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<mask> (born May 21, 1982) is a retired American professional mixed martial artist who competed in  Featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). <mask>' father is Cuban and his mother is Mexican. The flags of these two countries are often displayed on his clothing during his fights. His father was the leader of a Cuban resistance movement under Castro regime, eventually managing to hide in the Brazilian embassy in Cuba before escaping to the United States. <mask> is the youngest of six brothers. He went to Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, Illinois. College wrestling
Lamas graduated with a degree in exercise science from Elmhurst College in 2005, where he was a member of the men's wrestling team and earned All-American honors at the NCAA Division III Men's Wrestling Championships at 157 lbs.During his collegiate wrestling career (2001–2005), he racked up over 100 wins. He was also a two-time CCIW Champion, and was named the CCIW's "Most Outstanding Wrestler" during the 2003–04 season. Lamas returned to Elmhurst after graduation to serve as the assistant men's wrestling coach. Mixed martial arts career

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<mask> won the ISCF North Central Regional Title on April 26, 2008 in Loves Park, Illinois, USA when he defeated Cal Ferry via Guillotine Choke at 4:50 of round 4. <mask> made his WEC debut on March 1, 2009 at WEC 39 against IFL and WEC veteran Bart Palaszewski. Lamas took the fight with 4 days notice as he replaced an injured Rich Crunkilton. Lamas controlled Palaszewski with superior wrestling and scored with excellent ground-and-pound to win a unanimous decision.<mask> faced Danny Castillo on August 9, 2009 at WEC 42. Lamas suffered his first defeat as Castillo won the fight via second-round TKO. <mask> next faced James Krause on November 18, 2009 at WEC 44. <mask> won the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> then faced Bendy Casimir on March 6, 2010 at WEC 47. He won the fight in stunning fashion by defeating Casimir via flying knee KO in the first round. Lamas defeated Dave Jansen via unanimous decision on August 18, 2010 at WEC 50.<mask> was expected to face Maciej Jewtuszko on December 16, 2010 at WEC 53, but Jewtuszko had to withdraw as he suffered a broken hand during training. <mask> instead faced Iuri Alcântara and lost via KO in the first round. Ultimate Fighting Championship
In October 2010, World Extreme Cagefighting merged with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As part of the merger, all WEC fighters were transferred to the UFC. In his UFC debut, <mask> faced returning UFC veteran Matt Grice in a featherweight bout on June 26, 2011 at UFC on Versus 4. <mask> defeated Grice via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Cub Swanson on November 12, 2011 at UFC on Fox 1.<mask> won via second round submission after applying an arm-triangle choke, earning Submission of the Night honors. <mask> was expected to face Dustin Poirier on February 4, 2012 at UFC 143, replacing an injured Erik Koch  However, <mask> ended up injured as well and was replaced by Max Holloway. For his third UFC fight at featherweight, <mask> faced Hatsu Hioki on June 22, 2012 at UFC on FX: Maynard vs. Guida. He defeated the heavily favored Hioki via unanimous decision. <mask> was briefly linked to a December 2012 bout with Frankie Edgar, however the pairing was scrapped after Edgar was tabbed as a replacement for the injured Erik Koch and face José Aldo at UFC 153. <mask> faced Erik Koch on January 26, 2013 at UFC on Fox 6. <mask> won via TKO in the second round.<mask> was expected to face Chan Sung Jung on July 6, 2013 at UFC 162. However, on June 14, it was announced that Jung had been pulled from the Lamas bout and would replace an injured Anthony Pettis to face José Aldo on August 3, 2013 at UFC 163. As a result, <mask> was pulled from the event. The title fight against José Aldo eventually took place on February 1, 2014 as the co-main event of UFC 169. It was revealed during the UFC countdown show that <mask> received his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu during his training camp leading up to the bout. <mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Hacran Dias on June 28, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 44.<mask> won the fight by unanimous decision. <mask> faced Dennis Bermudez on November 15, 2014 at UFC 180. After dropping Bermudez with a jab, Lamas was able to secure a guillotine choke and earn the first round submission victory. <mask> faced Chad Mendes on April 4, 2015 in the main event at UFC Fight Night 63. Mendes won the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> faced Diego Sanchez on November 21, 2015 at The Ultimate Fighter Latin America 2 Finale. He won the fight by unanimous decision.<mask> next faced Max Holloway on June 4, 2016 at UFC 199. He lost the back and forth fight via unanimous decision. <mask> was scheduled to face returning veteran B.J. Penn on October 15, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 97. However, on October 4, Penn pulled out of the fight citing an injury. In turn, the promotion announced on October 6 that they had cancelled the event entirely. <mask> was quickly rescheduled and returned to face Charles Oliveira on November 5, 2016 at The Ultimate Fighter Latin America 3 Finale.The bout was contested at a catchweight of 155 lbs, as Oliveira missed weight by nearly 10 lbs. <mask> won the fight via submission in the second round and was awarded a Performance of the Night bonus. <mask> was expected to face Chan Sung Jung on July 29, 2017 at UFC 214. However Jung pulled out of the fight in early June citing a knee injury. He was replaced by Jason Knight. <mask> won the fight by first-round TKO. <mask> was scheduled to face José Aldo on December 16, 2017 at UFC on Fox: Lawler vs. dos Anjos.However, Aldo was pulled from the bout in favour of a rematch with Max Holloway two weeks earlier at UFC 218, replacing an injured Frankie Edgar. <mask> instead faced Josh Emmett. At the weigh ins, Emmett weighed in at 148.5 pounds, 2.5 pounds over the featherweight upper limit of 146 pounds and the bout proceeded at a catchweight. Emmett forfeited 20% of his purse to Lamas. <mask> lost the fight via knockout in the first round. <mask> faced Mirsad Bektić on  June 9, 2018 at UFC 225. He lost the fight by split decision.<mask> faced Darren Elkins on November 17, 2018 at UFC Fight Night 140. He won the fight via TKO in the third round. Shortly after the fight, Lamas revealed in a social media post that he had been fighting with a blood clot in his left leg and that he got blood thinning medication for the condition. <mask> faced Calvin Kattar at UFC 238 on June 8, 2019. He lost the fight via knockout in the first round. <mask> was scheduled to face Ryan Hall on May 2, 2020 at UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Weidman. However, on April 9, Dana White, the president of UFC announced that this event was postponed to a future date The bout was rescheduled on August 29, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 175.However, Hall pulled out of the bout due to an undisclosed injury. <mask> instead faced promotional newcomer Bill Algeo. He won the fight via unanimous decision. This fight earned him the Fight of the Night award. <mask> confirmed his intention to retire from professional competition after the win over Algeo. Personal life
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<mask> (October 26, 1910 – March 3, 1996) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1961 to 1988, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland (1953–1961). He was created a cardinal in 1967 by Pope Paul VI. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the fourth of eight children of <mask> and Anna (née Pietruszka) <mask>. His parents were Polish immigrants who were originally from the Tatra Mountains. <mask>'s father held various occupations, working as a machinist, barber, carpenter, plumber and electrician; his mother worked as a maid at a hotel in Cleveland. At age 2, he and his family returned to Poland, but returned to Cleveland within a year.<mask> received his early education at the parochial school of St. Hyacinth Church. At age 9, he went to work part-time as a butcher's helper. He later worked as a maker of wooden boxes. <mask> attended Cathedral Latin High School, graduating at age 16 in 1927. He then took a job as a butcher at a Kroger grocery store in Cleveland, where he became manager of the meat department at age 18. Religious questions from a Lutheran co-worker prompted <mask> to more deeply study Catholic theology and eventually decide to enter the priesthood. He began his studies at St. Mary's College in Orchard Lake, Michigan.He later enrolled at St. Mary's Seminary in his native Cleveland. At St. Mary's, he also operated a small tobacco business, receiving shipments of defective cigars and then selling them to his fellow seminarians. Priesthood
On February 20, 1937, <mask> was ordained a priest by Bishop Joseph Schrembs at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. His first assignment was as a curate at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Cleveland, where he remained for one year. In 1938, he was sent to continue his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1940. He received a Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Catholic University of America School of Canon Law in Washington, D.C., in 1942. Following his return to Cleveland, <mask> served as professor of canon law at St. Mary's Seminary from 1942 to 1943.He served as vice-chancellor (1943–51) and chancellor (1951–54) of the Diocese of Cleveland. He was named a papal chamberlain in 1945, and was raised to the rank of domestic prelate in 1951. In 1950, he became president of the Canon Law Society of America. Episcopacy

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On July 11, 1953, <mask> was appointed auxiliary bishop of Cleveland and titular bishop of Cardi by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 2 from Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, with Archbishop Edward Francis Hoban and Bishop Floyd Lawrence Begin serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. In addition to his episcopal duties, he was named vicar general of the Diocese of Cleveland in 1954. Philadelphia
Following the death of Cardinal <mask> O'Hara, <mask> was appointed the sixth Archbishop of Philadelphia by Pope <mask>I on February 11, 1961.His installation took place at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul on March 22 of that year. He was the first Polish American to become an archbishop, and, at age 50, was the youngest Catholic archbishop in the country at the time. In his first sermon as archbishop, <mask> spoke of the need for civic dedication and virtue, saying, "I am conscious, too, of our beloved country, the bold idealism that inspired it, the courage that gave it birth. May God grant that our prayers, the moral integrity of our lives, the clarity of our teaching, and the sincerity of our patriotism help increase the spiritual resources without which no nation can survive." <mask> attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965. During the Council, he served as one of six permanent undersecretaries, with responsibility for keeping a record of votes and distributing, collecting and tabulating ballots.He also served as a member of the central coordinating committee. Like Pope Paul VI, he was more liberal in social principles but sternly conservative in those of doctrine and church government. He condemned arms races and abortion, but supported clerical celibacy and disarmament. He was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Mercede e Sant'Adriano a Villa Albani by Paul VI on June 26, 1967, during the same consistory that elevated Archbishop Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, Poland. Both were cardinal electors in the conclaves of August and October 1978. Wojtyła became <mask> Paul II in the latter conclave, and <mask> served as one of his closest advisors. During the 1960s and 1970s, <mask> governed the Archdiocese of Philadelphia through an era where the population shifted to the suburbs.<mask> campaigned for the canonization of Katharine Drexel, and was present at the canonization of his Czech-born predecessor in Philadelphia, Bishop <mask>. He made a celebrated pilgrimage to Poland in 1972, and served as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1971 to 1974. On April 5, 1970, he led prayer services at the White House for President Richard Nixon and the <mask> and Bush families; in addition to Nixon the former President Lyndon B<mask> and the future Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were in attendance. In 1985, <mask> baptized Polish United Workers' Party defector Romuald Spasowski. Later life and legacy
<mask> was hospitalized in 1987 for treatment of diverticulosis. Due to his ill health, he resigned as Archbishop of Philadelphia on February 11, 1988, exactly 27 years after he was appointed to the post. He was succeeded by Anthony Bevilacqua.<mask> died at age 85 in Philadelphia, where he is buried in the crypt beneath the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. Cardinal <mask> was criticized for his role in the archidocese's sex abuse scandal some 10 years after his death. The Grand Jury stated that <mask> knew that some priests under his command were molesting and raping young boys and girls but did nothing to prevent future crimes. E. Michael Jones published a biography of <mask> in 1995 titled <mask> <mask> and the Cultural Revolution. The book covers <mask>'s early life and his time as President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the turbulent times of the 1970s. In order to give Jones sources for the book, <mask> allowed Jones access to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia archives.Views
<mask> was widely considered to be a staunch conservative, even a "traditionalist". As described by The New York Times, he was "an outspoken defender of traditional theology, hierarchical authority and strict church discipline." The Philadelphia Inquirer recalled how <mask> was "[ha]iled by conservatives as a defender of the church's heritage and criticized by liberals as an opponent of change." However, despite his conservative views on doctrine and church government, he was more liberal on social principles, such as nuclear disarmament and humanitarian programs. Abortion
In 1973, he called the Supreme Court's decisions overturning state laws banning abortion "an unspeakable tragedy for this nation" that "sets in motion developments which are terrifying to contemplate." In 1974, <mask> testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Human Life Amendment proposed by New York Senator James L. Buckley. While mostly in favor, <mask> argued that the amendment should drop the exception for when the mother's life was in danger, so that should abortion be banned under all circumstances.<mask> in his statement said of Roe v. Wade:

Marriages
He opposed looser regulations governing marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics. Contraception
He referred to the Catholic Church's condemnation of contraception, reaffirmed by Pope Paul VI in 1968, as "divine law." Nuclear disarmament
In 1979, his Congressional testimony backing talks on limiting strategic arms foreshadowed an appeal in a pastoral letter by American bishops for nuclear disarmament in 1983. At the high tide of the nuclear freeze movement in 1982, Cardinal <mask> told 15,000 demonstrators at a Philadelphia rally that it was time for governments "to dismantle existing nuclear weapons." He later acknowledged that his belief in gradual and reciprocal disarmament, with strong safeguards against cheating, was probably not shared by all the demonstrators. Second Vatican Council
After the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, he soon joined those alarmed by the pressures for change that the Council produced. He opposed many of the small accommodations or options in church discipline that gained favor after Vatican II, including looser regulations governing marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics, the reception of Communion in the hand, and attending Mass on Saturday evening instead of Sunday.Tax credits for Catholic schools
In 1984, Cardinal <mask> appeared with President Ronald Reagan at a campaign rally at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa shrine in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, praising Mr. Reagan for trying to win tax credits for parents of children in religious schools. In the same year, the Cardinal delivered an invocation at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Personal life
He could speak eleven languages. References

External links
Polish American Center: <mask> <mask>
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church profile

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K.N<mask> is an agricultural scientist and a retired professor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He is also a novelist specializing in thrillers, and writes in the Kannada language. Science publications
<mask> is a prolific scientific author. He has
 published ~ 200 scientific papers
 edited 11 books
 authored 25 distinct works of literature
 contributed 38 chapters to other books
 published 14 papers in various meeting proceedings
 prepared 11 reference CDs
 authored 13 popular articles

Fiction
<mask> has also contributed to the literature of the Kannada language. He has published many novels and story collections, as well as having 12 of his short stories published in various magazines. Novels:

 <mask>naka Musaku - Chandra Gupta Maurya gave up throne, travelled down south to ShravanaBelagola to spread Jainism.Being a ruler, he knew spreading religion needs tonnes and tonnes of resources. He brought with him loads of Gold, all morphed as Sweet Corn Seeds. Huge vault of Gold and it's linkages with Jain Temples (Hoysala, Ganga & other Jain Kingdoms) in Karnataka. Karisiryana - What made VijayaNagara Kingdom, the object of so much praise among foreign travelers? The riches of selling gems on road-side? Tuluva <mask>agara & wrote epics in Telugu? What was it, in that charmed Pampa Nagari, that faced unheard ire and ended up as Haalu Hampe (laid to dust place)?What happened to all those riches? <mask>ra - After Sri Rama chandra ascended throne at Ayodhya, what happened to his Vanara Sena? What if they all immigrated to Andaman? Hanuman, Sri Rama's chieftain was disillusioned after Rama abandoned his pregnant wife Seetha, to uphold his pride. What if Andaman is mispronunciation of Hanuman? Are the Jarawa and other tribes, really offspring of Vanara's, who built the famed Rama Sethu? Chithadantha - Buddha's teeth is revered and a prized possession.What if it was the key to the famed riches of Magadha Kingdom, which attracted conquerors across the world, including Alexander of Greece? Why was the DevanaamPriya Ashoka, the apostle of peace, also called ChandaShaasana Ashoka or Chanda Ashoka? What fuelled the rise of Chanakya's protege ChandraGupta Maurya? Did <mask> confiscate the riches in the early days of 1947? Elu rottigalu (2011) - Mir Osman <mask>, the 7'th and Last Nizam of Hyderabad, was the richest man ever who lived on Earth. He was and remains a controversial figure, whose reach was unparalleled in world-history. He even was about to anoint his sons to Caliphate and getting the entire Muslim World to fall to his feet, all through his much acclaimed and recorded riches.What was it that made him so rich? All the famed mines of Golkonda and other places? What prompted <mask> to abandon his acute hate towards Indian Government and end his flight to Prince Farookh's Palace in Egypt? Is it true that even today, his riches are being used to fuel Anti-India feelings? Mooka dhatu (2012)
 Shilakula valase (2014)
 "Ballikaala belli" (2017)
 "Rakta sikta Ratna" (2018)

Collection of Short/Long Stories:

 Shalabanjike  - Pratihara means Door-Keeper. Why was it that the famed Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty named as Pratihara? Why was the RashtraKoota Queen RatnaMala's face adorning Gurjara Kingdom's most revered Mural?Maalava regions of current day Madhya Pradesh has a fascinating history. Why is that the stomach part of all idols in Hoysala Temples look like a Cow? Why is that, the famed sculptors MalliTamma and his ilk not popular as Jakkanna or Jakana Aacharya? Padmapani - What binds the Lotus (Padma) with Jainism? Is there more to the secrets of 24 Thirthankara's, other than spreading message of peace, harmony & love? <mask>
 Sigeeria (2011)  - SriLanka's chequered history criss-crosses that of India, not just for Ramayana or Tamil Natives. It is intertwined with every Century.<mask>, the blind-son of Samrat Ashoka, Sea-faring Kingdoms of Chola and Pandya's, Plantation-ships of European Colonial Rulers, SriLanka, with its great Kingdoms of DhatuSena, Kashyapa and others continues to maintain little affinity with its neighbours. Is there more than just the difference of Languages (Simhala v/s Tamil), Religions (Buddhism v/s Hinduism) or is there more? SimhaGiri or Sigiriya in Dambulla, Is it just another Fortress or something more? <mask>ldavasi (2013)
 Mihirakula (2015)
 Perini Tandava (2016)
 Aryaa Veerya (2018)
Gudi Mallam

Collection of Articles

 Bhinna-bimba (2015)
 Bhinnota (2016)
 "V-charana" (2017)
 Taru Maaru (2018)
Hora Nota (2019)
He has written two volumes on his journey in Science and from there on to  Literature

 Sasya Sagga  (Journey in Science)
 Divy Suli (Journey from Science to literature)

Other spinoffs from literature and media work
 Four of the short stories are staged as dramas
 One 25 episode TV serial Kaala Garbha on Archeology and history. Authored several articles in Kannada on Science and history
He has recited important parts of <mask>vempu's   Shree Ramayana Darshanam

In total, <mask> has around 326 publications to his credit. Education
 Ph.D.  University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1983
 M.Sc. (Agriculture: Genetics & Plant Breeding), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1979
 B.Sc (Agriculture), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1976.Honors and awards

 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India (1991)
 Fellow Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1997)
 Honorary Senior Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
 Parisara Prashasthi, (Karnataka State Environment Award) from the Department of Forest Ecology and Environment, Govt of Karnataka, India. Fulbright fellowship (1991). Radio, Hope and Awareness Media Award     from International Radio Forum – Iran (2010)
 Vocational Excellence Award  by Rotary Club of Bangalore Yelahanka, (2008)
 Senior Fellow Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Bangalore, India. Fellow National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi. (2004)
 Fellow Current Science Association, Bangalore. Karnataka Sahitya Academy Datti Award 2008 for the Kannada novel (Kanakamusuku). <mask> is also a Trustee and Member of the Executive Board of ATREE.org.<mask> spoke at  TEDx Pilani in March 2010 on popular Indian Myths. References

External links
 Article on the Books in Kannada
 Article on Dr. <mask>
  Article on the book Karisiryana

 Article on the new book release by Dr. K.<mask>
 <mask> in TEDX speec
 Articles by Dr. K.N. Ganeshiah on current science magazine from 1980 onwards
 Indian Biresource Information Network (IBIN)
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 TEDxPilani - Dr <mask> - 3/13/10
 Superannuation

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Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
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20th-century Indian biologists
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<mask> (born 2 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam. In 2013, <mask> appeared in his own BBC sketch series It's Kevin. He has also appeared in minor speaking roles in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Personal life
<mask> was born in Chatham, Kent. He has been practising Buddhist since 1990. He has two children with his long-term girlfriend Holly, whom he met in late 2005 on the set of Hyperdrive, where she was the art director.Early career and Lee & Herring
Eldon occupies half a page in Oliver Gray's book called Volume - A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession; this includes coverage of punk-era Hampshire where, in late 1978, with two schoolmates from Bay House School, Gosport, <mask> started a band named Virginia Doesn't. Virginia Doesn't's career peaked with a session broadcast on Radio One's John Peel Show on 18 October 1979. In early 1980, Virginia Doesn't morphed into The Time, in which <mask> was again the front man. The Time recorded and performed from April 1980 until August 1982, during which time the band gigged extensively and played support slots with The Jam, Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive and Bad Manners. The Time had songs included on several self-released tape compilations, although they never secured a recording contract. In August 1982, The Time became Gerry Hackett & The Fringes, a spoof Sixties revival band. On 6 November 1983 Gerry Hackett & The Fringes appeared on BBC South's 'The Cellar Show' presented by John Sessions.<mask> started on the stand-up circuit in the early 1990s performing an act in-character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also, on occasion, done stand-up as himself. On the circuit, Eldon formed a friendship with stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, which would later lead to an invitation to work with him on the radio series Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun with Lee's comedy partner Richard Herring. Lee and Herring would usually refer to him as "the actor <mask>", in reference to his claim to being an actor rather than a comedian. <mask>'s work sat well with that of Lee and Herring, and he continued to work with them on many of their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy. He played recurring characters Simon Quinlank (the self-styled "King of Hobbies") and 'Rod Hull', a nonsensical version of Rod Hull with a prosthetic limb and an obsession with jelly, especially the 'green' variety. In 1994 and 1997, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part the comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra; other comedians in the troupe including Roger Mann, Johnny Vegas, Simon Munnery, and later Stewart Lee. They were given a Channel 4 pilot, which led to the television series Attention Scum!The book You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham praises the performers' talent. From March 2009, <mask> appeared in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle in a number of the show's sketches most often with Paul Putner. Stage and screen

<mask> has appeared in many British comedy shows from the 1990s onwards. One of his first appearances on television was in 1995 in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge as Fanny Thomas, a foul-mouthed transvestite chef and then later appeared on I'm Alan Partridge as the laughing racist, Mike Samson. During the 1990s he worked with such comedians as Simon Pegg, Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Amelia Bullmore and others in the sketch-comedy series Big Train. One of <mask>'s more notable characters for Big Train, George Martin, was inspired by his impression of the Beatles producer. He had previously worked with some of the cast in the satirical series Brass Eye, and the dark comedy Jam, both written by Christopher Morris.<mask> would later act in Nathan Barley and the 2010 film Four Lions as a police sniper (also written by Christopher Morris). In 2004, <mask> appeared in the BAFTA award-winning dark comedy Nighty Night as Terry Tyrrell, husband to Julia Davis' character. They also appeared later in Hunderby (another dark comedy written by Julia Davis), Little Crackers and Psychobitches. He worked again with Pegg in an episode in the sitcom Spaced with Mark Gatiss, both of whom played two Matrix-style government agents, and in the comedy film Hot Fuzz where he played Sergeant Tony Fisher. <mask> has appeared on stage and screen numerous times with the comedian Bill Bailey; they performed as a spoof of the German band Kraftwerk, singing German versions of the "Hokey Cokey" and The Wurzels song "The Combine Harvester" for the recorded version of Bill Bailey's Part Troll comedy tour, along with two others (John Moloney and Martin Trenaman). He played the same role in Bailey's 2007 Tinselworm tour, Channel 4's Comedy Gala in 2010, and Bailey's 2010 Dandelion Mind tour. In late 2006, <mask>, alongside Bill Bailey, helped to organise and produce a short tour and a West End run of Pinter's People at the Haymarket Theatre, London.The show was a collection of sketches written by Harold Pinter, also starring Geraldine McNulty and Sally Phillips. They appeared together again when <mask> was a panellist on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2007 (with Bailey as team captain), as well as on the 'Dave' show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. They also acted together in the sitcom Black Books 'Grapes of Wrath' episode, where <mask> played "The Cleaner". <mask> has also had minor guest starring roles in numerous comedy projects, including Smack the Pony, Green Wing, The IT Crowd and The Kennedys. In February 2010, <mask> appeared in the pilot for a "sort-of-sketch-show" called Missing Scene. In 2011 he appeared in sketches throughout How TV Ruined Your Life, and with Paul Whitehouse, as one of a pair of women 1950s typists in season four of Harry and Paul. In October 2013, Eldon read his own short story "What do you say?"on the storytelling series Crackanory, an adult-oriented remake of the children's television series Jackanory. In 2013, <mask> was given a six-part sketch comedy series called It's <mask>, broadcast on BBC Two. The show had many guest stars, mostly comedians that <mask> had already worked with before. Every episode ended with a song, including: "Mobile Phone", sung by the mock Swiss pop duo Popsox played by <mask> and Bill Bailey; "Brad", where the bully character Brad was played by Peter Serafinowicz; and "Pension Rap". Regular characters included the obnoxious poet Paul Hamilton; Stanley Duthorpe, the fictional man from the North of England; and an offensive French musician. These characters also appeared in <mask>'s stand-up DVD <mask> is Titting About. <mask> also wrote a spoof biography on Paul Hamilton called "My Prefect Cousin: A Short Biography of Paul Hamilton" in 2013 where he pretends that Hamilton is his own cousin.Big Train writer Arthur Matthews was one of the guest writers for the show. In October 2008, he played the part of pessimistic, unpopular Big Brother housemate Joplin in Charlie Brooker's five-part E4 horror thriller, Dead Set. He has also appeared in several minor serious roles in British drama shows such as Robin Hood, Utopia, Merlin, Skins, New Tricks and Hustle. In 2016, he appears in the 6th season of the American fantasy drama series, Game of Thrones along with Richard E. Grant as part of a theatre troupe, with <mask>'s character portraying a version of Ned Stark. Uncredited appearances include the 2005 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, playing "Man with Dog" alongside Mark Heap and the 2014 film Cuban Fury, as the neighbour to the main character played by Nick Frost. He has also played an English policeman in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo. <mask> played the role of Pete in the David Shrigley/Chris Shepherd animation, Who I Am And What I Want, and also of Mick McManus in Tim Plester's short film World of Wrestling in 2007.In 2009, he played the lead role of Arthur in Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work, a stereoscopic 3D film for the BFI, directed by British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.,

Eldon co-authored the theme tune, and is script editor for, the children's series Genie in the House. He provided the voice of Penfold in the 2015 revival series of Danger Mouse. He also appeared in the 2015 series of the children's comedy sketch show Horrible Histories as William the Conqueror - performing a parody version of Korean popstar PSY's hit, Gangnam Style called "Norman Style". He has also been a contestant on the gameshow Pointless Celebrities and was winner in a 2014 episode of Celebrity Mastermind, where his specialist subject was "The Music of The Beatles". Eldon voiced the character of Frobisher in the 2012 PlayStation Vita game Frobisher Says, and provided voice work for the 2013 indie game Gun Monkeys by Size Five Games. In 2019 he played Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army. Radio
From 1997 to 1999, Eldon appeared in BBC Radio 1 show, Blue Jam, which was later adapted into the TV series Jam.In 2001, <mask> appeared in the non-canon Doctor Who four-part webcast series "Death Comes to Time", in which he played Antimony, a companion to the Seventh Doctor. In 2008, Eldon presented Poets' Tree, a four-part "poetry type programme" for BBC Radio 4, in the character of Paul Hamilton, which was co-written and edited by Stewart Lee. <mask> has also written and starred in a six-part series of monologues as people from different professions, collectively entitled Speakers, broadcast on the London art radio station Resonance FM. He has also appeared in a CERN podcast with Simon Munnery. In 2012 and 2014, he produced his own radio series called <mask> Will See You Now which aired on Radio 4. Between 2009 and 2013, Eldon appeared as both Dean the Dwarf and Kreech, the "Right Hand of Darkness" in the BBC Radio 4 parody of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy called ElvenQuest. He has made guest appearances on Radio 4's Fags, Mags and Bags, North by Northamptonshire and The Horne Section.He was also part of 7th series of the tag team interview radio series Chain Reaction. He was interviewed by John Cooper Clarke and he then interviewed Mark Steel. Between 2016 and 2021, Eldon appeared in four series of "<mask>don will see you now". A comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4. Filmography

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<mask> (5 August 1945 – 25 December 2020) was an English designer. He was the founder of his branding agency Lambie-Nairn and was the creative director of branding agency ML-N. He is recognised for having redefined television brand identity design, being the first to embrace computer technologies to apply branding to screen-based media. Lambie-Nairn was also a co-creator of 1980s satirical puppet show Spitting Image. Amongst his most prominent works are the original Channel 4 logo and idents created in 1982, the batch of over 30 idents for BBC Two that first aired on 16 February 1991, the 1997 corporate re-brand for the whole BBC, and the 2008 BBC Regional News titles. In conjunction with his agency, he also created launch packages for certain other BBC channels. Early life and education
Lambie-Nairn was born <mask> in Croydon and educated at Canterbury College of Art (later known as Kent Institute of Art & Design, now the University for the Creative Arts).Career

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Lambie-Nairn's career in television began at the BBC in 1965, where he worked as an assistant designer. Roles as a graphic designer at Rediffusion, ITN and London Weekend Television followed. At ITN, he worked on the on-screen graphics for the Apollo space missions and later designed the ITN corporate logo and title sequence for News at Ten. Lambie-Nairn established his own company, Robinson Lambie-Nairn, with partner Colin Robinson in 1976 after leaving LWT, and he went on to develop new graphic presentation techniques for Weekend World. The business expanded and was renamed Lambie-Nairn & Company in 1990. Computer animation enabled him to produce what became regarded as a revolutionary identity for Channel 4, the "Blocks" logo. This identity launched the fledgling TV channel on 2 November 1982 and remained at the heart of the channel's on-air presentation for 14 years.In 1981 he created the original idea for the UK TV series Spitting Image which ran for 11 years. He received the credit that the show was "based on an original lunch with <mask>-Nairn." Following Channel 4 and Spitting Image, he worked as a director of computer animated commercials, producing the first ever 30-second computer-generated TV advertisement in the UK, which was a commercial for Smarties. Corporate identities
In 1990, Lambie-Nairn became consultant creative director of the BBC brand, a position he held for 12 years. During this period Lambie-Nairn and his company rebranded the BBC and all of its outputs, across all media. The best known channel identity was for BBC Two, commissioned by then-controller Alan Yentob in a bid to make the channel appear less stuffy. All of the idents in the first series employed traditional live action.Later, with the change of target audience, a new generation of idents was commissioned and produced using CGI. The idents were highly popular, even receiving fan mail. For BBC1, Lambie-Nairn and Daniel Barber redesigned the globe identity, a well-recognised icon of the BBC, having been introduced in 1963. Later, Lambie-Nairn again redesigned the identity for BBC One – creating the red hot air balloon that was used for a new series of idents aired on BBC One from 4 October 1997. This aimed to capture the idea that the channel brought the whole world to every corner of the United Kingdom. This was part of a wider corporate rebranding which included a redesign of the BBC blocks logo and also a new package for BBC News which utilised a warmer colour palette for the first time. As the BBC's primary external agency, Lambie-Nairn also oversaw the design of channel identities for emerging digital properties BBC News 24 (now called BBC News), BBC World, BBC Choice, BBC Knowledge, CBeebies, CBBC, BBC Four and BBC Three.In 1997, he wrote Brand Identity for Television: With Knobs On. He used the book to reveal how he and his colleagues achieved key identities. Lambie-Nairn also co-conceived the Rhythm & Movement idents for BBC One first shown on 29 March 2002. In 2001, he created BBC Two's 2001–2007 Personality 2s series of idents, which featured robotic figure 2s, each displaying individual personalities, which went on the air on 19 November. Throughout collaboration with the BBC, Lambie-Nairn and company also developed the logos and corporate identities for ITV franchises Carlton Television and Anglia Television, as well as S4C, TF1, Arte, NOS, Disney Channel UK, The Business Channel, Alhurra, British Satellite Broadcasting, and many others. In 2002, Lambie-Nairn's agency was also credited for helping rebrand BT Cellnet into the O2 brand based around the metaphor of oxygen. In 2008, he directed the creation of a new unified red-and-white branding for BBC News.The red and white template had videos of local landmarks, transport and people together. Components of the 2008 identity continue to be in use. Later years
In 2009 Lambie-Nairn left the practice he founded to join Heavenly as creative director, leaving in 2011. At Heavenly, he devised the launch identity for Sky Atlantic and also for BBC Entertainment. He subsequently had his own consultancy, ML-N, based in London. In 2011, he worked as a creative consultant in creating a new identity for the Royal Opera House. Through ML-N, he was appointed consultant creative director for the research company, TNS.In 2016, he had joined Red&White as a non-executive chairman and creative director,  where he worked to create a new logo and brand identity for his alma mater, the University of Northampton. In 2020, Lambie-Nairn was interviewed for the BBC Four programme The Sound of TV, which debuted a few weeks before his death. Personal life and death
Lambie-Nairn died on 25 December 2020 at the age of 75. His death was mentioned during a junction on Channel 4 alongside an original channel ident which Lambie-Nairn oversaw the development of in the 1980s. He was survived by his wife Cordelia (née Summers) whom he married in 1970. Awards
Lambie-Nairn was an RDI (Royal Designer for Industry), Fellow of the Royal Television Society, and an ex-president of D&AD. He received the D&AD President's Award, Prince Philip Design Prize, Promax Lifetime Achievement Award and Promax Hall of Fame (USA).He also received a Gold D&AD for his work for Channel 4, multiple Silver D&ADs, a BAFTA for his work for BBC2 and multiple Promax Awards. Lambie-Nairn held an honorary doctorate of Arts from the University of Lincoln, and was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. He also held an honorary doctorate of Arts from the University of Northampton. Bibliography
Brand Identity for Television With Knobs On, Phaidon Press, 1997

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<mask> (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television personality. He is part of the comedy duo <mask> and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. <mask> and Webb starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which <mask> plays Mark Corrigan. <mask> won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance. The duo have written and starred in several sketch shows including Bruiser, The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and also That Mitchell and Webb Look. The pair also starred in the UK version of Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign. Their first film, Magicians, was released in 2007.In 2013, the duo starred in the short-lived Ambassadors. Since 2017, <mask> has starred in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Back, alongside Webb. <mask> starred as Owen in Think the Unthinkable, and in the Ben Elton-penned BBC Two historical comedy Upstart Crow (2016–), playing the central character William Shakespeare. <mask> is a frequent participant on British panel shows, being a team captain on Would I Lie to You?, the host of The Unbelievable Truth on BBC Radio 4, and the former host of The Bubble and Was It Something I Said?, as well as guesting on other panel shows including QI, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Have I Got News for You. He was also a co-host of the comedy news programme 10 O'Clock Live. As a writer, <mask> contributes comment articles to the British newspapers The Observer and The Guardian. Early life

<mask> was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, to Ian Douglas <mask> and Kathryn Grey <mask> (née Hughes), who were, at that time, hotel managers.In 1977, when <mask> was two years old, his parents gave up their jobs to lecture in hotel management, which gave them more time to look after him. He attended Napier House Primary School. He is the older of two boys, his brother Daniel being born when <mask> was seven. The family moved to Oxford, where <mask>'s parents became lecturers at Oxford Polytechnic, now Oxford Brookes University. <mask> attended New College School, which is an independent preparatory school in the city. In a 2006 interview with The Independent, <mask> stated his childhood dreams:

From the age of thirteen, <mask> was educated at Abingdon School, a public school in Oxfordshire. Having always been top of the class at primary school and prep school, once he moved to Abingdon, he realised that there were plenty of people more intelligent than he was, so he turned his attention to debating and drama, "where [he] had a chance of being the best".There, <mask> often took part in plays, "largely because you got to play cards backstage." His roles mainly consisted of small minute-long parts, until he won the role of Rabbit in Winnie-the-Pooh. This was the first time that he was "consciously aware I was doing a performance" and that that "was better, even, than playing cards." <mask> had been "obsessed" with comedy writing since his school days, as he "always felt that doing a joke was the cleverest thing", and "would intrinsically prefer a parody of something to the actual thing itself". Education
Rejected by Merton College, Oxford, in 1993, <mask> went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he studied history. There, he began performing with the Cambridge Footlights, of which he became President for the 1995–96 academic year. <mask> was in his first year at university when he met Robert Webb during rehearsals for a Footlights production of Cinderella, in 1993, and the two men soon established a comedy partnership.According to <mask>, these factors had a detrimental effect on his academic performance at university and he attained a 2:2 in his final exams. Career

Early work and Peep Show
Before his break into comedy, <mask> worked as an usher at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre, and in the cloakroom of TFI Friday among other jobs. <mask>'s first project with Webb was in January 1995, a show about a nuclear apocalypse entitled Innocent Millions Dead or Dying: A Wry Look at the Post-Apocalyptic Age. Webb later described it as being "fucking terrible". After leaving university he and Webb began performing a number of two-man shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. As a result of their performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, the duo were given the chance to write for Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller and for series two of Big Train. After minor work on The Jack Docherty Show and Comedy Nation, their first break into television acting was in 2000, on the short-lived BBC sketch show Bruiser, which they primarily wrote, and starred in.The show also featured future Academy Award and BAFTA winner Olivia Colman, who would become a regular cast member of <mask> and Webb projects, and Martin Freeman, later of The Office fame. Other cast members included Matthew Holness and Charlotte Hudson. Additional material for the show was provided by various people, including Ricky Gervais and James Bachman. In 2001 the two men were commissioned for a sketch show of their own, entitled The <mask> and Webb Situation, which ran for six episodes on the now defunct channel Play UK. The show was reasonably well received. Wessex Scenes Darren Richman said "what the series lacked in budget, it made up for in magnificent material" and went on to call it "far superior to the vastly overrated Little Britain" and "perhaps the greatest forgotten sketch show of modern times." Eureka!TV, which released The <mask> and Webb Situation on DVD in 2005, said that the show "gushes forth an hilarious stream of surreal and quirkily inventive sketches", as well as calling it a "cult success". In the interview with Wessex Scene, <mask> stated that he was "more proud of the way it turned out than annoyed that it was only aired on a small channel." <mask> and Webb's next project came in 2003, with starring roles in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, as flatmates Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usbourne respectively. The show originated from writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's failed attempt to complete a team-written sitcom for the BBC; they had an old script that they wanted to revive and <mask> and Webb helped out, with it eventually evolving into Peep Show. Despite low viewing figures (which almost got the show cancelled after series three) the show was received to wide critical acclaim. The British Sitcom Guide called it "without a doubt one of the best sitcoms of the decade." Ricky Gervais has been cited as saying "the last thing I got genuinely excited about on British TV was Peep Show, which I thought was the best sitcom since Father Ted".The BBC hailed <mask>'s performance in the series, citing that "As Mark Corrigan, <mask> reached out to all those middle-aged men in a twentysomething's body, who believe drugs are boring and systems are necessary if society is to function at all." <mask> has stated that he empathises with Mark and enjoys playing him and that he "agrees with many of [Mark's] opinions." Peep Show aired for nine series, which makes it the longest-running sitcom in Channel 4 history. In 2009, <mask> won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for his work on Peep Show, after having lost in the same category the year before. He was nominated again in 2010. He won the award "Best Television Comedy Actor" at the 2007 British Comedy Awards, and the pair shared the 2007 Royal Television Society Award for "Comedy Performance". They were also jointly nominated for "Best Television Comedy Actor" at the 2006 British Comedy Awards.Peep Show itself has also won the BAFTA for "Best situation comedy" in 2008, and the British Comedy Award for "Best TV comedy" in 2006, and retained it the following year. It also won "Best TV Comedy" at the South Bank Show Awards, and claimed a Golden Rose in 2004. Other Mitchell and Webb projects

After the success of Peep Show, <mask> and Webb returned to sketch comedy with their BBC Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, which ran for five series. The show was adapted for television and became That Mitchell and Webb Look. Producer Gareth Edwards described it as "the shortest pitch [he had] ever written". The show ran for four series. Towards the end of 2006 the pair made their first tour, with a show called The Two Faces of <mask> and Webb.The tour was criticised as just "a succession of largely unrelated scenes" by The Guardian'''s Brian Logan, who gave it a rating of two stars.That <mask> and Webb Look won them the BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme or Series at the 2007 awards, and they earned a further nomination for it in 2009. It was nominated for two British Comedy Awards in 2006: Britain's Best New TV Comedy and the Highland Spring People's Choice. Their stage tour The Two Faces of <mask> and Webb was nominated for the British Comedy Award for Best Stage Comedy, and That <mask> and Webb Sound won a Sony Silver Award. Their first film, Magicians, was released on 18 May 2007. It was directed by Andrew O'Connor and written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. <mask> played the role of a magician named Harry. Later in 2007, the pair recorded a pilot BBC Radio 2 sitcom entitled Daydream Believers, in which <mask> played Ray, a science-fiction writer.The show was previously a one-off television pilot from Channel 4's Comedy Lab, and also starred <mask> and Webb. <mask> and Webb's first comedy book, This Mitchell and Webb Book, was published in 2009. A second book is in preparation. They also wrote and filmed Playing Shop, a comedy television pilot for BBC2 about two men who operate a business out of their shed. Although the BBC commissioners were happy with it, <mask> and Webb scrapped it themselves, as they felt it was too similar to Peep Show. A new pilot had been commissioned, but the plan was later shelved. <mask> and Webb voiced a robotic duo in the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" in 2012.In 2007 the duo fronted the UK version of Apple Inc.'s "Get a Mac" adverts, with <mask> playing PC. The adverts received much criticism. Writing in The Guardian, Charlie Brooker claimed that the use of <mask> and Webb in the adverts was a curious choice. He compared the characters of PC and Mac in the adverts to those of Mark and Jeremy in Peep Show, stating that "when you see the ads, you think, 'PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers.'" The British Sitcom Guide also criticised the pair for "selling their souls". One journalist called the adverts "worse than not funny", and accused <mask> and Webb of "an act of grave betrayal" for taking corporate work. In an interview with The Telegraph, Robert Webb responded to the duo's critics, stating that "when someone asks, 'Do you want to do some funny ads for not many days in the year and be paid more than you would be for an entire series of Peep Show?'the answer, obviously, is, 'Yeah, that's fine.'" In the same interview, <mask> also

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 said: "I don't see what is morally inconsistent with a comedian doing an advert. It's all right to sell computers, isn't it? Unless you think that capitalism is evil – which I don't. It's not like we're helping to flog a baby-killing machine." In 2005, the duo were placed ninth on a list of the United Kingdom's best television talent, and were named twelfth in a Radio Times list of the most powerful people in television comedy. Solo acting, presenting and writing

As well as his work alongside Webb, <mask> has appeared on his own in several shows.He played technical expert Owen in the Radio 4 sitcom Think the Unthinkable in 2001. He played the surgeon Dr Toby Stephens in the BBC2 sitcom Doctors and Nurses. In 2005 he played Kate's hapless secretary Tim in the BBC's updating of The Taming of The Shrew in its ShakespeaRe-Told series. <mask> appeared as various roles on the Channel 4 sketch programme Blunder. The show was not well received, with the British Sitcom Guide naming it as the worst thing that <mask> did in all of 2006 in their "British Sitcom Awards" of that year. He portrayed the recurring character of Dr. James Vine in the BBC sitcom Jam and Jerusalem. <mask> had a small part in the film I Could Never Be Your Woman, playing an English writer, also named <mask>.While in Los Angeles to record the part he decided that he did not like the area much, and preferred filming in Britain. He wrote series five of the BBC2 impressionist sketch show Dead Ringers, and voiced Mitch in the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb. He also narrated the reality show Beauty and the Geek. Following the success of Channel 4's Alternative Election Night in 2010, which <mask> hosted with Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne, the four presented 10 O'Clock Live, a series of live shows looking at the week's affairs. <mask> has a solo segment entitled Listen to <mask>. The show ran for three series. <mask> has presented four series of the online video show <mask>'s Soapbox, a series of short monologues co-written with John Finnemore for ChannelFlip.In these monologues <mask> has criticised a variety of subjects, including the BBC show Doctor Who and 3D television. Matt Warman of The Daily Telegraph suggested that the series could be a sign that new comedy will increasingly become available online, rather than on television. The series has been released on DVD. He provided the voiceover for a £1 million government advert for FRANK, warning of the dangers of cocaine, as "Pablo the Drug Mule Dog"; and also for the Driving Standards Agency's "The Highway Code". He writes columns for The Observer and The Guardian. He also took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital at the O2 Arena. In October 2009, <mask> signed a deal with HarperCollins and its imprint Fourth Estate to write a volume of memoirs and a novel.The memoirs, Back Story: A Memoir, was published in October 2012 with the novel scheduled for 2013. <mask> plays William Shakespeare in all three series of the sitcom Upstart Crow, the first series of which was broadcast in 2016 as part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. Stage
<mask> made his stage debut in Ben Elton's The Upstart Crow which premiered in London in February 2020 at the Gielgud Theatre. He played the part of Shakespeare as in the television series Upstart Crow which inspired the play. Panel shows
<mask> has become a regular participant on many panel shows, leading The Independents James Rampton to christen him "if not king, then certainly prince regent of the panel games." <mask> is a team captain on the BBC panel show Would I Lie To You?, opposite Lee Mack. The show has run since 2007, now airing in its fifteenth series.Since 2006, he has hosted 20 series of The Unbelievable Truth, a panel game on BBC Radio 4. The inaugural episode of Was It Something I Said?, a panel comedy show that <mask> hosts, was broadcast on Channel 4 in October 2013. He was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy quiz show Best of the Worst, opposite Johnny Vaughan. <mask> has also hosted ten episodes of Have I Got News For You. <mask> hosted the panel show The Bubble. He hosted the second week of Channel 4's FAQ U, and appeared as himself in an episode of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, a panel show parody. He also appeared as one of the participants on the Channel 4 show TV Heaven, Telly Hell, and has appeared on several episodes of Question Time.Other appearances include QI, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, Just a Minute, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and 8 Out of 10 Cats, as well as appearances on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
In a 2007 interview with Digital Spy, <mask> stated that he enjoyed panel shows, as they are "a game worth playing". He then further explained his appreciation of the panel format through challenging criticism from Fast Show co-creator Charlie Higson, who stated in September 2013 that panel comedies were overtaking television programming at the expense of sketch shows and sitcoms:

The Radio Times named him "The Best Comedy Panel Show Guest" in the world, stating that "he's incredibly, disgustingly witty" and "even starting to make Paul Merton look slow on the uptake". Following his BAFTA win, <mask> was ranked at No. 53 in the 2009 MediaGuardian 100, an annual ranking of media people in The Guardian. In reference to his ubiquitous presence in broadcast and print media, The Guardians writer called him "the go-to funnyman of the moment". In their entry for Peep Show on their list of "The top 50 TV shows of the Noughties", The Times labelled <mask> "a national institution". Influences
<mask>'s favourite actor is Sir Alec Guinness, and he lists Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Peter Cook as his comedy idols.Additionally, following the death of British actor Richard Briers in February 2013, <mask> revealed that whenever he has acted he "always hoped to be something like him". <mask> has also identified Morecambe and Wise, Monty Python and The Two Ronnies as highly influential on his career. Personal life
Because <mask>'s Merseyside-born father's family were from Scotland and his mother is Welsh, <mask> considers himself British rather than English. He explored his ancestry in an episode of the television programme Who Do You Think You Are?, discovering his connection to the Gaelic scholars John Forbes and Alexander Robert Forbes. On 7 August 2014, <mask> was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. <mask>'s participation in the open letter follows a May 2011 The Observer column, in which he concludes that "If Scotland ever goes it alone ... the British will have lost their country". <mask> has often joked about his personal life in interviews.In 2005, he stated: he had "been in so many situations when I've just said nothing to someone I've fancied". He later added that "I'm sort of all right on my own. I don't want it to be forever, but the fundamental thing is I'm all right alone." For many years he lived in Kilburn, London, as the flatmate of novelist Robert Hudson. In 2007, he was best man at Robert Webb's wedding to Abigail Burdess. He first met broadcaster Victoria Coren at Jonathan Ross's annual Halloween party in 2007 and was "completely smitten". She decided to pursue someone else and he pined for her but in December 2010 they began dating.In March 2012, their engagement was announced in The Times, and they married on 17 November 2012 with Robert Webb as his best man. In May 2015, Coren announced the birth of their daughter. He remains interested in history and said in an interview with The Observer that "I can see myself in a few years' time joining the National Trust and going round the odd castle. I think I might find that restful as the anger of middle age sets in". In his interview on Parkinson he said that if he could go back in time to do one thing, it would be to go to the building of Stonehenge, to ask them "why they were bothering". He is a cricket and snooker fan, and also plays squash and tennis. He does not drive.He is an agnostic. <mask> walks for an hour daily to help a bad back and has lost weight as a result, but he "probably [has] quite a bad diet" and "probably drinks too much". He describes himself as a worrier. Beyond the realm of film and television, <mask> cites Evelyn Waugh among his favourite authors. He appeared on the radio programme Desert Island Discs. <mask> has revealed that he once attended a Shirley Bassey concert and that he owns just two CDs: Phil Collins's ...But Seriously and Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream. Credits
Film

Television

Non-fictional appearances

As narrator
 Beauty and the Geek (2006)
 Sci-Fi Saved My Life (2007)
 TV Is Dead?(2007)
 Wonderland – The Secret Life of Norman Wisdom Aged 92¾ (2008)
 Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)
 Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments (2008)
 The Real Swiss Family Robinson (2009)
 The Million Pound Bike Ride: A Sport Relief Special (2010)
 Around the World in 90 Minutes (2010)
 Horizon: Dancing in the Dark: The End of Physics? (2015)
 Marks & Spencer Channel 4 Mrs Claus endorsement (2016)

Panel games
 Fanorama – Team captain (2001–2002)
 Does Doug Know? – 2 appearances (2002)
 FAQ U – Host for 5 episodes (2005)
 Have I Got News for You – 17 appearances; 14 times as guest presenter (2005–2018)
 Mock the Week – 11 appearances (2005–2009)
 QI – 31 appearances (2005–2020)
 The Big Fat Quiz of the Year – 9 appearances (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020)
 Best of the Worst – Team captain (2006)
 Would I Lie to You? – Team captain (2007–)
 The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz – 1 appearance (2007)
 8 Out of 10 Cats – 1 appearance (2008)
 You Have Been Watching – 2 appearances (2009–2010)
 The Bubble – host (2010)
 24 Hour Panel People – 1 appearance (2011)
 The Big Fat Quiz of the '00s – 1 appearance (2012)
 The Big Fat Quiz of the '80s – 1 appearance (2013)
 Only Connect – 1 appearance (2013)
 Was it Something I Said? – host (2013)
 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown – 8 appearances (2014–2019)
 Outsiders - host (2021)

Other programmes
 The 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005)
 Britain's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches (2005)
 Imagine – 1 appearance (2006)
 TV Heaven, Telly Hell – 1 appearance (2006)
 The Law of the Playground – 7 appearances (2006)
 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross – 2 appearances (2007, 2009)
 The World's Greatest Comedy Characters (2007)
 Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy (2007)
 Parkinson – 1 appearance (2007)
 Time Shift – 1 appearance (2007)
 Lily Allen and Friends – 1 appearance (2008)
 The Graham Norton Show – 4 appearances (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013)
 Question Time – 3 appearances (2008, 2009, 2011)
 Who Do You Think You

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<mask>  (3 August 1766 – 18 February 1840) was an English architect and garden designer. Born <mask> into an established dynasty of architects, in 1824 he was allowed by King George IV to change his surname to Wyatville (frequently misspelled Wyattville). He is mainly remembered for making alterations and extensions to Chatsworth House and Windsor Castle. <mask> was born on 3 August 1766 in Burton upon Trent, the first surviving child of Joseph (1739–1785) and Myrtilla Wyatt who died shortly after <mask>'s birth. He was educated at the grammar school in Burton upon Trent. Shortly after the death of his father, Wyatville began his architectural training in his uncle Samuel Wyatt's office. He remained with Samuel until 1792 when he moved from the Midlands to his uncle James Wyatt's office in Queen Anne Street, London.He later completed the gothic Ashridge in Hertfordshire after his uncle James's death in 1813. Wyatville sent designs to the Royal Academy every year from 1786 to 1822 and less frequently thereafter. There is no evidence that Wyatville ever undertook foreign travel as part of his education, probably because of the Napoleonic Wars. <mask> was elected Associate of the Royal Academy on 4 November 1822, then on 10 February 1824 was elected a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy, his diploma work being a drawing of the unexecuted design for Brocklesby Hall. His largest commission, the remodelling of Windsor Castle begun in 1824, when Parliament voted £300,000 for the purpose. The eventual cost was over £1,000,000 (a quarter of which covered furnishing). A competition was held between four invited architects, Wyatville, Robert Smirke, John Nash and John Soane, the architects (with the exception of Soane who withdrew from the competition) submitted their designs, in June Wyatville was announced as the winner.The foundation stone was laid on 12 August 1824 by King George IV at what would become the George IV gateway. Wyatville took up residence in the Winchester Tower in the castle in 1824 and would use it for the rest of his life. Eventually the Upper Ward of the Castle would be reconstructed. It was while at Windsor that he designed Golden Grove, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire for the 1st Earl Cawdor, completed 1834, and its 'sister house' Lilleshall Hall in Shropshire for the 1st Duke of Sutherland, completed 1829. He was knighted by George IV in 1828. He was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on 25 February 1840 following his death on 18 February. His memorial stone is in the north-east corner behind the high altar, and bears this inscription:
In the vault beneath are deposited the remains of Sir <mask> Wyatville R.A. under whose direction the new construction and restoration of the ancient and royal castle of Windsor were carried out during the reigns of George the 4th William the 4th and of Her Majesty Queen Victoria he died February 18th A.D. 1840 in the 74th year of his age

In 2007 a new residential street in Buxton, Derbyshire was named Wyatville Avenue to commemorate Sir <mask> Wyatville's impact on the town.County Durham, attributed, alterations (c.1817)
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Banner Cross Hall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, new house (1817–21)
Layout of St Ann's Cliff, Buxton, Derbyshire (c.1818)
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Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire, alterations to house and new entrance lodge (1819)
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, additions (1819) and (1830)
Restoration of Church of St Peter, Great Berkhamsted (c.1820)
Bishop's Wood House, Hertfordshire, attributed (c.1820)
Claverton Manor, nr.

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<mask> (born October 5, 1974) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band The Decemberists. In addition to vocals, he performs with an acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, harmonica and percussion instruments. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Helena, Montana. He attended the University of Oregon in Eugene for two years, studying English and theatre. He then returned to Montana and studied creative writing at the University of Montana in Missoula, graduating in 1998. Musical career
While in high school, <mask> was in the band Happy Cactus, and when in college, in Missoula, he was the lead singer and songwriter for Tarkio. Both were indie/folk/alternative country bands.Soon after graduation, he left Tarkio and moved to Portland with the hope of establishing himself among the city's music scene. There, Meloy worked in a pizza parlor to pay rent while starting his musicianship anew by performing at various open mics, sometimes with no one listening except for the bartender. He later reflected in an interview with The Montanan that this experience helped to develop his musical style in the long run: "'When I was in that position, with nobody to appeal to or scare away, I thought, 'I might as well do whatever I want to do'...And that created a new thing.'" The Decemberists formed in 2000 after Meloy met Nate Query, who introduced him to keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and the three scored a silent film together. Meloy had met multi-instrumentalist Chris Funk, who was a fan of Tarkio, at a solo show prior to meeting Conlee and Query. Since its formation, <mask> has served as the band's singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. His work with The Decemberists thus far entails eight studio albums, ten EPs, twenty-two singles, two compilations, and two live albums.In 2003 Meloy contributed vocals to the track "The Lady From Reims" on Reclinerland's The Ideal Home Music Library. Meloy also contributed vocals on the tracks "Cemetery Row" and "Twilight Distillery" on The Minus 5's 2006 Yep Roc release. Meloy covered the Elliott Smith song "Clementine" for a compilation of Portland, Oregon artists to support a children's charity, and in mid-2006, he contributed the track "Lazy Little Ada" on the Kill Rock Stars compilation, The Sound the Hare Heard. In 2007, Meloy lent his voice to an episode of Lil' Bush. He appeared with Charlie Salas-Humara in the music video for "A Pillar of Salt" by The Thermals. In 2005, <mask> went on his first solo tour to support the self-released six-song EP, <mask> Sings Morrissey, consisting of six Morrissey covers. Only 1000 copies of the album were made and they were sold only on this tour.<mask> did a second solo tour in January 2006, playing with Laura Veirs and Amy Annelle. On this tour, he sold an EP featuring covers of British folk artist Shirley Collins. 2006 tour performances were recorded for a live release. <mask> contributed an online bonus track for Lavender Diamond on their Imagine Our Love album, performing a solo version of "Oh No". <mask> began another solo tour in April 2008. This coincided with the release of his debut solo album, <mask> Sings Live!, on the Kill Rock Stars label. Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson was the supporting act for the full tour.As with previous EPs, Meloy sold an EP only available on this run: <mask> Sings Sam Cooke, a collection of five Sam Cooke songs, arranged and performed by Meloy, with Gibson singing harmonies. Meloy appeared in the 2013 documentary film Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis", which detailed a one-off concert in New York City honoring traditional American folk music in preparation for the release of the Coen brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis. The concert, organized by T Bone Burnett, featured several notable musicians representing multiple generations; Meloy performed a cover of Jackson C. Frank's "Blues Run the Game" as well as a version of "Joe Hill" alongside Joan Baez and Gillian Welch. Television
In the 2014 two-part episode of Parks and Recreation entitled "Moving Up: Part 1" and "Moving Up: Part 2", Meloy made a cameo appearance as himself with the rest of The Decemberists at The Unity Concert along with other notable artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Ginuwine, and Yo La Tengo. Personal life
On February 24, 2006, Carson Ellis, Meloy's wife, gave birth to a son, Henry "Hank" <mask>. Ellis shares her birthday with Meloy, and produces much of the Decemberists' album and promotional artwork. In 2010, Meloy revealed that Hank has high functioning autism.On March 14, 2013, Ellis gave birth to another child, Milo Cannonball <mask>. <mask>'s sister is Maile <mask>, a fiction writer often published in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and his aunt is the late <mask>, who was also a writer. Work with The Decemberists
See: The Decemberists discography

Solo discography
 <mask> Sings Morrissey (2005)
 <mask> Sings Shirley Collins (2006)
 <mask> Sings Live! (2008)
 <mask> Sings Sam Cooke (2008)
 <mask> Sings The Kinks (2013)

Work as an author
In 2004, <mask> wrote a 100-page book on The Replacements' third album, Let It Be, released as part of the 33⅓ series. <mask> made his debut as a children's writer with Wildwood, illustrated by his wife, Carson Ellis. He kicked off the book tour as the keynote of the AJC Decatur Book Festival on September 2, 2011. Meloy released a sequel, Under Wildwood, in 2012, and the third book in the series, Wildwood Imperium, was released in 2014.In October 2017, <mask> released his fourth children's book The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid. References

External links

<mask>'s Official Website
The Decemberists Official Website
<mask> on Twitter

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<mask>  (October 31, 1925 – October 16, 2013) was an American colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces who served as commander of the First Special Forces Group in Okinawa, and the Fifth Special Forces Group in Vietnam from May to July 1969. <mask> was best known for his role as a co-conspirator and commander of the unit responsible for the 20 June 1969 execution of South Vietnam double agent Thai Khac Chuyen, who compromised intelligence agents involved in Project GAMMA operating in Vietnam and Cambodia. Early life and education
<mask> was born October 31, 1925, to Charles Auguste and Rosamond (née Bradley) <mask> in Westwood, a suburb of Boston. His father had served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was stationed in Labrador where he met Rosamond Bradley, from a prominent Boston family, who had been working at the Grenfell Medical Mission prior to immigrating to the United States in 1924. <mask> spoke French from an early age and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he graduated in 1943. He graduated in 1946 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He also completed graduate work at the University of Paris and received a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University.Military service and post-military career
<mask> was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in combat in the Korean War, attaining the rank of captain. After Korea, Rheault taught French at the U.S. Military Academy for several years in the mid-1950s, attaining the rank of major. He attended the Special Forces Qualification course, the Q-Course, in 1961, and his initial Special Forces assignment was with the 10th Special Forces Group in Germany. He would later command the 1st Special Forces Group on Okinawa before being assigned to Vietnam to take command of the 5th Special Forces Group. Colleagues said of Rheault that he was one of the most respected and beloved officers ever in Special Forces, a "must promote" to general officer rank if his command, and career, had not been ended prematurely by the Green Beret Affair. All U.S. Army Special Forces in 1969 operated under the control of 5th Special Forces Group, headquartered at Nha Trang on the southeast coast of South Vietnam. There was a close relationship with the CIA that complicated the chain of command and philosophy of rules of engagement.Colonel <mask> took command of the 5th in May 1969 and his unit was charged with seeking out leaks in a CIA-directed espionage ring as part of Project GAMMA. <mask>, along with six of his Special Forces officers and a sergeant were arrested by the U.S. military under the orders of General Creighton Abrams and threatened with charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, arising from the alleged extrajudicial killing of Thai Khac Chuyen, a Vietnamese double agent for the Americans and the North Vietnamese. The investigation and court-martial, held by the U.S. Army in Vietnam, rapidly became engulfed in a firestorm of media publicity. Most of the American public and the Special Forces believed that Colonel <mask> and all involved had been made scapegoats for a matter that reflected poorly upon the Army. The view that there was no wrongdoing by the soldiers was probably best stated by <mask>'s 11-year-old son, <mask>, Jr. who upon learning of his father's arrest said, "What is all the fuss about? I thought that was what dad was in Vietnam for ... to kill Viet Cong". However, the prosecution provided testimony showing that Chuyen was shot by Rheault's officers and his body dumped into the South China Sea.Further, they argued that <mask> was most certainly aware of the provisions of the Third Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He approved the execution of Chuyen, and also approved the cover story that Chuyen was lost on an undercover mission designed to prove his loyalty to South Vietnam and the United States. Judge Advocate General Captain John Stevens Berry called General Abrams and CIA officials to the witness stand, but both declined to testify. In September 1969 the Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor announced that all charges would be dropped against the soldiers since the CIA, in the interests of national security, had refused to make its personnel available as witnesses. On October 31, 1969, upon ascertaining that further military commands and promotions were not likely, Colonel <mask> requested immediate retirement from the Army. All others charged in the affair also had their careers effectively ended and left the service soon afterwards. The U.S. government later paid the widow of the Vietnamese agent a small pension, quelling her protests outside the American Embassy in Saigon.If there had been a trial, defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey said later, "the defendants would have become Abrams, (CIA Director Richard) Helms and Nixon. The only winner would have been North Vietnam." After the war, Francis Ford Coppola, director of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now said that the character Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film was loosely based upon <mask>, of whom he had become aware through the 1969 news accounts of the Green Beret Affair. Upon retirement from the military, Rheault served as an instructor, program leader, and later, acting president of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Rockland, Maine; retiring from the school in 2001 after 32 years of service. He also taught at the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. Rheault served on the board of directors of The Apprenticeshop, a traditional boat building and maritime school in Rockland, as well as on the board of directors of The Warrior Connection, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of military veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Family life
In 1947 Rheault married Caroline Young (1927–2006), a Vassar College student from New York, and they had three children: Susanne; Michèle; and <mask> B<mask> Jr. Like her husband, Caroline Young <mask> was fluent in French.She frequently traveled to and maintained a residence in France, and was an artist and book illustrator in Martha's Vineyard. <mask> resided in Owls Head, Maine, with his second wife, Susan St. John, married in 1977, and the couple adopted two children, Nicholas St. <mask> and Alexis St. <mask>. <mask>'s son, <mask><mask>, Jr. (born 1958), is a marine biologist with a doctoral degree in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island who serves as the Executive Director of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association. <mask> died on October 16, 2013, at his home in Owls Head, Maine. <mask> was interviewed for Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's PBS documentary series, The Vietnam War, which aired in September 2017, four years after his death. References

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