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 portrayal of Ketki Singh, a village woman who struggles to confront and defeat the forces of oppression and male domination in Prakash Jha's Mrityudand alongside Shabana Azmi and Shilpa Shirodkar.In a review for India Today, Anupama Chopra wrote, " Dixit gives her career's best performance. Simply dressed, she looks stunning and acts even better. She is by turns romantic, vulnerable, angry - the perfect foil to Azmi's long-suffering 'badi bahu'." Screen magazine deemed her portrayal "fiery" and appreciated the lack of glamour in the part. For her performance, Dixit won a third Screen Award for Best Actress. She next starred in the dramas Koyla, Mahaanta and Mohabbat. With the exception of Koyla, none of these films performed well either critically or commercially.<mask>'s fifth and final release of 1997 was Yash Chopra's musical romantic drama Dil To Pagal Hai. Co-starring Shah Rukh Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Akshay Kumar, the film depicts the love stories of the dancers in a musical dance troupe. Her role of Pooja, a woman faced with a moral dilemma in a love triangle fetched her a fourth Filmfare Award for Best Actress and the Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female. Dil To Pagal Hai emerged as a 'blockbuster' and was the highest-grossing film of the year in India. At the 45th National Film Awards, the film won three awards, including the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. She next starred in the N.Chandra- directed drama Wajood (1998) opposite Nana Patekar and Mukul Dev. She played Apoorva, a very rich girl who is misunderstood by Malhar, played by Patekar.Suparn Verma of Rediff commented: "..She nevertheless shows that even a weak role cannot stifle her as she animates the screen like only she can. Truly, the coming together of Nana, <mask> and Chandra in one film is a tour de force." The same year, she appeared in a cameo role in the comedy Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, once again playing herself onscreen after Dharavi. Her next and only release of 1999 was the romance Aarzoo (1999) opposite Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Upon release, the film emerged commercially unsuccessful. 2000s: Further acclaim and sabbaticals

In 2000, Dixit starred in Rajkumar Santoshi's Pukar opposite Anil Kapoor. A love story based on the backdrop of the Indian Army, the film was shot over a course of 350 days.<mask>'s portrayal of Anjali, a heartbroken and jealous woman who swears revenge on Jai (played by Kapoor) for rejecting her, garnered her several Best Actress nominations at various award ceremonies, including Filmfare and Screen. A review in Filmfare said that both "Anil Kapoor and <mask> Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. She then played the title character in Gaja Gamini, the first feature film directed by painter M. F. Husain. Hussain got fixated with Dixit, and watched her movie Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! several times, and was certain that he would make a film only with her. The film followed the story of Gaja Gamini, who appears in various incarnations as Mona Lisa, Shakuntala and others.Pukar was an average grosser, while the latter underperformed at the box office. In 2001, <mask> starred in Deepak Shivdasani's love triangle Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke opposite Ajay Devgan and Preity Zinta. Upon release, the film met with largely negative reviews. Critic Gautam Buragohain, however, described her as "the saving grace of the film", adding that "she gives a delightful performance". Commercially too, the film failed to do well. Subsequently, Dixit reunited with Rajkumar Santoshi for the social drama  Lajja (2001). Dealing with the issue of gender inequality, Dixit played Janki, a theatre actress who gets pre-maritally pregnant.Anita Bora of Rediff.com wrote: "<mask> slips into her role as Janaki..with consummate ease..and..dazzles us with a class act." The film was a box-office failure in India but was an overseas success. Dixit's performance fetched her a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination and won her the Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female. <mask>'s first release of 2002 was the love triangle Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam opposite Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, where she played Radha whose married life blemishes when she gets obsessed with the career of her friend. A remake of director K. S. Adhiyaman's own Tamil film Thotta Chinungi (1995), the film took six years in making, with huge sabbaticals in between shoots due to several production problems. The film emerged moderately successful at the Indian box office. Few critics noted that the delay made the film look outdated.<mask>'s next release was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period romance Devdas, co-starring Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai. It was based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel of the same name. She portrayed Chandramukhi, a courtesan who is in love with the title character. Sita Menon of Rediff.com wrote: "The most understated role and perhaps the one that is most lingering, in terms of virtuosity, is that played by <mask> <mask>. As Chandramukhi, she is simply stunning, lending passion, fire and gentleness with such consummate ease that watching her perform is sheer delight." The film was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was featured by Time in their listing of the "10 best films of the millennium". The film emerged as a major commercial success with revenues of over .Devdas was chosen as India's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. At the 50th National Film Awards, the film won five awards, including the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Dixit eventually won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. Post Devdas, Dixit took a break from actively working in films to focus on her married life in Denver, Colorado. In 2007, Dixit made her first comeback as an actress after five years with a leading role in cinematographer Anil Mehta's dance film Aaja Nachle. She played Dia, a choreographer who returns to her town to save the endangered theatre where she learnt to dance. A box office failure, the film generated positive reviews for Dixit's portrayal.Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN criticised the plot, while he wrote about Dixit's performance: "It's hard to take your eyes off the screen when she's up there, dazzling you with her spontaneity, her easy charm and her 100-watt smile." Her performance earned her another nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. 2010s: Comebacks and sporadic work

Dixit relocated to India with her family in 2011 and was felicitated by Filmfare with a special jury recognition for completing 25 years in the Indian film industry. In 2013, Dixit made a special appearance in the romantic comedy-drama Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as 'Mohini', a callback to her character from the 1988 film Tezaab. Dixti appeared in the item song "Ghagra" alongside Ranbir Kapoor. In 2014, Dixit first starred in the black comedy  Dedh Ishqiya, a sequel to the 2010 film Ishqiya She played a con-woman "Begum Para" opposite Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Huma Qureshi and expressed that she agreed to do the film because of the "unapologetic way" director Abhishek Chaubey presented Vidya Balan's character in Ishqiya. The film opened to positive response from critics who called it "one of the year's most important releases".Anupama Chopra called Dixit "compelling", while Deepanjana Pal of Firstpost wrote "She's still capable of keeping an audience glued to their seats when the credits start rolling, all because she's dancing on screen.". The film earned Dixit her fourteenth nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Dedh Ishqiya earned little at the box-office. Her next release of the year was debutant director Soumik Sen's Gulaab Gang, alongside Juhi Chawla. Dixit portrayed Rajjo, the leader of a women's activist group, inspired by the real vigilante activist Sampat Pal Devi and her group Gulabi Gang. Pal filed a case against the film claiming that the makers did not take permission to make a film on her life, but the court later lifted the stay from the film. To prepare for her role, Dixit practised Shaolin Kung fu, stick training, and close combat.Gulaab Gang failed at the box office, earning mixed reviews. Subhash K. Jha labelled Dixit's performance and demeanour "inconsistent". However, Sampat Pal claimed that in Dixit's character she finds a "reflection of her own life so stark" that it makes her feel "it was she on screen". The film was a box-office failure. Four years later, Dixit made her debut in Marathi Cinema with the comedy-drama Bucket List. She played Madhura Sane, a middle aged housewife who takes the initiative to complete the bucket list of her deceased teenage heart donor. Dixit garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal; Mihir Bhanage of The Times of India
wrote "Madhuri owns the film and sails through it with flying colours."Kunal Guha of Mumbai Mirror said, "<mask> Dixit long-overdue debut in Marathi cinema is a comfort watch even if a tad predictable and sappy." Dixit reunited with Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgn in Indra Kumar's adventure comedy Total Dhamaal (2019). She portrayed Bindu Patel, who along with a group of people learns about a hidden treasure and then races to claim it. The film received mixed to negative reviews, however, <mask>'s performance received a mixed-to-positive reception. Lakshana N Palat of India Today wrote: "The little respite in this adventure-comedy is the pairing of Anil Kapoor and <mask> <mask>, who prove that they still have the same impeccable chemistry and partnership almost two decades later." Total Dhamaal emerged as a major commercial success at the box office, grossing more than  worldwide, and ranks as the ninth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year. Dixit produced the Marathi Netflix-drama 15 August under her production company RnM Moving Pictures.In an interview with Scroll.in, Dixit said, "The film is about the freedom to love, the freedom to choose your career and the freedom to die". She next starred in Abhishek Varman's period drama Kalank, featuring an ensemble cast including Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur and Sanjay Dutt. Set in the 1940s prior to the partition of India, the film featured her as Bahaar Begum, the madam of a brothel. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV wrote, "In the blinding glow of Dixit's presence as a nautch girl who can turn on the magic at will, the younger cast members pale somewhat in comparison. She lights up the screen as only she can, pushing the others to strive harder." It did not perform well at the box office; however, she gained a third nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. Dixit will next produce Panchak, a Marathi film under her company RnM Moving Pictures and will next star in Netflix's series The Fame Game.Other ventures

Television

In 1985, Dixit made her television debut in the Rajshri Production's series Paying Guest, in which she played Neena. In 2002, Dixit hosted Sony Entertainment's matrimonial show Kahi Na Kahi Koi Hai. Dixit featured as a talent judge for four seasons of the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa alongside Remo D'Souza and Malaika Arora Khan for the fourth season and alongside Remo D'Souza and Karan Johar for the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons. In 2011, she featured as an anchor to launch a new entertainment channel, Life OK. The same year, she hosted a competitive cooking game show, Food Food Maha Challenge along with Sanjeev Kapoor. In 2016, Dixit featured as one of the jury of So You Think You Can Dance (India), an officially licensed version of the So You Think You Can Dance franchise, based on the original American production created by Dick Clark Productions. Dixit co-judged three seasons of Colors TV's Dance Deewane, which gives an opportunity to contestants from three different generations.Dancing and stage performances

Dixit has participated in several stage shows, concert tours and televised award ceremonies. Since the mid 1990s to early 2000s, she performed at the "Madhuri Dixit Live" concert in India, the Middle East and United States. In 2000, she performed at the Pepsi W2K Millennium Concert in Mumbai. Between July to August 2008, Dixit and actors Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Ritesh Deshmukh and Aishwarya Rai starred in Amitabh Bachchan's "Unforgettable World Tour" stage production in a 40-day show staged in 11 cities across North America, Europe and the Caribbean. The same year, she joined the fourth instalment of "Temptation Reloaded" where she performed with Khan, Rani Mukerji, Fernandez and Meiyang Chang in Auckland, Perth, Sydney and Dubai; and in 2014 she performed in Malaysia with Khan, Mukerji and Arijit Singh. Dixit also performed in SLAM! The Tour which was held in the US, Canada, and London.In 2015, Dixit participated in the show Fusion in Houston, along with Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha and Prabhu Deva. In 2018, she performed at the inaugural ceremony of Men's Hockey World Cup. In 2013, Dixit launched her own online dance academy "Dance With Madhuri", where the users get an opportunity to learn to dance various dance styles and have one-on-one lessons. Social and humanitarian work
During her years in the film industry, Dixit has been actively involved in promoting children's education and the safety of women. She

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 featured in a series of one-minute telespots on preventing AIDS for the Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society in 2000. In 2001, Dixit won   on Kaun Banega Crorepati, a game show then in its first season on the air. She donated her winnings for the welfare of the victims of 2001 Gujarat earthquake and to an orphanage in Pune.In 2009, Dixit performed for NDTV Toyota Greenathon—India's first-ever nationwide campaign for saving the environment and creating awareness about environmental issues. NDTV organised India's first 24-hour live telethon, a fund-raising event that brings in people to donate money to support TERI's initiative—Lighting a Billion Lives which aims at providing solar power to villages without electricity. On 3 February 2011, Dixit spent an evening with 75 orphanage kids of farmers at an ashram in Trimbakeshwar and participated in the birthdays of two children: Hrishikesh and Rani. "We artists are ready to help such children. People from the higher society should come forward and stand firmly behind them," she said on the occasion. Dixit is a Goodwill Ambassador and a patron for "Emeralds for Elephants" – a charity project for the conservation of Asian elephants and other endangered species. The project has been designed to create awareness and raise vital funds for the protection of the critically endangered Asian elephant.A collaborative project between the World Land Trust (a UK based nonprofit environmental organisation) and the Wildlife Trust of India that is creating protected wildlife corridors connecting National Parks and protected areas to others. Speaking about the issue she said: "Elephants are one of my favourite animals and I love them. So what we need to do today is to see how we can preserve our animals. I feel very strongly about this." Two years later, she made donations to the Uttarakhand flood relief. Since 2014, <mask> Abhiyaan (maternal and child health) campaign. Dixit collaborated with Vogue for its Vogue Empower series on a short film on gender policing, 'Boys don't cry', directed by Vinil Mathew. She was appointed as the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, by the Government of India in 2015, that aims to generate awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare services intended for girls. She lent her voice for narrating the story of one of the eight girls who featured in Girl Rising: Woh Padhegi, Woh Udegi, a film on the education and empowerment of girls. Dixit was appointed the brand ambassador and launched MAA (Mothers Absolute Affection), a flagship programme to ensure adequate awareness is generated on the benefits of breastfeeding. Additionally, Dixit has made public appearances to support charities and causes. On 4 February 2012, <mask> <mask> interacted with Cancer affected children on World Cancer Day which was organised by Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd at Juhu, Mumbai.In 2013, she launched Sanofi India's campaign on World Diabetes Day (WDD), that encourages people to take proactive steps to effectively prevent, manage and control diabetes. A year later, on 24 February 2014, she visited a school in Andheri, Mumbai to support the "Support My School" campaign. She participated in 'Set Beautiful Free'– an event by One Foundation to provide home, education, food and healthcare to the daughters of trafficking victims. In 2018, she attended a charity event by 'Nanhi Kali' NGO. False representation in endorsements

In May–June 2015 the Tamil Nadu Consumer's Forum sent her notices for "false representation" in advertisements of Maggi, a noodle brand in which toxic levels of lead were found. She continued endorsing the safety of the product on Twitter, even when food regulators had already found more than 17 times the permissible limits of lead and the product was banned. Music
Dixit has sung small portions in a few songs from her films like "Kaahe Chhed" from Devdas and "Soniye Mil Ja" from Aaja Nachle, composed by Birju Maharaj and Salim–Sulaiman respectively.For her 2014 film Gulaab Gang, Dixit sang the traditional folk song "Rangi Sari Gulaabi Chunariya" alongside her mother Snehlata Dixit, composed and recreated for the film by its director Soumik Sen.

Dixit made her official singing debut in 2020 with an English single, "Candle", dedicating it to frontline workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Artistry and media image

Dixit is regarded as one of the  accomplished and influential actresses of Indian cinema. Throughout the late 1980s, the 1990s and the early 2000s, Dixit was among the highest paid actresses in the Indian entertainment industry. In 2000, the Guinness World Records book featured her as the highest paid Indian actress. Dixit was placed at the first position by NDTV in 2012, in the listing of "The most popular Bollywood actresses of all time". The next year, she was placed at the fourth position, behind Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan and topped among female actors as the greatest Bollywood star in a UK poll celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema. The same year, in a national poll conducted by CNN-IBN on the occasion of the centenary of Indian cinema, Dixit was voted at the second position, behind Sridevi, as "India's Greatest Actress in 100 Years".In 2017, Dixit topped an India Today poll as the most popular actress of Hindi cinema till date. Dixit has a significant following in the South Asian diaspora. While analysing her career, Reuters published, "In her prime, Dixit was the undisputed queen of Bollywood, the world's largest film industry by audience size, and her popularity and fees rivaled even the biggest male stars." Throughout her career, Dixit has played roles in both mainstream productions and independent films, and appeared in a range of film genres, with Saibal Chatterjee of Outlook crediting Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! as metamorphosing Dixit into a "subcontinental icon". The New York Times called Dixit, "India's biggest female star". Discussing her performances, Baradwaj Rangan labelled her as "the last of the all-in-one female stars who could do drama and comedy and dance" and Firstpost called her, "one of the last superstars of Hindi cinema", praising her performances in Lajja, Devdas and Dedh Ishqiya.In 2010, Filmfare Magazine included her performance from Mrityudand in its list of "80 Iconic Performances". Dixit is credited in the media for her versatility and achieving a "balance of critical acclaim and commercial success." In addition to acting, she has been noted for her skills as a dancer. Kathak dancer Pandit Birju Maharaj, who choreographed Dixit in  Devdas, calls her "the best Bollywood dancer" due to her versatility. Saroj Khan, who has collaborated with her on numerous occasions, calls her a "choreographer's delight". Hindustan Times attributed her for giving a 'technical twist' to dance sequences in Hindi films. Dixit was the muse for Indian painter M. F. Husain.He got fascinated by Dixit's performance in Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! ; watching the film 67 times, and booked an entire theatre to see her comeback Aaja Nachle. He made a series of paintings of her, and in 2000 directed Gaja Gamini starring her, which was intended as a tribute to Dixit herself. Dixit featured in Box Office India's Top Actresses list for ten consecutive years (1988–97). In 2001, Forbes placed her at fifth position in the list of "top five most powerful Indian film stars". In 2002 and 2014, Dixit featured in Rediff's annual "Top Bollywood actresses" listing. She has been featured frequently on other Rediff lists, including "Bollywood's Most Beautiful Actresses", "Bollywood's Best Actresses Ever" and "Top 10 Bollywood Actresses of all Time".The Economic Times featured her in the list of "33 women who made India proud" in 2010. In 1997, the Government of Andhra Pradesh honoured her with the "Kalabhinetri Award". In 2001, Dixit was awarded the National Citizens' Award for her work and contribution to Indian cinema. In 2008, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri for her contribution to Indian Cinema. The Sathyabama University honoured her as the "Inspiring Icon of India" in 2015. An unauthorised biography of her named Madhuri <mask>, written by professor Nandana Bose was released in 2019. Dixit is frequently referred to as one of the most attractive Indian celebrities and has been described as a sex symbol.Her eyes, sex appeal and urban looks have been cited by the media as her distinctive features; her smile being identified as her trademark. She featured in The Times of India's list of 50 Beautiful Faces of cinema and Hindustan Times called her "a classic Indian beauty". Her look and performances have established her as a style icon. In 2007, 2013–16 and 2018, the UK magazine Eastern Eye ranked her as one of "World's Sexiest Asian Women". Sangestar Tso lake in Arunachal Pradesh was renamed Madhuri Lake after her, where a song from Koyla was picturised. She has a star named after her in the Orion constellation. In March 2012, a wax figure of Dixit was put on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum.In 2017, two other figures were displayed at Madame Tussaud's Museum in Singapore and Delhi. Every year since its inception in 2012, Dixit has featured on Forbes Indias "Celebrity 100," a list based on the income and popularity of India's celebrities with the exception of 2017. In 2018, she was among the twenty Indians invited for the Oscar Academy's Class of 2018. Personal life

Amidst media speculation on her personal life, Dixit married Shriram Madhav Nene, a cardiovascular surgeon from Los Angeles, California on 17 October 1999, in a traditional ceremony held at the residence of Dixit's elder brother in Southern California. Nene had never seen any of her films, and was unaware of her celebrity status. Dixit explained their relationship by saying, "It was very important that he didn't know me as an actress because then he would know me as a person first. When people have seen you as an actress, they have pre-conceived notions... None of it was there here with him.I found the right person, I wanted to get married and I did." <mask> and Nene's wedding reception in Mumbai was attended by several prominent Indian personalities, including then CM of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh, Shivsena chief Bal Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, Sanjay Khan, Feroze Khan, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Yash Chopra, Sridevi, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar, MF Hussain and many others. Following her marriage, Dixit relocated to Denver, Colorado, for over a decade. On 17 March 2003, Dixit gave birth to a son, Arin. Two years later, on 8 March 2005, she gave birth to another son, Ryan. She described motherhood as "amazing" and added that her kids kept "the child in her alive". Dixit moved back to Mumbai with her family in October 2011.Speaking about it, Dixit said, "I always love being here. I have grown up here in Mumbai so for me it is like coming back home. It was a different phase in my life, where I wanted to have a home, family, husband and children... everything that I had dreamt of." In 2018, Dixit along with her husband, founded the production company, RnM Moving Pictures. They both also together earned orange belts in taekwondo. Filmography

Accolades

Dixit has received six Filmfare Awards from seventeen nominations, including four Best Actress awards for Dil (1990), Beta (1992), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun! (1994) and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for Devdas (2002).She earned a Filmfare Special Award for completing twenty-five years in the Indian film industry. In 2008, she was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, by the Government of India for her contributions to the arts. In popular culture
 In a popular scene from the 1994 cult comedy Andaz Apna Apna, Dixit's photograph appears on the cover of a film magazine. In the scene, Amar (played by Aamir Khan) teases Prem (played by Salman Khan) of having been engaged to Dixit, advertently referring to her photograph on the magazine. In the song "Tan Tana Tan Tan" from the 1997 film Judwaa, Dixit's name was referenced in one line along with Govinda's name. The song was a huge hit and was recreated in the film's 2017 remake, but the line referring to the two actors was not used. In 1997, a Zee TV television serial Mrs. Madhuri <mask> was named after her, starring Renuka Shahane.In 2003, a film titled Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon was released, in which a woman (played by Antara Mali) aspires to become the new <mask> Dixit by trying her luck in Bollywood. The film was produced by Ram Gopal Varma and dedicated to Dixit. The popular American sitcom The Big Bang Theory features a scene in the season two episode "The Bad Fish Paradigm", in which two of the lead characters Raj (played by Kunal Nayyar) and Sheldon (played by Jim Parsons) argue with each other over Dixit and fellow actress Aishwarya Rai. It was speculated in the media that television actress Karishma Tanna would play Dixit onscreen in Sanjay Dutt's biopic Sanju, which released in 2018. However, there was no reference to Dixit in the film. See also
 List of Indian film actresses

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<mask>'earth (born March 30, 1950) is an American post-bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter born in Framingham, Massachusetts who has appeared on recordings by Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby as well as recording a number of CDs on his own. He currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. Early
<mask> II was born in 1950 in Framingham, Massachusetts, growing up in nearby Holliston. His father had survived the Pacific theater of World War II and was "obsessed" with jazz. As D'earth says, "He was a maniac for music and for jazz music. He was my first teacher. He revealed to me mysteries of art and music that are priceless."His father would blast his records throughout the night, driving the family crazy. He would also sit with his two-year-old son, teaching him to play drum brushes on a metal tray. His father was "drawn to the complexities of be-bop" with its raw rhythms and stylings. "He hated white bands that were corny and tight," D'earth states. "Those were prejudices too, and I learned some of those prejudices early on." The Dearth family lived in a house from the 1690s that had been The Littlefield Tavern during the Colonial era. D'earth's parents divorced when he was eight, around the time he got his first trumpet.He immediately walked out into the yard and played it to the trees, discovering scales on his own. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five were D'earth's favorite band, but he also appreciated classical music. Jazz instruction wasn't so easy to find in the early 1960s, but D'earth crossed paths with Henry "Boots" Mussulli, who was a veteran of the big band days. This Sicilian alto saxophone player and arranger had opened the Sons of Italy Crystal Room, a speakeasy that presented acts like Count Basie and Roy Eldridge in nearby Milford. He was part of a group of jazz instructors who helped form Berklee College of Music. One day Mussulli sat a young D'earth next to him and called a friend and simply said, "Listen." He and D'earth began improvising on the Charlie Parker be-pop classic "Confirmation".When done, Mussulli picked the receiver and said, "Fourteen" — then hung up. That experience changed D'earth's life, confirming his musical gift. As a teenager, DownBeat said of his performance at the Newport Jazz Festival that he played "like a young Freddie Hubbard." On Mussulli's impact D'earth says:

D'earth met Robert Jospé, a jazz drummer who would later relocate to Charlottesville and become a UVA music instructor, in 1967 at The Cambridge School of Weston, a preparatory high school near Boston. They started a group named Fire and Ice, and "began a collaboration that continues today." D'earth added the apostrophe to his name later in life. Career
D'earth attended Harvard University briefly only to drop out and pursue his musical career.In his early years he played in Bob Moses' innovative bands. He co-founded the group Cosmology (Vanguard Records) with bandmates drummer Robert Jospe and singer Dawn Thompson — whom D'earth later married. Jospé, D'earth, and Thompson, whom he met in New York, came to Charlottesville in 1981 for a summer and have all lived there ever since. Before heading for The Big Apple, Thompson had helped found the famed Prism Coffeehouse musical venue in Charlottesville. D'earth is the Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia as well as the artist in residence at Virginia Commonwealth University. D`earth was music teacher at The Tandem School in Charlottesville from the early to mid-1980s. He influenced many of his students while also teaching them to step out of their comfort zones and experience many musical styles they wouldn't have otherwise.He plays Thursday nights in downtown Charlottesville at Miller's with other musicians including JC Kuhl, Pete Spaar, Jamal Millner, Devonne Harris, Pureum Jin, Brian Caputo, Wells Hanley, Adam Larrabee, Brian Jones, and many others. He plays at Fellini's No. 9 first Saturdays monthly with Devonne Harris (drums), Bob Hallahan (piano), and Pete Spaar (upright bass). In addition to being a prominent jazz figure in Charlottesville, <mask> can be found making frequent appearances with younger up-and-coming players as well as older mainstay musicians alike in the Richmond, Virginia area. D'earth is known for his work with musicians such as Miles Davis, Buddy Rich, Dave Matthews Band, and Emily Remler. Personal
D'earth appeared regularly with his vocalist wife Dawn Thompson, who died August 31, 2017 after surviving nine years with brain cancer. She was born in Alexandria, Virginia on October 9, 1946.References

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 <mask>'earth at the University of Virginia
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<mask> (; 24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600). A unit of magnetomotive force, also known as magnetic potential, was named the <mask> in his honour. Life and work

<mask> was born in Colchester to Jerome Gilberd, a borough recorder. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, he left to practice medicine in London and travelled on the continent. In 1573, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1600 he was elected President of the college. He was Elizabeth I's own physician from 1601 until her death in 1603, and James VI and I renewed his appointment. His primary scientific work—much inspired by earlier works of Robert Norman—was De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth) published in 1600. In this work, he describes many of his experiments with his model Earth called the terrella. From these experiments, he concluded that the Earth was itself magnetic and that this was the reason compasses point north (previously, some believed that it was the pole star (Polaris) or a large magnetic island on the north pole that attracted the compass).He was the first to argue, correctly, that the centre of the Earth was iron, and he considered an important and related property of magnets was that they can be cut, each forming a new magnet with north and south poles. In Book 6, Chapter 3, he argues in support of diurnal rotation, though he does not talk about heliocentrism, stating that it is an absurdity to think that the immense  celestial spheres (doubting even that they exist) rotate daily, as opposed to the diurnal rotation of the much smaller Earth. He also posits that the "fixed" stars are at remote variable distances rather than fixed to an imaginary sphere. He states that situated "in thinnest aether, or in the most subtle fifth essence, or in vacuity – how shall the stars keep their places in the mighty swirl of these enormous spheres composed of a substance of which no one knows aught?" The English word "electricity" was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from <mask>'s 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning "like amber". The term had been in use since the 13th century, but <mask> was the first to use it to mean "like amber in its attractive properties". He recognized that friction with these objects removed a so-called "effluvium", which would cause the attraction effect in returning to the object, though he did not realize that this substance (electric charge) was universal to all materials.In his book, he also studied static electricity using amber; amber is called elektron in Greek, so <mask> decided to call its effect the electric force. He invented the first electrical measuring instrument, the electroscope, in the form of a pivoted needle he called the versorium. Like others of his day, he believed that crystal (quartz) was an especially hard form of water, formed from compressed ice:

<mask> argued that electricity and magnetism were not the same thing. For evidence, he (incorrectly) pointed out that, while electrical attraction disappeared with heat, magnetic attraction did not (although it is proven that magnetism does in fact become damaged and weakened with heat). Hans Christian Ørsted and James Clerk Maxwell showed that both effects were aspects of a single force: electromagnetism. Maxwell surmised this in his A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism after much analysis. <mask>'s magnetism was the invisible force that many other natural philosophers seized upon, incorrectly, as governing the motions that they observed.While not attributing magnetism to attraction among the stars, <mask> pointed out the motion of the skies was due to Earth's rotation, and not the rotation of the spheres, 20 years before Galileo (but 57 years after Copernicus who stated it openly in his work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium published in 1543 ) (see external reference below). <mask> made the first attempt to map the surface markings on the Moon in the 1590s. His chart, made without the use of a telescope, showed outlines of dark and light patches on the Moon's face. Contrary to most of his contemporaries, <mask> believed that the light spots on the Moon were water, and the dark spots land. Besides <mask>'s De Magnete, there appeared at Amsterdam in 1651 a quarto volume of 316 pages entitled De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova (New Philosophy about our Sublunary World), edited—some say by his brother <mask> Junior, and others say, by the eminent English scholar and critic John Gruter—from two manuscripts found in the library of Sir <mask>. According to Dr. John Davy, "this work of <mask>'s, which is so little known, is a very remarkable one both in style and matter; and there is a vigor and energy of expression belonging to it very suitable to its originality. Possessed of a more minute and practical knowledge of natural philosophy than Bacon, his opposition to the philosophy of the schools was more searching and particular, and at the same time probably little less efficient."In the opinion of Prof. John Robison, De Mundo consists of an attempt to establish a new system of natural philosophy upon the ruins of the Aristotelian doctrine. Dr. <mask> says in his History of the Inductive Sciences (1859):

<mask>, in his work, De Magnete printed in 1600 has only some vague notions that the magnetic virtue of the earth in some way determines the direction of the earth's axis, the rate of its diurnal rotation, and that of the revolution of the moon about it. <mask> died in 1603, and in his posthumous work (De Mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia nova, 1631) we have already a more distinct statement of the attraction of one body by another. "The force which emanates from the moon reaches to the earth, and, in like manner, the magnetic virtue of the earth pervades the region of the moon: both correspond and conspire by the joint action of both, according to a proportion and conformity of motions, but the earth has more effect in consequence of its superior mass; the earth attracts and repels, the moon, and the moon within certain limits, the earth; not so as to make the bodies come together, as magnetic bodies do, but so that they may go on in a continuous course." Though this phraseology is capable of representing a good deal of the truth, it does not appear to have been connected... with any very definite notions of mechanical action in detail. <mask> died on 30 November 1603 in London. His cause of death is thought to have been the bubonic plague.<mask> was buried in his home town, in Holy Trinity Church, Colchester. His marble wall monument can still be seen in this Saxon church, now deconsecrated and used as a café and market. Commentary on <mask>
Francis Bacon never accepted Copernican heliocentrism and was critical of <mask>'s philosophical work in support of the diurnal motion of the Earth. Bacon's criticism includes the following two statements. The first was repeated in three of his works—In the Advancement of Learning (1605), Novum Organum (1620) and De Augmentis (1623). The more severe second statement is from History of Heavy and Light Bodies published after Bacon's death. The Alchemists have made a philosophy out of a few experiments of the furnace and <mask> our countryman hath made a philosophy out of observations of the lodestone.[<mask>] has himself become a magnet; that is, he has ascribed too many things to that force and built a ship out of a shell. Thomas Thomson writes in his History of the Royal Society (1812):
The magnetic laws were first generalized and explained by Dr. <mask>, whose book on magnetism published in 1600, is one of the finest examples of inductive philosophy that has ever been presented to the world. It is the more remarkable, because it preceded the Novum Organum of Bacon, in which the inductive method of philosophizing was first explained. <mask> writes in his History of the Inductive Sciences (1837/1859):

<mask>... repeatedly asserts the paramount value of experiments. He himself, no doubt, acted up to his own precepts; for his work contains all the fundamental facts of the science [of magnetism], so fully examined, indeed, that even at this day we have little to add to them. Historian Henry Hallam wrote of <mask> in his Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (1848):
The year 1600 was the first in which England produced a remarkable work in physical science; but this was one sufficient to raise a lasting reputation to its author. <mask>, a physician, in his Latin treatise on the magnet, not only collected all the knowledge which others had possessed on that subject, but became at once the father of experimental philosophy in this island, and by a singular felicity and acuteness of genius, the founder of theories which have been revived after the lapse of ages, and are almost universally received into the creed of the science.The magnetism of the earth itself, his own original hypothesis, nova illa nostra et inaudita de tellure sententia [our new and unprecedented view of the planet]... was by no means one of those vague conjectures that are sometimes unduly applauded... He relied on the analogy of terrestrial phenomena to those exhibited by what he calls a terrella, or artificial spherical magnet. ...<mask> was also one of our earliest Copernicans, at least as to the rotation of the earth; and with his usual sagacity inferred, before the invention of the telescope, that there are a multitude of fixed stars beyond the reach of our vision. <mask> Bryant of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, wrote in his book Kepler (1920):
When <mask> of Colchester, in his “New Philosophy,” founded on his researches in magnetism, was dealing with tides, he did not suggest that the moon attracted the water, but that “subterranean spirits and humors, rising in sympathy with the moon, cause the sea also to rise and flow to the shores and up rivers”. It appears that an idea, presented in some such way as this, was more readily received than a plain statement. This so-called philosophical method was, in fact, very generally applied, and Kepler, who shared Galileo’s admiration for <mask>’s work, adopted it in his own attempt to extend the idea of magnetic attraction to the planets. Bibliography

See also
History of geomagnetism
List of geophysicists
Scientific revolution

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 The Galileo Project — biography of <mask>.The Great Magnet, the Earth — website hosted by NASA — Commemorating the 400th anniversary of "De Magnete" by <mask> of Colchester. Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of <mask> in .jpg and .tiff format. On the Magnet — Translation of De Magnete by Silvanus Thompson for the Gilbert Club, London 1900. Full text, free to read and search. Go to page 9 and read <mask> saying the Earth revolves leading to the motion of the skies. The Natural Philosophy of <mask> and His Predecessors
De Magnete From the English Printing Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress
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title: Ben Tate

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<mask> (born August 21, 1988) is a former American football running back. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the second round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Auburn. <mask> also played for the Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Early years
<mask> attended Stephen Decatur High School until his junior year, where he was a two-sport star in football and track. He played football as a running back for the Decatur Seahawks. As a junior, he set the Maryland state single-season rushing record with 2,886 yards and 25 touchdowns, averaging 221.4 yards per game.His performance earned him first-team All-state honors. As a senior, he transferred to Snow Hill High School, where he ran for 2,069 yards and 21 touchdowns, averaging 12.9 yards per carry while leading Snow Hill to a state runner-up finish. In 37 career games, <mask> rushed 542 times for 5,920 yards and 78 touchdowns, averaging 10.9 yards per carry and 160 yards per game. He also had 210 career receiving yards. <mask> also set the Maryland state records for both career yards rushing (5,920) and total career offensive yards (6,123). For his senior performance, he was awarded the Gatorade State Player of the year and was a consensus All-state pick. Also a standout track & field athlete, <mask> competed as a sprinter and was a state-qualifier in the 100 and 200-meter dashes, reaching the Maryland state finals in both events as a freshman while also placing in the top-three as a sophomore.In addition, <mask> also recorded a 4.41-second 40-yard dash, had a 32-inch vertical jump and reportedly bench-pressed a maximum of 355 lb (163 kg) and squatted 630 lb (290 kg). Regarded as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, <mask> was ranked No. 6 nationally among running backs and the No. 2 player from the state of Maryland. Upon graduation from Snow Hill High School, <mask> received scholarship offers from Auburn, Virginia, Penn State, Maryland, and North Carolina before accepting a scholarship to Auburn University. College career

Freshman year
<mask> played sparingly behind senior Kenny Irons, and gained 392 yards on 54 carries in 9 games. He received Freshman All-America Honorable Mention from The Sporting News.<mask>'s best game was a 156 yard performance against Tulane. Sophomore year

<mask>'s sophomore season was a strong one, leading the Tigers in rushing (903 yards on 202 carries for a 4.5 yard average) and to a victory over Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Junior year
Heading into his Junior campaign, <mask> was named to several preseason All-SEC teams. However, because of new offensive coordinator Tony Franklin and his spread, pass-first style of offense, <mask>'s numbers significantly declined. He gained only 664 yards on 159 carries. Senior year
As the feature back in Gus Malzahn's spread offense, <mask> shined in his final college season. He gained 1,362 yards on 263 carries with 10 touchdowns.His top performance came against Arkansas, rushing for 184 yards and two touchdowns (over 100 yards coming in the third quarter). <mask> also earned AP second-team All-SEC honors, as well as being voted both the Team and Offense MVP award. <mask> Walker Award. <mask> also led Auburn to a victory over Northwestern in the Outback Bowl, rushing for 108 yards and 2 touchdowns in the overtime win. <mask> finished at Auburn 5th on the career rushing list, behind Auburn greats Bo Jackson, Carnell Williams, James Brooks, and Joe Cribbs. He rushed for 3321 yards on 678 carries, scoring 24 touchdowns. <mask> graduated in May 2009 with a degree in Criminology.Statistics

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2010 NFL Draft

<mask> was drafted in the 2nd round in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans with the 58th overall pick. Most projected <mask> to be picked somewhere in the early to middle of the second round, and recognizing his value at pick 58, the Texans aggressively traded up to draft him. This is the only time in team history that the Texans have drafted a running back earlier than the third round. Houston Texans

<mask> had high expectations to help a Texans running game that was one of the worst in the league the previous season, but during the Texans pre-season opener in 2010, <mask>  broke his ankle and was placed on injured reserve (IR). <mask> returned healthy for the 2011 season, but was initially placed fourth on the depth chart behind 2010 NFL rushing champion Arian Foster, Derrick Ward, and Steve Slaton. At the conclusion of the preseason, <mask> was listed as the opening-day backup to Ward due to a hamstring injury to Foster. In his NFL debut, <mask> did not disappoint, rushing for 116 yards and his first NFL touchdown on 24 carries.He followed that performance the following week against the Miami Dolphins with another 100-yard game, finishing with 103 yards on 23 carries. He finished the 2011 regular season with 942 rushing yards on 175 attempts (a 5.4 yards-per-carry average, third-highest in the NFL) with 4 rushing touchdowns and 98 total receiving yards in 15 games played, two of which he started (Week 3 against the New Orleans Saints, and week 17 against the Tennessee Titans). <mask> ran for 115 yards against the Cleveland Browns in Week 9 while Arian Foster ran for 124 yards in the same contest, leading the Texans to 261 yards on the ground, a franchise record. <mask> played in 11 games in the 2012 season, amassing 279 rushing yards on 65 carries, averaging 4.3 yards per carry. While his per-carry average remained formidable, his carries were limited due to a competitive Houston Texans' backfield along with lingering injuries to his hamstring and foot. It was a frustrating season for the young running back, who had been competing with emerging running back Justin Forsett for backup duties to Arian Foster. In 2013, <mask> appeared in 14 games with the Texans, making 7 starts, after a season-ending injury to Arian Foster.<mask> responded by rushing for 771 yards and 4 touchdowns, 3 of which came in a Week 13 game against the New England Patriots where he rushed for a season-high 102 yards. After having battled cracked ribs for much of the season, <mask> was placed on injured reserve on December 19, 2013, ending his season. Cleveland Browns

<mask> signed with the Cleveland Browns on March 15, 2014. On October 5, 2014, he ran for a career-high 123 yards on 22 carries in a 29-28 win over the Tennessee Titans. <mask> was released by the Browns on November 18, 2014. In the weeks leading up to his release, he grew frustrated with the amount of carries he was getting due to the three-back rotation system the Browns had recently employed, giving <mask>, Isaiah Crowell and Terrance West fairly even playing time at running back. Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings were awarded <mask> on waivers after his release from Cleveland.However, after playing only three games with the team, accumulating 38 rushing yards off of 13 attempts, the Vikings released <mask> on December 25, 2014. Pittsburgh Steelers
In the lead up to the 2014 NFL playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost Le'Veon Bell to injury. With no experienced running backs, they signed the newly released <mask> on December 30, 2014. In the Wild Card loss against the Baltimore Ravens, <mask> had five carries for 19 yards. <mask> participated in The Spring League in 2017. Statistics

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title: Philibert de l'Orme

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<mask>'Orme () (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, <mask>me, or Delorme. Biography

Early career

<mask>'Orme was born between 3 and 9 June 1514 in Lyon. His father was <mask>'Orme, a master mason and entrepreneur, who, in the 1530s, employed three hundred workers and built prestigious buildings for the elite of the city. When Philibert was nineteen he departed Lyon for Italy, where he remained for three years, working on building projects for Pope Paul III. In Rome he was introduced to Cardinal Jean du Bellay, the Ambassador of King François I to the Vatican, who became his protector and client. Du Bellay was also the patron of his friend Francois Rabelais.In about 1540 <mask>'Orme moved to Paris, and was soon occupied with royal projects. Royal architect of Henry II (1548-1559)

On April 3, 1548 he was a named architect of the King by Henry II. For a period of eleven years, he supervised all of the King's architectural projects, with the exception of changes to the Louvre, which were planned by another royal architect, Pierre Lescot. His major projects included the Château de St Maur-des-Fossés, the Château d'Anet, the Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley; the royal Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne;  the Château de Vincennes, and major modifications to the Palace of Fontainebleau. He also made a reputation as a writer and theorist, and as an innovator in building techniques. He invented a new system for making the essential wooden frameworks for constructing stone buildings, called  charpente à petits bois, which was quicker and less expensive than previous methods and used much less wood. He  demonstrated it before the King in 1555, and put it to work in construction at the new royal Château de Montceaux and at the royal hunting lodge  in the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.Out of favor - architectural theorist (1559-1563)
The death of Henry II of France on July 10, 1559 suddenly left him without a patron and at the mercy of rival architects who resented his success and his style. Two days later, on 10 July, he was dismissed from his official posts, and replaced by an Italian artist and architect, Francesco Primaticcio, whose work was much in fashion. He had joined a religious order, and decided to turn his attention to meditation, scholarship and writing. He made another trip to Rome to inspect the new works of Michelangelo. Beginning in 1565 wrote the first volume of a work on architectural theory, which was scientific and philosophical. It was published in 1567, and was followed by new editions after his death in 1576, 1626 and 1648. Royal architect again (1563-1570)
Under Charles IX and <mask> Medici, he returned to royal favor.He was employed on the enlargement of the Chateau of Saint Maur (1563) and, along with Jean Bullant,  on additions to the Tuileries Palace (1564). He died in Paris in 1570, while this project was underway. Reputation

In the 17th century, during the period of Louis XIV style  that followed his death, his reputation suffered. The grand stairway that he built at the Tuileries Palace was demolished in 1664, as was his Château de Saint-Léger in 1668, to make way for classical structures. In 1683, he was denounced by <mask> of the Royal Academy for his "villainous Gothic ornaments" and his "petty manner". Nonetheless, his two major theoretical works on construction and design continued to be important textbooks, and were regularly republished and read. His reputation rose again in the 18th century, through the writings of Dezallier d'Argenville, who wrote in 1787 that he had "abandoned the Gothic covering in order to redress French architecture in the style Ancient Greece."D'Argenville wrote the first biography and catalog of works. Though few of his building survived to be studied carefully, later important academic works on <mask> l'Orme were written in the 19th and 20th centuries by art historians  including H. Clouzot and Anthony Blunt. One of De l'Orme's primary accomplishments was to change the way architects trained and studied. He insisted that architects needed formal education in classical architecture, as well as in geometry and astronomy and the sciences, but also needed practical experience in construction. He himself was an accomplished scholar of ancient Greek and Roman architecture, as well as a humanist scholar. He argued that architects  needed to be able to design and manage every aspect of the building, from the volumes to the lambris to adding up the cost, making detailed three-dimensional drawings of vaults, judging if wood was dry enough, and knowing to stop digging the foundation when the first sand was encountered. He had scorn for those architects who could design a facade but had no knowledge actual construction.His opponents scorned him for his background as the son of a masonry contractor. He was referred to by Bernard Palissy as "The god of the stone masons", which deeply offended him. His other major accomplishment was to resist the tendency to simply copy Italian architectural styles; he traveled and studied in Italy, and borrowed much, but he always added a distinctly French look to each of his projects. Works attributed to <mask>'Orme

The first major building of <mask>'Orme was the Château of Saint Maur (1541), built for the Cardinal Jean du Bellay, whom <mask>'Orme had met during his time in Rome. Its plan  showed the influence of the Italian villas; and, like the Italian buildings, it was decorated with frescoes. Much of his work has disappeared, but his fame remains. He was An ardent humanist and student of the antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in opposition to Italian tendencies; he was a man of independent mind and a vigorous originality.His masterpiece was the Château d'Anet (1552–1559), built for <mask> Poitiers, the plans of which are preserved in Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's Plus excellens bastimens de France, though part of the building alone remains; and his designs for the Tuileries (also given by Androuet du Cerceau), begun by <mask>' Medici in 1565, were magnificent. His work is also seen at Chenonceau and other famous châteaux; and his tomb of Francis I at Saint Denis Basilica remains a perfect specimen of his art. The most easily viewed work of <mask> l'Orme in Paris is the court facade of the Chateau d'Anet, which was moved to Paris after a major portion of the chateau was demolished, to illustrate for students the major works of the French Renaissance. It is attached to the front wall of the chapel of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and is visible from Rue Bonaparte. Partial list of works

 Château de Saint-Maur (1541), demolished in 1796
 Tomb of François Ie in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris (1547)
 Château d'Anet (1547-1555), built for <mask> Poitiers. Only one wing remains. Plans of the Chapel of Saint-Éloi,Paris (1550-1566), (Long attributed, but not documented.Only a portion of the facade remains)
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 Facade of the residence of the Vicomte of the Duchy of Uzès (attributed)
 Completion of Sainte-Chapelle at the Château de Vincennes (1552)
 Château de Villers-Cotterêts, southern portion( 1547-1559)
 Chapel of the Château of  Villers-Cotterêts (1552-1553)
 Royal Château of Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines (demolished)
 Château de Meudon (attributed)
 Château de Montceaux
 Château de Thoiry (1560s) ;
 The bridge upon which the Château de Chenonceau is constructed
 Portions of the Louvre
 Portions of the new Chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
 Portal of Château d'Écouen, now the National Museum of the French Renaissance (mid 16th century). The wing he designed was destroyed in 1787, but vestiges are displayed inside the Chateau. Roofs of the towers of the Château de Bonnemare. See also
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, influenced by Philibert Delorme

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Bibliography
 Boudon, Françoise (1999). "De l'Orme" in Dictionnaire des Architectes. Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis. .
 Blunt, Anthony (1958). Philibert de l'Orme.London: A. Zwemmer. . .

 Catholic Encyclopedia article
  Philibert <mask>'Orme
 Hanser, David A. (2006). Architecture of France. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. .
 Hoffmann, Volker (1996). "L'Orme [Delorme], Philibert <mask>" in  The Dictionary of Art, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. . Also at Oxford Art Online (article updated 26 November 2003).Lemerle, F. & Y. Pauwels (2016). <mask> De L'Orme (1514-1570). Un architecte dans l'histoire: Arts - Sciences - Techniques (= Études Renaissantes 17). Turnhout: Brepols. .
 Pérouse <mask>los, Jean-Marie (2000). <mask> De l'Orme : Architecte du roi (1514–1570). Paris: Mengès. .
 Potié, Philippe (1996). <mask> <mask>'Orme : Figures de la pensées constructive.Marseille: Parenthèses. . External links

 Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir, 1561: copy at Gallica
 Le premier tome de l'architecture:
 1567: copy at the website of the Library of the University of Bern
 1567: illustrations at Gallica
 1568: copy at the Internet Archive from the Research Library of the Getty Research Institute
 1626: copy at the Internet Archive from the Research Library of the Getty Research Institute (includes <mask>'Orme's portrait engraving as well as Invention pour bien bastir)
 English translation of <mask>'Orme's Le premier tome de l'architecture
 French Renaissance architectural treatises, Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance
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title: James David Manning

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<mask> (born February 20, 1947) is an American pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church. <mask> grew up in Red Springs, North Carolina, and has been with ATLAH since 1981. ATLAH stands for All The Land Anointed Holy, which is <mask>'s name for Harlem. Through the ATLAH church, <mask> hosts an online series called The Manning Report, which features criticism on such topics as the negative influence of black celebrities, homosexuality, and the alleged "criminal" acts of U.S. President Barack Obama. <mask>'s allegations and political views have made him highly controversial. Biography
<mask> was born on February 20, 1947, in Red Springs, North Carolina. He grew up in the town, which was then segregated.He picked cotton and pulled tobacco as a child, then took a bus to New York the day he graduated from high school. He became radicalized in the 1960s and said he was driven by his hatred of white people. As a younger man, <mask> burglarized homes, mostly on Long Island. Between 1969 and 1974, he said, he broke into as many as 100 houses and once threatened an associate with a loaded shotgun. He spent about  years in prison in New York and Florida for burglary, robbery, larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, and other charges before his release in 1978. While in prison, he became a devout Christian. <mask> has said that his past life of crime and then incarceration helped to shape his wider perspective on life and that he does not shy away from discussing it.After beginning study in 1982, <mask> graduated from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York where he was awarded a Master of Divinity in 1985. During his graduate studies, <mask> went on a religious study tour to Latin America, and later to Africa. In his theological group study tour of Africa in 1985, he visited both Liberia in West Africa, founded by former African-American slaves and apartheid-era South Africa. He met his future wife on the tour. <mask> has said that his visit to Africa had an influence on his views about race, and that his witnessing of black societies other than African-Americans influenced his views on the nature of black people. <mask> claims to hold a Doctor of Philosophy degree from his own ATLAH Theological Seminary, an institution without educational accreditation. According to <mask> he attended the Oxford Round Table in 2004.Taxation controversies

New York City authorities claim that ATLAH owes $1.02 million in unpaid taxes and unpaid water bills. The city claims that because the church contains six residential apartments, the whole building is not tax exempt, only that portion used for the church. The Harlem church disagrees and has fought a long legal battle to assert its alleged right not to have to pay taxes or water bills for any portion of the church building. In 2016 the church was due to be sold at a public auction, and The Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit organization providing transitional homes for homeless LGBT youth raised money to purchase it, reaching its target of $200,000 to buy the church. The organization's founder, Carl Siciliano, wrote:

<mask> said at the time that the sale would not happen unless "men give birth through their anus", and that he and his congregation would barricade themselves inside the church and arm themselves to stop new owners taking possession of it. A stay was granted pending a full court hearing on June 1, which delayed the planned public auction. In September 2016, Judge Manuel J. Mendez vacated the foreclosure and sale order, ruling that as ATLAH may be found to be tax exempt, it cannot be forced to be sold until such time that ATLAH is found to actually owe the taxes the city claims it owes.After the court ruling, <mask> threatened to publicly burn the rainbow flag as a celebration, which caused the Ali Forney Center to organize a protest outside of the church. Following the ruling, Siciliano stated, "Rev. <mask>'s declaration of victory is premature" and, "All [Rev. <mask>] has won for now is the opportunity to incur many further legal costs as he tries to escape the consequences of decades of failure to pay ATLAH's water bills." On August 22, 2017, the Court ruled that the church did owe the unpaid water bills and taxes, but the church appealed the decision. According to Siciliano, this means that "the process could be delayed for approximately 18 months." Views

Criticism of homosexuality
<mask> has received some media coverage for his condemnations of homosexuality, which include calling for homosexuals to be stoned to death.He has referred to himself as "the sodomite slayer" and stated, "I do think that anyone who promotes [homosexuality] as a lifestyle and tries to make it a national and international event and create warfare upon everybody else, then the appropriate response would be to stone them back to the Stone Age, or stone them back to hell." <mask>'s views on homosexuality include the beliefs that "white homos are going to take the black woman's man" and that President Obama is going to "use gay people to destroy the black community." He calls for the stoning of gay people and for Harlem to be a "homo-free zone." In an interview with The Huffington Post, <mask> stated, "The homosexual activists are flat-out lying about what Jesus would do regarding the detestable, abominable, diseased practice and act of homosexuality. They have been lying and saying that Jesus would simply love." <mask> has stated that Starbucks will be "ground zero for Ebola" in the United States because homosexuals frequent the stores and "a lot of bodily fluids" are exchanged. <mask> has also stated that Starbucks puts semen in its coffees, and that millions of people around the world "really think that the taste of semen is quite a flavor."Criticism of Barack Obama

<mask> has expressed contempt for a range of American political leaders, stating that both George W. Bush and his father had anal sex with 100 men and likening Barack Obama to Hitler and one of the two beasts in Revelation. <mask> came to public attention during the 2008 presidential election after ATLAH posted several sermons of his on YouTube that were harshly critical of Obama. Among other accusations, he called Obama's mother "white trash" for becoming pregnant by a black man out of wedlock, an issue he discussed during a press conference at the National Press Club on December 8, 2008. It is common knowledge that African men, coming from the continent of Africa — especially for the first time — do diligently seek out white women to have sexual intercourse with. Generally the most noble of white society choose not to intercourse sexually with these men. So it's usually the trashier ones who make their determinations that they're going to have sex. <mask> defended his sermons in an interview on Fox News, saying that "we also have to talk about his character."The sermons drew the attention of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service objecting to alleged violations of laws granting tax-free status to churches on the condition that they refrain from certain forms of political activity. <mask> has continued his criticisms of Obama since the election, frequently calling him a criminal and "long-legged mack daddy." He produced a video in summer 2009 in which he predicted that there would be a white backlash against Obama, complete with riots, and he attended one of the first "birther" events. In an interview with the Israeli radio station Arutz Sheva, <mask> asserted that Obama had chosen to befriend Muslims instead of Jews; he also offered praise of Meir Kahane. After Bill O'Reilly, a commentator on Fox News, called birther lawyer Orly Taitz a "nut," <mask> and Taitz organized a protest outside Fox News headquarters in New York City in November 2009, which drew an estimated 15 to 20 attendees. In May 2010 <mask> staged a show trial of Barack Obama at ATLAH for wire fraud, with <mask> acting as prosecutor. Although the treason and sedition charges had been deleted from consideration at the trial, <mask> expressed the opinion that Obama should be hanged.In 2013, <mask> accused Obama of having a "love child" and then shooting the mother outside the White House. On August 4, 2014, he prognosticated that Obama and Vladimir Putin would be outed as gay within 100 days. Following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting, <mask> suggested that Obama had cut a deal with terrorists to attack other Western countries. In early 2016, <mask> alleged that President Obama had murdered Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. When <mask>'s missionary church faced foreclosure in 2016, <mask> alleged that President Obama had ordered for the church to be closed. Public image

<mask>'s claims and allegations through social media have made him the subject to much scrutiny. He has appeared on Fox News, The Young Turks, the Alex Jones  show, and a plethora of other social media entities.He formerly had a show on Republic Broadcasting Network, but is no longer  hosting a show on the network as of early 2018. Criticism of Ben Carson
In 2015, <mask> called presidential candidate Ben Carson a "pathetic nigga" and a "demon", and described all of Carson's supporters as "closeted sodomites, fags, lesbos, [and] buttlickers". Criticism of black leadership
In his sermons and in video messages posted on his church's website and on YouTube, <mask> has denounced the influence of Charles Rangel, Al Sharpton, Cornel West and Jay-Z. He has also had harsh words for black people in general, and black men in particular. Opposition to gentrification in Harlem
<mask> is fiercely opposed to the gentrification of Harlem and calls for its residents to boycott its shops, restaurants, doctors, banks and churches. That action, combined with a general rent strike, would force all property owners out of Harlem, he said, leaving the neighborhood to its rightful inheritors: black people. <mask> calls his plan "No Dew, Nor Rain", after Elijah's warning to Ahab, king of Israel, of a coming drought."When there's no dew, no rain, there's a drought — there's all kinds of suffering", <mask> said. The whole of Harlem, he said, is to be a "drought zone". <mask> said the intent of the boycott was to return Harlem to its pre-gentrification days of 1990, without the crack cocaine, crime, and boarded-up buildings. His hope, he says, is that declining property values will make housing affordable for black people. References

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<mask> (born July 20, 1972), better known by her stage name Vitamin <mask>, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. She began her career as an Ivory soap baby and child actress, appearing in John Waters' film Hairspray (1988), and continued to appear in minor roles in films before starting the alternative rock band Eve's Plum in 1991. In 1999, Fitzpatrick embarked on a solo career under the name Vitamin <mask>, releasing her eponymous debut album Vitamin C (1999), which was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Singles from the record include "Graduation (Friends Forever)" and the Top 20 single "Smile". Her second album, More (2001) spawned the singles "As Long as You're Loving Me" and "The Itch". She appeared in the horror film Dracula 2000 (2000), and made cameo appearances in Get Over It (2001) and Scary Movie 2 (2001). She also appeared as a panelist on the spoof talent series The WB's Superstar USA in 2004.She was ranked No. 76 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. In March 2012, Fitzpatrick was appointed as Vice President of Music at Nickelodeon. Since early 2019, Fitzpatrick has served as a music executive for Netflix. Early life
Fitzpatrick was born in Old Bridge, New Jersey, on July 20, 1972. She is the youngest of three children born to Vita, a legal secretary, and Gerard Fitzpatrick, a communications executive. She is of Irish descent.She graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in 1987, (now called Old Bridge High School) where she was a classmate of Junot Díaz. During her high school years she was a dancer who danced professionally in several TV ads, and also starred in her high school musical. She later attended New York University, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Career

Hairspray and Eve's Plum (1988–1998)

In 1988, while a student at New York University living in the same dorm as Sarah Silverman, John Fugelsang and Bridget Looney, Fitzpatrick made her screen debut under her real name in the John Waters feature film Hairspray as Amber Von Tussle, the bratty on-screen daughter of co-stars Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono. In the 1980s, she appeared on The Equalizer and on Saturday Night Live as an "Update Dancer" during Dennis Miller's news segment. She made her first musical outing as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Eve's Plum, named after The Brady Bunch actress Eve Plumb, formed in 1991. She formed the band with Michael Kotch in 1991, whom she met while studying at New York University.A year later the group signed a record deal with Epic Records in 1992, releasing two albums and seven singles between 1993 and 1995 before being dropped. The band continued to perform together until 1998. Vitamin C (1998–2000)
Following the group's breakup, Fitzpatrick launched a pop music solo project as "Vitamin C" and signed an album deal with Elektra Records in 1998. Her debut solo album, Vitamin C, peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 29 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album's first single, "Smile", peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. The second single from the album, "Me, Myself & I", failed to chart. However, the third single "Graduation (Friends Forever)" was more successful, peaking at number 12 on the Top 40 Mainstream Chart and number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100.In Australia, the song peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts and was certified Platinum. In the summer of 2000, the song saw a resurgence in popularity in the Republic of Ireland, peaking at number 4 in the country. Vitamin C was marketed through collaborations with a number of prolific brands. In 2000, Mattel produced a Vitamin C doll which was retailed at approximately $16, and a Vitamin C lipstick shade was made by Tommy Hilfiger. Vitamin C's cover version of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" was used as a brand image theme by the American television network The WB during the 1999–2000 television season. She also wrote and recorded "Vacation", which became the opening theme to the short movie Pikachu's Vacation (from Pokémon: The First Movie). The 2001 video game EA Sports Triple Play featured Vitamin C as an animated baseball player.In 2000, she played the role of Lucy Westerman in the horror film Dracula 2000 and as herself in the spoof film Da Hip Hop Witch. More (2000–2001)
In late 2000, Vitamin C released "The Itch", the first single from her second album More. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 45. "The Itch" was a much bigger success in Australia where it charted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts and was certified Platinum. More debuted at number 122 on the Billboard 200. "As Long As You're Loving Me" was released as the second single from the album, but failed to chart in the US and led to Vitamin C being dropped from Elektra Records. In 2001, Vitamin C made cameo appearances as herself in the films Get Over It, Scary Movie 2, and Rock Star.Vitamin C also made cameo appearances on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Brothers Garcia, and The Sausage Factory. In the February 2001 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, Vitamin C was voted as one of the "Fun and Fearless Females" of the year. That same year Vitamin C was ranked No. 76 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. "Last Nite" and later activities (2001–2009)
Vitamin C signed with V2 Records in 2001 and began recording her third album over the course of 2002 and 2003. The first single, "Last Nite", was released in July 2003. It was a cover version of the hit song by The Strokes and sampled Blondie's "Heart of Glass".The single failed to chart in the US, and peaked at number 70 on the UK Top 75. Her third album under the Vitamin C name was subsequently shelved. Her subsequent television appearances included playing a judge in the American Idol spoof The WB's Superstar USA. She also appeared in an episode of MTV's The Andy Dick Show and the celebrity game show Celebrity Bootcamp. She was one of three judges on the Lifetime reality series Your Mama Don't Dance. In 2005, Vitamin C's cover of "Voices Carry" by 'Til Tuesday was included on the soundtrack for the Disney movie Sky High. The same year, she wrote the song "We Are Gonna Happen" for Emma Roberts on the Unfabulous and More album.She also co-wrote the song "Where Do We Go" with Scout Taylor-<mask>. In 2006, she assembled a Radio Disney-aimed group of four teenagers named The Truth Squad. Vitamin <mask> wrote and produced a number of song's for the group's debut album, which included a cover of "Graduation (Friends Forever)". The album was released on April 3, 2007, and made a brief appearance on the Top Kid Audio Chart, where it peaked at No. 23. During this time, Vitamin <mask> was reportedly working on two new albums, a children's world-music album and a pop album, neither of which were released. She also starred in the indie sitcom THE LEK, but only three episodes were released.In 2007, she assembled and produced the girl group the Stunners. The group was signed to Columbia Records and later Universal Republic Records. In the span of four years they released an EP, two singles, and four music videos. The group split in early 2011. In 2008, she wrote the single "Make Some Noise" for Krystal Meyers. In 2009, she wrote "Let's Get Crazy" for Miley <mask> as Hannah Montana. Vitamin C also wrote the song "One and the Same", a duet recorded by Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez for the Disney Channel Original Movie Princess Protection Program.Music executive (2012–present)
On March 21, 2012, Nickelodeon named Vitamin C as VP of Music. She oversees all music for Nickelodeon and its sister cable channels. In an interview for the We Are Netflix podcast with Lyle Troxell published in September 2021, she stated that she does not desire to return to performing. Discography

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Vitamin C (1999)
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 [ Vitamin C at All Music]
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<mask> (23 May 1946 – 7 March 2007) was a British  heavyweight boxer, weightlifter, writer, prisoner, and debt collector. He spent much of his adult life in prison, where he became one of the UK's most notorious inmates. As a boxer he had success as an amateur in 1973, and in a brief professional career in 1979 fought John L. Gardner for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. Early life
<mask> was born 23 May 1946 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire to <mask> and Betty Barlow. He grew up on the Lupset council estate and took up boxing at the age of 7 at the Robin Hood and Thorpe Amateur Boxing Club. <mask> displayed considerable talent at an early age which, with his size and ability to move, made him formidable. However, he also began drinking heavily at a young age.When he was 16 he went to Germany to fight and the night before was carried out of a bar. Unsurprisingly, he lost. His first prison sentence came at the age of 17. While in prison, in 1971 he sparred Roger Tighe. While serving a five-year sentence in HMP Walton, he was allowed to join the Maple Leaf Amateur Boxing Club in Bootle, run by a local magistrate, and was allowed out on licence to represent the North-Western Counties team in 1973, and was considered a potential ABA heavyweight champion, but lost in the semi-final of the championships that year to eventual winner Garfield McEwan. After his release from prison in 1973, he worked as a lifeguard on Blackpool Beach. Boxing career
<mask>'s adult life was peppered with alcohol abuse, petty robberies, mental health issues,violent crime and prison.Nonetheless, during a brief period of rehabilitation, he fought ten bouts as a professional boxer between 1978 and 1980. On his release from prison in 1977, at the age of 30, having unsuccessfully applied for a professional licence in 1973, he applied again, but the BBBofC, wary of licensing a man who had spent so much of his adult life in prison, insisted that he wait six months before receiving a licence. He finally made his professional debut in February 1978, beating Keith Steve Johnson via a first round retirement. In his second fight he challenged Neil Malpass for the BBBofC Central Area heavyweight title, losing via disqualification after he was judged to have deliberately headbutted Malpass in the seventh round. After wins over Tommy Kiely and Neville Meade, in July 1978 he again challenged Malpass for the Central Area title, the fight ending in a draw. In his sixth fight, <mask> knocked American David Wilson unconscious and continued to hit him relentlessly as he draped over the ropes, before the referee managed to pull him away. Wilson suffered a brain haemorrhage, was put on a life support machine and needed a month in hospital to recover.<mask>' career peaked in June 1979 when he challenged for John L. Gardner's British and Commonwealth titles at Wembley. <mask> prepared for the fight with three weeks of sparring with Leon Spinks in Michigan. This proved to be an evenly matched contest as it entered the sixth round, though the younger Gardner's stamina proved too much for the 33-year-old <mask>, and the fight was stopped when <mask> turned his back, clearly overwhelmed by Gardner's onslaught. Gardner was seven years younger than <mask> (Gardner referred to <mask> after the fight as "an old man"), and this was his thirty-first professional fight; in contrast, <mask> had entered the fight after just eight professional bouts. <mask> still holds the record for being the British Heavyweight title challenger with fewest professional fights, having effectively been fast tracked by people involved with the sport who had been convinced of his potential. Despite many years in prison, such was the level of interest that <mask> generated on starting his belated boxing career following his release in 1978, that he found himself in promotional photographs with Don King and Larry Holmes, and also travelled to the United States to stand in as a sparring partner for Leon Spinks. <mask> was a bodyguard to Alex Steene, and sparred the future champion David Pearce, <mask> said; David "Bomber" Pearce was the toughest and most ferocious fighter he faced during his boxing career based on the sparring that took place at the Waterloo Boxing Gym.<mask>, became good friends with Pearce and the Pearce boxing brothers. <mask>' manager, the highly respected Tommy Miller later said, "<mask> could have gone right to the top, quite easily .. he impressed everybody", but "he was always in trouble one way or another, he'd always loads of worry on his mind." <mask> said of his ring career: "Boxing has been my salvation. It's the only sport which could have rescued me from my background." His 'big chance' lost, <mask> was clearly demoralized and his professional career ended in March 1980 when Nigerian heavyweight Ngozika Ekwelum knocked him out in the first round of a fight in Lagos, Nigeria. It appeared that <mask> had been billed to fight Lenny McLean at London's Rainbow Theatre on 20 November 1979, but this fight never materialised. Lenny Mclean, in his autobiography, later explained: "A week before the off, <mask> went into a club in Wakefield where he lives, got well pissed and had a ruck with four doormen.He did them all but one of them got lucky and put a cut above his eye that took eight stitches to pull together". <mask> was jailed for five years in 1981 for taking out a contract on a union official from Blackpool. While in prison, he set records for lifting weights. An incredibly strong man, he was the holder of the British amateur weightlifting record (deep knee bend 500 lbs). Prison
<mask> was classed as one of the most difficult prisoners in the UK throughout the 1970s and 1980s. By 1990, he had spent 21 out of 26 years in 18 prisons for many violent acts against prison officers and police officers. <mask> committed violent offences all over the North of England and was very well known to locals and the police in Leeds, Liverpool, Blackpool, Hull, and Rotherham.<mask> was also known and respected by the hard cases in London, possibly as a result of <mask> having trained alongside and sparred with such notorious criminals as Roy Shaw during his lengthy prison career. Some apparently classed <mask> as one of the hardest men in Great Britain during the 1980s. <mask> is mentioned in the book, Legends by Charles Bronson, an A to Z guide of the men Bronson had regarded to be the toughest in Britain. Referring to him as '<mask>y', Bronson describes him as "a legend, born and bred" and writes: "I first met <mask> in Liverpool in the early 70s and at that time he was probably the fittest con in Britain. A hard man from Yorkshire, a fighting man in every sense. A lot of people never liked him, perhaps they even feared him but I respected the man for what he stood for". Bronson then goes on to relate an incident said to have taken place in HMP Liverpool, when <mask> allegedly killed the prison's cat and fashioned it into a 'Davey Crockett' hat.While in prison, <mask> earned a BA degree in Physical Sciences from the Open University and wrote a memoir, Sweet Agony, which won the Arthur Koestler Award for prison literature. Later Years
Following his release from HM Prison Hull in 1990, producer Roger Greenwood followed him in the course of filming the documentary <mask>: At Large. Greenwood described <mask> as "a fascinating character and incredibly intelligent". A further documentary explored <mask>'s brief post-release career as a debt collector, a business venture he dubbed the 'Last Resort Debt Collecting Agency... "threatenergrams" a speciality', and which was utilised by Wakefield businessman, Dennis Flint, who sent <mask> to collect debts in Spain in addition to funding his autobiography, 'Sweet Agony'. <mask> could not control his drinking, his life began to crumble and he became a notorious character in the city of Wakefield. In 2000, Wakefield Council secured a two-year ASBO banning him from the city centre after a string of aggressive drunken incidents including shouting abuse and urinating in public. He was arrested in August 2003 for violating the ban by making an appointment with an optician in Wakefield, but was released on his own recognisance.Death
<mask> died on 7 March 2007 at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. His cause of death was noted as pneumonia and liver cirrhosis. His death certificate states his occupation as 'author (retired)' and the funeral service was held at Wakefield Baptist Church, which he regularly attended. He is buried in the Alverthorpe cemetery Wakefield

Children
<mask> has two children who are both serving life sentences for murder. <mask> <mask> is serving a life sentence for stabbing Michael Gallagher to death in a frenzied knife attack at his flat in Lupset, Wakefield in June 2004. In 2008, 25-year-old Michael Sharp became the second son of <mask> to be jailed for murder, when he was given a minimum 27-year sentence at Leeds Crown Court for killing 38-year-old David Ward, a former police officer, following a botched armed robbery at his home on Denby Dale Road in Wakefield. Books and film
Jamie Boyle wrote two books about <mask>, which were published in 2017.Boyle released a third book in 2020 to finish the series. The film rights to these and <mask>' book were acquired in 2017 by Western Edge Pictures, and as of 2019 the film is still in development. Professional boxing record

Published works
Sweet Agony (1988), Lofthouse Publications,

Biographies of <mask>, Jamie (2017) <mask>: Unfinished Agony, Warcry Press,
Boyle, Jamie (2017) Further Agony: One More Round with <mask>, Warcry Press,
Brenton, Rob (2018) ''It's...Sharks: <mask> & The Straits of Johor, Warcry Press,

Awards
1988: Koestler Award, Sweet Agony

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