the seventeen Dame Frevisse detective novels of Margaret Frazer, set in England in the 1440s. Suffolk is a significant character in Cynthia Harnett's historical novel for children, The Writing on the Hearth (1971)
Suffolk is one of the three dedicatees of <mask>'s sonnet sequence, "Funeral Music" (first published in Stand magazine; collected in King Log, Andre Deutsch 1968). Hill speculates about him in the essay appended to the poems.Suffolk is one of the main characters in Conn <mask>'s Wars of the Roses: Stormbird, about the end of the Hundred Years' War and the start of the Wars of the Roses. See also
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