title: Dan Gertler

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 deterioration in market conditions for resource companies". Camrose Resources Ltd > Africo > Kalukundi Mine, 2007
"In 2007 Africa Management Limited was created as a joint venture between South African housing minister Tokyo Sexwale's investment vehicle Mvelaphanda Holdings, its associate company Palladino Holdings, and Och-Ziff Capital Management, a $30-billion New York hedge fund (Wood et al. 2012)." In June 2010 the Financial Post of Canada reported that Highwind Properties, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, now owned the Kolwezi project.The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, linked the company to <mask>. In August 2010 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, a company listed in London with most of its operations in Kazakhstan, said it was buying indirect control of the Kolwezi licence from <mask>ler. Camrose's key asset was a 70% interest in the Kolwezi project. The Kolwezi property was sold to <mask> for $20 million. He in turn sold 50.5% of Camrose to ENRC for $175 million. In April 2011 a British MP called for an investigation of the transaction under the Bribery Act.Camrose's other assets included a "64% stake in Canada listed Africo Resources which held a 75% interest in Kalukundi exploitation licence as well as a 56% indirect interest in Comide Sprl, which held the exploitation licence for Mashitu, Pangalume and Kii tenements." According to a 2012 article in the Mail and Guardian, Camrose acquired a controlling stake in Africo through a simultaneous, complex and clever set of transactions from 2007 to 2008. Located in the south-eastern DRC's copper belt, the lucrative Kalukundi concession owned by Congolese company Swanmines, which was part-owned by Canadian miner Africo Resources, had potential for high copper and cobalt yields. In April 2007 Africo was preparing to purchase enough shares to become the majority shareholder of Kalukundi when a third party entered into litigation, claiming prior ownership. <mask> offered to help, through his connections with President Joseph Kabila. <mask> purchased the third-party company and resold it to Africo. In July 2008, the Getler company, Camrose Resources, purchased Africo shares worth about $100 million.Camrose then held a 63% controlling stake in Africo. Camrose paid for Africo through a loan from an offshore British Virgin Islands-registered company called Vipar, "an affiliate of Africa Management Limited." Camrose and Highwind Group 2008-10
In 2008, Camrose Resources Ltd, a Gertler family trust company, purchased s 62.5% share of Africo Resources. In February 2009, Africo confirmed that it had the go-ahead from the DRC government for the 75%-owned Kalukundi project. In 2009 Vancouver, Canada-based (through <mask>'s newly formed British Virgin Island-based company, Highwinds) sold ENRC 50.5% of Kolwezi Mine Tailings (KWT) a "multi-billion dollar copper and cobalt tailings reprocessing facility." The facility had been expropriated in 2009 by the DRC from then-Vancouver, Canada-based Highwinds. In September 2009 the DRC government revoked the license of Canadian mining firm First Quantum Minerals to operate the Kolwezi copper tailings project.First Quantum appealed the decision. The CEO, Philip Pascal, said "the activities on the legal side come from a small and very influential group of individuals in the Congo and don't necessarily mirror the sentiments of a number of other authorities". Later, the government also expropriated the Frontier and Lonshi mines from First Quantum. In August 2010, Camrose acquired British Virgin Island-based Highwind Group. In March 2011 the state-owned Sodimico sold its 30% stake in these two mines for $30 million to two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands. The total estimated value of the mines was over $1.6 billion. Emerald Star Enterprises Limited BVI 2009 SMKK
Emerald Star Enterprises Limited, a company controlled by <mask>'s family trust, was incorporated 29 October 2009 in the British Virgin Islands.On 21 December 2009 Emerald Star sold an option to buy the remaining 50% stake of Société Minière de Kabolela et de Kipese SPRL, (a company formed by Melkior Resources Inc and Gécamines that holds the rights to develop the Kabolela cobalt-copper deposit) to Katash-founded mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) who already owned 50%. The other 50% belonged to state-owned Gécamines. In February 2010 Emerald Star Enterprises Limited purchased Gécamines' 50% for $15 million and sold these shares to ENRC for $50 million. Emerald Star Enterprises Limited paid $15 million, and sold for $75 million, making a 500 percent return. Rowny Assets Limited BVI- 2011 Mutanda Mine, Katanga Copper Belt
Rowny Assets Limited is one of the offshore firms owned by <mask>'s family and is described in the initial Glencore public offering (IPO) prospectus. Gécamines sold its 20% share of the Mutanda project to Rowny Assets. This company, registered in the British Virgin Islands, was said to be "associated" with Gertler.The share was worth an estimated $600 million, but was sold for $137 million. Rowny Assets Limited was also in Glencore's 4 May 2011 listing prospectus, and acquired a 20% interest in Mutanda from Gécamines. Biko Invest Corporation (BVI), 2011
Biko Invest Corporation (BVI), linked to <mask>ertler and incorporated 23 February 2011 in the British Virgin Islands, bought a quarter of Kansuki Sprl from Gécamines in 2011. Mining assets and IMF
In September 2011 the International Monetary Fund asked for explanations from Sodimico and Gécamines, both owned by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), concerning sales of assets below market value and without publicity. Gécamines sold its 20% share of the Mutanda project to Rowny Assets, a British Virgin Islands company, said to be associated with Gertler. The share was worth an estimated $600 million, but was sold for $137 million and the IMF was providing loans to the DRC worth $561 million at the time. Analysts criticized lack of transparency in the disposal of key assets by Gécamines, which the government was preparing for sale to private investors.In December 2012 the International Monetary Fund stopped a US$500m (£310m) loan to the Congo because of irregularities in the way a company reputed to be controlled by <mask> acquired minerals from Joseph Kabila's government. In the same week Katash-founded mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), <mask>'s biggest copper mining partner in the Congo, severed its relationship with him,
spending $550m to buying itself out of the partnership. <mask> has been accused of making the majority of his $2.5 billion fortune from "looting Congo at the expense of its people". Nessergy oil company, 2013
In April 2013, <mask> sold one of his Congo-based oil companies, Nessergy Ltd, for $150 million. Advocacy group Global Witness criticized the deal for lack of transparency on the part of <mask> and the Congolese government. Panama Papers, Mossack Fonseca, 2016
<mask>ler's attorney said, Gertler had "no knowledge of the claims raised regarding the [Panamanian firm's decision] to terminate representation in 2011."Le Monde reported another two Mossack-Fonseca- incorporated shell companies, Foxwhelp Ltd and Caprikat Ltd, in the DR Congo oil industry. Paradise Papers, 2017
On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Glencore loaned $45 million to <mask> in exchange for his help with officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo in negotiations over a joint venture with state-owned Gécamines at the Katanga copper mine in 2009. <mask> appears in 120 documents regarding his relationship with Glencore. Glencore, which had effectively taken over Katanga, agreed to vote for the joint venture. The loan document specifically provided that repayment would be owed if agreement was not reached within three months. <mask> and Glencore have denied wrongdoing. Magnitsky Act
The United States Department of the Treasury specifically named <mask> in the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) financial sanctions list for serious human rights abuse and corruption, under the Magnitsky Act and blocked his US-based assets, and "prevented any firm from doing business with him in dollars".According to a February 2018 article in The Economist, the sanctions statement said that <mask> had "amassed his fortune through hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of opaque and corrupt mining and oil deals" in the DRC. Included in the Executive Order is the list of designated entities "affiliated with" Gertler, "Moku Mines D'or SA, Moku Goldmines AG, Fleurette Energy I B.V., Fleurette Africa Resources I B.V., African Trans International Holdings B.V., Fleurette African Transport B.V., Oriental Iron Company SPRL, Iron Mountain Enterprises Limited, Sanzetta Investments Limited, Almerina Properties Limited, Interlog DRC, Kitoko Food Farm, Karibu Africa Services SA, and Ventora Development Sasu". In a 28 November 2019 article in The Economist, it was reported that President Trump's decision to place sanctions on <mask>, who is a close friend of then-President of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, had come as "a shock to many companies operating in the Congo." Citing Tom Perriello, then the United States envoy to the African Great Lakes under Barack Obama, the sanctions "probably helped push Mr. Kabila to his eventual decision to stand down in the elections that took place a year later", in the December 2018 general election. According to The Economist, by 2021, Kabila's power was waning, as his even allies in cabinet—including then prime minister, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba—had lost his position on January 27, 2021. Félix Tshisekedi, who has been president since 2019, could pressure the state-run mining group, Gécamines, to take back Gertler’s mines and royalties. It was reported on 25 January 2021 that in the final days of the Trump Administration, following lobbying by Alan Dershowitz and others working for Gertler, the US Treasury Department had issued a license which temporarily lifted the restrictions on him.According to The Economist and New York Times, <mask> was granted a special license which allows him to use American dollars to "do almost anything, for a year." This reprieve was subsequently ended by the Biden administration on 8 March 2021. See also
Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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title: M. Jeff Thompson

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Brigadier-General M<mask> (January 22, 1826 – September 5, 1876), nicknamed "Swamp Fox," was a senior officer of the Missouri State Guard who commanded cavalry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. The  () was named after him. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Jefferson County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), into a family with a strong military tradition on both sides. He received basic training in military tactics in Charleston, South Carolina, but was not appointed to a military academy. Following his education, he found employment as a store clerk in a few Virginia and Pennsylvania towns. He moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1847 and St. Joseph the following year, beginning as a store clerk before taking up surveying and serving as the city engineer. He later supervised the construction of the western branch of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.He married Emma Catherine Hays in 1848. He served as the seventh Mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri from 1857 to 1860. He presided over the ceremony inaugurating the first ride of the Pony Express on April 3, 1860. He gained national attention in May, 1861, when he cut down a United States flag from the St. Joseph Post Office flag pole and threw it down to an angry crowd of southern sympathizers who shredded it to pieces. American Civil War

<mask> was a lieutenant-colonel in the Missouri state militia at the outbreak of the Civil War. On July 25, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of the 1st Division, Missouri State Guard. He commanded the First Military District of Missouri, which covered the swampy southeastern quarter of the state from St. Louis to the Mississippi River.<mask>'s battalion soon became known as the "Swamp Rats" for their exploits. He gained renown as the "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy." Although <mask> frequently petitioned for the Confederate rank of brigadier-general it was never granted. His brigadier rank came from his Missouri State Guard service. When Union Major-General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation purporting to free the slaves in Missouri, <mask> declared a counter-proclamation and his force of 3,000 soldiers began raiding Union positions near the border in October. On October 15, 1861, <mask> led a cavalry attack on the Iron Mountain Railroad bridge over the Big River near Blackwell in Jefferson County. After successfully burning the bridge, <mask> retreated to join his infantry in Fredericktown.Soon afterwards, he was defeated at the Battle of Fredericktown and withdrew, leaving southeastern Missouri in Union control. After briefly commanding rams in the Confederate riverine fleet in 1862, <mask> was reassigned to the Trans-Mississippi region. There, he engaged in a number of battles before returning to Arkansas in 1863 to accompany Gen. John S<mask> on his raid into Missouri. <mask> was captured in August in Arkansas, and spent time in St. Louis' Gratiot Military Prison, as well as at the Fort Delaware and Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camps ("Poor old <mask>, how my heart went out to him; he a prisoner and his devoted wife in a madhouse", Major Lamar Fontaine wrote later). Eventually, he was exchanged in 1864 for a Union general. Later that year, <mask> participated in Major-General Sterling Price's Missouri expedition, taking command of "Jo" Shelby's famed "Iron Brigade" when Shelby became division commander. He served competently in this role.In March 1865, <mask> was appointed commander of the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas. He agreed to surrender his command at Chalk Bluff, Arkansas on May 11, 1865, and agreed to have his men assemble at Wittsburg and Jacksonport, Arkansas to lay down their arms and receive their paroles. <mask>'s command was widely dispersed throughout northeast Arkansas, more for reasons of available forage than anything else. About a third of his men refused to surrender. Shelby's Missouri Brigade, along with elements of Green's and Jackman's Missouri brigades, lit out for Mexico. Some Missouri units disbanded rather than surrender their colors. Many men simply went home.While most of the men on the Jacksonport parole lists actually served in the unit with which they surrendered, some men were attached themselves to various regiments solely for the purpose of surrendering. A few probably never saw any service except marching with their relatives and neighbors to Jacksonport to receive the paroles, which were thought to provide the former confederates with some degree of protection from later arrest or capture. Later life
After the American Civil War, <mask> moved to New Orleans, where he returned to civil engineering. He designed a program for improving the Louisiana swamps, a job that eventually destroyed his health. He returned to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1876 where he succumbed to tuberculosis. He is buried in Mount Mora Cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri. Honors
In early 1862 at New Orleans, a side-wheel river steamer was converted to a "Cottonclad" ram and named after <mask>.The CSS General M<mask><mask> was sent up the Mississippi that April to join the River Defense Fleet in Tennessee waters, seeing its first action at Plum Point Bend. On June the 6th, after being set afire by gunfire at Memphis, the General M. <mask><mask> ran aground and soon blew up. See also
 List of acting Confederate generals
 List of people from West Virginia

References

Sources

 Allardice, Bruce S. More Generals in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. .
 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 Filbert, Preston, The Half not Told; the Civil War in a Frontier Town.Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. .
 Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: Jacksonport 1865 surrender list?" Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 1 January 2004. Accessed 1 January 2012,
 <mask>, James Logan. A Brief History of the 45th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A. The Stream of History, Volume 16, Part 4 (Oct. 1978). Accessed 6 January 2012. Sifakis, Stewart.Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. .
 Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. . External links

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 M. <mask> papers, 1848-1959 at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
 M. <mask> papers, 1860-1940 at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library
 M. <mask> papers, 1854-1935 at The State Historical Society of Missouri
 Patent Model for Rule for Describing Polygonal Forms Invented by M. <mask> at the National Museum of American History
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 M. <mask> at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas

 M. <mask> at The Political Graveyard

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title: Martin Nisenholtz

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<mask><mask> (born April 1, 1955) is an American businessman and educator who has been active in the advancement of digital media and marketing. Background, education and career origins

<mask> was born in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, on April 1, 1955, the son of Rhoda (Koenig) and <mask>. He graduated from Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County in 1973. He then received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a master's degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Soon after starting his Ph.D. at the Annenberg School, <mask> was invited by John Carey, a professional colleague and Annenberg graduate, to participate in an NSF-funded research project at the Alternate Media Center (AMC) at New York University (NYU). The project focused on bringing Teletext, a new media technology developed in Great Britain, to the United States. That same year, the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) was established at NYU, and Nisenholtz became one of its founding faculty members in 1979.<mask> remained in New York, never returning to complete his Ph.D.

<mask> is currently married to Anne Nisenholtz and together they have two daughters, Johanna and Marjorie. NYU and Ogilvy & Mather

While an assistant professor and research scientist at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Nishenholtz received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to train artists, writers and journalists in interactive media. Through this grant, Nisenholtz built a connection for the newly emerging digital media technologies with the creative community. In 1981, he invited prominent media artists to create experimental art projects using Videotex. In 1983, <mask> joined Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide where he founded the Interactive Marketing Group (IMG), the first full-service interactive unit at a major US advertising agency. He guided the firm's interactive strategy and operations for 11 years until his departure in 1994, at which time he was a senior vice president and a member of the operating committee. He then worked for one year as director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, one of the so-called Baby Bells, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming, interactive information and advertising services.The New York Times Company
<mask> joined The New York Times as president of its Electronic Media Company in June 1995. He was initially responsible for development and delivery of electronic products centered on the content of the newspaper, and was at the helm when the NYTimes.com website made its debut in 1996. The site required site visitors to register and thereby submit certain data about themselves. This enabled the delivery of targeted advertising utilizing that audience data. <mask> had previously underscored the relationship between audience data and advertising in an article he originally authored in Advertising Age almost two years before the launch of nytimes.com. These guidelines were also republished in the New York Times. In October, 1998 the Times Company gave him the additional responsibility of managing the company's new media activities in all its operating units; in June 1999, the company consolidated its Internet activities into a separate operating unit called New York Times Digital, naming him as its chief executive officer.The unit encompassed the company's major online holdings, including 50 websites and 300 employees. <mask> remained CEO of New York Times Digital from 1999 through 2005 when the digital activities were integrated back into the operating units. In February 2005, <mask> was named senior vice president, digital operations of the New York Times Company. In that capacity he led the acquisition of About.com from Primedia. He remained responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of the company's digital properties including its flagship, NYTimes.com, until his retirement from the Times in December, 2011. Current activities

After retiring from The New York Times, <mask> transitioned to his role as "Senior Advisor" to the company and was appointed an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he co-taught the "Business of Journalism" class with Professor Adam Klein. In January 2014, he joined Firstmark Capital as a venture partner.In January 2015, he was appointed Professor of the Practice, Digital Communications, at Boston University's College of Communication (COM). Nisenholtz currently serves on the boards of Yellow Pages Limited, Postmedia Networks, RealMatch, LLC and Purch. Contributions to digital media and marketing

Other noteworthy contributions that Nisenholtz has made to digital media and marketing include:

In 1980, he started the "EIES Soap Opera", one of the earliest online writing collaborations. In 2001, he founded the Online Publishers Association (OPA) now called Digital Content Next (DCN), a leading trade association. He served as chairman through 2003 and as a member of its executive committee through 2011. Nisenholtz is credited by Dave Winer with contributing to the widespread adoption of RSS as a web standard through his decision to license the flow of New York Times stories to Userland software in 2002, thus. His 2003 keynote speech at the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) provided the inspiration for Robin Sloan and Matt Thomson to create their visionary short film EPIC 2014.Nisehnoltz co-authored the book How to Advertise with Kenneth Roman and Jane Maas.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/How-Advertise-Edition-Kenneth-Roman/dp/product-description/0312318596 'How to Advertise page on Amazon.com</ref>

In 2013, <mask> was named a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. While in residence he partnered with John Huey and Paul Sagan to Develop Riptide: An Oral History of the Epic Collision Between Journalism and Digital Technology, 1980 to the present.'' The project was unveiled at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on July 24, 2013. References

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title: Maso Finiguerra

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<mask> (1426–1464) was an Italian goldsmith, niellist, draftsman, and engraver working in Florence, who was incorrectly described by Giorgio Vasari as the inventor of engraving as a printmaking technique. This made him a crucial figure in the history of old master prints and remained widely believed until the early twentieth century. However, it was gradually realised that Vasari's view, like many of his assertions as to the origins of technical advances, could not be sustained. Typically, Vasari had overstated the importance of a fellow-Florentine, and a fellow-Italian, since it is now clear that engraving developed in Germany before Italy. Vasari only ever credited him with paper impressions of his nielli, rather than engravings made from special printing-plates, in the usual sense of the word; in fact there probably never were any such engravings by him. Although he clearly was an important artist of his time, few surviving works, and no surviving prints, can now be definitely attributed to him, so scholarly interest in him has greatly reduced. Over 100 drawings in the Uffizi, and others elsewhere, remain attributed to him.He died in his late thirties, and his influence lived after him in the works of the early Florentine engravers and drawings related to them, especially the shadowy figure of Baccio Baldini, who Vasari associates with him. Career
He was the son of Antonio, and grandson of Tommaso <mask> or Finiguerri, both goldsmiths of Florence, and was born in Santa Lucia d'Ognissanti in 1426. He worked with his family as a goldsmith and was early distinguished for his work in niello. In 1449, there is a note of a sulfur cast from a niello of his workmanship being handed over by the painter Alessio Baldovinetti to a customer in payment or exchange for a dagger. In 1452 <mask> delivered and was paid for a niellated silver pax commissioned for the Florence Baptistery by the Arte di Calimala or cloth merchant's guild. By 1457 he had left his father's workshop and partnered with the goldsmith Piero di Bartolommeo di Sail, who worked with Antonio Pollaiuolo, when the firm had an order for a pair of silver candlesticks for the church of San Jacopo at Pistoia. In 1459 in the Palazzo Rucellai, artworks by Finiguerra are annotated as belonging to Giovanni Rucellai.In 1462 he is recorded as having supplied another wealthy Florentine, Cino di Filippo Rinuccini, with waist buckles, and in the years next following with forks and spoons for christening presents. In 1463 he drew cartoons, the heads of which were colored by Alessio Baldovinetti, for five or more figures for the sacristy of Florence Cathedral, which was being decorated in intarsia or wood inlay by a group of artists with Giuliano da Maiano at their head. On 4 December 1464 <mask> <mask> made his will, and died shortly afterwards. Surviving works

The only fully documented works by Finiguerra which survive are the intarsia figures for the cathedral, over half life-size, executed from his cartoons for the sacristy. But these seems so fully in the style of Antonio Pollaiuolo that Konrad Oberhauser thought it "extremely doubtful" that he actually designed them himself. But he is thought to be responsible for a number of other works: a few nielli, and sulphur casts from them and others, and over a hundred drawings. Drawings
Much the largest group of drawings is in the Uffizi, some of which are inscribed "Maso Finiguerra" in a seventeenth-century writing, probably by Filippo Baldinucci, curator of the Medici collections.These depict many figures of the studio and the street, to all appearance members of the artists own family and workshop, drawn direct from life, and used "as a repository of figural ideas that could be used by Finiguerra to speed up the compositional process". The Uffizi group includes 14 studies of birds and animals, some apparently copied from other drawings, such as a rather stylized cockerel. There are two large drawings on vellum (both 28 x 41 cm, plus change) which show scenes from the Old Testament and are crowded with figures. These are Moses on Mount Sinai, and the Brazen Serpent below in the British Museum, and The Flood in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg. These were apparently intended as finished artworks, though both were later copied as engravings by Francesco Rosselli. The drawings can be dated from their style and the contemporary costumes to the 1450s up to <mask>'s death in 1464. They agree strictly with the accounts of Finiguerra's drawings left us by Vasari and Baldinucci, and disagree in no respect with the character of the inlaid figures of the sacristy.That he was probably also an engraver in niello appears from the fact that figures from the Uflizi series of drawings are repeated among the rare anonymous Florentine niello prints of the time (the chief collection of which, formerly belonging to the marquis of Salamanca, is now in Edmond de Rothschild Collection at the Louvre). The Florentine Picture-Chronicle was attributed to Finiguerra when first published in 1893, by Sidney Colvin, but is now more often attributed to Baccio Baldini, or an artist of his circle. This album is an unusual and ambitious attempt at a "pictorial chronicle of the world", which was never completed. The drawings are in black chalk, then ink and usually wash.

Nielli and casts
The attribution of a group of nielli, in particular some in the Bargello, is complicated by problems arising from the matching up of documentary records, and the remarks of Vasari and Benvenuto Cellini, with the surviving works. As mentioned above, in 1452 <mask> made a niello silver pax for the Florence Baptistery, commissioned by the Arte di Calimala. In 1455 the guild ordered a second pax from another goldsmith, Matteo Dei. The subject of neither piece is known from the records.Two paxes with matching frames in the Bargello museum are thought to come from the baptistry, but their styles are considered too different to be by the same artist. One, of the Coronation of the Virgin is generally thought superior in quality and assigned to Finiguerra. The other shows a Crucifixion, and is often thought to be Dei's piece of 1456. The problem arises because Cellini praises a pax by Finiguerra with a Crucifixion scene with horses, and Vasari praises one with scenes of the Passion of Christ. Other surviving paxes are enlisted to match these descriptions, while still forming a group with a sufficiently consistent style. Some of the nielli have surviving sulphur casts, which might strengthen the association with Finiguerra. Legacy
These documented facts are supplemented by several writers.By his contemporaries he is praised for niellos by the Florentine Filarete and the Bolognese poet A.M. Salimbeni. In the generations following Baccio Bandinelli said Finiguerra was among the young artists under Lorenzo Ghiberti working on the famous gates of the Baptistery, Florence; Benvenuto Cellini said he was the finest master of his day in niello engraving, and that his masterpiece was a pax of the Crucifixion in the baptistery of St. John; that being no great draftsman, he in most cases, including that of the above-mentioned pax, worked from drawings by Antonio del Pollaiolo. Vasari, on the other hand, though saying that <mask> was an inferior draughtsman to Pollaiuolo, mentions a number of original drawings by him as existing in Vasari's own collection, with figures both draped and nude, and histories drawn in watercolor. Vasari's account was confirmed and amplified in the next century by Baldinucci, who says that he has seen many drawings by Finiguerra in the manner of Masaccio; adding that Maso was beaten by Pollaiuolo in competition for the reliefs of the great silver altar-table commission by the merchants guild for the baptistery of St. John (this famous work is now preserved in the Opera del Duomo). Zani's claims
In the last years of the 18th century, Vasari's account of <mask>'s invention was held to have received a decisive and startling confirmation under the following circumstances. There was in the Baptistery at Florence (now in the Bargello) a beautiful 15th-century niello pax of the Coronation of the Virgin. The Abate Gori, a connoisseur of the mid-century, had claimed this conjecturally for the work of Finiguerra; a later and still more enthusiastic virtuoso, the Abate Zani, discovered first, in the collection of Count Seratti at Ligorno, a sulfur cast from the very same niello (cast now in the British Museum), and then, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, a paper impression corresponding to both.Here, then, he proclaimed, was the actual material first fruit of <mask>'s invention and proof positive of Vasari's accuracy. Zani's famous discovery is now discredited among serious students. For one, the art of printing from engraved copperplates had been known in Germany and in Italy for years prior to the date of <mask>'s alleged invention. For another, <mask>'s pax for the baptistery, if Cellini is to be trusted, represented not a Coronation of the Virgin but a Crucifixion. In the next place, its recorded weight does not at all agree with that of the pax claimed by Gori and Zani to be his. Again, and perhaps this is the strongest argument of any, all authentic records agree in representing Finiguerra as a close associate in art and business of Antonio Pollaiuolo. Now nothing is more marked than the special style of Pollaiuolo and his group; and nothing is more unlike it than the style of the Coronation pax, the designer of which must obviously have been trained in quite a different school, namely that of Filippo Lippi.Notes

References

Chapman, Hugo, in Chapman, Hugo, and Faietti, Marzia, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings, 2010, British Museum Press,
Landau, David, in Landau, David, and Parshall, Peter. The Renaissance Print, Yale, 1996,
Levinson, Jay A. (ed. - entries by Konrad Oberhuber) Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington (Catalogue), 1973, LOC 7379624

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title: Gretchen Daily

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<mask><mask> (born October 19, 1964) is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature in policy, finance, management, and practice around the world. <mask> is co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project, a global partnership that aims to mainstream the values of nature into decision-making of people, governments, investors, corporations, NGOs, and other institutions. Together with more than 300 partners worldwide, the Project is pioneering science, technology, and scalable demonstrations of inclusive, sustainable development. Based at Stanford University, <mask> is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. <mask> is an elected fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,  the American Academy of Arts and Sciences  and the American Philosophical Society. <mask> is a former board member of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of The Nature Conservancy.Early life and education
Born in Washington, D.C., <mask> was raised mostly in California and West Germany, where she graduated from high school in 1982. She then returned to California and earned her B.S. (1986), M.S (1987), and Ph.D. (1992) in biological sciences from Stanford University. Career
In 1992, <mask> was awarded the Winslow/Heinz Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. In 1995 <mask> became the Bing Interdisciplinary Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. During her time as a research scientist, <mask> served as the editor of Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, a foundational book that lays out the framework used widely today for understanding the benefits of nature to people, with numerous examples and ways of considering their value. The Heinz Foundation noted that Nature's Services "has served as a model for ecosystems regulation in several regions of the world and was a catalyst for the U.N.'s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment."After 7 years as a research scientist, <mask> was appointed as an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and as a senior fellow at the Institute of International Studies (both at Stanford University) in 2002. In 2002, Daily published the book The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Katherine Ellison. She has since published a dozen further books, including The Power of Trees (2012) and One Tree (2018) with Charles J. Katz, Green Growth that Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms from Around the World (2019) with Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, and James Salzman, and Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China (2020) with Jie Li, Shuzhuo Li, and Marcus Feldman. In 2005, Daily was appointed as the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and was made the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. As of 2020, Daily serves in all three of these positions. In 2005, Daily (the project leader from Stanford), along with partners at The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund, established the Natural Capital Project. The organization's stated goal is to "improve the well-being of people and our planet by motivating targeted investments in nature."In later years, the core partnership expanded to include the University of Minnesota, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Center, together with over three hundred collaborating institutions. Its signature software, InVEST, is open source, co-developed with users, and now used in 185 countries to reveal the values of nature in specific decisions, and the risks and costs of its loss. As one of the directors of the Natural Capital Project, <mask> "serves as [the organization's] chief emissary to financial and government leaders." In 2006, <mask> became a member of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy. <mask> served as the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2013. Research
Daily's academic profile at the Center for Conservation Biology states that "Daily’s scientific research is on countryside biogeography and the future dynamics of biodiversity change." In an interview, Daily remarked that "'Countryside biogeography' is a new conceptual framework for elucidating the fates of populations, species, and ecosystems in ‘countryside’ – the growing fraction of Earth's unbuilt land surface whose ecosystem qualities are strongly influenced by humanity."Using findings from research done in countryside biogeography, <mask>, and researchers like her, is attempting to determine what "species are most important and most merit protection" and "what is the scientific basis for deciding" the relative importance of species within a given ecosystem. When asked "which species/systems most merit protection?" <mask> responded that she is "actively attempting to link projected changes in biodiversity and ecosystems to changes in 'services' to humanity." She went on to cite "production of goods," "life-support processes,"  "life-fulfilling conditions" and "options (genetic diversity for future use)" as the services that ecosystems/species provide for people. As one of the co-founders of the Natural Capital Project, <mask> employs her research practically by working "with private landowners, economists, lawyers, business people, and government agencies to incorporate environmental issues into business practice and public policy." Author

Nature's Services
Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems was published in 1997 by Island Press. Nature's Services starts off with an introduction from Daily titled "What are Ecosystem Services" and another introductory piece by Harold Mooney and Paul Ehrlich that seeks to detail the "fragmentary history" of ecosystem services.After the introductions, the book is split into four distinct sections that address different elements of ecosystem services. The first section of the book address the economic issues involved in assigning value to ecosystem services in the first place. The next two sections outline different kinds of services that can be provided by nature, "Overarching Services" and "Services Supplied by Major Biomes." The overarching services section includes papers like "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning" by David Tilman, "Ecosystem Services Supplied by Soil" by Daily, Pamela Matson and Peter Vitousek  and "Services Provided by Pollinators" by Gary Nabhan and Stephen Buchmann The "Services Provided by Major Biomes" section includes papers regarding topics like "Marine Ecosystems" by Charles Peterson and Jane Lubchenco and "The World's Forests and their Ecosystem Services" by Norman Myers

The last section of the book includes case studies which showcase different services that distinct ecosystems provide to people around the world. Examples include: "Water Quality Improvements by Wetlands" by Katherine Ewel and "Ecosystem Services in a Modern Economy: Gunnison County, Colorado" by Andrew Wilcox and John Harte. In the conclusion of the book, Daily remarks that the "core analyses presented in this book attempt to value ecosystems and their component species only insofar as they confer benefits, in the form of life-support goods and services, to human beings" but that this "focus does not in any way preclude making decisions on the basis of other values as well." In his review of the book, James Salzman concluded that Nature's Services, in contrast with efforts like the Endangered Species Act, "takes a different, potentially more effective tack, calling for explicit recognition of ecosystem services because of the direct, tangible benefits they provide.Such recognition could provide a more integrated and compelling basis for action than those suggested by a single-species or biodiversity protection for the simple reason that the impacts of those services on humans are more immediate and undeniably important." The New Economy of Nature
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable was co-written by Daily and Katherine Ellison and was published in 2002 by Island Press. The book presents different cases studies where companies or governments were able to actually profit from their conservation efforts. One chapter describes how New York "decided to meet federal requirements to improve
water quality with a less expensive, though more controversial, option of protecting watershed integrity through land purchases and development limits, rather than adopt the technological solution of a multibillion dollar treatment facility." While another chapter offers "an assessment of plans to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a worldwide system of carbon trading patterned on the U.S. experience with pollution." Kenneth Arrow remarked that Daily and Ellison "have delineated the new movement to make conservation of natural resources financially rewarding and illustrate in a lively and probing manner many cases of profitable activities that also preserve the biosphere." In his review of the book, Patrick Wilson stated that "The most notable contribution of The New Economy of Nature is its balanced message, optimistic and cautious."He goes on to say that the book "avoids the fallacy that the market is the solution to our environmental protection challenges and that, if allowed to operate free of government intervention, it can somehow make the policymaking choices less problematic and the tradeoffs less daunting" and that "it challenges elements of environmental orthodoxy that hold that the market, because of its short-term orientation and emphasis on profit over conservation, is an intrinsic threat to nature and the only solution is increased government oversight and financial commitment." Awards and honors
<mask> has received numerous prestigious awards and honors throughout her academic career, including the 21st Century Scientist Award (2000), The Sophie Prize (2008), The International Cosmos Prize (2009), The 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change, the Midori Prize (2010), the Volvo Environment Prize (2012), the Blue Planet Prize (2017), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2020). She has received the 2018 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology, jointly with Georgina Mace for developing vital tools facilitating science-based policies “to combat species loss.”

Selected works

<mask> has authored, coauthored and/or edited five books. <mask> has published more than 300 scientific and popular articles. She has published articles in many prestigious journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Nature and Science. Some of her most cited/influential publications:

See also
Ecosystem valuation

References

External links

<mask>'s Profile at the Center for Conservation Biology
<mask>'s CV
The Natural Capital Project's Home Page

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title: Fred Lorenzen

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<mask>. (born December 30, 1934), nicknamed The Golden Boy, <mask>, The Elmhurst Express and Fearless <mask>, is a former NASCAR driver from Elmhurst, Illinois. Active from 1958 to 1972, he won 26 races including 1965 Daytona 500. Early life
<mask> was 15 years of age when he and his Elmhurst, Illinois friends competed in a contest to see who could flip a 1937 Plymouth over first by cranking it around in circles. Lorenzen claimed to be the victor of that confrontation. NASCAR

Early career
After graduating from high school, <mask> began racing modifieds and late models, and made his NASCAR debut in 1956 at Langhorne Speedway, finishing 26th after suffering a broken fuel pump, winning $25. He moved to a USAC stock car, and won the 1958 and 1959 championships driving his Talarico Bros. built Chevrolet. The Holman Moody Years

On Christmas Eve 1960, Lorenzen received a phone call from team owner Ralph Moody that would change his career.Moody asked <mask> about becoming his team's lead driver. A surprised Lorenzen accepted, albeit curious as to what he'd done to fulfill Moody's criteria to be part of his team. In 1961, <mask> began winning races in what would become a remarkable career. For five years from 1961 till 1966, <mask> dominated NASCAR like few other drivers ever would winning many major races and defeating the best drivers of his day. In his maiden season with Holman Moody, Lorenzen won: the Grand National 200 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington and the Festival 250 at Atlanta. There was no doubt that Lorenzen would challenge the all-time greats for the top prizes in NASCAR. <mask>'s winning streak (1962–1967)

In 1962, <mask> won the Atlanta 500 and a race at Augusta Speedway.The 1962 Ford was troubled at the start of the season by inferior aerodynamics, a serious problem that was rectified with a more streamlined roof halfway into the season. In 1963, <mask> soared to the top and became the top money-winner and the first to break the $100,000 barrier in one season. In that amazing year, <mask> won:  the Atlanta 500, the World 600; the Volunteer 500, the Western North Carolina 500; the Mountaineer 300 and the Old Dominion 500 bringing his total winnings to $122,000. In 1964, Lorenzen won:  the Southeastern 500 at Bristol; the Atlanta 500; the Gwyn Staley 400 at North Wilkesboro; the Virginia 500 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington; the Volunteer 500; the Old Dominion 500 and the National 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway;  six of those races are current "classics" on the Sprint Cup Circuit as of 2013. In 1965 Lorenzen won:  the Daytona 500; the Virginia 500; the World 600 and the National 400. In 1966 Lorenzen won:  the Old Dominion 500 and the American 500 at Rockingham, North Carolina. In 1967 Lorenzen won:  the Daytona 500 Qualifier (until 1971, the races currently called the Budweiser Duels were points races).<mask> compiled an amazing record of wins that clearly made him the dominant driver of NASCAR during a very significant portion of its Golden Era. The Yellow Banana
In one race in 1966 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he drove a Junior Johnson-owned No. 26 Ford due to the Ford boycott of NASCAR for much of the 1966 season, and it is still one of the most talked about vehicles in NASCAR Grand National Competition to this day. The front end of the car was sloped downward, the roofline was lowered, the side windows were narrowed and the windshield was lowered in an aerodynamic position, and the tail was kicked up. Several rival drivers referred to it as "The Yellow Banana," "Junior's Joke," and "The Magnafluxed Monster." Even though it was against the rules NASCAR allowed the car to compete and <mask> crashed while leading the Dixie 500 on the 139th lap. One pit crew member said after the incident "No wonder" he said, "I ain't never seen anybody who could drive a banana at 150 mile an hour."NASCAR let this very illegal car run in only one race, in an attempt to bring up attendance, which had suffered due to the Ford boycott. Comeback
He came back in 1970, driving a Dodge Daytona prepared by Ray Fox in the World 600 (now the Coca-Cola 600), but dropped out while leading on lap 252 of 400 due to engine issues, running in a few more events that year, including substituting for LeeRoy Yarbrough in the Junior Johnson No. 98 Ford Torino Talladega in that year's Southern 500, as Yarbrough had a prior Indy car commitment. In 1971, he moved over to the Ray Nichels/Paul Goldsmith owned No. 99 Plymouth, sponsored by STP. He left that team part way through the season, and was badly injured in a practice crash while trying to drive for the Wood Brothers prior to the Southern 500. In 1972, he hooked up with Hoss Ellington driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, to little success.His last start came at the 1972 Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Later life

<mask> now lives in assisted living in a suburb of Chicago surrounded by his family. In his heyday from 1962–65, <mask> was the top driver in NASCAR. On the super speedways, <mask> defeated all of his competition to compile an unprecedented streak of wins in major races. Racing for money instead of points, <mask> never competed for the annual Sprint Cup, but he won the big races that made him the uncrowned King of NASCAR during its golden years. <mask>'s countless fans waited for a long time for <mask>'s brilliant career to be recognized with his induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Awards
He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2001.He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in January 2015. Quotes
"When NASCAR lost Fireball Roberts it was like Santa Claus doesn't exist at Christmas and it just took everything out of the race"—Thoughts on Fireball Roberts' death. Motorsports career results

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title: Walter Reed Weaver

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<mask> (February 23, 1885October 27, 1944) was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of major general and was prominent for serving in several United States Army Air Forces command positions during World War II. Early life and start of career
<mask><mask> was born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 23, 1885, while his father, Erasmus M<mask>., was assigned to The Citadel as a Professor of Military Science. The younger <mask> attended the Virginia Military Institute in preparation for a military career. He left after his third year in order to accept an appointment to the United States Military Academy. He graduated in 1908, received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, and was assigned to the 11th Infantry Regiment at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. <mask>'s subsequent assignments included: The 28th Infantry Regiment at Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Eli D. Hoyle in the Philippines; and the 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China.Upon returning to the United States in 1915, <mask> carried out assignments at Columbus Barracks, Ohio and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. World War I
At the beginning of World War I <mask> transferred to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, and was initially assigned as Commandant of Flying Cadets at Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio, receiving promotion to major. <mask> was subsequently assigned as the first commander of the Aviation Mechanical School in St. Paul, Minnesota. While en route, he learned that 500 students were already traveling to the site, but that the school was being formed so quickly that there were no plans for housing, feeding or instructional facilities. Within two days, he had secured the use of a Willys-Overland factory building via a verbal agreement with the company president, cleared the site of over 3,000 stored automobiles using volunteer labor, and supervised the installation of bunks, classrooms and mess halls. On the third day after his arrival, the school was operational and the arriving students were able to begin their instruction as scheduled. He continued in command until the end of the war, and supervised the education of thousands of soldiers who served as airplane mechanics in the United States and Europe.Post-World War I
After the war <mask> was assigned as Chief of the Supply Group in the Office of the Director of the Army Air Service. In 1920 and 1921 he completed flight training at Kelly Field, Texas, and March Field, California, and received his qualification as a pilot. In 1922 <mask> was assigned to command of Mitchel Field, New York. This site had become rundown as the result of budget cutbacks and force reductions following the war. <mask> supervised an overhaul, and within a year, buildings had been repaired, hangars had floors installed,  and aircraft parking ramps and aprons had been paved. <mask>'s assignments following Mitchel Field included command of Hanscom Field, Massachusetts, Middletown Air Depot, Pennsylvania, and Maxwell Field, Alabama. He graduated from the Army Industrial College in 1932, and then served as Chief of the Plans Division and Chief of the Information Division in the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps.In 1934 he was assigned to New York City as the Procurement Planning Representative of the Air Corps. In 1935 the Air Corps created a separate headquarters at Langley Field, Virginia, and <mask> was assigned as Inspector General. From 1937 to 1939 he was the commander of Langley Field. <mask> was assigned to command of the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field in 1939. In this position he was responsible for developing doctrine and tactical training for pilots and air crews in advance of World War II. World War II
In 1940 the Army Air Forces began to expand in preparation for war and <mask> was assigned to command the Southeast Air Corps Training Center at Maxwell Field, receiving promotion to brigadier general. In this assignment he oversaw the training of thousands of pilots and flight crew members who served in all theaters of the war.In July, 1941 <mask> was promoted to major general. <mask> was the acting Chief of the Air Corps from December 1941 until March 1942. As acting Chief he supervised completion of a reorganization and expansion plan for the Air Corps, including its re-designation as the Army Air Forces. This reorganization included the creation of the First Technical Training District (later Eastern Technical Training Command) in South Carolina, which <mask> was assigned to command. As part of his effort to create basic training centers and officer candidate schools for new recruits, <mask> arranged for the use of resort hotels in Atlantic City, Miami Beach, St. Petersburg, and Chicago, arguing successfully that these facilities, then being underused because people were unable to take vacations during the war, were the only ones that were vacant and large enough for the needs of the military. In July 1943 <mask>'s health began to fail as the result of overexertion required by his wartime command, and he was retired for physical disability. He then continued to aid the war effort as a consultant with the Aviation Corporation, a manufacturer of airplanes and airplane parts.Death and burial
<mask>'s health continued to fail, and he died at Walter Reed Hospital on October 27, 1944. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section South, Site 1908. Family
In 1911 <mask> married Elizabeth K. Johnson (1891-1978), the daughter of a railroad executive. They had no children. Awards and decorations
<mask> was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his World War II service. Legacy
The Major General <mask> <mask>, an Air Forces Floating Maintenance Unit ship, was named for him. It was deployed to the Pacific Theater during World War II.References

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<mask> <mask> at West Point Association of Graduates
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title: Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski

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<mask> (29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer, most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent of Illyrian movement and avid collector of historical documents, primarily those for his work in Croatian historiography and bibliography. Early life
Kukuljević was born in Maruševec near Varaždin. His family originates from Rama in Bosnia. He was also a distant relative of Grgo Martić, a Bosnian Franciscan. <mask> completed his secondary education in gymnasiums in his hometown and in Zagreb. He went to the Military Academy of Krems.As a student, Kukuljević started writing in German. In 1833, he joined the army and became an officer in Vienna three years later. He met Ljudevit Gaj and joined the Illyrian movement in 1837. He was ordered to move to Milan in 1840. In 1842, he resigned from his military duties and returned to Croatia, joining the political fight against Magyarization and censorship. He became one of the leaders of the Illyrian movement. Politician
Kukuljević was a member of the People's Party, and was one of its leading members as early as 1843.The political activity of Kukuljević can be separated into two periods: until 1850 and from 1860 to 1867. The gap from 1851 to 1860 was caused by the absolutism instituted by Minister Bach, which repressed political life in Croatia. In the first period, he was a partisan of the liberation of Croatia from Austria and Hungary, an uncompromising ideologue promoting revolutionary actions to achieve the unity of the South Slavs. Believing that the South Slavs can be delivered and unified only by force of arms, he lobbied among the Croats and Serbs at the Military Frontier. Swayed by his personality, the frontiersmen asked for the freedom and unity of the South Slav peoples in their People's Requests of spring 1848, referring to him as their inspiration. <mask> <mask> was the first to make a speech in Croatian before the Croatian Parliament, on May 2, 1843. The speech daringly promoted the struggle for national liberation, asking for Croatian to become the official language in schools and offices, with its gradual introduction in the public life.He also pointed out the danger of replacing Croatian with other languages. Until then, the language of discourse in the parliament was Latin. The speech caused much agitation. It was not an exception, though. All his speeches in the parliament and at county assemblies staunchly advocated the freedom and independence of Croatia, so they could be published only in Branislav, an illegal Illyrian magazine printed in Belgrade. On Kukuljević's urging, the parliament passed the decision to make Croatian the official language in 1847. He became the chief judge of the Varaždin County in 1845.During the Revolutions of 1848, Kukuljević was among the radical democrats. Under his influence, the ban Josip Jelačić convened the Croatian Parliament on June 5, 1848, opposing the explicit imperial order. Kukuljević also initiated the Slavic Congress in Prague. But the revolutions were crushed; imperial oppression set in. Kukuljević was removed from politics and kept under police surveillance. In the 1850s, his outlook radically changed. The second period of his political activity was the complete opposite of his early anti-Austrian and freedom-loving sentiments.After he became the prefect of Zagreb County in 1861, he was loyal to Vienna, implementing policies targeted against Croatians and the South Slavs and hounding his former friends who remained faithful to their Illyrian ideals. After the Compromise of 1867, he was removed from political positions and retired. He was later again elected to the Sabor. He died in Tuhakovec Castle in Zagorje and was buried in Zagreb. Historian and cultural figure

Despite the sharp turn in his later political career, the early patriotic and historical poems of Kukuljević had a major influence on the patriotic sentiments among the Croats. He founded the Society for Yugoslavian History, edited the magazine called Arhiv za Povjesnicu jugoslavensku (Archive for Yugoslavian History), and published valuable historical monographs. Kukuljević's efforts earned him the title of the "father of modern Croatian historiography".Kukuljević collected and published many source texts related to the history of Croatia. He wrote a lexicon with 800 artists' biographies. He is considered a pioneer of Croatian scientific bibliography. In 1850, Kukuljević took part in the Vienna Literary Agreement. Due to financial problems, Kukuljević was forced to sell his enormous library, numbering 12,000 volumes, which was acquired by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Zagreb. One of manuscripts from his library is a tragedy, Skanderbeg, written on the basis of Andrija Kačić Miošić's work. Works
 Glasoviti Hrvati prošlih vjekova (Famous Croats of Ages Past)
Slovnik umjetnikah jugoslavenskih od Ivana Kukuljevica Sakcinskoga
Juran i Sofia ili Turci kod Siska: junačka igra u trih činih (Juran and Sofia or the Turks under Sisak: Heroic Play in Three Acts)
Beatrica Frankopan i njezin rod (Beatrice Frankopan and Her Lineage)
Pjesnici hrvatski 16 vieka by <mask> Sakcinski, Kršćan.Sadašnjost (reprint), 1983
Borba Hrvatah: S Mongoli i Tatari: Povjestno-Kriticna Razprava by <mask> Sakcinski, Nakladom i brzotiskom A.Jakica, 1863
Slavjanke: sa historičkimi primetbami by <mask> <mask>, Tiskom Franje Župana, 1848
Monumenta historica Slavorum meriodionalium by <mask> Sakcinski, Društvo za Jugoslavensku povjest i starine, Brzotiskom narodne tiskarnice dra. Ljudevita Gaja
 Jure Glović, prozvan Julijo Klovio, hrvatski sitnoslikar (Jure Glović aka Giulio Clovio, Croatian miniaturist)
Cronaca del secolo XVI - mentioned in When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods by John Van Antwerp Fine

See also
 Vienna Literary Agreement

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Hrvatska nacionalna bibliografija i Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski by Petar Rogulja

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title: Rossella Biscotti

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<mask> (born 1978) is an Italian visual artist best known for her installations, performances and video. Early life and education
She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002, she attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010–2011. Back in 2000 she was selected for the Advanced Course in Visual Art at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como. The visiting professor was Ilya Kabakov. Career
<mask> focuses on social and political events which sometimes have happened in the distant past and become the starting point for the investigation of individual or collective identity and memory. Her methodology is based on a meticulous preliminary research into archival materials such as found documents, audio recordings or newspapers documenting stories and events which have been forgotten by history. She uses archive materials to underline the loss of information, the ambiguity of reconstructions and their possible uses as well.<mask> is interested in the potentiality of new narrations when they start circulating again through her artworks. With Le Teste in Oggetto (The Heads in Question, 2009) the artist analyzes the relations between art and power raising questions about the status of contemporary artists and their degree of intellectual and conceptual autonomy. The sculpture consists of the heads of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Benito Mussolini, which were found by the artist in the storerooms of the Palazzo degli Uffici in the EUR district in Rome. The sculptures were created for the Esposizione universale (1942) which never took place because of Italy's involvement in World War II. <mask> decided to appropriate them and exposed them to the public for the first time. Doing so, the artist radically reversed their original meaning: rather than celebratory monuments, they became the focus of reflection and discussion. In her work Il Processo (The Trial, 2010–12) she focuses on the April 7th trial (1983–84), against the members of Autonomia Operaia.The trial was held in the Aula Bunker in Rome, a high-security courthouse, which hosted the most important trials of the period known as Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). She created an installation composed by concrete sculptures made from casts of the architectural features of the courtroom, taken before their demolition. The installation is accompanied by a six-hour audio edited recording of the April 7 trial. Defendants in the court case included the philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, and other intellectuals accused of being ideologically and morally responsible for Italian terrorism developed in the late 1970s. Il Processo won the MAXXI prize in 2010, promoted by MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome. The human condition and circumstances in detention are the focus of I dreamt that you changed into a cat...gatto...ha ha ha (2013). <mask> <mask> developed her research in the women's prison on Giudecca island at the Venetian lagoon.This prison is not like a traditional one where inmates are locked and unproductive; on the contrary, the prisoners spend their time working outside the prison. As all prison cells are open, <mask> was given the opportunity to meet every prisoner by creating a dream workshop, called ‘oneiric laboratory’. Using the workshop as a platform to communicate with the prisoners, Biscotti analyzed the institution and the way the inmates figure in it. She processed her research in a sculpture made of compost, which was the result of work that has been done by inmates in the kitchen, cleaning, the growing of vegetables and consumption. The work was presented during the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Exhibitions
Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Italy and abroad, in major museums and galleries. Solo exhibitions
 2015 <mask> Biscotti, The future can only be for ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT).2014 <mask> <mask>, 10 x 10, Mies van der Rohe Stipend, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (DE). 2014 <mask> <mask>: The Undercover Man, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (US). 2014 <mask> <mask>: For the Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels (BE). 2013 The Trial, e-flux, New York (US). 2013 The Side Room, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT). 2012 Title One: The tasks of the Community, CAC, Vilnius (LT). 2012 L'Isola, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL).2011 Il Processo (The Trial), RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL). 2010 168 sections of a human brain, Galleria Civica di Trento (IT). 2009 A short story about memory, pentothal and dreams, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE). 2009 After four rotations of A, B and C will make one revolution (with Kevin van Braak), Samsa, Berlin (DE). 2009 Le Teste in Oggetto, Nomas Foundation Rome (IT). 2008 The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL). 2008 You Have to Be Focused, Prometeo Gallery, Lucca (IT).2008 New Crossroads (with Kevin van Braak), Galleria Studio la Citta’, Verona (IT). 2008 The Sun Shines in Kiev, Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (US). 2005 L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE). 2002 <mask> <mask>, Galleria T293, Naples (IT). Awards

In 2013 she was recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Stipend. In 2010 she won the Premio Michelangelo at Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara (IT), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2010. In 2009 she won the Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (IT), the 2nd Prize Prix de Rome, Amsterdam (NL) and the Emerging Talents Award, Strozzina Foundation, Florence (IT).In 2008 she was recipient of 1st Prize Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm Festival, Gstaad (CH). In 2007 she was awarded with the 1st Prize The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH). In 2006 she won the Premio NY promoted by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the Columbia University in New York (US). References

1978 births
Living people
Italian video artists
Italian contemporary artists
21st-century Italian women artists

masks:
Rossella Biscotti
Rossella Biscotti
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title: Katell Keineg

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<mask> (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Wales. Early life
Born in Brittany and raised first there and later in the Rhymney Valley, <mask> is the second child and only daughter of Breton poet and playwright <mask> and his then wife, Judith Pritchard (née Gurney), a Welsh political activist. Both parents were active in their nations' respective autonomy movements, Judith with Plaid Cymru, Paol with the UDB. The family moved to Wales where, exposed to Breton and Welsh folk music, <mask> began singing, mainly in choirs and eisteddfodau. Early influences included The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. She has cited the film, The Song Remains the Same as influential; she watched it in the same year she began busking in Cardiff, which led to travels around the United Kingdom and Ireland playing at ad hoc gigs and festivals. Around 1988-90, she appeared in a number of episodes of the Welsh language soap-opera "Pobol Y Cwm", produced by BBC Wales for the Welsh fourth television channel, S4C.Her character, a Breton, instigated the twinning of the fictional Welsh village of "Cwmderi" with a town in Brittany. After taking a law degree at the London School of Economics, she lived briefly in Cardiff and, at age 24, moved to Dublin. From the early 1990s onwards, Keineg travelled back and forth between Dublin and New York, where she made her first two albums for Elektra Records. She is now based in Wales. Ô Seasons Ô Castles
In the early 1990s she lived in New York for a time. A live appearance in Times Square was recorded by Irish TV in the summer of 1992, by which time she had become one of a number of regular performers at the, now defunct, Sin-é in lower Manhattan. Her first release was a seven-inch single called "Hestia" on SOL, an independent label co-owned by musicians Bob Mould and Nicholas Hill.She was signed by Elektra in 1993 and in 1994 her debut album, Ô Seasons Ô Castles was released. One of the songs, "The Gulf of Araby", was played regularly by Natalie Merchant at concerts for several years and is featured on her live album Live in Concert, New York City – June 13th 1999. Merchant also invited Keineg to sing on her debut album, Tigerlily, on the song "Carnival". In 1993, Keineg sang on "Mixin' The Colors" from Iggy Pop's American Caesar album. For the next two years she continued to gig regularly at festivals such as Roskilde, Crossing Border and Lilith Fair. Jet
Her second album, Jet, featured a biographical song about bisexual Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini. In the same year, her friend Jeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River at age thirty.<mask> sang at his memorial service. Following disappointing sales of Jet and a change of management at Elektra, Keineg endured a number of unhappy years at Elektra during which time she released no new music. Eventually she was able to secure a release from her contract with Elektra and to gain back rights to her first two albums. Having been out of print for a while, Ô Seasons Ô Castles and Jet were re-released on the Field Recording Co label in 2002. What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time? and High July
Also in 2002, Katell released a four-track EP titled What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time? which more than marked a return to form.It consisted of the title track, a live version of Nick Drake's "River Man" sung at a Nick Drake tribute at St. Ann's Church in Manhattan, "Waiting For the Weight of Space" and "Beautiful Day". It was followed in 2004 by her third album, High July, released via the independent label Megaphone Music and later re-released on Keineg's own STZ label. A re-recorded version of "On Yer Way" from that album was used over the credits of Deborah Kampmeier's indie film Virgin with Robin Wright released in 2003. Current work
A six-page, high-profile interview with Darcy Frey was published on 2 July 2006 in The New York Times Magazine and this sparked new interest in Keineg's music in the United States. During the rest of 2006 and into 2007, Keineg played several sold out concerts in New York in the wake of the article, including a month-long Friday night residency at The Living Room in February 2007. Also in 2006, she toured Wales with Ann Scott and Adrian Crowley and appeared on S4C's Wedi Saith evening programme. Mid-2007 was spent playing European classical music festivals with concert pianist Katia Labeque's experimental band, B For Bang, whose first album was released in January 2008 and included a version of The Beatles "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" sung by Keineg.She and Ann Scott played in Spain, Portugal and Norway during the course of that year and the next and started a joint recording project. She released a 4-song EP in January 2009 that includes the re-recorded "On Yer Way", a Welsh language cover of the Super Furry Animals song "Y Gwyneb Iau" and "Trouble", an outtake from "Jet" re-mixed by Scott. Later that year Keineg played at Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock. Keineg released At The Mermaid Parade, her fourth album, in spring 2010. It was released on STZ in North America and by Honest Jon's Records, Damon Albarn's label, in the rest of the world. The album was named "Album of the Week" in The Sunday Times. She toured in the UK and Ireland following the album's release, opening for singer-songwriter Krystle Warren and playing The Green Man festival.In May 2012, Keineg released a download single in Welsh called "Platform 0" recorded in New York for the internet radio show Radio Free Song Club with their all-star house band. Singles
"Hestia"
"Partisan"
"Franklin"
"One Hell of a Life"
"Smile"
"What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time"
"Shaking The Disease"
 "Y Gwyneb Iau"
 "Platfform O"

Sources
 Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, David Browne, 2002. Gimme Danger : The Story Of Iggy Pop, Joe Ambrose, 2008
 The Show I'll Never Forget, Sean Manning, Da Capo Press, 2007
 X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking, Jeff Gordinier, Penguin Books, 2009

References

External links
 Official website
 Myspace Katell Keineg | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos
 Community.livejournal.com
 Ectoguide.org
 Neohyper.com
 Npr.org

1965 births
People from Finistère
Living people
Singers from Cardiff
20th-century Welsh women singers
Welsh singer-songwriters
Breton musicians
Breton-language singers
21st-century Welsh women singers

masks:
Katell Keineg
Katell Keineg
Paol Keineg
Katell
Katell


title: Todd O'Brien

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<mask>'Brien (born March 3, 1989) is an American-born, naturalized Armenian professional basketball player who last played for Alexandria Sporting Club of the Egyptian National League. He played college basketball for Bucknell and Saint Joseph's before playing professionally in Latvia, France, Japan, Poland, Qatar, Lebanon, Armenia, Egypt and Israel. High school
O'Brien attended Garden Spot High School in New Holland, Pennsylvania (2003–2007). A 4-year starter, he finished his high school basketball career with over 1,000 points, 700 rebounds, and 250 blocked shots. As a senior, he averaged over 15 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks per game for the Spartans. As a 3-star recruit O’Brien was ranked as the No. 12 Pennsylvania prospect of 2007 by PA Prep report.O’Brien was selected First Team Lancaster-Lebanon (L-L) Section Two his sophomore, junior and senior years and First Team All-L-L League as a senior. He was named a Top 20 All Star at Eastern Invitational Camp before his senior season, and also was selected to play in the Philadelphia-Washington D.C. All-Star Game and the Jameer Nelson All-Star Classic. O'Brien was the first basketball player in Garden Spot's history to earn an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship, accepting a full scholarship from Bucknell University. College career
As a freshman at Bucknell, O’Brien was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie team, finishing third in the league in blocks. At the end of the season, O'Brien transferred to Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. After redshirting the 2008–2009 season, O'Brien started at center for the Hawks and was the team's leading rebounder in the 2010–2011 season. He earned the George Senesky Award for academic excellence in his 2009–2010 season.After playing a decreased role for the Hawks in the 2010–2011 season, O'Brien opted to become a Graduate Transfer and play his final eligible season of college basketball at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Complications getting his transfer waiver approved ultimately left O'Brien as a member of the Blazers basketball team but unable to compete in NCAA games for the 2011–2012 season. The waiver dispute earned O’Brien public support from ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times. Professional career
In June 2012, O'Brien signed his first professional contract with BK Jekabpils of the Latvian Basketball League. In their inaugural season, O'Brien helped lead the team to a No. 5 finish and secure a spot in the playoffs. O’Brien finished top five in the league in points (15.6), rebounds (9.4), and player efficiency per game.He was named Latvian League Center of the Year, First Team All Latvia and to the Latvian League All Imports Team by Eurobasket.com

For his second season, O'Brien signed with Hermine Nantes in Nantes, France. Playing in the LNB Pro B division, O'Brien was sidelined from October to December with a foot injury. He was able to return and finish the rest of the season, averaging 10.5 points per game and 5.8 rebounds per game. In July 2014, O'Brien signed with the Oita Heat Devils of the Japanese BJ League. Playing in 50 games that season, O’Brien finished as the team leader in points (13.0), rebounds (9.4), field goal percentage (50%), blocks (1.2), and player efficiency (14.7). He helped guide the Heat Devils to a playoff appearance as the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference.In July 2015, O'Brien signed with Polish club MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza. O'Brien left the club in October and moved to Al Arabi of the Qatar Basketball League. While playing for Al Arabi, O'Brien led the team in points (22.3), rebounds (17.9), field goal percentage (47.8), free throw percentage (78.4), blocks (1.4), and player efficiency (31.4). He ranked first in the league in rebounds and player efficiency, third in blocked shots and ninth in scoring. O’Brien was named Qatar Center of the Year, First Team All-Qatar and to the Qatar All-Imports team. Upon the conclusion of the Qatar Basketball league regular season, O'Brien signed with Lebanese club CS Sagesse Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball League in March 2016. In 13 games, O'Brien emerged as the league's leading rebounder at 13.2 per game and finished in the top five in player efficiency.Entering playoffs as a No. 7 seed, O'Brien hit the game-winning shot at the end of regulation to complete the series upset over No. 2 seed Tadamon Zouk to send Sagesse into the league's final four round. O'Brien joined Al Hala of the Bahrain Premier League for the preseason Bahrain Supercup. Upon completion in mid-September, O'Brien signed with Urartu BC of Armenia in their inaugural season. O'Brien was given an Armenian passport for contributions to the country's national athletics, making him eligible to play for the National Team in future competitions. He participated in the Russian Superleague, where he led the league in rebounding (10.4 rpg) and ranked No.4 in player efficiency (18.8). Due to sponsorship issues, the club ceased operations in early December. In December 2016, O'Brien returned to CS Sagesse Beirut on a short-term contract, playing in six Lebanese league games and participating in the Dubai International Tournament in February 2017. In March 2017, O'Brien signed a deal returning to Latvia with league power BK Ventspils. On November 21, 2018, O'Brien signed with Al Ahly of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. He also participated in the Africa Basketball League, where he led the tournament in rebounds with 12 per game, to go with 13.8 points, 2.8 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.0 block shots per game. On September 16, 2019, O'Brien signed a one-year deal with Alexandria Sporting Club of Egypt of the Egytpian National League.Overseas Elite
O'Brien plays as a member of the Overseas Elite basketball team that competes in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a summer tournament broadcast on ESPN. In 2015, O'Brien was a member of the inaugural Overseas Elite basketball team that competed in TBT 2015. The team, composed of other overseas professionals, went on to defeat Team 23 in the championship game, taking home a $1 million prize. In summer 2016, O'Brien and Overseas Elite repeated as champions, defeating Team Colorado in the TBT 2016 finals, winning an increased $2 million prize. O'Brien and Overseas Elite won their third championship at TBT 2017, defeating Team Challenge ALS in the finals, for another $2 million prize. At TBT 2018, O'Brien and Overseas Elite won their fourth championship, defeating Eberlein Drive in the finals, to secure another $2 million prize. Personal life
O'Brien was born March 3, 1989 in Media, Pennsylvania.His family moved to Lancaster, PA when he was young. His father, Roy, played football at the University of Penn and was an assistant football coach at Widener University. His mother, Pam, played both lacrosse and basketball at Hood College. His older sister, Kim, was a triple jumper at Muhlenberg College. His younger sister, Julia, plays professional volleyball. She was a two-time All-PSAC First Team selection at West Chester University and the 2014 PSAC Player of the Year. His uncle, Bruce Frank, played basketball at the University of Penn and went on to play professionally in Germany.His cousin, Matt Frank, was the starting right guard and team captain of James Madison University's 2016 National Championship football team. References

External links
 UAB Blazers bio
 RealGM profile

1989 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Japan
American expatriate basketball people in Latvia
American expatriate basketball people in Lebanon
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Qatar
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Pennsylvania
BK Ventspils players
Bucknell Bison men's basketball players
Ehime Orange Vikings players
Hapoel Galil Elyon players
People from New Holland, Pennsylvania
Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball players
Centers (basketball)
Sagesse SC basketball players


title: Natsuki Mizu

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<mask> (水夏希 Mizu <mask>, born 1972) is the former top star (otokoyaku) for Snow Troupe of Takarazuka Revue from 12/24/06 to 09/12/10. She joined the company in 1993 and became the top star in December 2006 upon the resignation of Hikaru Asami. She is from Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken and her birthday is August 16. Her nickname is <mask> and Chika. Troupe history
 Moon Troupe: 1993–1997
 Flower Troupe: 1997–2001
 Cosmo Troupe: 2000–2005
  Snow Troupe: 2005–2010

General information
Starting her career in the Moon Troupe, she is one of a few current younger and non-Senka members (and also in the roster) that have participated in the performances with all 5 troupes (even it is just a special appearance for Star production of Rose of Versailles). She is one of several promising young stars that were promoted in 1999 (along with Sumire Haruno, the former top star for Flower Troupe and Hikaru Asami, the former top star for Snow Troupe). Before she was promoted to top star, she was considered as one of top-stars-in-waiting along with Kei Takashiro, the former top star for Cosmo Troupe, Kei Aran, the current top star for Star Troupe, Jun Sena, the current top star for Moon Troupe, and Yūga Yamato, the current top star of Cosmo Troupe.While she was in Moon Troupe, she had already caught the attention, took the title role of Me and My Girl of the first half of the New Actor Production in 1995. In 1996, she was in title role of CAN-CAN. Then she transferred to the Flower Troupe. Her time in the Flower Troupe is when she most notably developed her skills. Together with Sumire Haruno (class of 1991) and Jun Sena (class of 1992), they formed a tight trio among the younger performers in the Flower Troupe. During those years, she got praises for her performance on the leading role of Yoake no Jokyoku: her first leading role for New Actor production in Flower Troupe. Also she had her first leading show, Romeo and Juliet '99 at the Bow Hall (with Kanami Ayano, retired Top musumeyaku star) in 1999.After participating the oversea performance at Berlin, Germany in 2000, she was transferred to Cosmo Troupe. With the establishment of the New Senka (In June 2000, the directors of the company had made a radical change on the troupe structure by sending the second and third tier actresses of each troupe to the Senka, which served as the waiting list for top star of the troupes. ), she became the second man for Yoka Wao from 2002 to 2005. In her Cosmo years, she had memorable performance as both Oscar and Andre in Rose of Versailles, Robert in Pierre the Mercenary and villainous Count Edmond de Lambrouse in Lightning in the Daytime. Marking the 90th anniverisery for the company, she had a special appearance for Snow production of Susano-o, where she was the antagonist Aosetona in 2004. Another noteworthy performance was her villainous role as Count Edmond. She also has a special appearance as Benito in Flower's La Esperanza with Hiromu Kiriya from Moon Troupe in the same year.After performing Hotel Stella Maris for Cosmo Troupe in both Takarazuka Grand Theater and Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, she was suddenly transferred to Snow Troupe. With Kei Takashiro's promotion to top star for Cosmo Troupe, she became the second man for Hikaru Asami. In December 2006, she was finally promoted to be top star. In 2004, she did the role of Tzeitel in the Japanese production of Fiddler on the Roof. Her Grand Theater debut is Elisabeth in May 2007. This makes her the second top star to perform this favourite musical of Takarazuka as her debut as a top star. She was the leading member of the now defunct AQUA5, along with fellow troupe mates Mao Ayabuki, Kei Otozuki, Oto Ayana and Kaname Ouki.They had performed at the opening ceremony of 2007 World Championships in Athletics. She has a twin sister, Yoko Masuda, who is an acupuncturist for Cirque Du Soleil. Notable performance and role

Moon New Actor era

Me and My Girl - Bill (leading role shared with Kouki Naruse)
CAN-CAN - Aristide Forestier (leading role)

Flower era

Yoake no Jokyoku - Kawakami Otojirou (leading role in New Actor performance, her role in the formal performance is George)
Asaki Yume Mishi - Genji Monogatari - Akashi No Onkata (female role)
 Romeo and Juliet '99 - Romeo (First leading performance at Takarazuka Bow Hall)

Cosmo era

Rose of Versailles: Fersen and Marie Antoinette - Oscar François de Jarjayes
Figaro! - Albert Whistler
Passionate Barcelona / Rio de Bravo!! - (National Tour) Marquis Francisco Laforet
Daybreak at Solferino / Carnavale, A Sleeping Dream - Henri Dunant
Roget / Rock On! - Roget Jardin

A Note for Oscar

Rose of Versailles plays an important part for her Takarazuka career: because she is the very few that has been in both role of Oscar and Andre. The following list is her partners when she was in either role:

As Oscar

Nao Ayaki as Andre in the 2001 Cosmo production
Yoka Wao as Hans Axel Von Fersen in the same production as Ayaki
Wataru Kozuki as Hans Axel Von Fersen in the 2006 Star production
Kei Aran as Andre in the same production as Kozuki
Kazuho Sou as Andre in the Snow National Tour

As Andre

Nao Ayaki as Oscar in the 2001 Cosmo production
Hikaru Asami as Oscar in 2006 Snow Production

References

1972 births
Living people
Japanese stage actresses
Takarazuka Revue
People from Chiba (city)

masks:
Natsuki Mizu
Natsuki
Mizu