title: Roy Williams (wide receiver)

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<mask>. (born December 20, 1981) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, and Chicago Bears. He played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns. Early years
<mask> attended high school at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas, where he starred in multiple sports. He lettered in football, track, baseball, and basketball, earning all-state honors in football and track and all-district accolades in baseball and basketball. <mask> also made the honor roll all four years while attending Permian High School. College career
Arriving at the University of Texas in the 2000 recruiting class, <mask> and fellow freshmen receivers BJ Johnson and Sloan Thomas were touted as the most talented group of incoming receivers in school history. In his second season, he started 13 games, making 67 receptions for 836 yards and 7 touchdowns.As a junior, he was limited with a hamstring injury, appearing in 12 games with nine starts, while posting 64 receptions for 1,142 yards and 12 touchdowns. Instead of opting for the NFL, he decided to return for his senior season, registering 70 receptions for 1,079 yards and 9 touchdowns. By the end of his college career, <mask> had become one of the most decorated receivers in Texas Longhorns history. Nicknamed "The Legend", he left school as the all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. He was a member of the All-Conference Team for the Big 12 on three occasions, and was a semi-finalist for the Biletnikoff Award during both his junior and senior seasons. In 2013, he was inducted into the University of Texas Hall of Honor. Track and field
<mask> was a track star at the University of Texas, where he recorded a personal best of 10.30 seconds in the 100 meters.He also specialized in high jump and long jump. Personal bests

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2004 NFL Draft
<mask> was selected seventh overall in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Many draft experts considered the pick a bold move since the Lions had drafted Charles Rogers with the second overall pick the year before. 2004 NFL Combine

Detroit Lions
In 2004, <mask> set Lions rookie records with 54 receptions for 817 yards and eight touchdowns in 12 games; he suffered an ankle injury midway through the season that limited his effectiveness. The following season, the team spent their first-round draft pick (10th overall) on yet another receiver, this time USC star <mask>. He finished first on the team in receiving yards (687), average per catch (15.3) and second in receptions (45). <mask> had a productive year for the 2006 Lions, with 1,310 yards, seven touchdowns and a 16.0 yards-per-catch average.The 1,310 yards were the most in the NFC, and tied with Indianapolis Colts receiver Reggie Wayne for third-most in the NFL. <mask>' 16.0  YPC average was first in the NFL for receivers with more than 25 receptions. He also had 24 catches of 20-plus yards, which ranked first in the NFL. He and teammate Mike Furrey caught more passes (178) than any other duo in the NFC. <mask> was named an alternate for the 2007 Pro Bowl. When Torry Holt withdrew due to injury, <mask> was named to the active squad. He was the first Detroit wide receiver to make the Pro Bowl since 1998 (Herman Moore).<mask> was the 2007 recipient of the Detroit Lions/Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association/Pro Football Writers Association's Media-Friendly "Good Guy" Award. The Good Guy Award is given yearly to the Detroit Lions player who shows consideration to, and cooperation with the media at all times during the course of the season. Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys had tried to obtain <mask> for two years, finally reaching a trade agreement with the Lions on October 14, 2008, in exchange for a first (#20-Brandon Pettigrew), third  (#82-<mask>), and sixth-round (#192-Aaron Brown) picks in the 2009 NFL Draft (the Cowboys also received a seventh-round pick (#210-Vance Walker) from the Lions in the 2010 draft). He was then signed to a new contract through the 2014 season; he agreed to a six-year, $54 million contract, with $26 million guaranteed. <mask> became the second option at wide receiver, while playing opposite to Terrell Owens and didn't have the immediate impact that it was expected, catching only 19 passes and one touchdown in seven starts, although his problems were attributed to his unfamiliarity with the offensive system, playing with two different quarterbacks and the lingering effects of a Lisfranc injury. In 2009, with the release of Owens, <mask> was expected to take over as the team's leading wide receiver, but against the Kansas City Chiefs, as a replacement for the injured <mask>, Miles Austin had a breakout game with 10 receptions for 250 yards (a Cowboys record for receiving yards in a single-game, breaking Bob Hayes' 246-yard effort in 1966) and 2 touchdowns. <mask> would be again relegated to the second wide receiver role for the rest of the season, although he helped the Cowboys win their first playoff game since 1996, by making five catches for 59 yards including several crucial third-down catches in the first half.In 2010, the Cowboys drafted future Pro Bowler Dez Bryant in the first round, but <mask> retained his starting role alongside Austin. He got off to a quick start with 21 receptions for 306 yards and 5 touchdowns in the first 5 games, but his production declined significantly in his final 10 games (16 catches for 224 yards and no touchdowns) as Bryant gained a bigger role in the offense. His best game with the Cowboys was against in-state rival Houston Texans, in which he recorded 117 receiving yards and two touchdowns on five catches while only being targeted six times. His time with Cowboys was a disappointment, by the close of the 2010 season, <mask> had totaled 99 regular season/playoff catches for the Cowboys and 13 touchdowns, 11 of which came from inside the red zone. He was released on July 28, 2011. Chicago Bears
In 2011, a day after being released by the Cowboys, <mask> agreed to sign with the Chicago Bears for a one-year, $2.46 million contract, reuniting with offensive coordinator Mike Martz, who held the same title with the Lions during <mask>' Pro Bowl season. He finished with 37 receptions for 507 yards and 2 touchdowns, with his best game coming on Christmas night against the Green Bay Packers with six catches for 81 yards.<mask> announced his retirement from the NFL on his Facebook page on September 8, 2012. NFL career statistics
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Personal life
Upon retirement, <mask> returned to his home town of Odessa, Texas, where he started an oil field trucking company tapping into the boom going on in West Texas. <mask> played a small role in the 2004 sports film Friday Night Lights (his older brother, Lloyd Hill was on the team the movie was based on). <mask> played the role of an assistant coach for Midland Lee High School, which is one of Permian's biggest rivals. His one spoken line in the film was, "He ain’t going to play." <mask> is also the co-founder, with college teammate BJ Johnson, of MVP Vodka, an All-American Wheat vodka made in Dallas, TX. His older brother Lloyd Hill, was the Texas Tech University all-time leading receiver and led the NCAA in receptions in 1992.References

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title: Lucian Mureșan

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<mask> (born 23 May 1931) is the first and current Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As Major Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia (resident in Blaj), he is the head of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic. Life
<mask> was born in the village of Firiza (now the Ferneziu district of Baia Mare), Romania, the tenth of Peter and Maria Mureșan's twelve children. He attended primary school in Firiza between 1938 and 1944 and later secondary school in Baia Mare from 1944 to 1948 at the Gheorghe Șincai High School. The 1948 educational reform banned all religions in schools in the country, especially by Decree no. 358 of 1948 of the Great National Assembly, in which the Romanian Greek Catholic Church was brutally repressed and declared illegal and, therefore, the hope of training and becoming a priest was unattainable and he withdrew from school. Between 1948 and 1951, Mureşan attended school for woodworking (fine furniture) in Baia Mare, and continued his education part-time to complete his studies.From 1951 to 1954, he did military service, which was mandatory at the time, at the aviation school in Turnişor (Sibiu). After finishing his military training, he joined the jet aviation battalion in Craiova. In 1953, because of his connection with the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, he was considered an undesirable person and was transferred from the aviation battalion to work on the construction of the country's first large hydroelectric plant, in Bicaz. In 1954, he left Bicaz and waiting for an opportunity to study theology, secretly, he worked in different places. At the suggestion of Bishop Iuliu Hossu and the blessing of Bishop Alexandru Rusu, on the proposal of Prof. Dr. Silviu Augustin Prunduş (released from prison in 1955), Bishop Aron Marton of Alba Iulia agreed to receive, as an exception, five young people, one for each diocese of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, at the Institutul Teologic Romano-Catholic de Alba Iulia for the academic degree, among them was <mask>. In the fourth year of studies, the rector of the institute told him and another student that he kept to the original five, that they were expelled by the Department of Cults and that within 24 hours they would be forced to leave not only the Institute, but also from the city. In terms of ecclesiastical and canonical laws, there was no reason for expulsion.He returned to his original place. The expulsion coincided with the start of the persecution and repression by Securitate. For a year he focused on working in mining and construction companies, but was rejected on the grounds that he was a Catholic theologian. After a year, he managed to find a job as a worker at the quarry in Ferneziu, where he worked for almost 10 years. When he was persecuted there, he transferred to the Department of Roads and Bridges in Maramureş, where he worked until his retirement in June 1990. Despite intimidation, harassment and threats, he did not give up on his dream of becoming a priest, continuing their studies in hiding, with former professors from the theological academy who were fugitives. All students took their licensing exam.In 1964, a decree-pardon was issued and the bishops were released from prison. In this way, he could finally become a priest. Presbyterate

Mureşan was ordained on December 19, 1964, by Ioan Dragomir, titular bishop of Palaeopoli in Pamfilia, auxiliary bishop of Maramureş. Initially, he exercised his pastoral ministry in hiding, while working in the quarry and then in the Department of Roads and Bridges. His pastoral ministry was mainly dedicated to young people and those who wanted to become priests. He later worked as a priest more openly in the diocese of Maramureş. The clergy of his rite asked him to reorganize his pastoral ministry.After Bishop Dragomir's death on April 25, 1985, he held the provisional function of Ordinarius of the diocese of Maramureş until August 9, 1986, and since that date, the selection and proposal of the diocesan chapter, Mureşan was installed on the property by Metropolitan Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia Alexandru Todea. In December 1989, the Romanian Revolution occurred, the communist government was overthrown by force and the head of state was executed. Shortly thereafter, the Romanian Greek Catholic Church was legalized. Episcopate

Elected Eparch of Maramureş from the Romanians on March 14, 1990, Mureşan was consecrated on May 27, on the terrace of the Romanian Soldier's Monument, in Baia Mare, by Alexandru Todea, archbishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians, assisted by Ioan Ploscaru, Bishop of Lugoj of the Romanians, and by Guido del Mestri, Titular Archbishop of Tuscamia, former apostolic nuncio to Germany, in the presence of 100 priests and more than 20,000 faithful. The terrace was symbolically adorned with a huge rosary of red carnations. It was the first meeting of the entire Greek Catholic hierarchy gathered at a large public event and in the presence of a papal representative. At the ceremony, a decree-law by the President of the Republic recognizing him as a bishop was read.He opened the Baia Mare Theological Institute in the academic year 1990-1991 and was promoted to the Metropolitan See of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia of the Romanians on July 4, 1994, and on August 27 he was installed in Blaj. Mureşan began the reconstruction of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Bournemouth, which was completed in 1994. He convened and participated in the four sessions of the Fourth Provincial Council of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, held between 1995 and 1998. He participated in 1995 in the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Romanian Catholic Mission in Paris, for which he celebrated Mass in Romanian at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. In August 1997, due to his effort, the remains of Dom Ioan Inocenţi Micu were taken to the cathedral of Blaj (founded by him), from Rome, where he had died in exile 252 years earlier. In 1997, he obtained the nihil obstat from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to open the process of canonization of the seven Greek Catholic bishops who were martyred during the communist regime. Between 1998-2001 and again in 2004, Mureşan was elected president of the Romanian Catholic Bishops' Conference, which includes the hierarchy of the Catholic Church of both rites, Latin (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Greek-Catholic).Between May 7 and 9, 1999, he received Pope John Paul II during his visit to Romania. During the Jubilee of the Year 2000, he organized a national pilgrimage to Rome, culminating in a concelebrated mass in Romanian with Pope John Paul II, in the St. Peter's Basilica, with the participation of thousands of Romanian pilgrims. On May 26, 2003, Mureşan was appointed a member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and was promoted to the post of Major Archbishop on December 16, 2005, when Pope Benedict XVI recognized the self-government status of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, raising his traditional head, the Archdiocese of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia, to the post of major archdiocese. Cardinal and awards

Pope Benedict XVI created him a Cardinal-Priest in the First Ordinary Public consistory on February 18, receiving the title of cardinal-priest of Sant'Atanasio. As he was already older than 80 at the time of his creation, he has no right to vote in a papal conclave. On June 6, 2015, Mureşan received the national commendation "Ordinul Steaua României" with the degree of official from President Klaus Iohannis of Romania. References

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title: Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

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<mask>, 1st <mask>,  (23 May 1827 – 20 June 1900) was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator. Military service

<mask> was the son of <mask>, Member of Parliament, of Drylaw, Midlothian. He entered the Royal Navy, but at the end of two years quit it for the British East India Company's military service, and in 1842 obtained a commission in the Bengal Light Cavalry. In the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845–1846 he was given an appointment on the staff of Sir Hugh Gough, and served throughout the Sutlej campaign. In 1852 he became adjutant of Skinner's Horse. At the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854, <mask> severed his connection with India, and obtained leave to raise a body of irregular Bulgarian cavalry, which he commanded throughout the war. In 1857 he was appointed attaché to Lord Elgin's mission to East Asia, was present at the taking of Canton (Guangzhou) during the Second Opium War, and in 1858 brought home the Treaty of Yedo.In April 1860, <mask> accompanied Lord Elgin to China again, as secretary of the new embassy sent to secure the execution by the Chinese Qing Empire of its treaty engagements. The embassy was backed up by an allied Anglo-French force. With Harry Smith Parkes he negotiated the surrender of the Taku Forts (Dagu Forts). During the advance on the Qing capital, Peking (Beijing), <mask> was chosen with Parkes to complete the preliminary negotiations for peace at Tungchow (present-day Tongzhou District, Beijing). They were accompanied by a small party of officers and Sikhs. It having been discovered that the Chinese were planning an attack on the British force, <mask> rode back and warned the outposts. He then returned to Parkes and his party under a flag of truce in the hope of securing their safety.However, they were all taken prisoner by the Qing general Sengge Rinchen and incarcerated in the Ministry of Justice (or Board of Punishments) in Beijing, where the majority of the group died from torture or disease. Parkes and <mask> were treated less barbarically after Prince Gong intervened. After three weeks, the negotiations for their release were successful, but they had only been liberated ten minutes when orders were received from the Xianfeng Emperor, who was then taking shelter in the Chengde Summer Palace, for their immediate execution. In 1862, <mask> married Elizabeth Villiers, whose twin sister was Edith Villiers. There is a tale that <mask> proposed to the wrong girl by mistake and then refused to admit it. He and Elizabeth had two daughters and a son. Colonial administrator
<mask> never entirely recovered his health after this experience in a Chinese dungeon.Returning home he was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and for a while was private secretary to Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, then at the Home Office. In 1863 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. During his governorship the House of Keys was transformed into an elective assembly, the first line of railway was opened, and the influx of tourists began to bring fresh prosperity to the island. In 1882 <mask>, who had become Knight Commander of the Bath in 1880, accepted a commissionership of woods and forests, and two years later was made governor of the colony of Victoria in Australia. In June 1889 he succeeded Sir Hercules Robinson as Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for Southern Africa. As High Commissioner his duties called for the exercise of great judgment and firmness. The Boers were at the same time striving to frustrate Cecil Rhodes's schemes of northern expansion and planning to occupy Mashonaland, to secure control of Swaziland and Zululand and to acquire the adjacent lands up to the ocean.<mask> firmly supported Rhodes, and, by informing President Paul Kruger that troops would be sent to prevent any invasion of territory under British protection, he effectually crushed the Banyailand trek across the Limpopo River (1890–1891). <mask>, however, with the approval of the imperial government, concluded in July–August 1890 a convention with President Kruger respecting Swaziland, by which, while the Boers withdrew all claims to territory north of the Transvaal, they were granted an outlet to the sea at Kosi Bay on condition that the republic entered the South African Customs Union. This convention was concluded after negotiations conducted with President Kruger by Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr on behalf of the high commissioner, and was made at a time when the British and Bond parties in Cape Colony were working in harmony. The Transvaal did not fulfil the necessary conditions, and in view of an increasingly hostile attitude from Pretoria administration <mask> became a strong advocate of annexation of the territory east of Swaziland, through which the Boer railway would have to pass to the sea. At length he induced the British government to adopt his view; and on 15 March 1895 it was announced that these territories (Amatongaland, etc. ), would be annexed by Britain, an announcement received by Kruger with the greatest astonishment and regret. Meanwhile, <mask> had been forced to intervene in another matter.When the commandeering difficulty of 1894 had roused the Uitlanders in the Transvaal to a dangerous pitch of excitement, he travelled to Pretoria to use his personal influence with President Kruger, and obtained the withdrawal of the obnoxious commandeering regulations. In the following year he entered a strong protest against the new Transvaal franchise law. Nonetheless the general situation in South Africa was assuming year by year a more threatening aspect. Cecil Rhodes, then prime minister of Cape Colony, was strongly in favor of a more energetic policy than was supported by the Imperial government. At the end of March 1895 the high commissioner, finding himself, it is believed, out of touch with his ministers, returned home embarrassed, a few months before the expiry of his term of office. In the same year he was raised to the peerage as <mask>, of Drylaw in the County of Midlothian. When the Second Boer War broke out in 1899 <mask> took a leading part in raising and equipping a body of mounted men, named after him <mask>'s Horse.He died in London on 20 June 1900, and was succeeded as Baron <mask> by his son Edward Douglas <mask> (1873–1942). Legacy
Loch, Victoria, Australia is named after the 1st Baron <mask>. A portion of Douglas Promenade is named Loch Promenade in memory of <mask>. In addition the Isle of Man Railway locomotive No.4 <mask> is named in his honour. <mask> Street in the Canberra suburb of Yarralumla is named after him due to Governorship of Victoria. Notes

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title: Lara Baladi

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<mask> (born 1969 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an acclaimed Egyptian-Lebanese photographer, archivist and multimedia artist. She was educated in Paris and London and currently lives in Cairo. Baladi exhibits and publishes worldwide. Her body of work encompasses photography, video, visual montages/collages, installations, architectural constructions, tapestries, sculptures and even perfume. Much of her work reflects her "concerns with Egypt's extremely alarming sociopolitical context." Work
Since 1997, she has been a member of the Arab Image Foundation (AIF), for which she directs magazine editorials and curates exhibitions and artist residencies. She curated the artist residency Fenenin el Rehal (Nomadic Artists) in Egypt's White Desert in 2006 and participated in workshops and conferences around the world.<mask> is represented by the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo and IVDE Gallery in Dubai. <mask> received a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 2003 to research manga and anime in Tokyo. Among other global locations, she participated in the VASL residency program in Karachi, Pakistan in 2010. The breadth and variety of Baladi’s international experience influences her use of iconography drawn from numerous cultures. Photo-montage
In 2000, she participated in The Desert, a group exhibition at Fondation Cartier in Paris with Om El Dounia (Mother of the World), a vast mosaic of photographs with highly saturated colors. This piece, while playful and with many references to pop culture, is also an exploration of the Biblical story of creation. In 2007, Baladi presented a work called Justice for the Mother, which depicts leaders of Arab countries.She considers it part of a series she calls "anthropological photography," where she assembles series of photographs that tell a larger story. In this piece, <mask> draws from influences from both Western and Islamic traditions, creating "fantastical, playful surveys of history, culture and personal reflection." Sandouk el Dounia (The World in a Box),  is a huge composition of hundreds of scanned photographs. The name of the piece references traditional street theater for children in Cairo. Sandouk was presented in 2009 at the Queens Museum of Art's group exhibition Tarjama/Translationand in 2011 at the Venice Biennial's group show Penelope’s Labor: Weaving Words and Images. Reviewers called it "a giant tapestry version of a photo collage packed with images of action heroines". Installations
An enormous installation titled "Al Fanous el Sehryn" (the Magic Lantern) was shown at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo in 2003.The work consists of "a large eight-pointed star constructed of steel--approximately 23 feet in diameter--and a series of light boxes containing saturated colored images produced from x-ray photographs of a pregnant doll giving birth". The art suggests a cyclical nature where the images of the doll endlessly grow up and then giving birth over and over. The star shape was inspired by the chandeliers which hang in the mosque of Mohammed Ali in the Cairo Citadel. Her installation Roba Vecchia was presented in 2006 at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, in 2007 at the Sharjah Biennal and in 2009 at Arabesques, an exhibition of Arab contemporary art at the Kennedy Center in Washington and described as a "human-scale kaleidoscope", that "incorporated images from pop culture, then shattered them in constantly changing geometries", and in which "the participant becomes immersed in a psychedelic environment where rapidly yet systematically changing imagery engulfs the viewer". Borg el Amal (Tower of Hope), an ephemeral construction and sound installation, won the Grand Nile Award at the 2008/2009 Cairo Biennale. The inspiration for the tower comes from the slums surrounding Cairo known as ashwa'iyat (haphazard things). Her own tower in Borg el Amal was constructed of similar materials to the ashwa'iyat and allowed the audience to experience music under the oper sky.The entire installation is a challenge to "the censorship of the Mubarak era and addressed the state's ignorance of [that social plight]," which Baladi saw as a problem which she likened to a "ticking bomb about to explode." She commissioned the Kiev Kamera Orchestra to perform the Donkey Symphony, Borg el Amal’s sound component, at the first Kiev Biennial in 2012. Coffee cups, presented in 2010 at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Dubai has been considered both "playful" and inviting the viewer "into a world of contemplation and reflection". Tahrir
During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, <mask> co-founded two media initiatives: Radio Tahrir and Tahrir Cinema. Both projects were inspired and informed by the eighteen days that toppled Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak’s, leadership. Radio Tahrir came about when Baladi and her friends, along with other like-minded people, started importing the equipment needed to start a pirate radio station. Radio Tahrir was the first free online radio in Egypt.Tahrir Cinema was co-founded with Mosireen, an Egyptian non-profit media initiative. The project served as a public platform to build and share a video archive on and for the revolution. The impetus to create Tahrir Cinema came from the chaos surrounding the second sit-in in Tahrir: "People were screaming and shouting on stages into microphones," she says, "there was so much diffused information floating around, but no focus." Her training as a visual artist helped her organize, show and share documents relating to the revolution using these platforms. Tahrir Cinema went live on July 14, 2011. The public experienced Tahrir Cinema as film shown on a screen constructed of wood and plastic in the main thoroughfare of the square. Surrounding the screen were rugs for people to sit on and areas for a larger standing crowd to view the footage.<mask> created a collection of footage that included videos shot by activists directly involved in the revolution. She was very broad in her collecting, even showing "solidarity protests" from London. Being able to view and experience images and video taken by citizens in Egypt was an abrupt break with Mubarak's regime, where photography was prohibited in many areas of Egypt. <mask> writes, "people in the square took photos because they felt the social responsibility to do so...The camera became a nonviolent weapon aimed directly at the state, denouncing it." Continuing work
<mask> received a Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Open Documentary Lab for 2014 and 2015 in order to research, archive and create a transmedia activism project called Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age. Vox Populi is a multimedia documentary that consists of an archive of articles, images and videos that Baladi had been gathering since January 25, 2011. Preserving the ephemera and the images of the revolution in Tahrir is important to Baladi.She writes that "most of the images of the 18 days [of protest] vanishing into a bottomless pit thanks to Google's PageRank algorithm, will the vision of a possible new world people glimpsed in [Tahrir] Square die along with its digital traces?" This expression of the fleeting nature of the digital world informs her current work.

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title: Raúl L. Martínez

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<mask><mask> (born March 6, 1949 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a former mayor of Hialeah, Florida, United States. He is a Democrat and was mayor for 24 years, first elected in 1981 and was the Democratic congressional candidate for Florida's 21st congressional district in 2008. <mask> has launched Martínez & Fernández Public Relations in Miami Lakes to provide counsel to a variety of clients in the field of public relations, media relations, government relations, brand management, crisis management and consulting. Martinez and his wife, Ángela Callava, have two children, <mask> and Raul L. Martinez Jr. and three grandchildren, Isabella Sofía Ruíz, <mask>, and <mask>. <mask> is the son of <mask> (Chin<mask> (1925–2007). Chin Martinez was the head of the taxi drivers retirement fund in Cuba during the 1950s, and used his connections to prevent his brother's assassination, <mask>, who then joined Raul Castro in the II Frente Oriental Frank País. Alfredo's son, <mask>, is presently a general in the Cuban Army.Early years and schooling
<mask> arrived in the United States in May 1960 and has been a resident of Hialeah since 1969. He graduated from Miami Senior High School. He received an Associate in Arts Degree from Miami-Dade College (then known as Miami Dade Junior College and later named Miami Dade Community College) and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Florida International University. Public service
<mask> began his public service career in 1971 as a member of Hialeah's Minority Group Housing Committee. In 1976 he was appointed to the Personnel Board and later in 1977 elected to the Hialeah City Council. In 1981, <mask> was elected mayor and re-elected in 1983. In 1985 he became the first Hialeah mayor in 44 years to run unopposed.He was re-elected in 1987 and in 1989 he was elected to a four-year term. In 1993, <mask> won re-election by 273 votes, because of a 2 to 1 margin amongst absentee ballots. The election was thrown out by a state judge who ruled that "overzealous" and "unscrupulous" campaign workers forged so many absentee ballots as to taint the entire vote. <mask> won a special election that was called in 1994. Martinez was again re-elected mayor in 1997 and 2001 where for the second time in his career ran unopposed. He has run and won 9 times as Mayor of Hialeah. <mask> has received numerous gubernatorial appointments, amongst them the Florida State Commission on Hispanic Affairs from 1979 to 1982, where he was elected Chairman in 1981, and on the Governor's Commission on the Statewide Prosecutor's Function from 1984 to 1985.In 1985, he was appointed by then Governor Bob Graham to the Democratic Policy Commission's Roundtable on Defense and Foreign Policy, as well as to the State Comprehensive Planning Committee. <mask> is a past-president of the Dade County League of Cities, the Florida League of Cities and served on the Board of Directors of the National League of Cities. He is Chairman of the South Florida Employment and Training Consortium and was the founding vice-chairman of the Beacon Council, a Miami-Dade County development agency composed of public and private sector leaders. The Mayor also served on the High Speed Rail Franchise and Environmental Review Committee. In 2004, he was the Parliamentarian to the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston. On December 13, 2005, Hialeah City Hall was renamed the "Raul L. Martinez Government Center"  in recognition to his 24 years as mayor and 4 years as a councilman. In 2007, the Republican controlled Florida legislature renamed 49 Street in Hialeah as "<mask> L. <mask> Street".Trials
In 1989, <mask> was expected to run against State Senator Ileana Ros-<mask> in Florida's 18th congressional district, left vacant after the death of Claude Pepper. State Senator Ros-<mask>'s husband, <mask>, the acting US Attorney for South Florida initiated an investigation on alleged accusations of extortion and racketeering. In 1990, he presented his findings to a  grand jury that indicted Martinez on eight charges of extortion and racketeering. The indictment led to <mask>'s suspension from office and trial. In July 1991, Martinez was convicted for six counts of conspiracy, extortion and racketeering and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Martinez appealed the decision and the appellate judges ordered a new trial in 1994, citing" flawed jury instructions and blatant jury misconduct". The mayor's second trial ended March 26, 1996 in a hung jury.And the third trial, which began April 22, 1996, resulted in an acquittal on one count of extortion and deadlocked on five remaining counts (by a vote of 11 to 1 in favor of an acquittal). The U.S. Attorney at that time, Kendall Coffey, (a Clinton appointee who was confirmed by a Republican U.S. Senate) ultimately dropped the remaining five charges. The Clinton Justice Department then opened a case against Mr. <mask> on charges of "misconduct" and potential conflicts of interest for investigating "a potential political rival of his wife." Mr. <mask> resigned his position as US Attorney. Congressional election 2008

On January 21, 2008, <mask> announced on the America TeVe show A Mano Limpia his intention to run in the November 2008 election for the Florida 21st congressional district seat held by Republican <mask>-Balart. Martinez officially announced his candidacy the following day at the Raul L. Martinez Government Center (Hialeah City Hall). Martinez lost to Díaz-Balart, garnering 42% of the vote.Controversies
In June 1999, during a protest of more than 400 people blocking an expressway in Hialeah, the city's then police chief, Rolando Bolanos, was hit in the head with a rock. Bolanos called <mask> to the scene and, during the battle, Martinez punched a butcher, Ernesto Mirabal. Mirabal was charged with battery on an elected official, resisting arrest with violence and inciting a riot. The charges against Mirabel were later dropped. In February 2007, when a "caustic" press release from Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer criticized Hillary Clinton's presence at a fundraiser at the ex-mayor's home, Martinez responded by using profane language. References

Footnotes
 Progresso Weekly article
 The Miami Herald article "Battle of the Titans: Martinez vs. Díaz-Balart"
 Alfonso Chardy & <mask>, Congressional candidates Martinez, Díaz-Balart start swinging, Miami Herald, Jan. 23, 2008
 The Miami Herald; Losing Castro Will Redefine Cubans' Issues by Ana Menéndez, January 23, 2008, page 1B
 The Miami Herald; Martinez Should Run by Alonso R. del Portillo, January 19, 2008, page 26A
 The Miami Herald; Neither <mask> nor Ros <mask> responded to Herald phone calls for comment, January 21, 2008
 The Miami Herald; Timing of investigation raises questions about 'the motivation of the prosecution February 17, 1991
 The Miami Herald; <mask> declined to comment about the timing of the investigation. February 17, 1991
 The Miami Herald; <mask>inen wanted to neutralize <mask> as a political rival of his wife, Ileana Ros-<mask>inen February 15, 1991
 The Miami Herald; Justice Investigating Miami U.S. Attorney for Misconduct April 20, 1990
 The Miami Herald; "Martinez insists he is not interested in changing the four-decades' old embargo against Cuba."January 21, 2008
 El Nuevo Herald; "The embargo should not be modified in any way" - Raul Martinez, January 21, 2008
 Maria Elvira Live show on Mega TV, January 15, 2008;  "It's very troubling that the congressman of that district (<mask>-Balart) gets his news on Cuba from El Granma." External links

Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org

 Site with news stories on Raul Martinez

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<mask> (; March 29, 1927 in Leningrad – February 10, 2010 in Highland, California, United States) was a Russian adventist pastor, social and religious activist, and Protestant Bible scholar and translator. He was co-founder of the Russian Branch of the International Association for Religious Freedom  (1992), founder of the Institute for Bible Translation in Zaoksky (Tula Region, Russia), an honorary board member of the Russian Bible Society  , and the head of the Church of Seventh-day Adventists in the Soviet Union (1990—1992). <mask>'s work on translating the Bible into modern Russian language has been lauded by biblical scholars, philologists, theologians and various representatives of Orthodox and Protestant churches in Russia. Early life

<mask> was born on March 29, 1927 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)  to the family of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. In 1928, his family moved to the city of Tula (in Central Russia) when his father, <mask>, was sent there for pastoral ministry. During the atheist and authoritarian rule of the Soviet government, the <mask> family was under the scrutiny of state security bodies. In 1935, his father was arrested for religious activity and the court sentenced him to imprisonment in the camps of Vorkuta, followed by an exile in Siberia.Following the exile, the <mask> family moved to the village Krasnyi Klyuch in the Krasnoyarsk Region, where they lived until 1939. After the end of the exile the family moved to Samara and then to Maykop (Adygea, Russia) where they lived until the eve of the Second World War when they relocated to Ivanovo. Here <mask> enrolled in the Ivanovo Art School, from which he graduated in 1947. In August 1945, <mask> became a baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (As he recalled in his book, “...late at night, far away from the city lights, my father secretly baptised eight people, including me. I was 18 years old...”). Following his baptism, he began to actively assist his father in conducting clandestine worship services and the missionary work.In 1947, his father was arrested again and was given a ten-year sentence. It was then that <mask>'s mother moved him and his siblings to Daugavpils, Latvia. Here, <mask> continued to work in the church and also taught drawing and painting in the city schools. The peaceful existence was short-lived, and nine months later in March 1948, he was arrested by the KGB along with his elder brother Stephen. After serving six months in prison in Ivanovo, <mask> was sentenced to five years in the corrective hard labor camps of the U.S.S.R. The first 18 months of his five-year term (1948–1953) he was held in the corrective labor camp in Mordovia (about 400 miles east of Moscow). <mask>'s brother Stephen was one of the thousands who died in the labor camps near the Far North city of Vorkuta.Despite the many hardships he faced, <mask> remembered his experiences in the camps as a “life university” and he was grateful that he survived. He also recalled that these years were brightened for him because he had the opportunity to share his faith with the other captives in the camps. In 1953, his sentence expired and <mask> was sent into permanent exile in the Kazakh village Myrzykul (Kustanai region). After marrying his wife Anna (née Velgosha) in 1954, he was released from exile under amnesty. In 1955, he and his young family moved to Alma-Ata the former capital of Kazakhstan. It was here that the <mask> family became actively involved in the Seventh-day Adventist Church ministry despite severe persecution. Role in the unification and development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Soviet Union

In 1958, <mask> was ordained as a minister and was elected head of the Seventh-day Adventist church organization that at the time existed unofficially in the republics of Central Asia, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus.In the 1960s, the Soviet government continued its persecution of religious organizations despite the external liberalization of some aspects of religious life in the U.S.S.R. Because of this, <mask> and his family were forced to repeatedly change their place of residence to avoid arrests. In 1960, he moved his family from Almaty to the village of Akkul’ (Dzhambul region), then in 1962 to Kokand and in 1966 to Chimkent (in southern Kazakhstan). In the late 1960s the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church  (the supreme governing body of Adventists, located in the U.S.) tried unsuccessfully to establish contacts with the Adventists in the Soviet Union – the activity of the church was then strictly controlled by state authorities. For many decades Seventh-day Adventist living in the Soviet Union could not attend the international meetings of the world church. In 1970 yet another attempt was made to invite a delegation from the Soviet Union to the Adventist World Congress in Detroit but neither <mask> nor other pastors who had received an invitation were allowed release from the country. In the fall of 1970, <mask> was able to visit the U.S. on a private invitation of his aunt, Valentina <mask>, then living in California. His trip to the U.S. coincided with the annual meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, to which, <mask> was invited.This conference was a notable event, because since 1909, none of the Russian Adventist leaders had ever been to the headquarters of the General Conference. The president of the General Conference at the time, <mask>, and other church leaders expressed great interest in the happenings of the Adventists in the Soviet Union. Aware of internal discord and organizational difficulties that prevailed in the church in the area, Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders requested and authorized <mask> to take responsibility for the reconciliation and unification of disparate groups of Seventh-day Adventist communities in the Soviet Union. In the years following the visit to the General Conference World Headquarters, <mask>, driven by his passionate desire to see his beloved church united and vibrant, together with his colleagues in the Central Asian republics and in the Baltic republics, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, worked tirelessly to bring about the consolidation of the Seventh-day Adventist communities into one united family. Kulakov devoted over twenty years of his life to the cause of reconciliation and re-unification of the isolated groups of Adventists in the U.S.S.R. In 1975, along with six other leaders of the church, <mask> was able to attend the next congress of the General Conference in Vienna, Austria. For the first time, after six decades of isolation and repression, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Soviet Union was represented at the World Congress .<mask> was elected as the member of the Executive Committee of the General Conference  and became a member of the Academy of Adventist Ministers. Also in 1975, the Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Moscow, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Leningrad and other Russian cities asked <mask><mask> to move from Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation in order to create a single church organization on the territory of the RSFSR. In response to this request and on the recommendation of the President of the General Conference, <mask> moved to Russia at the end of 1975 and settled in Tula. In March 1977, after a 50-year interval, the first official Congress of the Adventists took place in Russia. The aim was to unite disparate groups into one Adventist church organization. At this time M.P<mask> was elected as head of the association of Adventist Churches in the Russian Federation.However, the government authorities were slow to permit the establishment of the church organization which would be in full accord with the denominational Working Policy. The complete re-unification of the splintered groups of Adventists in the Soviet Union was only achieved by the end of 1980, when <mask> was able to negotiate permission for the official visit to the U.S.S.R. of the General Conference president Neal C. Wilson. On behalf of the Adventist World Church, Wilson communicated to the Adventists in the U.S.S.R. that the General Conference recognized the official leadership of the church in the U.S.S.R. and appealed to the leaders of all factions to join the officially recognized group of Adventists in the U.S.S.R., forming one organization with them. In 1985, an advisory board was formed at the semi-official meeting of church leaders from all republics of the former Soviet Union. It was a step to unite scattered groups of Adventist believers of the Soviet Union into one organization. <mask><mask> (from the Russian Federation) and Nikolai A. Zhukalyuk (from the Ukraine) were elected as the coordinators of this advisory board. Working closely with the leaders of the church in the various other republics of the U.S.S.R., they worked to re-unite and organize national and local associations of Adventists throughout the Soviet Union as close to the Working Policy of the world church organization as the circumstances at the time would allow.To recognize <mask>'s role in the unification and organization of the Adventist Church, the Southwestern Adventist College in Texas, USA awarded M.P<mask> an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Theology in 1987. Founding of an educational institution and publishing house

<mask>ov, along with his son <mask> <mask>, led in the establishment and development of a theological seminary for the training of pastors in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the U.S.S.R.  After much effort and intense dialogue with the authorities and government officials, they were able to receive the necessary authorizations. The <mask> family moved

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 to the village of Zaoksky in 1988, where the first Protestant theological seminary in the country was thus established (currently Zaoksky Theological Seminary) . A few years later under Kulakov leadership, "Source of Life", the first Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in the U.S.S.R., was opened as well . It was not until 1990   that the Adventists were able to receive the permission of the Soviet government to form the Euro-Asia Division of the world Adventist Church at the 1990  World Congress in Indianapolis, IN and <mask> was elected as its president. Public activities

In the 1970s and 1980s <mask>, as one of the influential religious leaders in the U.S.S.R., represented the Seventh-day Adventist Church at various public events in the U.S.S.R. and abroad at international conferences in defense of peace.In June 1977, he participated in the World Conference "Religious Leaders for Lasting Peace, Disarmament and Just Relations Among Nations" and in 1982 he was invited to take part in the World Conference "Religious Workers for Saving the Sacred Gift of Life from Nuclear Catastrophe" in Moscow. <mask> also took part in numerous other Christian Peace conferences, which took place abroad. In 1978 (June 22–27) he traveled to Prague with a delegation of ministers from various religious bodies in the Soviet Union to attend the conference of the Christian Peace Movement (). A few years later in 1983 (20–24 April), <mask> took an active part in the same conference in Sweden in Uppsala (For Life and Peace) (). In the mid-1980s he twice traveled to Japan to participate in the peace conferences organized by the religious organizations of Japan. In the late 1980s, with the improving relationships between the Soviet Union and the United States, the idea of "public diplomacy" gained popularity as an effective means of removing tension in the world. As a result, possibilities emerged for meetings with the public figures from the Soviet Union.<mask>, as one of the religious leaders, was invited to attend the International Chautauqua Conference on US-Soviet Relations, held in Chautauqua, NY., August 24–28, 1987. In October 1987, <mask> was invited to join the Governing Board of the Soviet Children's Fund, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with the Russian writer and chairman of the Fund, Albert Likhanov, in achieving the goals of the foundation. On September 26, 1990, <mask>, along with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II, was invited to the session of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (highest legislative body). It was there that he was able to outline his views on the new draft of the law for freedom of religion. At the end of 1990, <mask> had a third meeting with the President of the Soviet Union <mask> at the Kremlin regarding the religious freedom in the U.S.S.R.  Gorbachev at the time was seeking the support of religious leaders of the country. Having personally lived through persecution for his religious beliefs, <mask> was a constant voice in defense of religious freedom and actively participated in the international conferences on the protection of religious freedom. In 1990, he initiated the establishment of the Russian branch of the International Association for Religious Freedom International Religious Liberty Association.He was then elected Secretary General of the Russian branch of the association and acted as its representative to the Public Chamber of the Russian President from 1993 to 1995. Together with the priest Alexander Borisov, <mask> also took part in the establishment of the Russian Bible Society . One of <mask>'s favorite biblical passages was: "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (II Epistle to Corinthians 3:17). Throughout his lifetime, he worked to create a dialogue between all groups of people and create an atmosphere of spiritual and intellectual freedom toward a common good. In a recent interview, <mask> stated:

"Today I am greatly concerned about the underestimation of the importance of freedom of the individual. We have come through a very dark time when as if with the asphalt roller they tried to crush all individuality and to stifle the freedom of expression. It is impossible to forget that, and we should never forget it!These lessons should be remembered by those who care about the welfare of their native country, about their own children and the future generations. Each of us should think about the kind of foundations that we are laying today. So that the people of Russia could live a full life, filled with joy, with a sense of peace, and free from the fear that you will be silenced, oppressed and exterminated just because you desired to speak freely. This is crucial. This is what can save us as a nation and as a country from the horrors that we experienced in the twentieth century. Establishment of the Institute for Bible Translation

In 1992, <mask> submitted his resignation as head of the Church in order to devote himself to translating the Bible into the modern Russian language. <mask> established the Institute for Bible Translation with the goal of completing a translation of the Russian Bible that is free from denominational bias.To achieve this goal, he invited a wide range of specialists from different denominations to work with him on the project. For some time, <mask> combined this activity with his responsibility as the Secretary General of the Russian Branch of the International Association for Religious Freedom as well as teaching courses in homiletics at Zaoksky Theological Seminary. However, he had to give up other activities to complete the translation of the New Testament. In April 2000, the Institute completed work on the New Testament and published the first edition of the New Testament in Modern Russian Translation. All 12,500 copies in circulation sold out that year and by popular demand it has been republished. That same year, at the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Session in Toronto, <mask><mask> presented the New Testament to the delegates at the World Seventh-day Adventist Congress, and it was decided that he should continue working on the translation of the remainder of the Bible. <mask> moved to the United States with his wife in December 2000.Several years later a second edition of the New Testament and Psalms in the modern Russian translation, as well as the Five Books of Moses, and the books of Daniel and the Minor Prophets  were published. In August 2001,  Andrews University awarded <mask><mask> a second honorary doctorate in theology for his contribution to the translation of the Scriptures. Final years and death

Though <mask> lived the remainder of his life in California, he continued to visit Russia to conduct conferences and business meetings with the staff of his Bible Translation Institute at Zaoksky Theological Seminary. In autumn of 2009, <mask> was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent treatment at Loma Linda University Hospital. He died of brain cancer on February 10, 2010 at his home in Highland, California. On the day of his death, the new Russian translation of the Pentateuch to which he devoted the last five years of his life was printed at Zaoksky. In May 2010, at its annual session, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bible Translation at Zaoksky agreed to name the institute after Kulakov.<mask><mask> was buried at  The Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, DC.
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Resources
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=mikhail-p-kulakov&pid=141342721#fbLoggedOut
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4253297-though-the-heavens-fall
"Recent Developments in Soviet Seventh-Day Adventism" - Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1987/March/religion-and-communism
Kulakov secretly operated Adventist work in former Soviet Union
1519 Church News--Religious Freedom
https://archive.today/20130117220805/http://sda.biggytv.com/watch/really_living_038_mikhail_p_kulakov/really_living/
Kulakov Mikhail M. God's Soviet Miracles: How Adventists built the first Protestant seminary in Russian History. Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1993. Lohne, Alf. Adventists in Russia. Washington, DC: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1987. Antic Oxana. “More Persecution of Soviet Adventists”.Spectrum 2 (1985): 39–41. Daffern Gene. The Church in the USSR: A Conversation with Hegstad. Spectrum 11:4 (1981): 42–45. Fitzpatrick C. “Adventist Prisoners in the Soviet Gulag”. Spectrum 19:2 (1988): 41–43. Gerber R. “Report on a Trip Through Russia”.Review and Herald (November 15, 1956): 16–26. <mask>, Michael P. Spectrum, Vol. 8 (1978) No. 3. Kulakov M . When the KGB came calling. Liberty. 1994.№ 1 pp. 14–20
Wilson Neal C. “Proposals for Peace and Understanding”. Spectrum 19:2 (1988): 44–48. Kolarz, W.Religion in the Soviet Union, London, 1961. Murrey K. “Soviet Seventh-day Adventists,” Religion in Communist Lands 5:2 (Summer 1977). Sapiets M. True Witness: The Story of Seventh day Adventists in the Soviet Union. England: A Keston College Publication, 1990.<mask> Sr. with Maylan Schurch. Though the Heavens Fall. — Review & Herald Publishing, 2008. Galina Stele, Lessons of God's providence: 125 years of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Euro-Asia Division. Ministry, October 2011. References

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title: Louis Janmot

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Anne-François-<mask> (21 May 1814 – 1 June 1892) was a French painter and poet. Early years
<mask> was born in Lyon, France, of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829. He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot. In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel. In 1833, he came to Paris to take painting lessons from Victor Orsel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. With other Lyon painters, he entered the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.In 1835, he went to Rome with Claudius Lavergne, Jean-Baptiste Frenet and other students and met Hippolyte Flandrin. After his return to Lyon in 1836, <mask> would attract the attention of critics of the Salon de Paris in conducting large-scale paintings with religious inspiration such as The Resurrection of the son of the widow of Nain (1839) or Christ in Gethsemane (1840). After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his painting Flower of the Fields that allowed him to access to the Salon of 1846. Theophile Gautier was impressed by his Portrait of Lacordaire (1846). But the failure of his Poem of the Soul at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 disappointed him. In December of that year he married Leonie Saint-Paulet, from a noble family in Carpentras. In 1856, Janmot obtained a commission to paint a fresco (since destroyed) representing the Last Supper for the church of St. Polycarp.Other orders followed, including the decoration of the dome of the Church of St. Francis de Sales and for the town hall that had been renovated by his friend the architect T. Desjardins. He was then appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. In Paris and Toulon
Surprisingly, <mask> moved to Paris in 1861 after having been promised a commission for the Church of St. Augustine, but this project was abandoned three years later. In experiencing significant family and financial problems, <mask> accepted a professorship at the Dominican School of Arcueil. At that time, in his home in Bagneux, he made many portraits of the members of his family (only photographs are currently available). After the birth of her seventh child in August 1870, his wife died in Bagneux. While the Prussian troops approached and occupied his home, he fled to Algiers with his stepfather and made landscape paintings.He returned in June of the following year in Paris and led a solitary life. His house in Bagneux had been looted. In 1878, he produced a fresco in the chapel of the Franciscans in the Holy Land, but this work was not followed by any further order. Faced with family and increasing financial problems, <mask> came to Toulon, and despite some orders (new Portrait of Lacordaire (1878, Museum of Versailles), Rosaire (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1880), Martyrdom of St. Christine (Solliès-Pont, 1882), he lived a retired life. He finished the second part of the Poem of the Soul that the patron and former industrial Félix Thiollier was willing to publish. In 1885, <mask> married a former student, Antoinette Currat, and returned to Lyon. He made charcoal drawings on the theme of the underworld, which can be regarded as a kind of continuation of the Poem of the Soul, including Purgatory (1885) and The End of Time (1888).In 1887 was published in Lyon and Paris an over 500-page book entitled Opinion of an artist on art and includes articles previously written by Janmot. He died five years later at the age of 78. Art style

Janmot has been seen as a transitional figure between Romanticism and Symbolism, prefiguring the French part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; his work was admired by Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis. Like Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, another painter from Lyon and student of Ingres, Janmot carried out many commissions for church decorations. In his paintings the immaculate finish of Ingres was combined with a mysticism that has parallels in the work of his contemporaries the Nazarenes and the Pre-Raphaelites. Works

Poem of the Soul
His most significant work, a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, with verse, called The Poem of the Soul, occupied him for 40 years. {|
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| align="right" | 1.|| Génération divine || || align="right" | 19. || Solitude
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| align="right" | 2. || Le Passage des âmes || || align="right" | 20. || L’Infini
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| align="right" | 3. || L’Ange et la mère || || align="right" | 21. || Rêve de feu
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| align="right" | 4. || Le Printemps || || align="right" | 22.|| Amour
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| align="right" | 5. || Souvenir du ciel || || align="right" | 23. || Adieu
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| align="right" | 6. || Le Toit paternel || || align="right" | 24. || Le Doute
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| align="right" | 7. || Le Mauvais Sentier || || align="right" | 25. || L’Esprit du Mal
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| align="right" | 8.|| Cauchemar || || align="right" | 26. || L’Orgie
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| align="right" | 9. || Le Grain de blé || || align="right" | 27. || Sans Dieu
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| align="right" | 10. || Première Communion || || align="right" | 28. || Le Fantôme
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| align="right" | 11. || Virginitas || || align="right" | 29.|| Chute fatale
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| align="right" | 12. || L’Échelle d’or || || align="right" | 30. || Le Supplice de Mézence
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| align="right" | 13. || Rayons de soleil || || align="right" | 31. || Les Générations du Mal
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| align="right" | 14. || Sur la Montagne || || align="right" | 32. || Intercession maternelle
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Turner, J. (2000).From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists. Grove Art. New York: St Martin's Press. External links
 Le Poème de l’âme – L'idéal
 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
 Charcoal sketches online at ArtRenewal Center Museum
 The Poem of the Soul - description of themes of the work

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title: Dionigi Galletto

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<mask> (26 January 1932  – 25 September 2011) was an Italian mathematician and academician. He is known for his work on rigid body mechanics, on the mathematical theory of elasticity (including both linear elasticity and finite strain theory), on the history of mathematics and on cosmology and extragalactic celestial mechanics: in particular he is considered one of the founders of the latter branch of cosmology. He was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin: as such, he is considered to be the founder–reorganiser of the Mathematical physics school of Turin in the Post–Second World War period. Among his students was Mauro Francaviglia. Biography

He started his university studies in Rome as a student of Severi: however his studies were interrupted due to the military service, which led him to Padua. There he graduated with honours in 1960 under Giuseppe Grioli’s guidance, with a thesis on the continuum theory with asymmetric stress: from 1961 to 1968 he worked in Padua as an associate professor, holding also courses on differential geometry as a lecturer. In 1968, having won a competitive examination for a chair in rational mechanics, he was appointed extraordinary professor of rational mechanics at the University of Palermo: there, Galletto held also courses of mathematical methods for physicists as a lecturer.In 1970 he moved to the University of Turin, working at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences again as extraordinary professor of higher mechanics: in 1971 he became full professor of mathematical physics, a position he held up to 2007, when he retired. Besides the course of mathematical physics, Galletto held various courses relating to the area of his scientific interest: for example he held courses on astronomy as a lecturer. In 2008 he was appointed Emeritus professor. Honors
In 1965 he was awarded the Ottorino Pomini prize by the Unione Matematica Italiana, jointly with Giuseppe Geymonat and Mario Miranda: the judging commission was composed by Dario Graffi (as the president), Giuseppe Grioli, Ennio De Giorgi and Enzo Martinelli (as the secretary). He was corresponding member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1974, and became national resident member in 1980. In 1979 he was elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena: later on, he became effective member in 1984 and emeritus member in 2002. He was also corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.Since 1980 he was corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and was elected national member in 1990. In 1989, the same academy awarded him the "Prize of the Minister of Heritage and Cultural Activity" for his work in mathematics and mechanics. On November 2, 2006 he was elected member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and few months later, on 7 March 2007, he was elected corresponding non resident member to the class of mathematical sciences of the Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli. Work

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During his career, he published more than 150 papers in Italian and international journals. The beginning of his scientific production was under Grioli’s scientific influence: Galletto worked on the topic of his laurea thesis, i.e. on the theory of continua having asymmetric stress characteristics. However, soon he followed his independent research path, with pioneering works that forerun the so called generalised continuum theory.In this theory, among other things, the stress tensor considered is no longer the Cauchy tensor or any similar, double symmetric tensor, but an asymmetric tensor that  generalizes it: and this gives to the theory many further important structural peculiarities. Selected publications

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. The "Yearbook" of the renowned Italian scientific institution, including an historical sketch of its history, the list of all past and present members as well as a wealth of informations about its academic and scientific activities.
. The first part () of an extensive work on the "Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena", reporting the history of the academy and biographies of members up to the year 2006.
. "A man of great humanity" (English translation of the title) is a commemoration of <mask> Galletto appeared on a local Savigliano newspaper.
. This commemoration was read at the Turin Academy by the author on June 20, 2012: a video of the conference has been released by
. This is a monographic fascicle published on the "Bollettino della Unione Matematica Italiana", describing the history of the "Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi" from its foundation in 1939 to 2003: it was written by Gino Roghi and includes a presentation by Salvatore Coen and a preface by Corrado De Concini. It is almost exclusively based on sources from the institute archives: the wealth and variety of materials included, jointly with its appendices and indexes, make this monograph a useful reference not only for the history of the institute itself, but also for the history of many mathematicians who taught or followed the institute courses or simply worked there.
.The "Yearbook 2014" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, published by the society itself and describing its past and present hierarchies, and its activities. It also reports some notes on its history, the full list of its members, obituaries and other useful information.
. The "Yearbook 2014" of the Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli, published by the society itself and describing its past and present hierarchies, and its activities. It also reports some notes on its history, the full list of its members and other useful information. .
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title: George Gerbner

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<mask> (August 8, 1919 – December 24, 2005) was a professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory. He taught at Temple University, Villanova University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Personal life

Early life and education
<mask> was born on August 8, 1919, in Budapest, Hungary. After winning first prize in Hungarian literature in a national competition of high-school students, he enrolled at the University of Budapest, where he graduated with a degree in literature and anthropology (1937–1938). Being of Jewish descent, however, he fled to Paris in 1939 (after Kristallnacht) to avoid conscription into the Hungarian army, which was under a government allied with Nazi Germany. Initially, <mask> was unable to obtain a visa to enter the United States, where his half-brother László Benedek was a Hollywood filmmaker, instead having to travel first to Mexico, then Cuba. He would finally be permitted to sail from Havana to New Orleans, where he was received by Benedek's friends.Thereafter, <mask> hitchhiked from New Orleans to California and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he would receive a degree in psychology and sociology (1940–1941). He would soon transfer to UC Berkeley to study journalism, where he would receive his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1942. Upon graduating, he worked briefly for the San Francisco Chronicle as copy boy, reporter, copy editor, feature writer, daily columnist, and assistant financial editor. Military service
<mask> became a U.S. citizen in 1943. As American enlistment regulations loosened the year prior, <mask> joined the US Army in 1943. (He was officially recognized as an “enemy alien” due to Hungary’s declaration of war on the US.) In the army, he would be trained as a paratrooper in Fort Benning, Georgia.Later, he would be transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and eventually arrived in Italy, where he joined the OSS' Secret Intelligence Branch. After Germany’s defeat in the war <mask> was sent to Austria in October 1945 to investigate a mass encampment of Hungarian soldiers, among which was the pro-Nazi prime minister of Hungary, Döme Sztójay, whom <mask> helped arrest and return to Budapest to be tried and executed as a war criminal. While stationed in Budapest, <mask> met Ilona Kutas, an actress, whom he married in 1946 and had two children with. <mask> received the Bronze Star for his service behind enemy lines and was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant. Graduate studies and political activity
After World War II, <mask> worked as a freelance writer and publicist. Searching for employment upon his return to Los Angeles, he volunteered as a newspaper editor for the Independent Progressive Party and the Progressive Citizens of America in 1947. Because of his association with PCA and IPP, as well as other leftist activities during the height of America's anti-Communist McCarthy Era, <mask> caught the interest of California's House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).He would be called to testify before HUAC, who cited PCA as being a "communist created and controlled organization." Shortly after, <mask> was hired to teach journalism at John Muir College (now Pasadena City College), where he remained from 1948 to 1951. He would then go on to conduct research at the University of Southern California's (USC) Department of Cinema (1951–52), before becoming a teacher and researcher at USC's School of Education (1954–56). Along with his freelance work, <mask> taught journalism at El Camino College (1952–56) while earning a master's (1951) and doctorate (1955) in communication & education at USC. His dissertation, "Toward a General Theory of Communication," won USC's award for "best dissertation." Later life and death
<mask> was diagnosed with cancer in late November, 2005, and died on December 24, 2005 at his apartment in Center City, Philadelphia. He had a total of two children and, as of 2001, five grandchildren.Between 2010 and 2014, a conference on communication, conflict, and aggression was held periodically in Budapest in honor of the late Dr. <mask>. The conference was co-organized by Dr. Jolán Róka of Budapest Metropolitan University and Dr. Rebecca M. Chory, currently of Frostburg State University. Career and work
In 1956, he became a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign's Institute of Communication Research (1956–64), where he had been recruited by Dallas Smythe, who met <mask> as a visiting professor in USC’s Department of Cinema. <mask> remained at Illinois for the next eight years. In 1964, <mask> would become Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (1964–89)—only five years after it was established at the University—and presided over the school's growth and influence in communication theory in academia. <mask> served as editor and executive editor of the School's Journal of Communication, which was the leading publication in the field. Moreover, <mask> also created the first world encyclopedia of communications—as the chair of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Communication—and established The Washington Program, a communications project that brought communication researchers and practitioners together in the U.S. Capitol.In 1968, <mask> established and headed the Cultural Indicators Project (CIP) to document trends in television programming and how these changes affect viewers' perceptions of society. In 1986, he was named chair of the Commission on the Social Sciences of the American Council of Learned Societies' (ACLS) Subcommission on Communications and Society. <mask> would retire from the deanship at Annenberg in 1989 after 25 years, becoming the U of Pennsylvania's longest-serving dean. He continued to conduct research and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in analysis of mass media. In 1991, he founded the Cultural Environmental Movement (CEM), a media advocacy group promoting greater diversity in communication media. In 1997, he became the Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunication at Temple University, where he continued to teach, research, and advocate through CEM. Theoretical work

In 1968, <mask> established and headed the Cultural Indicators Project (CIP) to document trends in television programming and how these changes affect viewers' perceptions of society.The project—as <mask>'s most famous and influential contribution to the field of journalism—held a database of over 3,000 television programs and 35,000 characters. For the CIP, he coined the phrase mean world syndrome to describe the fact that people who watch large amounts of television are more likely to perceive the world as a dangerous and frightening place. <mask> testified before a Congressional Subcommittee on Communications in 1981, saying that: The most general and prevalent association with television viewing is a heightened sense of living in a 'mean world' of violence and danger. Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures.... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. That is the deeper problem of violence-laden television.In a 1987 article titled "Science on Television: How It Affects Public Conceptions", <mask> touched on the fact that prime time television has an abundance of professionals being portrayed. Of all of the professionals, scientists seemed to be portrayed in a slightly more negative light.Scientists tended to be portrayed as “smarter and stronger than other professionals;" while these may not be bad things, they tend to be unbecoming characteristics that could shed a negative light on the entire profession. Although Gerber does mention that TV did not invent the negative perception of science, it does marginalize the field. Honours

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Articles and essays

 1976. "Living with Television: The Violence Profile," with Larry Gross. Journal of Communication 26(2):172–99. 1985. "Mass Media Discourse: Message System Analysis as a Component of Cultural Indicators."Pp. 13–25 in Discourse and Communication, edited by T. A. van Dijk. New York: Walter de Gruyter Berlin. 1985. "Children's Television: A National Disgrace." Pediatric Annals 14(12):822–23 and 826–27. 1986.“Living with Television: The Dynamics of the Cultivation Process,” with Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli. Pp. 17–40 in Perspectives on Media Effects, edited by J. Bryant and D. Zillmann. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (2007). 1986. "The Symbolic Context of Action and Communication."Pp. 251–68 in Contextualism and Understanding in Behavioral Science, edited by R. L. Rosnow and M. Georgoudi. New York: Praeger Publisher. 1987. "Research on Violence and Terrorism in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography," with Nancy Signorielli. pg. 1–163.1987. "Television's Populist Brew: The Three Bs." Et Cetera 44(1):3–7. 1988. "Telling Stories in the Information Age." Pp. 3–12 in Information and Behavior, edited by B. D. Ruben.New Brunswick, NJ: Transcation Books. 1988. "Continuity and Change: Cross Cultural Communications Research in the Age of Telecommunications." Pp. 220–31 in The World Community in Post-Industrial Society 2, edited by C. Academy. Seol: Wooseok Publishing Co.
 1991. "The Image of Russians in American Media and The 'New Epoch'."Pp. 31–35 in Beyond the Cold War: Soviet and American Media Images, edited by E. E. Dennis, G<mask>, and Y. N. Zassoursky. Newbury Park: SAGE Publications. 1994. "Growing Up with Television: The Cultivation Perspective, with Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli." Pp. 17–41 in Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, edited by J. Bryant and D. Zillmann.Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Books
1988. Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography, with Nancy Signorelli. New York: Greenwood Press. Preview. 1989. The Information Gap: How Computers and Other New Communication Technologies Affect the Social Distribution of Power, with Marsha Siefert and Janice Fisher.Oxford University Press. 1991. Beyond the Cold War: Soviet and American Media Images, with Everette E. Dennis and Yassen N. Zassoursky. Newbury Park: SAGE Publications. 1992. Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective, with Hamid Mowlana and Herbert L. Schiller. Avalon Publishing.Preview. 1993. The Global Media Debate, with Mowlana and Kaarle Nordenstreng. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Preview. 1996. Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World, with Mowlana and Schiller.New York: Routledge. Preview. 2002. Against the Mainstream: The Selected Works of <mask>, edited by Michael Morgan. New York: Peter Lang. Book review. Testimonies

 1992.On violence in television — Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice (House Judiciary Committee)
 1950. On <mask>'s alleged association with communist groups— California Senate Investigating Committee on Education
 1981. On research findings regarding violence and television — Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance (House Committee on Energy and Commerce)
 1998. On violence in television — Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
 1998-1999. As a trial expert — trial of Michael Carneal
 1999-2000. As a trial expert — Pacitti vs. Macy

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Announcement of Bell Atlantic Professorship in Temple Times. 1919 births
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title: Manuel Ramos (boxer)

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<mask> (November 20, 1942 – June 6, 1999), nicknamed Pulgarcito (Tom Thumb), was a Mexican boxer and actor. He was the heavyweight champion of Mexico, a top world title contender in the late 1960s, and one of Mexico's most internationally successful heavyweights. On June 24, 1968, <mask> became the first Mexican to challenge for the heavyweight crown when he fought reigning champion Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Almost 51 years later, Andy Ruiz Jr., in the same historic venue, made boxing history when he became the first fighter of Mexican descent to capture a heavyweight world title. Biography
<mask> was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. He boxed professionally for two to three years in the early 1960s, but records of this period have not been preserved. He defeated Indio Lopez for the Mexican heavyweight title on June 24, 1963 by first-round knockout.He next fought a series of American opponents in Los Angeles area venues, attaining a mixed record of 5-6-2. His fortunes improved dramatically from 1966 to 1968, with a string of 13 victories, including a split decision over former title contender Eddie Machen and a unanimous decision over former WBA champion Ernie Terrell. This led to him being ranked #4 by The Ring Magazine and set up a title match with NYSAC World Champion Joe Frazier. The bout was held at Madison Square Garden on June 24, 1968. The iconic arena had just opened four months earlier, and <mask> was the first Mexican fighter to appear there. The match was an intense two-round battle, in which <mask> briefly staggered Frazier, but was then knocked down twice and lost by referee's stoppage when he signaled that he was unable to continue. This was to be <mask>'s only world title fight.He continued to be ranked as a top heavyweight through the end of the 1960s, but losses to George Chuvalo, Jack O'Halloran, and Chuck Wepner (in which <mask> inflicted serious cuts on his opponent but went on to lose by unanimous decision) marked the beginning of his decline. After a period as a gatekeeper for up-and-coming heavyweights in the early 1970s, he lost 15 straight fights and retired from boxing in 1977. Outside of the ring, <mask> had roles in the Mexican films Nosotros los feos (1973) and El Loco Bronco (1989). He worked as an office manager in the Mexican Navy, resigning in 1995. Professional boxing record

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title: Henry Johnson (Louisiana politician)

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<mask><mask> (September 14, 1783 – September 4, 1864) was an American attorney and politician who served as the fifth Governor of Louisiana (1824–1828). He also served as a United States representative and as a United States senator. Early life
<mask> was born in Virginia. His family is said to have resided in southern Virginia, where <mask> completed academic study and became a member of Virginia bar. He was Episcopalian. Political career

1812 to 1828
In 1812, <mask> lost a bid to the U.S. Congress. After his defeat, he practiced law in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, located on the south bank of the Mississippi River in the south-central part of the state.He became a district judge of the Ascension Parish Court in 1811; and was selected as a delegate to the first State constitutional convention in 1812. Upon the death of U.S. senator William C.C. Claiborne in 1818, <mask> was elected by the state legislature as a Democratic-Republican to fill his vacancy. He served as chairman, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, in the 17th Congress. In 1823, he was elected by the Louisiana State Legislature as an "Adams Republican," also known as the National Republican Party candidate, to a full six-year U.S. Senate term. The Party asked him not to run for governor in 1824, as it wanted to retain control of that Senate seat. <mask> did run for governor, being elected in 1824.He served a full term as Louisiana Governor from 1824 until 1828. During his term, the legislature moved the state seat of government to Donaldsonville, a compromise location settled on between Anglo-American leaders, who wanted the capital moved from New Orleans to a more northerly location, and French Creoles, who wanted to retain the seat of government within an historically-French area to reflect the state's origins. Earlier in 1824, riots in New Orleans over this same issue had forced the resignation of Governor Thomas B. Robertson. <mask> gained election as governor due to a bitter division among the Creoles at the time. He also enjoyed the goodwill of a visit to Louisiana by the American Revolutionary War hero, the French aristocrat Marquis de Lafayette. That visit allayed the bitter Creole-Anglo split. <mask> inflamed the conflict again by taking the side of the "Anglos" in a dispute about cotton and sugar cane cultivation.During <mask>'s term, his administration founded two financial institutions that promoted prosperity: the Louisiana State Bank and the Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana. He improved commerce within Louisiana by forming the Internal Improvement Board to maintain and build infrastructure – such as roads and canals, to improve transportation and facilitate the movement of goods and produce to market. 1829 to 1842
In 1828, <mask> ran to gain election by the state legislature to his former U.S. Senate seat against Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny, a man of French and Spanish Creole descent, whose father had been a high-ranking official in Spanish Louisiana at the end of the 18th century. In that election year, <mask> backed Edward Douglass White, Sr., against Edward Livingston for the Louisiana's 1st congressional district, John Quincy Adams for President, and Pierre Derbigny for governor. Some of the men he supported were elected, but the legislature re-elected incumbent Bouligny to the Senate. Bouligny had first been elected after <mask> resigned to take the governorship in 1824. (Adams lost the Presidency to Andrew Jackson.)In 1834 <mask> was elected as a Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives, to fill the vacancy after the resignation of Edward Douglass White, Sr. He was re-elected for two more terms, serving in total from 1834 to 1839. In June 1838, while a congressman, <mask> purchase from the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus many of their 272 slaves. The slaves were sent to <mask>'s Chatham Plantation in Louisiana. Those people who were not sold to <mask> were sold to Jesse Batey on West Oak Plantation, also in Louisiana. <mask> renegotiated the terms of payment in 1844, requiring more time to pay off his debt. That same year, <mask> sold a share of Chatham and would eventually sell the remainder of his land and enslaved people to John R. Thompson in 1851.<mask> unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1842 as the Whig nominee. He was defeated by Democratic nominee U. S. Senator Alexandre Mouton. 1844 to 1850
In 1844, <mask> was elected to fill the vacant U.S. Senate position of Alexander Porter, who never took the seat due to ill health and died in January 1844. <mask> served the remainder of the term until 1849. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Pensions. As senator he supported bills favoring the annexation of Texas, which had become an independent Republic after separating from Mexico. He also voted to repeal the tariff of 1846.In 1848 <mask> lost a bid to remain in the Senate to Pierre Soulé, a Jacksonian-Democrat of French Creole descent. In 1850, he suffered a final political defeat, losing a race for U.S. Representative against <mask> Bullard (Whig). <mask> moved to New Roads in Pointe Coupée Parish and continued the practice of law. Personal life
After passing the bar, <mask> married Elizabeth Rousby Key, a daughter of Philip Barton Key by Ann Plater, a daughter of George Plater; Elizabeth's father was an uncle of Francis Scott Key and Anne Arnold Phoebe Charlton Key, who married Roger B. Taney. The couple had a family together. Several years after the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, the <mask>s moved to the Territory of Orleans, in 1809. He was appointed as clerk of the Second Superior Court of the Territory.In 1811, he was appointed clerk of the newly formed St. Mary Parish in the southwestern part of the state. Death
During the Civil War, Gov. <mask> remained in Pointe Coupee Parish. The state was controlled by the Union after the fall of New Orleans. He died in September 1864, near the close of the war, and was buried on his plantation, which lies at the confluence of Bayou Grosse Tête and Bayou Maringouin. Sidney A. Marchand in his Story of Ascension Parish said that <mask> had bequeathed the land in Donaldsonville on which was built the present-day Ascension Episcopal Church (at the corner of Attakapas/Nicholls and St. Patrick streets). References

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State of Louisiana: Louisiana Secretary of State: <mask><mask> (archived at Internet Archive)

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19th-century American politicians
Democratic-Republican Party United States senators
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