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<mask> (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway", which was eventually syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, continuing in the role until her death. Kilgallen's columns featured mostly show business news and gossip, but also ventured into other topics, such as politics and organized crime. She wrote front-page articles for multiple newspapers on the Sam Sheppard trial and, years later, events related to the John F. Kennedy assassination, such as testimony by Jack Ruby. Early life and career
Kilgallen was born in Chicago, the daughter of newspaper reporter <mask> (1888–1982) and his wife, Mae Ahern (1888–1985).She was of Irish descent, and was a Catholic. <mask> had a sister, Eleanor (1919–2014), who was six years her junior. The family moved to various regions of the United States until 1920, when the International News Service hired <mask> as a roving correspondent based in New York City. The family settled in Brooklyn, New York. <mask> was a student at Erasmus Hall High School. After completing two semesters at The College of New Rochelle, she dropped out to take a job as a reporter for the New York Evening Journal. The newspaper was owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, which also owned International News Service, her father's employer.In 1936 Kilgallen competed with two other New York newspaper reporters in a race around the world using only means of transportation available to the general public. She was the only woman to compete in the contest and came in second. She described the event in her book Girl Around The World, which is credited as the story idea for the 1937 movie Fly-Away Baby starring Glenda Farrell as a character partly inspired by Kilgallen. In November 1938, Kilgallen began writing a daily column, the "Voice of Broadway," for Hearst's New York Journal-American, which the corporation created by merging the Evening Journal with the American. The column, which she wrote until her death in 1965, featured mostly New York show business news and gossip, but also ventured into other topics such as politics and organized crime. The column eventually was syndicated to 146 newspapers via King Features Syndicate. Its success motivated Kilgallen to move her parents and Eleanor from Brooklyn to Manhattan, where she continued to live with them until she got married.On April 6, 1940, Kilgallen married Richard Kollmar, a musical comedy actor and singer who had starred in the Broadway show Knickerbocker Holiday and was performing, at the time of their wedding, in the Broadway cast of Too Many Girls. They had three children: Richard "Dickie" (b. 1941), Jill (b. 1943), and Kerry Kollmar (b. 1954), and remained married until Kilgallen's death. Early in their marriage, Kilgallen and Kollmar both launched careers in network radio. Kilgallen ran her radio program Voice of Broadway, which was broadcast on CBS during World War II, and Kollmar worked a long stint in the nationally syndicated crime drama in which he played Boston Blackie.Beginning in April 1945, <mask> and Kollmar co-hosted a WOR-AM radio talk show, Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick, from their 16-room apartment at 640 Park Avenue. The show followed them when they bought a neo-Georgian townhouse at 45 East 68th Street in 1952. The radio program, like Kilgallen's newspaper column, mixed entertainment with serious issues. <mask> and Kollmar continued doing the show from their home until 1963, long after the terminations of other radio shows on which each had worked without the other. Frank Sinatra feud
Though Kilgallen and Frank Sinatra were fairly good friends for several years and were photographed rehearsing in a radio studio for a 1948 broadcast, they had a falling out after she wrote a multipart 1956 front-page feature story titled "The Frank Sinatra Story." In addition to the New York Journal-American, Hearst-owned newspapers across the United States ran the story. Thereafter Sinatra made derogatory comments about Kilgallen's physical appearance to his audiences at nightclubs in New York and Las Vegas, though he stopped short of mentioning her name on television or during interviews for magazines and newspapers.Sam Sheppard murder trial
Kilgallen covered the 1954 murder trial of Sam Sheppard, a doctor convicted of killing his wife at their home in the Cleveland suburb of Bay Village. The New York Journal-American carried the banner front-page headline that Kilgallen was "astounded" by the guilty verdict because of what she argued were serious flaws in the prosecution's case. At the time of the Cleveland jury's guilty verdict in December 1954, Kilgallen's sharp criticism of it was controversial and a Cleveland newspaper dropped her column in response. Her articles and columns in 1954 did not reveal all she had witnessed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Nine years after the verdict and sentence, and after the judge had died, she claimed at an event held at the Overseas Press Club in New York that the judge had told her before the start of jury selection that Sheppard was "guilty as hell". Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who was working on a habeas corpus petition for his client Sheppard, attended the Overseas Press Club event, heard what Kilgallen told the crowd, and then asked her privately if she would help him. "Some days later," as Bailey wrote in his memoir The Defense Never Rests, "we obtained a deposition from <mask> that was inserted into the petition submitted to" Carl Andrew Weinman, judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.Bailey also included in the habeas corpus petition a statement from Edward Murray, who had worked in 1954 as a court clerk at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Similar to <mask>'s statement, Murray's statement indicated that Edward J. Blythin, the original Sheppard judge, had said that Sheppard was guilty even before the grand jury indicted him on August 17, 1954. In July 1964, four months after the Overseas Press Club event where Kilgallen broke her silence about the deceased Judge Blythin, Judge Weinman of the federal court granted Bailey's habeas corpus petition, Sam Sheppard was released from prison amid much newspaper publicity, and Sheppard met Kilgallen at a "late-night champagne party" (as described by Bailey in The Defense Never Rests) in Cleveland. After <mask>'s death, Sheppard was retried and acquitted. Kennedy assassination
Kilgallen was publicly skeptical of the conclusions of the Warren Commission's report about the assassination of President Kennedy and Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Oswald, and she wrote several newspaper articles on the subject. On February 23, 1964, she published an article in the New York Journal-American about a conversation she had with Jack Ruby, when he was at his defense table during a recess in his murder trial. She also obtained a copy of Ruby's June 7, 1964, testimony to the Warren Commission, which she published in August 1964 in three installments on the front pages of the New York Journal-American, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and other newspapers.What's My Line? Kilgallen became a panelist on the American television game show What's My Line? on its first broadcast, which aired live on February 2, 1950. The series was telecast from New York City on the CBS television network until 1967. She remained on the show for 15 years (until her death). Beginning in 1959, the series was not always telecast live. Goodson Todman Productions used videotape, a recent invention.In 1961, producers were able to stockpile enough videotaped episodes so that <mask>, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, and John Charles Daly could take their first long summer vacation. In 1965, they returned from another long summer vacation to do a live telecast on September 12. It was followed by eight consecutive Sunday nights when Kilgallen appeared live, the last of them being November 7, just before her death. Death

On November 8, 1965, Kilgallen was found dead in her Manhattan townhouse located at 45 East 68th Street. Her death was determined to have been caused by a combination of alcohol and barbiturates. Regarding whether it was a suicide or accidental death, New York City medical examiner James Luke's report stated, "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication, circumstances undetermined". Her funeral mass took place on November 11 at St. Vincent Ferrer; John Daly, Arlene Francis, Betty White, Ed Sullivan, Joseph E. Levine, and Bob Considine were among the 2,600 people attending.She was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, in Westchester County. Legacy
In 1960, Kilgallen was one of the initial 500 persons chosen to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the What's My Line? telecast of November 14, 1965, To Tell the Truth regular panelist Kitty Carlisle, who had been a guest panelist on three previous episodes of What's My Line?, filled in for Kilgallen. Carlisle said on-camera that although she was occupying Kilgallen's seat, "no one could ever possibly take her place." In a 1996 memoir, Kilgallen's colleague and friend Theo Wilson wrote that her work as a crime reporter was often overlooked during her lifetime and was forgotten after her death:
Part of being a good reporter is to be anonymous, to stay out of the story so that you can better watch and study and listen to the principals. She couldn't do that, mostly because people wouldn't let her.She'd walk into a trial and the prosecutor would ask for her autograph for his wife or the judge would send out greetings. Filmography
 Sinner Take All (1936) onscreen appearance as a fictitious reporter
 Fly-Away Baby (1937) identified in the opening credits as the inspiration for the story; her book Girl Around the World, published in 1936, was the source. Pajama Party (1964) uncredited onscreen cameo appearance as herself

Bibliography

 <mask> and Herb Shapiro, Girl Around the World (David McKay Publishing, 1936)
 <mask>, Murder One (Random House, 1967) ASIN: B0007EFTJ6

In fiction
A character based on <mask>en appears in three novels by Max Allan Collins in his series of novels featuring private detective Nathan Heller. Flo Kilgore first appears in Bye Bye Baby (2011) as character based on Kilgallen and three other reporters covering Marilyn Monroe's death. In Ask Not (2013), Heller investigates Kilgallen's death. And Flo Kilgore appears in Do No Harm (2020) as a reporter covering the Sam Sheppard murder case. See also

List of unsolved deaths

References

External links

 <mask>en papers and scrapbooks, 1936–1965, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
 The Supposed "Mysterious Death" of <mask>, John C. McAdams mcadams.posc.mu.edu (archived)
 Recordings of five episodes of <mask>'s Diary (radio, 1945)
 Five recordings from Breakfast with <mask> & Dick; Dick was her husband Dick Kollmar (radio, 1956)
 13 other recordings of <mask>lgallen's radio programs, 1944–1961

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Major General <mask>, 1st Baronet  (25 March 1783 – 26 February 1843) was a British officer in the Royal Engineers who played a leading engineering role in a number of European campaigns of the early nineteenth century. <mask> was revered by the Duke of Wellington and asked to advise on fortifications including the modernisation of the defences in Gibraltar. He was also notable as an English amateur cricketer who made six first-class appearances. Biography
Sir <mask> was eldest of five sons of <mask>, esq., general superintendent at Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, Suffolk, and of Cranmer Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk, by his wife Mary, daughter of <mask> of the 29th foot. He was born at Landguard Fort on 25 March 1783. Sir <mask> was his brother. He was educated at the grammar school at Ipswich, joined the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in the spring of 1797, received a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 30 August 1798, and embarked in October for Gibraltar.<mask> advised on improvements for Gibraltar's fortifications including Parson's Lodge Battery and Wellington Front. He was appointed adjutant of the corps, and remained at Gibraltar four years. While at Gibraltar he was employed on the defences of the north front and in constructing the famous galleries; he also studied seriously, and became a good French and Spanish scholar. He was promoted lieutenant on 14 September 1800 and in 1803 he returned to England. There he was employed on the eastern coast in constructing defence works to oppose the threatened invasion, and in the following year in throwing up field-works from Widford to Galleywood Common (known as the Chelmsford lines), to cover London on that side. Malta, Naples, Sicily
On 1 March 1805 <mask> was promoted second captain, and soon after embarked at Portsmouth with the expedition under Sir James Craig. After some months' cruising the troops were disembarked in July at Malta, where <mask> did garrison duty till the autumn.He then accompanied the expedition to Naples, and was detached with the commanding engineer to Calabria to retrench a position at Sapri for covering a re-embarkation. From Naples the troops sailed for Sicily, and, on the dethronement of the king, garrisoned Messina and Milazzo. <mask> was employed under Major Lefebure in constructing works of defence. In the spring of 1806 <mask> reported, under confidential instructions from the king of Naples, on the forts, harbours, and military condition of Sicily. His work was appreciated by the Neapolitan government, and was commended by Sir <mask>. In June 1806 <mask> embarked at Messina with a force under Sir <mask>, which landed in the bay of St. Euphemia. He was present at the battle of Maida, and marched with an advanced corps under General Oswald to sweep off the French detachments between Monteleone and Reggio, and to reduce .The castle was so ably defended that its capture required all the formalities of a siege. <mask> directed the attack with much credit, and after the capture of the castle persuaded Stuart to retain and strengthen it instead of blowing it up. <mask> carried out this work so successfully that it was held until February 1808, proving during that time an invincible bar to the invasion of Sicily. When it was reduced to ruins by the French, the garrison was withdrawn in boats, without the loss of a single man, by means of a covered gallery constructed by <mask>. <mask> always considered the retention of Scylla the most meritorious effort of his professional life. In December 1806 <mask> returned to England, visiting Algiers on the way, and on 1 January 1807 was appointed adjutant at Woolwich (the headquarters) of the royal military artificers. The increasing demand of the war necessitated the augmentation of the local and independent companies of engineer workmen, and <mask> was occupied till the following year in reorganising them into one regular corps.Spain
In July 1808 Major Lefebure and <mask> were selected to serve as the two assistant-commissioners under General Leith, appointed military and semi-diplomatic agent to the junta of the northern provinces of Spain. <mask> was attached to the army of the Marquis de la Romana, and conceived a great affection for its commander. Towards the end of the year Leith was ordered to take command of a brigade and to select an officer to succeed him as commissioner. Leith offered to appoint <mask>, but <mask> declined, although the high rate of pay was tempting, on the ground that his youth and want of rank would deprive his advice of its proper weight, and he asked instead to join the army. Leith at once appointed him his acting aide-de-camp. <mask> continued to act in this capacity until after the skirmish in front of Lugo, when he was ordered, as an engineer officer, to assist in blowing up the bridge over the Tamboya, and was employed with his own corps during the retreat to Corunna. On his arrival in England <mask> resumed his staff appointment at Woolwich, and on 24 June 1809 was promoted first captain.On the 9th of the following month he was appointed brigade-major to the engineers under Brigadier-General Fyers, to accompany the expedition under the Earl of Chatham to Walcheren. Zeeland
<mask> acted throughout the operations in Zeeland as chief of the engineers' staff, and in that capacity carried out all the arrangements for the attack of Rammekins and Flushing. After the capitulation of Flushing <mask> remained until the defences had been repaired and strengthened, and then returned to England, where he was appointed to command the engineers in the northern district. Portugal
In March 1810 <mask> was ordered to embark for Lisbon, where he was employed under Colonel (afterwards Sir) Richard Fletcher on the lines of Torres Vedras. In June Fletcher joined the headquarters of the army at Celerico, and <mask> was appointed commanding engineer in the south of Portugal, and entrusted with the completion of the works to cover Lisbon from the threatened invasion of the French under Massena. The memoranda by <mask> relative to these defences (printed for private circulation) form a most valuable military work, fully describing the various field-works forming the lines of Torres Vedras. All the arrangements for manning the works and placing the troops had been so well made by <mask> that the several points were occupied as quickly and with as much regularity as if the troops had been re-entering their cantonments from a review.On 17 November 1810 <mask> was appointed brigade-major of engineers in the Peninsular, and was attached to the headquarters' staff, the details of the engineers' service in all parts of the Peninsular passing through his hands. <mask> held the appointment until May 1812, and was employed at all the sieges undertaken during that period. For his conduct during the operations against Ciudad Rodrigo he was particularly mentioned by Wellington in his despatches, and in consequence was gazetted brevet-major on 6 February 1812. At the siege of Badajoz Fletcher, the commanding engineer, was wounded, but at the express wish of Wellington retained his command, and the active duties therefore devolved upon <mask>, his staff officer. In the assault of Fort Picuriaz <mask> saved the life of Captain Holloway of the engineers, who had been shot down on the parapet and fell onto the fraise. For his exertions at the siege <mask> was gazetted on 27 April 1812 brevet lieutenant-colonel, and he thereupon resigned his appointment as brigade-major. East Spain
When it was determined to carry on operations on the eastern coast of Spain, <mask> was appointed commanding engineer under General Maitland, and sailed from Lisbon in the beginning of June.On the disembarkation of the troops at Alicante, <mask> received an appointment on the staff as assistant quartermaster-general, there being already an engineer officer senior to himself in command of the engineers. Owing to differences between the commanders of the allied forces, <mask> was sent on a special mission to Madrid, to explain to Wellington the position of affairs. Travelling by night and avoiding roads, <mask> reached Madrid safely, and was warmly received by Wellington, who, sending instructions by a courier, kept <mask> to accompany him to the north to the siege of Burgos. During the progress of that siege, <mask> was instructed to signal to Wellington by holding up his hat when the arrangements for exploding a mine and making a lodgment were complete. As the signal was not acknowledged, <mask> repeated it until the French perceived him, and their fire brought him down with a bullet through his ankle. He with difficulty rolled himself into the parallel, but he ordered the mine to be fired, and the operations entrusted to him were successfully carried out before he left the field. <mask> remained in a state of delirium for ten days, and as soon as he could be moved Wellington sent him to Lisbon in the only spring wagon at headquarters.The sufferings of this two months' journey severely tried his strength, and he remained in Lisbon until April 1813, when he was sent to England. Eighteen months of severe suffering followed. During this period he composed and published a volume entitled Journal of Sieges carried on by the Allies in Spain in 1810, 1811, and 1812. In this work he fearlessly exposed the deficiencies of the engineer service, which he attributed to the ignorance and military incapacity of the board of ordnance. These strictures naturally offended the dispensers of patronage. Wellington, however, although the book was published without his sanction, and sharply criticised his siege proceedings, praised it, and remained the author's friend. Netherlands
In 1814 <mask> visited the Netherlands, examined the principal fortresses, and afterwards met Wellington at Paris.Wellington told him that he had appointed him, with Brigadier-general (afterwards Sir) Alexander Bryce and another engineer officer, to report on the system of defence for the new kingdom of the Netherlands. The commissioners arrived in Brussels 21 March 1815. On 4 June 1815 <mask> was made a C.B. On the appointment of Wellington to the command in the Netherlands, <mask> accompanied him round some of the principal points of defence. At the end of August the reports of the commission were taken to Paris by Bryce and <mask> and submitted to Wellington, with whom all details were settled by March 1816, when the commission was broken up. <mask> was then selected to be Wellington's medium of communication with the Netherlands government for the furtherance of the objects of the report. In the previous December <mask>, with Colonel Williamson of the artillery, acting as commissioners of the allied sovereigns, prevented the fortress of Charlemont from falling into the hands of the Prussians.The commissioners then took possession of Landrecy for the allies, and returned to Paris in January 1816. In November 1816 a convention founded on the treaty of Paris was signed between England and the Netherlands, empowering Wellington to dispose of a fund of six millions and a half in constructing defensive works for the protection of the Netherlands, and to delegate his powers to as many inspectors as he pleased. The duke named <mask> to be sole inspector, and persevered in this choice in spite of strong pressure on behalf of a superior officer. <mask>'s duty was to make periodical inspections of each fortress, to superintend the execution of the approved plans, sanction modifications, and check expenditure. Wellington generally made two inspections of some weeks annually, when he was always attended by <mask> alone, and became very intimate with him. On the return to England of the army of occupation, <mask>, who became a regimental lieutenant-colonel on 11 November 1816, was appointed to the command of the royal engineers and royal sappers and miners at Woolwich, and to the charge of the powder factories, while still acting as inspector in the Netherlands. In 1823 <mask> was sent by Wellington to the Ionian Islands to confer with the high commissioner, Sir <mask>, respecting the defences of Corfu.His plans were approved and gradually carried out. On 27 May 1825 <mask> was appointed aide-de-camp to the king, with the rank of colonel in the army. On 19 August 1830 Wellington sent him on a special mission to the Netherlands with a view to any military arrangements advisable on account of the recent revolution in France. At Ghent <mask> heard of the rising in Brussels, went to the king of the Netherlands at the Hague, and at the king's request joined the Dutch army and the Prince of Orange at Antwerp. By his advice the prince went to Brussels, where he had a good military position and sufficient force to maintain himself. Two hours after <mask> had left Brussels for London to report on his mission the prince retired to the Hague, thus abandoning his advantages and determining the subsequent course of the revolution. On 30 September 1831 <mask> was created a baronet for his services in the Netherlands.In congratulating him upon the honour conferred on him, Wellington suggested a castle with the word 'Netherlands' as an addition to his armorial bearings. From 1835 to 1838 <mask>'s health compelled him to live in a southern climate. He was promoted major-general <mask> <mask> on 10 January 1837, and in 1838 he was made a K.C.B. Great Britain
In the summer of 1839 <mask> was requested by the master-general of the ordnance to revise and digest the projects of defence for British coasts and harbours, and in the spring of 1840 was a member of a commission upon the defences of the colonies. He next undertook at the request of government to lay down a general scheme of defence for Great Britain. In the beginning of October 1840 major-general <mask> <mask> was sent to Gibraltar to report on the defences of the fortress. <mask> advised on improvements for Gibraltar's fortifications including Parson's Lodge Battery and Wellington Front.He remained there as major-general on the staff till June 1841, when he returned to England. His proposals for the improvement of the defences of Gibraltar were approved and gradually carried out. <mask> advised on improvements such as those made to Parson's Lodge Battery where his advice caused eight guns to be installed in 1842. <mask> also devised that new batteries should be sighted high above the Gibraltar Harbour that could take advantage of the increased height of the rock. One of these "retired batteries" was named <mask>' Battery after him. He died, after a day's illness, on 25 Feb. 1843, at his residence, Pittville, Cheltenham. Appreciation
According to the Dictionary of National Biography, <mask> may be ranked among the first military engineers of his day.He possessed talents of the highest order; great mathematical knowledge, coupled with sound judgment and deep reflection. He was present at six sieges, and at five of them acted as brigade-major, and his intimate knowledge of the details of these operations gives great value to his published works on them. His reputation as a military engineer was not confined to his own country. A statue by Mr. Behnes was erected to his memory in the south transept of St. Paul's Cathedral by the officers of the corps of royal engineers. <mask> was mainly associated with Middlesex. He made six known appearances in first-class matches from 1814 to 1819. Family
On 20 April 1816 <mask> married, in London, Catherine Maria, daughter of Effingham Lawrence of New York City.He had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Sir Lawrence, was murdered by robbers on 7 November 1845 when travelling between Macri and Smyrna, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Willoughby, who died in 1884, and whose eldest son, Lawrence, born in 1857, was the fourth baronet. Publications
<mask> was the author of a short account of Sir <mask>'s campaign in Sicily, published in 1808; Journal of Sieges carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain between the years 1811 and 1814, 1814; Account of the War in Spain, Portugal, and the South of France from 1808 to 1814 inclusive, 1817. He also printed in 1829 for private circulation Memoranda relative to the Lines thrown up to cover Lisbon in 1810; these were afterwards published in the Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers. A third edition of the Journal of the Sieges was published in 1843, and edited by his brother, Sir Harry David <mask>, who added some valuable information, and incorporated in this edition the memoranda on the lines of Torres Vedras. <mask>'s Reports relating to the Re-establishment of the Fortresses in the Netherlands from 1814 to 1830 were also, by permission of the minister for war, edited by Sir <mask>, and printed for private circulation among the officers of the corps of royal engineers. Notes

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Account of the War in Spain, Portugal, and the South of France from 1808 to 1814 inclusive by <mask> <mask>, from Google Book Search
Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington in Spain between the years 1811 and 1814 by <mask> <mask>, from Google Book Search
Memoranda Relative to the Lines Thrown Up to Cover Lisbon in 1810 <mask> <mask>, from Google Book Search
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<mask> (née Waldroop; born July 3, 1966), known professionally as <mask>,  is an American television chef and author. She is known for her "Semi-Homemade" cooking concept, which <mask> describes as using 70 percent pre-packaged products and 30 percent fresh items. She received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Show Host in 2012 for her work and her show. As the partner of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, she served as New York's de facto First Lady from 2011 to 2019, when the couple ended their relationship. Early life
<mask> was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1966, the daughter of Vicky Svitak and Wayne Waldroop, who had been  high-school sweethearts. When <mask> was two, her mother sent her, along with her younger sister, Cindy, to live with their paternal grandmother, Lorraine Waldroop. In 1972, after divorcing Wayne, <mask>'s mother moved with her girls to Sumner, Washington, where they acquired a new stepfather, whose last name (Christiansen) <mask> took.Vicky had three additional children in the 1970s: Kimber, Richie, and John Paul. Due to her mother's illness and the absence of her and her siblings' fathers, <mask> effectively raised her four younger siblings. In her youth, <mask> learned how to feed her younger siblings frugally with a combination of food stamps and welfare payments, an experience that informed her future approach to cooking. <mask> attended Onalaska High School, in Onalaska, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. <mask> claims her family is Catholic. She was initially raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, but her family later became Jehovah's Witness. In December of her junior year, she left college to live near family in Malibu, California.She later attended a two-week recreational course at Le Cordon Bleu in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Career
In the early 1990s, <mask> created a product called "Sandra Lee Kraft Kurtains," a home-decorating kit designed to turn a wire rack and sheets, or other spare fabric, into decorative drapery. It was sold via infomercials and cable shopping networks. Home-shopping network QVC hired her as on-air talent. In her first 18 months, <mask> sold $20 million worth of merchandise. QVC also selected <mask> to launch its craft and home decorating categories on its networks in the U.K. and Germany. In 1994, she released her first DIY home improvement video series, which sold more than a million copies.Semi-Homemade Cooking with <mask> premiered on the Food Network in 2003. The show ran for 15 seasons and was in the top three new weekend shows on the network for its first five years. Each episode contains entertaining and arts and crafts elements, in which <mask> decorates the table setting and kitchen in accordance with the theme of the meal that she just prepared. She refers to these as "tablescapes", a term she coined. <mask>'s second Food Network series, <mask>'s Money Saving Meals, began airing on May 10, 2009, in response to the Great Recession. At the time, she was the only host on the Food Network with two cooking series running concurrently. Kurt Soller, writing for Newsweek, described her as "among TV's most successful female chefs"., her shows have aired in 63 countries. She has authored 27 books, including Sandra <mask> Semi-Homemade: Cool Kids Cooking (October 2006) and a memoir, Made From Scratch, which was released in November 2007. Her book Semi-Homemade Cooking appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. A magazine based on her show, Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade, was released in 2009. In late 2009, <mask> hosted <mask> Celebrates, a series of four one-hour specials that aired on HGTV. In 2012, <mask> won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host for Semi-Homemade Cooking. Also in 2012, she started a monthly lifestyle magazine, <mask> Lee, in partnership with TV Guide.She is also starring in two new shows: <mask>'s Restaurant Remakes and <mask>'s Taverns, Lounges & Clubs. People magazine has included her in its list of "Most Beautiful" people multiple times. In early 2020, <mask> began creating her "Top Shelf" video series for Today.com, showcasing new ways to make meals from products commonly found in pantries. An April 2020 New York Times article authored by Jessica Bennett called <mask> "the queen of making something out of nothing". In late 2020, <mask> hosted a series of holiday segments, "It's a Wonderful Lifetime", on Lifetime. Documentaries
In 2015, shortly before being diagnosed with cancer, <mask> started her own production company. She created Rx: Early Detection – A Cancer Journey With <mask>, a documentary about her experiences with cancer, which aired on HBO.The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018, at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, and on HBO in October 2018. <mask> received the Made in New York Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in November 2018 for her work on the documentary. <mask> co-executive produced Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in collaboration with Academy Award-winning director Freida <mask>, Geralyn Dreyfous, and others. It premiered on Starz in March 2021 as part of the network's Women's History Month programming. Philanthropy

<mask> co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of UNICEF in 2000. She donated the proceeds from her second cookbook to God's Love We Deliver and Project Angel Food, two organizations that deliver food to homebound individuals. In 2015, she led a UNICEF team on a mission to Haiti in her role as a special nutrition emissary for the organization.The U.S. division of the UN's World Food Program, the world's largest humanitarian organization, appointed <mask> to its board of directors in May 2020. <mask> was a spokesperson for Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign for more than ten years and created No Kid Hungry's annual fundraiser, the Great American Bake Sale. Her first Great American Bake Sale, in 2011, raised more than $50,000. She has also worked with the Elton John AIDS Foundation and serves on its board. Critical response
Hsiao-Ching Chou of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote a review of <mask>'s cookbook Semi-Homemade Cooking that criticized both her recipes and her "semi-homemade" concept. She then wrote a follow-up column, noting that the review received a response "that was more impassioned than I anticipated". Chou wrote that, though most readers agreed with her, a number of readers took <mask>'s side, including one who wrote, "Lots of people who don't want to take the time to shred a cup of carrots want to cook a good meal."Kurt Soller, writing for Newsweek, compared <mask>'s impact upon television cooking with that of Julia Child, noting that although <mask>'s show "is the furthest from Child's methods", both women "filled a niche that hasn't yet been explored". Amanda Hesser, in a 2003 review of Semi-Homemade Cooking in The New York Times, wrote that <mask>'s recipes, in their use of prepackaged ingredients, can end up costing more, having harder-to-find ingredients, taking longer to make, and tasting worse than equivalent recipes made from scratch. Hesser also wrote that, in her cookbooks, <mask> "encourages a dislike for cooking, and gives people an excuse for feeding themselves and their families mediocre food filled with preservatives." At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, both Jessica Bennett in New York Times and Jaya Saxena in Eater noted that the context of pandemic scarcity made the "semi-homemade" concept feel newly relevant. Of <mask>, Saxena wrote, "her show, Semi-Homemade Cooking, might be the perfect way to cook through quarantine." Kwanzaa cake

Much of the criticism of <mask> has coalesced around a recipe for "Kwanzaa Cake" that she demonstrated on a 2003 episode of Semi-Homemade Cooking with <mask>. The recipe consisted of angel food cake topped with icing, cinnamon, apple pie filling, pumpkin seeds and corn nuts (which she referred to as acorns), all of which were store-bought, with seven Kwanzaa candles then inserted into the cake.Food writer Anthony Bourdain, who was harshly critical of <mask> in general, described the video clip of this segment of the show as "eye searing" and "a war crime". The cake was called "scary" by the Houston Chronicle, and "the most ghastly-sounding dish in <mask>'s culinary repertoire" by Tulsa World. Salon.com wrote that the video "takes pride of place in the pantheon of hilarious culinary disaster videos". Cookbook author Denise Vivaldo, who claims to have ghostwritten recipes for many celebrity chefs, wrote a humorous post in The Huffington Post in December 2010 stating that she was responsible for the recipe (though she said that the candles were <mask>'s idea), and apologizing for it. She also wrote that <mask> "has incredibly bad food taste". A week later, the post was removed after <mask>'s lawyer threatened legal action. <mask> has said this recipe is the only one of hers whose criticism she has taken to heart, and that the recipe was due to the Food Network dictating the show's content at the time.Personal life
From 2001 to 2005, she was married to then-KB Home CEO and philanthropist Bruce Karatz, for whom she converted to Judaism. In the fall of 2005, <mask> entered into a relationship with Andrew Cuomo, who served as the 56th Governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in August 2021. The two lived in a home owned by <mask> in Chappaqua. On September 25, 2019, the couple announced that they had ended their relationship. <mask> has been reported to be dating the Algerian born Abdulwahab Benyoucef since March 2021, an actor professionally known as Ben Youcef who is 13 years her junior. Reportedly, friends of <mask> and Ben Youcef are known to affectionately refer to the couple as "Bendra." Cancer and advocacy
<mask> announced on May 12, 2015, that she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.By then she had undergone a lumpectomy, and was scheduled to have a double mastectomy later in the week. Governor Cuomo was to take some personal time to be with her during and after the surgery. In August 2015, she contracted an infection in her right breast that resulted in her going on bed rest and intravenous drugs for three months. <mask> announced that she is cancer free in late 2015. In 2016, <mask> pushed for the passage of the $91 million "No Excuses" law in the state of New York, which provided for expanded breast cancer screening and removed insurance co-pays for mammograms. She subsequently advocated for other states to pass their own versions of the "No Excuses" law. <mask> was a keynote speaker at the Susan G. Komen Advocacy Summit for breast cancer advocacy in Washington, D.C., in May 2019.She also became an ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer and produced the documentary Rx: Early Detection – A Cancer Journey With <mask>. In 2018, the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment presented <mask> with the Made in NY Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. References

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<mask> (born 1959) is an American policy-scholar, and former diplomat and senior official at the US Departments of State and Defense. <mask> held senior positions on leading Democratic presidential campaigns in 2008. He served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2009 to 2012, appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. <mask> is currently the inaugural dean at Indiana University's <mask> H. Hamilton and Richard G. Lugar School of Global and International Studies. His nonpartisan scholarship has been recognized by leading Republicans and Democrats. Early life and education
Born to a Jewish family, <mask> graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, from which he also holds a J.D. He also holds a Master of Arts in political science from the City University of New York, and an A.B.from Vassar College. Career
<mask> was Assistant Director for Research at the Arms Control Association in Washington from 1989 to 1994 before becoming Special Assistant for Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense. In 1995, <mask> became a member and later Principal Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State, a role he served in until 2001. <mask> joined the Carnegie Endowment's Non-Proliferation Project as a visiting scholar in April 2001. From 2002 to 2007, <mask> served as Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Director of the Council’s task force program which convened nonpartisan, blue ribbon commissions to issue reports on major foreign policy challenges facing the United States. <mask> also served as co-director of the CFR-Freedom House Task Force on “Enhancing U.S. Leadership at the United Nations,” co-chaired by Rep. David Dreier and Rep. <mask> (2003).<mask> was a presidentially-appointed trustee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and currently serves as Vice-Chair of its Committee on Conscience, which advises the Museum’s Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. <mask>, in his museum capacity, participated in two trips to Myanmar and refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh and raised concerns with Burmese authorities in Naypydaw. <mask> also served as an advisor to the congressionally mandated Task Force on the United Nations, chaired by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. From 2007 to 2008, <mask> was national security director for the Clinton presidential campaign, and later served as a foreign policy advisor to the Barack Obama campaign. From 2008 to 2009, Feinstein served as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2012, Feinstein served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland.He was confirmed by unanimous consent by the United States Senate. <mask> is admitted to the bars of New York and Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Trustees of NAFSA: the Association of International Educators, and The International Center in Indianapolis. Ambassador to Poland

On July 17, 2009, President Obama announced that he intended to nominate <mask> as Ambassador to Poland. <mask> was formally nominated on July 20, 2009 and was confirmed by the Senate on September 22, 2009 by unanimous consent. On October 20, 2009, Ambassador <mask> presented his credentials to the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński. During his tenure, Feinstein signed an agreement to establish a U.S. Air Force Aviation Detachment in Poland, the first continuous presence of U.S. forces in the country.He also signed an agreement, witnessed by Secretary Clinton, to establish missile defenses in Poland, resolving an important diplomatic issue after the Obama Administration had moved away from Bush era missile defense postures. <mask> was also involved in efforts to strengthen energy cooperation in Central Europe. In April 2012, Ambassador <mask> accompanied President Obama to the location where the Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw was under construction, making Obama the first world leader to visit the site. As ambassador, Feinstein joined with the Polish government and civil society to promote democracy in the region, advanced deeper understanding of contemporary Poland in the United States, and supported civil society in the country, including hosting the parents of Matthew Shepard and introducing them to Polish parents of LGBTQ children. Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University
<mask> was named the founding dean of Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies in 2014, a post he currently holds. In 2018, Feinstein played a major role in having the school renamed after the bipartisan foreign policy leaders and long-time Indiana Members of Congress Senator Richard Lugar and Congressman <mask>. Under Feinstein’s leadership, the school has grown to be one of the nation’s largest international affairs schools, offering over 70 languages, with 1,100 students and 120 full-time faculty.It is a global leader in the study of international affairs and the strategic languages and cultures that shape the world. In 2018, the school received the largest number of grants in the nation to global institutes that the Department of Education designated as National Resource Centers under the prestigious Title VI of the National Security Education Act. The Hamilton Lugar school has also received major grants supporting Russian and Korean studies. In 2020, the university and school were designated as a “top performing institution” in the number of Boren Awards won by its students, tied for second in the nation. Feinstein has recruited many prominent foreign policy voices and scholars to address the Hamilton Lugar school at the student-focused America’s Role in the World Conference, which he founded in 2015, ranging from Rohingya Burmese activist Wai Wai Nu to IU alumnus and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Senator Todd Young who delivered the inaugural Lugar lecture and former US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Under Feinstein’s stewardship, the school raised 120% of the University’s Bicentennial Fundraising Goal, raising $30 million. This funding established seven endowed professorships; three new institutes, and some 250 endowed scholarships and fellowships.McLarty Associates
From 2013 to 2014, <mask> was Senior Director at McLarty Associates; he currently serves as a Senior Advisor. Author

<mask> has written widely on foreign policy and national security. He is the author of "Means to an End: U.S. Interest and the International Criminal Court" (Brookings, 2009) with Tod Lindberg of the Hudson Institute. This book received bipartisan praise. Republican Senator John McCain described it as "an important contribution to the ongoing debate over U.S. involvement with the International Criminal Court. As our country continues to seek ways in which to hold perpetrators of atrocities to account, their analysis and argument will play a key role in the thinking in this area." Writing in Foreign Affairs, Princeton University Professor John Ikenberry said, "Books of this sort are all too rare.Two experienced policy intellectuals, one liberal, one conservative, have come together to find common ground on a controversial foreign policy issue." <mask> said the book was “Rigorous in its arguments and humane in its conclusions, the volume is an indispensable guide for scholars and policymakers alike.”

An international lawyer, Feinstein wrote the Council on Foreign Relations report "Darfur and Beyond: What Is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities," and which was featured in the Emmy Award-winning multimedia council project "Crisis Guide-Darfur." <mask> is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and op-eds, and he is a frequent commentator for the national and international media. His writings include "UN Divided" in the National Interest and "A Duty to Prevent," written with <mask> Slaughter in Foreign Affairs. His book chapters include: "Darfur and Beyond: What Is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities" in Beyond Humanitarianism (Council on Foreign Relations, 2007) and "Beyond Words: U.S. Policy and the Responsibility to Protect" in The Responsibility to Protect: the Global Moral Compact for the 21st Century (Palgrave 2008). Awards

<mask> was awarded the Commander's Cross with the Order of the Star of Merit of the Republic of Poland by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski in Warsaw in October 2012 "for his outstanding contributions to Polish-American relations by strengthening cooperation between Poland and the United States." In 2011, Feinstein received two medals from the Veteran's Association of Combatants of the Republic of Poland and Former Political Prisoners for his leadership in strengthening security and cooperation between Poland and the United States.In 2019, Feinstein was awarded Indiana University’s Bicentennial Medal.Personal life

<mask> is married to Elaine Monaghan, a Scot who is a journalist and member of the faculty at the Media School at Indiana University. They have two children. References

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 Statement of <mask>, September 15, 2009, Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Confirmation hearing

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title: Rex Allen

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<mask> (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999), known as "the Arizona Cowboy", was an American film and television actor, singer and songwriter; he was also the narrator of many Disney nature and Western productions. For his contributions to the film industry, <mask> received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975, located at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. Early life
<mask> was born to Horace E<mask> and Luella Faye Clark on a ranch in Mud Springs Canyon, forty miles from Willcox in Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. As a boy he played guitar and sang at local functions with his fiddle-playing father, until high-school graduation when he toured the Southwest as a rodeo rider. He got his start in show business on the East Coast. Early career

<mask> began his singing career on radio station KOY in Phoenix, Arizona, after which he became better known as a performer on the National Barn Dance on WLS in Chicago. When singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were very much in vogue in American film, in 1949 Republic Pictures in Hollywood gave him a screen test and put him under contract.Beginning in 1950, <mask> starred as himself in 19 of Hollywood's Western movies. One of the top-ten box office draws of the day, whose character was soon depicted in comic books, on screen <mask> personified the clean cut, God-fearing American hero of the Wild West, who wore a white Stetson hat, loved his faithful horse Koko, and had a loyal buddy who shared his adventures. <mask>'s comic-relief sidekick in his first few pictures was Buddy Ebsen and then character actor Slim Pickens. Personal life
<mask> was married three times; all three marriages ended in divorce. First, in 1940, he married Doris Windsor, with whom he had one child (<mask> <mask>). His second marriage was to Bonnie Linder (m. 1946–1973), with whom he had four children. His third and final marriage was to Virginia Hudson, on November 25, 1992.The couple divorced in 1999. His five children included <mask> Jr., who became a singer like his father. Later career
<mask> wrote and recorded many songs, a number of which were featured in his own films. Late in coming to the industry, his film career was relatively short as the popularity of westerns faded by the mid 1950s. But he starred in a number of B-Westerns during the 1950s. As other cowboy stars made the transition to television, <mask> tried too, cast as Dr. Bill Baxter for the half-hour weekly syndicated series Frontier Doctor. In 1961, he was one of five rotating hosts for NBC-TV's Five Star Jubilee.<mask> had a rich, pleasant voice, ideally suited for narration, and was able to find considerable work as a narrator in a variety of films, especially for Walt Disney Pictures wildlife films and television shows. The work earned him the nickname, "The Voice of the West." He narrated the original 1963 version of The Incredible Journey. He also was the voice of the father on Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, first presented at the 1964 World's Fair and now at Walt Disney World. A 1993 renovation replaced <mask> with Jean Shepherd as the voice of the father, but <mask> was given a cameo as the grandfather in the final scene. <mask> provided the narration for the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated film Charlotte's Web. He was also the voice behind Purina Dog Chow commercials for many years.After moving to Sonoita, Arizona, in the early 1990s, he was a viable voice talent almost until his death, recording hundreds of national advertising voice tracks at his favorite Tucson studio, Porter Sound. In his later years he also performed frequently with actor Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez. He wrote and sang the theme song for the early 1980s sitcom Best of the West. Death
<mask> died on December 17, 1999, two weeks before his 79th birthday, in Tucson, Arizona, of a heart attack. He had collapsed in his driveway and was then run over by his caregiver. Cremated, his ashes were scattered at Railroad Park in Willcox where most of his memorabilia are on display. A few months before his death, <mask> gave an extensive interview on his days at WLS-AM to announcer and producer Jeff Davis for the 75th Anniversary History of WLS radio program, broadcast after <mask> died.That segment of the program was dedicated to his memory. Legacy
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, <mask> was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1989, his life story was told in the book <mask>: My Life, Sunrise to Sunset – The Arizona Cowboy, written by Paula Simpson-Witt and Snuff Garrett. The <mask> Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame in Willcox, Arizona features an <mask>'s collection of memorabilia, including photos, movie posters, cowboy outfits, records and musical instruments. Across the street from the museum is a bronze statue of <mask>. <mask> was a cousin of the Gunsmoke cast member Glenn Strange, who played bartender Sam Noonan.His son, <mask>, Jr., is a singer. (1998). "<mask>." In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. P. Kingsbury, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 10.External links

 Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame Web site
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<mask> (born 8 January 1991), commonly known as <mask>, or simply <mask> (), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for  club Everton and the Brazil national team. After starting out in the Madureira youth system in his home country, he joined Uruguayan club Deportivo Maldonado, but later returned to Brazil and made his professional debut with Vasco da Gama in 2009. <mask> joined Italian club Udinese in 2012, and subsequently moved to fellow Serie A side Napoli in 2015. At international level, he was a part of the Brazil under-20 side that won the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and later made his senior debut for Brazil in 2018; he was a member of the team that won the 2019 Copa América on home soil. Club career

Madureira and Deportivo Maldonado
<mask> was signed from Madureira by Uruguayan side Deportivo Maldonado at 17 years of age  for an undisclosed fee. However, he was later loaned out to Vasco da Gama back in Brazil; he would not make an appearance for Maldonado. Vasco da Gama
<mask> moved to Vasco da Gama once again still as a youth player, loaned from Deportivo Maldonado.A year after he played for their youth team, he was brought back and promoted to the first-team by coach Dorival Júnior, playing in many crucial games in the club's 2009 season to help the side win the Série B and secure promotion to the top-flight Série A, though he ultimately suffered an injury. Due to injury <mask>, could not compete with Vasco da Gama neither in the Campeonato Carioca nor the 2010 Copa do Brasil. After an initial recovery, he returned to the club's junior team to regain fitness before rejoining the first-team. He then returned to action in the last round of the Série A before the break for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, playing in the Copa da Hora friendly tournament. The club won the tournament, with <mask> contributing to the title, also scoring a goal in a 3–2 victory over Coritiba. Udinese
In June 2012, <mask> signed for Serie A side Udinese for a reported fee of R$7 million from Deportivo Maldonado. He made his debut for Udinese at home at the Stadio Friuli against Juventus, where he created an assist for teammate Andrea Lazzari's goal.In his first season in Udine, <mask> played mostly as a defensive midfielder, recovering and distributing a large number of balls. Manager Francesco Guidolin played him in 36 games in the league out of 38 games, he proved one of the best bargains of the season, defying expectation and playing almost all games as a starter to help Udinese to finish in a surprise fifth-place position, securing qualification to next year's UEFA Europa League. The following season the club finished 13th in the league in what was Francesco Guidolin's final season with the side. Despite this, <mask> excelled in midfield, and scored his first goals for the club as his improvement in Italy continued. His calm and controlled performance in midfield also prompted future Udinese manager Andrea Stramaccioni to suggest that he was now one of the best young midfielders in Europe, comparable to Manchester United's Paul Pogba. In the 2014–15 season, <mask> was to be the top ball-winner of all of Europe's top-five leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1) with the most balls won. Napoli
After reported interest from a number of other clubs, <mask> signed for Napoli for €10m plus bonuses in July 2015.In the 2015–16 season, <mask> made his Napoli debut in a pre-season friendly against Lega Pro side FeralpiSalò, which Napoli won 5–2. He made his first Serie A debut for Napoli at home against Sampdoria in the second matchday of the Serie A season, creating an assist for Gonzalo Higuaín with a through-ball that the latter converted with a right-footed shot from the right side of the box, making the scoreline 2–0. <mask> was later substituted in the second half for David López. <mask> would then receive a start in Napoli's third game of the season, a 2–2 away draw with Empoli, scoring an equalizer in the 78th minute after converting a pass from captain Marek Hamšík. On 17 September 2015, <mask> came off the bench in the 62nd minute against Belgian club Club Brugge in his first ever Europa League game, assisting José Callejón's second goal of the game with a through-ball just minutes after coming on. The match finished 5–0 for Napoli, the club's largest European win and the joint-largest margin of defeat for Brugge, equalling its 6–1 defeat at Monaco in 1988. <mask> would go on to score once again and provide another assist in a 5–0 win against Lazio, only three days after the Brugge victory on 20 September, giving manager Maurizio Sarri trust in him for his precise passing and defensive work.On 26 September, <mask> scored a goal against defending champions Juventus, with excellent passing and an impressive overall game in a 2–1 home win. On 4 October, <mask> would score the opening goal in a 0–4 away rout of Milan in a swift counter-attacking move, where the Brazilian went one-on-one with Milan goalkeeper Diego López. In the 2016–17 season, <mask> had 29 Serie A appearances (1 goal, 5 assists), 8 Champions League appearances culminating in an 86.6% pass completion rate, an average of 2.4 successful tackles per game and he also averaged one key pass (one that led to a goalscoring opportunity) per game. In the 2017–18 season, <mask> played in all 38 Serie A matches, scoring four goals. During that season, <mask> extended his contract with Napoli until 2023. In the following season, he featured in 33 Serie A matches and reached the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals with Napoli. In the 2019–20 season, he played in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League round of 16 home match against Barcelona, which ended 1–1, then he won the 2019–20 Coppa Italia against Juventus, his only silverware with Napoli.Everton
On 5 September 2020, English club Everton signed <mask> for around £21.7m on a three-year deal, to be reunited with former Napoli manager Carlo Ancelotti. He made his debut the following week in a 1–0 win away to Tottenham Hotspur. <mask> suffered an injury to his hamstring on 16 December during an away game against Leicester City, he was replaced in the 41st minute by Andre Gomes; Everton won the game 0–2. <mask> was ruled out for the remainder of Everton's games in 2020. He returned to the starting eleven on 1 March against Southampton playing the full 90 minutes, Everton won the game 1-0.

International career

Under-20
He was called up by Brazilian under-20 coach Ney Franco on 20 August 2011, where he impressed enough at Vasco da Gama to earn a call-up for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Brazil's U-20 World Cup-winning side also featured the likes of Oscar, Philippe Coutinho, Casemiro and Danilo, as well as future Napoli teammates Gabriel and Bruno Uvini. Brazil made it to the tournament final, beating Portugal 3–2 in extra time and winning the U20 World Cup for the fifth time.Senior
Although born in Brazil, <mask> holds dual Portuguese-Brazilian nationality, making him eligible to play for Brazil or Portugal. <mask> also 'has a distant Italian relative' which qualifies him for an Italian passport and thus the Italian national team. Sky Sport Italia and TV Luna report that he has been asked 'to switch allegiances to the Azzurri' by national coach Roberto Mancini. Manager Tite, on 26 October 2018, named <mask> to the Brazilian squad that will face Uruguay and Cameroon in friendlies the following month. However, because these were only exhibition matches, <mask> still also remained eligible to play for Portugal and Italy at the time. He made his senior international debut in the former match, held in London on 16 November, which ended in a 1–0 victory to Brazil. In May 2019, <mask> was included in Brazil's 23-man squad for the 2019 Copa América on home soil.On 7 July, he come on as an injury-time substitute in Brazil's 3–1 victory over Peru in the final of the tournament, at the Maracanã Stadium. Style of play
Considered by several pundits and footballing figures to be one of the best midfielders in Serie A, Europe, and world football, <mask> operates primarily as a defensive midfielder or as a central midfielder in the mezzala role, and is equally comfortable at playing both in an attacking and defensive midfield role; he is also capable of being deployed in a deeper role as a playmaker. As such, he has also been labelled a box-to-box midfielder in the media. He is also capable of playing on the left or right flank, and has even been deployed as a full-back on occasion. Normally deployed as a holding midfielder in front of the back-line, <mask> is known as a dynamic, physically strong, tenacious and energetic right-footed midfielder, with good ball-winning abilities. He also possesses good technique, dribbling skills, pace and good long passing ability, which enables him to start attacking plays after winning back possession. He has been described as a complete and tactically versatile midfielder, who is different from traditional defensive midfielders, due to his reputation for dribbling past defenders and passing the ball through the legs of an opponent, a move known as the nutmeg.Career statistics

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International

Honours
Vasco da Gama
Copa do Brasil: 2011
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: 2009

Napoli
Coppa Italia: 2019–20

Brazil U20
FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2011

Brazil
Copa América: 2019

References

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1991 births
Living people
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2019 Copa América players
Copa América-winning players
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Expatriate footballers in Italy
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
Everton F.C. players
Premier League players
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title: Ole Edvart Rølvaag

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<mask> (; Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience. <mask> is most frequently associated with Giants in the Earth, his award-winning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory. Biography
Rølvåg was born in the family's cottage in a small fishing village on the island of Dønna, in Nordland county, Norway. Dønna, one of the largest islands on the northern coast of Norway, is situated about five miles from the Arctic Circle. He was born with the name <mask>, one of seven children of Peder Benjamin Jakobsen and Ellerine Pedersdatter Vaag. The settlement where he was born had no official name, but was referred to as Rølvaag, the name of a narrow bay on the northwestern point of the island where the fishermen kept their boats. At 14 years of age Rølvaag joined his father and brothers in the Lofoten fishing grounds.<mask> lived there until he was 20 years of age, and the impressions he received during the days of his childhood and his young manhood endured with him throughout his life. An uncle who had emigrated to America sent him a ticket in the summer of 1896, and he traveled to Union County, South Dakota to work as a farmhand. He settled in Elk Point, South Dakota, working as a farmhand until 1898. With the help of his pastor, Rølvaag enrolled in Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota where he graduated in 1901. He earned a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1905, and a master's degree from the same institution in 1910. He also had studied for some time at the University of Oslo. Career
In 1906, <mask> was recruited as a professor by St. Olaf College president John N. Kildahl.<mask> was made head of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf in 1916. In 1925, <mask>. Rolvaag became the first secretary and archivist of Norwegian-American Historical Association. He held both positions for the rest of his life. Personal life
In 1908, he became a United States citizen and married Jennie Marie Berdahl, the daughter of Andrew James Berdahl and Karen Oline Otterness. They had four children: Olaf, Ella, Karl and Paul. Their son, Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, served as the 31st Governor of Minnesota. <mask> died November 5, 1931, in Northfield, Minnesota.Literary style and themes
<mask> wrote in the Norwegian language, but his novels have a distinct American flavor and theme. Rolvaag was deeply influenced by earlier American writers who, writing in Norwegian, had faithfully portrayed the experiences of so many Norwegian immigrant pioneers. In this he was strongly influenced by Hans Andersen Foss and Peer Stromme, both of whom had written novels which provided realistic aspects of the homesteader's experience. The Emigrants by Norwegian author Johan Bojer, first published in 1925, follows many of these same themes. Rølvaag in turn provided an equally strong influence on future Scandinavian writers. <mask> attracted a number of gifted young Norwegian-Americans to St. Olaf College, among them Einar Haugen. Written decades later, Vilhelm Moberg's novels would depict the experience of Swedish-American immigrants.Giants in the Earth
<mask>'s authorship and scholarship focused on the pioneer experience on the Dakota plains in the 1870s. His most famous book was Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: I de dage), part of a trilogy. It features the story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory, as they try to make a new life in America. It was based partly upon Rolvaag's personal experiences as a settler and as well of the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel realistically treats the lives and trials of Norwegian pioneers in the Midwest, emphasizing their battles with the elements. The book also portrays the trials of loneliness, separation from family, longing for the old country, and the difficulty of fitting into a new culture. The book was written in Norwegian and then translated into English.The book reads as an American novel but stems from an Old World literary tradition. It provides dramatic contrast between Per Hansa and his wife, Beret. Per is a natural pioneer who sees promise flooding the windswept plains. Beret hungers for the ways of her homeland, and in her heart, loneliness gathers and penetrates the deeper reality of life lived on the American frontier. Giants in the Earth served as the basis for an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard that won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. Honors and awards
Rølvaag was appointed Knight of the Order of St Olav by King Haakon VII in 1926. Also, St. Olaf College has created a literary award named for Rolvaag, the <mask>. Rolvaag Award for Fiction, the "award honors the memory of St. Olaf’s greatest writer, <mask>".Memorials

The O. E. Rolvaag House in Northfield, Minnesota is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Rolvaag Memorial Library  at St. Olaf College is named in honor of O. E. Rolvaag. Berdahl–Rølvaag House, where Rølvaag wrote Giants in the Earth, is located in the Heritage Park of the Augustana University campus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The <mask>olvaag Collection is maintained in the Norwegian-American Historical Association Archives at St. Olaf College. Selected bibliography
Amerika-breve fra P.A. Smevik til hans far og bror i Norge – American Letters (1912)
Paa Glemte Veie – On Forgotten Paths (1914)
To Tullinger: Et Billede frå idag – Two Fools: A Portrait of Our Times (1920)
Længselens Baat – The Boat of Longing (1921)
Omkring fædrearven – Concerning Our Heritage (1922)
I de Dage – In Those Days (1923)
Riket Grundlægges – Founding the Kingdom (1924)
The following three books form a trilogy:
Giants in the Earth (combined version of I de Dage and Riket Grundlægges – translated and published in 1927)
Peder Seier – Peder Victorious (translated in 1929)
Den Signede Dag – Their Father's God (translated in 1931)
Last release:
Pure Gold (translated in 1930)
The Boat of Longing (1933)

References

Additional sources
Jorgenson, Theodore and Solum, Nora O. <mask>t Rölvaag: A Biography (Harper and Brothers, 1939)
Reigstad, Paul. Rolvaag: His Life and Art (University of Nebraska Press, 1972)
Thorson, Gerald.<mask>, Artist and Cultural Leader  (St. Olaf College Press, 1975)
Simonson, Harold P. Prairies Within: The Tragic Trilogy of <mask> (University of Washington Press, 1987)
Moseley, Ann. <mask> Rolvaag (Boise State University Bookstore, 1987)
Eckstein, Neil Truman. Marginal Man As Novelist: The Norwegian-American Writers H.H Boyesen and O.E. Rolvaag  (Taylor & Francis, 1990)
Haugen, Einar Ingvald  <mask> Rölvaag	(Boston: Twayne Publishers,1983)
Moose, Nancy Gwen, Religion, Women and Culture in the Works of <mask> E. <mask>. (1989). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. South Dakota State University.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/4610
Zempel, Solveig. 1999. <mask> Rolvaag: Novelist. St. Olaf and the Vocation of a Church College, Pamela Schwandt, Gary De Krey, and L. DeAne Lagerquist, eds. pp. 89-96. Northfield, MN: St. Olaf College.External links
<mask>ølvåg
Minnesota Historic Society – Minnesota Author Biographies Project
St Olaf College – Rolvaag Memorial Library
Two Novelists of the Northwest Prairie Frontier. (Texas Christian University Press, 1998.) Rolvaag's Search for Soria Moria by Raychel A. Haugrud (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 26: Page 103)
Dear Sara Alelia: An Episode in Rølvaag's Life by Einar Haugen (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 31: Page 269)
The Social Criticism of <mask> Rølvaag by Neil T. Eckstein (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 24: Page 112)
 Rølvaag’s Lost Novel by Einar Haugen (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 32: Page 209)
The Scandinavian Immigrant Writer in America by Dorothy Burton Skardal (Norwegian-American Historical Association.Volume 21: Page 14)

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People from Rice County, Minnesota
People from Union County, South Dakota
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St. Olaf College faculty
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title: Veronika Drahotová

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<mask>á (born July 25, 1975) is a Czech artist and curator best known for mixed-media work incorporating painting, photography, video and installation. In 1992, she was one of the youngest students ever to matriculate at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU), studying under J. David and J. Sopko, receiving a one-year scholarship (1995) at the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Master of Arts degree in 2000. She made her first big splash in the art world in 1998 with Castle in the Sky, a large-scale light installation funded by the  Soros Foundation. In it, the famous Prague Castle was completely illuminated in a rainbow glow for several nights, and it’s still considered one of the largest public art displays to take place in the Czech Republic. The rainbow symbolism from "Castle in the Sky" was naturally incorporated into Drahotova’s ever-growing iconographic vocabulary. This highly visualized language of symbols appears persistently throughout her work across all mediums, encouraging a sense of interconnectedness within and between each. The evolution of that iconography can clearly be seen in her early portrait work, which includes the postmodern series “Bad Boys” (1997-2004), and plays out prominently in her constructed objects and installations, such as FF (for S. H.; 2004) and POP (Preliminary Orientation in the Problem; 1999).Her work was most recently featured in Vienna for Art’s Sake (Feb. 2015), a group show with contributions from more than 100 visual artists, including Christo, Frank Gheary and Zaha Hadid, which will tour Europe and the U.S. as the “Luciano Benetton Collection 10 x 12.”

Her most recent series’ have focused more on painting, specifically large-scale canvases filled with geometric objects that merge with and collide into 3-D relief elements, an implicit commentary on the tension between philosophy and psychology, spiritualism and mathematics. Furthermore, Drahotova has created a new system of painting she refers to as ‘architectonic.’ This approach utilizes two or more canvases in a single painting, allowing the pieces to be arranged in several predetermined ways to reveal different compositions. By orientating or interchanging the canvases both horizontally and vertically, and rotating them 90 degrees in relation to each other, several compositions emerge. In this way, the canvases of the recent series “Massive Memory” (2015) can be arranged together on the wall in various interchangeable configurations, like interactive panels in a constantly shifting landscape. In 2002 Drahotova founded Home Gallery in Prague, and as director curated more than a dozen exhibitions over two years featuring artists from all over Europe. She has had more than ten solo shows in the U.S., Japan, and across Europe, and participated in dozens of group shows. She currently resides in Prague.


title: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

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(born November 21, 1964) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is best known for All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH. <mask> idolized and patterned his style after the Dynamite Kid. Professional wrestling career

All Japan Pro Wrestling (1988–2000)
<mask> turned pro on February 26, 1988, his debut was against veteran wrestler Mitsuo Momota. Like many, <mask> spent his early years wrestling in opening and low midcard matches, paying his dues. By late 1990, <mask> began moving up the card and before long was becoming a Jr. Title contender.His first title shot was on July 12, 1990 when he challenged Masanobu Fuchi for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship but he came up short. He challenged for the title four more times between January 26, 1991 to February 28, 1993 coming up short each time. By 1991, <mask> also began teaming with future legend: Kenta Kobashi. The two first received a shot at the vacated All Asia Tag Team Championship on April 6, 1991 against The British Bruisers but lost. A few months later on June 1, 1991 they received another shot against then-champions Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat but failed to win the titles. <mask> and Kobashi also entered the 1991 World's Strongest Tag Determination League but finished 11th place with 4 points. On May 25, 1992 <mask> and Kobashi again challenge Furnas and Kroffat for the All Asia Tag Team Titles and this time was victorious as <mask> won his first title.Along with the title win, the match won numerous honors as the Wrestling Observer Newsletter gave it 5 Stars and named it the 1992 Match of the Year. During the title reign, <mask> also enjoyed success in the Junior Division by winning the yearly January 3 Junior Heavyweight Korakuen Hall Battle Royal on January 3, 1993 and also won a Junior Heavyweight Tournament on January 31, 1993. After a year as champions, <mask> and Kobashi lost the titles on June 2, 1993 to The Patriot and The Eagle. Following the title loss, <mask> and Kobashi broke up with Kobashi forming a successful team with Mitsuharu Misawa while <mask> remained in the midcard. From 1993–1996, <mask> largely remained in the midcard with little to no direction, and continued to receive shots at the Jr. title and All Asia Tag titles but continually failed to win either. On July 24, 1996, <mask> defeated Fuchi to finally win the World Junior Heavyweight Championship. He went on to make two successful title defenses and hold the title throughout the remainder of 1996 before eventually losing the title to Yoshinari Ogawa on January 15, 1997.After losing the title, <mask>'s spent the remainder of his All Japan tenure wrestling in opening and low card matches as he wrestled young up and comers or aging legends. Also with the exception of a failed Jr. Heavyweight title shot on January 22, 2000, he for the most part was out of the title loop. In June 2000, <mask> left All Japan with the majority of the native roster and joined Misawa's new promotion:Pro Wrestling NOAH. Pro Wrestling Noah (2000–2010)
<mask> debuted for Noah at their first show on August 5, 2000. For the most part, his time in NOAH was like the end of his All Japan tenure as he spent it in opening matches and in the low midcard. Despite this, <mask> did occasionally receive title shots as he entered a tournament to crown the first GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion in 2001 making all the way to the semi-finals before losing to eventual winner: Yoshinobu Kanemaru. In 2002, <mask> began teaming with Kanemaru as the two invaded New Japan Pro-Wrestling and defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger and Minoru Tanaka to win the IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship.The two held onto the title for four months and made four successful title defenses before eventually losing the title to Liger and Koji Kanemoto on January 26, 2003. After losing the titles, <mask> once again returned to opening matches, over the next few years, he occasionally got title shots at the GHC Jr. Title, the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship but came up short each time. In 2010, <mask> along with a few others were released from Noah. Freelance (2010–2021)
After leaving Noah, <mask> became a freelancer doing shows for All Japan and Dragon Gate. On September 20, 2010, <mask> challenged Kaz Hayashi for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship but lost. In November, <mask> returned to All Japan to participate in the 2010 World's Strongest Tag Determination League teaming up with Tamon Honda.On January 3, 2011, <mask> and Honda challenged Seiya Sanada and Manabu Soya for the All Asia Tag Team Championship but lost. In January 2011, <mask> also debuted in DDT. In the spring, <mask> returned to New Japan for their NEVER brand by taking part in the Road to the Super Juniors tournament where the two winners qualified for the 2011 Best of the Super Juniors. On April 7, <mask> defeated Ken Ohka in the first round. Then on April 8, he defeated Kazuhiro Tamura in the semifinals, but lost in the finals later that night to Daisuke Sasaki. In April, <mask> returned to All Japan to take part in the 2011 Jr. Tag League teaming with Masanobu Fuchi. He defeated Craig Classic for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship on January 1, 2012 at the Korakuen Hall in a Zero1 show.On February 1, 2012, he became a double champion, teaming with Takuya Sugawara, and defeating Ikuto Hidaka and Takafumi Ito to win the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship. However, <mask> lost the title to his tag-team partner Sugawara on March 2 at 11th Anniversary show. Shortly thereafter, <mask> and Sugawara were stripped of the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team titles. On August 11, 2017, <mask> took part in a mini-tournament for the new WEW Junior Heavyweight Championship for Pro Wrestling A-Team. He defeated Takumi Sakurai to qualify for the four-way elimination-style tournament final, in which he defeated Nobutaka Moribe, Masamune, and HASEGAWA, to win the tournament and title, to become the inaugural champion. <mask> had his retirement on May 3, 2021 losing to Koji Kanemoto. Championships and accomplishments
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kenta Kobashi
World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Junior Heavyweight Tournament (1993)
January 3 Korakuen Hall Junior Heavyweight Battle Royal (1993)
World's Strongest Tag Determination League Fresh Award (1991) – with Kenta Kobashi

Apache Army
Apache Opendivision Championship (1 time)

Dramatic Dream Team
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (2 times)

New Japan Pro-Wrestling
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Yoshinobu Kanemaru

Pro Wrestling A-Team
WEW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Pro Wrestling Zero1
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1 version) (1 time)
NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Takuya Sugawara

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Match of the Year (1992) with Kenta Kobashi vs. Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat, Sendai, May 25

Personal

Kikuchi owns "Kotetsu", a restaurant in Tomiya, Miyagi.It is frequented by wrestlers when in the area and the walls are adorned with wrestler photographs and autographs, pictures from Kikuchi's career, and posters for his upcoming appearances. References

External links
Profile at Puroresufan.com
http://www.noah-usa.cc/kikuchidetailprofile.html
http://www.purolove.com/noah/profiles/tsuyoshikikuchi.php
http://www.puroresucentral.com/kikuchi.html
Profile at Cagematch.net
Profile at Wrestlingdata.com

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title: Chayben Abou-Nehra

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<mask> (1974 – 21 December 2008), also referred to as Ben Bou-Nahra, was a Belizean businessman. He had a variety of business activities, including as a 10% shareholder in Miles Tropical Energy, which had various petroleum concessions off the coast near Dangriga. He was a controversial figure both in life and in death. Charged with manslaughter after killing a man in September 2005, he absented himself from Belize at a time when the charges were upgraded to murder, returned when the charges were downgraded to manslaughter, and then walked free in 2007 when witnesses against him refused to testify. Late the following year he was found dead in his hotel room of a gunshot wound, in what may have been a suicide. Death of Shawn Copious

Shooting and charges
On 17 September 2005 at roughly 3:30 AM, Abou-Nehra returned to his home in King's Park, Belize City to find 23-year-old Shawn Copious in his yard. Abou-Nehra claims Copious advanced on him in a threatening manner.Abou-Nehra had a licensed 9mm pistol on his person, which he drew and fired at Copious six times, killing him. Police found a large meat cleaver on Copious' person. Copious had previously had numerous run-ins with the law, with a conviction for theft and at the time of his death also standing trial for charges of handling stolen goods. Abou-Nehra had earlier that year been accused of shooting a man at BTL Park, but no charges were filed in that incident. Copious' stepfather Lawrence Mejia spoke with Abou-Nehra after Copious' death, and described him as "a really good man" who showed remorse for the killing and offered what help he could to the family, but expressed confusion that his stepson's injuries were not just limited to a gunshot wound but also consisted of broken teeth, hands, and nose. Abou-Nehra offered BZ$3,000 to Copious' mother Caroline Copious to pay the burial expenses. Police held Abou-Nehra for 48 hours, but at the time regarded the killing as a justifiable use of force and did not file charges.However, in July 2006 police charged him with manslaughter; he was represented by attorneys Kareem Musa and Ellis Arnold in his first court appearance, at which his bail was set at BZ$10,000 and he was given a September court date. As more detail about the circumstances of Copious' death came to light, specifically the fact that he had been shot in the back from five feet away, then-Senior Crown Counsel Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt wrote to Criminal Investigations Bureau chief Chester Williams to recommend that Abou-Nehra be charged with murder. In December 2006, Director of Public Prosecutions Kirk Anderson instructed Commissioner of Polize Gerald Westby to charge Abou-Nehra with murder. However, at that time Abou-Nehra had already departed Belize, according to his attorney Dickie Bradley for purposes of receiving medical care. He then failed to show up for his arraignment hearing in January 2007, at which the complaint of murder was supposed to have been read. A note purporting to be from a doctor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida stated that Abou-Nehra was medically incapable of travelling. In May 2007, he was finally indicted on charges of manslaughter rather than murder.He came before Judge Troadio Gonzalez, who ordered that the case be traversed to the following month's court session due to the large backlog of defendants with charges even older than Abou-Nehra's. His bail was set at BZ$10,000. Walks free due to police refusal to testify
After Anderson stepped down, the new DPP Lutchman Sooknandan reduced Abou-Nehra's charges back to manslaughter. In July, Sooknandan had to issue a declaration of nolle prosequi because the crown counsel assigned to the case, Cecil Ramirez, had been suspended from practicing law in 2002 and 2003, leading to a question of whether he could legally work for the Office of the DPP. However, Sooknandan said that Abou-Nehra could be re-arrested on the charges. Abou-Nehra came to trial on manslaughter charges again in October. However, three police officers called as witnesses claimed they could not identify him, and the signed record of the caution statement given to Abou-Nehra went missing.Justice Adolph Lucas had no choice but to direct the jury to find Abou-Nehra not guilty of manslaughter. He berated the witnesses as "worthless and wicked", while Sooknandan described the police's conduct as creating "the most shameful miscarriage of justice" he had ever seen. Belizean law prohibits double jeopardy, meaning that there was no possibility of a further trial. In October 2007, two of the witnesses Darius Ramos and Anthony Poloni, both constables, were charged with perjury and contradicting previous evidence; they pleaded not guilty. The DPP declined to charge the third witness, former Inspector Clement Cacho, who by then had been demoted to sergeant. An internal police tribunal later found that Ramos, Polonio, and Cacho had committed an "Act to the Prejudice of Good Order and Discipline against the Department". Cacho was reduced in rank and given half-pay, but later filed suit in the Supreme Court against the police department and in 2010 was awarded reinstatement and back pay.Death
In 2008, Abou-Nehra was on holiday up country in Cayo District with his fiancée, 22-year-old Evita Bedran, the granddaughter of late hotel magnate Escander Bedran. They went to a disco in Benque Viejo del Carmen a few miles away, where he got into an altercation. His shirt stained with blood, he then returned with Bedran to San Ignacio town and went to their hotel, the San Ignacio Resort Hotel owned by Bedran's family, in order to get a new set of clothes. After changing, he got into another altercation, this time with a security guard at the hotel. Another security guard attempted to calm the two, and got himself pistol-whipped by Abou-Nehra for his trouble, receiving a laceration to the head requiring four stitches. The two security guards filed a police report against Abou-Nehra, while Abou-Nehra himself returned to his room. By the time police arrived at the hotel, Abou-Nehra was laid out on the floor of his hotel room with a gunshot wound.Abou-Nehra was taken first to San Ignacio's Loma Luz Hospital, and then Belize City's Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was declared dead at 7 AM the following morning. His family expressed suspicion that he would have committed suicide, and requested to have their own forensic pathologist observe the autopsy at KNMH. Pathologist Mario Estradaban declined comment. He was survived by a daughter Madison, as well as his mother Maria and sister Rachelle. References

1974 births
2008 deaths
Belizean businesspeople
Belizean people of Lebanese descent
Deaths by firearm in Belize
Date of birth missing
People acquitted of manslaughter
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