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A native of Baltimore, Maryland, <mask> attended Mount Saint Joseph High School, where he played high school football. He recorded one interception his senior year, and played in the Maryland Crab Bowl, an all-star game, despite missing most of his season with a finger injury. He had four interceptions as a junior, returning two of those for touchdowns. He also had a punt return touchdown and kick return score that season. <mask> was also on the school's track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper.He won the long jump at the 2010 Woodlawn Warrior Invitational, with a personal-best mark of 6.41 meters. At the 2010 IAAM-MIAA Champs, he took fifth in the 300-meter dash, clocking at 37.98 seconds. Considered a three-star recruit by ESPN.com, <mask> was listed as the No. 43 cornerback in the nation in 2010. College career

<mask> started seven games in 2010 as a true freshman, primarily in the Hokies’ nickel defense. He recorded 32 tackles, four for a loss, broke up six passes and forced a fumble. In 2011, as a second-team All-ACC selection at corner, he started all 14 games at two different positions.He started at nickelback/whip linebacker for seven games and corner for the other seven games. He played over 1000 snaps on defense and 100 on special teams. He recorded 65 tackles, a team-high 14.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks on the season. He also added seven pass breakups, two interceptions, five quarterback hurries, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. In 2012, as honorable mention All-ACC at corner, he started all 13 games and recorded 52 tackles, including three for loss, two interceptions and five pass breakups. In 2013, he was one of the Hokies’ four permanent captains. He was named a third-team All-ACC selection, and played in nine games, making eight starts and missing the team's final four games due to injury.He recorded 24 tackles, two interceptions and 10 pass breakups in his final season. Professional career
<mask> attended the NFL Scouting Combine and performed all of the combine drills. On March 19, 2014, <mask> participated at Virginia Tech's pro day, but opted to stand on his combine numbers and only performed positional drills. He was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. <mask> was ranked as the top cornerback prospect in the draft by NFL draft analyst Mike Mayock, was ranked the third best cornerback by DraftScout.com, and was ranked the sixth best cornerback by Sports Illustrated. Chicago Bears

2014

The Chicago Bears selected <mask> in the first round (14th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was the second cornerback selected in the draft, behind Justin Gilbert (eighth overall, Browns).On May 14, 2014, the Chicago Bears signed him to a four-year, $9.68 million contract with a signing bonus of $5.36 million. Head coach Marc Trestman named <mask> the third cornerback on the Bears' depth chart to start the regular season, behind Tim Jennings and Charles Tillman. He made his professional regular season debut in the Chicago Bears' season-opener against the Buffalo Bills and recorded five combined tackles in their 23–20 loss. On September 14, 2014, <mask> made a season-high seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 28–20 victory at the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football. He made his first career interception off a pass by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, that was intended for wide receiver Michael Crabtree, and returned it for a 20-yard gain in the fourth quarter. He became the first Bears' rookie to record two picks in a game since Chris Harris in . He was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week and became the first Bears' rookie defensive back to receive the award since Mark Carrier in .In Week 3, <mask> earned his first career start after Charles Tillman sustained a triceps injury and was placed on injured reserve. He recorded seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, forced two fumbles, and made an interception as the Bears defeated the New York Jets 27–19 on Monday Night Football. He became the first NFL player in 20 years to record three interceptions and two forced fumbles in their first three games. In Week 13, he collected a season-high seven solo tackles and broke up a pass during a 34–17 loss at the Detroit Lions. On December 29, 2014, the Chicago Bears fired head coach Marc Trestman after they finished with a 5–11 record in 2014. He finished his rookie season in 2014 with 64 combined tackles (51 solo), ten pass deflections, four interceptions, and three forced fumbles in 16 games and 14 starts. 2015
<mask> entered training camp slated as a starting cornerback.Head coach John Fox officially named <mask> a starting cornerback to start the regular season, opposite Tracy Porter. On October 18, 2015, <mask> collected a season-high eight combined tackles during a 37–34 loss at the Detroit Lions. In Week 8, he made two combined tackles, a season-high two pass deflections, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Teddy Bridgewater in the Bears' 23–20 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. He started all 16 games and recorded 55 combined tackles (47 solo), nine pass deflections, and two interceptions. <mask> struggled through the early portion of the season, which included being responsible for two major defensive pass interference penalties, raising the possibility of being moved to safety. He eventually improved as the year progressed. 2016
Throughout training camp, <mask> dealt with a knee injury.On August 18, 2016, he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery to repair his knee injury. On September 28, 2016, the Chicago Bears placed <mask> on injured reserve after being inactive for the first three games while recovering from knee surgery. On November 30, 2016, <mask> returned to practice, but was not added to the active roster and remained on injured reserve for the entire 2016 season. 2017
On April 29, 2017, Chicago Bears' general manager Ryan Pace announced that the team would not pick up the fifth-year option on <mask>'s rookie contract. Throughout training camp, he competed to be a starting cornerback against Marcus Cooper and Prince Amukamara. Head coach John Fox named <mask> the third cornerback on the depth chart to start the regular season, behind Cooper and Amukamara. <mask> started in the Chicago Bears' against the Atlanta Falcons after Prince Amukamara injured his ankle during the preseason and was inactive for the first two regular-season games.<mask> recorded six combined tackles and broke up a pass in their 23–17 loss. In Week 5, he earned the start after Marcus Cooper was unable to play due to a back injury. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio chose to retain <mask> as a starting cornerback for the rest of the season. On December 3, 2017, <mask> collected a season-high seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo during a 15–14 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 13. He had a career year in 2017, starting all 16 games recording 69
combined tackles (61 solo), a career-high 22 pass deflections, and two interceptions. He earned an overall grade of 84.3 from Pro Football Focus, which ranked 21st among all qualifying cornerbacks in 2017. 2018

On March 6, 2018, the Chicago Bears placed the transition tag on <mask> worth $12.971 million.On March 16, 2018, the Green Bay Packers extended a four-year, $56 million contract with $18 million guaranteed offer to <mask>, which the Bears then matched later that day, keeping <mask> under contract with the Bears through 2021. <mask>'s 2018 season opened on a disappointing note when he dropped a potential game-sealing interception against the Packers, who eventually scored on the drive to win 24–23; after the game, he commented, "All I got to say is I got to catch it." In Weeks 6 and 7 against the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, he recorded three total interceptions, two off the former's Brock Osweiler and once off the latter's Tom Brady. The two picks in Miami marked the first time that a Bear recorded two interceptions in a game since <mask>'s performance against the 49ers in 2014. During the remainder of the regular season, he recorded four more interceptions against Nathan Peterman of the Buffalo Bills, Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions, Eli Manning of the New York Giants, and Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams. <mask> finished the season with 55 tackles, 21 passes defended, and shared a league-leading seven interceptions with Xavien Howard and Damontae Kazee. He received an overall grade of 81.4 from Pro Football Focus in 2018, which ranked as the 7th highest grade among all qualifying cornerbacks in 2018.On December 18, <mask> was selected to his first Pro Bowl. He was later also named to first-team All-Pro along with teammates Khalil Mack, Eddie Jackson, and Tarik Cohen. 2019

In week 2 against the Denver Broncos, <mask> made his first interception of the season off a pass from Joe Flacco that was intended for Emmanuel Sanders in the 16-14 win. In week 3 against the Washington Redskins, <mask> intercepted a pass from Case Keenum in the 31-15 win. In week 8 against the Los Angeles Chargers, <mask> recorded a team high 7 tackles and made an interception off Philip Rivers in the 17–16 loss. <mask> ended the 2019 season with three interceptions and 12 pass breakups. His 82 combined tackles were a career best.On January 9, 2020, he was named to the 2020 Pro Bowl roster in place of an injured Jalen Ramsey after being voted as an alternate. 2020
In Week 1 against the Detroit Lions, <mask> recorded his first interception of the season off a pass thrown by Matthew Stafford during the 27–23 comeback victory. In Week 5 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday Night Football, <mask> forced a fumble on running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn which was recovered by teammate Robert Quinn during the 20–19 win. On March 20, 2021, <mask> was released by the Bears. Denver Broncos
<mask> signed a one-year, $9.5 million contract with the Denver Broncos on March 23, 2021. Due to poor play, <mask> did not appear in the Broncos’ week 8 matchup against Washington, after losing possible playing time in previous weeks to Nate Hairston and Patrick Surtain II. Leading up to the November 2021 NFL Trade Deadline, it was widely speculated that the Broncos would trade away <mask>.However, he ultimately was not traded. NFL career statistics

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<mask>'s older brothers are former Virginia Tech Hokies football players, as well. His eldest brother, Vincent, is a retired NFL safety who spent the majority of his career with the Tennessee Titans. His older brother, Corey, is a retired wide receiver, who previously played for the Detroit Lions and New Orleans Saints. Their younger brother, Kendall, is a cornerback for the Washington Commanders. Kendall won Super Bowl LIV with the Kansas City Chiefs. References

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<mask>, SI, PP (; 24 April 1934 – 11 April 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer and was "an important contributor to the golden age of Pakistani film music." Regarded as one of the greatest singers in South Asia who could sing high tenor notes with ease, he is best known for his versatility and distinctive voice, with complex and dark emotional expressions. Considered as the first pop singer of South Asia, he sang South Asia's first pop song, "Ko Ko Korina", in the 1966 film Armaan. Born in Hyderabad Deccan, he migrated to Pakistan following partition. In 1954, he recorded the official National anthem of Pakistan with several other singers. <mask> has recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi and Gujarati and found unprecedented success as a playback artist from the mid-1950s to early 1980s. He was also known for his stage performance.He suffered from poor health during the latter part of his life and died of a heart attack at the age of 48, after recording approximately five thousand film songs for 583 released films. Besides popular music, <mask> also helped popularize the ghazals of Naseer Turabi. He was awarded five Nigar Awards, the "Best Singer Of The Millennium" title, "Life Time Achievement Award", "Legend Award" and Lux Style Award. In 2003, 20 years after his death, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf awarded him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the "star of excellence," for distinguished merit in the field of arts. According to the 2016 survey of Asian Woman Magazine, <mask> is declared as a darling singer of all time. Early life
<mask> was born to a religious, conservative family of Hyderabad Deccan in 1934. His father, Syed Manzoor Mohammad, taught Arabic, Islamic History and Persian at Aurangabad College, Hyderabad, Deccan.He died when <mask> was only six years old. From a young age, <mask> was fond of listening to the musical programs, including songs, which were broadcast from the radio. He neither inherited music from any one, nor any body in his family was ever affiliated to music. <mask>'s singing talents impressed a very close friend of his father, whom he called uncle and who loved him dearly. He enrolled in a local music academy in Hyderabad Deccan. Moreover, two popular composers of the time, M.A. Rauf and Iqbal Qureshi, also taught music in the same school.Thus, <mask> learned the basics of music from the afore-mentioned teachers. Later, he got some training in classical music from Ustad Nathu Khan. <mask> did not get any sort of formal training of classical music neither before nor after becoming a successful playback singer but he had an effective command over high and low notes. He sang his first song in the Indian film Ibrat in 1951 and got recognition. His family moved to Pakistan and settled in Karachi in 1954, where he began participating in variety shows, music programs, and children's programs on radio. In 1954, he recorded his first non-film song, "Bunder Road se Keemari", written by Mehdi Zaheer for the popular Radio Pakistan show Bachchon Ki Duniya; the song was a hit and became the steppingstone for <mask>'s future..

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After the success of "Bunder Road se Keemari", <mask> was offered songs as a playback singer for films and quickly gained popularity. He lent his voice to many hit films like Bara Admi (1956), Wah Rey Zamaney (1957), Raat Ke Rahi (1957), Yeh Dunya (1958) and many more.<mask> got well recognition for singing "Mari lela ne aisi" in Anokhi (1956),  "Chalak Rahi Hain Mastiyan" and "Chal Na Sakey Gi 420" in Raaz (1959). In 1961, he sang the popular song "Chand Sa Mukhra Gora Badan" in the film Saperan, for which he received his first Nigar Award as Best Male Playback Singer. He further strengthened his status as one of the top male playback singers in Mehtaab (1962), in which he sang "Gol Gappay Wala Aaya" for actor Alauddin; they would again be teamed in Susral. In 1966, he sang "Ko Ko Korina", considered the first modern Pakistani pop song. The film Anchal (1960) was an important film in <mask>'s career. Music director Khalil <mask> recorded an extremely sad number "Kisi chaman mei raho tum" in singer Saleem Raza's voice but wanted <mask> to re-record the song as he was not satisfied with Saleem Raza's singing. <mask> did so and the song recorded in his voice satisfied composer Khalil.Raza's career as a singer was affected and doomed later on. After that, whenever Khalil composed music for any film, <mask> remained his first choice. The mid-1960s saw the rise of brilliant singers like Mehdi Hassan and Masood Rana, but it did not affect <mask>'s career and he kept on leading the film music. Music experts including Nisar Bazmi, Sohail Rana and M. Ashraf are unanimous that <mask>'s voice was best suited for every hero, comedian and even character actor. He lent his voice to Waheed Murad, Nadeem, Mohammad Ali, Santosh Kumar, Darpan, Habib, Rehman, Shahid, Qavi Khan, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Rahat Kazmi and was tailor-made for every actor of film industry. <mask>'s voice was even ideally suited to comedians such as Munawar Zarif, Lehri, Nirala, Nanha and Rangeela. <mask> recorded the ghazal "Shok-e-awargi" written by poet Habib Jalib for actor Syed Kamal in the 1963 film Joker.This ghazal sung by <mask>, gained popularity amongst music listeners. <mask> and Jalib again teamed together for Mohammad Ali in  the film Khamosh Raho (1964). <mask> sang the ghazal "Mei Nahi Manta" for the same film and gained Habib Jalib country-wide fame. He recorded a qawwali "Madiney waley ko mera salam kehdena" along with Munir Husain same year. Actor Nadeem's first film as a leading actor was Chakori (1967). <mask> recorded four songs for this film in the composition of music director Robin Ghosh. "Kabhi toe tum ko yaad ayen gi", "Pyare pyare yar humare" and "Tujhe chahein meri bahein".Same year, film Doraha and Shehnai were released. He recorded all the songs for these films including "Bhooli hue hoon dastan", "tumhein kaise bta doon", "Han issi mor per" (film Doraha) and "Tujhey apney dil se mei kaise", "Nazaron se haseen hai", "Dunya mei tumko jeena hai agar" ( film Shehnai). In 1968, <mask> recorded his first ever Bengali song in the film Notun Name Dako of Dhaka titled "Ke Tumi Ele Go", which became a smashing hit in the then East Pakistan. He sang playback hits in the same year like "Ae mere diwaney dil" (film Jahan tum wahan hum), "Socha tha pyar na karein ge" (film Ladla), "Usey dekha usey chaha usey bhool gaye" (film  Jahan tum wahan hum), "Teri aankhon ke bheegey sitarey" (film Ma Beta) and many more. Same year, <mask> recorded a song "Salam-e-mohabbat" for Mohammad Ali in Khawaja Khurshid Anwar's composition. <mask> sang for Waheed Murad in 1969 film Naseeb Apna Apna. The song "Ae abr-e-kaaram aaj itna baras" brought another Nigar award for him.The song was composed by Lal Mohammad Iqbal. He also won different awards for songs like "Dil tumko de diya hai" and "Hum se na bigar aye larki". Around the same year, he sang a duet with Mala in the film Baharei phir bhi ayen gi, "Khush naseebi hai meri" under the music direction of Shamim Nazli. In 1969, the film Andaleeb was released. <mask> recorded all the songs for Waheed Murad in this film. The song "Kuch log rooth ker bhi" was a hit. Its sad version was sung by Noor Jahan.Although he sang for every film hero in Pakistan, his pairing with Waheed Murad proved to be the most popular, in such movies as Armaan (1966); the song "Akele Na Jaana" from that movie in Sohail Rana's composition gained <mask> another Nigar Award. Well-known hits of Rushdi picturised on Waheed Murad such as "Lag rahi hai mujhey aaj sari faza ajnabi" or "Kuchh loag rooth kar bi" were composed by Nisar Bazmi, the legendary composer for Pakistani movies. <mask>-Nisar Bazmi pair and <mask>-Sohail Rana combination were two of the most successful singer-music director pairs of Pakistan film music. 1970s and 1980s
The 1970s brought new faces such as Alamgir, Akhlaq <mask>, Ghulam Abbas, A Nayyar etc. But <mask> remained a leading singer of film industry. Film Bandagi, Naag Muni  and Baazi were released in 1971. <mask> had a playback in all the three films.He also won several awards for songs such as "Aik albeli si naar" (Naag Muni), "Tum bhi ho ajnabi" (Baazi) and "Poocho na hum ne kis liye" (Intezar). Perhaps, the song below never rang as true as it did after <mask>'s demise:
"Chore chalay hum chore chalay lo sheher tumhara chore chalay", film, Phir Chand Nikley Ga (1970) music, Sohail Rana. <mask> sang four solo  songs and one duet for Waheed in the film Khalish (1972). "Honto pe tera naam"( with Mala), "Kal achanak jo sar-e-rah mili thi", "Ghussey mei gulabi gaal" and "Pyar hota hai". Music director was  M. Ashraf. Around the same year, he sang for Mohammad Ali in the film Mohabbat. Rushdi recorded three songs in the film including a sad song "Khudara mohabbat na karna".Music director was Nisar Bazmi. In 1973, he recorded a qawwali "Dil torney waley" for the film Mehboob mera mastana. <mask> also recorded  a romantic number "Teri jabeen se chodhwin ka chand jhankta rahey" (film Nadan) for actor Rehman. He recorded a sad song "Angara mera mann" for film Jaal which was released same year. He was also fond of acting and appeared in thirteen films as an actor including Anokhi (1956), Kaneez (1965), Saat Lakh (1967) and Dekha Jaye Ga (1976). He also composed a music album in singer Mujeeb Aalam's voice. In 1974, film Anhoni was released.Waheed Murad and Aliya were in leading roles. Music director Lal Mohammad Iqbal recorded two songs in <mask>'s voice. "Hai kahan who kali" and a sad number "Mei tujhey Nazar kia doon". In the same year he sang for actor Shahid in film Dharkan. He recorded a romantic number "Rangat gulabi chehra kitabi" for Shahid. In 1975, <mask> recorded "Dil ko jalana hum ne chor diya"

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 (Film Mohabbat Zindagi Hai). This song was picturised on Waheed Murad and gained country wide popularity.He sang another song "Mashriqi rang ko chor ke" for the same film. He recorded many songs for Pakistan television including "Dil mei tu hai", "Han issi mor pe" and "Bheegey hue mousam mei". Film Sharmeeli (1978) was his last movie with actor Nadeem as a playback singer. It was a successful musical film and songs gained popularity among the masses. <mask> recorded two songs for Nadeem, "Tu samney hai mere" and "Bheegey hue mousam mei". Same year he recorded a popular song for Mohammad Ali "Aagey aagey mohtarma peechey peechey mohtram" (Film Apka Khadim). He sang a classical number "Tere naina barey chit chor" for the film Jab Jab Phool Khiley next year.He also sang in films like Accident, Achey Mian, Bohut Khoob, Baarat and Aag Aur Zindagi. The year 1980 proved to be a nightmare for Pakistan film industry. The number of Urdu films decreased rapidly and the era of Punjabi films started. In those films there was a very little room available for male playback singers as those movies were completely dominated by the songs in mostly female voices. Immediately following the military installation of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq as president, measures were put in place to limit the distribution of music and the only source of entertainment was the government-owned television network Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV). While music videos were banned in the country. <mask> sang in films such as Farzana, Hanstey Aansoo, Haseena Maan Jaye Gi etc.but his glorious singing career was almost coming to an end. <mask> was not only singing for films, but he was equally a busy figure for Radio and Television also. He remained a leading singer  between 1954 and 1983. He sang for all the famous actors of Pakistan film industry. <mask> recorded his last song "Ban ke misra ghazal ka" in 1983 for film Hero, which was picturised on Waheed Murad and the song was a hit. He recorded a large number of duets in many languages with Noor Jahan, Zubaida Khanum, Runa Laila, Mala, Naheed Niazi, Irene Parveen, Naseem Begum, Mehnaz, Rubina Badar and Naheed Akhtar in his thirty-three-year singing career. Honorific title of Magician of voice

<mask> is credited with the honorific nickname of "Magician of voice" because of his ability of singing in different genres including happy, comedy, tragedy, qawwali, lullaby, patriotic, pop, revolutionary and folk.He was not only the first south asian vocalist to go pop but also inspired generations with his clear delivery, timely expressions and rendition of songs. He had the unique quality of giving expressions during singing along with producing sounds of different birds and objects. He recorded a song "Burhapey mein dill na lagana" in the film Jub Jub Phool Khile for actors Waheed Murad and Nadeem in both young and old voices in a single go which attracted huge admiration from music critics. First regular pop singer of South Asia

<mask> is considered to be the first regular pop singer of south asia as he introduced hip-hop, rock n roll, disco and other modern genres in South Asian music and has since then been adopted in Bangladesh, India and lately Nepal as a pioneering influence in their respective pop cultures. Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Dhaka and Lahore. They would usually sing either famous American jazz hits or cover <mask>'s songs. Rushdi sang playback hits along with Runa Laila until the Bangladesh Liberation War when East Pakistan was declared an independent state.Because of <mask>, Pakistani music industry has steadily spread throughout South Asia and today is the most popular genre in Pakistan and the neighbouring South Asian countries. Pop icons like Alamgir and Muhammad Ali Shehki later on followed Rushdi's landmarks in playback singing. Personal life

Marriage
<mask> married Humera on 30 November 1963. His wife died in 1992, nine years after <mask>. He belonged to a Sayed family (a sacred caste in muslims) and was a religious person. Despite his popularity and fame, <mask> never had any scandal in his entire career. He had three daughters.His younger daughter, <mask> used to sing her father's songs in his presence which always pleased <mask> a lot. He was against allowing his daughters to adopt singing as a profession. <mask> and Noor Jahan were the highest-paid singers in their time but <mask> did not charge those producers and music directors a single rupee, who could not afford him. The music director Lal Mohammad Iqbal made his entry into the Pakistan film industry, because Rushdi introduced him to different producers, which he disclosed after <mask>'s death. Likewise, the poet Masroor Anwer got his first film as <mask> insisted the music director Manzoor-Ashraf give Masroor a chance. Last years
In early 1980s, <mask> shifted to Karachi as he was not feeling well and wanted to have a proper heart treatment. He was also singing less for films and film music itself was facing a decline.The 1980s saw a nose-dive in the progress of cinema in Pakistan. Number of cinemas decreased rapidly and people preferred watching television over going to a cinema. Playback singing that once was popular now struggled to exist and the singers needed a new medium to start afresh. Even then, <mask>'s demand and popularity was still there with the music directors. He opened a music academy in order to teach music and playback singing to youngsters. <mask> never faced downfall as far as his singing career is concerned. Until the 1970s, <mask> was one of the leading voices in the subcontinent.He recorded fewer songs in his last years on the advice of doctors. Death

Since 1976, <mask> was a heart patient and his doctors advised him to abstain from singing, but <mask> refused by saying that music was his life. When he had a second heart attack in 1981, he was composing a musical album in the voice of singer Mujeeb Aalam. On the night of 11 April 1983, he had a third heart attack. He was immediately taken to the hospital but pronounced dead by the doctors. He was 48. <mask> was buried at Sakhi Hassan Graveyard, Karachi.His last non film song was "Aaney walo suno" which was a duet with Mehnaz. On his death, actor Waheed Murad said. "Today I have lost my voice." He further said in an interview, "Sometimes I think that if I suddenly disappear or am no more for any reason, I would like to be remembered by the song ‘Bhooli hui hoon dastaan, guzra hua khayal hoon-Jisko na tum samajh sakay mien aisa aik sawal hoon’." (I’m a tale forgotten, a thought bygone. I’m the question which you couldn’t understand) which was also picturised on him in 1967 and sung by <mask>. After <mask>'s death, Waheed Murad as well as other friends and singers had appeared on a show to pay him a tribute; many of those same people appeared on the show six months later, reminiscing about Waheed as he also died.Popularity and influence
<mask> has changed the sound of film music in subcontinent and his impact has also been felt to the Indian and Bangladeshi film industries. He is widely regarded as one of the remarkable singers from south asia and was effective in every genre of singing including ghazals and qawwalis. Once music director Nisar Bazmi in an interview said, "<mask> and Mohammad Rafi are amongst those few singers in the subcontinent, whose voices did not form ‘cones’, as they rose and touch the higher notes. Their volumes rose up without getting squeaky!" Bazmi also quoted the song "Aisey bhi hain meharban" (film Jaisey jantey nahin) to prove that <mask> was also a master of serious singing. In another interview he said, "I was happy and amazed to find a Chinese group rendering this song on one occasion. People from abroad also sing <mask>'s songs which clearly indicates his popularity and influence."Indian playback singer Kishore Kumar, being an admirer of <mask>, paid him a tribute at Royal Albert Hall London by singing <mask>'s one of the songs "Aik urran khattola aye ga kisi lal pari ko laye ga". Sonu Nigaam, Shan and Kumar Sanu, who remained leading playback singers in Indian film industry also paid their tributes to <mask> and sang his songs. Actor Nadeem in a Television interview said, "<mask> had an amazing voice quality and he made my work easier." Many of his contemporaries compared his music with that of classically trained singers, although <mask> never had any influences from any classical singer. He is famously known as Magician of voice and his popularity also turned traditional classical singers against him but did not affect his fame and his death is termed as irreparable loss to the industry. Actor Waheed Murad declared <mask>'s song, "Bhooli hui hoon daastan", his favorite song. Music directors like M. Ashraf and Nisar Bazmi also hold centaury partnerships with <mask> and they have composed hundreds of songs for him.According to complete songography, M. Ashraf composed 734 songs in 211 films for <mask> but available figures indicate a composition of 132 songs in 100 films for him. The first film of this pair was Speran in 1961 and the last was Hero in 1983. In 2018, <mask>'s impact forced Coke Studio Pakistan (season 11) to produce a remake of <mask>'s first South Asian pop song "Ko Ko Korina" in the voices of Momina Mustehsan and Ahad Raza Mir which raised nationwide hue and cry to the extent that Minister for Human Rights in Pakistan Shireen Mazari had to come out in media to term the remake as "horrendous" since the classic was widely believed to be destroyed by both singers. <mask> influenced many singers in music industry including A Nayyar, Mujeeb Aalam, Naheed Niazi, Runa Laila and Bashir Ahmad (singer). He is included in those artists around the world who continue to be popular and enjoy a huge fan base even after their

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<mask> (9 March 1811 – 2 October 1854) was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres. After she died her cause of canonization was opened. She was beatified in 2009 after a miracle attributed to her intercession was ratified. She was approved for sainthood in 2014 and was canonized by Pope Francis on 17 May 2015. Biography

Early life
<mask>, also named <mask>, was born in Toulouse, on 9 March 1811 From an early age, she lived in Hauterive Castle (near Castres), where her sick mother had withdrawn for treatment. She lost her mother at the age of 14 in 1815, followed by her sister Octavie in 1818. After her mother's death, she lived some time in Toulouse where her grandmother supported her education and that of her sisters.At the age 19, <mask> was back at Hauterive, where she managed family life, mitigating of this task her father, then mayor of Castres (from 1826 to 1830). She planned to join the "Daughters of Charity". But during the cooling off period imposed by her father, she created (with the approval of her bishop), and in collaboration with two companions, the Congregation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1836. The religious community rapidly became known under the name of "Blue sisters of Castres" because of the color of their clothes. In the anonymity of a house in Castres, with her companions, she served the poor: young workers, sick people, prostitutes and those who were convicted in prison. Then, the congregation saw the growing number of its sisters, and its influence extended to Africa (Senegal, Gambia, and Gabon). The charism of <mask>
<mask> called on others to become missionaries wherever they were, daring to take a stand for justice, peace, respect and attention to the smallest in all our places of life, to do all this out of love, according to the motto taken by the congregation: "to go where the voice of the poor calls us".This charism explained the scope and diversity of the competences displayed by the community members: education, health and participation in the life of local church. Funding and development of the congregation
De Villeneuve founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1836. Constitutions were approved in 1842 (revised in 2004). Twelve years after the establishment of the congregation, it started to expand in Africa in 1848, then in Europe in 1903, in Latin America in 1904–1905, and eventually in the Asia Pacific region in 1998. Today, there are around 600 members spread in 124 communities in 18 countries: France, Spain, Italy, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin, Gabon, RD Congo, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Haiti and in the Philippines. The beatification process
During the Generalate of Mother Sylvie Azaïs, Superioress General from 1921 to 1936, the congregation began to copy and classify handwritten documents, in order to deepen the knowledge of the spirituality of Villeneuve. It was in 1945, that Superior General Mother Marie Agathe Vernadat (1936-1947) began studying the writings of the late founder for the cause of canonization.On 18 August 1947, during the General Chapter, Superior General Mother Germaine Sapene communicated the decision of the council to introduce in Rome the cause of Villeneuve. The process began on 25 August 1948 under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Albi, Jean-Joseph-Aimé Moussaron. As the cause was launched 94 years after the death of the newly proclaimed Servant of God, it was considered "historical cause". The opening of the diocesan process was held on 25 August 1948. The exhumation of the body of <mask>uve took place on 20 November 1948. The re-burial of her bones was conducted on 18 August 1949. The diocesan process ended in February 1950, and in March 1950, the process was transferred to Rome.The Positio on the heroic Christian virtues was approved on 10 October 1984. On 6 July 1991, there came the "reading of the decree of the heroism of the virtues" in front of Pope John Paul II, who authorized the promulgation, which became official on 9 October 1991. The first miracle (1995)
In February 1995, Binta Diaby, a young girl from the Republic of Guinea hospitalized in Barcelona, Spain, was cured of acute peritonitis after the blue sisters of a neighboring community visited the young woman and after the novena that they did for the intention of Binta. Doctors have recognized the healing and Binta Diaby and the folder was sent to Bishop Ricard María Carles y Gordò, Bishop of Barcelona, on 27 March 2003. The diocesan tribunal began on 16 May 2003 and was concluded on 29 October 2003. The information from that process were brought to Rome on 31 October 2003 and 4 February 2004, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated a decree of validity. It would go to the Medical Board and a vote was held for the miracle, completed on February 16, 2006 in which the members recognized unanimously that medicine could not explain the cure in question.This has been recognized by the theologians and later the cardinals and bishops of the congregation. Beatification
The decree on the miracle was promulgated by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 17 December 2007. <mask> <mask> was beatified by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during a ceremony in Castres on 5 July 2009. This was done on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI. Canonization process

The second miracle
For the canonization of <mask> <mask>, the postulator of the cause presented the case of healing of a child named Emilly, born 2 August 2007 at Oroco, Pernambuco, in Brazil. On 5 May 2008 - Emilly was barely nine months old - she was playing with the wire of an electric fan. She put her finger in the power outlet and received an electric shock.Eight minutes later, she was found paralyzed and moaning. Emilly was unconscious without pulsation or respiration: she went into cardiopulmonary arrest. The doctor who visited her said, "Your daughter is dead, what can I do?" Her father begged the doctor: "She is not dead! Do whatever you can!" The doctor on duty, Dr. Jairo <mask> Ferreira, tried to resuscitate the child. Usually doctors do it for 20 minutes.For Emilly, he tried for an hour. When the heart started to give the first sign of life, he took the ambulance and took her to the hospital Dom Malan. She stayed there for 10 days and then 6 days in the pediatrics section. The doctor who accompanied her said to the family: "If Emilly gets out of here alive, she will not be able to neither see, nor hear nor speak, and even less walk". She left the hospital on 20 May and could not see or speak. From 21 to 29 May 2008, a novena was said to <mask> <mask>uve. On the evening of 30 May 2008, there was a radical change: the girl began to see and returned to normal.Emilly, from that day, began to develop as a normal child, with the characteristics of her age. Successive medical examinations, until the last made by the two experts "ab inspectione", had recorded the absence of neurological consequences. The initiative to invoke Villeneuve's intercession came from Ana Celia <mask>, a religious sister of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, who knew Emilly's grandfather Rafael, and his family. When <mask> received the news of the accident at the Mr. Rafael's granddaughter, she began to invoke the intercession of Villeneuve in front of a relic. This image was provided to the family of the child, who began to pray, asking for the intercession of Villeneuve and the image with the relic was placed under the head of the child. This happened after the promulgation of the decree on the heroic virtues in 2007 but before the beatification ceremony. A papal indult was given to be able to follow the diocesan research into the miracle.The recognition of the miracle took place from 13 September 2011 to 12 June 2012. The diocesan tribunal was constituted on 13 September 2012 in Petrolina City. The Medical Board conducted a vote on 6 March 2014, Experts unanimously voted on the diagnosis "prolonged respiratory cardiac arrest after the electric shock" and they considered especially the absence of neurological consequences that science cannot explain. On 25 September 2014 the theological advisors met and considered the child's recovery as a miracle through the intercession of <mask> <mask>uve. Canonization
The second miracle was confirmed to have been performed through her intercession on 6 December 2014. Pope Francis declared that she would be canonized as a result of this and announced at a consistory on 14 February 2015 that the late nun shall be canonized on 17 May 2015. She was canonized on that date at the Vatican.References

External links
 Official website of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres
 Il Romitello - Official website of the Home in Rome. Hagiography Circle
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<mask> (born 17 January 1938), often called <mask>, is a Canadian film director, writer, producer, and editor. Shebib is a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s before turning to feature films, beginning with the influential Goin' Down the Road (1970) and what many call his masterpiece, Between Friends (1973). He soon became frustrated by the bureaucratic process of film funding in Canada and chronic problems with distribution as well as a string of box office disappointments. After Heartaches (1981), he made fewer films for theatrical release and worked more in television. His most recent theatrical film is Down the Road Again (2011), a sequel to his 1970 breakout feature. <mask> is Noah "40" <mask>'s father. Early life
<mask> was born in Toronto, the son of Mary Alice Long, a Newfoundlander of Irish descent, and Moses "Morris<mask>, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1910, himself the son of Lebanese immigrants.Shebib grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, in an economically precarious household, and in a neighbourhood where he felt he was an outsider, "growing up with a name like Shebib, very working class, being raised a Catholic in Orange, Ontario", conceding he "probably took it more sensitively" than he had to, adding that he was always shy in high school: "I didn't know where I fit in. I grew up feeling pretty inferior." In a 2011 interview with Andrea Nemetz in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Shebib said: "I was aware of migratory experiences – like the Okies in California in the dust bowl. I had a cousin who came to stay with us in Toronto in the late 1950s and he tried to make a go of it and couldn't and went back to the Maritimes." The young Shebib grew up loving sports, comic books, and Hollywood "chestnuts" or vintage films, the family acquiring their first television set in 1952; for a certain time, Shebib refused to watch any film made after 1940. Education
Shebib played semi-pro football as a young man, and studied sociology and history at the University of Toronto. While very interested in sociological patterns from history, he did not enjoy reading enough to pursue this interest further academically, but was still looking for something to do that would appeal to his "jock and artist impulses".In 1961, <mask> enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he gained early experience working on Roger Corman productions, notably as a cinematographer and assistant editor on Dementia 13 (1962), his classmate Francis Ford Coppola's first film, and The Terror (1963). He also made his earliest short films. In 1965, he graduated with a Master of Arts, but decided to return home rather than pursue a career in Hollywood. Career
Over the next five years, <mask> found his way into the Canadian film industry and quickly established himself, reflecting on his decision to return in 1970:There's more of a chance here... and it's much easier to get started. There isn't really all that much filmmaking to be done in the States. Educational TV has opened up some opportunities for the documentary, but other than that there is nothing at all. Period.Flat. Nothing exists. Nothing at all. Short documentaries
<mask> directed, shot, and edited several award-winning, "lucid" documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada, CTV Television Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1960s, notably his thesis film, The Duel (1962), Surfin (1964), Satan's Choice (1965), an inside view of the motorcycle club, and Good Times, Bad Times (1969), before turning to feature filmmaking. Feature films
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<mask> gained prominence and critical acclaim in Canadian cinema for his seminal 1970 feature Goin' Down the Road, which combined narrative storytelling with Canadian documentary tradition influenced by the British. The low-budget film crew travelled around Toronto in a station wagon, supported by funding from the newly formed Canadian Film Development Corporation. The movie was screened in New York and hailed by Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert.Kael wrote that the movie showed up the ostensibly forced sincerity and perceived honesty of the films of John Cassavetes. It has consistently remained near the top of the list of top 10 films made in Canada in three separate surveys of academics, critics, and film programmers, and was designated a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. In 1998, a DVD copy was struck from the master negative by the Toronto International Film Festival in conjunction with Telefilm Canada. The film was digitally remastered as one of the key films in the Canadian film canon and was honoured with a screening at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Later features and sequel
Following the success of Goin' Down the Road, <mask> expressed a preference for making dramatic rather than documentary films going forward, and directed a mix of commercially unsuccessful genre films beginning with the teen comedy Rip-Off (1971) and the critically acclaimed Between Friends (1973), a somber story of a pair of aspiring surfers who plan a mining robbery in Northern Ontario that goes wrong. <mask> was one of four directors, and many critics, who felt the wrong film had won the Best Feature Film at the 25th Canadian Film Awards, which was already under pressure from a boycott of the awards by Quebec filmmakers. In its December 1973 year in review The Globe and Mail singled out the Canadian Film Award jury for a special "Grand Prix for General All-Around Stupidity" for the Awards' choice over four much stronger nominees.Worse still, the ceremony itself was cancelled and all the promotional planning along with it:In unison, the long promise of the Canadian industry and <mask> seemed to be coming to fruition this year: <mask> had made the film which was the confirmation of all his earlier work; there were six strong feature entries in the Canadian Film Awards; the Awards were to be carried on network television; the films were booked to open across the country with full publicity—all firsts. But instead both had their heads bitten off. Today, Don Shebib says he will never again enter a film in the Canadian Film Awards, that he needs a job and would take one in the U.S. in a minute. This is not sour grapes from someone who's inadequate. This is English Canada's best feature filmmaker reacting to the treatment of the best feature film he's ever made. The awards scheduled for the following year were cancelled and did not return until 1975. Shebib did enter his next film, Second Wind (1976) and won the award for Best Editing.Neither it nor Fish Hawk (1979) were commercial successes. He found success once more with Heartaches (1981), described by Wyndham Wise as a variation of Goin' Down the Road with a pair of working-class women. Beginning in the 1980s, <mask> has worked primarily in television, but occasionally returned to feature films with Running Brave (1983), Change of Heart (1993), The Ascent (1994), and Down the Road Again (2011), a sequel to Goin' down the Road, featuring some of the original cast members as well as a new generation of characters. In between The Ascent and Down the Road Again, Shebib said there had been little work, though he had written a few scripts. There was some talk of Shebib directing Rob Stefaniuk in a film called Bart Fargo, an homage to La Petomane, in 2004 and 2005, but it is unclear as to whether it was made, completed, and released. In 2008, he was quoted as saying that Canada was a great place to make a first film, but "a hard place to keep things going." Project in development
<mask>'s son Noah "40" Shebib is the executive producer of his father's latest film, NightTalk, which stars Al Mukadam and was in postproduction as of February 2020.Television
<mask> earned critical acclaim and a Canadian Film Award for Good Times, Bad Times, made for the CBC in 1969. Another television film, The Fighting Men (1977), was later given a theatrical release. The director's later television work has included By Reason of Insanity (1982), Slim Obsession (1984) both made for the CBC series For the Record and sold to overseas markets,<ref name="Henley">{{cite journal |last1=Henley |first1=Gail |title=On the record: For the Record'''s 10 distinctive years. |journal=Cinema Canada |date=April 1985 |pages=18–21 |url=http://cinemacanada.athabascau.ca/index.php/cinema/article/download/2808/2851. |access-date=4 July 2020}}</ref> and the television movies The Climb (1986), The Little Kidnappers (1990) and The Pathfinder (1996). In the 21st century, the Gilbert and Sullivan documentary A Song to Sing-O (2007) was well received. Drama series work has included The Edison Twins, Night Heat, Counterstrike and The Zack Files.Philosophy and aesthetics
In 1970, Shebib said that his personal philosophy was influenced by television and the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan.His views were also shaped by competitive sport, playing Canadian football for twenty-seven years until shoulder injuries forced him to quit in 1981, reflecting a decade later about the "purity about athletics", where it is not possible "lie" to oneself or to others and get away with it. He professes not to believe in good and evil, only actions that are either "efficient or inefficient". <mask> still watches Turner Classic Movies "religiously", and after John Ford, his favourite directors are Frank Capra, William Wellman, Howard Hawks, Marcel Carné, David Lean ("especially his early stuff") and F.W. Murnau ("Sunrise is one of my favorite films"):These films made from 1930 to 1934, the Pre-Code films, are among the best Hollywood films ever made. People always think 1939 was the sort of glory year of American film. Actually I'd say it was 1933. The films made before the code were infinitely superior.He said he approved of a few contemporary Canadian feature filmmakers, but found CBC film dramas "just dreadful" and "boring", dismissing them as "silly stories of girls growing up in the prairies", while at the same time he found the broadcaster's "tape dramas" were still "wonderful, they still have that expertise". In 2011, <mask> told Geoff Pevere he had expanded his range of Hollywood cinematic viewing from watching only films up to 1950 to films made as late as and even later than 1950, but contended that movies mainly "went in the toilet" after 1950 (with some notable exceptions like Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, a "perfect movie" made in 1958). His dislike for the styles (and subjects) employed by contemporary films is matched by his "seething disdain of critics" and a "testy" ambivalence with respect to the quality of his own work (he called himself "lazy and sloppy" in the execution of his work): Pevere's assessment: "Shebib is an old-fashioned traditionalist adrift in a modernist cultural movement, and therefore as much an outsider as anybody he'd make movies about." His feelings of ambivalence extend to a "reluctance to accept being the designated representative of Canadian anything": "I don't like the idea of suddenly being used as a model for Canada or something. Why take me - whatever my feelings are - and blame that on the Canadian people?" Style and technique
In 1973, <mask> said that an independent filmmaker must become involved in all aspects of the filmmaking process. Restating this in a 1982 interview, he noted that few filmmakers were capable of directing, writing, and editing the same film, and that, as a Canadian commercial filmmaker, he believed his own taste was more in tune with that of the general public than other "intellectual" filmmakers who were making "pretentious" and "dull" films.<mask> believes in the John Ford style of cinematic storytelling. In 1993, he said that conflict is essential to a film and should be inherent to the basic structure, and should be present in every scene, every change of scene, of a film: "Conflict is one of the basic essences of humanity." Recurring themes and socio-political views
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 director's own youth as an "outsider" is particularly reflected in the early short films: "every one of <mask>'s two dozen films has studied the shades of yet another caste of society's disbarred... who never quite make it to their place in the sun." Geoff Pevere remarked that almost without exception, the documentary shorts dealt with "isolated individuals or groups existing on the periphery of mainstream society", sometimes as a lifestyle choice as in Surfin and Satan's Choice (1966), but also as "a forced condition dictated by an unfeeling, ungrateful society", referencing Good Times, Bad Times and the later We've Come Along Way Together, "a poignant, compassionate exploration of old age in a world busting its ass to stay young and beautiful." In the mid 1970s, Peter Harcourt remarked on the frequent moments of silence denoting introspection in <mask>'s films, both in the early documentaries and in the feature films, a "feeling of emptiness, of restlessness, often of irrelevance". <mask> places great value on "male comradeship" and "the need of real challenges to give individuals a sense of their dignity". Piers Handling noted that <mask> was so preoccupied with male bonding that women were absent from his work prior to the start of his feature film career, and likewise identified a tension between the desire to transcend boundaries and existential limits.Sam Weisberg asserts that all of his films share a common interest in, and empathy with, the extraordinary aspirations of ordinary people," whether "goofy teenagers" trying to make it as a rock band (Rip-Off), a "bored businessman" who takes up jogging (Second Wind), or an Italian prisoner of war "itching to climb Mount Kenya" (The Ascent). <mask> still considers himself a sociologist at heart, and suggests his films have a strong sociological basis, incorporating social commentary, human relationships being a frequent theme. However, he never considered himself an intellectual: he "didn't talk like one"; not that he was anti-intellectual, just "anti-bullshit": politically "liberal" but not laissez-faire or "bleeding heart", and with "socialist leftist leanings", but believing that Marxism is "just another form bullshit", not that capitalists were "any better". His attitude towards the women's liberation movement seems to have alienated "a lot of people" in the 1970s:I really believe that there's a stronger and more definitive drive in man. Men are the great creators, and I think creativity is a function of sexual drive. Men and women are different for justifiable reasons to begin with. Many women in the women's lib movement are confusing the inherent differences and those we are conditioned to.Critical assessment and influence
John Hofsess remarked in 1971 that Shebib's documentary style, developed over five years, is "suffused with a wry, ironic humanism", a "superb style for needling the sacred cows of the establishment and the sanctimonious bull of counter-culture groups" a style often maintained even in Shebib's second dramatic feature, Rip-Off. Sandra Gathercole found it impossible to overstate his significance as "one of the few English Canadian filmmakers whose work illustrates what is meant by indigenous, rather than derivative, Canadian films – films with a character, integrity and identity that are the backbone of any hope we have for an autonomous Canadian industry." As late as 1993, Goin' Down the Road still had "legendary status" and as of the Toronto International Film Festival's most recent poll of greatest Canadian films, is ranked 6th. It had done more than any other work to advance the Canadian film industry at the time of its release. Within a few years, <mask>'s body of work had made him a "unique and recognizable film presence" in Canada and beyond, "verging on international stature." Scholar Katherine A. Roberts remarks how, since the release of <mask>'s film, "numerous Canadian filmmakers have sought to explore the mobility/masculinity nexus as it relates to landscape and the national narrative." Sam Weisberg opines that, with the exception of Between Friends (1973), none of Shebib's feature films made after Goin' Down the Road have quite the same resonance.Despite his artistic vision and technical skills, a perception grew that <mask> was "his own worst publicity agent", complaining regularly that his scripts were weak or else that he had difficulties with actors. By 1993, after having directed eight feature length dramatic films, around thirty documentaries, and "scores of TV dramas and series" over twenty-five years, <mask> was finding it hard to find work, even in television: "People have given me the reputation of being terrible-tempered on the set, of being hard to work with. But I don't know where that comes from, I'm really the softest guy in the world." When Geoff Pevere interviewed him in 2011, then aged 73, he found Shebib "generous, courteous, and thoughtful", but he had certainly not mellowed: "He can't help himself, even if it has cost him dearly in professional terms." In 2017, <mask> was presented with a Directors Guild of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. Legacy
Don Shebib Collection
In 1999, the TIFF Reference Library in Toronto received "records created by Shebib and his collaborators," consisting of "script drafts and occasional production records" ranging in production date from "circa 1969 to 1994." Personal life
Pastimes
Shebib surfed while he lived in Los Angeles, and continued to play football until 1981 when he had to stop due to shoulder injuries, nevertheless remaining active: he played golf and rock climbed, still able to train enough in 1993 to make the mountain climbing film, The Ascent, for which he climbed up to 15,000 feet.In 2011, <mask> said of his hobbies and sporting life that he was "a very serious, obsessive person. If it isn't golf it's football or it's stamp collecting. And I was a serious airplane model maker." Marriage and children

<mask> married Canadian actress Tedde Moore, whom he met through a mutual friend. They no longer live together, though Moore remains "very fond" of <mask> and calls him her "life partner." Their two children Noah and Suzanna are both involved in the performing arts: Suzanna began her career an actress, while Noah, better known as OVO Sound's "40", an actor and music producer (the siblings have an older half-sister, Zoe). Suzanna is now a chemistry teacher at Toronto's Central Technical School.Friendships and connections
Shebib met his lifelong friend Carroll Ballard, with whom he often collaborated, while attending classes at UCLA. In a 1982 interview, he said that Ballard was one of the few contemporary filmmakers he admired. Shebib attended classes at UCLA with Francis Ford Coppola and worked with him on Dementia 13. He also "hung out" with Jim Morrison during this period, and one summer Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine stayed with him and his roommates, sharing a love of Gilbert and Sullivan musical numbers. On his return to Toronto, Shebib met and befriended writer and editor William Fruet when he began working for the CBC on The Way It Is. Selected accolades

Canadian Film Awards
Best Feature Length Documentary, Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
 Best Feature Film, Goin' Down the Road (1970)
 Best Editing, Second Wind (1976)

Columbus International Film Festival
Chris Bronze Plaque, Slim Obsession (1984)
Directors Guild of Canada
Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)

 Filmography
 Films
 Early short films and documentaries

• Student films (UCLA)
 1961 The Train (13 min., 16mm)
 1962 Joey (10 min., 16mm)
 The Duel (27 min., 16mm) (thesis)
 1963 Revival (10 min., 16mm)
 Reparations (unfinished, 16mm)
 1964 Surfin' (25 min., 16mm)
 Eddie (40 min., 16mm)
 Autumnpan (60 min., 16mm)
• National Film Board
 1965 Satan's Choice (28 min., 16mm)
 1966 A Search for Learning (13 min., 16mm)

Feature films

 1970 Goin' Down the Road (87 min., 16mm; also writer)
 1971 Rip-Off (89 min. ; co-editor)
 1973 Between Friends (91 min.; co-editor)
 1976 Second Wind (93 min. ; also editor)
 1979 Fish Hawk (97 min.) 1982 Heartaches (105 min. ; video release 90 min.) 1983 Running Brave (106 min. ; as "D.S. Everett")
 1993 Change of Heart (96 min.)1994 The Ascent (96 min.) 2011 Down the Road Again (84 min.) TBA NightTalk (in post production)

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• Documentaries

 1966 Allan (CBC, 22 min., 16mm)
 1966-67 CTV, This Land Is People1966 David Secter (14 min., 16mm); June Marks (15 min., 16mm); Christalot Hanson (15 min., 16mm)
1967 Everdale Place (22 min., 16mm)
1967 CBC, TBA: Basketball (24 min., 16mm)
1967-69 CBC,The Way It Is1967 Satan's Choice (short version, 8 min., 16mm); Haight-Ashbury;
1968 San Francisco Summer 1967 (59 min., 16mm); Unknown Soldier (7 min., 16mm); Stanfield (20 min., 16mm); Graduation Day (7 min., 16mm)
1969 Good Times, Bad Times (40 min. ;; rebroadcast 1974: Such Is Life)
 1972 CBC, Telescope: Born Hustler (25 min., 16mm)
 1974 CBC, Gallery: Winning is the Only Thing! (24 min., 16mm)
 CBC, Of All People: Mrs. Gray (22 min., 16mm)
 CTV, We've Come a Long Way Together (29 min., 16mm)
1990 CBS, Top Cops: Larry Mullane/John Benedict
2007 Bravo! : A Song to Sing-O• Dramas and docudramas

 1975 The Canary (48 min., 16mm; CBC, Performance)
 1977 Old Man Reever (40 min., 16mm; CBC, This Monday)
 The Fighting Men (75 min., 16mm; CBC, Saturday Night Movies; 1988 theatrical release: Men of Steel, 91 min., 35mm)
 1982 By Reason of Insanity (60 min., 16mm; CBC, For the Record)
 1984 Slim Obsession (60 min., 16mm; CBC, For the Record)
 1986 The Climb (90 min. ; BBC/CTV, Mountain Men; edited version in Summits of Glory anthology)
 The Little Kidnappers (CBC/Disney)
 1996 The Pathfinder (Hallmark)
 1997 Highwayman (Showtime, Dead Man's Gun)

Dramatic series episodes
Shebib directed at least one episode of the following series.1974 The Collaborators (CBC): "Deedee", "Once Upon a Time in Genarro"
 1978 Sidestreet (CBC): "Holiday for Homicide"
 1985–1986 The Edison Twins (CBC): 4 episodes
 1987 Danger Bay (CBC): "All the King's Horses", "S.S. Friendship"
 Diamonds Night Heat: "Bad Timing" "Vantage Point", "The Mercenary"
 Sea Hunt: 5 episodes
 T. and T. 1987–1988: Katts and Dog 1988–1990: The Campbells: "Ancient Wounds", "The Miller's Son", "The Reluctant Candidate", "Fortunes of War", "The Sky Is the Limit"
 My Secret Identity: "The Lost Weekend", "Look Before You Leap", "When the Sun Goes Down", "White Lies", "Seems Like Only Yesterday"
 1990–1992 E.N.G. : "All Things Betray Thee", "Lest You Be Judged", "Harvest"
 1991 Street Justice (CBC): "Shadows"
 1990–1993: Counterstrike: "Verathion", "Masks", "Clearcut"
 1994–1995 Lonesome Dove: The Series: "Law and Order", "Blood Money", "Rebellion"
 1997–1999 Wind at My Back: "Triple Trouble", "New Directions", "Grace of Hollywood"
 1998 Police Academy: The Series: "Mr. I.Q. ", "The Truth Ain't What It Used to Be", "Luke...Warm"
 1998 The New Addams Family: "Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family", "Thing Is Missing"
 2000 Code Name: Eternity: "Dark of Night"
 2001–2002 Caitlin's Way: "Duh Truth, Uh-Huh"
 2000–2002 The Zack Files: "Captain Sonic", "Things to Do at Horace Hyde White When You're Dead", "Zack Greenburg's Day Off"
 2003 Radio Free RoscoeFurther reading
Monographs
Handling, Piers. The Films of Don Shebib. Canadian Film Institute, 1978 (Canadian film series ; 2).Pevere, Geoff. <mask>'s 'Goin' Down the Road'. University of Toronto Press, 2012 (Canadian cinema ; 8). Essay
Harcourt, Peter. "Men of vision: <mask>." Cinema Canada 32 (November 1976): 35–40. References

 External links

 Northern Stars: <mask>b
 <mask>b on the Canadian Film Encyclopedia

<mask>b at the National Film Board (Satan's Choice and A Search for Learning'')

1938 births
Film directors from Toronto
Canadian film producers
Canadian screenwriters
Living people
Writers from Toronto
Canadian people of Irish descent
Canadian people of Lebanese descent
Canadian television directors
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film
Best Editing Genie and Canadian Screen Award

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<mask>. S<mask> was an American architect, practicing in Chicago, Illinois, Marietta, Ohio, and Clarksburg, West Virginia. Life and career
E. C. S<mask> was born in Denmark, where he studied architecture for four years. He later relocated to Chicago, where he was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the early and mid 1890s he practiced as an architect in Chicago, but by 1899 he had relocated to the much smaller city of Marietta. In 1901 he formed a partnership with Robert C. Lafferty, a native of Wheeling, West Virginia. Lafferty was sent to Clarksburg to open a branch office. Soon afterwards, <mask> moved the firm's chief office to Clarksburg, and Lafferty ran another branch office, this time at Bluefield.Holmboe & Lafferty grew to become to most prominent architectural firm in the Clarksburg region, but was dissolved in 1920, soon after the end of World War I. After a brief period alone, <mask> established a new partnership with Guy M. Pogue, who had been educated by <mask>. Bates and been a practicing architect in Wheeling for five years. Holmboe & Pogue appears to have lasted for only a few years, but completed several major projects, including four county courthouses. After the dissolution of Holmboe & Pogue, <mask> practiced on his own at least until the 1940s, though few projects are known. Influence and legacy
<mask> was well regarded as a designer of fraternal buildings, especially Elks lodges. Buildings of this type by Holmboe & Lafferty were built in such faraway states as Florida and North Dakota. Works

E. C. S. Holmboe, until 1901
 1899 - Elks Home, 410 Front St, Marietta, Ohio
 Burned in 2001.1900 - Masonic Temple, 308 Front St, Marietta, Ohio

Holmboe & Laffery, 1901-1920
 1902 - Cottrill Opera House, East Ave, Thomas, West Virginia
 1902 - Elks Opera House, 212 Federal St, Bluefield, West Virginia
 Remodeled by the firm in 1908. 1902 - Miners' and Merchants' Bank Building, 172 East Ave, Thomas, West Virginia
 1903 - Bank of Pine Grove Building, Allen Addition St, Pine Grove, West Virginia
 1903 - Empire National Bank Building, 400 W Main St, Clarksburg, West Virginia
 1903 - Virgil L. Highland House, 240 E Main St, Clarksburg, West Virginia
 1904 - Braxton County Jail, Main St, Sutton, West Virginia
 1904 - Grafton Banking and Trust Building, W Main & Ethel Sts, Grafton, West Virginia
 Demolished. 1904 - St. Mary's Hospital, Washington Ave, Clarksburg, West Virginia
 Demolished. 1904 - West Side School (former), 304 Beech St, Grafton, West Virginia
 1905 - Garrett County Jail, E Alder St, Oakland, Maryland
 Demolished in the 1970s. 1905 - Old Main, Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia
 1906 - McGuffey and Wilson Halls (Remodeling), Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
 Conversion into dormitories. 1906 - Welch High School (former), Howard St, Welch, West Virginia
 Burned. 1907 - First Baptist Church (former), 100 Duhring St, Bluefield, West Virginia
 1907 - Lantz Hall, Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Virginia
 1907 - Morgan County Courthouse, 202 Fairfax St, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
 Destroyed by fire in 2006.1907 - Tunnelton Bank Building, North St, Tunnelton, West Virginia
 1908 - Elks Home, 1015 4th Ave, Huntington, West Virginia
 1909 - Administration Building, Salem College, Salem, West Virginia
 1910 - Citizens National Bank Building, 47 Church St, Philippi, West Virginia
 1910 - Cumberland City Hall, N Center St, Cumberland, Maryland
 1910 - Elks Home, 411 W Pike St, Clarksburg, West Virginia
 Burned in 2002. 1910 - Haymond Apartments, 444 W Main St, Clarksburg, West Virginia
 1911 - Rhea Terrace Apartments, Rhea Ter, Fairmont, West Virginia
 1911 - Whitescarver Hall, Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia
 1912 - Elks Home, 103 W Frederick St, Staunton, Virginia
 1912 - Elks Home, 425 N Florida Ave, Tampa, Florida
 Demolished in 1962. 1912 - Harpers Ferry High School (Old), 847 Washington St, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
 1912 - Thomas W. Koon House, 221 Baltimore Ave, Cumberland, Maryland
 1912 - Miners Hospital, Hospital Rd, Frostburg, Maryland
 Demolished in 1997. 1913 - Parsons High School, 501 Chestnut St, Parsons, West Virginia
 Demolished. 1913 - Second National Bank Building, 102 S Main St, Culpeper, Virginia
 1914 - Columbia Street School, 311 Columbia Street, Cumberland, Maryland
 1914 - Elks Club, 139 W 5th St, East Liverpool, Ohio
 1914 - First M. E. Church, 1539 W Pike St, Adamston, West Virginia
 1914 - <mask> E. Hutchinson House (Sonnencroft), Morgantown Ave, Fairmont, West Virginia
 Demolished in the 1960s. 1914 - Moorefield Graded and High School, 400 N Main St, Moorefield, West Virginia
 Demolished. 1915 - Elks Home, 424 5th St NE, Devils Lake, North Dakota
 Demolished.1916 - Gilmer County Jail, 201 N Court St, Glenville, West Virginia
 1916 - Sperry Hall, Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Virginia
 1917 - Hepzibah Public School, Shinnston Pk, Hepzibah, West Virginia
 1918 - Ellsworth School, 504 Cherry St, Middlebourne, West Virginia
 1918 - Victory High School, 1636 W Pike St, Adamston, West Virginia
 1920 - Roosevelt-Wilson High School (former), 116 Pennsylvania Ave, Nutter Fort, West Virginia

Holmboe & Pogue, from 1920
 1921 - Hampshire County Courthouse, 50 S High St, Romney, West Virginia
 1922 - Ritchie County Courthouse, 115 E Main St, Harrisville, West Virginia
 1922 - Sistersville Junior High School (former), Work St, Sistersville, West Virginia
 1922 - Tyler County Courthouse (Remodeling), 121 Court St, Middlebourne, West Virginia
 1923 - Virginia Lee Harrison Gymnasium, Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Virginia
 Presently a dormitory. 1924 - Pleasants County Courthouse, 301 Court Ln, St. Marys, West Virginia

E. C. S. Holmboe
 1929 - Shepherdstown High School (Old), 54 Minden Ave, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
 1937 - Circleville School, Price Way, Circleville, West Virginia

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Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (; 30 May 1906 – 16 October 1969) was by birth a Greek and Danish princess as well as Margravine of Baden through her marriage to Berthold, pretender to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The second of five children of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, Theodora spent a happy childhood between Athens and Corfu. In her youth, however, she witnessed the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), followed by the First World War (1914–1918) and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). For the young princess and her relatives, these conflicts had dramatic consequences and led to their exile in Switzerland (between 1917 and 1920), then in France and the United Kingdom (from 1922 to 1936). During their exile, Theodora and her family depended on the generosity of their foreign relatives, in particular Marie Bonaparte (who offered them accommodation in Saint-Cloud) and Lady Louis Mountbatten (who supported them financially). At the end of the 1920s, Theodora's mother was struck by a mental health crisis which led to her confinement in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Shortly after, in 1931, Theodora married Berthold, Margrave of Baden, son of Chancellor of the German Reich Prince Maximilian.The couple then moved to Salem Castle, where Berthold ran a school with teacher Kurt Hahn. The princess gave birth to three children there: Margarita (1932–2013), Maximilian (born 1933) and Ludwig (born 1937). Opposed to Nazism, Theodora and her husband kept their distance from the Nazi regime, however this did not prevent Berthold from enlisting in the Wehrmacht at the start of the Second World War. Affected by the conflict, which divided her family into two factions, Theodora became involved in the German Red Cross and other charitable organizations. The defeat of Germany and its occupation by the Allies brought new upheavals in the life of <mask> and Berthold. Though preserved from Soviets, who caused the death of several of their cousins, the couple was ostracized by the British royal family at the time of the marriage of Prince Philip, Theodora's only brother, to Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (later Queen Elizabeth II) in 1947. Over the years, the couple was nevertheless reintegrated into the life of the European elite, as illustrated by their invitation and presence at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 and at the wedding of Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in 1962.Theodora died of heart problems six years after her husband, in 1969. Biography

Childhood

In Greece and abroad

The second daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, Theodora was born at Tatoi Palace, near Athens, on 30 May 1906. At the time of her birth, her father was traveling to Spain, where he represented the Greek royal family on the occasion of the marriage of King Alfonso XIII of Spain to Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, a cousin of her mother Alice. Baptized "Theodora" in honor of the famous Byzantine empress, but nicknamed "Dolla" by her family, the princess grew up within a united household, together with her elder sister Margarita (1905–1981), and younger sisters Cecilie (1911–1937), and Sophie (1914–2001). With their mother, Theodora and her sisters communicated in English, but they also used French, German, and Greek in the presence of their relatives and governesses. The princesses were formally educated in English and Greek. Theodora's early childhood was marked by the instability that the Kingdom of Greece experienced at the start of the twentieth century.Tired of attacks from the press and the opposition, Andrew and Alice found refuge in travel and spent most of the period between 1907 and 1908 outside the borders of their country. With their daughters, they stayed in the United Kingdom, Germany, Malta and Russia, where they reunited with their numerous relatives including Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, <mask>na, Prince and <mask> of Battenberg (Alice's parents), etc. It was at this time that Theodora was introduced to her young maternal uncle and aunt, Louis and Louise, to whom she and her sister Margarita subsequently became very close. In 1909, the Goudi coup occurred, a military putsch organized against the government of King George I of Greece, Theodora's grandfather. Shortly after this event, Prince Andrew and his brothers were forced to resign from the army. Concerned about the political situation of their country, Andrew and Alice once again found refuge abroad and stayed in the United Kingdom, France and Hesse. After considering a life in exile for a while, the couple returned to live in Greece, where their third daughter was born.At that time, Theodora was described by her maternal grandmother as a funny and imaginative little girl, but also very scatterbrained. The Balkan Wars and the First World War

Between 1912 and 1913, Greece engaged in the Balkan Wars, which put the country in opposition to the Ottoman Empire and to Bulgaria. Called to join the army again, Prince Andrew served under Crown Prince Constantine while Princess Alice worked as a nurse for wounded soldiers. Too young to follow their parents, Theodora and her sisters spent the duration of the conflict in Athens, with the exception of a brief stay in Thessaloniki in December 1912. Greece came out of the Balkan Wars with an expanded territory, but the conflict also led to the demise of George I, who was assassinated in March 1913. The death of the King of the Hellenes caused significant changes in the life of Theodora and her relatives. In his will, the sovereign bequeathed the Corfiote palace of Mon Repos to Andrew.After years of living in close proximity to the monarch, in the palaces of Athens and Tatoi, Andrew and his family therefore finally had their own residence. When peace returned, Andrew, Alice and their daughters left Greece in August 1913. After a visit to Germany, they stayed in the United Kingdom, with Theodora's maternal grandparents. For little princesses, this trip was an opportunity to visit St Paul's Cathedral and London Zoo with their parents. Returning to Greece on 17 November 1913, the family was then retained in the country by Alice's fourth pregnancy and, above all, by the outbreak of the First World War. With Greece having proclaimed its neutrality, this new conflict initially hardly affected Theodora and her relatives. She and her sisters thus spent the summer of 1914 in Corfu, where they enjoyed the sun and the sea for four months.Things changed as war creeped into the life of the country's people. Stationed in Thessaloniki with his garrison, Andrew was thus confronted with the occupation of the city by the Allies in October 1915. Shortly after, in December, the routed Serbian army found refuge in Corfu, leading Alice and her daughters to abandon Mon Repos for the capital. Over the months, the amount of threats against members of the royal dynasty increased. In July 1916, an arson attacked the domain of Tatoi, while the king was there with his wife and several of their children. In addition, on 1 December, the French navy bombarded the royal palace in Athens, forcing Theodora and her sisters to take refuge in the cellars with their mother. Exile in Switzerland

In June 1917, King Constantine I was finally deposed and driven out of Greece by the Allies, who replaced him on the throne by his second son, the young <mask>.Fifteen days later, Theodora's family was in turn forced into exile in order to remove the possibility of the new monarch being influenced by those close to him. Forced to reside in German-speaking Switzerland, the small group first stayed in a hotel in St. Moritz, before settling in Lucerne, where they lived with uncertainty about their future. Exile was not the only source of concern for the family, however. With the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, several of Theodora's relatives were murdered in Russia. Shortly after these events, the Grand Ducal family of Hesse, to which Theodora was closely related through her mother, was overthrown along with all the other German dynasties during the winter of 1918–1919. Finally, the family went through some health problems, several of them contracting the flu in 1920. At the beginning of 1919, Theodora nevertheless had the joy of reuniting with her paternal grandmother, the Dowager Queen Olga, spared by the Bolsheviks thanks to the diplomatic intervention of the Danes.In the months that followed, she reconnected, moreover, with her maternal grandparents, whom the war forced to abandon the name of Battenberg for that of Mountbatten. For Theodora, who now formed a duo with her elder sister Margarita, exile was not only synonymous with sadness; it was also an opportunity for long family reunions and walks in the mountains. Young adulthood

Brief return to Greece
On 2 October 1920, King <mask>, cousin of Theodora, was bitten by a domestic monkey during a walk in Tatoi. Poorly cared for, he contracted sepsis, which prevailed on 25 October, without any member of his family being allowed to come to his bedside. The death of the sovereign caused a violent institutional crisis in Greece. Already stuck, since 1919, in a new war against Turkey, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos lost the 1920 Greek legislative election. Humiliated, he retired abroad while a referendum reinstalled Constantine I on the throne.Prince Andrew was received triumphantly in Athens on 23 November 1920, and his wife and four daughters joined him a few days later. Theodora then returned to live in Corfu with her family. At the same time, Princess Alice found out that she was pregnant again. On 10 June 1921, the family welcomed Philip (1921–2021), the future Duke of Edinburgh. The joy that surrounded this birth, however, was obscured by the absence of Prince Andrew, who joined the Greek forces in Asia Minor during the Occupation of Smyrna. Despite worries about the war, Theodora and her siblings enjoyed life at Mon Repos, where they received a visit from their maternal grandmother and their aunt Louise in the spring of 1922. In the park near the palace, built on an ancient cemetery, the princesses devoted themselves to archeology and discovered some pottery, bronze pieces and bones.During this period, Theodora and her sisters also participated, for the first time, in a number of great social events. In March 1921, the princesses attended in Athens the wedding of their cousin Helen to Crown Prince Carol of Romania. In July 1922, they went to the United Kingdom to be bridesmaids at the wedding of their uncle Louis Mountbatten to the wealthy heiress Edwina Ashley. However, the military defeat of Greece against Turkey and the political unrest that it caused disrupted the life of Theodora and her family. In September 1922, Constantine I abdicated in favor of his eldest son, George II. A month later, Prince Andrew was arrested before being tried by a military tribunal, which declared him responsible for the defeat of the Sakarya. Saved from execution by the intervention of foreign chancelleries, the prince was condemned to banishment and cashiering.After a brief stop in Corfu, the prince and his relatives hurriedly left Greece aboard HMS Calypso in early December 1922. In the UK and France

After a journey of several weeks, which led them successively to Italy, France and the United Kingdom, Theodora, her parents and her siblings settled in Saint-Cloud in 1923. Settled in a house adjoining that of Princess Marie Bonaparte, the family depended for seven years on her generosity, and two other aunts of Theodora: first Princess Anastasia and then Lady Louis Mountbatten. Marie Bonaparte financed the studies of her nieces and nephew, while Lady Mountbatten got into the habit of offering her nieces her "used" clothes. In fact, Theodora's parents had little income and the children were the regular witnesses to their money problems and their difficulty in maintaining a household. Deprived of their Greek nationality after the proclamation of the Second Hellenic Republic in March 1924, Theodora and her family received Danish passports from their cousin King Christian X. Now of marrying age, the princess and her sister Margarita regularly left France for Great Britain, where they lived with their maternal grandmother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven.With their aunt Louise, who increasingly replaced their mother as a chaperone and confidante, the two young girls attended most of the events by British aristocracy during the 1920s, including balls and dances, birthdays and garden parties at Buckingham Palace, horse races, etc. The two princesses also took advantage of their stays in London to visit their many relatives, such as their paternal grandmother, Queen Olga, who was Queen <mask>'s regular guest at Sandringham. However, the young girls' lack of fortune and their life in exile meant that they hardly had any suitors. By 1930, none of them had yet found a fiancé. This did not prevent them from rejoicing for their aunt Louise when she was asked by Gustaf

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 Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, to marry him in June 1923. Alice's confinement
Theodora, Margarita and Philip spent the summer of 1928 in Romania. Invited by Princess Helen, whose son Miachel I was the same age as Philip, the two young girls and their little brother stayed for several weeks in Sinaia.At the time, Prince Nicholas of Romania was still single and Helen would like to see him marry one of her relatives, but her plans for her brother-in-law to marry one of her cousins came to nothing. A few months after this trip, Alice began to suffer from psychological problems. Struck by a mental health crisis, the princess convinced herself that she possessed healing powers and that she was receiving divine messages about potential husbands for her daughters. She then took herself for a saint and soon declared herself the bride of Jesus. Distraught by the situation, Prince Andrew finally made the decision to place his wife in a sanatorium. He took advantage of his family's stay in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 1930, to send Alice to a psychiatric hospital located in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. In the months which followed, Theodora's three sisters successively married German princes.Sophie married Prince Christoph of Hesse in December 1930, followed by Cecilie who married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse in February 1931, and Margarita who married Gottfried, Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in April 1931. Theodora thus became the last of the four sisters to get married. Settling in Germany

Marriage and settling in Salem

In June 1931, Théodora became engaged to Berthold, Margrave of Baden. Son of the last chancellor of the German Empire and titular Grand Duke of Baden from November 1929, Berthold was in charge of a substantial fortune. A man of culture, he lived in Salem, where his father had founded a school with the help of his secretary, Kurt Hahn, in 1920. On 17 August 1931, <mask> and Berthold were married in a double religious ceremony, both Lutheran and Orthodox, at the Neues Schloss in Baden-Baden, which resulted in a large family reunion, at which the bride's mother Princess Alice was not present. After the ceremony, the newlyweds went on their honeymoon in Capri, Italy, where they were hosts to the Swedish poet Axel Munthe.Back in Germany, the couple moved to Salem Castle, a former Cistercian abbey transformed into a princely residence after its secularization in 1803. The Margrave and Margravine of Baden had three children: Margarita (1932–2013), Maximilian (born 1933) and Ludwig (born 1937). Concerned about her mother's fate, Theodora visited her several times in Kreuzlingen, but Alice did not always receive her daughter warmly. Aware that her brother had been living a chaotic existence since their mother's placement in a sanatorium, Theodora got Philip to go to school in Salem and to come and live with her and her husband in 1933. The rise of Nazism in Germany, however, led her to reverse her decision and send him back to the United Kingdom, where he finally enrolled in Gordonstoun in 1934. Over the years, Theodora welcomed several members of her family to Salem. The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven stayed on several occasions with her granddaughter, as did Prince Andrew.The princess also received her mother, once she had recovered from her health problems, and her sisters. Cecilie made a last visit to Salem in July 1937, before being killed in a plane crash with her family on 16 November 1937. Political upheavals

While several of their relatives such as Cecilie and Margarita, (Theodora's sisters) as well as <mask> (Berthold's sister), gradually joined the Nazi Party, the Margrave and Margravine of Baden tried to keep their distance from the Nazi regime. Shortly after the establishment of his dictatorship, Adolf Hitler arrested Kurt Hahn, whose Jewish origins he despised. Freed thanks to the intervention of the British government, the pedagogue was however removed from the direction of Salem and had to find refuge in the United Kingdom. Despite these events, Berthold obtained permission from the German authorities to keep his school open. Enjoying relative autonomy until 1941, the institution nevertheless underwent a process of Nazification which took it away from its initial values.While Germany sank into dictatorship from 1933, the Hellenic Republic was overthrown by General Kondylis in October 1935. A month later, King George II, Theodora's cousin, was reinstalled on the throne after a referendum. At the beginning of 1936, the banishment sentence issued in 1922 against Theodora's father Prince Andrew was lifted, which allowed him to stay in his country again. A regular target for the Hellenic press, the prince however chose to stay abroad for most of the year. Estranged from her husband since her confinement, Princess Alice made the choice to return and live in Athens, where she settled in November 1938. In the meantime, Theodora also returned to Greece with Berthold on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Paul to Princess Frederica of Hanover in January 1938. Second World War and its aftermath
Enlisted in the Wehrmacht shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Theodora's husband was seriously injured in the leg during the Battle of France in 1940.Treated in Giessen, he then returned to Salem, where he spent the duration of the conflict with his wife and their children, without experiencing too many hardships. While Theodora engaged with the German Red Cross and other charitable organizations, Berthold took part in riskier actions, by attempting to hide Jews in his castle. Affected by the occupation of Greece by the Nazis, Theodora was cut off from a large part of her family because of the conflict. Her father, Prince Andrew, found himself isolated on the French Riviera and contacting him became very difficult. As for her mother, she spent the war in Athens, but managed to pay a few visits to her daughters in 1940, 1942, and 1944 Added to this was the anguish of knowing her brothers-in-law Christoph and Gottfried and her brother Philip were fighting in opposite camps. The war brought its share of tragedies for Theodora and her relatives. In October 1943, her sister Sophie's husband died in a plane crash while flying over the Apennine Mountains.A few months later, in January 1944, <mask>, Berthold's only sister, died in an attack by the U.S. Army Air Forces during an air-raid on Frankfurt am Main. Finally, in December 1944, her father Prince Andrew died in Monaco without having been able to see his children again. These events greatly affected Theodora, who then went through a period of depression. Post-war years

Occupation of Germany and Philip's marriage
The defeat of Germany and its occupation by the Allies brought new upheavals in the life of the former German princely families, several of whom (such as Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, or Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen) perished in hands of the Soviets. Baden was placed under the administration of France and the United States, however, Berthold and Theodora were not under threat, and it did not take long for the margrave to find a leading social role. Berthold was thus able to reopen the Salem School, which he entrusted to his cousin, Prince George William of Hanover, in 1948. Two years earlier, the latter had married Theodora's sister Sophie (widowed since 1943), and the couple's move to Salem allowed Theodora to maintain close ties with her sister.Theodora's relationship with her brother Philip was, on the other hand, more complicated. Since 1939, he had been linked to Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, and the two's engagement was officially announced on 10 July 1947. The preparations for the wedding began immediately. However, the ties of Philip's family to Germany frightened the British court and government, who feared that the public could be reminded of the Germanic origins of the House of Windsor if the royal family were publicly associated with former Nazi Party members. Prince Philip found himself unable to invite his sisters to his wedding. Aware of the difficulties their brother had to face, Theodora, Margarita and Sophie considered their sidelining wrong and hurtful. They felt snubbed when they realized that their cousins, the Queen Mother of the Romanians and the Duchess of Aosta, had been invited despite their countries being allies of the Nazi regime during the conflict.Harassed by the press, who submitted requests for interviews with them, Theodora and her sisters spent the day of 20 November 1947 at Marienburg Castle with their families. Invited by the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick, they celebrated the union of their brother in the company of their cousin Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark and Prince Louis and Princess Margaret of Hesse and by Rhine. A few days later, the Greek princesses received a visit from the Queen of the Hellenes (who came to bring them a letter from their mother Princess Alice describing the wedding in detail) and the Duchess of Kent. Reintegration into royal circles
Once the monarchy was restored in Greece in 1946, Theodora and her husband were regularly invited to Athens. The couple was among the many individuals invited by King Paul and Queen Frederica to take part in the "cruise of the kings" in 1954, and in the celebrations for the centenary of the Hellenic dynasty in 1963. Theodora and her family were also invited to Athens on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark and Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias in 1962, and the marriage of King Constantine II and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark in 1964. In the early 1950s, relations between the British royal family and their German relatives in turn normalized.Theodora, her sisters, their husbands and some of their children were thus invited to the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Over the years, Theodora forged a close relationship with the British sovereign Queen Elizabeth II, who came to consider her as her favorite sister-in-law, according to the Spanish biographer Ricardo Mateos Sainz de Medrano. The Margrave and Margravine of Baden also regularly invited their families to their residence in Salem. The marriages of their daughter Margarita to Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia in 1957 and their son Maximilian to Archduchess Valerie of Austria in 1966 were the occasions for great meetings of the European aristocracy. In 1965, Theodora organized a large reception in Salem on the occasion of the official trip of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to West Germany. Final years
At the end of the 1940s, Theodora began to suffer from heart problems. Over time, her health deteriorated and she appeared very diminished at the wedding of Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sophia in 1962.Her health then alternated between times when she had the greatest difficulty speaking or walking and times when she felt absolutely good. Unable to anticipate her next seizures, she had to move around with a cane at all times. Forced to have all her teeth pulled out, she acquired a strange smile, which her mother struggled to get used to. As his wife's health deteriorated, Berthold suffered a heart attack while driving with their son Ludwig on 27 October 1963. Upset by the demise of her husband, Theodora then hurriedly returned from Italy, where she had gone for a vacation. Theodora's last years were affected by the establishment of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece and by the departure into exile of King Constantine II and his family. Hospitalized at the clinic of Doctor Büdingen in Konstanz, Theodora died on 16 October 1969.Her funeral took place at the mausoleum of the Baden family in Salem in the presence of many members of the aristocracy, including her nephew Prince Charles, but not her brother Prince Philip who was on an official trip to Canada. In popular culture
A brief allusion to Theodora and Berthold is made in the episode "Dear Mrs Kennedy" (season 2, episode 8) of the historical drama series The Crown (2017). Honours
  Greece: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Olga and Sophia, 1st Class
  Greece: Dame Commander of the Order of Beneficence
  Greece: Knight of the Decoration of the Greek Royal House, 2nd Class
  House of Zähringen: Knight Grand Cross of the House Order of Fidelity
 : Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal

Ancestry
Through her father, she was a grandchild of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Through her mother she was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her mother was a granddaughter of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria. Notes and references

Notes

References

Bibliography

On Theodora and the Greek royal family

On Theodora and her German relatives

Biographies of Theodora's relatives

1906 births
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House of Glücksburg (Greece)
House of Zähringen
Danish princesses
Greek princesses
Nobility from Corfu
Greek people of German descent
Greek people of English descent
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