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 independence, as the people should have the right to decide which political path the nation should take rather than having that choice be decided by a select few in the government. Tunku Abdul Rahman rejected this as well and only promised freedom for the CPM members to join any existing political party after being cleared by the authorities. On the second day of talks, <mask> asserted that the CPM would cease its hostilities and lay down its arms if the Alliance government could obtain the powers of internal security and defence from the British government.Tunku Abdul Rahman accepted it as a challenge and promised that he would push for it on his upcoming trip to London. Great publicity was given in the media to this dramatic challenge from <mask>g. The challenge, indeed, served to strengthen the Alliance government's bargaining position at the London talks. Anxious to end the Emergency, the British government agreed to concede those powers of internal security and defence and to accede to the demand for independence for Malaya by 31 August 1957, if possible. <mask> claimed it was his challenge to Tunku Abdul Rahman that hastened the independence of Malaya. Tunku Abdul Rahman had acknowledged the importance of the Baling talks, writing in 1974 that "Baling had led straight to Merdeka (Independence)." Regardless, the talks themselves ended without a consensus between the two sides.The talks finally collapsed but were regarded as both a success and failure for Tunku Abdul Rahman, as the talks made the British regard him as a strong leader who was tough on communism. His performance had also impressed the Colonial Office enough to grant Malaya independence. For the CPM, it was a very demoralising affair that nearly destroyed their already ailing struggle. The failure of the Baling Talks had a great negative impact on the CPM, accumulated with the loss of hope to either end the war or achieve the advancement of their ideology. Due to the mounting combat casualties plus the lack of stable food supplies, the members started to turn themselves into the government in return for financial rewards and pardons. In 1956, <mask> wrote to Tunku Abdul Rahman offering to resume negotiations. This was rejected by Rahman in a broadcast on 2 April.The MNLA would lose almost 88% of its men, from an approximately 3000-strong army when they first raised arms in mid-1948 to no more than 350 men by late 1958 due to casualties and surrenders. In 1959, the central committees of CPM decided to demobilise their activities and to have the guerrillas reintegrate into society while continuing to promote their communist ideals until such a time when they could once again rise up in revolt. <mask> then moved to south Thailand with the remnants of his forces during the latter part of the Emergency due to pressure from the Malayan security forces, which by 1952 totalled over 32,000 regular troops in Malaya, about three-fifths of whom were Europeans from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. The Second Insurgency (1968-1989)
In 1961, members of the CPM central committee such as <mask>, Chen Tien, and Lee An Tung moved to Beijing to seek political advice and guidance from the more experienced Chinese Communist Party. <mask> would, however, remain in Beijing for the next 29 years and the party would not lay down its arms until 1989. The reasons for this reversal of the party's decision to disband, according to <mask>, was the advice given to him by the Vietnamese communist leaders in Hanoi, the opening of the second ‘Vietnam War’, which was followed by China's Cultural Revolution, all of which stressed a strong militant line to be taken by Asian communist parties. While in Beijing, <mask> was also advised by Deng Xiaoping, to continue the armed struggle in Malaya as Deng felt the time was ripe for revolutions to take place in Southeast Asia.Deng insisted that the military struggle should not only be maintained but stepped up. Deng even promised financial support to the CPM if they should take up arms once again. Deng offered to remain a secret as the CCP did not wish to let it be known that they had been actively supporting Southeast Asia's communist movements. <mask> reluctantly decided to acquiesce to Deng's suggestion. This was also the first time that the CPM had accepted foreign assistance in its struggle and it was with this financial backing that the second armed struggle in Malaya would be launched in 1968. Meanwhile, back in Malaya, the Malayan government had declared the Emergency over on 31 July 1960 once they became confident the MNLA had ceased to be a credible threat, with the surviving guerrillas retreating to their sanctuary in southern Thailand. However, the insurgency continued with the insurgents increasing their attacks, ambushing military convoys, bombing national monuments, and assassinations of marked police officers and political ‘enemy targets’.The insurgency, which began as a war against the British colonialists, was now transformed into a war against ‘federalists, compressors capitalists and lackeys of British imperialism’. The Malayan government maintained a high-security alert by devoting one-third of its national budget to defence and internal security needs and requested British, Australian and New Zealand troops to remain in the country until its internal security and national armed forces could be built up and the foreign troops gradually phased out. In 1970, the CPM's guerrilla bases in Thailand were hard hit by the trials and executions of supposed spies. Two breakaway factions were formed which condemned the purge. <mask>, who was then based in China, denied involvement and later rehabilitated his accused comrades. During the 1970s and 1980s, the CPM intensified its activities and clashes with the security forces. These activities were due to a rivalry among three factions in the CPM over party purges and strategies, with each faction trying to outdo the other in militancy and violence.However, in 1980, Deng Xiaoping refocused his priorities back on the Chinese bureaucracy after his return to power in 1978. He welcomed Lee Kuan Yew, the then-Prime Minister of Singapore and its leading political figure since independence from Malaysia, in a visit to Beijing. <mask> recalled that Deng had not bothered to meet him since then. Finally, in December 1980, Deng summoned <mask>. In the meeting, Deng demanded <mask> to immediately close down all the CPM's radio stations which were broadcasting from China to Malaysia. When <mask> asked Deng when he would like him to cease the broadcasting, Deng replied, "The sooner the better ... Lee (Lee Kuan Yew) asked me to stop the broadcasts immediately." Moreover, during his official visit to China, the second Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak held talks with Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong and urged him to stop giving aid to the CPM.The fourth Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad further succeeded in persuading China to downgrade its ties with the CPM. This was an important factor that contributed to the CPM's decision to end its armed struggle. The End of the Emergency
The CPM finally laid down its arms in 1989. The death toll during the armed conflict totalled thousands. Those sympathetic to <mask>g tend to portray the violence perpetrated by the CPM as defensive, while right-wing opponents tend to portray it as aggressive and unethical. Some have claimed a large number of civilian casualties was in contrast to the stance adopted by Mao Zedong and his policy of the Eight Points of Attention. On 2 December 1989, at the town of Hat Yai in Southern Thailand, <mask>, Rashid Maidin, and Abdullah CD met with representatives of the Malaysian and Thai governments.Separate peace agreements were signed between the MCP and both governments. One of the terms of the agreement was that MCP members of Malayan origin be allowed to return to live in Malaysia. When all hostilities ceased, the total number of CPM members was 1,188; 694 were Thai-born and 494 claimed origins in Peninsular Malaysia. They were given a temporary grant and promised integration into Malaysia. In <mask>'s opinion, peace could have been achieved as early as 1955 during the Baling Talks, if the British, Tunku Abdul Rahman and David Marshall had not demanded that the communist fighters capitulate and surrender but, rather, had allowed them to hand over or destroy their weapons in a mutually agreed way and then resume normal life with full political freedom, which was the broad outcome of the 1989 accords. Application to return to Malaysia

<mask> never officially returned to Malaysia after the 1989 Hat Yai Peace Accords but continued his exile in Thailand. He gave lectures at the National University of Singapore in 2004, using purposes of academic research as his reason to gain visitation permission from the Singaporean government.At the beginning of 2000, he applied for permission to return to Malaysia. His application was rejected by the High Court on 25 July 2005. In June 2008, <mask> again lost his bid to return to Malaysia when the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that compelled him to show identification papers to prove his citizenship. <mask> maintained that his birth certificate was seized by the police during a raid in 1948. His counsel Raja Aziz Addruse had submitted before the Court of Appeal that it was wrong for the Malaysian government to compel him to produce the documents because he was entitled to enter and live in Malaysia under the peace agreement. On April 2009, <mask>'s application to return to Malaysia was once again rejected by the High Court for the same reason as his previous attempt. The Malaysian government insisted that his possible return would cause people who lost their loved ones during the Emergency to relive their pain again.In November 2009, <mask> issued an apology to the victims and their family members for the atrocities committed by the CPM. However, the then-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Muhyiddin Yassin, replied that despite <mask>'s apology, he would still not be allowed to return to Malaysia due to his treason. Death

Before his death, he lived in exile in Thailand. Contrary to one of the conditions of the 1989 peace agreement, he was not permitted to return to Malaysia. <mask> died of cancer at the age of 88 at a private hospital in Bangkok, with only his 50-year-old niece by his side, on the morning of 16 September 2013, the 50th anniversary of Malaysia Day, and the 90th birthday of Lee Kuan Yew. He was cremated according to Buddhist rites. While <mask> had previously voiced wishes to be buried in Sitiawan, his remains continued to be denied entry for burial in Malaysia by the Malaysian government, as it was claimed that the one-year window after the agreement to reapply for citizenship had long lapsed and <mask> was assumed to have relinquished his rights to return.In November 2019, his remains were announced to have been returned in secrecy by a small action committee on 16 September 2019; his ashes were ceremoniously transported through Sitiawan before scattering at a hillside near Chemor and at sea. Publications

<mask> co-authored his story with Singapore-based writers and publishers Ian Ward, who was formerly the Southeast Asia correspondent for the London conservative newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and Ward's wife Norma Miraflor. The book named Alias <mask>g: My Side of History, was published in 2003. Another book, Dialogues with <mask>: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party by editors C. C<mask> and Karl Hack, was published by the Singapore University Press in 2004. This book details a series of meetings held in Australia that <mask> had attended with historians and military experts. Media portrayal
In 2006, a documentary film about <mask> was made called The Last Communist. It was banned by the Ministry of Home Affairs of Malaysia.Another documentary film about him called I Love Malaya was released. Chronology

 22 October 1924: Birth. January 1940: Accepted as probationary member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM); put in charge of Communist members in Sitiawan. 4 July 1940: Leaves home. December 1941: Communists' offer of help accepted; joins the fight against the Japanese. 10 January 1942: The first batch of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). 1942: Meets future wife, Lee Khoon Wah.1945: World War II ends. January 1946: Awarded 2 war medals; boycotts tour of British bases; forced to sign letter of apology. Mid-October 1946: In Penang, Yeung Kuo reveals that Lai Teck has betrayed the CPM; Lai Teck subsequently absconds with most of party's money. 6 March 1947: MCP Central Executive Committee meeting held to deal with Lai Teck controversy; Lai Teck fails to appear and is never seen by MCP again. Later, <mask>g is elected secretary-general of MCP. 1948: Three planters killed at Sungei Siput; Emergency declared; MCP declared illegal. Late 1950: Briggs arrives in Malaya and implements the Briggs plan – resettling people into "New Villages".If the people refused to move, the British would forcibly remove them and sometimes burn down their houses. This made it difficult for the Communists to gain food supplies from the "Min Yuen", their supporters in the villages. 6 October 1951: Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya, is assassinated on Gap road to Fraser's Hill by Siew Ma. It was a "chance" ambush by Siew Ma and his party and not a plan to assassinate Gurney. 7 February 1952: Sir Gerald Templer, arrives to take the place of Gurney, and implements harsh measures against the Communists. 28 December 1955: Baling Talks held with David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman, unsuccessful because of surrender terms. After the Baling Talks, <mask> retires to Thailand.Ah Hai replaces him as acting Secretary-General in Malaya. 1960: The Emergency is officially declared at an end. However, fighting still continues. Special Malaysian government troops going by the name "Senoi Praaq" prove to be a thorn in <mask>'s side. 2 December 1989: A peace treaty is signed between the communists, Thailand and Malaysia. The long, hard war the British had preferred to term an Emergency was over. 6–8 October 2004: <mask> visits Singapore for 3 days to speak at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies (ISEAS).2005: <mask> is pending to return to Malaysia. His hearing was scheduled for 25 May 2005, and the High Court postponed it to 25 July 2005. This application was subsequently rejected. June 2008: <mask>'s lost his bid to return to Malaysia when the Court of Appeal demanded he showed identification papers to prove his Malayan citizenship. 16 September 2013: <mask> died at a hospital in Bangkok. He was 88. According to the Bangkok Post, he was pronounced dead at 6.20am (GMT+8).References

 劉鑒銓等人，青山不老－馬共的歷程，(2004)香港：明報出版社
 Cheah, B. K. (2009). The Communist Insurgency in Malaysia, 1948-90: Contesting the Nation-State and Social Change. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 11(1), 132-52. Retrieved from http://www.nzasia.org.nz/downloads/NZJAS-June09/14_Cheah_3.pdf  on 30 July 2017. <mask>, C. C., and Karl Hack. eds. (2004).Dialogues with <mask>: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party. Singapore, SG: Singapore University Press. <mask>, P. (2003). Alias <mask>g: My Side of History. Singapore, SG: Media Masters. Ng, S. (May 2011). Silenced Revolutionaries: Challenging the Received View of Malaya’s Revolutionary Past.Arizona, US: Arizona State University. O’Ballance, E. (1966). Malaya: the Communist Insurgent War, 1948-60. Hamden, US: Archon Books. Purcell, V. (1955). Malaya: Communist or Free? Stanford, US: Stanford University Press.Short, A. (2000). In Pursuit of Mountain Rats: The Communist Insurrection in Malaya. Singapore, SG: Cultured Lotus. Symon, A. (March 2003). Recalling Malaya's Communist Menace: Fact and Fiction on <mask> Peng.IIAS Newslatter, 33, 32. Retrieved from http://iias.asia/sites/default/files/IIAS_NL33_32.pdf on 30 July 2017. Taaffe, P. (4 February 2005). Review: 'My Side of History' by <mask>g. Retrieved from http://www.socialistworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1604 on 30 July 2017. Notes

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 <mask>, My Side of History (2003)
 Ruslan of Malaysia: The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (2007)

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<mask> (1921–1990) was an American rabbi born in Germany, known for his advocacy of reconciliation between the Jews and the Germans in the post-Holocaust era, and for his support for the civil rights movement in the United States. He was senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco for 19 years. Family
<mask> was born <mask> on January 7, 1921, in Heilbronn-am-Neckar, Germany. He changed his surname as early as 1945. He was the sixth generation of rabbis in his family. His father, Jonah Ansbacher (1880–1967) was an Orthodox rabbi who had received a doctorate from the University of Erlangen, writing a thesis on a 13th-century Arab cosmologist. His father was ordained by Rabbi Solomon Breuer and he was an ardent follower of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz trend in Judaism.<mask> left the Orthodox Judaism of his ancestors and later became a Reform rabbi. Education

After his father received a rabbinic appointment, the Ansbacher family moved to Wiesbaden in 1925, where <mask> attended the Staatliche Gymnasium. When the Nazis took power in Germany in January 1933, he was one of only seven Jews in a student body of around 600, and the only Jew in his class. He endured three years of harassment including an antisemitic insult carved into the top of his desk, and other students singing popular songs calling for the murder of the Jews. In 1936, all Jewish students were expelled from the public schools, and his parents sent him to the Talmud Torah school in Hamburg, led by Rabbi <mask>, where he graduated in spring, 1938. Among the frequent guest lecturers in his senior year was Martin Buber. Because of the severely deteriorating conditions for Jews in Germany, his family had obtained exit visas in 1933 to be used at the appropriate time.His family sent <mask> to London after his graduation in 1938 to begin rabbinical college. He attended Etz Chaim Yeshiva in London and Jews' College (now the London School of Jewish Studies). After the war, he finished his studies at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. His semikhah described him as shalselet rabbanim, that is, a member of a chain of rabbis in a long family tradition. World War II

On Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, the Nazis began open war against the Jews, and his father's synagogue in Wiesbaden was vandalized and shut down. While heading to the railroad station in an attempt to escape, his father was arrested by the Gestapo, confined to Buchenwald for ten weeks, and then released when he agreed to use his visa and leave Germany forever. His parents arrived as refugees in London in February 1939.After the British defeat at Dunkirk on June 4, 1940, a wave of xenophobia against German refugees swept across Great Britain, and all of them were arrested, including the Jews and other anti-Nazis. His father was interned on the Isle of Man. <mask> was confined in an internment camp at Huyton, and shortly thereafter loaded onto the troop ship HMT Dunera, along with over 2,000 other anti-Nazi refugees. The ship sailed for Australia on July 10, 1940. He described conditions on the 57-day voyage as "cruel and sadistic" as British guards frequently beat prisoners with rifle butts, and plundered their belongings. It was "the most horrendous experience of his life." After the emaciated prisoners arrived in Sydney, they were confined to internment camps until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in December 1941.The prisoners were then allowed to enlist in the Australian Army, where <mask> served as a chaplain. He met his wife Fae in Australia. Rabbinic career

Upon his discharge from military service, he served at the Melbourne Liberal Synagogue as assistant to Rabbi Hermann Sanger, who helped resettle Jewish refugees in Australia. He then went on to serve the Hobart Hebrew Congregation, where he was introduced at a centenary celebration for the synagogue. <mask> immigrated to the United States in 1947, and served at synagogues in Olean, New York; Sarasota, Florida; and then in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 1956 to 1958. He served as rabbi of Temple Emmanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina from 1958 to 1968, and at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco from 1967 until his retirement in 1986 as rabbi emeritus. German-Jewish relations after the Holocaust

In London, <mask> had established a friendship with Lily Montagu CBE of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.In 1947, she recommended him to Leo Baeck, the organization's president, as an emissary to visit various German cities to investigate the status of the Jews in the immediate postwar period. He spent six weeks assessing the needs of displaced persons, including a lengthy visit to Bergen-Belsen. Everywhere, he found nothing but devastation and despair. "The human eye cannot fathom such horrible sights as I had to see", he later wrote about that trip. A 1955 trip to Germany led him to begin to consider a "re-orientation of the Jewish relationship with Germany". In 1961, motivated by the worldwide attention paid to the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel, he began openly speaking about the Holocaust and the future of the relationship between Germany and the Jews. <mask> visited Germany again at the invitation of the German government in 1964, to learn what the German educational system taught students about the Jews.He visited his alma mater gymnasium, as well as the Max Planck Institute, and met with the Commissioners of Education of the Federal Republic of Germany. He described his experiences in an article he wrote for Look magazine, called "A Rabbi Asks: Isn't It Time We Forgave the Germans?" Although many people criticized <mask> for this article, Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt responded favorably, as did the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. In 1965, Rabbi <mask> led a contingent of four German-speaking rabbis, who met with over 8000 German teachers in training, and helped the German school system develop its first curriculum for secondary schools covering the Holocaust. He explained the thinking behind his work in Germany in an interview published in the Aufbau on March 11, 1966: "A new generation is growing up that was not born when the horrible crime was committed and for which they cannot be held responsible. The only positive thing we can do is to acquaint them with the Jews, their teachings, customs, and history, which they have not had the opportunity to know." As the years passed, he repeatedly visited Judaic studies programs in German universities, and late in life became a visiting professor at the Kirchliche Hochschule in Berlin.He served on an international committee of scholars to help design a memorial at the Wannsee Villa, where the Nazi leadership planned the Final Solution in January 1942. In 1989, the German government awarded him the Grand Cross of Merit. In 1980, he was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council chartered by the U.S. Congress to plan the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The museum opened in Washington, D.C., in 1993, three years after his death. Civil rights movement

In 1958, he became rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina. On February 1, 1960, the Greensboro sit-ins began, an effort to desegregate the lunch counter at the local Woolworth's store. He was one of only two local white clergymen who collaborated with black community leaders and black clergymen in support of racial tolerance and desegregation, including the sit-ins.This sit-in movement spread throughout the southern states, leading in many communities to progress toward desegregation, and increasing political pressure on the federal government. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation of public accommodations illegal. As a rabbi in the deep South, he did not hesitate to speak out against racial discrimination in the workplace, even when the employers were Jewish. Rabbi <mask> was wary of militant extremism. In San Francisco, he refused to share a podium with radical minister Jim Jones, who went on to mass suicide at Jonestown. Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Rabbi <mask> supported reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. He participated in Breira, an organization that advocated Israeli territorial concessions in the period following the Yom Kippur War.He also served on the advisory boards of Friends of Peace Now and the New Israel Fund. His support for these organizations resulted in harsh criticism and accusations of anti-Zionism. Death and legacy
<mask> died of prostate cancer on May 29, 1990. A festschrift honoring <mask> and his life's work was being edited by Moses Rischin and his son Rabbi Raphael <mask> at the time of his death, and was published in 1991. The book is entitled The Jewish Legacy and the German Conscience, and includes essays by 23 scholars, including Gunther Plaut, David Ellenson, David G. Dalin, Immanuel Jakobovits, Jakob Josef Petuchowski, Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, and Gerhard Weinberg. Elie Wiesel wrote the afterword. His successor at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, Robert Kirschner, wrote that <mask> "embodied those attributes of German Jewry of which his generation was the last living witness: dignity, sobriety, erudition, and a singular elegance.Historian Fred Rosenbaum wrote that: "His deep learning, his continental manner, and above all his personal integrity afforded many congregants a sense of stability in a tumultuous world." His son, Rabbi Raphael W<mask>, served as the rabbi at Congregation B'nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek, California until his retirement in 2014. Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco sponsors an annual <mask> Memorial Lecture, usually featuring a scholar who has continued <mask>'s life's work on Germany and the Jews. References

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<mask> (September 2, 1933 – June 23, 1994) was an American Major League Baseball player. Affectionately known as "<mask>ous Marv", he was the starting first baseman for the 1962 New York Mets, a team which set the modern record for most losses in a season with 120. <mask> became a well known figure after appearing in numerous Miller Lite beer commercials in the 1970's and 1980's. Early years
The left-handed batting and throwing native of Fisherville, Tennessee was a two-time all-city baseball player at South Side High School in Memphis. After turning down an offer to play alongside his older brother, Faye, with the Boston Red Sox, he signed as an amateur free agent with the New York Yankees in May . During his playing days, he was listed as  tall and . Minor league slugger
<mask> played the outfield early in his minor league career, and shifted to first base in  with the Kansas City Blues.He was one of the most feared minor league sluggers of the 1950s, and led the Blues with 21 home runs. The following season, he led the Triple-A American Association with 36 home runs and 117 runs batted in as a member of the Denver Bears. That September, he received a call up to the Casey Stengel led New York Yankees. <mask> made his major league debut as a pinch runner for Eddie Robinson on September 25,  at Fenway Park. He remained in the game at first, and hit a sacrifice fly that scored Andy Carey in his first major league plate appearance. In his first official at bat in the seventh inning, Throneberry hit a bases loaded double that scored two more, and later came around to score himself on a Bob Cerv single. All told, Throneberry went 2-for-2, with a double, run scored and three RBIs.His brother struck out three times for the Red Sox in the same game. He returned to the Denver Bears in , and once again led the American Association with 42 home runs and 145 RBIs. The following season, he clubbed 40 home runs, and drove in 124, tying an American Association record for leading the league in home runs and RBIs for three consecutive seasons. New York Yankees
Throneberry made it back to the majors for good in . He collected his first hit of the season, a double off the Baltimore Orioles' Ken Lehman in his tenth at bat. Seeing most of his action as a pinch hitter or late inning defensive replacement at first, an injury to Bill Skowron on May 11 landed <mask> in the starting line up through the rest of May. He hit his first major league home run off the Chicago White Sox's Bill Fischer on May 20.For the season, <mask> batted .227 with seven home runs and 19 RBIs in 60 games. He reached the post season for the only time in his career as a rookie, and was struck out by Lew Burdette in his only at bat of the  World Series. Though he saw more playing time in , he was batting just .184 with three home runs and ten RBIs when Skrowron's season was ended by a fractured wrist. <mask> responded by batting .286 with five home runs and twelve RBIs the rest of the way. After the season, he was part of the blockbuster trade that sent 1956 World Series hero Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Siebern to the Kansas City Athletics for power-hitting outfielder Roger Maris, Joe DeMaestri and Kent Hadley. Kansas City A's
<mask> began the  season as a pinch-hitter, with Siebern, an outfielder with the Yankees and, like <mask>, a left-handed hitter, starting at first base through the first five weeks of the campaign. <mask> made only two starts in the field through May 23 and his batting average was a poor .176 with no extra-base hits.But on May 24 at Municipal Stadium, he was inserted into the lineup at first base (Siebern moved to left field) and <mask> went three for four, with a homer, double and triple, driving in three runs and leading the Athletics to a 6–2 victory over the Red Sox. Starting assignments in late May and early June yielded three more homers. Finally, on June 21, Athletics manager Bob Elliott moved Siebern to left field on a semi-permanent basis and installed <mask> at first base. Facing almost exclusively right-handed pitching (he had 28 at bats against southpaws all year), <mask> batted .250 with eleven home runs and 41 RBIs in , making 55 starts at first base. At home at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium, <mask> batted .303 with 26 RBIs. On the road, his batting average fell to .205. Midway through the  season, he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for left fielder Gene Stephens.Baltimore Orioles
With an All-Star MVP candidate who batted left-handed in Jim Gentile at first base, the Orioles used <mask> mostly as a pinch hitter or in right field. On June 13, his ninth inning pinch hit single drove in Dick Hall for the walk off victory over the Washington Senators. On June 27, he went 3-for-4 with two home runs and three RBIs against his former teammates in Kansas City to lead the O's to a 5–3 victory. Seventeen games into the  season, the Orioles traded him to the expansion New York Mets for a player to be named later and cash. The Mets sent catcher Hobie Landrith, their first selection in the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion draft, to the Orioles to complete the deal. New York Mets
Reunited with Manager Casey Stengel, <mask> got his first chance as a regular. On May, in his first game as a Met, <mask> went 1-for-4, and scored a run in the ninth in an 8–5 loss to the Milwaukee Braves.He would not see home plate again until June 9, when he went 3-for-4 with a run scored and his first RBI as a Met in an 11–6 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The 1962 Mets may not have won many games, but these "Lovable losers" won the hearts of sports fans, and no one exemplified that more than <mask>. Many humorous stories surfaced about <mask>, who facetiously came to be known as "Marvelous Marv." While it is likely that many of these stories are exaggerated or false, they helped turn <mask> into almost legendary status among Mets fans. The fact of his initials spelling "MET" accentuated all anecdotes. <mask> maintained a sense of humor about his play and became a favorite with fans and the media (after the season, he received the Ben Epstein Memorial "Good Guy" Award). At one point he had a fan club which numbered around 5,000 members.They wore shirts with the word "VRAM" (Marv backwards) and took up chanting "Cranberry, Strawberry, we love Throneberry." In one famous story, on June 17, <mask> hit a triple against the Cubs, but was called out after Ernie Banks took a relay throw and stepped on second base. "Didn't touch the bag, you know, Dusty," Banks told umpire Dusty Boggess. According to the legend, <mask> was called out at second and Stengel came out to argue the call, but he was told by the umpire "Don't bother arguing, Casey, he missed first base, too." (In another version of the story, Stengel was told this by his first-base coach.) Stengel, after a pause, supposedly replied, "Well, I know he touched third base because he's standing on it!" The next batter, Charlie Neal, hit a home run, prompting Stengel to come out of the dugout following him and pointing at all four bases.<mask>'s mistake proved costly, as the Cubs won the game 8–7. In the second game of a June 22 doubleheader with fellow expansion club, the Houston Colt .45s, <mask> committed three of six Mets errors. On August 2, <mask> had his second career two-home-run game in a 9–4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. His 16 home runs and 49 RBIs in 1962 were both career highs; however, he also committed 17 errors at first base. His fielding percentage of .981 would not be equaled by a major-league regular first baseman until César Cedeño fielded .981 in 1979 for the Houston Astros. During the off-season, the Mets acquired Tim Harkness from the Los Angeles Dodgers. Harkness assumed the starting first base job, with <mask> relegated to pinch hitting duty.After going just 2-for-15 through May 5, he was demoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. While clubbing 16 home runs for Buffalo, he batted just .176. He batted .083 in eight games in  before being released. Career statistics

<mask> hit 201 minor league home runs with a .269 batting average. With the exception of one rough year defensively, <mask> was no worse than average with his career fielding percentage and range factor (8.01) as a first baseman. Miller Lite commercials
"Marvelous Marv" later became one of the original spokesmen for Miller Lite beer in the mid 1970s, poking fun at himself in a series of TV commercials. <mask>'s most famous line: "If I do for Lite what I did for baseball, I'm afraid their sales will go down."In another popular ad, after other celebrities are shown, <mask> is shown at the end, saying: "I still don't know why they asked me to do this commercial." Columnist Jimmy Breslin quipped, "Having <mask> <mask> play for your team is like having Willie Sutton work for your bank." Personal life
<mask> died of cancer on June 23,  in Fisherville, Tennessee, at age 60. He and his wife, Dixie had five children, ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. One of his grandchildren is filmmaker Craig Brewer. In , <mask> was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. References

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title: James Graham Phelps Stokes

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<mask> (March 18, 1872 – April 8, 1960), known to his friends as "<mask>", was an American millionaire socialist writer, political activist, and philanthropist. He is best remembered as a founding member and key figure in the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and as the husband of <mask>, a radical union organizer and activist in the Communist Party of America. <mask> split with the Socialist Party of America over the question of American participation in World War I, objecting to the party's staunchly antimilitarist stance. He separated from his wife and left radical politics during this period. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born in New York City on March 18, 1872 to one of the city's most prosperous families. He was one of nine children. His great-grandfather, <mask>, came to New York City from London at the end of the 18th century and became a merchant, founding the establishment Phelps, Dodge & Co., the source of the family's wealth.His father, Anson <mask> (1838–1913), a banker and real estate developer, was patriarch of a large house on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. His mother, Helen Louisa <mask>, was a descendant of a man who emigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts from England in about 1630. Two boys of the <mask> household were given four names, the first of which was decoration. <mask>'s brother, the architect Isaac Newton <mask> (1867–1944), was known merely as "Newton", and throughout his life <mask> <mask>, named after his paternal grandfather, was known to all as "<mask>". Another brother, Anson (1874–1958), later a famous philanthropist, was named after his father and did not receive an "extra" name like his siblings. The <mask> household, despite its venerability, was not without its concerns about broader society. <mask>'s father was active in the causes of civil service reform, currency reform, and the replacement of protectionism with free trade.He was also a collector of art and books and a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. <mask> benefited from a first rate education. He attended the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, receiving his Ph.B. degree there in 1892, before going on to obtain a M.D. degree from Columbia University in 1896 although he never practiced medicine. Following receipt of his medical degree, <mask> continued with a year of graduate study of political science, also at Columbia. <mask> served in the New York National Guard from 1899 to 1901.During the Spanish–American War of 1898–1899 he was a private in the U.S. Army cavalry, but he did not deploy overseas. At this same time, <mask>'s father was active in the Anti-Imperialist League, described by one historian as "a group of substantial citizens" opposed to American intervention in the Philippines. While at university, <mask> became concerned with the plight of the American underclass and poverty. He served on the board of the University Settlement while at Columbia. In November 1902 <mask> left his father's comfortable household to take up living in a settlement house on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of the poorest areas of New York City. Historians Arthur Zipser and Pearl Zipser describe the scene:

"There was a lively intellectual atmosphere on the top floor of the University Settlement house, where the highly educated, mostly rich, young social workers had their residence, dining, and club rooms. It was a world apart from the lower floors of the building, where the regular settlement house functions were carried out among the denizens of the surrounding ghettoized slum.This separation between leaders and led was not the goal they were aiming for, which was the outreach of the privileged to the downtrodden. But the separation was real." Love flourished among the young, socially-concerned settlement workers. <mask>' sister <mask> <mask> fell in love with settlement house manager Robert Hunter, later a widely known socialist journalist and author, and the pair married in 1903. And it was in connection with the settlement house that <mask> met an attractive young news reporter who interviewed him for the Yiddish Daily News, Rose Pastor. The pair fell in love and married on July 18, 1905. While <mask> did participate in commercial affairs throughout his life, serving variously as an officer of such concerns as the Phelps Stokes Corporation, the Austin Mining Company, the Nevada Central Railroad, and the State Bank of Nevada, <mask>'s primary interests and concerns lay in the realm of public affairs.<mask> was a frequent author of articles on current social problems and letters of opinion to various journals and newspapers. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Tuskegee Institute. Socialist years

In 1905, <mask> became a candidate for public office for the first time, running as the candidate of the Municipal Ownership League for President of the New York Board of Aldermen. <mask> was the second name on a ticket which featured William Randolph Hearst for Mayor, causing contemporaries to refer to the Municipal Ownership League as "Hearst's League." The decision to run downticket with the multimillionaire publisher was not a popular one with <mask>' radical new wife, who wished for defeat of Hearst and his associates. She later recalled:

"One evening, passing my living-room window, I heard <mask>'s name flung upward from the street below. I leaned out to see.A very fiery young man was making a speech from a soapbox on the corner. A little knot of men, women, and children had collected about him. He was pointing up at my window — at me. He was saying things about us. I strained to hear... 'Municipal Ownership is no solution,' he cried, 'so long as the propertied classes own the municipalities. J.G<mask> <mask> is a rich man — a man of property; he belongs to the capitalist class.The Municipal Ownership League is a rich man's creation. W.R. Hearst belongs in the millionaire class. This is his government. He doesn't want to change the government. The Socialist Party, the workers' party, and what we want is a government of, for, and by the people who work.' 'Hear, hear!' I called down, leaning far out of the window and clapping my hands.<mask> <mask> seems to have joined the Socialist Party of America in 1906. Even before that, <mask> was enlisted in the Socialist cause by author Upton Sinclair, who sought to establish a new group fostering the dispassionate study of socialist ideas on college campuses around America, an organization to be called the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS). <mask> was one of ten signatories of the published call for the new organization which appeared in the spring of 1905, joining Sinclair, author Jack London, attorney Clarence Darrow, sociologist and author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. The first formal meeting of the organization, held at a restaurant in New York City late in the summer of 1905, elected <mask> second vice president of the ISS, serving with London as president and Sinclair as first vice president. In May 1907, Jack London resigned the presidency of the ISS and <mask> assumed the position. He continued to play a leading role in the organization for the next decade, sitting on the organization's executive committee and speaking far and wide on topics of contemporary concern under ISS auspices. In the spring of 1909, for example, <mask> and <mask> went on the road for a full month, speaking at colleges throughout New England, where they distributed ISS literature for free or at nominal charge to interested undergraduates.Later years, death, and legacy

<mask> joined the Liberal Catholic Church in 1925 when it established the Church of St Michael the Archangel in New York City. <mask> <mask> died at his home on Grove Street in New York City on April 8, 1960. <mask>' papers are housed at Columbia University in New York City. The collection includes more than 1600 cataloged letters. The Hartley House records, which include extensive correspondence with <mask> <mask>, are housed at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Footnotes

Works

Books and pamphlets

 Hartley House: And Its Relations to the Social Reform Movement. New York: Hartley House, 1897.Public schools as social centres. Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1904. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,; v. 23, no. 3;
 The Socialism of To-day: A Source-Book of the Present Position and Recent Development of the Socialist and Labor Parties in All Countries, Consisting Mainly of Original Documents. Editor, with William English Walling, Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Harry W. Laidler. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1916. Down with Democracy!Down with Authority! : Lenine. New York : National Security League, n.d. [c. 1919]. Industrial Paralysis under the Bolsheviki: An Examination of Falling Off of Productivity of Manufacturing Centers under 'Dictatorship of Proletariat'. New York: American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 1919. The One Lord of East and West. (Introduction by Swami Sivananda) India: Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy, 1956.The Ever-Returning Christ: And Other Writings. Sivanada Nagar, Rishikesh, India: Yoga Vedanta Forest University, 1958. Articles

 "On the Relation of Settlement Work to the Evils of Poverty," International Journal of Ethics, vol. 11, no. 3, (April 1901) pp. 340–345. "Public Schools as Social Centres," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol.23 (May 1904), pp. 49–55. Further reading

 Robert D. Reynolds, Jr. , "Millionaire Socialist and Omnist Episcopalian: J. G<mask> <mask>'s Political and Spiritual Search for the 'All,'" in Jacob H. Dorn (ed. ), Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. External links
 Finding Aid for the James Graham Phelps Stokes Papers, Columbia University. Retrieved February 26, 2010."J. Graham Phelps & Lettice Stokes nee Sands" –  descriptions of <mask>'s interactions with the spiritual teacher Meher Baba
James Graham Phelps Stokes Papers (MS 1587). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1872 births
1960 deaths
20th-century American Episcopalians
American socialists
American Christian socialists
Members of the Socialist Party of America
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
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James Dover Grant  (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name <mask>, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor (1997), won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. Early life and education
Grant was born in Coventry. His Northern Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born. He is the second of four sons; his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family relocated to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education.Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. In 1974, at the age of 20, Grant studied law at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days, worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. He received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree from the University of Sheffield in 1977 and returned to the University to receive an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) in 2009. Career

Television production career

Grant joined Granada Television, part of the UK's ITV Network, in Manchester as a presentation director. There he was involved with shows including Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker.Grant was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories. He worked at Granada from 1977 to 1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade union shop steward. Writing career
After being made redundant from his job because of corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. He starts each new book of the series on an anniversary of his starting the first book after losing his job. His pen name "<mask>" comes from a family joke about a heard mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as "<mask> Car". Calling anything "<mask>" became a family gag.His daughter, Ruth, was "lee child". "<mask>" places his books alphabetically on bookstore and library shelves between crime fiction greats Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he himself is tall and when they were grocery shopping his wife Jane remarked: "'Hey, if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a supermarket.' ... 'I thought, Reacher – good name.'" Some books in the Jack Reacher series are written in the first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada. Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers.In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript, narrated by Alfred Molina. This was broadcast weekly on Audible.com between 25 September 2007 and 13 November 2007. On 30 June 2008, it was announced that Grant would be taking up a Visiting Professorship at the University of Sheffield from November 2008. In 2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students at the university. Grant was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America in 2009. Grant was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2018, part of the Harrogate International Festivals portfolio. In 2019, it was announced that <mask> would be curating a new TV show called <mask>: True Crime.The show will dramatise real-life crime stories from around the world and focus on average people who go to extraordinary lengths to fight crime or seek justice. In January 2020, <mask> announced that he would be retiring from writing the Jack Reacher book series, and hand it to his brother Andrew Grant, who would write further books of the series under the surname <mask>. He intended to write the next few books together with Grant before passing the series entirely over to him. Writing style
Grant's prose has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in style. A 2012 interview suggested that many aspects of the Jack Reacher novels were deliberately aimed at maintaining the books' profitability, rather than for literary reasons. For instance, making Jack Reacher have one parent who was French was suggested as being partly because the presence of only American members of Reacher's family would limit the series's appeal in France. The same interview stated that Grant "didn't apologise about the commercial nature" of his fiction.Other activities
In 2020 <mask> joined the Booker Prize judging panel, alongside Margaret Busby (chair), Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay and Emily Wilson. Philanthropy
In January 2012, Grant donated £10,000 (about US$16,000 at the time) towards a new vehicle for Brecon Mountain Rescue Team in Wales. His brother is a senior member of the team. The team's former control vehicle was written off after a collision in 2011. Grant is an annual sponsor and original member of ThrillerFest. Personal life
Grant married his wife Jane in 1975. Since 1998 they have resided in New York state.They have a daughter, Ruth. Grant is a fan of Aston Villa Football Club and has been known to include the names of Aston Villa players in his books. In 2013, the Daily Mail quoted Grant saying that he writes while intoxicated ("high") by cannabis. However, in a phone interview in November 2013, he clarified his comments to the Irish Examiner, saying he's never written while high. "Yeah, that's true", <mask> told The Post-Standard. "I mean, people say to me, 'There was that story in the newspaper,' and I say, 'No, that's The Daily Mail.' In Britain, that's not a newspaper, you know, that's a scandal sheet where they make stuff up.It's not very reliable. And certainly, I don't deny smoking the occasional joint, but I don't work when I'm stoned because you don't get much done that way." Works

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Non-fiction

 The Hero, Publication: London: TLS Books, 2019 . An American thriller film starring Tom Cruise. Grant made a cameo appearance as a police desk sergeant in the film. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), film directed by Edward Zwick, and written by Richard Wenk, Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz, based on novel Never Go Back.With Tom Cruise reprising the role. In the film, the final scene is set in New Orleans, which was not a location in the book. The author approved this addition to help the New Orleans economy. In the film, Grant made a cameo appearance as a TSA agent. In the bonus footage on the Blu-ray disc, <mask> explained that in both films, his cameo appearance involves passing judgment on the character of Jack Reacher, and speculated that he will repeat these type of appearances in future Jack Reacher movies. Reacher (2022), an Amazon Prime series starring Alan Ritchson. In the series, Grant can be seen in the last chapter as a man walking out of the diner before Reacher speaks to Finlay and eats a piece of peach pie.Awards

Awards of novels

Honorary degrees

<mask> has received honorary degrees from several universities. These include:

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Honours

Grant was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature. References

External links

Official website, featuring <mask>'s blog, forum, bibliography and excerpts
<mask>'s books from U.S. Publisher Bantam <mask> <mask> at the Internet Book List
Interview with <mask> at readingandwritingpodcast.com

"<mask>'s heaven and hell", Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2007
"<mask> on creating Jack Reacher", The Times, 25 August 2012. 1954 births
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title: Willem de Rooij

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<mask> (born 1969 in Beverwijk, Netherlands) is an artist and educator working in a variety of media, including film and installation. He investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. Appropriations and collaborations are fundamental to De Rooij's artistic method and his projects have stimulated new research in art history and ethnography. Biography
<mask>j studied art history at the University of Amsterdam (1989–1990), and art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (1990–95) and at the Rijksakademie (1997–98), both in Amsterdam. He worked in collaboration with <mask> (born 1970 in Brouwershaven, Netherlands, died in 2006) from 1994 to 2006, as De Rijke / De Rooij. Major monographic exhibitions were mounted at K21 in Düsseldorf in 2007, and at the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) in 2008, and they represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 2005. De Rooij has taught and lectured extensively since 1998.He worked at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2002–2014, is Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 2006, and advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, since 2015. In 2016, he co-founded BPA// Berlin program for artists, and became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW. In 2000, De Rooij won the Bâloise Art Prize, and he was nominated for the Hugo Boss Award in 2004 and the Vincent Award in 2014. He was a Robert Fulton Fellow at Harvard University in 2004, a DAAD fellow in Berlin in 2006 and a resident at the Goethe Institut in Salvador da Bahia in 2018. Works
In 2004, De Rooij began to include works of other artists in his own artworks. For example, his film Mandarin Ducks (2005) was shown at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2005 within the context of objects and artworks from the museum's collection. In 2007, De Rooij made two installations in which he included the work of artists Isa Genzken, Keren Cytter and designer Fong Leng: one at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris named "The Floating Feather", and one at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne named "Birds in a Park".His 2009 installation "Birds" was shown at Cubitt Artists in London and included, among others, works by Dutch artist Vincent Vulsma. In 2010, De Rooij showed an installation titled Intolerance at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, combining 18 works by Dutch animalier painter Melchior d'<mask> with a selection of 18th-century Hawaiian featherwork. The three-fold publication includes the first substantial monograph on the work of <mask>ter to date, and a catalogue raisonné of all capes, helmets and god-images that are part of the category known as Hawaiian featherwork written by Adrienne Kaeppler. A 2012 installation named Residual situates a 17th century painting by Jacob van Ruisdael in the location that it depicts: Bentheim Castle in the city of the same name. De Rooij’s 2014 project Character is Fate consisted of a year long installation at FKAWDW in Rotterdam and a publication of a 1911 horoscope that Piet Mondrian had made for himself, before he emigrated from his native country the Netherlands. Proposal for the Memorialization of 'Asoziale' and 'Berufsverbrecher''' (2018) aims to give the two groups that are underrepresented in German memorial culture a place in the memorial site at the former NS concentration camp in Dachau. Since 2002, De Rooij has been making a series of sculptures made of flowers, the Bouquets.Since 2010, De Rooij has been working on the first monographic publication on the life and work of the 18th century painter Dirk Valkenburg. Reception
Describing the work of De Rijke / De Rooij in an introduction to a portfolio of their work published in Artforum in 2008, art historian Pamela M. Lee states that the artists trace "the recursive economy of the image: its affective power, its capacity to seduce and organize perception, and its mediation of time and subjectivity." Speaking to Dieter Roelstraete in an interview published in the journal Afterall in 2010, De Rooij stated: "The very notion of 'representing', of 'imaging', is what my work is most deeply concerned with." Pondering the nature of De Rooij's oeuvre in a 2016 Artforum article, art historian Daniel Birnbaum wrote that his works "operate as (...) instances of abstraction that cut right through the textures of meaning that we tend to read into works of art" and that they "might exist as physical crystallizations, but their logic owes much to the tactics of film: framing, cutting, editing, and, above all, focus. The very concept of focus presupposes a dialectic between discreteness and contextual embeddedness: To focus is to draw attention to this by ignoring that''. In the act of bringing an image into focus, the filmmaker prompts scrutiny of an object while also articulating the fact that the rest of the world is still out there, beyond the edge of the frame. This dialectic is key to De Rooij’s work, where the same meticulous care is given to display elements and framing devices as to the art itself."Exhibitions
Institutional solo exhibitions include Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (2019); Kunstwerke Berlin (2017); IMA Brisbane (2017); MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt/Main (2016); Le Consortium, Dijon (2015); The Jewish Museum, New York (2014); Piktogram, Warsaw (2012); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2010); MAMBo Bologna (2008); K21, Düsseldorf (2007); Secession, Vienna (2005) and Kunsthalle Zürich (2003). Group exhibitions include the John Hansard Gallery, Nottingham (2020); BDL Museum, Mumbai (2019); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Jakarta Biennale (2017); Limerick Biennial (2016); Aishti Foundation, Beirut (2015); 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); Raw Material Company, Dakar (2013); BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2011); Media City Seoul (2010); 2nd Athens Biennale (2009) and the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2008). Collections
De Rooij’s works can be found in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles and MOMA, New York. References

External links
 Galerie Daniel Buchholz: <mask> Rooij
 Friedrich Petzel Gallery: <mask> Rooij
 Galerie Chantal Crousel: <mask> Rooij
 Regen Projects: <mask> Rooij
 Frieze Magazine: <mask> Rooij in conversation with Christopher Williams

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<mask> is a Canadian country and western singer-songwriter from Taber, Alberta, Canada. He has released nine albums, three of which are certified gold. <mask> tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia, and has received several awards in Canada and abroad. Biography
<mask> grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near Taber, Cardston and Rosemary. <mask> left his hometown of Taber and moved to Edmonton, where he enrolled in the Grant MacEwan College to study jazz guitar and bass. <mask> was a founding member of The Smalls. The band retired in the fall of 2001 but reunited in 2014 for a string of shows, the so-called "Slight Return" tour.<mask> formed his country trio, the Corb Lund Band, in 1995. He turned his attention to his own band exclusively when the Smalls broke up in 2001. The band changed its name to "<mask> Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans" in 2005 shortly after guitarist Grant Siemens joined the group, and has been touring and recording under that title ever since. <mask> currently lives in Lethbridge, Alberta, and spends much of his downtime at his family ranch south of Cardston, Alberta. The Hurtin' Albertans

<mask> <mask> and the Hurtin' Albertans are a Canadian country music band, formerly known as the Corb Lund Band. The Hurtin' Albertans is <mask>'s touring band. They have released nine albums to critical acclaim.The band tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia. Much of their time is spent in the Canadian Prairies and the American southwest. The band's members are:
Kurt Ciesla, bass
Grant "Demon" Siemens, guitar and other strings
Brady Valgardson, drums

Siemens is the only member who is not Albertan, hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Farmer/drummer Valgardson and <mask> are from Taber, Alberta. The band has toured Europe, where they played the UK Glastonbury Festival, and Australia several times. The group was featured in the movie "Slither" (2006) and were part of the soundtrack to the 2008 documentary, "Holler Back: (Not) Voting in an American Town." They have also provided accompaniment for an NBC special in 2006, on which former world figure skating champion and fellow Albertan, Kurt Browning, performed a routine to "Expectation and the Blues".Their music can also be heard in the ski film "Nine Winters Old." <mask> signed a three-album deal with New West Records (home of Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson and other major artists) in 2009. His first record on New West, Losin' Lately Gambler, was released in September 2009. <mask> <mask> and the Hurtin Albertans played their 2009 single "Long Gone to Saskatchewan" in Ottawa for the 2011 Canada Day ceremonies in the presence of the newlywed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their Royal visit to Canada. <mask> <mask> and the Hurtin Albertans released their seventh studio album, Cabin Fever, on August 14, 2012. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart. In June 2013, the album was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.<mask> <mask> released Things That Can't Be Undone in 2015. <mask> worked with producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell) to explore new styles and sounds on the album. The album appeared on the !earshot National Top 50 Chart in December that year. Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

Awards and achievements

JUNO Awards (Canada)

Canadian Country Music Association Awards

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Americana Music Honors & Awards
2010 Emerging Artist of the Year (nominated)
2010 Albums of the Year: No. 38

Gold Records
2002: Five Dollar Bill (As ranked by the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
2005: Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer (As ranked by the Canadian Recording Industry Association)
2007: Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (As ranked by the Canadian Recording Industry Association)

Western Canadian Music Awards
2008 Outstanding Roots Recording (WON)
2006 Outstanding Independent Recording (WON)
2006 Outstanding Roots Recording (WON)
2006 Songwriter of the Year (WON)
2005 Entertainer of the Year (WON)
2003 Outstanding Album (Independent) (WON)
 2017 Roots Solo Artist of the Year

Edmonton Music Awards (Canada)
2013 Male Artist of the Year (WON)
2013 Country Artist of the Year (WON)
2013 People's Choice Award (WON)
2013 Best Country Artist (nominated)

Edmonton Mayor's Celebration of the Arts Awards (Canada)
2013 Ambassador of the Arts (WON)

CMC Music Awards (Australia)
2011 International Artist of the Year (nominated)

Canadian Folk Music Awards
2008 English Songwriter of the Year (WON)

U.S.Independent Music Awards
2007 Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album (nominated)
2003 Country/Bluegrass Album of the Year (nominated)

Country Music Association (Australia)
2007 Global Country Artist Award (nominated)

Indie Acoustic Project
Best Lyrics, "Best CDs of 2007" Awards (WON)
Best Male Singer-Songwriter, "Best CDs of 2006" Awards (nominated)

The Indies (Canadian Independent Music Awards)
2008 Favourite Folk Artist/Group (WON)
2007 Favourite Country Artist, Group or Duo of the Year (WON)
2006 Favourite Folk Artist/Group (WON)

French Association of Country Music (France)
2006 Independent Artist of the Year (WON)
2005 Independent Artist of the Year (WON)

Canadian Association for Campus Activities
2007 Best Contemporary Music (Recording) (WON)

Artist also appears on

2005
Carolyn Mark – Just Married: An Album of Duets, "Sweet Thing", Mint

2006
Various Artists – Untitled Promo CD PROC 515, "Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer", Warner Music Canada
Various Artists – Slither: Music from the Motion Picture, "(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots", Bulletproof Recording Company Inc. Various Artists – 30 Years of Stony Plain, "The Truth Comes Out", Stony Plain Records
Various Artists – Worlds Best Award Winning Country Vol. In March 2010, <mask> appeared as part of Young Artists for Haiti to record a benefit version of K'naan's song "Wavin' Flag". On July 11, 2010, <mask> headlined the Medicine Hat Flood Relief Show, which raised $68,000 for Canadian Red Cross 2010 Flood Relief campaign, which benefits those affected by the disastrous flooding in Southern Alberta. <mask> has supported the Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton, Alberta since 2010. <mask> co-hosted and headlined the "Fire Aid" benefit concert supporting victims of the Fort McMurray wildfire at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium in 2016. In 2021, <mask> publicly expressed opposition to proposed coal mines in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, citing concerns of fellow southern Alberta ranchers about possible water pollution.In June 2021, <mask> held a small benefit concert in support of landowners. References

External links
<mask> <mask> official website
<mask> <mask> at New West Records

Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo winners
1995 establishments in Alberta
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Canadian Folk Music Award winners
Stony Plain Records artists
New West Records artists
Canadian Country Music Association Album of the Year winners

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title: David William Lister Read

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<mask> (23 April 1922 – 2 July 2015) was an author of autobiographical works which reveal a profound knowledge of Maasai history. He lived the life of a "white Maasai" and could speak their language before his own native English. Born in Nairobi, <mask> spent his formative years in what is now Tanzania, a country to which he would always return. <mask> spent his final years in Momella near Arusha in northern Tanzania, where he continued to work on his writing until his death. Biography
<mask> was born to British parents in Kenya, on 23 April 1922 according to the author's website, 1921 according to the biographical note in Waters of the Sanjan. Left on her own with young <mask>, his mother eventually sought a living in Maasailand when <mask> was seven, there she ran a small hotel and traded with the Maasai. <mask> spent his next seven years of childhood here, during which time his playmates were the Maasai children.Maasai became his first language, followed by Swahili before English, and he ran wild with his friends learning a lot about the Maasai way of life and associating closely with nature and the wildlife. Totally accepted as a Maasai by the tribe, he took part in meat festivals and other tribal gatherings and ceremonies. At the age of 14, <mask> was sent to school in Arusha. His schooling was completed by correspondence course, when he was employed as an apprentice Metallurgist by the Tanganyika Department of Geological Survey. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Kenya Regiment and later trained with the Royal Air Force and served with the King's African Rifles in Abyssinia, Madagascar and Burma. After the War, he commanded the Uganda contingent in the Victory Parade in London and joined the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, where he spent the next six years. During this time, he covered areas that included parts of Maasailand when he was able to renew his former close association with that tribe.Having eventually acquired a farm of his own on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, also in Maasailand, he went on to become a leading farming figure and prominent landowner in Tanganyika and was Chairman of the Tanganyika Farmers Association from 1973 to 1975. However, after Independence was granted to Tanganyika in 1961, his properties began to be gradually eroded, during which period he was employed part-time by the Anglo American Corporation in Zambia as an Agricultural Consultant. By 1975 the Tanzania
Government had acquired the last of his properties and he left Tanzania for Zambia, and then South Africa, where he again tried his hand at farming, an interlude in his life that proved far from happy or satisfactory. Finally in 1979 he returned to Kenya to join Lima Limited as their Agricultural Consultant. <mask> is married and had one daughter. He was a leading authority on the people of Eastern Africa, speaking several African dialects, but it was with the Maasai that he spent his formative years, and with whom he is most closely associated with. Bibliography

Barefoot over the Serengeti
The book covers <mask>'s adventures between seven and fourteen years in the Serengeti, homeland of the Maasai, whose customs and lifestyle he reports, as seen through the eyes of a child.Jonathan Taylor writes: "I learnt more about the Masai by reading Barefoot Over the Serengeti than I have from any of the countless scholarly anthropology tomes of colourful coffee table books written about them.” <ref>African Footsteps Magazine", 2009, as quoted on the author's homepage.</ref>

 Beating about the Bush
This is <mask>'s second autobiographical novel, covering the period between 1936 and 1952 Beating about the Bush picks up <mask>’s story where “Barefoot” left off, with his parents moving to the Lupa Goldfields to try to salvage their livelihoods after a catastrophic series of events that left them almost destitute, reliant on <mask>’s hunting skills and the help of their Maasai friends. The book moves from Mission School life to veterinary training, active service in Abyssinia, Madagascar, Burma, and India, meetings with the King and Queen to privileged encounters with the hunter-gatherers of the Okiek people or, in Maasai language, Ndorobo people. During six years employment by the Tanganyika Veterinary Department in Dodoma he roamed the African savannas of his childhood, investigating ritual tribal killings and working as a livestock marketing officer. Like in his other works it is obvious that it is the people rather than the events that <mask>'s narrative lays emphasis on. Another Load of Bull
After the work for the Veterinary Department the Reads settled as wheat farmers on the Western slopes of Kilimanjaro. With no formal training, <mask> survived largely on his local knowledge and language skills, supplemented by his cattle buying. Life on 'Mountainside' suited <mask>, despite the constant battles against Africa's unforgiving environment, but the winds of change were to bring a greater challenge and one that would ultimately end <mask>'s dreams.Waters of the Sanjan
This is <mask>'s sole fiction novel, again situated in the Serengeti at the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. In a series of adventures the protagonist Dangoya develops his reputation and leadership of his age-group and has to deal with envy, drought, superstition and colonialists. Dangoya proves to be an enlightened leader, respecting his tribe's traditions and his elders but at the same time challenging incompetence and mere superstition. – In a concentrated form the book encloses Maasai tradition such as male and female circumcision, cattle raids, blood drinking, alcohol drinking, meat feasts, sexual habits like polygamy, initiation ceremonies, etc. In his foreword Ole Ntekerei Memusi writes: “Waters of the Sanjan is an accurate and admirable historic record of my people.” (p. xi)

 Relevance
<mask>'s works, covering a period of seven decades, not only describe a unique life starting from the adoption of the young boy by the magnificent Maasai tribe whose influence never ceased through his adolescence and manhood; it is also an ethnographic document of a native African group, who rely on oral tradition and whose knowledge and history is, by the accuracy and the empathy which characterise <mask>'s novels, preserved from amnesia. References

 Sources
 <mask>, Barefoot over the Serengeti, privately published by <mask>, Nairobi 1979, 2nd ed. 1980 by Travel Book Club.Reprint 1984,  and
 <mask> and Pamela Brown, Waters of the Sanjan. A Historical Novel of the Masai, privately published by <mask> 1982, revised edition. 1989,
 <mask>, Beating about the Bush. Tales from Tanganyika, privately published by <mask> 2000,
 <mask>, Another Load of Bull'', privately published by <mask>,

External links
 Homepage of David Read
 Forum with extracts from <mask>'s Beating about the Bush and from other authors, mentioning <mask>

1922 births
2015 deaths
English-language writers from Tanzania
Tanzanian non-fiction writers
Kenya Regiment officers
King's African Rifles officers
Tanzanian novelists
20th-century novelists
Kenyan emigrants
Immigrants to Tanganyika

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title: J. B. Morton

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<mask>, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B<mask> (7 June 1893 – 10 May 1979) was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975. G. K. Chesterton described <mask> as "a huge thunderous wind of elemental and essential laughter"; according to Evelyn Waugh, he had "the greatest comic fertility of any Englishman". Childhood
<mask> was born at Park Lodge, Mitcham Road, Tooting. He was an only child, and his father, <mask>, was a serious journalist and dramatic critic. He introduced <mask> junior to (watered-down) wine before he went to school, and to the sons of his friend Leslie Stuart. His mother, <mask>, died when he was 12.From the age of eight <mask> attended Park House prep school in Southborough, London. In 1907 he moved on to Harrow School and hated it. Harrow later provided the inspiration for the fictional Narkover, a school full of theft, gambling, drinking, and corruption. <mask> was admitted to Worcester College, Oxford but failed to win a scholarship, and had to leave after a year to support his father after a stroke. <mask> did not have an outstanding academic career, and left Oxford wanting to be a poet. His talent as a poet proved to be limited. Career

Early career
Quickly realising that he could not make a living from poetry, <mask> found a job writing for a musical revue, until he was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914.He enlisted as a private in the Royal Fusiliers and was sent to the trenches the following year. The battalion was disbanded in 1916 and <mask> was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment. After fighting in the Somme he was sent home with shell shock and spent the rest of the war in the intelligence service. After the war, <mask> wrote a novel, The Barber of Putney, based on his experience of life in the trenches. It was published in 1919, and the same year, he started writing for the Sunday Express newspaper. He had a weekly column which he filled with random jokes and poems, and wrote occasional essays on cross-country walking—his favourite hobby. In 1922, he was moved over to the Daily Express as a reporter, but did not enjoy straight reporting.<mask> later recalled, "I remember being asked to interview the mother of a boy who'd killed someone. As I went along in the cab, I thought: 'D'you realise what you're doing?' Then I decided I couldn't go on." Beachcomber
On 7 July 1917, the "By the Way" column first appeared on the leader page of the Express. Nothing shocking at first, it was 900 words of gossip and topical comment previously appearing under the header "Gossip of the Day". Major <mask> Arbuthnot MVO started the new column and the 'Beachcomber' pseudonym that appeared a week later. In 1919, he was promoted to Assistant Editor, and D. B. Wyndham Lewis (the literary editor) took the column over.Like <mask>, Wyndham-Lewis had also served in the ranks in the War, and the two shared a bizarre sense of humour, as well as being fellow Francophiles. Wyndham-Lewis set the surreal, comic style that was to become the column's identifying feature, and published the first collection of Beachcomber material in 1922, entitled A London Farrago. With so much in common, when <mask> moved into his cubicle they quickly became friends, and their continual banter could be heard across the top floor of the building. Thus, when Wyndham Lewis moved to the Daily Mail in April 1924, <mask> was the obvious person to continue the column. He gradually lightened the tone of the humour, and introduced a range of recurring characters. <mask> published his first Beachcomber collection, Mr Thake, in 1929, and 17 more collections followed over the next 30 years. Early on, <mask> wrote his column in the offices of the Express, and was known for laughing out loud and dancing after finishing each paragraph.As a day's column never took more than a few hours, and he always wrote a week in advance, his afternoons were always free for socialising. In later years, he despatched the (hand-written) column by post from wherever he happened to be at the time. <mask> viewed the Beachcomber sobriquet as a protective blanket of anonymity, and continued to enjoy this until his identity was revealed in the thirties. Drawings in the column depicted Beachcomber as a young woman, and the column was widely believed to be composed of many people's contributions. Behind this cover, <mask> often indulged himself in opinionated rants about new inventions, motorists, Socialists, pretentious art, public schools, and whatever else aroused his wrath. Under <mask>'s pen, By the Way continued for many years, surviving the Second World War paper shortages and consequent shrinkage of the Express to four pages. His mockery of both Nazi propaganda and British red tape was recognised as a huge contribution to morale, and <mask> became a CBE in 1952.In 1965, the column was enlarged and made weekly. The final column appeared on 29 November 1975 containing the headline "Lawnmower Used on Vet's Whiskers". A BBC radio programme Beachcomber by the Way, based on the column, was broadcast for 18 episodes from 1989 to 1994, with Richard Ingrams playing the voice of Beachcomber. <mask>, <mask> and Patricia Routledge played supporting parts, in particular Wells as the impertinent questioner Prodnose forever asking Beachcomber what he meant by what he said. Other work
<mask> also wrote a few pieces on French history, in the style of his good friend Hilaire <mask>, but these were not widely read and are now forgotten. After his retirement, he started work on an autobiography, but said it would be a "boring" read and tore up his notes. Another work is SPRINGTIME: Tales of the Café Rieu, describing life on the Parisian Left Bank.Friends and adventures
<mask> fell in with J. C. Squire's circle of acquaintances. Squire was the editor of the London Mercury, and his reputation for helping young writers had caused him to accrue a posse of writers and poets, which <mask> was happy to join on excursions to pubs in the area of Fleet Street. Squire's amateur cricket team is described in England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell; the exuberant character Tommy Huggins is based on <mask>. This also introduced him to Hilaire <mask>, whose second son, Peter, became a close friend until his death in 1941. <mask> was 52 when <mask> met him, and looked older. Both <mask> senior and <mask> enjoyed cross-country walking, and improvising songs as they walked; the three of them sailed Belloc's cutter, the Nona. Like <mask>oc, <mask> was a Roman Catholic, and shared many of the attitudes of the Chesterton–Belloc circle.<mask> applied his love of the surreal not just to his writing but to everyday life. Walking through Guildford one day with <mask>, <mask> stopped at a pillar box. He talked into its opening: "Are you alright, my little man? Don't worry, we'll soon get you out." Soon, a concerned crowd gathered to see who was trapped inside. Somebody summoned the fire brigade to help, while <mask> and <mask> made a discreet exit. Events like this were quite frequent: on another occasion he littered Virginia Woolf's front doorstep with dozens of empty, quart-sized brown ale bottles.Wyndham-Lewis recalls that on their first meeting, the door 'burst open' and 'a thick-set, bucolic figure, all over straw and clay, strode in and banged passionately on the floor with a thick gnarled stick uttering a roar soon known and feared in every pub on Fleet Street: "Flaming eggs! will no one rid me of this stinking town?"'. Married life and old age
In 1927 <mask> married Mary O'Leary, an Irish doctor. This put an end to his spending time with his drinking friends, and to life in London. To escape the Labour government of the late forties, the couple moved to Dublin for two years, and then to Ferring in Worthing. This moving around didn't interfere with the column, which <mask> hand-wrote (never having learned to type) on sheets of blue Basildon Bond and posted to the Express. His new lifestyle did, though: <mask>'s writing became increasingly cynical, and he became "a gloomy little man," in the words of his illustrator <mask>.Richard Ingrams, who edited some Beachcomber collections, and appeared as Beachcomber on BBC Radio 4, described him as "heavy-going and uncommunicative" in his later years. The couple were happy together until Mary's death in 1974; <mask> lost his job the year after. His enforced retirement was not happy, and he lived alone, eating mostly bread and jam (<mask> couldn't even boil an egg). He became quite confused and spent time looking for his wife, whom he believed to be still alive. <mask> eventually settled in a nursing home, but insisted on addressing all the ladies there as Mary. After his death in 1979, aged 85, his house was demolished and all his papers destroyed. Works
The Barber of Putney (1919)
Gorgeous poetry, 1911–1920 (1920)
Penny royal (1921)
Enchanter's Nightshade (1921)
Old Man's Beard (1923)
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: A Story (1923)
Hark Backward: A Sporting Novel (1929)
Sobieski, king of Poland (1932)
Maladetta (1932)
1933 and still going wrong (1932)
Who's who in the zoo (1933)
Hag's Harvest (1933)
Tally-ho!and other hunting noises (1934)
Vagabond (1934)
The death of the dragon: new fairy tales (1934)
Skylighters (1934)
The Barber of Putney (1934, revision of 1919 novel)
The Bastille falls, and other studies of the French revolution (1936)
The Dauphin (1937)
Pyrenean; being the adventures of Miles Walker on his journey from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (1938)
The New Ireland (1938)
Saint-Just (1939)
St. Martin of Tours (193?) Bridge over the rainbow: a survey of humorous sketches (1940)
The Gascon, a story of the French Revolution (1946)
Brumaire, the rise of <mask>; a study of French history from the death of Robespierre to the establishment of the Consulate (1948)
Camille Desmoulins, and other studies of the French Revolution (1950)
St. Therese of Lisieux, the making of a saint (1954)
Hilaire <mask>: A Memoir (1955)
Springtime : tales of the Café Rieu (1956)
Marshal Ney (1958)

See also under Beachcomber (pen name)

See also
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

References

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1893 births
1979 deaths
English humorists
English Roman Catholics
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
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title: Gregers Brinch

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<mask> (born 2 June 1964) is a Danish composer. Biography

<mask> was born in Esbjerg, Denmark. He was drawn to become a composer upon watching the film Amadeus by Miloš Forman and Peter Shaffer in 1984, at the age of 20. After an initial period of aided self-study in England with the singer and composer Cecil Cope, he studied piano with Louis Demetrius Alvanis in London before moving to Hamburg, Germany to study composition with Elmar Lampson and piano with Alan Newcome and later Ulrike Bauer. Brinch’s use of a number of styles with an authentic quality stems from his wide musical background. He feels equally at home with the blues, as with the music of Beethoven or Gregorian Chants. His consistent use and exploration of tonality is energised by his finding new nuances in harmony and melody which is accessible to the listener without being easy listening.Nature and drama also feature as inspirations for <mask>’s work, but it is his study of intervals that has served to lend him his own unique voice as a composer. Central themes permeating a number of his works include Human Rights and the Holocaust. His work Lieder aus Leid was 18 years in preparation before receiving its premiere in Hannover in May 2012 by Jardena Flueckiger, Jonathan dela Paz Zaens and Stéphan Aubé. <mask>'s works have been performed frequently in the USA and the UK (including Wigmore Hall), as well as in Denmark, Germany and France. Eschrich (Opus 107)

For Strings
 1988 : Variations for string Quartet (Opus 10)
 1988 : Movement for string quartet (Opus 12)
 1989 : Piece for string trio (Opus 15)
 1989 : 2 miniatures and 1 Episode for string trio (Opus 20)
 1999 - 2001 : Sonata for cello solo in 4 movements (Opus 26)
 2000 - 2003 : 12 pieces for 2 violins (Opus 60)
 2001 : String Quartet no.1 in 4 movements (Opus 56 ) - On the CD Harmonious Dissonance by Navona Records
 2009 : String Quartet no.2 in 4 movements (Opus 97) - Composed for and recorded by the Bergersen quartet

Instrumental Chamber pieces incl. Flu. viol.Cell. and percussion. and Stibill. ), commissioned work (Opus 61)
 1998 - 2002 : Sne (part 1 of the work Forventning by Halfdan Rasmussen) 11 pieces for Solo-Soprano, Choir SATB and string Quartet (Opus 62)
 2002 : The Challenge (A new version of the preamble to the Human Rights Declaration in English) for Tenor, Choir, violin and piano (Opus 63)
 2003 : Pater Noster for Baritone and Stringquartet (Opus 69)
 2003 : Mørke 4 songs for Soprano, Baritone, Trumpet, Harp and Double Bass - Text H. Rasmussen (Opus 70)
 2003 : Three Tales for Oboe and Harp dedicated to Jinny Shaw and Lucy Wakeford of the Okeanos Ensemble (Opus 71)
 2007 - 2008 : The Word for Choir and Chamberensemble. 23 minutes words by St. John, G. Brinch, Charles Darwin and Martin Luther King (Opus 91)
 2009 : Windquintet in 4 movements (1st version) (Opus 94)
 2009 - 2010 : Parzival Suite 5 Pieces for Solo Flute dedicated to Julie Groves (Opus 95)
 The Fool
 Anforta's Dream
 The Heart of the Matter
 The enchanted Castle
 Searching for the Grail
 2012 : Pyramids orchestral piece for children (to play) based on the Balkan duo (Opus 109)

Discography
 The CD ‘Blue Harmony’ features the piano-works recorded by internationally acclaimed pianist Diana Baker, issued on Klyde records – Brinch’s private label
 The CD ‘Harmonious Dissonance’ includes the String Quartet No.1 was released on Parma Records in USA in June 2010. The cd “Parzival” is a collaboration with award-winning Flautist Julie Groves and Whitbread-Prize winning author Lindsay Clarke, which resulted in a number of works for Baritone and Flute and Flute solo on the theme of Parzival. Not commercially released.Of three volumes of Chamber works on the Claudio Records Label Gregers Brinch volume one with Rohan de Saram and William Hancox and the Bergersen Quartet was released in 2012, featuring Sonatas no.1 & 2 for Cello and Piano and the String Quartet no.2. As a singer Brinch has recorded songs by the composer Dorothee Fischer together with the pianist William Hancox. Lieder und Klavierwerke von Dorothee Fischer, issued on Klyde records – Brinch’s private label

References

External links
 Official website
 <mask> <mask> on Classical Composers Database
 <mask> <mask> on Performing Arts International Website
 <mask> <mask> on The art Music Lounge Website

1964 births
Living people
People from Esbjerg
Danish classical composers
Danish male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
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title: Frank Nobilo

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<mask>  (born on 14 May 1960) is a professional golfer from New Zealand. Nobilo had a successful playing career, winning 14 pro tournaments around the world. He was at his peak during the mid-1990s when he also produced strong finishes in all four major championships. Since his 2003 retirement, <mask> has worked as a television announcer for golf events. Personal life
<mask> was born in Auckland, of Italian and Croatian descent, and is the great grandson of an Italian pirate. At birth, his right leg was shorter than his left, which have caused him some ongoing back problems . He was educated at St Peter's College in Auckland where he was persuaded to play golf by schoolmates (Chris Treen and Mark Lewis).Nobilo preferred to play Rugby league for Glenora over Rugby Union for St Peter's, which was "a bone of contention" with the school. "I got a bit of grief because I preferred league over rugby then and I was a bit more of a rebel. I used to catch the train to and from school and it took about 30–40 minutes. My mum said it drove her crazy because I missed it often and my parents were living in Glen Eden and I would end up in Henderson and they'd have to come and collect me". <mask> and his wife, Selena, married in 1998. He has a daughter, <mask>, from a previous marriage. Nobilo works as an ambassador for The House of Nobilo, one of New Zealand's leading wineries and founded by one of his relatives <mask>.<mask> was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to golf, in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours. Career
In 1978, <mask> won the New Zealand Amateur at 18, the second-youngest winner of this title. He turned professional in November 1979. His first professional win came in 1982 at the New South Wales PGA Championship on the PGA Tour of Australasia. <mask> joined the European Tour in 1985 as a full-time player, having played in selected events in 1982 and 1983. He recorded his first win on the Tour in the 1988 PLM Open (not to be confused with the KLM Open). <mask> subsequently won four other European Tour events and finished inside the top 50 on the Order of Merit every season from 1988 to 1996, with a best of 14th place in 1993.After strong performances in all the majors, including a 4th-place finish in the Masters Tournament and a tie for 8th in the PGA Championship, <mask> left Europe at the end of 1996 and joined the United States-based PGA Tour for the following season. He won the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic during his rookie season, which proved to be his only win on that tour. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. One week after his marriage to Selena in 1998, <mask> was struck above the left eye by an errant tee shot at the Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Central Florida. The injury required 30 stitches, and affected his play afterwards. <mask> played for the International Team in each of the first three Presidents Cups (1994, 1996, 1998). He contributed significantly to the international appeal of the event when in 1998 and paired with fellow kiwi Greg Turner he holed a 70-foot putt on the final green to defeat the American pairing.On 2 October 2008, International Presidents Cup team captain Greg Norman announced that <mask> would serve as his assistant captain for the 2009 Presidents Cup 6–11 Oct. 2009 at Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco. On 9 October 2007, it was reported that <mask> had announced he would be coming out of retirement, and attempt to gain a card for the U.S. PGA Tour through qualifying school. However, in a statement issued on the Golf Channel's website, <mask> denied the report: "I have not, nor did I have any intention of entering this years PGA Tour Qualifying school." Television work
Upon retiring from tournament golf in 2003, <mask> joined the Golf Channel for studio coverage. He has been a key member of the Live From team at the major championships. From 2012-2014, he occasionally filled in for Peter Jacobsen on NBC's golf coverage (NBC and Golf Channel are corporate siblings). In 2015, <mask> joined CBS's golf coverage, replacing Peter Oosterhuis.Like Oosterhuis did, he worked only the cable coverage of about half of CBS's events, while working on the network coverage of the other half, including the Masters and PGA Championship. He remained on Live From on Golf Channel but will no longer be allowed to fill in on NBC. <mask> made his CBS debut at the 2015 Phoenix Open. He was also a commentator in Rory McIlroy PGA Tour Video Game, released in 2015.

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