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<mask>  (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States-China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of China studies in the United States after World War II with his organizational ability, his mentorship of students, support of fellow scholars, and formulation of basic concepts to be tested. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard is named after him. Among his most widely read books are The United States and China, first published in 1948 and revised editions in 1958, 1979, and 1983; East Asia: The Great Tradition (1960) and East Asia The Great Transformation (1965), co-authored with Edwin O. Reischauer; and his co-edited series, The Cambridge History of China. Early life
<mask> was born in Huron, South Dakota, in 1907. His father was <mask> (1873-1936), a lawyer, and his mother was <mask> (1874-1979), who campaigned for women's suffrage.His paternal grandfather, <mask> <mask>, was "from the long 'J.B.' line, mainly of Congregational ministers, which stemmed from the <mask> family that came to Massachusetts in 1633 [and] graduated... from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1860." <mask><mask> was educated at Sioux Falls High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard College, and Oxford University (Balliol). As an undergraduate, he was advised by <mask> Webster, the distinguished British diplomatic historian who was then teaching at Harvard, to choose a relatively-undeveloped field of study. Webster suggested that since the Qing dynasty's archives were then being opened, China's foreign relations would be a prudent choice. <mask> later admitted that he then knew nothing about China itself. In 1929, when he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.At Oxford, Fairbank began his study of the Chinese language and sought the counsel of H.B. Morse, retired from the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. On Webster's advice, he had read Morse's three-volume study of the Qing dynasty's foreign relations on the ship that was coming to England. Morse became his mentor. The ambitious young scholar decided to go to Beijing to do research in December 1931 and arrived in China in January 1932. In Beijing, he studied at Tsinghua University under the direction of the prominent historian Tsiang Tingfu, who introduced him to the study of newly-available diplomatic sources and the perspectives of Chinese scholarship, which balanced the British approaches he saw at Oxford. Wilma Denio Cannon, a daughter of Walter Bradford Cannon and sister of Marian Cannon Schlesinger, came to China in 1932 to join Fairbank.They were married on June 29, 1932. Wilma had studied fine arts at Radcliffe College and had been an apprentice to the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera before she traveled to China. She began a career of her own in Chinese art history. <mask> and Wilma came to know a number of Chinese intellectuals. They became especially warm friends with Liang Sicheng, the son of the distinguished Chinese reformer Liang Qichao, and his wife, Lin Huiyin, whom they called Phyllis. The Lins introduced them to Jin Yuelin, a philosopher and originally a political scientist trained at Columbia University. Fairbank wrote later that he and Wilma began to sense through them that the Chinese problem was the "necessity to winnow the past and discriminate among things foreign, what to preserve and what to borrow...."

In 1936, Oxford awarded him a D.Phil.for his thesis, which he revised using further research and eventually published as Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854 in 1953. Early career
<mask> returned to Harvard in 1936 to take up a position teaching Chinese history and was its first full-time specialist at Harvard. In 1941 he and Edwin O. Reischauer worked out a year-long introductory survey covering China and Japan, later adding Korea and Southeast Asia. The course was known as "Rice Paddies," and it became the basis for two influential texts: East Asia: The Great Tradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) and East Asia: The Modern Transformation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965). Following the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, <mask> was enlisted for service in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and the Office of War Information in Chongqing, the temporary capital of Nationalist China. Chinese studies

Development of field
When he returned to Harvard after the war, <mask> inaugurated a master's degree program in area studies, one of several major universities in the United States to do so. That approach at Harvard was multi-disciplinary and aimed to train journalists, government officials, and others who did not want careers in academia.That broad approach, combined with <mask>'s experience in China during the war, shaped his United States and China (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Foreign Policy Library, 1948). That survey went through new editions in 1958 and 1970, each synthesizing scholarship in the field for both students and the general public. In 1972, in preparation for Nixon's visit, the book was read by leaders on both sides. Scholarship and influence
<mask> taught at Harvard until he retired in 1977. He published a number of both academic and non-academic works on China, many of which would reach a wide audience outside academia. He also published an expanded revision of his doctoral dissertation as Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast in 1953. One of his students, Paul Cohen, noted that the approaches or stages in the development of China studies of the 1950s are sometimes referred to as "the Harvard 'school' of China studies."<mask> played a major role in developing Harvard as a leading American center for East Asian studies, including establishing the Center for East Asian Research, which was renamed the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies after his retirement. He was its director from 1955 to 1973. Fairbank raised money to support fellowships for graduate students, trained influential China historians at Harvard, and placed them widely in universities and colleges in the US and overseas. He welcomed and funded researchers from all over the world to spend time in Cambridge and hosted a series of conferences, which brought scholars together and yielded publications, many of which <mask> edited himself. He established the Harvard East Asian Series, which published monographs to enable students to publish dissertations, which was essential for achieving tenure. <mask> and his colleagues at Harvard, Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert Craig, wrote a textbook on China and Japan, A History of East Asian Civilization. <mask> established links to figures in government both by training journalists, government officials, and foundation executives and by giving his thoughts to the government on policy on China.In 1966, Fairbank and the Sinologist Denis C. Twitchett, then at Cambridge University, set in motion plans for The Cambridge History of China. Originally intended to cover the entire history of China in six volumes, the project grew until it reached a projected 15 volumes. Twitchett and Fairbank divided the history, with Fairbank editing volumes on modern (post-1800) China, and Twitchett and others took responsibility for the period from the Qin to the early Qing dynasties. <mask> edited and wrote parts of Volumes 10 to 15, the last of which appeared in the year after his death. Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard Smith completed and published Fairbank's biography of H.B. Morse. Among his students were Albert Feuerwerker, Merle Goldman, Joseph Levenson, Immanuel C.Y.Hsu, Akira Iriye, Philip A. Kuhn, Kwang-ching Liu, Roderick MacFarquhar, Rhoads Murphey, David S. Nivison, Andrew Nathan, David Tod Roy, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Franz Schurmann, Teng Ssu-yu, James C. Thomson, Jr., Theodore White, <mask>. Wills, Jr., Alexander Woodside, Guy S. Alitto, Mary C. Wright. Reception

Accusations of communist sympathies
In the late 1940s, Fairbank was among the so-called China Hands, who predicted the victory of Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and advocated the establishment of relations with the new government. Although Fairbank argued that relations with the new China would be in the American national interest, the China Lobby and many other Americans accused the China Hands of selling out an ally, promoting the spread of communism, and being under Soviet influence. During an intensification of the Cold War in 1949, Fairbank was targeted for being "soft" on communism and was denied a visa to visit Japan. In 1952, he testified before the McCarran Committee, but his secure position at Harvard protected him. Ironically, many of Fairbank's Chinese friends and colleagues who returned to China after 1949, such as Fei Xiaotong, Ch'ien Tuan-sheng, and Chen Han-seng, would later be attacked for being "pro-American," as the Chinese Communist Party took on a stance that was increasingly anti-Western in the 1950s and the 1960s. Critics in Taiwan charged that Fairbank was a communist tool.According to Chen Lifu, former Republic of China minister of education, <mask> and his wife "spread rumors, attacked Chinese government officials, and provided false information to the United States government, which helped to produce incorrect policies that eventually benefited the communist forces". Accusations of US imperialism
During the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, <mask>, who had earlier been criticized as being pro-communist, came under fire from younger scholars and graduate students in the new Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, which he had helped form but then soon ended his participation. The younger scholars charged that <mask> and other leaders of the area studies movement had helped to justify American imperialism in Asia. By his grounding the study of Asia in modernization theory, <mask> and other liberal scholars presented China as an irrational country, which needed American tutelage. Since <mask> rejected revolution, he condoned imperialism. A further charge was that scholars of the Harvard School had put forth a "radical new version" of China's modern history that argued imperialism "was largely beneficial in China." In December 1969, Howard Zinn and other members of the Radical Historians' Caucus attempted to persuade the American Historical Association to pass an anti-Vietnam War resolution.A later report said a "debacle unfolded as Harvard historian (and AHA president in 1968) <mask> literally wrestled the microphone from Zinn's hands", in what <mask> called "our briefly-famous Struggle for the Mike." <mask> finished the manuscript of his final book, China: A New History in the summer of 1991. On September 14, 1991 he delivered the manuscript to Harvard University Press, then returned home and suffered a fatal heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Wilma, and their two daughters, <mask> Haynes and <mask> Tuck. Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about <mask> <mask>, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 600+ works in 1,500+ publications in 15 languages and 43,000+ library holdings. -- The origin of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1850-58. University of Oxford DPhil thesis, 1936.-- The United States and China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1st ed 1948; 4th, enl. ed. 1983. online 4th edition
 -- Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953. online
 -- "Patterns Behind the Tientsin Massacre." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 20, no.3/4 (1957): 480–511. -- Ch'ing Administration: Three Studies. (with Têng Ssu-yü) Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, V. 19. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. -- China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A (Cambridge,MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  1967). -- China Perceived; Images and Policies in Chinese-American Relations (New York: Knopf, 1974). -- Chinese-American Interactions : A Historical Summary (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,  1975).-- Chinabound: a fifty-year memoir. New York : Harper & Row, 1982. online
 --  The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800–1985 (New York: Harper & Row, 1986). online
 -- China Watch (Harvard University Press, 1987) online
 -- China: A New History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Enlarged Edition, with Merle Goldman, 1998; Second Enlarged Edition, 2006. Translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Czech; OCLC 490612305 online

Collaborative works
 <mask><mask>, Kwang-Ching Liu, Modern China; a Bibliographical Guide to Chinese Works, 1898–1937 (Cambridge,: Harvard University Press,  1950). Conrad Brandt, Benjamin Schwartz, <mask><mask>, eds., A Documentary History of Chinese Communism  (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,  1952).online
 Ssu-yü Têng, <mask><mask> Chaoying Fang and others. [Prepared in coöperation with the International Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations] with E-tu Zen Sun, eds., China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923  (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1954). online
 <mask> <mask>, Masataka Banno, Japanese Studies of Modern China; a Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the 19th and 20th Centuries (Rutland, Vt.,: Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute by C. E. Tuttle Co.,  1955). online
 Edwin O. Reischauer, <mask>. Fairbank Albert M. Craig, A History of East Asian Civilization (Boston,: Houghton Mifflin,  1960). revised as East Asia: Tradition and Transformation (1989) online
 Noriko Kamachi, Ichiko Chuzo & <mask> <mask>, Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953: A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : Supplementary Volume for 1953–1969 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press,  1975). Denis Twitchett & <mask><mask> (eds), The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press,  1978-). <mask> <mask>, Martha Henderson Coolidge & Richard J. Smith, H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,  1995).Conference volumes
 <mask> <mask>, ed.,Chinese Thought and Institutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,  1957). <mask> <mask>, The Chinese World Order; Traditional China's Foreign Relations (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1968). Frank Algerton Kierman,<mask> <mask>, eds., Chinese Ways in Warfare (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1974). <mask> <mask>, ed., The Missionary Enterprise in China and America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,  1974). online
 Suzanne Wilson <mask> <mask>, ed., Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Committee on American-East Asian Relations of the Dept. of History in collaboration with the Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University : Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1985). Ernest R. May, <mask> <mask>, eds, America's China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Committee on American-East Asian Relations of the Department of History in collaboration with Council on East Asian Studies distributed by Harvard University Press,  1986).Edited letters and texts
 <mask> <mask>, Katherine Frost Bruner, et al., The I. G. In Peking Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  1975). Katherine Frost Bruner, <mask> <mask>, et al., Entering China's Service: Robert Hart's Journals, 1854–1863 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Council on East Asian Studies Distributed by the Harvard University Press,  1986). Richard J. Smith, <mask> <mask>, et al., Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863–1866 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Council on East Asian Studies Distributed by the Harvard University Press,  1991). References
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 Sources

 Alesevich, Christopher. "<mask> <mask>: Present at the Creation," US-China Today, November 9, 2007. Brief reminiscences by students, colleagues, friends, and family. Reins, Thomas."Fairbank, <mask>", in Kelly Boyd (ed. ),  Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing  (London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999). pp. 375–377. Spence, Jonathan D. "China on My Mind"  New York Review'' (Feb. 18, 1988)   online
 Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955–2005.Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 64140358

External links
 American Historical Association, <mask> K. Fairbank Bibliography
 Articles by <mask><mask>, New York Review of Books. 1907 births
1991 deaths
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
American expatriates in China
American Rhodes Scholars
American sinologists
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Harvard College alumni
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Historians of China
People from Huron, South Dakota
People of the United States Office of War Information
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<mask><mask>. (September 19, 1935 – June 21, 2005), better known as <mask>, was an African-American abstract expressionist painter. His work is known for hard-edge abstraction, fabric constructions, and large paper collages, all exploring complicated color relationships. Biography

<mask>. was born on September 19, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan. <mask> earned a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963 and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His mentor at the University of Michigan was Al Mullen, who helped him get involved with the Once Group organization. In 1968 <mask> moved to New York City,  where he moved into the infamous Hotel Chelsea. Within a year of moving to New York City, <mask> had his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.He received National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1970, 1974, and 1984. In 1986 <mask> was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. <mask> created large-scale commissioned public works throughout his career; a 208' x 80' mural painting A Message to <mask> and Lauri (1972) on The First National Bank Building in Detroit, MI (removed 1989), a 54' x 7' painting New Morning 1 (1973) for the Empire State Collection in Albany, NY,  a ceramic mural Detroit New Morning (1987) in one of Detroit's People Mover stations and another Life, Growth, Continuity (1998) in the <mask>any Library at Wayne State University. In 1996, he created a collage painting Sacramento New Morning for the Sacramento Convention Center, and in 2001 he designed 70 stained-glass windows and mosaic walls for the Broadway Junction subway station in Brooklyn. <mask> exhibited steadily throughout his life in solo and group exhibitions at numerous venues, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Studio Museum in Harlem; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York. <mask> died on June 21, 2005 in New York, New York. Artistic Style

Hard-Edge Abstraction
In the 1960s, <mask> grew increasingly interested in Josef Albers's paintings of squares within squares.In an interview, he explained: "For me at the time, it was about painting the square until it was 'enough,' and that meant until it obtained form. The square that I started with would always be gone; only I knew it was a square, that that reference was there. That freed me to just paint and let things evolve...[The square] was pure energy and focus.” These geometric abstractions conveyed the brilliance of refracted light; they were not just experiments in color. <mask> would often make polyhedrons of the same size, with different colors, and hang them together in different arrangements on the wall. The result was sometimes dozens of canvases stretching out over several feet; to view an entire composition would take time, more than just a glance, making his paintings a powerful expression of time, too. <mask>'s geometric paintings were featured in his first solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. <mask> later abandoned hard-edged abstraction painting.Fabric Constructions
Inspired by a visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts, in the early 1970s, <mask> began to experiment with fabric constructions. He started hanging strips of canvas from the walls and ceilings, playing with our perception of pictorial and sculptural ideals. Then, he reattached the fragments together with a sewing machine, creating large flowing fabric constructions. At first he painted the pieces of canvas, but later switched to dying the fabric. Other artists, including Sam Gilliam, Alan Shields, and Richard Moch, were also using the sewing machine at this time to create fabric constructions. In fact, <mask> considered himself within the context of abstract expressionism at this phase in his career; though he was not a painter but a material abstractionist. Large Paper Collages
In the 1980s, <mask> began to integrate other materials into his constructions, such as corrugated cardboard and rag paper.<mask> quickly took a liking to the casualness of tearing cardboard and gluing it onto other pieces; in fact, he considered this practice abstract expressionist as well. Unlike the fabric constructions, the large paper collages gave him a sense of freedom because he was trekking through uncharted territory (although this work has been likened to Frank Stella's curvilinear metal reliefs and Elizabeth Murray's shaped canvases). <mask> integrated circles and spirals into these collages as a nod to his African roots and as an expression of growth and continued life. In the piece, Perpetual Motion (1994)(DASNY), <mask> integrated materials such as cardboard and print. The cardboard is cut and overlapped to form a series of spirals. Each spiral has been carefully painted and placed to create dynamic color relationships. They do not have conventional matting under them, glass to cover them or frames to surround them: instead they cling flatly to the wall.Sandra Yolles, reviewing an exhibition in 1990, explained "<mask>’s work is about earth, wind, fire, and water: some pieces might be considered atmospheric maps of life at full blast—stretching the possibilities of the human spirit by delineating its directions, currents, and eddies. '”

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions
<mask> has had several solo exhibitions throughout his life. <mask> at the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit (June 15 - July 7, 1969), <mask>: Paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (December 19, 1969 - January 25, 1970), <mask> at William Zierler, Inc. in New York (March 11 - April 1, 1973), at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977), <mask>: Departures at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (February 23 - June 9, 1986), <mask>: Maker of Art at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. (April 10 - June 15, 1991), <mask>: Material Abstraction at June Kelly Gallery in New York (November 5 – December 1, 1992), <mask> in the Nineties: The Collaged Wallworks at the Fine Arts Center Galleries of the University of Rhode Island (January 21 – March 8, 1997), <mask>: <mask>willer Visiting Artist at the Art Gallery of the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (February 6 – March 1, 1998), <mask>: Color Constructs at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College in New York, (September 27, 1998 – January 24, 1999), <mask>: Elegant Ideas at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Michigan (April 30 – June 4, 1999), <mask>: Lighter Than Air at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago (September 9 – October 29, 2004), Al Loving: Affirmations of Life at the Kenkeleba House in New York (December 6, 2005 – January 11, 2006), Al Loving: Torn Canvas at the Gary Snyder Gallery in New York (November 8 - December 29, 2012), Al Loving at the Garth Greenan Gallery in New York (May 21—June 27, 2015), Spiral Play: Loving in the '80s at Art+Practice in Los Angeles (April 22 – July 29, 2017) and at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 18, 2017 – April 15, 2018).

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title: Kevin Von Erich

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<mask> (born May 15, 1957) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, <mask>. A member of the <mask> Family, <mask> is best known for his appearances with his father's World Class Championship Wrestling promotion. He is a one-time world champion, having held the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship. Football career
Adkisson played football at North Texas State University as a fullback, second string to Garry Smith, until an injury ended his football career and dream of playing in the National Football League. Professional wrestling career

World Class Championship Wrestling (1976-1990)

Early career (1976-1981)
Adkisson started wrestling as <mask> in 1976. He spent most of his career wrestling for his father's promotion, World Class Championship Wrestling. <mask>'s natural athletic ability and good looks made him one of the promotion's biggest stars.He achieved great success in the company both as a singles and tag team wrestler, often participating in many of the company's high-profile feuds. <mask> was also known for wrestling barefoot, highly unusual in a sport where almost all wrestlers wear high-topped boots. World Class announcers often jokingly referred to him as "The Barefoot Boy" on WCCW broadcasts. <mask> later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before one of his matches someone hid his boots as a joke, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark. Contrary to popular belief, he wore boots in matches in his early career, including his debut match against Paul Perschmann aka Playboy Buddy Rose and in a match against Superfly Jimmy Snuka. <mask> was a big fan of Snuka's, who also wrestled barefoot, and <mask> often performed a moved similar to Snuka's flying body splash from the top rope, which Snuka called The Superfly. During the late 70s, <mask> established himself in the Dallas territory.His first major success came in 1978 while wrestling as a tag team with his younger brother David. During the year, they captured the NWA Texas Tag Team Championship on two occasions as well as the NWA American Tag Team Championship. On Christmas Day 1978, he established himself firmly in the singles ranks of the promotion by defeating Bruiser Brody for the NWA American Heavyweight Championship. In 1980, <mask> <mask> made his only wrestling appearance in the WWF on January 21 against Johnny Rodz, in a match he won. As the 1980s dawned, <mask> became one of the promotion's most viable performers and continued to win numerous championships in both singles and tag team competition with a variety of different partners. However, his highest profile partners would always be his brothers Kerry and David. As the early-1980s progressed, <mask> would appear often at other NWA-promoted territories, including St. Louis, Georgia Championship Wrestling and briefly Florida Championship Wrestling.<mask> also competed in a few matches for the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Freebird-<mask> Erich Feud (1982-1984)
In early 1982, the Fabulous Freebirds, consisting of Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts, left Georgia Championship Wrestling after meeting WCCW booker Gary Hart at a show. Appearing in World Class, the trio instantly became fan favorites due to a combination of their unique talents and chemistry as well as their close friendship with the <mask>s. All three rose quickly through the ranks and in late November 1982, Hayes and Gordy defeated the team of King Kong Bundy and Wild Bill Irwin for the NWA American Tag Team Championship. A feud between the <mask>s and Freebirds developed roughly a month later. During WCCW's annual Christmas show in 1982, <mask> <mask> faced Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship inside of a steel cage with Michael Hayes acting as a special referee. As explained in The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling DVD, the storyline, developed by Gary Hart, was written as Hayes having been selected by fans to be a special enforcer type of referee in the match.Near the end of the match, Flair shoved Hayes, which resulted in Hayes punching him. Hayes then tried to place Kerry on top of Flair to make the three count. <mask> refused to do so since it wasn't the "Texas thing to do", which led to a brief shoving match and argument between the two. Hayes, disgusted with the situation, told Terry Gordy, who had been assigned as the gatekeeper, to open the cage door. As Hayes is about to leave <mask> was attacked from behind by Ric Flair, with the former accidentally hitting Hayes and knocking him out of the cage. The angle was written as having neither Hayes nor Gordy being aware that Kerry was shoved into Hayes. As Kerry was getting to his feet inside the ring, that was the signal for Gordy to slam the cage door shut, hitting Kerry on the head and costing him the championship.The Freebirds immediately became the top heels in the company, due to the belief of many fans that their actions cost one of their local heroes the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. As the feud was building, the WCCW television broadcasts were syndicated to television stations all across the United States, giving the promotion millions of viewers each week in the U.S. alone. This changed the face of wrestling and how it was marketed and presented to audiences. The extremely physical nature of the matches between the two factions captivated fans, changing preconceptions about what professional wrestling was and could be. Throughout the next several years, the Freebirds and <mask>s engaged in numerous high-profile matches that were very physical in nature with the various members of each group feuding over various championships within the promotion. The feud is seen today by many fans and wrestling industry insiders as one of the best worked and most memorable feuds in the history of professional wrestling. This line of drama ended, when <mask>'s brother David von <mask>, died in Japan from acute enteritis of the upper intestine.This broke up the symmetry of the wrestling rivalry, though eventually the remaining brothers went on to wrestle individually, with varying degrees of success. Feuds with Chris Adams and Ric Flair (1985-1990)
<mask> also had a long feud with Chris Adams that lasted for months and had many violent matches, including two well-known chair shots on each other that required hospitalization for both men. <mask> would also tag-team with Adams on numerous occasions before and after their feud. Away from the ring, <mask> and Chris were close friends; <mask> served as a pallbearer during Adams' funeral in 2001 and traveled to England to visit Adams' family afterwards. In recent interviews, <mask> stated that Adams was the toughest wrestler he's ever wrestled in his career and he showed a great amount of respect for the British-born wrestler. <mask> Flair, including the main event of the 2nd David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions at Texas Stadium, but never won the title. Folding of WCCW and United States Wrestling Association (1989-1990)
After the failure of SuperClash III, in 1989, <mask> became very despondent over his father's decision to sell the promotion to Jerry Jarrett, who owned the Memphis-based CWA, despite his brother Kerry welcoming Jarrett into the mix; the merged promotions became the USWA.However, because of disputes, including suing Jarrett himself, he pulled WCCW out of the USWA in 1990, but he couldn't resurrect the promotion his father built and had no choice but shut down World Class that November. <mask> did manage to draw crowds to the Sportatorium in the early going, but with the absence of his brother, manager/booker Gary Hart, and the lack of televised matches, World Class' survival was very thin. During that time, <mask> competed very little; other than wrestling in other independent cards promoted by either himself, Chris Adams or Gary Hart. <mask> did not participate at all in the August 4, 1989 card in which World Class formally became USWA Texas, while brother Kerry, who competed on the card earlier, reportedly left the Sportatorium shortly after his match. <mask> however did help out a young Steve Austin increase his abilities in the ring during this time, and considers Austin as one of his friends to this day. World Wrestling Federation (1991)
Sixteen months after his brother joined the World Wrestling Federation, <mask> wrestled a dark match on December 2, 1991 at a Wrestling Challenge taping in Corpus Christi, TX where he faced and defeated Brian Lee. Later career (1991–1995)
<mask> competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in 1991.On April 2, 1993 he teamed up with Chris Adams to defeat Fabulous Freebirds' Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts at Global Wrestling Federation's Adkisson Benefit Show at the Sportatorium. <mask>'s last round of glory occurred on January 7, 1995 while competing for Jim Crockett, Jr.'s NWA promotion based at the Sportatorium; where he won the North American heavyweight title defeating Greg Valentine. A week later he dropped the title to John Hawk. He then formed a very brief alliance with manager Skandor Akbar. <mask> eventually cut back on his ring appearances and formally retired by the end of 1995. Retirement
On October 3, 2005, <mask> made an appearance on the WWE Raw Homecoming show alongside other WWE Hall of Famers. Later that night, as Dusty Rhodes and the WWE Hall of Famers were gathered in the ring, Rob Conway came out and interrupted Rhodes.This eventually led to Conway's beatdown by several Hall of Famers, in which <mask> used the legendary Iron Claw on Conway, to the raves of the partisan Dallas, Texas crowd. Jim Ross said afterwards that he never thought he would live to see the Iron Claw again. On January 20, 2006, <mask> and his son Ross Adkisson (billed as <mask> <mask>) appeared on a local wrestling card in Longview, Texas as guests of Roddy Piper's Piper's Pit. During the segment, in which <mask> and Piper talked about going to the Sportatorium as teenagers, Skandor Akbar interrupted the interview to berate both <mask> and Ross. At one point, Akbar pushed Ross, which prompted <mask> to apply the iron claw on Akbar. Greg Valentine then pulled Akbar away, with <mask>, Ross, Piper and The Grappler taking in the cheers of the crowd. In 2006, <mask>, and a number of others from World Class Championship Wrestling's heyday, participated in Heroes of World Class Wrestling, an independently produced retrospective documentary about the promotion and the <mask> family.The documentary featured comments from Adkisson, Gary Hart, Skandor Akbar, Bill Mercer, Mickey Grant, David Manning, Marc Lowrance and via earlier interviews, Chris Adams. Later that October he sold the rights to the (pre-1988) WCCW name and tape archives to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). WWE subsequently began broadcasting WCCW's syndicated programming on their subscription video on demand service WWE Classics On Demand with <mask> and Michael "P.S." Hayes acting as hosts and later included WCCW footage on the WWE Network. WWE produced The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class, their own documentary on the territory in 2007. <mask> was also featured in the 2007 WWE produced DVD The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling in a segment on the <mask> family. On April 4, 2009, <mask> represented the <mask> family as they were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Michael Hayes.On June 15, 2014, at Slammiversary, <mask> accompanied his sons Ross and Marshall to the ring for a tag-team match. On April 2, 2016 <mask> appeared at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony to discuss his relationship with The Fabulous Freebirds. Brief comeback (2017)
At 60 years of age, <mask> returned to wrestling for the first time in 22 years on July 9, 2017. He teamed with his sons Ross and Marshall as they defeated Marty Jannetty, Jumping Lee and Gery Roif at Los Angeles Wrestling in Tel Aviv, Israel. Personal life
He has been married since August 1, 1980 to Pam Adkisson. They currently live in Hawaii and run a family investment business together. <mask> also dabbles in commercial real estate, and owns the rights to Southwest Sports (the distributor of World Class Championship Wrestling), which was later renamed K.R.Adkisson Enterprises. Together they have four children; Kristen Rain (born February 3, 1981), Jillian Lindsey (born February 10, 1985), David Michael Ross (born June 1, 1988), and <mask> (born November 10, 1992). He and Pam have 11 grandchildren as well. Kristen and Joseph Nikolas, her husband, have one daughter, Adeline Claire, twin sons Eli and Rush, and sons Abram and Josiah. Jill is the mother of three daughters and a son. His son Marshall and wife Coral have two sons. <mask> is the last surviving son of wrestler <mask> <mask> and had four brothers who wrestled, David, Kerry, Mike and Chris, as well as an older brother, Jack, who died in 1959.Other media
Adkisson, as <mask> <mask>, appears in the video games Legends of Wrestling, Legends of Wrestling II, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, WWE 2K17 and WWE 2K18. 78 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
 Ranked No. 85 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
 Ranked No. 23 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with David, Mike, and <mask> <mask> in 2003
 St. Louis Wrestling Club
 NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame
Class of 2016
 Western States Sports
 NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with <mask> <mask>
 WWE
 WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009) as a member of the <mask> family
 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 Match of the Year (1984) with Mike and <mask> <mask> vs. the Fabulous Freebirds (Buddy Roberts, Michael Hayes, and Terry Gordy) in an Anything Goes match on July 4

See also
 <mask> Family

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title: William Harding Mayes

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<mask> (May 20, 1861 – June 26, 1939) was Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Texas (1913–1914), a newspaperman who published the Brownwood Bulletin and founder of the University of Texas journalism school. Early life
Born in Mayfield, Kentucky, <mask> was educated at Norton's English and Classical School in Tennessee, Paducah District Methodist College in Kentucky and Vanderbilt University, class of 1881, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He practiced law in Kentucky in 1881 as a partner in the law firm Park and Mayes and in Texas from 1882 to 1886, serving as county attorney of Brown County, Texas from 1882 to 1883. He received an honorary doctorate of laws from Daniel Baker College in 1914. <mask> purchased weekly newspapers in Brownwood, Texas in the 1880s and began the daily Brownwood Bulletin newspaper in 1900, which he published until 1914. He and his brother, H.F. <mask>, founded one of the earliest newspaper chains, owning Texas papers in Brady, Stephenville, Santa Anna, May, Ballinger and Dalhart. The Brownwood Bulletin was the first newspaper in Texas to not be officially linked to the state Democratic party, instead opting to be independently Democratic (supportive of the party in general, but critical when warranted).Politics
<mask> was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1912 despite not campaigning for the position. While Lt. Governor, <mask> played a notable role in the controversy surrounding the Daughters of the Republic of Texas' custodianship of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, siding with Clara Driscoll over Adina De Zavala to demolish most of the remaining portions of the site's long barracks. He made this decision while governor Oscar Colquitt had left the state on business. This event became known as the "Second Battle of the Alamo." In September 1913, the University of Texas offered him a position as chair of an as-yet created School of Journalism. However, <mask> declined, and immediately thereafter announced he was running for the office of Governor on a platform of statewide prohibition and local option.He was initially considered to be a favorite, but withdrew after Thomas Ball consolidated prohibitionist support, who in turn lost the nomination to James E. Ferguson. Later in life he also served as executive vice president of the Texas Centennial Committee of 1936. After failing to gain the Democratic nomination for Governor, <mask> resigned from office, founded, and became dean of the University of Texas School of Journalism at the insistence of University President and friend Sidney Edward Mezes. Journalism
<mask> founded the University of Texas School of Journalism in 1914 and was its dean until 1926. As dean, he founded The Texas Journalist, a student run newspaper. In 1916, he was one of seven faculty members targeted for firing by Texas governor James E. Ferguson, who found them objectionable. The complaints against <mask>, who had been one of Ferguson's chief rivals for the 1914 Democratic gubernatorial nomination (along with prohibitionist congressman Thomas Henry Ball), stemmed from negative editorials against Ferguson that the Brownwood Bulletin published while Mayes still owned half of the company.Ferguson was quoted saying that the Bulletin had "skinned me from hell to breakfast." However, <mask> maintained that he was out of the state when these editorials - editorials that were widely reprinted throughout the state in the ensuing controversy - were written and approved by others and that he no longer had a financial stake in the business dealings of the Bulletin. Although <mask> was exonerated by the board of regents, he was later dismissed by the university in 1917 in a 4-3 vote. However, the dismissal was reversed and he was fully reinstated as dean and Ferguson was eventually impeached by the Texas Legislature. Later, Governor Ma Ferguson succeeded where her husband had not, and was able to remove funding for the School of Journalism entirely, effectively abolishing its programs. He served as president of the Texas Press Association in 1899–90 and was elected without opposition president of the National Editorial Association in 1908. He was elected vice-president of the American Association of Journalism Teachers in 1916 and president of the Association of American Schools and Departments of Journalism in 1920–21.After retiring from the school and from public life, he published a book entitled "Texas Empire Builders of 1936." In 1940, shortly after his death, the University of Texas acquired his 80-volume library on the history of journalism in Texas. Personal life
<mask> had seven children: four from Jessie Ware, whom he married in 1886, and three from his second wife, Anna Marshall, whom he married in 1900 after his first wife's death the year before. <mask> is buried in Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood. His son <mask> <mask> Jr. was a print journalist who worked for the Brownwood Bulletin, was editor of the Ranger Times and Harlingen, Texas's The Valley Morning Star. His son Wendell Wise <mask> was initially a print journalist, working for the Parlier Progress in Parlier, California and later for the Fresno Bee. He was later elected mayor of the Texas cities of Center (1925–1928) and Brownwood (1939–1951), where he owned and ran the KBWD radio station as part of a larger broadcasting chain.In 1939, he was appointed by Governor James V. Allred to serve on the executive committee of the Texas Big Bend Park Association, which created Big Bend National Park. He later served as chairman of the Texas State Parks Board, as a member of the Brown County Hospital Authority, and chairman of the board of regents of Texas Women's University. Dorothy Evans <mask>, wife of Wendell Wise <mask>, was a noted Texan artist. Howard Payne University's Department of Art's gallery is named in their memory. Their son, Wendell Wise <mask> Jr., is a prominent diabetes philanthropist and radio journalist. His daughter from his second marriage, <mask> Hale, was a noted Texas artist. His son from his second marriage, Robert Chappell <mask>, was also a notable Texas journalist working in Edinburg, Texas at the Edinburg Review and served as news editor of the San Antonio Express News until his retirement in 1977.Anna Elizabeth <mask>, wife of Robert, was also a Texas journalist, working in Gonzales, Texas, Houston, and San Antonio. References

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title: Chris Johnson (footballer, born 1976)

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<mask> (born 30 May 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. His career highlights as an Australian Football League (AFL) player include three premierships with Brisbane, All-Australian selection, captain of the Australian International Rules team and inclusion in the Indigenous Team of the Century. <mask> was one of eight players to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions and became the last Fitzroy Lion to play in the AFL. After retiring from playing professionally, <mask> started coaching and played and coached Essendon District Football League team Avondale Heights Football Club between 2010 and 2012. His son <mask> was drafted to the Essendon Football Club in the 2019 rookie draft. He now plays for his junior club, Jacana. Early life
<mask> grew up in Jacana, a northern suburb of Melbourne.He played for the Northern Under 18 side in the TAC Cup, including their 1993 Grand Final winning team, when he kicked 7 goals. AFL career
<mask> began his professional AFL career with Fitzroy in 1994. He was awarded a nomination in the 1994 AFL Rising Star award in round 21. He was one of eight players allowed to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. His career highlights include three premierships with Brisbane, All-Australian selection and inclusion in the Indigenous Team of the Century. <mask> is renowned for his creative play and composure running out of defence. Nevertheless, his 2007 preseason saw him playing as regularly in the forward line and the midfield as a defender, signalling the club's intention to use him as an impact player.<mask> was appointed co-captain of the Lions in 2007, alongside Simon Black, Luke Power, Jonathan Brown, and Nigel Lappin. On 31 August 2007, <mask> announced that he would retire from football at the end of the season. He was the last former Fitzroy Lion still playing in the AFL. International rules series 2005
In the 2005 International Rules series, <mask> was named co-captain along with Andrew McLeod. In the second game of the series, <mask> started a brawl by clothes line tackling (or "coat hanger") Philip Jordan and striking Mattie Forde. He was suspended for five matches after pleading guilty to striking, ruling him out until the second Test in 2008. Coaching career
Following his AFL career, he remained involved in the game.He became a runner for the Brisbane Lions, appearing in Round 11 against Fremantle Dockers. Then he shifted into coaching. On Friday 14 September 2007, <mask> signed on with the club as a full-time development coach for the Brisbane Lions. His job is to continue to assist in the development of the club's young playing list in the new position and to show off field leadership. He was promoted to assistant coach to Michael Voss. He coached Brisbane school and AFL powerhouse St Peters Lutheran College for two years, posting a 10–0 record over his two-year tenure as the head coach for the opens team. They captured the 2007 and 2008 AIC AFL Premiership after defeating Iona College in the Grand Final on both occasions, before the competition was abandoned due to an increase of in game fights.In 2008, the school defeated Cairns school Djarragun College at the Gabba, before the Lions-Saints game, in an exhibition match to promote the AFL's indigenous round. In February 2009, <mask> coached the Indigenous All-Stars to victory against Adelaide in Darwin. In 2011 he was appointed the Australian Institute of Sport/AFL Level One Academy Coach. Statistics

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| 2 || 20 || 25 || 18 || 142 || 79 || 221 || 57 || 42 || 1.3 || 0.9 || 7.1 || 4.0 || 11.1 || 2.9 || 2.1
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title: Julius Borcea

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<mask> (8 June 1968 – 8 April 2009) was a Romanian Swedish mathematician. His scientific work included vertex operator algebra and zero distribution of polynomials and entire functions, via correlation inequalities and statistical mechanics. Biography
Born in Bacău, Romania, by a math teacher who instilled in her son's intellect the beauty of mathematics, he studied in 1982-1984 at the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, and he completed his Baccalaureat at the Lycée Français Prins Henrik of Copenhagen. In 1987–1989 he attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 1998, at Lund University, under the direction of Arne Meurman. After defending his PhD thesis in 1998, he embarked in postdoctoral studies at the Mittag-Leffler Institute for six months and at the University of Strasbourg for two years. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2001, and Lecturer in 2005 at Stockholm University.A year later he was granted the Swedish Mathematical Society's Wallenberg Prize. Promoted to Full Professor in 2008, he was awarded a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellowship, in 2009, and the Crafoord prize research grant diploma. Professional profile
<mask>'s scientific work ranged from vertex operator theory to zero distribution of polynomials and entire functions, via correlation inequalities and statistical mechanics. His thesis consists of two seemingly independent parts: one in vertex operator theory and the other devoted to the geometry of zeros of complex polynomials in one variable. In vertex operator theory, <mask> generalized results of Mirko Primc and Arne Meurman and gave a classification of annihilated fields. As concerns complex polynomials, he tackled Sendov’s conjecture on zeros and critical points of complex polynomials in one variable. Using
novel techniques, he proved the conjecture for polynomials of degree not exceeding 7.Earlier (1969) the conjecture had been proven for polynomials of degree not exceeding 5. At Stockholm University, <mask> had a steady collaboration with Rikard Bøgvad and Boris Shapiro. They worked on rational approximations of algebraic equations, piecewise harmonic functions and positive Cauchy transforms, and the geometry of zeros of polynomials in one variable. <mask> and Petter Brändén collaborated on a project on the geometry of zeros of polynomials and entire functions. They characterized all linear operators on polynomials
preserving the property of having only real zeros, a problem that goes back to Edmond Laguerre and to George Pólya and Issai Schur. These results were subsequently extended to several variables, and a connection to the Lee–Yang theorem on phase-transitions in statistical physics was made. Together with Tom Liggett (UCLA) they applied their methods to problems in probability theory and were able to prove an important conjecture about the preservation of negative dependence properties in the symmetric exclusion process.Borcea had a comprehensive project on the distribution of positive charges and the Hausdorff geometry of complex polynomials. One of the motivations for the project was to bring Sendov’s conjecture into a larger and more natural context. He formulated several interesting conjectures, and in the summer of 2008 he was the driving force of two meetings, one at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, California and the other at the Banff International Research Station together with Dmitry Khavinson, Rajesh Pereira, Mihai Putinar, Edward B. Saff, and Serguei Shimorin. These two encounters were focused on structuring and expanding Julius’ program. His continuous and vivid interest in the Hausdorff geometry of polynomials was triggered by an École normale supérieure (Paris) exam he took in 1989. Publications

 <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Hyperbolicity preservers and majorization. C. R. Math.Acad. Sci. Paris 348 (2010), no. 15-16, 843–846. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, The Lee-Yang and Pólya-Schur programs. II. Theory of stable polynomials and applications.Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 62 (2009), no. 12, 1595–1631. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, The Lee-Yang and Pólya-Schur programs. I.Linear operators preserving stability. Inventiones Mathematicae 177 (2009), no. 3, 541–569. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Pólya-Schur master theorems for circular domains and their boundaries. Annals of Mathematics (2) 170 (2009), no. 1, 465–492. <mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard; Shapiro, Boris, Homogenized spectral problems for exactly solvable operators: asymptotics of polynomial eigenfunctions.Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 45 (2009), no. 2, 525–568.<mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard, Piecewise harmonic subharmonic functions and positive Cauchy transforms. Pacific J. Math. 240 (2009), no. 2, 231–265. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter; Liggett, Thomas M., Negative dependence and the geometry of polynomials. J. Amer.Math. Soc. 22 (2009), no. 2, 521–567. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Lee-Yang problems and the geometry of multivariate polynomials. Lett. Math.Phys. 86 (2008), no. 1, 53–61. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Root asymptotics of spectral polynomials for the Lamé operator. Comm. Math. Phys.282 (2008), no. 2, 323–337. <mask>, <mask>, Convexity properties of twisted root maps. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 38 (2008), no. 3, 809–833.<mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Applications of stable polynomials to mixed determinants: Johnson's conjectures, unimodality, and symmetrized Fischer products. Duke Math. J. 143 (2008), no. 2, 205–223. <mask>, <mask>, Choquet order for spectra of higher Lamé operators and orthogonal polynomials. J. Approx.Theory 151 (2008), no. 2, 164–180. <mask>, <mask>, Equilibrium points of logarithmic potentials induced by positive charge distributions. I. Generalized de Bruijn-Springer relations. Trans. Amer. Math.Soc. 359 (2007), no. 7, 3209–3237 (electronic). <mask>, <mask>, Spectral order and isotonic differential operators of Laguerre-Pólya type. Ark. Mat. 44 (2006), no.2, 211–240. <mask>, <mask>, Maximal and linearly inextensible polynomials. Math. Scand. 99 (2006), no. 1, 53–75. <mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard; Shapiro, Boris, On rational approximation of algebraic functions.Advances in Mathematics 204 (2006), no. 2, 448–480. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Classifying real polynomial pencils. Int. Math. Res. Not.2004, no. 69, 3689–3708. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Hyperbolic polynomials and spectral order. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 337 (2003), no.11, 693–698. <mask>, <mask>, Dualities and vertex operator algebras of affine type. J. Algebra 258 (2002), no. 2, 389–441. <mask>, <mask>, Annihilating fields of standard modules for affine Lie algebras. Math. Z.237 (2001), no. 2, 301–319. <mask>, <mask>, Two approaches to Sendov's conjecture. Arch. Math. (Basel) 71 (1998), no. 1, 46–54.<mask>, Iulius, The Sendov conjecture for polynomials with at most seven distinct zeros. Analysis 16 (1996), no. 2, 137–159. <mask>, Iulius, On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with at most six distinct roots. J. Math. Anal.Appl. 200 (1996), no. 1, 182–206. References

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title: Paul F. Tompkins

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<mask> (born September 12, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is known for his work in television on such programs as Mr. Show with Bob and David, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Best Week Ever, later renamed Best Week Ever with <mask><mask>. He is known for his numerous appearances on podcasts, including his 200-plus appearances on Comedy Bang! Bang! He has also been the host of the Fusion Channel talk show No, You Shut Up!, The Dead Authors Podcast, the online Made Man interview series Speakeasy with <mask>. <mask>, the Earwolf podcast Spontaneanation with <mask><mask>, and The Pod F. Tompkast, which was ranked #1 by Rolling Stone on their list of "The 10 Best Comedy Podcasts of the Moment" in 2011. He is also a main cast member of the Superego podcast and was a regular player on Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, which ended in 2015. <mask> was the voice of Mr. Peanutbutter, an anthropomorphic yellow , on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman from 2014 to 2020.He has also appeared in drama films like There Will Be Blood and The Informant!. In 2021, he had a recurring role on the sitcom Rutherford Falls. In December 2014, Paste named his Twitter one of "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014", ranking it at #70. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born September 12, 1968, in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has two brothers (one older, one younger) and three sisters (all older). Career

Early work
In 1986, <mask> first performed comedy at 17 years of age at The Comedy Works in Philadelphia (a club now located in Bristol, Pennsylvania), where he performed as half of a sketch comedy duo with Rick Roman. <mask> attended Temple University; however, he dropped out and left for Los Angeles, California, in 1994.<mask> met actor Jay Johnston in L.A. through their mutual friend, actor and director Adam McKay. McKay and <mask> had become friends in Philadelphia, where they had both started to perform stand-up at around the same time. McKay later moved to Chicago and met Johnston; Johnston moved to L.A. at around the same time as <mask> and McKay introduced the two. <mask> and Johnston went on to create a live sketch comedy show called "The Skates" that was seen by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and helped get them hired to work on Mr. Show with Bob and David in 1996. Live comedic performance
<mask>'s comedy career has included stand-up, sketch comedy and a variety of other live performances. <mask> stand-up comedy performances are of a storytelling and observationalist style. His shows often consist of extended riffs and long anecdotes.<mask> deals with topics of the bizarre and the absurd—such as a rant about peanut brittle, a discussion about cake versus pie, and smashed coins—in addition to recounting stories about his own life experiences and family. His comedic style has been described as alternative comedy; <mask> has stated that he is not bothered by the label and that he likes the term. <mask> is known for his style of dress during his live comedic performances, always performing in suit and tie, sometimes in pinstripes and with a bowtie; his look has been described by some in the press as "dapper". <mask> has described his look as "foppish" and "just this side of Cedric the Entertainer." <mask> is based in Los Angeles and performs regularly in the city. Since 2002 he has performed a monthly show called The <mask><mask> Show at Largo, an L.A. nightclub and cabaret. His show has featured such guests such as <mask>, Jack Black, <mask>, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Aimee Mann, and Weird Al Yankovic.Since its inception in 2005, <mask> has taken part in the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged production in the style of old-time radio that is also held monthly at Largo. The show began podcasting in January 2011; in October of that same year the show's podcasts moved to the Nerdist Industries podcast network created by Chris Hardwick. <mask> is a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) Los Angeles. His comedy album "Impersonal" was recorded live at the UCB Theatre. He also performs monthly at the "Dead Authors" show at UCB Theatre in support of the nonprofit organization 826LA; <mask> plays the role of H.G. Wells who serves as the host of the show. <mask> has toured in the US and Canada and prefers to perform in independent venues, rather than conventional comedy clubs.Starting in 2009 he embarked on his "Tompkins 300" tour; <mask> had been preparing for his one-hour Comedy Central special You Should Have Told Me at the Laughing Skull Lounge theatre in Atlanta, Georgia—a small theatre that seats about 74 people. In order to fill the seats for the recording of his special, <mask> required about 280 people in the audience over the course of four nights for the recording of his show. <mask> decided to announce on Twitter that he needed 300 people to fill the seats each night; Bob Kerr, a Canadian comedian, saw the Twitter post and asked if <mask> would like to perform in Toronto. <mask> advised Kerr that if he was able to get 300 people to state that they would definitely see his show he would come to Toronto. Kerr then started a Facebook group called "I Wanna See <mask> F. Tompkins in Toronto" and managed to get 300 people to join. In October of that same year <mask> performed at The Rivoli theatre in Toronto, the same theatre in which the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall got their start. Facebook groups were subsequently started in other North American cities and in 2010 he stated that he had stopped promoting his shows on the radio.In 2011 he said that the Facebook 300 groups had become his main method of booking comedy shows. <mask> wrote and performed in his one-man show, Driven to Drink, which aired on HBO in 1998. He appeared on 6 episodes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien between 1998 and 2008 as well as two episodes of Conan in 2011 and 2012. He has recorded three comedy albums: Impersonal in 2007, Freak Wharf in 2009, and Laboring Under Delusions in 2012. His stand-up appearances on the Comedy Central network include being featured in episodes of Comedy Central Presents in 2003 and 2007, hosting an episode of Live at Gotham in 2009, performing on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show in 2010, and recording two original one-hour comedy specials—You Should Have Told Me which aired in 2010 and <mask>. <mask>: Laboring Under Delusions in 2012. He also appeared in the RiffTrax live broadcast of House on Haunted Hill. Acting and writing
<mask> wrote for and performed on Mr. Show with Bob and David from 1995 to 1998; the show's writers, including <mask>, were nominated for an Emmy Award in 1998 for "Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program".<mask>'s work with Mr. Show's creators Bob Odenkirk and David Cross also led to his recurring role on the Tenacious D TV series. <mask> played the character of a nightclub manager who is duped into reading Tenacious D's ridiculous introductions during their open mic performances. He revived the role in the comedic band's film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny released in 2006. Longtime friend Adam McKay consulted <mask> regarding the screenplay for Talladega Nights. <mask> also played the MC of a cat show in McKay's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. <mask> has appeared on television programs including NewsRadio, Frasier, Weeds, The Sarah Silverman Program, Pushing Daisies, Community, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. <mask> played the role of Prescott in <mask> Anderson's film There Will Be Blood (2007); Anderson had previously cast <mask> in a small role in the 1999 film Magnolia after watching <mask> perform at Largo.<mask> also played FBI Agent Anthony D’Angelo in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! (2009). He has a recurring role in the Canadian TV series The L.A. Complex as a fictionalized version of himself. He also appeared in the music video for Nick Lowe's song "Stoplight Roses" and in the Ted Leo and the Pharmacists song "Bottled In Cork". <mask> wrote for Real Time with Bill Maher in 2003 and 2009, in addition to being a show correspondent in the show's first season. In 2011 <mask> was asked to write humorous recaps of American Idol episodes for New York magazine's online blog Vulture. <mask> has expressed in interviews that he dislikes writing (particularly writing for others), preferring instead to perform in front of a camera.Voice acting
<mask> has done voice work for many animated television series including Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, King of the Hill, and Bob's Burgers, in which he voices the recurring character Randy. He lent his voice to a character in an unaired 2007 episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force titled "Boston" that was supposed to be the premiere episode of the show's fifth season, but it was pulled by Turner Broadcasting System to avoid further controversy surrounding the 2007 Boston bomb scare. <mask> later appeared in an episode during the show's 7th season. He was also the voice of one of the thugs in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2010 computer animated film Tangled. <mask> was the voice of Benton Criswell, a character in MTV series Super Adventure Team which featured marionettes in the style of the 1960s British series Thunderbirds; the role was credited under the stage name <mask>. Pleasant. He was the voice of a puppet in ads for the Ford Focus.<mask> played Mr. Peanutbutter in the 2014 Netflix original animated series BoJack Horseman. <mask> voices the recurring character, Gladstone Gander, in the reboot series of DuckTales. In 2020 he voiced Dr. Migleemo, a therapist aboard the USS Cerritos in the CBS All Access animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Political and social commentary
<mask> has appeared on several television programs devoted to discussing politics, popular culture and current events; however, he says he does not consider himself to be a political comic. <mask> was a contributor to the "Us People's Weekly Entertainment" segment of The Daily Show in 1998. In 2003 he was a writer and correspondent for Real Time with Bill Maher in the show's first season and wrote again for the show in 2009. He appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn in 2004.In 2004 he also became a pop culture analyst on VH1's Best Week Ever; in 2008 the show was retooled and relaunched as Best Week Ever with <mask><mask> with <mask> as host. From 2006 to 2008 he was a regular guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2008 he appeared on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and took part in a panel on Larry King Live in an episode titled "Politics & Humor". <mask> has appeared in documentaries such as Jamie Kennedy's Heckler (2007) and Doug Benson's Super High Me (2007). He also appeared in The Bitter Buddha (2013), a documentary about the career of actor and comedian Eddie Pepitone. <mask> later became the host of a discussion show called No, You Shut Up! by The Jim Henson Company under its Henson Alternative banner.Podcasts, webcasts and radio
In 2010, <mask> launched his podcast called The Pod F. Tompkast. The podcast was a mixture of <mask> discussing various topics, clips from his live show at Largo, and segments where <mask> voices a variety of celebrities speaking with one another. Comedian Jen Kirkman was a regular contributor on the show. The podcast ended in 2012. The Thrilling Adventure Hour comedy show at Largo began podcasting in January 2011; in October of that same year the show's podcasts moved to the Nerdist Industries podcast network created by Chris Hardwick. The show ended in 2015. Dead Authors, a live show that <mask> hosts at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, also began podcasting in September 2011.In May 2012 <mask> started a weekly web series called Speakeasy. Hosted by the Break Media site MadeMan.com, the series features <mask> interviewing various guests in the entertainment industry, such as Ty Burrell, <mask>, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Hardwick, Oscar Nunez, Weird Al Yankovic, and Alison Brie. The interviews are conducted as casual conversations between <mask> and his guests over cocktails at various bars in the L.A. area. <mask> has appeared well over 200 times as a guest, and occasionally as a guest host, on Comedy Bang! Bang! (formerly Comedy Death-Ray Radio), a weekly audio podcast hosted by Scott Aukerman, a comedian who also wrote for Mr. Show with Bob and David. The show's format mixes conversation between the host and guests, and usually includes improv games.Some guests play characters or impersonate certain celebrities, usually for the entirety of the episode; <mask><mask> has impersonated celebrities such as rapper Ice-T, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Buddy Valastro from the reality television series Cake Boss. In addition to Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang!, <mask> has appeared on the podcasts of other fellow comedians such as WTF with Marc Maron, Jimmy Pardo's Never Not Funny, Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo's Ronna and Beverly podcast, and the Superego podcast with Jeremy Carter, Matt Gourley, and Mark McConville. <mask> has also been a regular guest on the radio show and podcast The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling. In 2015, <mask> created his own podcast on the Earwolf podcast network called Spontaneanation with <mask><mask>. This podcast is similar to the Pod F. Tompkast; however, Spontaneanation is fully improvised and in-the-moment, as opposed to the Tompkast, which was highly produced. Spontaneanation begins with an improvised monologue, accompanied on piano by Eban Schletter, much like the Pod F. Tompkast.The next segment is an interview with one of <mask>'s famous friends. The final segment is one long improvised story performed by <mask> and guest improvisers, based on ideas discussed in the interview segment. The podcast ended in 2019. Since 2019, <mask> has cohosted, with Nicole Parker, The Neighborhood Listen on Stitcher Premium. Along with Tawny Newsome, he also hosts The Pod Directive, the official Star Trek podcast, which launched in September 2020. In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> started a weekly podcast with his wife, Janie Haddad <mask>, called Stay F. Homekins. The first season ran for 41 episodes throughout the rest of 2020, and season two started in January 2021.Personal life
<mask> is married to actress Janie Haddad <mask>. In 2017, <mask> stated on Twitter that he was once a Catholic, but later went on to become an atheist. Filmography

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Discography
 2007 – Impersonal (CD; released on AST Records)
 2007 – Comedy Death-Ray (Compilation released on Comedy Central Records)
 2009 – Freak Wharf (CD) (Released on AST Records)
 2010 – Sir, You Have Fooled Me Twice (EP; released on AST Records)
 2010 – You Should Have Told Me (DVD; released on AST Records)
 2012 – Laboring Under Delusions (DVD; released on Comedy Central Records)
 2012 – Laboring Under Delusions: Live in Brooklyn (CD; released on AST Records)

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<mask> is known for his many podcast appearances, as well as hosting a few of his own. He is often referred to as the mayor of podcasts. References

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<mask> (; born 1964) is a Russian researcher in book culture, a bibliophile and  public figure. Biography

Born February 28, 1964 in the city of Dzerzhinsk (now in the Nizhny Novgorod Region), <mask> graduated with a degree in history from the N. I. Lobachevsky Gorky State University (now N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod). From 1986 to 1989, he was a faculty member in the social sciences department  at the Dzerzhinsk Branch of Gorky Polytechnic University (now N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod). In 1990, he was elected people’s deputy of the Russian parliament (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Council) for Dzerzhinsk District No. 364, as well as to the Gorky Regional Council of People's Deputies. As a member of the RSFSR Supreme Council, he was a deputy chairman of the Council’s Commission for Culture (1990-1993). From 1993 to 1998, Seslavinsky served as a member of the State Duma.During this time, he chaired the 1st State Duma Subcommittee for Culture in the Committee for Education, Culture and Science. In the 2nd State Duma he was deputy chairman of the Committee for Culture. In 1998-1999, he headed the Federal Service for Television and Radio Broadcasting. From 1999 to 2004, he served as State Secretary and the First Deputy Minister for Press, Television, Radio Broadcasting and Mass Media in the <mask>'s Cabinet. Since 2004, he has headed the  Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications until 2020. According to the Presidential Decree of the Russian Federation of November 20, 2020 No 719 "About enhancement of public administration in the sphere of digital development, communication and mass communications” the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications is abolished, and its functions are transferred to the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. At <mask>’s initiative an ethics code for broadcasters – called the Charter of Broadcasters of the Russian Federation – was drafted and signed on April 28, 1999 by the heads of the leading Russian TV and radio broadcasters.From 2001 to 2003, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Public Russian Television (ORT) and Channel One. From 2005 to 2010, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Prosveshchenie Publishing House and also the Administrative Direction for Print, Tver Children’s Book Printing and Publishing Integrated Works and the General Directorate for International Book Exhibitions and Fairs. He is married and has two daughters, born 1994 and 2003. The older daughter Natalia Seslavinskaya has dedicated her career to the book industry, continuing the family tradition. <mask> is also a prominent bibliophile and collector of autographs and rare books from early 19th and 20th centuries. He has donated books and manuscripts to state libraries and collections (State Literary Museum, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State Library, Rudomino State Library for Foreign Literature, State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Pushkin State Museum, Admiral Lazarev Naval Library, Dmitry Mendeleev and Alexander Blok State Memorial Museum Reserve and Solzhenitsyn Center of Russian Emigré Studies). Since February 2011, he has chaired the Council of the National Union of Bibliophiles.He has authored numerous articles on bibliology. A full bibliography of his works was published by Pashkov Dom Publishing House of the Russian State Library in 2014 under the title <mask>, Bibliophile and Bibliologist: Bibliographical Reference compiled by Leonid Fursenko with an introduction by Alexander Samarin. Since 2008 <mask> has chaired the editorial board of the bibliophile magazine "Pro knigi" ("About books"). He is also the author of the book of children's stories Chastnoe pionerskoe (Private life of Soviet pioneers) which was made into a film of the same name; the collection of articles Homo Scriptoris [=Writing Man]; the books The Scent of a Book Binding (bibliophile album), Polaris (about the adventures of a bobcat in Finland) and The Rendezvous (Russian artists as depicted in French books of the first half of the 20th century); the album Books for Book Lovers (co-authored with Moscow State Printing University professor Olga Tarakanova); the album A Garland of Books and Pictures (children's reading in pre-revolutionary Russia); and the monograph French Bibliophilic Books with Drawings of Russian Émigré Artists (1920s-1940s). He also compiled the collection Tamizdat: 100 Selected Books a collection of articles about books by famous Russian writers and poets (Marina Tsvetaeva, Igor Severyanin, Boris Pasternak, Ioseph Brodsky, etc. ), a catalogue titled a Bibliophile’s Wreath to Anna Akhmatova: Marking 125th Birthday – Autographs by <mask>ky; banned in the USSR, thair books were published abroad, as well as the album The Art of the Autograph and My Friend Osip Mandelstam. Selected Illustrated Bibliography and Autographs, and Rare Russian Books of the 20th Century: 333 Selected Books, Marina Tsvetayeva’s Bibliophilic Garland, A Cantata to the Cantata.To mark the 175th anniversary of Anatole France’s birth, a collection of his writings has been designed and published, with an afterword titled Anatole France’s Russian Eatery. The book also includes some previously unknown drawings by Tatyana Mavrina and Antonina Sofronova: France, Anatole, At the Sign of Reine Pédauque. Revolt of the Angels, St. Petersburg, Vita Nova Publishers, 2019. <mask> is a member of the Board of Trustees at State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the Orthodox Encyclopedia, and chairs the Boards of Trustees at the Ivan Fyodorov Moscow State University of Printing Arts. On August 26, 2013, <mask> joined the Council for the Russian Government Media Award. He has been member of the State Radio Frequency Commission since 2004, the Government Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting, as well as the Government Commission on Religious Organizations. <mask> chaired the Korney Chukovsky 125th birthday celebration committee and the Lydia Chukovskaya 100th birthday celebration committee.He was Deputy Chairman of the Russian Year of Literature Organizing Committee in 2015. <mask> chaired the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Konstantin Simonov’s 100 birthday. <mask> chaired the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Osip Mandelstam’s 125th birthday. <mask> chaired the Organizing Committees for preparing and holding celebrations of Konstantin Paustovsky’s and Marina Tsvetaeva’s 125th birthdays. He is Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Maxim Gorky’s 150th birthday in 2018. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 100th birthday in 2018. He chairs the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Nikolay Nekrasov’s 200th birthday in 2021.He chairs the Organizing Committee for preparing and holding celebrations of Ivan Bunin’s 150th birthday in 2020. <mask> holds a Ph.D. in History, and is an Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (Department of Art History and Art Criticism). Seslavinsky has received a number of Russian state awards. He is a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor, a decoration he was awarded for his efforts to promote cultural ties between France and Russia. Izvestia 23 Dec 2014
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 Investigative Committee of Inquiry to the head Rospechat Michael of "anti-state media" - Moskovsky Komsomolets", April 7, 2015
 On financing Rospechat opposition media pool - Lenta.Ru, April 8, 2015
 From 2010 to 2014 Rospechat "into significant financial injections from the state budget in the media whose editorial policy had a pronounced anti-state position." – RBC, April 27, 2015
 Rospechat accused of financing anti-state media - Echo de Moscou, April 8, 2015
 Investigation Committee of suspected Rospechat financing of independent media - New newspaper,  April 10, 2015
 Rospechat financed TV channel "Rain" for 30 million rubles  - Izvestia, April 7, 2015
 Michail Seslavinsky: Of “The Literature Year” surprises and unique projects
 Seslavinsky: “The Literature Year” will be versatile in Moscow and in regions
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<mask> is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. She is founder and operator of AddieBelle Music which produces her recordings. History
A native of Tallahassee, Florida, in fact a seventh-generation Floridian, she was raised on the land farmed by her family generations earlier. <mask> grew up in a musical family in Clearwater, where she was a member of the band Big White Undies. She was graduated magna cum laude from Belmont University in Nashville with a music business/Spanish degree. Endless and unfulfilling clerical jobs along Music Row motivated this triple-threat singer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist to start her own record label, Addiebelle Music. She also formed the short-lived band Liters of Pop with Eric McConnell.She learned to play clawhammer-style banjo from Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show, and set about amassing a catalog of old-time tunes. As she says:

<mask> began gaining attention with her 2003 win in the Chris Austin songwriting contest at MerleFest for "Sadie's Song". Co-written with Mark D. Sanders, the song is a re-telling of the murderous bluegrass standard "Little Sadie" told from the victim's point of view. Recordings

"Little Sadie" featured prominently on her first CD, Plow to the End of the Row, produced with another Nashville-based musician, Will Kimbrough, and released on her own AddieBelle record label. (The label takes its name from a nickname <mask> was given while working as a tour guide at Nashville's Belle Meade Mansion.) The CD, which includes a packet of wildflower seeds along with artwork based on the Farmers' Almanac, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album Package. An early version of Plow to the End of the Row, released in 2003, has become a sought-after collectible.That version included several tracks with <mask> backed by Old Crow Medicine Show and was a top pick for 2003 Debut Artist by the Freeform American Roots DJ Chart. The nationally-released version, featuring different sequencing, new tracks, and re-recorded versions of several songs, was released on April 13, 2004, one day before an interview with <mask> aired on NPR's All Things Considered. The Americana Music Association included <mask> and her band in their nominees for Emerging Artist of the Year, and the Nashville Scene named "Home Remedy" as Best Country Single of the year. The CD went on to place at or near the top of numerous "best of" lists for the year and the Los Angeles Times called <mask> "the Americana music find of the year." <mask> and her band Little Sadie (at the time, Tyler Grant on guitar, Clayton Campbell on fiddle and mandolin, Amanda Kowalski on bass, and Steven Sandifer on percussion) toured extensively across the U.S. and in England. The members of the band left to pursue other projects prior to the recording of <mask>'s second CD, The Art of Virtue. That disc, released on June 28, 2005, took its theme from Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues.A copy of Franklin's pamphlet is included with the CD. Will Kimbrough co-produced the CD and co-wrote several tracks. Alongside original songs and traditional tunes, the disc featured a cover of the Grateful Dead song "Brokedown Palace". <mask>'s AddieBelle label struck a distribution deal with Ryko Records which insured that her music got placed in more record stores. She also continued to receive support from public radio and was invited to appear on World Cafe, Mountain Stage, and A Prairie Home Companion. With a new incarnation of Little Sadie (fiddler and banjoist Eric Merrill, guitarist Hans Holzen, bassist Kyle Kegerreis, and percussionist Eric Platz), <mask> toured even more extensively in 2005. The Art of Virtue placed third in Amazon.com's list of the best folk recordings of the year.<mask> was invited to sing in Philadelphia on January 17, 2006, as part of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday celebration. In May 2006 <mask> took her band to Levon Helm's studio in Woodstock, New York to record tracks for a third album, titled Room to Grow, which was released May 22, 2007. Social and environmental action

<mask>'s second CD, The Art of Virtue released in 2005, took its theme from Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues and included copy of Franklin's pamphlet inside. The title track addressed issues that <mask> found herself pondering after the 2004 re-election of George W. Bush, specifically how the Republican Party had leveraged the theme of morality as a campaign tool. As she said at the time:

Since 2004 <mask> has been a spokeswoman for the FoodRoutes Network, which aims to aid organizations in rebuilding local, community-based food systems. <mask> used the release of the CD The Art of Virtue to call attention to her involvement with the FoodRoutes Network, a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable agriculture and connects consumers with local farmers who are willing to sell direct. Room to Grow furthers her involvement in this movement with lyrics and songs directly addressing the issue.This wasn't the first time she mixed her farm action fever with artistic output: Plow to the End of the Row, her 2004 debut CD, came with a packet of seeds enclosed (and was nominated for the packaging design Grammy). <mask> advocates locally-grown and sustainable agriculture. A portion of each record sold of Room to Grow goes to the Save A Seed fund, which she created with nonprofit organizations the FoodRoutes Network and the American Community Gardening Association. The money will provide non-genetically modified seeds to community gardens across North America. <mask> has toured with help from the organization Buy Fresh Buy Local and each of the 49 FoodRoutes chapters. Along with her performances, each tour stop offered sustainable living workshops with local sponsors in each community. "Preserving cultural genetics and agricultural heritage is the key to true security and self-reliance", she says.<mask> says her music has influenced her activism because she feels at peace in nature and wants to communicate those feelings through her music. As of 2010, <mask> <mask> has hosted and organized the Backyard Revolution, a group of people sharing and demonstrating unique skills of the past and present to help educate people in self sustainability. The Backyard Revolution was present at Floyd Fest 9 (2010) and the Heritage Harvest Festival at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Demonstrations included: Backyard dairy cow (cow included), hide tanning and bow drill fire-making, home fermentation, historic log cabin construction, arrow fletching, soap making, primitive cooking, edible and medicinal wild plants, and more. See www.backyardrevolution.com for more information. Sound and style

Her music, created with various incarnations of her band Little Sadie, blends elements of Bluegrass, country, old-time music, and American folk music with a pop sensibility. . . tightly crafted songs that, like the feel of her home and the flow of her conversation, infuse her love for American tradition with high contemporary energy.<mask>'s vocals mirror weariness and hope on 'Natural Bridge,' cross intimate valleys and climb the emotional peaks of 'Room Enough To Grow,' simmer on the stone-country burner "High Flyin’ Dream", yearn to go wherever the current takes her on 'River and a Dirt Road.' Awards and distinctions

Plow to the End of the Row, her 2004 CD, came with a packet of seeds enclosed and was nominated for the packaging design Grammy
An early version of the disc, released on a limited basis in 2003, featured several tracks that were ultimately dropped or re-recorded for the national release in 2004. That first configuration included backing from the old-time music band Old Crow Medicine Show
The Plow to the End of the Row version originally released in 2003, was a top pick for 2003 Debut Artist by the Freeform American Roots DJ Chart
That version has become a sought-after collectible
The 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards named Plow to the End of the Row Roots Album of the Year, and the track "I Cannot Justify" Best Roots Songs of the Year
The Americana Music Association included <mask> and her band in their nominees for Emerging Artist of the Year
The Nashville Scene named "Home Remedy" as Best Country Single of the year. The CD went on to place at or near the top of numerous "best of" lists for the year. The Los Angeles Times called <mask> "the Americana music find of the year"
She won 2003 Chris Austin songwriting contest at MerleFest for "Sadie's Song"
The Art of Virtue placed third in Amazon.com's list of the best folk recordings of the year. She was invited to sing in Philadelphia on January 17, 2006, as part of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday celebration. Room to Grow made The Nashville Scene Top Five Albums From Singer-Songwriters December 20, 2007.Discography

Albums

Singles
"Just Like Christmas" with Tim O'Brien (2004) AddieBelle (promo CD and download only) —

Music videos

Articles, reviews, interviews
review of Room to Grow August/September 2007 Dirty Linen. "<mask> <mask>'s Activism Keeps Her In Tune" by Eric R. Danton, Courant Rock Critic, August 17, 2007 Hartford Courant. "<mask> <mask>: Planting the Earth, Growing Herself" by Elizabeth Blair, broadcast July 9, 2007 on All Things Considered NPR. "<mask> <mask>'s 'Plow to the End of the Row': Singer and Banjo Player Breathes New Life into an Old Form" by Melissa Block, broadcast April 14, 2004 on All Things Considered NPR. References

External links

Official website <mask> <mask>
YouTube Adrienne <mask> <mask> at NPR Music

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women composers
21st-century American composers
American women singer-songwriters
American women country singers
American country singer-songwriters
American bluegrass musicians
American folk musicians
21st-century American singers
Musicians from Tallahassee, Florida
Singers from Nashville, Tennessee
Singer-songwriters from Florida
Belmont University alumni
21st-century American women singers
Country musicians from Tennessee
Country musicians from Florida
21st-century women composers
Singer-songwriters from Tennessee

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