title: Khmer people

text: Cambodia is no longer seen as being on the brink of disaster, a reputation it gained in the 1980s and 1990s as guerilla-style warfare was still being waged by the Khmer Rouge until their ceasefire in 1998. Cambodians in the diaspora are returning to their homeland to start businesses, and immigrant Western workers in fields as diverse as architecture, archaeology, philanthropy, banking, hospitality, agriculture, music, diplomacy and garments are increasingly attracted to Cambodia because of its relaxed lifestyle and traditional way of life.


title: Khmer people

text: The culture of the ethnic Khmers is fairly homogeneous throughout their geographic range. Regional dialects exist, but are mutually intelligible. The standard is based on the dialect spoken throughout the Central Plain, a region encompassed by the northwest and central provinces. The varieties of Khmer spoken in this region are representative of the speech of the majority of the population. A unique and immediately recognizable dialect has developed in Phnom Penh that, due to the city's status as the national capital, has been modestly affected by recent French and Vietnamese influence.


title: Khmer people

text: Other dialects are Northern Khmer dialect, called "Khmer Surin" by Khmers, spoken by over a million Khmer native to Northeast Thailand; and Khmer Krom spoken by the millions of Khmer native to the Mekong Delta regions of Vietnam adjacent to Cambodia and their descendants abroad. A little-studied dialect known as Western Khmer, or Cardamom Khmer, is spoken by a small, isolated population in the Cardamom Mountain range extending from Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand. Although little studied, it is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.


title: Khmer people

text: The modern Khmer strongly identify their ethnic identity with their religious beliefs and practices, which combine the tenets of Theravada Buddhism with elements of indigenous ancestor-spirit worship, animism and shamanism. Most Cambodians, whether or not they profess to be Buddhists or other faiths, believe in a rich supernatural world. Several types of supernatural entities are believed to exist; they make themselves known by means of inexplicable sounds or happenings. Among these phenomena are (ghosts), (comes in many forms depending on their punishments) and (monsters) [these are usually the spirits of people who have died a violently, untimely, or unnatural deaths]; (evil spirits, devils), krasue, (tutelary spirit or entity residing in inanimate objects; land, water, trees etc.), ទះ(house guardians), (ancestral spirits), and (little mischief spirit guardians dressed in red). All spirits must be shown proper respect, and, with the exception of the and , they can cause trouble ranging from mischief to serious life-threatening illnesses.


title: Khmer people

text: The majority of the Cambodians live in rural villages either as rice farmers or fishermen. Their life revolves around the "Wat" (temple) and the various Buddhist ceremonies throughout the year. However, if Cambodians become ill, they will frequently see a (shaman/healer), whom they believe can diagnose which of the many spirits has caused the illness and recommend a course of action to propitiate the offended spirit, thereby curing the illness. The is also learned in herb lore and is often sought to prepare various "medicines" and potions or for a magical tattoo, all believed to endow one with special prowess and ward off evil spirits or general bad luck. Khmer beliefs also rely heavily on astrology, a remnant of Hinduism. A fortune teller, called (astrologists) or in Khmer, is often consulted before major events, like choosing a spouse, beginning an important journey or business venture, setting the date for a wedding and determining the proper location for building new structures.


title: Khmer people

text: Throughout the year, the Cambodian celebrate many holidays, most of a religious or spiritual nature, some of which are also observed as public holidays. The two most important are "Chol Chhnam" (Cambodian New Year) and "Pchum Ben" ("Ancestor Day"). The Cambodian Buddhist calendar is divided into 12 months with the traditional new year beginning on the first day of , which coincides with the first new moon of April in the western calendar. The modern celebration has been standardized to coincide with April 13.


title: Khmer people

text: Cambodian culture has influenced Thai and Lao cultures and vice versa. Many Khmer loanwords are found in Thai and Lao, while many Lao and Thai loanwords are found in Khmer.


title: Khmer people

text: The Khmer people are genetically closely related to other Southeast Asian populations. They show strong genetic relation to other Austroasiatic people in Southeast Asia and East Asia and have a minor genetic influence from Indian people. Cambodians trace ~16% of their ancestry to a Eurasian population that is equally related to both Europeans and East Asians, while the remaining 84% of their ancestry is related to other Southeast Asians, particularly to a source similar to the Dai people. Another study suggests that Cambodians trace ~19% of their ancestry to a similar Eurasian population related to modern-day Central Asians, South Asians, and East Asians, while the remaining 81% of their ancestry is related specifically to modern-day Dai and Han people.


title: Khmer people

text: The genetic testing website 23andme groups Khmer people under the "Indonesian, Khmer, Thai & Myanmar" reference population. This reference population contains people who have had recent ancestors from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.


title: Khmer people

text: Hideo Matsumoto, professor emeritus at Osaka Medical College tested Gm types, genetic markers of immunoglobulin G, of Khmer people for a 2009 study. The study found that the Gm afb1b3 is a southern marker gene possibly originating in southern China and found at high frequencies across southern China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Assam and parts of the Pacific Islands. The study found that the average frequency of Gm afb1b3 was 76.7% for the Khmer population.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: The 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series was the 41st season of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season started with the Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 on February 19 at Daytona International Speedway and ended with the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race on November 5 at Phoenix Raceway.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: Daniel Hemric entered the season as the defending champion and attempted to become the second driver in series history to win back-to-back championships driving for two different teams. (The first was Tyler Reddick in 2018 and 2019, who drove for JR Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing in those years respectively.) Hemric drove the No. 18 car for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2021, but moved to the No. 11 car for Kaulig Racing in 2022. Hemric once again made the Playoffs but was eliminated after the Round of 12.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: The Xfinity Series logo also changed from red to purple in 2022 to reflect a similar change in the logo of series title sponsor Xfinity.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: Following the 2022 Food City 300 at Bristol, A. J. Allmendinger of Kaulig Racing clinched the regular season championship. After the 2022 Alsco Uniforms 302 at Las Vegas, Chevrolet won the manufacturers' championship. Ty Gibbs won the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship, while Joe Gibbs Racing won its fourth championship. It was also JGR's second NXS Championship in a row. Austin Hill of Richard Childress Racing won the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year honors.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: Note: Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2022. For the races where a 2022 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the names of those races in 2021 are listed.


title: 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series

text: () Bold – Pole position awarded by time. "Italics" – Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. * – Most laps led.  – Stage 1 winner.  – Stage 2 winner" " – Regular season top 10 finishers.


title: Mary McCormack

text: Mary Catherine McCormack (born February 8, 1969) is an American actress. She has had leading roles as Justine Appleton in the series "Murder One" (1995–97), as Deputy National Security Adviser Kate Harper in "The West Wing" (2004–06), as Deputy U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon in "In Plain Sight" (2008–12), and as Peggy in the comedy series "The Kids Are Alright" (2018–19).


title: Mary McCormack

text: Her film roles include "Private Parts" (1997), "Deep Impact" (1998), "True Crime" (1999), "Mystery, Alaska" (1999), "K-PAX" (2001), "" (2003) and "1408" (2007).


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. She is the daughter of clinical therapist Norah and car dealership and ice cream parlor owner William McCormack. Her parents divorced in 1990. Her sister Bridget is the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and a former professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Her brother William is an actor, writer and producer who has appeared in a recurring role as FBI agent Robert O'Connor on "In Plain Sight".


title: Mary McCormack

text: In 1987, McCormack graduated from the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, New Jersey. In 1991, she received her BA in comparative arts, specifically painting and creative writing, from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack began her acting career at age 12, performing in Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors." She continued her stage work in musicals and finished an acting program at the William Esper Studio. She has worked in New York theater productions, including The Atlantic Theater Company, Alice's 4th Floor, and Naked Angels, where she appeared in Jon Robin Baitz's "A Fair Country."


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack portrayed Justine Appleton on "Murder One" (1995–1997) and also starred in the HBO series "K Street", which aired for only ten episodes. She starred in Howard Stern's movie "Private Parts" in 1997. In 2004, McCormack joined the cast of "The West Wing" as Deputy National Security Advisor and ex-CIA officer Kate Harper. Her character soon became a recurring role and remained throughout the last three seasons until the series finale.


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack starred in the USA Network series "In Plain Sight." She portrayed Mary Shannon, a deputy United States marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC), more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program. On July 28, 2010, the show was renewed for its fourth and fifth seasons, to run in 2011 and 2012. The show was ended in 2011, making the fifth season its last. After its end, McCormack was cast as the lead in Kari Lizer's untitled comedy pilot on ABC.


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack was nominated for the 2008 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for the role of Gretchen in the 2008 Broadway revival of "Boeing Boeing".


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack appeared seven times as a guest on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". On her fourth visit in 2009, she presented the host Craig Ferguson with a novelty coffee mug in the shape of a rattlesnake from the gift shop of the American International Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque. Ferguson promised to use this mug on all future shows and kept his promise. After his last show, he donated the mug back to the museum.


title: Mary McCormack

text: In 2012, McCormack reunited with the cast of "The West Wing" to film a video that served both as a reminder that U.S. voters should vote for non-partisan candidates when they cast their ballots and as a video promoting McCormack's sister's ultimately successful judicial candidacy for the Michigan State Supreme Court.


title: Mary McCormack

text: In October 2013, McCormack started filming scenes for "The Crash" (previously titled 'A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island') alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Minnie Driver, Dianna Agron, John Leguizamo, Ed Westwick, Christopher McDonald and Maggie Q. The film is directed by Aram Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah and Aaron Becker. The film had a direct-to-VOD and limited release on January 13, 2017 in North America.


title: Mary McCormack

text: In 2016, McCormack played a supporting role in the Amazon.com exclusive special "" alongside Alyvia Alyn Lind, who played the title character.


title: Mary McCormack

text: In 2018, McCormack began starring in the ABC sitcom "The Kids Are Alright" as Catholic family matriarch Peggy Cleary. ABC canceled the series after one season.


title: Mary McCormack

text: In July 2003, McCormack married director and producer Michael Morris. Together they have three daughters, Lillian Morris born in 2011, Rose Morris born in 2007, and Margaret Morris born in 2004.


title: Mary McCormack

text: McCormack and Morris are executive producers of the game show "25 Words or Less", hosted by Meredith Vieira. McCormack is also a frequent celebrity panelist on the show, as are fellow executive producers Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky.


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: Sonal Chauhan (born 16 May 1987) is an Indian actress, singer and model who predominantly works in Telugu and Hindi language films.


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: She made her acting debut with Hindi film "Jannat" and her Telugu film debut with "Rainbow", both in 2008. Chauhan made her Kannada film debut with "Cheluveye Ninne Nodalu" (2010) and Tamil debut with "Inji Iduppazhagi" (2015). She has been part of successful films including "Legend" (2014), "Pandaga Chesko" (2015), "Size Zero" (2015) and "Dictator" (2016) and The Ghost


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: Chauhan was born in a Rajput family. She attended Delhi Public School in Noida. She then studied Philosophy honours at Gargi College in New Delhi.


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: She was crowned Miss World Tourism 2005 at Miri, Sarawak state of Malaysia. She is the first Indian to have claimed the Miss World Tourism title. She also appeared on the cover pages of FHM.


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: She first appeared on screen in Himesh Reshammiya's "Aap Kaa Surroor". She appeared opposite Emraan Hashmi. She has also signed a three-film deal with the Bhatts, of which two are pending.


title: Sonal Chauhan

text: She acted in a Telugu film "Legend" costarring Nandamuri Balakrishna and marking her comeback to Tollywood. Her next project was "Pandaga Chesko". In early 2015, she signed two Telugu films: "Size Zero" opposite Arya and "Sher" opposite Nandamuri Kalyan Ram.


title: Steve Allen

text: Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of "The Tonight Show", which was the first late-night television talk show.


title: Steve Allen

text: Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensive network television career. He gained national attention as a guest host on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts." After he hosted "The Tonight Show", he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own "The Steve Allen Show", "I've Got a Secret", and "The New Steve Allen Show". He was a regular panel member on CBS's "What's My Line?" and, from 1977 until 1981, he wrote, produced, and hosted the award-winning public broadcasting show "Meeting of Minds", a series of historical dramas presented in a talk format.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen was a pianist and a prolific composer. By his own estimate, he wrote more than 8,500 songs, some of which were recorded by numerous leading singers. Working as a lyricist, Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition, for "Gravy Waltz," for which he wrote the lyrics. He also wrote more than 50 books, including novels, children's books, and books of opinions, including his final book, "Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio" (2001).


title: Steve Allen

text: In 1996, Allen was presented with the Martin Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP). He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Hollywood theater named in his honor.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen was born in New York City, son of Billy (Carroll Abler) and Isabelle Allen (née Donohue), a husband-and-wife vaudeville comedy team. His father died when he was an infant. He was raised on the South Side of Chicago largely by his mother's Irish Catholic family. Milton Berle called Allen's mother "the funniest woman in vaudeville."


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen ran away from home at 16 and described in interviews the ease with which he descended into begging.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's first radio job was on station KOY, in Phoenix, Arizona, after he left Arizona State Teachers College (now Arizona State University), in Tempe, while a sophomore. He enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and was trained as an infantryman. He served his enlistment period at Camp Roberts, California. Afterward, he returned to Phoenix, before moving back to California.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen became an announcer for radio KFAC in Los Angeles, then moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1946, talking the station into airing his five-nights-a-week comedy show "Smile Time", co-starring Wendell Noble. After Allen moved to CBS Radio's KNX in Los Angeles, his music-and-talk half-hour format gradually changed to include more talk in an hour-long late-night format, boosting his popularity and creating standing-room-only studio audiences.


title: Steve Allen

text: During a show's segment, Allen went into the audience with a microphone to ad lib on the air for the first time. This became a commonplace part of his studio performances for many years. His program attracted a huge local following; as the host of a 1950 summer replacement show for the popular comedy "Our Miss Brooks", he found himself in front of a national audience for the first time.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's first television experience came in 1949, when he answered an advertisement for a television announcer for professional wrestling. Knowing nothing about wrestling, he watched some shows to gain insight and discovered that the announcers did not have well defined names for the wrestling holds: when he got the job, he created names for many of the holds, some of which still are in use. After the first match got underway, Allen began ad-libbing in a comedic style that had audiences outside the arena laughing. An example:


title: Steve Allen

text: After CBS radio gave Allen a weekly prime time show, CBS television believed he could be groomed for national television stardom and gave him his first network show. "The Steve Allen Show" premiered at 11 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1950, and was later moved to a thirty-minute, early evening slot. The new show required him to relocate, with his family, from Los Angeles to New York. It ran until 1952, after which CBS tried several different formats to showcase Allen's talent.


title: Steve Allen

text: He achieved national attention in early January 1951, when he was pressed into last-minute service to guest host the hugely popular "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" when Godfrey was unable to appear. He turned one of Godfrey's live Lipton tea and soup commercials upside down, preparing tea and instant soup on camera, then pouring both into Godfrey's iconic ukulele. With the audience (including Godfrey, watching from Miami) laughing uproariously and thoroughly entertained, Allen gained major plaudits both as a comedian and as a host. "Variety" magazine editors who had seen the show wrote, "One of the most hilarious one-man comedy sequences projected over the TV cameras in many a day ... The guy's a natural for the big time."


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen also was a regular on the popular panel television game show "What's My Line?" from 1953 to 1954, and returned frequently as a panelist until the series ended in 1967. He was a celebrity contestant on June 19, 1966, when the blindfolded panel failed to guess his line, selling motorcycles; Allen at the time was co-owner of a Los Angeles dealership selling Honda motorcycles. Those introducing him as a panelist sometimes jokingly called him the son of panelist Fred Allen, but the two men were unrelated. He also revived and popularized the question "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" while trying to guess the products associated with "What's My Line?" contestants.


title: Steve Allen

text: Leaving CBS, Allen created a late-night New York talk/variety television program that debuted in July 1953 on local station WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV). The following year, on September 27, 1954, the show went on the full NBC network as "The Tonight Show", with fellow radio personality Gene Rayburn (who later went on to host hit game shows such as "Match Game", 1962–1982) as the original announcer. The show ran from 11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the East Coast.


title: Steve Allen

text: While "Today" developer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver often is credited as the "Tonight" creator, Allen often pointed out that he had created it earlier as a local New York show. Allen told his nationwide audience that first evening: "This is "Tonight", and I can't think of too much to tell you about it except I want to give you the bad news first: This program is going to go on "forever ..." You think you're tired now. Wait until you see one o'clock roll around!" It was as host of "The Tonight Show" that Allen pioneered the "man on the street" comedic interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that went on to become staples of late-night TV.


title: Steve Allen

text: In June 1956, NBC offered Allen a new prime-time, Sunday night variety hour, "The Steve Allen Show". NBC's goal was to dethrone CBS's top-rated "The Ed Sullivan Show". The show included a typical run of star performers, including early television appearances by rock and roll pioneers Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Fats Domino. Many popular television and film personalities were guest stars, including Bob Hope, Kim Novak, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Esther Williams, Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, the Three Stooges, and a host of others.


title: Steve Allen

text: The show's regulars were Tom Poston, Louis Nye, Bill Dana, Don Knotts, Pat Harrington, Jr., Dayton Allen, and Gabriel Dell. All except film veteran Dell, who had appeared in the Bowery Boys movie series (also known as the Dead End Kids and the East Side Kids), were relatively obscure performers prior to their stints with Allen, and all went on to stardom. The comedians in Allen's gang often were seen in his "Man in the Street" interviews about some topical subject. Poston would appear as a dullard who could not remember his own name. Nye's character was an effete advertising executive named Gordon Hathaway, known for greeting the host with "Hi ho, Steverino!" Dana played amiable Latino "Jose Jimenez." Knotts was an exceedingly jittery man who, when asked if he was nervous, invariably replied with an alarmed "No!". Harrington was the Italian immigrant and former golf-pro Guido Panzini. Dayton Allen, who had gotten his start playing various characters on the children's television series "Howdy Doody," played wild-eyed zanies answering any given question with the question "Why not?" Dell usually played straight men in sketches (policemen, newsmen, dramatic actors, etc.), and occasionally played the character Boris Nadel, a Bela Lugosi/Dracula lookalike.


title: Steve Allen

text: Other recurring routines included "Crazy Shots" (also known as "Wild Pictures"), a series of sight gags accompanied by Allen on piano; Allen inviting audience members to select three musical notes at random, and then composing a song based on the notes; a satire on radio's long-running "The Answer Man" and a precursor to Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent (sample answer: "Et tu, Brute." Allen's reply: "How many pizzas did you eat, Caesar?"); and dramatic comedy readings of real letters to the editor from New York City newspapers.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's show also had one of the longest unscripted "crack-ups" on live television when Allen began laughing hysterically during "Big Bill Allen's Sports Roundup". Allen, known for his infectious high-pitched cackling laugh, laughed uncontrollably for over a minute with the audience laughing along, because, as he later explained, he caught sight of his unkempt hair on an off-camera monitor. He kept brushing his hair and changing hats to hide the messy hair, and the more he tried to correct his appearance the messier and funnier it got.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen helped the then-new Polaroid camera become popular by demonstrating its instant-picture capabilities during live commercials and amassed a huge financial windfall for his work because he had opted to be paid for it in Polaroid Corporation stock.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen remained host of "Tonight" for three nights a week (Monday and Tuesday nights were taken up by guest hosts for most of the summer of 1956; then by Ernie Kovacs through January) until early 1957 when he left the show to devote his attention to the Sunday night program. It was his (and NBC's) hope that "The Steve Allen Show" could defeat Ed Sullivan in the ratings. Nevertheless, "Maverick" often bested both in audience size. In September 1959, Allen relocated to Los Angeles and left Sunday night television (the 1959–'60 season originated from NBC Color City in Burbank as "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show", on Monday nights). Back in Los Angeles, he continued to write songs, hosted other variety shows, and wrote books and articles about comedy.


title: Steve Allen

text: After being cancelled by NBC in 1960, the show returned in the fall of 1961—on ABC. Nye, Poston, Harrington, Dell, and Dayton Allen returned. New cast members were Joey Forman, Buck Henry, the Smothers Brothers, Tim Conway, and Allen's wife Jayne Meadows. The new version was cancelled after fourteen episodes.


title: Steve Allen

text: From 1962 to 1964, Allen recreated "The Tonight Show" on a new late-night show, "The Steve Allen Show", which was syndicated by Westinghouse TV. The five-nights-a-week taped show was broadcast from an old vaudeville theater at 1228 North Vine Street in Hollywood that was renamed "The Steve Allen Playhouse".


title: Steve Allen

text: The show was marked by the same wild, unpredictable stunts, and comedy skits that often extended across the side street to an all-night food outlet known as the Hollywood Ranch Market, where Allen had a hidden camera spying on unsuspecting shoppers. On one show, he had an elephant race down the side street, much to the annoyance of the occupants of the neighboring houses. On this show, he originated the term "little black things" in reference to anything regarding food, and the term "larger than Steve Allen's breadbox" in reference to any item under discussion. He also presented Southern California eccentrics, including health food advocate Gypsy Boots, quirky physics professor Dr. Julius Sumner Miller, wacko comic Professor Irwin Corey, and an early musical performance by Frank Zappa.


title: Steve Allen

text: During one episode, Allen placed a telephone call to the home of Johnny Carson, posing as a rating company interviewer, asking Carson if the television was on, and what program he was watching. Carson did not immediately realize the caller was Allen. A rarity is an exchange between Allen and Carson about Carson's guests, permitting him to plug his own show on a competing network.


title: Steve Allen

text: One notable program, which Westinghouse refused to distribute, featured Lenny Bruce during the time the comic repeatedly was being arrested on obscenity charges. Footage from this program was first telecast in 1998 in a Bruce documentary aired on HBO. Regis Philbin briefly took over hosting the Westinghouse show in 1964.


title: Steve Allen

text: The show also featured many jazz songs played by Allen and members of the show's band, the Donn Trenner Orchestra, which included such virtuoso musicians as guitarist Herb Ellis and flamboyantly comedic hipster trombonist Frank Rosolino (whom Allen credited with originating the "Hiyo!" chant later popularized by Ed McMahon). While the show was not an overwhelming success in its day, David Letterman, Steve Martin, Harry Shearer, Robin Williams, and a number of other prominent comedians have cited Allen's "Westinghouse show," which they watched as teenagers, as being highly influential on their own comedic visions.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen later produced a second half-hour show for Westinghouse, titled "Jazz Scene USA", which featured West Coast jazz musicians such as Rosolino, Stan Kenton, and Teddy Edwards. The short-lived show was hosted by Oscar Brown, Jr.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen hosted a number of television programs until the 1980s, including "The New Steve Allen Show" in 1961 and the game show "I've Got a Secret" (replacing original host Garry Moore) in 1964. In the summer of 1967, he brought most of the regulars from over the years back with "The Steve Allen Comedy Hour", featuring the television debuts of Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, and John Byner, and featuring Ruth Buzzi, who would become famous soon after on the comedy ensemble show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". In 1968 through 1971, Allen returned to syndicated nightly variety/talk with the same wacky stunts that would influence David Letterman in later years, including becoming a human hood ornament, jumping into vats of oatmeal and cottage cheese, and being slathered with dog food before allowing dogs backstage to feast on the food. During the run of this series, Allen also introduced Albert Brooks and Steve Martin to national audiences for the first time.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen returned to guest host "The Tonight Show" for a single 1971 episode, and then became a semi-occasional guest host (15 episodes) from 1973 to 1977. After another long layoff, he guest-hosted two episodes in 1982, the last time he would host "The Tonight Show".


title: Steve Allen

text: A syndicated version of "I've Got A Secret" hosted by Allen and featuring panelists Pat Carroll and Richard Dawson was taped in Hollywood and aired during 1972–1973 season. In 1977, he produced "Steve Allen's Laugh-Back", a syndicated series combining vintage Allen film clips with new talk-show material reuniting his 1950s television gang. From 1986 through 1988, Allen hosted a daily three-hour radio comedy show heard nationally on NBC that featured sketches and America's better-known comedians as regular guests. His co-host was radio personality Mark Simone, and they were joined frequently by comedy writers Larry Gelbart, later of M*A*S*H writing fame; Herb Sargent, perhaps, later on, best known for his writing work on "Saturday Night Live," and Bob Einstein, brother of Albert Brooks and creator and portrayer of the faux stuntman character Super Dave Osborne.


title: Steve Allen

text: From 1984 to 1986, Allen created and hosted "Steve Allen's Music Room" which aired on the newly formed Disney Channel. This was a talk show with jazz vibraphonist Terry Gibbs leading a studio band with the top Los Angeles musicians to include Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli, Carl Fontana, Med Flory, Plas Johnson, Alan Broadbent and drummer Frankie Capp. 27-year-old Bill Maher was the announcer and 'sidekick'. The show featured musicians and entertainers including Melba Moore, Joe Williams, Paul Williams, Burt Bacharach, Anthony Newley, Rosemary Clooney, Lou Rawls, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan and Henry Mancini.


title: Steve Allen

text: From 1977 until 1981, Allen wrote, produced and hosted the award-winning show "Meeting of Minds", which aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The series brought together the likes of Socrates, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Paine, Sir Thomas More, Attila the Hun, Karl Marx, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and Galileo Galilei, all of whom were acting as if brought back from the past, in a round table discussion. Their dialogue and arguments covered issues such as racism, women's rights, crime and punishment, slavery, and religious tolerance.


title: Steve Allen

text: Associated Press television columnist Peter Boyer called it the "best talk show on television," created by the person who "invented the television talk show," and added:


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen was a "philosophy fanatic" and avid reader of classic literature and history. He wrote the scripts based on the actual writings and actions of the guests, and as host would lead the conversations to different subjects. He described the show as "drama disguised as a talk show." Most of the female roles were acted by Allen's wife, the actress Jayne Meadows.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen first had the concept for the show in 1959 but took almost 20 years to make it become reality. He initially produced a version in 1971 that aired locally in Los Angeles and earned three Local Emmy Awards. But, although it received critical acclaim from Hollywood critics, the distributor chose not to broadcast it nationally, feeling it would not draw a large enough audience. Even PBS backed off on showing it, and many in the television industry felt the series was "too thoughtful" for the American public. Allen then produced the first shows at his own expense, which resulted in attracting major backers. It eventually aired nationally, beginning in 1977.


title: Steve Allen

text: The series, consisting of six hour-long episodes per season, became enormously popular. Allen received a Personal Peabody Award in 1977 for creating and hosting "a truly original show." The award also recognized Meadows for her various portrayals. In 1981, the show won an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series, and Allen's writing was Emmy nominated. It was the show Allen wanted to be remembered for because he believed the issues and characters were timeless and would survive long after his death.


title: Steve Allen

text: According to his own estimate, Allen was a prolific composer who wrote more than 8,500 songs, although only a small fraction of them was ever recorded. In one famous stunt, he made a bet with singer-songwriter Frankie Laine that he could write 50 songs a day for a week. Composing on public display in the window of Wallach's Music City, a Hollywood music store, Allen met the quota and won $1,000 from Laine. One of the songs, "Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning)" became a chart hit for the duo of Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting, hitting #13 pop and #2 country in 1950.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen began his recording career in 1951 with the album "Steve Allen At The Piano" for Columbia Records. He then signed with Decca Records, recording for their subsidiaries Brunswick Records and then Coral Records. Allen would release a mixture of novelty singles, jazz recordings and straight pop numbers for Decca throughout the 1950s, before switching to Dot Records in the 1960s.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's best-known song, "This Could Be the Start of Something", dates from 1954. Though it was never a hit, the song was recorded by numerous artists, including Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Aretha Franklin, Lionel Hampton, Claire Martin and Oscar Peterson. Allen used it as the theme song of "The Tonight Show" in 1956/57, and as the theme song to many of his later television projects.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen wrote the lyrics for the standard "Theme from Picnic", which was a No. 13 U.S. hit in a vocal version for The McGuire Sisters in 1956. The song, however, is chiefly remembered as an instrumental, often performed in a medley with "Moonglow," from the film "Picnic" in 1955. Two instrumental versions charted in the U.S. top 5 in 1956, including a No. 1 hit version by Morris Stoloff. Because he did not write the music, Allen was not credited as a songwriter on the instrumental versions.


title: Steve Allen

text: In 1957, Jerry Vale had a minor hit (US #52) with the Allen composition "Pretend You Don't See Her". The song was later covered by Bobby Vee, who would also chart with it (US #97) in 1965, and Vale's recording would later be heard in the 1990 gangster film "GoodFellas".


title: Steve Allen

text: "Gravy Waltz" was composed and originally performed by Ray Brown as an instrumental in the early 1960s. Allen later set words to it, and the collaboration won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition. Issued as an instrumental single in 1963, it hit No. 64 on the US Billboard charts. Though the single version was credited to "Steve Allen With Donn Trenner And His Orchestra," Allen did not play on it. As well, though Allen was credited as co-songwriter for his lyrics, the hit single version was strictly an instrumental performance.


title: Steve Allen

text: Similarly, sometime in the 1950s, Allen set words to "South Rampart Street Parade," a 1938 instrumental hit for Bob Crosby, written by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. Though the song still is best known as an instrumental, Allen's later lyrics occasionally are performed.


title: Steve Allen

text: In the realm of theatre, Allen wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical "Sophie", which was based on the early career of the woman long billed as "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas," entertainer Sophie Tucker. The book for the show was by Philip Pruneau. Libi Staiger and Art Lund were featured in the leading roles. "Sophie" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York, after tryouts in three other cities, on April 15, 1963, to mostly unfavorable critical notices. It closed five days later, on April 20, after just eight performances. As Ken Mandelbaum noted in his 1991 book "Not Since Carrie" –


title: Steve Allen

text: The show received consistently negative reviews in Columbus, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York, and its problems were obvious: a cliché-ridden standard show-biz bio book, and an ordinary score ... The score went unrecorded (by the cast), although several months later Judy Garland sang three songs from "Sophie" on her CBS television series.


title: Steve Allen

text: Though Mandelbaum doesn't mention it, Allen was a guest on the episode of "The Judy Garland Show" in which she featured Allen's songs from "Sophie". Later, a "compiled" recording of "Sophie" was released with vocals by Allen, Libi Staiger, Garland, and others.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's other produced musical was the 1969 London show "Belle Starr", which starred Betty Grable as the American West character. Allen wrote the music, and was one of three credited lyricists. "Belle Starr" also received poor reviews in both its Glasgow tryout and in its London run, and closed after 12 performances. Like "Sophie", the score went unrecorded by the cast. No compiled recording of the score has been made.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen also composed the score to Paul Mantee's James Bond-inspired film "A Man Called Dagger" (1967), with the score orchestrated by Ronald Stein.


title: Steve Allen

text: By the 1970s, Allen was no longer actively recording his music. He continued to compose material, however, and in 1985, Allen wrote 19 songs for Irwin Allen's television mini-series "Alice in Wonderland". The series starred his wife Jayne Meadows as the Queen of Hearts, among countless other celebrities.


title: Steve Allen

text: After a long layoff from recording, in 1992 Allen issued the instrumental album "Steve Allen Plays Jazz Tonight", which included interpretations of jazz classics as well as a handful of new original compositions.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen was an occasional actor. He wrote and starred in his first film, the Mack Sennett comedy compilation "Down Memory Lane", in 1949. His most famous film appearance was in 1956's "The Benny Goodman Story", in the title role. The film, while an average biopic of its day, was hailed for its music, featuring many alumni of the Goodman band. Allen later recalled his one contribution to the film's music, used in the early scenes. The accomplished Benny Goodman no longer could produce the sound of a clarinet beginner, and that was the only sound Allen was able to produce on a clarinet. In 1960, he appeared as the character "Dr. Ellison" in the episode "Play Acting" on CBS's anthology series "The DuPont Show with June Allyson" though his "The Steve Allen Show" had been in competition with the program the preceding season.


title: Steve Allen

text: A similar Canadian television series called "Witness to Yesterday", created by Arthur Voronka, aired three years after Allen's Local Emmy Award-winning program. Allen appeared on a 1976 episode of "Witness to Yesterday" as composer-pianist George Gershwin.


title: Steve Allen

text: During the late 1980s, Allen and Jayne Meadows, his second wife, made three appearances on the television drama series "St. Elsewhere". They played the estranged birth parents of the character Dr. Victor Ehrlich, who had given him up for adoption. And, in 1998, Allen and Meadows guest-starred in an episode of "".


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen did voice work in two episodes of "The Simpsons" in the 1990s, appearing once as the electronically "altered" voice of Bart Simpson in season 3's "Separate Vocations", and as himself in season 6's 'Round Springfield".


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen was a comedy writer and author of more than 50 books, including several volumes of autobiography; children's books; a series of mystery novels; and numerous volumes of essays and opinions. Twenty of his books were concerned with his views about religion.


title: Steve Allen

text: Among his better-known non-fiction works are "Dumbth", a commentary on the American educational system, and "Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality". Allen also ostensibly authored a long-running series of mystery novels in the 1980s and '90s "starring" himself and Meadows as amateur sleuths. They later were revealed to have been ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon and, later, by Robert Westbrook.


title: Steve Allen

text: Despite his lifelong reputation for political liberalism, morally, Allen was highly critical of vulgarity on both television and radio, and particularly strident in criticizing Howard Stern and other shock jocks. At the time of his death, he was completing a book on the subject called "Vulgarians at the Gate," about what he saw as "the rising tide of smut on television."


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen, a freethinker and humanist, became an outspoken critic of organized religion and an active member of the scientific skepticism movement. He worked to promote critical thinking with such humanist and skeptical organizations as the Council for Media Integrity, a group that debunked pseudoscientific claims, and the California-based group The Skeptics Society. He wrote many pieces for their publication, "Skeptic", on such topics as the Church of Scientology, genius, and the passing of science fiction giant Isaac Asimov.


title: Steve Allen

text: Working with Paul Kurtz, publisher of Prometheus Books, Allen published 15 books, including "Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking with 101 Ways to Reason Better and Improve Your Mind", which was reissued in 1998. He produced "Gullible's Travels", an audiotape with original music and script that was read and sung by him and his wife "in order to introduce youngsters to the brain and its proper use." Wishing to counter the influence of the American Christian right, Allen wrote both a 1990 critique of the Bible ("Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality") as well as a sequel. A sample passage from the book that illustrated his view of the Judeo-Christian God reads:


title: Steve Allen

text: The proposition that the entire human race — consisting of enormous hordes of humanity — would be placed seriously in danger of a fiery eternity characterized by unspeakable torments purely because a man disobeyed a deity by eating a piece of fruit offered him by his wife is inherently incredible.


title: Steve Allen

text: In 2011 Allen was selected for inclusion in the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Pantheon of Skeptics.


title: Steve Allen

text: While Allen often was critical of rock and roll music, he also often booked rock and roll acts on his television program "The Steve Allen Show". It featured such acts as Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five, the Treniers, and the Collins Kids. Allen famously scooped Ed Sullivan by being one of the first to present Elvis Presley on network television (after Presley had appeared on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show" and Milton Berle shows).


title: Steve Allen

text: While Presley was an exceedingly controversial act at the time, "Allen found a way ... to satisfy the Puritans. He assured viewers that he would not allow Presley 'to do anything that will offend anyone.' NBC announced that a 'revamped, purified and somewhat abridged Presley' had agreed to sing while standing reasonably still, dressed in black tie." Allen had Elvis wear a top hat and the white tie while singing "Hound Dog" to an actual hound, who was similarly attired.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen also appeared on the shows of other entertainers, even the mildly rock and roll program "The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom" on ABC.


title: Steve Allen

text: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Allen recorded a solo piano album for the Pianocorder Contemporary Artists Series, joining such other pop pianists of the day as Liberace, Floyd Cramer, Teddy Wilson, Roger Williams, and Johnny Guarnieri. His solo album was popular.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen also narrated "The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling", a documentary of professional wrestling from its origins to 1998.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen and Dorothy Goodman married in 1943 and had three children: Steve Jr., Brian, and David. That marriage ended in 1952.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen's second wife was actress Jayne Meadows. They had one son, Bill Allen, named for Steve's father. They were married in Waterford, Connecticut, on July 31, 1954, and remained married until his death in 2000. He was a Democrat; she was a Republican. In the later 1950s, author and philosopher Gerald Heard worked with psychiatrist Sidney Cohen to introduce intelligent, adventurous people to LSD, and Steve Allen was one of these. Allen endorsed Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 United States presidential election.


title: Steve Allen

text: Although Allen was brought up Roman Catholic, he later became a secular humanist and Humanist Laureate for the Academy of Humanism, a member of CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism. He received the Rose Elizabeth Bird Commitment to Justice Award from Death Penalty Focus in 1998. He was a student and supporter of general semantics, recommending it in "Dumbth" and giving the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1992. In spite of his liberal position on free speech, his later concerns about the lewdness he heard on radio and television, particularly the programs of Howard Stern, caused him to make proposals restricting the content of programs, allying himself with the Parents Television Council. His full-page ad on the subject appeared in newspapers just before his unexpected death.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen, who last guest-hosted "The Tonight Show" in 1982, made his last appearance on it on September 27, 1994, for the show's 40th-anniversary broadcast. Jay Leno was effusive in his praise and actually knelt and kissed Allen's ring.


title: Steve Allen

text: On October 30, 2000, Allen was involved in a minor traffic crash while traveling to visit his youngest son at home in Los Angeles. Another driver struck the side of Allen's car while backing out of a driveway, causing Allen to suffer a ruptured blood vessel, among other injuries, though he apparently did not realize he was seriously hurt. After Allen arrived at his son's home, he took a nap and died in his sleep. At first, it was believed that he had a heart attack. However, Allen's autopsy revealed that he actually died from hemopericardium, caused by injuries sustained in the crash. Though the condition was partially caused by atherosclerosis, the death was ruled accidental. According to Jayne Meadows, "Typical of Steve, [who] was the dearest, sweetest man: He was hit by a man, backing into him, breaking all of his ribs, that pierced his heart ... and when he got out of the car, he said to the man, 'What some people will do to get my autograph.'"


title: Steve Allen

text: He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – a television star at 1720 Vine Street and a radio star at 1537 Vine Street. Jayne Meadows was buried next to Allen following her death in 2015.


title: Steve Allen

text: On June 25, 2019, "The New York Times Magazine" listed Steve Allen with hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.


title: Steve Allen

text: Allen wrote pamphlets on a variety of issues, including problems facing migrant workers, capital punishment and nuclear weapons proliferation. He once considered running for a seat in Congress from California, calling his politics "middle-of-the-road radicalism." He actively campaigned against obscenity on television and criticized comedians such as George Carlin and Lenny Bruce for use of expletives in their stand-up routines.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Lamborghini Murciélago is a sports car produced by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini between 2001 and 2010. Successor to the Diablo and flagship V12 of the automaker's lineup, the Murciélago was introduced as a coupé in 2001. The car was first available in North America for the 2002 model year. The Murciélago was Lamborghini's first new design in eleven years, and was also the brand's first new model under the ownership of German parent company Audi, which is owned by Volkswagen. The car is designed by Peruvian-born Belgian Luc Donckerwolke, Lamborghini's head of design from 1998 to 2005.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: A roadster variant was introduced in 2003, followed by the more powerful and updated LP 640 coupé and roadster and a limited edition LP 650–4 Roadster. The final variation to wear the Murciélago nameplate was the LP 670–4 SuperVeloce, powered by the largest and final evolution of the original Lamborghini V12 engine. Production of the Murciélago ended on 5 November 2010, with a total production run of 4,099 cars. Its successor, the Aventador, was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: Lamborghini cars are often named after Spanish Fighting Bulls; the eponymous Murciélago was a leading sire after surviving an 1879 fight in Córdoba. is the Spanish word for bat. In the Castilian Spanish spoken in most of Spain the word is pronounced , with a voiceless dental fricative (as in English "thing"). However, the Italian automaker often uses the Southern Spanish and Latin American Spanish pronunciation, , with an sound.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Murciélago is an all-wheel drive, mid-engine sports car. With an angular design and a low slung body, the highest point of the roof is just under above the ground. One of the vehicle's most distinguishing features is its scissor doors, a hallmark feature of flagship Lamborghini models. The first generation of the Murciélago was produced between 2001 and 2006 and was powered by a Lamborghini V12 that traces its roots back to the company's beginnings in the 1960s. The rear differential is integrated with the engine itself, with a viscous coupling centre differential transferring power to the front wheels. The total power distribution is 70 percent at the rear and 30 percent at the front. Power is delivered through a 6-speed manual transmission. The suspension utilised in the car uses an independent double-wishbone design, and the bodywork mostly features carbon fibre except for the steel roof and aluminium scissor doors. The active rear wing and the active air intakes integrated into the car's shoulders are electromechanically controlled, deploying automatically only at high speeds in an effort to maximise both aerodynamic and cooling efficiency. The interior was also made more comfortable and ergonomic than its predecessor sporting a simple and clean look with all the major controls along with the gearshift knob integrated into the central tunnel.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The first generation cars were known simply as Murciélago, sometimes Murciélago VT. The naturally aspirated V12 engine installed in the first generation cars generated a maximum power output of at 7,500 rpm and of torque at 5,400 rpm, accelerating the car from a stand still to in 3.8 seconds and on to a top speed of . Subsequent versions incorporated an alphanumeric designation to the name Murciélago, which indicated their engine orientation and output. However, the original Murciélago is never referred to as "LP 580".


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The concept car of the upcoming open-top variant was presented at the 2003 Detroit Motor Show as the Murciélago Barchetta. The production version called the Murciélago Roadster was introduced in 2004. Primarily designed to be an open-top car, it employed a manually attached soft roof as a cover from adverse weather, but a warning on the windshield header advised the driver not to exceed with the roof in place. The roof which was made of fabric could be folded and fit into a leather bag supplied with the car in order to store it in the front compartment when not in use. The designer, Luc Donckerwolke used the B-2 stealth bomber, the Wally 118 WallyPower yacht, and architect Santiago Calatrava's Ciutat de Les Arts i Les Ciències in Valencia, Spain as his inspiration for the roadster's revised rear pillars and engine cover. The roadster weighs more than the coupé due to the loss of the roof and the addition of chassis reinforcing components. The roadster could accelerate from in 3.8 seconds which is more than the coupé owing to the increased weight while the top speed remained the same as the coupé.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In March 2006, Lamborghini unveiled an updated version of the Murciélago at the Geneva Motor Show: the Murciélago LP 640. The new title incorporated the car's name, along with an alphanumeric designation which indicated the engine's orientation ("Longitudinale Posteriore"), and the updated power output. With displacement now increased to 6.5 litres, the engine was rated at at 8,000 rpm. The exterior received a noticeable facelift, featuring revised front and rear fascias, and asymmetrical side air intakes, with the left side intake feeding an oil cooler. A new single outlet exhaust system incorporated into the rear diffuser, modified suspension system, revised programming, and upgraded clutch for the 6-speed "e-Gear" automated manual transmission with launch control rounded out the performance modifications. Interior seating was also re-configured in order to provide greater headroom, and a new stereo system formed part of the updated dashboard. Optional equipment included Carbon fibre-reinforced Silicon Carbide (C/SiC) ceramic composite brakes, chrome paddle shifters and a glass engine cover. The car's estimated fuel economy for the 6-speed manual variant is in the city and on the highway, making it the least efficient car in 2008 for city and highway driving, according to the EPA.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: At the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show, Lamborghini announced that the roadster version of the Murciélago would also be updated to LP 640 specifications.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: At the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled a high performance variant of the Murciélago, the LP 670–4 SuperVeloce. The SV moniker had previously appeared on the Diablo SV, as well as the Miura SV. The SV variants are more track-oriented than the normal production variants and are usually produced in limited numbers.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The SuperVeloce's V12 engine generates a maximum power output at 8,000 rpm and of torque at 6,500 rpm, due to revised valve timing and upgraded intake system. The air intakes were made bigger for better brake cooling and the front spoiler extended much farther for improved downforce. The engine cover was specially designed for the SV and consisted of three hexagonal plexiglass plates supported by a carbon fibre framework. The car's weight was also reduced by through the extensive use of carbon fibre inside and out. A new, lighter exhaust system also helps in saving weight. The interior was also trimmed in Alcantara as a weight saving measure. As a result of the extensive weight loss, the SV has a power-to-weight ratio of 429 hp/long ton. The LP 640's optional 15-inch carbon-ceramic disc brakes with 6 piston callipers came as standard equipment with the car. In its June 2009 issue, "Car and Driver" magazine estimated that the LP 670–4 SV is capable of accelerating to from a standing start in just 3.0 seconds and on to in 7.2 seconds. Subsequent testing by "Road & Track" revealed a time of 3.1 seconds and a quarter mile time of 10.9 seconds at . Lamborghini claimed a top speed of when the car is fitted with an optional smaller spoiler, or with the standard Aeropack spoiler.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: According to Maurizio Reggiani, head of Lamborghini R&D at the time, the LP 670–4 SV's steering was tuned for high-speed sensitivity. The original production plan of the ultimate Murciélago was limited to 350 cars. However, only 186 LP 670-4s were produced before the factory had to make room for the new Aventador production line. The chassis numbers of the total cars manufactured do not represent manufacturing order.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In 2003, Lamborghini celebrated its 40th anniversary by introducing a limited production run of fifty 40th-Anniversary Edition Murciélagos. Enhancements over the standard car included a limited-edition blue body color that was called "Verde Artemis", carbon-fibre exterior detailing, upgraded wheels, a revamped exhaust system, and a numbered plaque on the inside of the rear window. The interior also featured unique leather trim.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Murciélago LP 640 Versace is a special limited edition of the LP 640 that was unveiled at the 2006 Paris Motor Show. Available in either white or black, only 20 were produced as both coupés and roadsters but only 8 were available for sale. Although the standard V12 engine was used, stylists from the Versace fashion house, and Lamborghini's Ad Personam program, collaborated to design custom interiors finished in two-toned Versace leather complemented with a Gianni Versace logo plaque on the centre console. Each unit came with matching Versace luggage, along with driving shoes and gloves. A matching watch from Versace's Precious Items department was also made available to customers.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In 2009, Lamborghini released a limited-run update of the Murciélago Roadster (50 units). The LP 650-4's increased engine output is rated at and , allowing the car to reach in 3.4 seconds and achieve a top speed of . Available only in "Grigio Telesto" gray with "Arancio" orange highlights, the color scheme was continued on the inside.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The LP 670–4 SuperVeloce China Limited Edition is a limited version of the LP 670–4 SuperVeloce for the Chinese market. It is distinguished by the middle stripe. The vehicle, unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show, has a top speed of and produces and of torque, which propels it from in 3.2 seconds. Production was limited to 10 units.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In May 2010 in the United States, Lamborghini recalled 428 of its 2007–2008 Murciélago coupés and roadsters because of the possibility of weld failure on the fuel pump support inside the fuel tank, potentially leading to a fuel leak and possible fire.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT is a racing version of the Murciélago, developed jointly with Reiter Engineering and Audi Sport, and unveiled at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show. Unlike the standard car, the R-GT is rear-wheel drive only, and in order to comply with the FIA, ACO, and JAF rules, the car retains the standard V12 engine, but air restrictors are used to manage power. Acceleration and top speed performance are dependent on gearing, as different ratios are used for different tracks. Most sources report that around 7 original R-GTs were sold. This number doesn't include later derivatives such as the RG-1 or R-SV.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In March 2007, the All-Inkl.com Racing Murciélago won the Zhuhai 2 Hours. A Murciélago R-GT was entered into the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans but was not classified.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In April 2009, beating a Corvette C6.R, and Saleen S7R, a Murciélago R-GT of the Russian IPB Spartak Racing Team won the GT1 class in the 1000 km de Catalunya, a LMS race. The drivers of the IPB Spartak Racing car were Russian, Roman Rusinov, and Dutch, Peter Kox. The Lamborghini made a pole position but was moved to the end of the grid due to some technical irregularities. They finished 2 laps ahead of the lead Corvette to take the second international win for a Lamborghini GT car.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 was built for the Japan Lamborghini Owners Club (JLOC) to compete in Japanese Super GT series in 2004. In March 2006, the RG-1 recorded a win in the GT300 class at the Super GT Suzuka 500 km race.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670 R-SV is an evolution of the R-GT developed by Reiter Engineering to comply with the FIA rules for the new FIA GT1 World Championship. It was unveiled at the 2010 24 Hours of Spa weekend. The 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship season saw Reiter run two cars and the other two were run by All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport. Reiter saw some success winning two Championship races finishing third in the teams' championship. The All-Inkl team did not have as much success finishing ninth in the championship. The 2011 season saw Swiss Racing Team run the ex-Reiter R-SV's, after an unsuccessful season in 2010 running Nissan GT-R's. All-Inkl has had a successful season so far topping the teams' championship as of round seven. Swiss Racing Team had some points finishes but after a crash between both cars at the Sachsenring round, they had a lack of spare parts and did not compete in the next three events. DKR Engineering announced that they would be using Murciélago R-SVs for the last 2 rounds of the season, instead of the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R that they were using for the first 8 rounds.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: In January 2006, a retro-styled Lamborghini Miura concept car, built on a Murciélago chassis, was announced at the Museum of Television & Radio and promoted at the Los Angeles Auto Show, although the car itself was not present at the show. Subsequently, the Miura concept was officially debuted at the North American International Auto Show just two weeks later. It was the first design penned by Lamborghini's then design chief, Walter de'Silva, and commemorated the 40th anniversary of the 1966 introduction of the original Miura in Geneva.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: Lamborghini president and CEO, Stefan Winkelmann, rejected any possibility of the concept marking the Miura's return to production, however, stating “The Miura was a celebration of our history, but Lamborghini is about the future. Retro design is not what we are here for. So we won’t do the Miura.”


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: Debuted in 2007 at the Frankfurt Auto Show, the Lamborghini Reventón is a modified version of the Murciélago. The car's mechanical underpinnings and engine are identical to those of the Murciélago LP 640. However, cosmetics are all unique. Interior and exterior styling were inspired by stealth fighter design, taking cues from aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor. Only 21 units were built, of which one was retained by the factory to be exhibited in the Lamborghini museum. Lamborghini also produced 15 units of a roadster version.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Murciélago is featured on the cover and in the car roster of the racing video game "". A Murciélago LP 640 in police livery is also featured in the promotional video of "" alongside a Pagani Zonda Cinque.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Murciélago Roadster was used in the 2005 film "Batman Begins" and the Murciélago LP 640 was used in its sequel "The Dark Knight". It is used as Bruce Wayne's personal transport, with its name meaning "bat" connecting to his identity as "Batman". Lamborghini lent the production crew of "The Dark Knight" three Murciélago LP 640s to use in a chase scene. One of the cars was destroyed in the process.


title: Lamborghini Murciélago

text: The Murciélago is the titular Lamborghini referenced in the Kanye West song "Mercy", though the actual car depicted in the music video is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The Binding of Isaac (, ), or simply "The Binding" (, ), is a story from Genesis 22 of the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply, having bound Isaac to an altar, he is stopped by the Angel of the Lord; a ram appears and is slaughtered in Isaac's stead, as God commends Abraham's pious obedience.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In addition to being addressed by modern scholarship, this biblical episode has been the focus of a great deal of commentary in traditional sources of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: According to the Hebrew Bible, God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. After Isaac is bound to an altar, a messenger from God stops Abraham before the sacrifice finishes, saying "now I know you fear God". Abraham looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The passage states that the event occurred at "the mount of the " in "the land of Moriah". 2 Chronicles refers to "mount Moriah" as the site of Solomon's Temple, while Psalms ; Isaiah and ; and Zechariah use the term "the mount of the LORD" to refer to the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the location believed to be the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, (Gen. 22) the words ‘Jehovah jireh’ (v. 14) are taken to mean ‘in the mountain the Lord was seen,’ the mountain being Mount Gerizim.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In "The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah", Lippman Bodoff argues that Abraham never intended to actually sacrifice his son, and that he had faith that God had no intention that he do so. Rabbi Ari Kahn (on the Orthodox Union website) elaborates this view as follows:


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In "The Guide for the Perplexed", Maimonides argues that the story of the binding of Isaac contains two "great notions". First, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac demonstrates the limit of humanity's capability to both love and fear God. Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In "Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative", Yael S. Feldman argues that the story of Isaac's binding, in both its biblical and post-biblical versions (the New Testament included), has had a great impact on the ethos of altruist heroism and self-sacrifice in modern Hebrew national culture. As her study demonstrates, over the last century the "Binding of Isaac" has morphed into the "Sacrifice of Isaac", connoting both the glory and agony of heroic death on the battlefield.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In "Legends of the Jews", rabbi Louis Ginzberg argues that the binding of Isaac is a way for God to test Isaac's claim to Ishmael, and to silence Satan's protest about Abraham who had not brought up any offering to God after Isaac was born, also to show a proof to the world that Abraham is the true God-fearing man who is ready to fulfill any of God's commands, even to sacrifice his own son:


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Jacob Howland has pointed out that "Ginzberg's work must be used with caution, because his project fabricating a unified narrative from multiple sources inevitably makes the tradition of rabbinic commentary seem more univocal than it actually is." Ginzberg's work does not encompass the way in which "midrash" on 'Akedah mirrored the different needs of diverse Jewish communities. Isaac was resurrected after the slaughter in the version of medieval Ashkenaz. Spiegel has interpreted this as designed to recast the biblical figures in the context of the Crusades.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The Book of Genesis does not tell the age of Isaac at the time. Some Talmudic sages teach that Isaac was an adult aged thirty seven, likely based on the next biblical story, which is of Sarah's death at 127 years, being 90 when Isaac was born. Isaac's reaction to the binding is unstated in the biblical narrative. Some commentators have argued that he was traumatized and angry, often citing the fact that he and Abraham are never seen to speak to each other again; however, Jon D. Levenson notes that the biblical text never depicts them speaking before the binding, either.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The narrative of the sacrifice and binding of Isaac is traditionally read in synagogue on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The practice of the Kabbalists, observed in some communities but not all, is to recite this chapter every day immediately after Birkot hashachar.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The binding of Isaac is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews among many acts of faith recorded in the Old Testament: "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called', concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense." (Hebrews 11:17–19, NKJV)


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Abraham's faith in God is such that he felt God would be able to resurrect the slain Isaac, in order that his prophecy (Genesis 21:12) might be fulfilled. Early Christian preaching sometimes accepted Jewish interpretations of the binding of Isaac without elaborating. For example, Hippolytus of Rome says in his "Commentary on the Song of Songs", "The blessed Isaac became desirous of the anointing and he wished to sacrifice himself for the sake of the world" ("On the Song" 2:15).


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Other Christians from the period saw Isaac as a type of the "Word of God" who prefigured Christ. This interpretation can be supported by symbolism and context such as Abraham sacrificing his son on the third day of the journey (Genesis 22:4), or Abraham taking the wood and putting it on his son Isaac's shoulder (Genesis 22:6). Another thing to note is how God reemphasizes Isaac being Abraham's one and only son whom he loves (Genesis 22:2,12,16). As further support that the binding of Isaac foretells the Gospel of Jesus Christ, when the two went up there, Isaac asked Abraham "where is the lamb for the burnt offering" to which Abraham responded "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." (Genesis 22:7–8). However, it was a Ram (not a Lamb) that was ultimately sacrificed in Isaac's place, and the Ram was caught in a thicket (i.e. thorn bush) (Genesis 22:13). In the New Testament, John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!" (John 1:29). Thus, the binding is compared to the Crucifixion and the last-minute stay of sacrifice is a type of the Resurrection. Søren Kierkegaard describes Abraham's actions as arising from the zenith of faith leading to a "teleological suspension of the ethical".


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The version in the Quran differs from that in Genesis in two aspects: the identity of the sacrificed son and the son's reaction towards the requested sacrifice. In Islamic sources, when Abraham tells his son about the vision, his son agreed to be sacrificed for the fulfillment of God's command, and no binding to the altar occurred. The Quran states that when Abraham asked for a righteous son, God granted him a son possessing forbearance. The son mentioned here is traditionally understood to be Ishmael. When the son was able to walk and work with him, Abraham saw a vision about sacrificing him. When he told his son about it, his son agreed to fulfill the command of God in the vision. When they both had submitted their will to God and were ready for the sacrifice, God told Abraham he had fulfilled the vision, and provided him with a ram to sacrifice instead. God promised to reward Abraham. The next two verses state God also granted Abraham the righteous son Isaac and promised more rewards.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Among early Muslim scholars, there was a dispute over the identity of the son. One side of the argument believed it was Isaac rather than Ishmael (notably ibn Qutaybah and al-Tabari) interpreting the verse "God's perfecting his mercy on Abraham and Isaac" as referring to his making Abraham his closest one, and to his rescuing Isaac. The other side, by far a vast majority, held that the promise to Sarah was of a son, Isaac, and a grandson, Jacob () excluded the possibility of a premature death of Isaac. Regardless, most Muslims believe that it is actually Ishmael rather than Isaac despite the dispute.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The submission of Abraham and his son is celebrated and commemorated by Muslims on the days of Eid al-Adha. During the festival, those who can afford and the ones in the pilgrimage sacrifice a ram, cow, sheep or a camel. Part of the sacrifice meat is eaten by the household and remaining is distributed to the neighbors and the needy. The festival marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The binding also figures prominently in the writings of several of the more important modern theologians, such as Søren Kierkegaard in "Fear and Trembling" and Shalom Spiegel in "The Last Trial". Jewish communities regularly review this literature, for instance the 2009 mock trial held by more than 600 members of the University Synagogue of Orange County, California. Derrida also looks at the story of the sacrifice as well as Kierkegaard's reading in "The Gift of Death".


title: Binding of Isaac

text: In "Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature", the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature. Auerbach contrasts Homer's attention to detail and foregrounding of the spatial, historical, as well as personal contexts for events to the Bible's sparse account, in which virtually all context is kept in the background or left outside of the narrative. As Auerbach observes, this narrative strategy virtually compels readers to add their own interpretations to the text.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Modern biblical critics operating under the framework of the documentary hypothesis have ascribed the binding's narrative to the biblical source E, on the grounds that it generally uses the specific term Elohim () and parallels characteristic E compositions. On that view, the second angelic appearance to Abraham (v. 14–18), praising his obedience and blessing his offspring, is in fact a later Jahwist interpolation to E's original account (v. 1–13, 19). This is supported by the style and composition of these verses, as well as by the use of the name Yahweh for the deity.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: More recent studies question the analysis of E and J as strictly separate. Coats argues that Abraham's obedience to God's command in fact necessitates praise and blessing, which he only receives in the second angelic speech. That speech, therefore, could not have been simply inserted into E's original account. This has suggested to many that the author responsible for the interpolation of the second angelic appearance has left his mark also on the original account (v. 1–13, 19).


title: Binding of Isaac

text: More recently it has been suggested that these traces are in fact the first angelic appearance (v. 11–12), in which the Angel of YHWH stops Abraham before he kills Isaac. The style and composition of these verses resemble that of the second angelic speech, and YHWH is used for the deity rather than God. On that reading, in the original E version of the binding Abraham disobeys God's command, sacrificing the ram ""instead of his son"" (v. 13) on his own responsibility and without being stopped by an angel: "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son; but Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and beheld, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went, and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son" (v. 10, 13).


title: Binding of Isaac

text: By interpolating the first appearance of the angel, a later redactor shifted responsibility for halting the test from Abraham to the angel (v. 11–12). The second angelic appearance, in which Abraham is rewarded for his obedience (v. 14–18), became necessary due to that shift of responsibility. This analysis of the story sheds light on the connection between the binding and the story of Sodom (), in which Abraham protests against God's unethical plan to destroy the city, without distinguishing between the righteous and the wicked: Far be it from you to do such a thing: Shall not the judge of all the earth do what is just?" Abraham's ethical rebellion against God in the destruction of Sodom culminates in his disobedience to God, refusing to sacrifice Isaac.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: Francesca Stavrakopoulou has speculated that it is possible that the story "contains traces of a tradition in which Abraham does sacrifice Isaac". R. E. Friedman argued that in the original E story, Abraham may have carried out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led the redactor of JE to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac. Likewise, Terence Fretheim wrote that "the text bears no specific mark of being a polemic against child sacrifice". Wojciech Kosior also points at the genealogical snippet (verses 20–24) as containing a hint to an alternative reading where Abraham sacrificed Isaac.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: It has been suggested that Genesis 22 contains an intrusion of the liturgy of a rite of passage, including mock sacrifice, as commonly found in early and preliterate societies, marking the passage from youth to adulthood.


title: Binding of Isaac

text: The Binding of Isaac has inspired multiple pieces of music, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Sacrificium Abrahae" (H.402, oratorio for soloists, chorus, doubling instruments, and bc; 1680–81), Leonard Cohen's "Story of Isaac" from the 1969 album "Songs from a Room", the eponymous "Highway 61 Revisited" from "Highway 61 Revisited" (1965) by Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens' "Abraham" from the album "Seven Swans" (2004), Gilad Hochman's ""Akeda" for Solo Viola" (2006), and Anaïs Mitchell's "Dyin' Day" from the album "Young Man in America" (2012).


title: Damian Priest

text: He is also known for his work in Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name Punishment Martinez, where he is a former one-time ROH World Television Champion. Through ROH's working relationship with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), he has also worked in Japan as Punisher Martinez.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martínez was born in New York City to Nuyorican parents, but raised in the municipality of Dorado, Puerto Rico. While living in Dorado he saw the World Wrestling Council on television and got the interest to become a pro wrestler. He learned Japanese Gōjū-ryū karate from his martial artist father. After winning two national championships in full-contact martial arts, Martínez decided to embark on a career in professional wrestling. When he returned to the States, Spanish was still his first language and he underwent a period of cultural adaptation.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martínez trained at the Monster Factory and went on to win several titles in Monster Factory Pro Wrestling. In 2014, Martínez attended a Ring of Honor (ROH) training camp and went on to train at the ROH dojo.


title: Damian Priest

text: His first appearance at a ROH show was in 2015 under his real name, Luis Martínez, where he competed in two dark matches, losing the first to The Romantic Touch and winning the second alongside Shaheem Ali against Hellcat and Mattick.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martínez made his return in Ring of Honor, billed as "Punisher Martinez", at the ROH Top Prospect Tournament where he defeated Colby Corino in the first round. Martinez lost to Lio Rush in the semifinals; however, in spite of the loss, Martinez was signed to a contract by Ring of Honor. He subsequently established himself as a villain when he aligned himself with B. J. Whitmer and Kevin Sullivan, entering a rivalry with their adversary Steve Corino. On September 16, 2016, Martinez took part in the 2016 Honor Rumble, where he had an impressive showing before ultimately being eliminated. In early November he participated in the 2016 Survival of the Fittest, where he ended up being eliminated in the final Six Man Mayhem match. Martinez and Whitmer went on to briefly feud with the former ROH World Tag Team Champions War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe), first wrestling them to a no contest and then defeating them in an anything goes match.


title: Damian Priest

text: Through ROH's working relationship with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Martinez appeared at the two-day event. On the first night, Martinez teamed up with "Los Ingobernables de Japón" members Hiromu Takahashi and Tetsuya Naito to defeat Dalton Castle, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Ryusuke Taguchi, with Martinez picking up the win for his team. On the second night, Martinez unsuccessfully challenged Hirooki Goto for the NEVER Openweight Championship. Using the name Damian Martinez, he returned to ROH to unsuccessfully compete in a Manhattan Mayhem Battle Royal for the #1 Contendership to the ROH World Championship. Martinez also entered a Battle Royal for the #1 Contendership to the ROH World Television Championship, which he also lost. On February 11, Martinez and B. J. Whitmer defeated War Machine, but after the match Martinez turned on Whitmer by hitting him with his South of Heaven finishing maneuver.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martinez won his first championship in ROH on June 16, 2018, defeating Silas Young for the World Television Championship at night two of the Promotion's "State of the Art" event in Dallas, Texas. Martinez had qualified for an opportunity at said championship earlier that same evening by pinning Cheeseburger in a six-way Proving Ground match. Martinez would make another successful title defense at Best in the World 2018 against "Hangman" Adam Page in a Baltimore Street Fight. At Death Before Dishonor XVI, he successfully defended the title against Chris Sabin. After the match, he attacked Sabin, until Jeff Cobb made the save. On September 29, his contract with Ring of Honor expired and he opted out of a contract offer. In his final appearance for the promotion, Martinez dropped the Television Championship against Cobb.


title: Damian Priest

text: On October 12, 2018, it was reported that Martinez had signed a contract with WWE; six days later he was formally introduced among other new members to the NXT brand. At an "NXT" taping on December 5, he made his debut as a heel, losing to Matt Riddle. On April 15, 2019, it was reported that Martinez would be repackaged as "Damian Priest", although he still used the "Punishment Martinez" name in house shows. Vignettes soon began airing which reintroduced Martinez as Damian Priest. On the June 19, 2019 episode of "NXT", he made his debut under the character, defeating Raul Mendoza. On the July 24 episode of "NXT", he defeated Keith Lee in his second appearance.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the October 2 episode of "NXT", Priest started a feud with Pete Dunne and Killian Dain, culminating in a triple threat match at on November 23 for #1 contendership to the NXT Championship, in which Dunne was victorious. Priest was also a part of the 5-on-5-on-5 Survivor Series pay-per-view match the following day, representing Team NXT in a losing effort to Team SmackDown and Team Raw, where he was eliminated by Randy Orton. In January 2020, Priest was included in a storyline around the NXT North American Championship with Keith Lee and Dominik Dijajkovic. Priest would have an opportunity for the title against Lee and Dijakovic on April 1, and a singles match against Lee on April 22, but lost both times.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the April 22 episode of NXT, Finn Bálor was attacked backstage by an unknown attacker. Priest was revealed as the unknown attacker on the May 13 episode of "NXT", culminating in a match between the two at on June 7, where Priest lost to Bálor. Despite losing the match, his performance was highly praised by Triple H, and on the June 10 episode of "NXT", he praised Bálor during a backstage segment, turning face in the process.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the August 5 episode of "NXT", Priest defeated Oney Lorcan and Ridge Holland to qualify for the NXT North American Championship ladder match at NXT TakeOver: XXX on August 22. At the event, Priest won the title, earning his first championship in WWE. He made his first title defense on the September 16 episode of "NXT", defeating Timothy Thatcher. The following week, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that Priest would defend the title against Johnny Gargano at NXT: TakeOver 31 on October 4, in which he successfully retained the title. However, Priest lost the title to Gargano at on October 28 in a Devil's Playground match, ending his reign at 65 days.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the November 11 episode of "NXT", Priest distracted Gargano during his title defense against Leon Ruff, which caused Gargano to lose the title to Ruff. The following week, Ruff retained the title against Gargano by disqualification after Priest punched Ruff during the match, disabling Gargano to win the title. This soon transitioned into a triple threat match for the NXT North American Championship, which took place at on December 6. During the match, Priest was attacked by a masked character and its gang that attacked him previously at Halloween Havoc, who was soon revealed to be Austin Theory; as a result, Priest lost the match with Gargano winning the title by pinning Ruff.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the December 9 episode of "NXT", Priest looked forward for revenge against Theory, but was viciously attacked by a returning Karrion Kross from behind. The following week, Kross challenged Priest to a match at , which Priest accepted. At New Year's Evil on January 6, Priest lost to Kross in his final match in NXT.


title: Damian Priest

text: At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 31, 2021, he entered at #14, eliminating John Morrison, The Miz, Elias and Kane before being eliminated by Bobby Lashley. A day later, Priest made his debut on "Raw" after being introduced by Bad Bunny during a "Miz TV" segment, while defeating Miz later that night. On the February 15 episode of "Raw", Priest helped Bad Bunny win the 24/7 Championship by knocking out Akira Tozawa, who pinned R-Truth moments ago. Over the following weeks, Priest began a winning streak, defeating the likes of Angel Garza, Elias, and Jaxson Ryker. On the April 5 episode of "Raw", Priest and Bad Bunny challenged The Miz and Morrison to a tag team match at WrestleMania 37, which they accepted. On the first night of the event on April 10, Priest and Bad Bunny defeated The Miz and Morrison. On the "Raw" after WrestleMania, The Miz and Morrison challenged Damian Priest to a 2-on-1 handicap match, but despite dominating most of the match, Priest lost due to outside interference by Maryse, marking his first loss on the main roster. They continued their feud, which set up a lumberjack match between The Miz and Priest at WrestleMania Backlash on May 16 that Priest won. Briefly after, he took time off due to a back injury.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the July 12 episode of "Raw", Priest returned to save Humberto Carrillo from attack by Sheamus, the reigning United States Champion after their title match, thus starting a rivalry between Priest and Sheamus. Priest challenged Sheamus to a match at SummerSlam for the title on the August 9 episode of "Raw", which Sheamus accepted. At SummerSlam on August 21, Priest defeated Sheamus to win the United States Championship for the first time in his career. On the August 30 episode of "Raw", he retained the title against Sheamus and Drew McIntyre in a triple threat match. On the September 6 episode of "Raw", Sheamus defeated McIntyre to earn his rematch against Priest at Extreme Rules. Priest retained the title against Jeff Hardy on the September 13 episode of "Raw". At Extreme Rules on September 26, Priest retained the title in a triple threat match against Sheamus and Hardy. On the following episode of "Raw", Priest retained the title against Sheamus in a no disqualification, no countout match, ending their feud.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the October 25 episode of "Raw", with a new, revamped character, he defeated T-Bar when the latter threw a chair at the former outside the ring; as a result, Priest viciously attacked T-Bar, turning himself into a tweener. At Survivor Series on November 21, Priest lost to Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura by disqualification in a champion vs. champion match after his ally Rick Boogs repeatedly distracted Priest, despite the latter warning the former not to do it. After another distraction, Priest attacked both Nakamura and Boogs, thus losing the match by disqualification, making it his second loss on the main roster. On the following episode of "Raw", he retained the title against Sami Zayn, and against Apollo Crews, Robert Roode, and Dolph Ziggler in the following weeks.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the February 14 episode of "Raw", he retained the title against AJ Styles. The following week, he retained against Shelton Benjamin, before getting challenged by Finn Bálor after the match. On the February 28 episode of "Raw", Priest lost the United States Championship to Balor, ending his reign at 191 days; after the match, Priest attacked Bálor, fully turning heel for the first time since May 2020 and the first time on the main roster.


title: Damian Priest

text: On the second night of WrestleMania 38 on April 3, Priest distracted AJ Styles during his match against Edge, causing Styles to lose the match. After the match, Edge celebrated his victory with Priest, starting an alliance between the two. On the April 25 edition of "Raw", Edge and Priest were dubbed The Judgment Day after which Priest defeated Bálor in a singles match. At Hell in a Cell on June 5, The Judgment Day (Edge, Priest and Rhea Ripley) defeated Styles, Finn Bálor and Liv Morgan in a six-person mixed tag team match. The next night on "Raw", Edge introduced Bálor as the newest member of The Judgment Day; however, Bálor, Priest and Ripley suddenly attacked Edge, kicking him out of the stable. The Judgment Day then began a feud with the Mysterios (Rey and Dominik) in an attempt to recruit Dominik into their ranks. At SummerSlam on July 30, Priest and Bálor were defeated by the Mysterios following interference from a returning Edge. At Clash at the Castle, Priest and Bálor lost to Edge and Rey Mysterio in a tag team match, where Dominik turned heel on both of them to join The Judgment Day. On November 5, at Crown Jewel, Priest, Bálor, and Dominik defeated The O.C. (Styles, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson) in a six-man tag team match.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martinez is known to have a deep voice, which has helped him in his promos to maintain the menacing, dark character while working as Punishment Martinez in ROH Wrestling. In WWE, "Damian Priest" was previously intended to be a similar, but darker, more intense character than the characters that Martinez has represented previously in other promotions, however, his character gradually evolved and developed a more machismo, rockstar-like attitude that pursues more fame, recognition and success, and the character is further emphasized by portraying bars, parties and women frequently with him in backstage segments. Therefore, he has been referred to as "The Archer of Infamy".


title: Damian Priest

text: On the October 25 episode of "Raw", Martinez debuted a new theme song, new mannerisms, and a slightly changed appearance, suggesting a character change. The new character and the theme song culminates two sides of Priest: one side is the calm, composed side known as "The Priest", similar to his previous character, and the other is a new darker, fiercer side known as "The Damian", which would be seen if Priest would get provoked or disrespected.


title: Damian Priest

text: His wrestling style involves various power moves as well as high flying moves, and his striking is heavily influenced by his background in martial arts. He uses the "Razor's Edge" (a crucifix powerbomb, inherited from Razor Ramon, his childhood wrestling idol) and also a release suplex slam which has been dubbed "Broken Arrow". His finisher is a rolling cutter called "The Reckoning". After debuting on the main roster, it was renamed "Hit The Lights" since the 2021 Royal Rumble, potentially due to sharing the name with Mia Yim, also known as "Reckoning" at the time, as a member of Retribution. The name was reverted back to "The Reckoning" on July 26, 2021 episode of Raw. He also used a sitout chokeslam called the "South of Heaven" as his finisher, when he was working with ROH, which he still uses in the WWE as one of his signature moves, but not as a finisher.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martinez is a melophile, being heavily influenced by rock and heavy metal. He and his family has known and interacted with various music bands and personalities, like Bad Bunny, Dee Snider, and Eddie Ojeda.


title: Damian Priest

text: Martinez' inspirations in wrestling are Pedro Morales, Scott Hall and The Undertaker. He is friends with Keith Lee, Matt Riddle and Rhea Ripley.


title: Likud

text: Likud (), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing parties. Likud's landslide victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right-wing party won the plurality of the votes. After ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992. Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu won the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections. Netanyahu's government fell apart after a vote of no confidence, which led to elections being called in 1999 and Likud losing power to the One Israel coalition led by Ehud Barak.


title: Likud

text: In 2001, Likud's Ariel Sharon, who replaced Netanyahu following the 1999 election, defeated Barak in an election called by the Prime Minister following his resignation. After the party recorded a convincing win in the 2003 elections, Likud saw a major split in 2005 when Sharon left to form the Kadima party. This resulted in Likud slumping to fourth place in the 2006 elections and losing 28 seats in the Knesset. Following the 2009 elections, Likud was able to gain 15 seats, and, with Netanyahu back in control of the party, formed a coalition with fellow right-wing parties Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas to take control of the government from Kadima, which earned a plurality, but not a majority. Netanyahu served as prime minister from then until 2021. Likud had been the leading vote-getter in each subsequent election until April 2019, when Likud tied with Blue and White and September 2019, when Blue and White won one more seat than the Likud. Likud won the most seats and votes at the 2020 and 2021 elections, but Netanyahu was removed from power in June 2021 by an unprecedented coalition led by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.


title: Likud

text: The Likud was formed on 13 September 1973 as a secular party by an alliance of several right-wing parties prior to that year's legislative election—Herut, the Liberal Party, the Free Centre, the National List, and the Movement for Greater Israel. Herut had been the nation's largest right-wing party since growing out of the Irgun in 1948. It had already been in coalition with the Liberals since 1965 as Gahal, with Herut as the senior partner. Herut remained the senior partner in the new grouping, which was given the name Likud, meaning "Consolidation", as it represented the consolidation of the Israeli right. It worked as a coalition under Herut's leadership until 1988, when the member parties merged into a single party under the Likud name. From its establishment in 1973, Likud enjoyed great support from blue-collar Sephardim.