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<mask> (born September 26, 1962) is an American actor, dancer, singer, producer, director, fitness expert and choreographer. Life and career
Born in Alton, Illinois, <mask> made his stage debut in the children's chorus of the world stage premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical State Fair at The Muny, starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, directed by James Hammerstein, supervised by Richard Rodgers, conducted by Anton Coppola and choreographed by Tommy Tune. Leritz moved to New York City on scholarships to the Harkness Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and School of American Ballet, studying with Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams and the Bolshoi's Māris Liepa. Leritz was invited to work with the dance choreographers George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Robert Joffrey, Ruth Page, Frederic Franklin, John Neumeier, Lee Theodore, Joe Layton and Sir Frederick Ashton. <mask>, while dancing in a company class at The New York City Ballet, was discovered by Balanchine ballerina Violette Verdy. Violette invited <mask> to join The Hamburg Ballet. While performing in Hamburg,  his dancing impressed Dance Magazine's editor-in-chief William Como, who invited <mask> back to the U.S.for photo sessions with famed dance photographer Kenn Duncan for Dance Magazine.<mask> continued his dancing career on the international stages, starring with Ruth Page's Chicago Ballet, Israel's Bat-Dor Dance Company and with the Paris Opéra on its U.S. tour to the Metropolitan Opera and DC's Kennedy Center. <mask> also appeared as guest artist and choreographer for Plácido Domingo's Los Angeles Music Center Opera and danced in the Joffrey Ballet version of Michel Fokine's "Petrushka" with Rudolf Nureyev at the New York City Center. <mask> created his own company, Dance Celebration, which represented the United States at the International Choreographic Competitions in Paris, performing his signature ballet, "Worth A Song,"  receiving special congratulations from President Jimmy Carter at The White House in 1979. Leritz produced The 50th Anniversary Gala of The American Guild of Musical Artists, featuring over 300 stars of ballet and opera at The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1986. The Gala's hosts, New York City Opera's Beverly Sills and New York City Ballet's Peter Martins provided the show's highlight, dancing together in the restaged opening of Balanchine's "Vienna Waltzes." <mask> appeared three times on the cover of Dance Pages Magazine, including the Spring 1989 issue, in which he wrote an article which introduced and encouraged bodybuilding for dancers. Appearing on the cover with bodybuilding champion Rich Gaspari, his article helped to change the look of professional dancers.In 2006, <mask> was included in Harvard University's George Balanchine Collection of The New York City Ballet at The Harvard Theatre Collection and The Harvard College Library. <mask> appeared Off-Broadway in "Funding The Arts" at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, acting and dancing the role of J. Edgar. <mask>'s television dance appearances include the 2013 Emmy Award winning "Night Of Too Many Stars" on Comedy Central, performing as Keitel's wise guy in "Call Me Maybe" with Carly Rae Jepsen and Harvey Keitel at the historic Beacon Theatre (New York City). <mask> was featured in The New York Times dance article, Your First Dance Crush, July 2013. <mask> also co-hosted the Off-Broadway tribute to dance legend Ruth Page, March 2015. <mask> was chosen by director/choreographer Jerome Robbins for the second Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof with Herschel Bernardi and Maria Karnilova. Other Broadway appearances include Fonteyn & Nureyev on Broadway and  Lee Theodore's American Dance Machine.<mask> also directed and produced two editions of "Broadway Showstoppers" at NYC's Hudson Theatre and The Town Hall. <mask> returned to co-star at The Muny with Broadway's Judy Kaye, John Reardon, John Schuck, Beth Leavel and his dance partner, Lorene Yarnell in Cole Porter's Can-Can, receiving excellent reviews. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted "Can-Can opened in dazzling style, reminiscent of the Muny glory days, weaving a magic spell. <mask> and Yarnell are teamed in exciting style. Their dancing is fabulous." <mask> appeared in The Joe Layton Tribute at Off-Broadway's St Luke's Theater, October 2014, hosted by Bruce Vilanch and recently in The Madeline Kahn Tribute, singing at New York's Metropolitan Room, September 2015. On television, <mask> had the honor of leading NBC's 2017 annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as the Taxi Driver.Additional acting roles include  2018 appearances on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and NBC's Saturday Night Live in the Spiritual Rap Choir with Amy Schumer, CBS's Capitol, ABC's All My Children, Dick Clark's Celebrity Boxing with Ron Palillo and in HBO's Sex And The City; talk shows including The Rosie O'Donnell Show with Liza Minnelli, Maury,  CNN's Showbiz Tonight and Entertainment Tonight. <mask> hosted and created the best-selling DVD Total Stretch! with <mask>". <mask>'s many feature films include the 2022 award-winning comedy Love in Kilnerry as Deputy Rory, The Con Is On starring Uma Thurman, The Adjustment Bureau opposite Matt Damon, Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, Dummy with Adrien Brody, Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield,  Legs with Gwen Verdon Annie (1982 film) with Carol Burnett, and the HBO feature Stag with Ben Gazzara, Kevin Dillon and Taylor Dayne. Leritz co-starred in the 2017 comedy short film, The Pitch. Leritz is the Spectrum Records recording artist of the dance hit single "Crank It Up" produced by Cory Wade, performing on tour with The Weather Girls, Laura Branigan, Sylvester, Natalie Cole and starred at the Las Vegas Stardust Hotel during its final months. <mask> made his recording debut with the NYC club hit, "It Takes Two To Tango".<mask> choreographed the Motown feature film musical, Berry Gordy's  The Last Dragon, the mime duo Shields & Yarnell for Atlantic City, for MTV and various recording artists. He also choreographed the one-act ballet "Alone" for The Hamburg Ballet, receiving its US premiere in 2018. For Goodtimes Entertainment, <mask> choreographed and co-produced two live action children musicals, Treehouse Trolls Birthday Day and The Forest Of Fun and Wonder. <mask> is also known in the fitness world as the choreographer to many bodybuilding stars, which included the NBC Sports television special  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Bodybuilding Arnold Classic" in 1989 and appears in numerous issues of Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness and Men's Fitness magazines. In "A Broadway Holiday Concert"  for Huntington Disease NY, <mask> choreographed songs by Cole Porter and original cast members from Broadway's Grease. During the 2003–2004 New York theatre season, <mask> was the producer and choreographer of the long running Off-Broadway show, Boobs! The Musical.The New York Times review noted "The six person cast is expertly choreographed by <mask>." Boobs! The Musical was nominated for the 2004 MAC Awards for Best Musical Revue and won New Orleans' 2005 Big Easy and Ambie Awards. For television, <mask> produced three seasons of the annual event "Day of Compassion", for which Time magazine honored <mask> as their 1996 Local Hero. <mask> directed and produced a tribute, hosted by Tyne Daly, to honor Welcome Back, Kotter'''s Ron Palillo's life and career at NYC's The Triad Theatre, October 3, 2012. <mask> also produced three staged industry readings of Ron Palillo's play, "The Lost Boy" for the New York stage. Broadway's Chad Kimball, Matt Doyle, Jennifer Cody, Sheffield Chastain, Mary Beth Peil, Elizabeth Morton and Celeste Lecesne starred in the initial reading of "The Lost Boy," September 2014, at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studios.Awards, nominations and citations
2018 The Dancers Over 40 Legacy Award
2004 MAC Awards Best Musical Revue (Producer nominee)
2005 Big Easy Awards Best Musical (Producer nominee)
2006 Teall Awards Best Musical (Producer nominee)
2006 Teall Awards Best Choreography (nominee, based on original choreography by <mask>)
1996 Time'' magazine's Local Hero
1987 Lawrence Leritz Day Proclamation, Alton, Illinois
1983 Lawrence Leritz Day Proclamation, Wood River, Illinois

See also
Treehouse Trolls Birthday Day
Songs of Youth and Discovery
Kenn Duncan

References

Other sources
 Boobs! The Musical Bustin' Out All Over; Cast Album, Regional Runs Expected By Kenneth Jones at Playbill com on Jul 30, 2003
 Lawrence Leritz Films/New York Times

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American male ballet dancers
American male stage actors
American male musical theatre actors
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American male television actors
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<mask> (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001, and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 50 years. About
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout (on an isolated tower near Mount St. Helens) before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen. He began teaching at USC in 1967 and has been on their faculty ever since. In 2006, <mask> was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide". His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of which have received Grammy Award nominations, including O Magnum Mysterium by the Tiffany Consort, A Company of Voices by Conspirare, Sound The Bells by The Bay Brass, and two all-Lauridsen discs entitled Lux Aeterna by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Paul Salamunovich, and Nocturnes with the Polyphony choir and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton.His principal publishers are Peermusic (New York/Hamburg) and Faber Music (London). A recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and commissions, <mask> chaired the Composition department at the USC Thornton School of Music from 1990 to 2002 and founded the School's Advanced Studies program in Film Scoring. He has held residencies as guest composer/lecturer at over 100 universities and has received honorary doctorates from Oklahoma State University, Westminster Choir College, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Whitman College. In 2014 he was invited to be Honorary Artistic President of Interkultur/World Choir Games. In 2016 he was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award. In late February 2020, via an update on his Facebook page, <mask> revealed he had retired from the Thornton School of Music after having taught classes there for over 50 years. He will still travel to university residencies and concerts worldwide.<mask> now divides his time between Los Angeles and his home in the San Juan Archipelago off the northern coast of Washington State. Compositions

His eight vocal cycles and two collections—Les Chansons des Roses (Rilke), Mid-Winter Songs (Graves), A Winter Come (Moss), Madrigali: Six "FireSongs" on Italian Renaissance Poems, Nocturnes (Rilke, Neruda and Agee), Cuatro Canciones (Lorca), Four Madrigals on Renaissance Texts, A Backyard Universe, Five Songs on American Poems (Moss, Witt, Gioia and Agee) and Lux Aeterna—his series of sacred a cappella motets (O magnum mysterium, Ave Maria, O Nata Lux, Ubi caritas et amor, and Ave Dulcissima Maria) and numerous instrumental works are featured regularly in concert by distinguished artists and ensembles throughout the world. O Magnum Mysterium, Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses), O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna) and Sure On This Shining Night (from Nocturnes) have become the all-time best-selling choral octavos distributed by Theodore Presser, in business since 1783. His musical approaches are very diverse, ranging from direct to abstract in response to various characteristics (subject matter, language, style, structure, historical era, etc.) of the texts he sets. His Latin sacred settings, such as the Lux Aeterna and motets, often reference Gregorian chant plus Medieval and Renaissance procedures while blending them within a freshly contemporary sound while other works such as the Madrigali and Cuatro Canciones are highly chromatic or atonal. His music has an overall lyricism and is tightly constructed around melodic and harmonic motifs.Referring to <mask>'s sacred music, the musicologist and conductor Nick Strimple said he was "the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, (whose) probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered ... From 1993 <mask>'s music rapidly increased in international popularity, and by century's end he had eclipsed Randall Thompson as the most frequently performed American choral composer." Vocal works

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| 2012 ||Prayer (On a Poem by Dana Gioia) ||
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| 2008 ||Canticle/O Vos Omnes||
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| 2006 ||Chanson Eloignee (Rilke) ||
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| 2005 ||Nocturnes (written for the American Choral Directors Association's Brock Commission) ||I. Sa Nuit d'Été (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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III.Sure on this Shining Night (James Agee)

IV. Epilogue: Voici le soir (Rilke, added in 2008)
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| 2004 ||Ave Dulcissima Maria (written for the Harvard Glee Club) ||
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| 1999 ||Ubi Caritas et Amor||
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| 1997 || Lux Aeterna (<mask> <mask> composition) |Lux Aeterna||I. IntroitusII. In Te, Domine, SperaviIII. O Nata LuxIV. Veni, Sancte SpiritusV. Agnus Dei|-
| 1997 ||Ave Maria||
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| 1994 ||O Magnum Mysterium||
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| 1993 ||Les Chansons des Roses (settings of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke) ||I.En Une Seule FleurII. Contre Qui, RoseIII. De Ton Rêve Trop PleinIV. La Rose ComplèteV. Dirait-on|-
| 1987 ||Madrigali: Six "Firesongs" on Italian Renaissance Poems||I. Ov'è, Lass', Il Bel Viso?II. Quando Son Piu LontanIII.Amor, Io Sento L'almaIV. Io PiangoV. Luci Serene e ChiareVI. Se Per Havervi, Oime|-
| 1981 ||Cuatro Canciones Sobre Poesias de Federico García Lorca||
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| 1980 ||Mid-Winter Songs (on poems by Robert Graves) ||I. Lament for PasiphaëII. Like SnowIII. She Tells Her Love While Half AsleepIV.Mid-Winter WakingV. Intercession in Late October|-
| 1976 ||Where Have the Actors Gone||
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| 1970 ||I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes||
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| 1970 ||O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord||
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| 1967 ||A Winter Come (on poems by Howard Moss) ||I. When Frost Moves FastII. As Birds Come NearerIII. The Racing WaterfallIV. A Child Lay DownV. Who Reads By StarlightVI.And What Of Love|-
| 1965 ||A Backyard Universe||

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Recordings

Over 200 recordings of works by <mask> <mask> have been released, including five that have received Grammy nominations. Nine All-Lauridsen CDs:

Sheet music sales and performances

<mask> <mask> is currently one of America's most performed composers, with hundreds of performances each year throughout the world in venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Vatican, Sydney Opera House and Westminster Abbey. Over one million copies of his scores have been sold and his Dirait-on, O Magnum Mysterium and O Nata Lux have become the all-time best selling octavos distributed by the Theodore Presser Co., in business since 1783. Recordings of <mask> <mask>'s compositions are featured regularly on radio broadcasts throughout the United States, and he is a frequent interview guest on radio and television programs, including a recent KCET Life and Times program, the oft-repeated national broadcast of "A Portrait of <mask> Lauridsen" on First Art, and a nationally broadcast Christmas Day feature on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He has been profiled in several extended printed articles, including those in the Los Angeles Times "Calendar", Seattle Times, Choral Journal, Choir and Organ, Chorus America's Voice, Fanfare Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He has received over four hundred commission requests, most recently from Harvard University, the American Choral Director's Association and the Pacific Chorale, and is a frequent guest lecturer and Artist/Composer-in-Residence. His principal publishers are Peermusic (New York/Hamburg) and Peer's affiliate, Faber Music (London).Teaching life

In addition to these positions, Lauridsen has served as Artistic Advisor on the Boards of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Dale Warland Singers, I Cantori (New York), USC Scoring for Films/TV Program, National Children's Chorus, Creative Kids Education Foundation, Volti (San Francisco Chamber Singers), New York City Master Chorale, Jacaranda, and Angeles Chorale. Publications
"It's a Still Life That Runs Deep: The Influence of Zurbaran's Still Life With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose on <mask> <mask>'s Composition O Magnum Mysterium", Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2009

foreword to the book, Evoking Sound, by James Jordan, GIA Publications, 2009

"<mask> Lauridsen on Composing Choral Music," a chapter in the book Contemporary Choral Music Composers, GIA Publications, 2007

Liner notes for the CD Randall Thompson—The Peaceable Kingdom, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Hyperion Records

"Remembering Halsey Stevens," National Association of Composer Journal, 1990

Documentary

The 2012 documentary film Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer <mask> Lauridsen portrays the composer at his Waldron Island retreat and in rehearsals in California and Scotland. Commentaries about the composer by poet Dana Gioia, conductor Paul Salamunovich, composer/conductor Paul Mealor, composer Alex Shapiro and conductor Robert Geary, along with performances by the San Francisco Choral Society, University of Aberdeen Choral Society and Orchestra, Con Anima Chamber Choir and Volti, are featured. Works include O Magnum Mysterium, Lux Aeterna, Madrigali, Dirait-on, and Nocturnes'', with soundtracks by Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia (conducted by Stephen Layton), The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists (conducted by Matthew Culloton), and the Dale Warland Singers (conducted by Dale Warland). References

External links
mortenlauridsen.net Composer's Website
Peermusic Classical: Morten Lauridsen Composer's Publisher and Bio
 Los Angeles Master Chorale bio
Morten Lauridsen interview by Bruce Duffie
A Choral Master's Grass-Roots Appeal, Wall Street Journal Review by Bruce Campbell
 The Best Composer You've Never Heard Of Wall Street Journal Review by Terry Teachout
 Song Without Borders Film, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen Film publisher's website
 Fanfare Magazine Review, Prayer: The Songs of Morten Lauridsen Transcribed on Composer's website

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<mask> (born 1936) is a British railway photographer. <mask> pioneered the "New Approach" to railway photography in the 1960s during the declining years of steam. This approach relies heavily on abstraction and sought to encapsulate the dirty working atmosphere of the railway. Early years
<mask> was born in London in 1936, and grew up near King's Cross. As a child he had no particular interest in railways – though he lived within walking distance of King's Cross station, he was never a trainspotter. Instead, he positioned himself by the ticket barriers, to better watch the flow of travellers and the bustle of station business as much as the trains themselves. It was not until his student days in the late 1950s at Harrow School of Art that he found tangible expression for the visual possibilities that railways offered him.Though he was more interested in illustration than in photography, he began taking photographs of railway scenes around North London and especially along the Great Central Main Line that passed through Harrow, gradually moving further afield. Although Bill Brandt is often cited as a major influence, the style that made <mask>'s name owed much to the work of a little-known Swiss avant-garde railway photographer Jean-Michel Hartmann, whose book Magie du rail (Editions Amart, 1959) () revealed an eye for pattern and form that had an impact on <mask>'s pictorial approach. 1960s
In the early 1960s <mask> joined Ian Allan Publishing as art editor and occasionally placed railway photographs in the magazines he designed. He took many of his well-known shots – including images of Bulleid pacifics at speed, captured from trains on adjacent lines – during his daily commute. Thirty years later, one of these images was featured on a Royal Mail stamp. At the publishing house, he redesigned the Combined Volume, Railway World and helped to transform Trains Illustrated into Modern Railways, a large-format monthly for transport professionals. He also designed some trompe-l'œil covers for Model Railway Constructor, including a speeding Trix 'Warship' and a 00 gauge BR Standard Class 9F seemingly emitting an enormous plume of smoke.Aside from his work at Ian Allan, <mask> continued to build a photographic record of every region of British Railways using a Rolleiflex medium-format twin-lens reflex camera. He also photographed the full length of the River Thames with the idea of one day making a book out of it. His work was predominantly in black and white. For 35 mm colour work he used cheaper, less sophisticated cameras such as the Russian-made Fed; in later years a Pentax SLR. In 1965 the Decline of Steam book was published. In place of front three-quarter views (with the sun always coming over the photographer's shoulder and the locomotive number clearly visible), Decline of Steam portrayed misty industrial landscapes, sweating railway workers, rain-swept nocturnal platforms, and sulphurous engine sheds. The trains themselves were often almost an afterthought in this vision of the railway as a totality; some images did not feature trains at all.By 1967, <mask> had left his job to focus on photographing the final years of British steam

His work from this time influenced the British photographers John Tickner, Gordon Edgar, and Adrian Freeman in their work on steam trains in China. Each a Glimpse
Each a Glimpse, his second book, which he also designed, was published by Ian Allan in 1970. Many of the pictures dated from 1967 to 1968 and the influence of Jean-Michel Hartmann – which was strong in Decline of Steam – was less marked in a book that showed how, in those final years of steam, <mask> had begun to experiment with new techniques and find his own visual language, less graphically dynamic and more pictorialist than before. And Gone Forever
Although he had amassed a collection of some 18,000 negatives between 1958 and 1968, with enough unpublished material (including his rarely glimpsed colour work) for many more books, <mask>'s fastidiousness about his work became something of a stumbling block. The Thames book failed to find a publisher, while sales of Steam Railways in Industry (Batsford, 1976) were disappointing, as was the reproduction quality. Meanwhile, a projected seven-part region-by-region study with Ian Allan ceased after the first volume, Steam Finale North (1976), had been published. <mask> was not pleased when Ian Allan subsequently published Steam Finale Scotland, which was superficially a continuation of the series but in fact contained nothing by Gifford.Things had looked more promising when, the previous year, <mask> had signed with New English Library to produce the companion-piece to Each a Glimpse, entitled And Gone Forever. With an eye on the export market and foreign co-editions, extensive use of colour was stipulated for the first time. A mock-up of And Gone Forever was presented at the 1976 Frankfurt Book Fair but the book never reached production, at least in the form <mask> and his publisher anticipated. Deadlines came and went and though most of the design work was eventually completed, the contract was terminated in 1978. A very different book of the same title finally appeared from Oxford Publishing Company in 1994, but without the colour photographs that had been promised 18 years earlier. Commemorative stamps for the Royal Mail
Also in 1994, the Royal Mail published a set of five postage stamps featuring a selection of his photographs, chosen in collaboration with the designer Brian Delaney; as with all Royal Mail stamp issues, the designs were personally approved by the Queen. The stamps commemorate the sesquicentennial of a number of British train lines.There was an exhibition at the National Postal Museum (British Postal Museum) to mark the event, which included items such as <mask>'s notebooks and treasured Rolleiflex camera. 2000s
By the late 2000s there was talk of a new, revised edition of Each a Glimpse with enhanced, digitally scanned images taken from the original negatives and a significant number of minor alterations to the layout. The book was published in 2012, and a slipcased limited edition was also offered at a premium price. <mask>'s introduction to the revised edition of Each a Glimpse alludes to a set of approximately 100 colour images that had been exhibited at Kidderminster Railway Museum in 2009 under the title In the Wink of an Eye. The book Transition was published in August 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the last steam workings on British Rail. Kidderminster Railway Museum was to be the publisher and the images would feature diesel and electric traction as well as steam. <mask> had been one of few photographers who, in the fast-changing railway scene of the 1960s, responded creatively to the new forms of traction, often depicting them side by side with steam power.<mask> was present in person at the opening of an exhibition of photographs from the book – held at Kidderminster Railway Museum on 4 August 2018 – but of the finished copies there was no sign whatsoever. Rather than the more costly gravure method generally used for high-quality monochrome work, the KLM's printer had been instructed to use a simple four-colour process which, while less expensive, is not primarily designed for black and white. The book finally went on sale in May 2019, after long-standing production difficulties. Published works
 Each a Glimpse (1970)
 Decline of Steam (1965)
 Steam Finale North (1976)
 Steam Railways in Industry (1976)
 And Gone Forever (1994)

Exhibitions
In 1996 <mask> was in an exhibition at the National Railway Museum. In 2003 the Newcastle Arts Centre mounted an exhibition of his works from the series, Decline Of Steam, Each a Glimpse and Gone for Ever. In 2009 he had a show at the Kidderminster Railway Museum. Collections
<mask> has four photographs in the collection of the Science and Society Picture Library (UK).His five commemorative stamps are in the collection of the Science Museum Group (UK). See also
 Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle

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<mask> (born 23 April 1958) is a British journalist who was a chair of the National Council of the now-defunct Respect Party. She was captured by the Taliban in 2001. She later converted to Islam. She is a vocal supporter of Palestine, which she took up as a schoolgirl. She is an avid critic of Zionism and of Western media portrayals and foreign policy in the War on Terror, and has undertaken speaking tours throughout the Muslim world as well as America, Europe and Australia. She has been called "something close to a celebrity in the Islamic world" by the journalist Rachel Cooke, and in 2008 was voted the "most recognisable woman in the Islamic world" by Islam Online. Biography
<mask> was born in the working class mining town of Stanley, County Durham, the youngest of three girls, and had an upbringing in the Church of England.She began her career at the local Stanley News, which was part of the Durham Advertiser Series. From there she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne and worked for The Sunday Sun and the Newcastle Journal for Thomson Regional Newspapers as well as The Northern Echo which was part of the Westminster Press group. She attended the London College of Printing. As a journalist, she was employed by The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, the Daily Mirror and the News of the World. She was deputy editor and acting editor of Wales on Sunday, and was chief reporter when the Sunday Express sent her to Afghanistan after 9/11. In one interview she mentions having "a reputation as the 'Patsy Stone of Fleet Street'" that she was happy to have left behind with her conversion to Islam. Her passion for left-wing, anti-imperialist causes predates her conversion; she joined the Labour Party as a teenager before resigning over the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.Capture by the Taliban
<mask> was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan on 28 September 2001, and held for 11 days, while working for the Sunday Express. In the days before the beginning of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, after being refused an entrance visa, she decided to follow the example of BBC reporter John Simpson, who had crossed the border anonymously in a burqa. She entered on 26 September, and spent two days undercover in Afghanistan. It was on her return, travelling with her guides, that she was uncovered when the donkey she was on bolted and her camera was seen by a Taliban soldier. She was accused of being a spy, which carried a death sentence, and at the very least faced jail for illegally entering Afghanistan. The publisher of Express Newspapers, Richard Desmond, sent a team a negotiators to talk directly with Taliban officials at the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. It soon became clear the regime wanted neither money nor aid but proof that <mask> was a bonafide journalist.The British high commissioner to Pakistan, Hilary Synnott, met the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, and asked for her release. Following her release on 8 October, <mask> was escorted to the border, where she was handed over to the Pakistani authorities. It had been feared that this would be jeopardised by the bombing of Afghan targets as part of the War in Afghanistan that had commenced the previous day. <mask> revealed that she had kept a concealed diary inside a box for a toothpaste tube and in the inside of a soap wrapper. She had been on hunger strike throughout her captivity and described her experience as terrifying but she was not physically hurt. After her release, her guides Jan Ali and Nagibullah Muhmand, as well as his five-year-old daughter Basmena, were held in prison in Kabul. At least three of Muhmand's relatives were also arrested for aiding <mask> after the Taliban developed the film in her camera.All were subsequently released without charge or harm. <mask> had made several public pleas, including one via the BBC's Pashto and Persian Service, urging the Taliban to release the prisoners on the same humanitarian grounds the regime had shown her. She said later she was careful not to refer directly to the men as her guides as they had previously agreed not to admit any involvement in the event of capture. In March 2020, in recognition for her humanitarian work in the field of journalism, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the International Academy of Diplomatic Action in Bern, Switzerland. Conversion to Islam
She said in her book, In the Hands of the Taliban, that, while she was in captivity, she was treated with respect by the men of the Taliban and was, subsequently, amazed by their courtesy. All men that she came in contact with lowered their gazes (to her), which left her bewildered. She had initially thought they had already decided to have her executed and therefore could not look her in the eyes.Only later did she discover they were showing her a sign of respect. While in captivity she gave an undertaking to read the Qur'an and study Islam if they let her go. Fulfilling the promise and setting out on what she described as "an academic exercise" she said she was shocked to discover "the Quran makes it clear that women are equal in spirituality, worth, and education. What everyone forgets is that Islam is perfect; people are not." She converted to Islam in the middle of 2003, claiming that her new faith has helped put behind her broken marriages and embrace "the biggest and the best family in the world." Subsequent career
After her conversion, she delivered lectures on issues relating to Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Uzbekistan, women in Islam, the War on Terror, and journalism at universities across the US, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has authored and contributed towards a number of books called In The Hands of the Taliban and Ticket to Paradise.A later book entitled Torture: Does It Work was published by Military Press Studies in 2016. In 2019 she authored the book The Rise of the Prophet Muhammad: Don't Shoot the Messenger published by academic house Cambridge Scholars Publishing. <mask> was a patron of the UK-based pressure groups Cageprisoners until December 2014, the European President of the International Muslim Women's Union, and the Vice President of the European Muslim League based in Milan and Geneva. She is a member of the Stop the War Coalition, for which she has spoken at its rallies, and was a member of the Respect Party, for which she stood in parliamentary elections before resigning both leadership and from the party in early 2014. Writing, speaking and advocacy
In December 2001, <mask>'s memoir In the Hands of the Taliban was published which includes an account of the 10 days she was held captive. In it, she expressed worries that officers from Mossad, the Israeli secret service, or from other intelligence agencies, were plotting to have her killed in an effort to boost public support for the war in Afghanistan having been shown incriminating documents by a journalist for the Arabic channel, Al Jazeera. She left her job with Express Newspapers, and announced she would return to Afghanistan to work on a sequel to her book.The sequel has not yet materialised although she produced a programme for BBC Radio Four called The Return after she did return in 2002 and then the following year as part of a travel feature for The Observer with her daughter Daisy. <mask> was employed in 2003 by the Qatar-based media organisation Al Jazeera, where, as a senior editor, she helped launch their English-language website. In November of that year she was dismissed because Al Jazeera found her "overly-vocal and argumentative style" was incompatible with the station's programme. Her termination of her employment was also attributed to her campaigning for journalists' rights on the Al Jazeera English channel and website. She brought a case for unfair dismissal against the organisation, winning that case and the subsequent appeals which took four years. She was awarded 100,000 Qatari riyals, which equated to around £14,000. In December 2003, she released a novel, Ticket to Paradise, based on the backdrop of 9/11.She began presenting The Agenda With <mask>, the Islam Channel's politics and current affairs programme, in October 2005. In 2007, the Islam Channel was fined £30,000 by Ofcom after a series of breaches relating to her show and another show. She resigned in April 2007, complaining that she had effectively been dismissed after relations between her and the channel's CEO, Mohamed Ali Harrath broke down. She brought another case of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. In April 2008, <mask> again won her case and was awarded £26,000 damages against the Islam Channel. <mask> is a freelance journalist and presenter, and for several years regularly worked for Press TV, the Iranian English-language 24-hour news channel. She hosted a weekly current affairs and politics show called The Agenda.She also wrote a column for the now-closed Daily Muslims, an online newspaper for North American Muslims. It was in this paper that an obituary calling Chechen militant Islamist Shamil Basayev a shaheed, a Muslim honorific for "martyr", was published. In May 2008, in an assignment for Press TV, she and the film-maker David Miller shot a documentary on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp where they filmed on-site and also interviewed former inmates. Their film Guantanamo: Inside the Wire was nominated in the 2009 Roma Film Fest in Italy, and in the 2010 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Qatar. Another film made in 2009 was also nominated in the 2010 Aljazeera festival; In Search of Prisoner 650, directed by Hassan Ghani, claimed that Aafia Siddiqui was held prisoner in secret by the US. <mask> joined the Free Gaza Movement in Cyprus in August 2008, as it headed for Gaza to challenge the Israeli-Egyptian blockade. She arrived without incident in Gaza on 23 August.During their brief stay <mask> interviewed Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh for Press TV. In early 2009, <mask> helped organise and took part in the Viva Palestina convoy of around 100 vehicles bearing aid across North Africa to Gaza via the Rafah border. In July 2009, in the wake of Press TV's coverage of the 2009 Iranian presidential election and the subsequent protests, <mask> and other journalists working for Press TV were accused of being stooges for the Iranian regime. Election candidate (2004–2012)

<mask> was first on the Respect list for the 2004 European Elections for the North East England region, but was not elected; the party placed last with 1.1% of the vote. She stood for Respect in the Leicester South by-election in 2004, where she came fourth with 12.7% of the vote. When she stood there again in the 2005 general election, although she still placed fourth, her share of the vote fell to 6.4%. In the local government elections in 2006, she stood

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 unsuccessfully for a seat on Westminster City Council.In the 2012 Rotherham by-election, held on 29 November, <mask> was the Respect Party candidate. Respect Yourself, a leaflet distributed during the campaign which accused the Labour Party of racism, was attributed by Labour to Respect. Labour reported the matter to the police and the returning officer. Respect put the incident down to "dirty tricks"; the leaflet was without the legally required notice identifying the source. In the final result, <mask> came fourth with 1,778 votes or just over 8% of the total votes cast. Views and opinions
<mask> has given vocal support for Muslim causes involving Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Xinjiang and Uzbekistan at anti-war demonstrations. She has been highly critical of Britain's foreign policy.In complaining of patriotic sentiments voiced by British Muslim pop star Sami Yusuf, and the enthusiasm for him shown by his Muslim fans, she has said:How can anyone be proud to be British? Britain is the third most hated country in the world. The Union Jack is drenched in the blood of our brothers and sisters across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Our history is steeped in the blood of colonialism, rooted in slavery, brutality, torture, and oppression. During a February 2006 meeting at Imperial College London, <mask> described Israel as "that disgusting little watchdog of America that is festering in the Middle East" and said that Respect "is a Zionist-free party ... if there was any Zionism in the Respect Party they would be hunted down and kicked out. We have no time for Zionists," while both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were "riddled with Zionists." She described the British politician David Miliband, then foreign secretary (and Jewish), on her blog in 2008 as being "a gutless little weasel who lost more than his foreskin when he was circumcised?"<mask> has compared the Israeli Government to the Nazis and has argued that the Israeli Parliament "is on the path of reviving the policies of Adolf Hitler" and that Israeli politicians are "promoting a Final Solution for Gaza". At the "Muslimer i Dialog" conference in Copenhagen in September 2005, <mask> was asked by Danish terror expert Lars Erslev Andersen if she saw it as a problem that militant Islamists distribute recruiting videos of Iraqi insurgents killing hostages. She replied that Muslims used the videos at home as an alternative form of news to what she perceived as the propaganda of Western media. At the same meeting, she compared British Prime Minister Tony Blair with Pol Pot. She returned to Copenhagen in May 2006 to take part in an Islam Channel conference on Islamophobia and was given a standing ovation after urging Muslims not to "kneel before their enemies" or "kiss the hand that slaps them." In a 2003 speech at IslamExpo, she protested the attention given honour killings and female genital mutilation by the media, which "have nothing to do with Islam". The idea that Islam oppresses women is the biggest obstacle to women accepting Islam, she argued.She herself had believed it, but in keeping her promise to her Taliban captors that she would read the Quran, she "realized I had been lied to", and converted. On the subject of compulsory hijab, she said: "I was in Iran last year. I know the hijab is a pain for them, but they will get no sympathy from me. It is clear that the hijab is an obligation, not a choice." <mask> complained later that she had been misquoted and said, while the hijab appeared to be an obligation it was up to individual women to make that choice. Among her controversial opinions is that the Chechen terrorist leader and architect of the Beslan school massacre, Shamil Basayev, was a 'shaheed' i.e. Islamic martyr.When the family of Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi denounced him, <mask> declared this "cowardly" and said she would "rather put up with a brother like Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi any day than have a traitor or a sell-out for a father, son or grandfather". In both articles she renounced violence and said later that critics had chosen to "cherrypick out of context to make mischief". At a meeting of Respect on 6 June 2006, following the Forest Gate raid, <mask> urged all Muslims in Britain to "boycott the police and refuse to co-operate with them in any way, shape or form until the boys are released", including "asking the community copper for directions to passing the time of day with a beat officer." Her comments were labelled as "sheer, undiluted madness" by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, who added that "To not co-operate would be of no benefit to the Muslim community; no benefit to the police; and no benefit to the security of our country." Respect's only MP George Galloway quickly distanced himself from her comments, saying <mask> was wrong and, "Our policy is not that we should withdraw co-operation from the police". <mask> later claimed that she only wanted Muslim leaders to stop co-operating, not the whole community; this is not supported by her comment about not asking directions from the police. The two men were subsequently released without charge and an official apology was later issued to the family some years later by the Metropolitan Police.Initially, <mask> strongly opposed the Western intervention in the 2011 Libyan Civil War, and spoke in a rally opposing it held in Central London where she likened asking for Western support to making a pact with the Devil. However, she later travelled to rebel-held territory, where she became a wholehearted supporter of the Libyan rebels' cause and accepted that they had no choice but to ask for help from the West. In 2012, she expressed her strong support for the end of secret evidence used in the SIAC case against the Jordanian Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, and her opposition to Home Secretary Theresa May's plans to deport him on the basis of the secret evidence from the UK. In February 2018, <mask> was invited to speak at the Oxford Union as part of a debate entitled "This House Believes We Cannot Thrive Without Religion". The invitation was criticised by the Oxford University Jewish Society who released a statement which claimed that "Ms. <mask> has a long and detailed history of making exactly the sort of comments that cause Jewish students to feel targeted and unsafe on campus". She has been widely criticised as an antisemite. The allegations were hotly disputed by <mask>, who in January 2019 spoke at Newcastle College
at the invitation of trade unions for Holocaust Memorial Day.Her talk highlighted what she described as "the heroic efforts" of Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE who was the British humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. She also referenced her interfaith work and respect for the Jewish faith during the aforementioned Oxford Union debate she addressed in 2018. Denial of entry
In January 2013, she was scheduled to attend the Spring of Islam Conference organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in Hyderabad, India. She was given all necessary clearances by the external affairs ministry, but was denied a visa at the last minute because of the tense situation in Hyderabad following the arrest of controversial local legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi a few days before the event was scheduled to take place. However <mask>, through video conference, addressed three sessions of girls, women and journalists during the conference. Views on ISIL
<mask> said there is a clear difference between the ideologies of the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also called ISIS and Daesh), arguing while the Taliban aims to form an Islamic state within the borders of Afghanistan, ISIL was working to create a border-less Islamic state and disregarded the sovereignty of other nations. She also claimed that ISIL recruited by promising financial supports and power, and the Taliban is largely run and supported by Afghan people.These were taken from her 2015 interview with Iranian newspaper Shargh. She wrote a damning chapter on the exploits of ISIL in her book The Rise of the Prophet Muhammad: Don't Shoot the Messenger. In 2013, <mask> offered to swap places with ISIL hostage David Haines according to reports published later. Personal life
<mask> has been married five times. She first married when she was 22; her second marriage, to a policeman, lasted seven years; her third husband was Daoud Zaaroura, the CEO of North of England Refugee Service and a former PLO head of intelligence, whom she met in Cyprus, where she was working on an assignment for the Newcastle-based Sunday Sun, and they have one daughter, <mask>, who was born in 1992; her fourth husband, to whom she was married until 1999, was an Israeli businessman, Ilan Hermosh; her fifth husband is an Algerian. During her time on the Sunday Sun newsdesk, she told colleagues she was an officer in the Territorial Army, based on Teesside, specialising in intelligence. She had also told the same to colleagues on The Northern Echo and repeated it in interviews.<mask> resides in Scotland, to where she moved in 2011, and was a Scottish National Party (SNP) member, largely in her newly-found desire to support and aid Scottish independence. She is also a feminist and a socialist. In 2021, <mask> confirmed that she had left the SNP and joined the Alba Party, primarily over her disagreement with SNP policy around gender recognition. In January 2014, <mask> was nominated for the Muslim Woman of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards. In October 2019 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the non-governmental organisation Protect the Rohingya, when she helped a team of South African lawyers take statements of alleged war crimes from refugees who had fled Myanmar. She was also nominated for her work with Syrian women prisoners who were victims of torture and abuse while held by the Assad regime in Syria. She was portrayed by Hattie Morahan in the film Official Secrets.See also
List of solved missing person cases

References

Bibliography
 In the Hands of the Taliban by <mask> (2001).  . Ticket to Paradise by <mask> (2003). Torture - Does it Work? Interrogation issues and effectiveness in the Global War on Terror (2016)
 The Rise of the Prophet Muhammad: Don't Shoot the Messenger (2019)

External links
 <mask> video interview on Turntoislam.com

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<mask> is a British international civil servant who has spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations, working on peacekeeping, development and humanitarian assignments in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Early life

<mask> grew up in Cardiff, Wales. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is married to <mask>. They have three daughters and four granddaughters. Career at the United Nations

<mask> began his UN career in 1966 in Kenya working for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the first of several assignments in Africa. Later appointments included posts as the UN Resident Coordinator and  UNDP Resident Representative in Benin and the Democratic Republic of the Congo coordinating UN operational activities in those countries.In 1977, he joined the Asia Bureau at UNDP headquarters and developed the first UNDP co-operation program for Vietnam. In 1979, he was appointed as Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP in China on the opening of the first international development co-operation programme and office in that country. <mask> then served as United Nations Resident Coordinator and Regional Representative of the UNDP in Bangkok, Thailand. At the same time, he was Director of the United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO), in charge of United Nations assistance to hundreds of thousands of displaced Cambodians on the Thai-Cambodia border. During this period he was also the UN representative to the Mekong River Committee that manages South East Asia's greatest river network and was part of the negotiating team that restructured the institution into an inter-governmental commission with the re-admission of Cambodia to the group. He was then appointed Director of the UNDP European Office in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was charged with strengthening UNDP's outreach and fund raising work in Western Europe, focusing on advocacy for human development. He concurrently represented the UNDP at the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris where he was member of the group that drew up the DAC's landmark study on conflict, peace and development co-operation in 1997.<mask> subsequently held the position of Director of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), which was set up by Secretary General Kofi Annan to strengthen co-ordination among the UN organisations dealing with development under the leadership of the Administrator of UNDP. He worked on the design and implementation of reforms aimed to improve the performance of UN operational activities around the world. During that period he coordinated the UNDG's work on the follow-up to the UN global conferences of the nineties, which led to the pioneer publication "A Better World for All" published jointly by the UN, World Bank, IMF and OECD and subsequently, at the end of the decade, to the UN's Millennium Development Goals. In late 2000, <mask> joined the UN peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone, (UNAMSIL), as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General while serving concurrently as United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, His appointment, following on the recommendations of the Brahimi Panel on UN peace operations in late 2000, was aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of such operations through better co-ordination of UN peace keeping, humanitarian and development activities in country. During this period he oversaw the reintegration of war affected populations, UN support for the disarmament program, the restoration of state authority, governance reform and the national recovery programme. In 2004 <mask> became the Principal Deputy UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Ivory Coast, where he coordinated the work of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission ONUCI in the areas of human rights, rule of law, civilian police and management. Following on his assignment to Cote d’Ivoire, <mask> was named as the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Liberia (UNMIL) and head of the UN peace keeping mission with the rank of Under Secretary General.The UN mission provided extensive security and political support for the 2005 national elections in Liberia, which resulted in the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Africa's first female elected head of state. Following the elections <mask> worked very closely with the new Administration on national recovery and reconstruction including the groundbreaking governance and economic programme (GEMAP). During this time, he worked closely with the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone l to ensure that Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia was detained and transferred by to the Court's jurisdiction to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. On 24 October 2007, <mask> was appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the UN peace keeping mission there (MONUC), again with the rank of Under Secretary General. MONUC (now MONUSCO), was the UN's largest peace operation at that time. The UN Mission was (and remains) supports the peace process in the Congo as it seeks to end armed conflict in the war ravaged eastern part of the country. The Mission is promoting human rights, the protection of women and children, reform of state institutions and the holding of democratic elections.Later career

Following his retirement from the United Nations in 2010, <mask> joined the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) as a Visiting and then Associate Fellow where he lectured and published on peacekeeping, peace building and leadership. <mask> was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the United Nations. He is a member of the Governing Board of Interpeace and the UN Institute for Training and Research’s I.Peace Advisory Board. The Kofi Annan Foundation

In October 2011, <mask> was appointed by Kofi Annan as Senior Political Advisor to set up a peace and security unit at his Foundation based in Geneva. The Foundation is an independent, not-for profit organisation that works to promote better global governance and strengthen the capacities of people and countries to achieve a fairer, more peaceful and resilient world. In September 2014, <mask> was appointed Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation, where his "outstanding experience in peace operations, development cooperation and humanitarian action gives him a unique perspective that will serve the Foundation well". In March 2018, <mask> was appointed by Kofi Annan as President of the Foundation.<mask> stepped down from the executive leadership of the Kofi Annan Foundation in June 2020 and was succeeded by Corinne Momal-Vanian. He is now Senior Adviser to the Foundation. Publications
 Eyewitness: Crisis, Contention and Coherence - Reflections from the Field:  International Peacekeeping Vol 14, No 2 April 2007. Ending an endless Congo war: Washington Times July, 2008. The 2009 Nelson Mandela Africa lecture at the Royal United Services Institute. Peacebuilding in Practice: A Personal Perspective on Liberia and the DRC:  in Victory Among People: Lessons from Countering Insurgency and Stabilising Fragile States; ed: Greg Mills and David Richards, Royal United Services Institution and the Brenthurst Foundation, 2011. After the Fall: Leaders, Leadership, and the Challenges of Post–Conflict Peacebuilding: Geneva Centre for Security Policy Paper #17, June 2011.Great Expectations: UN Peacekeeping, Civilian Protection, and the Use of Force: Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Research Series, 2011. Peace Operations and the Humanitarian Space: How can the Military and Civilians Cooperate in Protecting Civilians? International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations, Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Swiss Confederation, 2012. A Life in Trouble: A Personal Reflection on Managing Crises: Britain and the World, Edinburgh University Press, Volume 5, 2012. Foreword: A New Deal? Development and Security in a Changing World: Jeremy Allouche and Jeremy Lind, Institute of Development Studies, UK, 2013. Truth and Consequences: <mask> and David Tolbert, Project Syndicate,  July 11, 2014.In the Footsteps of Dr Bunche: The Congo, UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force: Journal of Strategic Studies 37(5), July 2014. United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO):The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, October, 2014. Kofi Annan’s Unfinished Green Revolution: Project Syndicate September 5, 2018. “Reflections on the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended WWI”, <mask> and Scott Weber, Le Monde, 9 November 2018. Mo Ibrahim and <mask>: “A Defeat for Democracy” -Guardian and Le Monde, February 2019. <mask> and Faizel Ismail: “Defending democracy: Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan’s ideals under the spotlight” - The Daily Maverick, South Africa, 5 September 2019. “How can liberal democracies Best Manage China’s Re-emergence as a Great Power?” - The South China Morning Post, 4 November 2019.Preventing covid from killing democracy in Africa. <mask> and Mo Ibrahim. The Economist June 17th 2020. Safeguarding Democracy in West Africa. Africa Center for Strategic Studies,  September 2020. A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People's Wars. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020.A Letter to the USA: Why Your Vote on Nov. 3 Matters for the World. PassBlue, New York, October 27, 2020. See also other <mask> articles on Peace, Conflict and Development in PassBlue. Episode 19: Book Talk - <mask> on A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars. IPI Global Observatory: Reflections on UN Peacekeeping: Q&A with <mask>, 25 February 2020. <mask> on Diplomacy and Politics in United Nations Peacekeeping, International Peace Institute, February 10, 2020. References

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<mask> (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) was an American actor and interior designer. <mask> was discovered by a talent scout and signed with Goldwyn Pictures in 1922. His career gained momentum when he received favorable reviews for his role in The Midnight Express. He was cast in the 1926 film Brown of Harvard and his performance solidified his screen persona as a wisecracking, arrogant leading man. By the end of the 1920s, Haines had appeared in a string of successful films and was a popular box-office draw. <mask>' acting career was cut short by the studios in the 1930s due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality. He quit acting in 1935 and started a successful interior design business with his life partner Jimmie Shields, and his work was widely patronized by friends in Hollywood.Haines died of lung cancer in December 1973 at the age of 73. Early life
<mask> was born on January 2, 1900 (he claimed he was born on January 1) in Staunton, Virginia, the third child of George Adam <mask>, a cigar maker, and Laura Virginia <mask> (née Matthews). Two older siblings died in infancy. He had four younger siblings: Lillian, born in 1902; Ann, born in 1907; George, Jr., born in 1908; and Henry, born in 1917. He was baptized at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton at the age of eight, where he later sang in the choir. He became fascinated with stage performance and motion pictures at an early age, spending hours watching early silent films in local theatres. Haines ran away from home at the age of 14, accompanied by an unidentified young man whom Haines referred to as his "boyfriend".The pair went first to Richmond and then to Hopewell, which had a reputation for immorality. They both got jobs working at the local DuPont factory, producing nitrocellulose for $50 a week. To supplement their income, they opened a dance hall, which may have also served as a brothel. <mask>' parents, frantic over his disappearance, tracked him through the police to Hopewell. Haines did not return home with them, remaining instead in Hopewell and sending money back home to help support the family. The couple remained in Hopewell until most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1915. <mask> moved to New York City.Whether his boyfriend accompanied him is unclear. Following the bankruptcy of the family business and the mental breakdown of George Sr., the family moved to Richmond in 1916. <mask> moved there in 1917 to help support them. With his father recovered and employed, <mask> returned to New York City in 1919, settling into the burgeoning gay community of Greenwich Village. He worked a variety of jobs and was for a time the kept man of an older woman before becoming a model. Talent scout Bijou Fernandez discovered <mask> as part of the Goldwyn Pictures' "New Faces of 1922" contest and the studio signed him to a $40-a-week contract. He traveled to Hollywood with fellow contest winner Eleanor Boardman in March of that year.Career

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<mask>' career began slowly, as he appeared in extra and bit parts, mostly uncredited. His first significant role was in Three Wise Fools (1923). He attracted positive critical attention and the studio began building him up as a new star. However, he continued to play small, unimportant parts at Goldwyn. When his home studio lent him to Fox in 1923 for The Desert Outlaw, he got the opportunity to play a significant role. In 1924, MGM lent <mask> to Columbia Pictures for a five-picture deal. The first of these, The Midnight Express (1924), received excellent reviews, and Columbia offered to buy his contract.The offer was refused and <mask> continued in bit roles for Goldwyn. <mask> scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard (1926) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian. It was in Brown that he crystallized his screen image, a young arrogant man who is humbled by the last reel. He returned repeatedly to that formula for the next several years. On a trip to New York in 1926, <mask> met James "Jimmie" Shields. <mask> convinced Shields to move to Los Angeles, promising to get him work as an extra. The pair soon began living together and viewed themselves as a committed couple., though newspapers did not mention their relationship.<mask> found box-office success with Little Annie Rooney (1925), costarring Mary Pickford, and Show People (1928), costarring Marion Davies. He was a top-five box-office star from 1928 to 1932. He made a successful transition into "talkies" in the part-talking film Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928). He was forced to take elocution lessons for the film; he compared the coming of sound to "the discovery of clap in a nunnery." His first all-talking film, Navy Blues, was released the following year. He starred in Way Out West in 1930. The 1930 Quigley Poll, a survey of film exhibitors, listed Haines as the top box-office attraction in the country.In 1933, <mask> was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles' Pershing Square. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: choose between a sham lavender marriage, his relationship with Shields or his relationship with the sailor. Haines chose Shields and they remained together in a private relationship for 47 years. Mayer then fired Haines and terminated his contract. He made a few minor films at Poverty Row studios and soon retired from acting. His final films were made in 1934 with Mascot Pictures, Young and Beautiful and The Marines Are Coming. Haines continued to receive offers for film roles.During production of Sunset Boulevard (1950), he was offered a cameo role in the film, which he declined. He later said, "It's a rather pleasant feeling of being away from pictures and being part of them because all my friends are. I can see the nice side of them without seeing the ugly side of the studios." Interior design
<mask> and Shields began a successful dual career as interior designers and antique dealers. Among their early clients were friends such as Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies, and George Cukor. After a neighbor accused the two of propositioning his son, about 100 members of a white supremacist group called "The White Legion" dragged the two men from their El Porto, Manhattan Beach, home and beat them. The incident was widely reported at the time, but Manhattan Beach police never brought charges against the attackers.The child-molestation accusations against <mask> and Shields were unfounded and the case was dismissed due to a lack of evidence. In reality, the boy had been chasing Haines' dog on the beach and Haines paid the child six cents to go home; this was misinterpreted as a proposition. After Jack L. Warner bought his estate in 1937, he hired <mask> as interior decorator. The couple finally settled in the Hollywood community of Brentwood and their business prospered until their retirement in the early 1970s, except for a brief interruption when Haines served in World War II. Their clients included Betsy Bloomingdale and Ronald and Nancy Reagan when Reagan was governor of California. Maintaining a home in Palm Springs, California, <mask> and Ted Graber designed the interiors of Walter and Leonore Annenberg's "Sunnylands" estate in nearby Rancho Mirage. The Annenbergs also hired Haines to work on the redecoration of Winfield House in London, where Walter was serving as U.S.Ambassador. Final years and death
<mask> and Shields (1905-1974) remained together until <mask>' death. Joan Crawford described them as "the happiest married couple in Hollywood." On December 26, 1973, <mask> died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73. Soon afterward, on March 6, 1974, Shields took an overdose of sleeping pills. His suicide note read in part, "Goodbye to all of you who have tried so hard to comfort me in my loss of <mask>, whom I have been with since 1926. I now find it impossible to go it alone, I am much too lonely."They are interred side by side in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica. Legacy
For his contribution to the motion-picture industry, <mask> has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7012 Hollywood Blvd. William Haines Designs remains in operation, with main offices in West Hollywood and an additional showroom in New York. Filmography

In popular culture
<mask>' story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of <mask>, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by <mask>. Mann. His designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: <mask> Legendary Hollywood Decorator. World of Wonder produced Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of <mask>nes, which aired on American Movie Classics in 2001. In October 2015, Karina Longworth chronicled <mask> in the episode <mask> and Hollywood's First Openly Gay Marriage, which she included in her 15-part series of MGM stories for her podcast You Must Remember This.<mask> was voiced by actor Wil Wheaton. Playwright Claudio Macor created the biographical drama The Tailor-Made Man in the mid-1990s in London, telling the story of <mask>' discovery in a talent contest, his movie career, its curtailment by Louis B. Mayer, and <mask>' re-invention as an interior designer. The play tells the story of his 50-year relationship with Jimmie Shields. The play premiered at London's tiny Hen and Chickens theatre and quickly transferred to Battersea Arts Centre. Over the years the play has been produced at London's Cockpit Theatre, off-Broadway in New York, San Diego's Diversionary Theatre in California in 1995. It was revived in a successful anniversary production in 2017 at London's White Bear Theatre, directed by Bryan Hodgson. In 2013 a musical adaptation of The Tailor-Made Man opened at London's Arts Theatre in the West End with pop star Faye Tozer (Steps) as Marion Davies and Mike McShane as Mayer.In 1994 The Tailor-Made Man was chosen for a workshop TV production for Thames Television Masterpiece Pilot Showcase, directed by Golden Rose of Montreux winner Chris Bould. Bould returned to direct the UK radio adaptation of the play starring Judd Hirsch as Mayer. In 2017, to tie-in with the anniversary production, the definitive playscript was published by theatrical publisher Oberon Books. Notes

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<mask> (born July 24, 1963) is an American public servant, attorney, historian, and businessman from the state of Texas. <mask> has been an aide or appointee of several Republican Governors of Texas, including William P. Clements, Jr., George W. Bush, and Rick Perry. Most notably, <mask> served as the 104th Secretary of State of Texas under Governor Perry. <mask>'s tenure in this position was especially noteworthy for his efforts to build strong diplomatic and trade relationships between Texas and foreign countries. Since leaving the Texas Secretary of State's Office, <mask> has been active as a consultant, lobbyist, academician, and attorney. His current public service includes positions with The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, Alamo Board of the Texas General Land Office, and Texas State Guard. He remains active internationally and with the diplomatic community in the state of Texas.Background

<mask> was born and reared in Runnels County, a predominantly rural county near San Angelo, Texas. In 1985, <mask> received a B.A. from Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University) in International Studies. <mask> also studied abroad at Birkbeck College, University of London. He later attended the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, from which he received his J.D. degree in 1988. He has been board certified in administrative law since 1995.He completed a graduate certificate course from the Texas A&M University Bush School of Public Service focused on Intelligence Studies. In 2016, <mask> received his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on modern U.S. diplomatic and national security history. <mask> was a member of the Delta Epsilon chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma while attending Texas State University. <mask> lived in the United Kingdom in 1985. During this time, he served as an analyst for the British Government and was a top aide to the Chairman of the House of Lords Foreign Policy Committee (The Earl of Kimberley) and the Chairman of the Lords Defence Committee (Lord Chalfont). Early political career

<mask> began his career in American public service as Assistant General Counsel to Governor William Perry Clements, Jr., in 1988. By the time he departed the Governor's office in 1991, <mask> had advanced to Deputy General Counsel.In 1991, <mask> joined the Texas Department of Agriculture as assistant commissioner and general counsel under then Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry. In 1995, he became general counsel for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, a post he held until 1999. During the 1990s, <mask> also served as a member of the State Emergency Communications Commission (appointed by Governor Clements in 1990) and as a member of the Coastal Coordination Committee (appointed by Governor George W. Bush in 1995). After more than a decade in government, <mask> took a break from the public sector and accepted a position with the Austin office of the international law and lobby firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld (1999–2001). Texas Secretary of State’s Office

When Rick Perry became Governor of Texas in January 2001, he tapped <mask> to serve as the Deputy Secretary in the office of the Texas Secretary of State. This office, which evolved out of the Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, has a diverse portfolio that includes supervising elections, serving as chief protocol officer for Texas, acting as the Governor's liaison on border and Mexico affairs, as well as maintaining a variety of corporate and commercial filings. With the departure of Secretary of State Henry Cuellar in October 2001, <mask> served four months as Acting Secretary of State until the swearing in of Gwyn Clarkston Shea as Secretary of State in January 2002.Following Shea's swearing-in, <mask> resumed his duties as Deputy Secretary of State. Upon Shea's resignation, Governor Perry appointed <mask> to be the 104th Secretary of State of Texas. <mask>'s swearing-in ceremony was held on September 26, 2003. His tenure was noteworthy as the first Texas Secretary of State in recent history to use the office to promote Texas business internationally. He made use of the Secretary's role as chief protocol officer for the state to encourage trade and foreign investment. During his time with the Secretary of State's office, <mask> led around a dozen trade missions to countries, including China, Mexico, Brazil, France, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam and Ethiopia. During <mask>'s time with the Secretary of State's office, Texas overtook California as America's largest exporting state.From 2001 to 2004, Texas exports grew by 23.4% to $117.2 billion. While there are multiple factors behind the state's increasing prominence in exports, the focused and active promotion of Texas exports by the state's chief international officer played a role. At the beginning of 2005, <mask> resigned from the Secretary of State's office to pursue a variety of private sector activities. Private Sector and Later Public Service

Shortly after returning to the private sector, <mask> cofounded Texas Global, an international strategic consulting firm that advises clients on government affairs, economic development, and corporate growth. <mask>'s partner in establishing Texas Global is Ambassador Sada Cumber, who served as the United States Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference until January 2009. Simultaneously, <mask> returned to practicing law with the Texas-based law firm of Jackson Walker, LLP. <mask>'s time at Jackson Walker focused on business transactions law.The same year, <mask> also cofounded CACH Capital Management, a boutique investment advisory firm offering wealth management and investment advisory services. Since leaving the Texas Secretary of State's office, <mask> has maintained a strong international focus and his ties to a variety of international communities in Texas and the United States. He is frequently sought as a speaker on issues of international politics, the world economy, and cross-cultural cooperation. He also serves as a contact and advisor for foreign businesses and organizations seeking to achieve business or policy goals in the U.S., as well as by U.S. entities looking to enhance their performance or impact abroad. His continued work with international clients has taken him to Qatar, the UAE, Malta, New Zealand, Barbados, Pakistan and India. <mask> served as an international election monitor for presidential elections in Liberia in 2006, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2010. In 2011, <mask> was commissioned as an officer with the Texas State Guard.Currently holding the rank of Lt. Commander, he serves as JAG for the Texas Maritime Regiment (TMAR). <mask> serves as Director of Strategy for the William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. His responsibilities include developing the institution as a training center for national security officials and scholars of national security as well as promoting awareness of the center in both public and private sectors. <mask> also oversees the compiling and curation of the defense and national security papers of Governor Bill Clements from his service to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. In 2015, George P. Bush, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office named <mask> as his special advisor to the Alamo Board. Overseeing the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, site of the Battle of the Alamo, is part of the Land Office's mandate.<mask> is active in a number of civic, educational, and professional organizations. He is a member of the International Affairs Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State, on the Board of Directors for the Asia Society of Texas, the Texas Leadership Council of the World Congress on Information Technology 2006. He is a former member of the national Board of Trustees of Sigma Tau Gamma and the Board of Advisors of the International Center of Texas State University. <mask> is also a member of the Asia Society, British-American Business Council, the American Council of Young Political Leaders; Austin Council on Foreign Affairs, Freemasons, Knights Templar, Order of St. John, Scottish Rite, Dallas Safari Club, and Explorers Club of New York. References

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 Office of the Texas Secretary of State website
 Press Release: <mask> takes oath as 104th Secretary of State
 <mask> 2004 Press Releases
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 Texas Global Consulting website
 CACH Capital Management website
 Video: <mask> speaks during Texas trade mission to Ethiopia

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<mask> (born June 25, 1925) is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles. She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. Early life

<mask> was born on June 25, 1925 in New York City. She is the daughter of Canadian-born actor <mask>, who came to prominence on Broadway in 1933 in Ah, Wilderness!, and English-born actress <mask>. Her grandfather was <mask>, "a concert-singer".Lockhart attended the Westlake School for Girls in Beverly Hills, California. Film
<mask> made her film debut opposite her parents in a film version of A Christmas Carol in 1938. She also played supporting parts in  Meet Me in St. Louis, Sergeant York, All This, and Heaven Too, and The Yearling. She starred in She-Wolf of London (1946). Stage
Lockhart debuted on stage at the age of 8, playing Mimsey in Peter Ibbetson, presented by the Metropolitan Opera. In 1947, her acting in For Love or Money brought her out of her parents' shadow and gained her notice as "a promising movie actress in her own right." One newspaper article began, "<mask> has burst on Broadway with the suddenness of an unpredicted comet."In 1951, <mask> starred in Lawrence Riley's biographical play Kin Hubbard  opposite Tom Ewell. Television
In 1955, <mask> appeared in an episode of CBS's Appointment with Adventure. About this time, she also made several appearances on NBC's legal drama Justice, based on case files of the Legal Aid Society of New York. In the late 1950s, <mask> guest-starred in several popular television Westerns, including Wagon Train (in the episode "The Ricky an Laura Bell Story") and Cimarron City (in the episode "Medicine Man" with Gary Merrill) on NBC, and Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, and Rawhide on CBS. In 1958, <mask> was the narrator for  Playhouse 90 's telecast of the George Balanchine version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, featuring Balanchine himself as Drosselmeyer, along with the New York City Ballet. <mask> is best known for her roles as TV mothers, first as Ruth Martin, the wife of Paul Martin (portrayed by Hugh Reilly) and the mother of Timmy Martin (played by Jon Provost) in the 1950s CBS series Lassie (a role that she played from 1958 to 1964). She replaced actress Cloris Leachman, who, in turn, had replaced Jan Clayton – who had played a similar character earlier in the series.Following her five-year run on Lassie, <mask> made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as defendant Mona Stanton Harvey in "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor". <mask> then starred as Dr. Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, which ran from 1965 to 1968 on CBS, opposite veteran actors Guy Williams and Jonathan Harris. In 1965, <mask> played librarian Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, in the episode "Magic Locket" of the syndicated Western series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Ronald Reagan. In the storyline, Coolbrith develops a tenuous friendship with the teenaged Dorita Duncan (Kathy Garver), later the dancer Isadora Duncan. The two have matching portions of a broken locket. Sean McClory (who also played her husband in the Perry Mason episode) played the poet Joaquin Miller, author of Songs of the Sierras. <mask> then appeared as Dr. Janet Craig on the final two seasons of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–1970); her character was brought in to fill the void created after Bea Benaderet died during the run of the show.She was a regular in the ABC soap opera General Hospital during the 1980s and 1990s, and was also a voice actor, providing the voice of Martha Day, the lead character in the Hanna-Barbera animated series These Are the Days on ABC during the 1970s. <mask> appeared as a hostess on the Miss USA Pageant on CBS for six years, the Miss Universe Pageant on CBS for six years, the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS for eight years, and the Thanksgiving Parade on CBS for five years. In 1986, <mask> appeared in the fantasy film, Troll. The younger version of her character in that film was played by her daughter, <mask>. They had previously played the same woman at two different ages in the "Lest We Forget" episode of the television series Magnum, P.I. (1981). In 1991, <mask> appeared as Miss Wiltrout, Michelle Tanner's kindergarten teacher on the TV sitcom Full House.She also had a cameo in the 1998 film Lost in Space, based on the television series in which she had starred 30 years earlier. In 2002, she appeared in two episodes of The Drew Carey Show as Lewis's mother, Misty Kiniski, alongside fellow TV mom Marion Ross, who played Drew's mother. In 2004, <mask> voiced the role of Grandma Emma Fowler in Focus on the Family's The Last Chance Detectives audio cases. <mask> starred as James Caan's mother in an episode of Las Vegas in 2004. <mask> has since guest-starred in episodes of Cold Case and Grey's Anatomy, in the 2007 ABC Family television film Holiday in Handcuffs, and in the 2007 feature film Wesley. In February 2013, <mask> began filming for Tesla Effect, a video game that combines live-action footage with three-dimensional graphics, which was released in May 2014. Recognition

In 1948, <mask> received a Special Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer (a category that no longer exists) for her role on Broadway in For Love or Money.She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures (6323 Hollywood Boulevard) and one for television (6362 Hollywood Boulevard). Both were dedicated on February 8, 1960. In 2013, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration  awarded her the Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for inspiring the public about space exploration. Personal life
In 1951, <mask> married John F. Maloney. They had two daughters, Anne Kathleen Maloney (born 1953) and <mask> Maloney (born 1955). The couple divorced in 1959. She married architect John Lindsay that same year, but they divorced in October 1970, and she has not remarried.Politically active, Lockhart has been involved in the campaigns of Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. Lockhart is a Roman Catholic. Filmography

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<mask> () (803–843), formally the Duke of Pei (), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Tang Dynasty who is most known for his term as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Zhaoyi Circuit (昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi), during which he was viewed as a warlord who maintained a tight hold on the circuit but also as someone who served as a counterbalance to the eunuchs who controlled the imperial government. Background and early career
<mask> was born in 803, during the reign of Emperor Dezong. His father <mask> was then serving as an officer under Li Shigu the military governor of Pinglu Circuit (平盧, headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong), who ruled the circuit in de facto independence from the imperial government. As of 819, Li Shigu's brother and successor Li Shidao was in a war against the imperial government, then under the rule of Emperor Dezong's grandson Emperor Xianzong, and the imperial forces were converging on Pinglu. He commissioned <mask> to command troops to resist the forces commanded by Tian Hongzheng, the military governor of Weibo Circuit (魏博, in modern Handan, Hebei). To endear himself to <mask>, he had <mask>jian made a junior officer at his headquarters. However, <mask> was repeatedly losing battles to Tian, and Li became suspicious of <mask>'s intentions.At one point, Li decided to have <mask> executed, so he recalled <mask> from Yanggu (陽穀, in modern Liaocheng, Shandong), where his troops were stationed, under the guise of consultation, intending to execute <mask> when he got to the circuit capital Yun Prefecture (). Once <mask> arrived, however, Li, being counseled by some that executing <mask> without evidence of treachery so would destroy morale, changed his mind, and he sent <mask> back to Yanggu and gave <mask> much treasure. Meanwhile, <mask>jian, who spent much time with Li's servants, was able to learn what had happened, and informed all of it to his father. Soon thereafter, Li became resolved to kill <mask>. He sent two messengers to <mask>'s deputy Zhang Xian (), ordering Zhang to execute <mask> and take over the army. When the messengers informed Zhang, Zhang, who was friendly with <mask>, secretly informed <mask>, who immediately put the two messengers to death. <mask> then called a meeting with all of his officers, declaring that he was set to turn against Li Shidao and follow imperial orders.When some officers hesitated, he executed them, as well as a number of others that soldiers had resented. The other officers were intimidated into submission. At night, they launched a surprise attack on Yun Prefecture, and the Yun Prefecture defenders, believing that <mask> was returning on Li Shidao's orders, allowed them in. <mask> controlled the city and arrested Li and his two sons, putting them to death. He then sent messengers to surrender to Tian. To reward <mask> for his actions, Emperor Xianzong made <mask> the military governor of Yicheng Circuit (義成, headquartered in modern Anyang, Henan). <mask> was initially obedient to the imperial government, and continued to be after he was transferred to Zhaoyi Circuit in 820, by which time Emperor Xianzong's son Emperor Muzong was emperor.However, after an incident where the imperial eunuch monitor of the army, <mask>e (), conspired with <mask>'s subordinate Zhang Wen () to seize control of Zhangyi, <mask> killed Zhang and arrested <mask>e. While, under the counsel of his staffer Jia Zhiyan (), <mask> returned <mask>e to the imperial government, he subsequently began to rule Zhaoyi semi-independently from the imperial government. <mask> died suddenly in 825. <mask>an initially did not announce his death except to the 2,000 soldiers that <mask> had brought from Pinglu Circuit initially and, after consulting with the officer <mask> (), submitted a petition in <mask>'s name requesting that <mask>an be allowed to succeed him. Jia, however, rebuked <mask>an and pointed out that it was improper for him not to publicly mourn his father. <mask>an had no response, and so publicly declared <mask>'s death. When the imperial government, then ruled by Emperor Muzong's son Emperor Jingzong, received the petition in <mask>'s name, there was much debate among the imperial officials.The former chancellor Li Jiang advocated that the request be denied, and that <mask>an be placated by making him a prefect. However, the chancellor Li Fengji and the powerful eunuch Wang Shoucheng, who opined otherwise, prevailed, and Emperor Jingzong made <mask>an the acting military governor, and soon thereafter made him military governor. It was said that while <mask> was tedious and harsh, <mask>an was lenient and graceful toward the soldiers, and the soldiers supported him. As military governor
In 829, when Shi Xiancheng the military governor of Weibo, who had governed his circuit in de facto independence from the imperial government, offered to surrender control of Weibo, the imperial government commissioned Li Ting () as the new military governor of Weibo. However, Shi's soldiers opposed, and they mutinied, killing Shi. When Li Ting subsequently arrived, the Weibo soldiers, under the leadership of He Jintao, launched a surprise attack on him, inflicting much casualties and forcing him to flee. <mask>an launched an army and saved Li Ting.For this achievement, <mask> was created the Duke of Pei. It was said that <mask> had intended to be faithful to the imperial government, and in 832, he visited the capital Chang'an to pay homage to then-ruling Emperor Wenzong (Emperor Jingzong's younger brother), with the intent to request a transfer (i.e., to surrender control of Zhaoyi Circuit). However, when he got to the capital, he saw that the imperial government lacked direction, and many imperial officials made improper requests to him. He thus lost the respect he had for the imperial government, and never made the transfer request. Instead, in early 833, Emperor Wenzong conferred an honorific chancellor title of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi () on him and allowed him to return to Zhaoyi. Later in 833, Yang Yuanqing () the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan) fell ill, and the imperial government was determining a successor for him. The chancellor Li Deyu suggested that <mask> be transferred to Xuanwu, to end his family's hold on Zhaoyi.Emperor Wenzong did not find the timing appropriate, and declined the suggestion, instead making the former chancellor Li Cheng the military governor of Xuanwu. In 835, Emperor Wenzong, in an attempt to regain power from the powerful eunuchs, who commanded the imperial guards, conspired with the chancellor Li Xun and the general Zheng Zhu to have the eunuchs slaughtered. When the eunuchs discovered the plot, Li Xun, Zheng, and many other officials were slaughtered, including the other chancellors Wang Ya, Jia Su, and Shu Yuanyu, and effectively put Emperor Wenzong under house arrest. <mask>, who had been friendly with Wang, protected the slaughtered officials' family members who fled to Zhaoyi. He further submitted harshly-worded petitions to the imperial government, openly questioning whether the slaughtered officials committed any crimes at all. The eunuchs tried to placate <mask> by giving him the honorific title of acting Situ (司徒, one of the Three Excellencies), but <mask>'s petitions continued, and he eventually submitted four, continuing to call for the chancellors' posthumous rehabilitation. It was said that it was only after <mask>'s petitions that the powerful eunuchs, led by Qiu Shiliang, became apprehensive and allowed Emperor Wenzong, as well as the new chancellors Zheng Tan and Li Shi, to exercise some of their authorities.In 839, in the midst of a controversy as to which of two claimants, Xiao Ben () and Xiao Hong (), if either at all, was the true long-lost brother of Emperor Wenzong's mother Empress Dowager Xiao, after Xiao Ben was judged to be Empress Dowager Xiao's brother, Xiao Hong fled to Zhaoyi and requested help from <mask>. <mask> submitted a petition on Xiao Hong's behalf. Emperor Wenzong ordered a new investigation, which concluded that neither Xiao Ben nor Xiao Hong was Empress Dowager Xiao's brother; both were exiled. Meanwhile, <mask> continued to accuse Qiu of crimes, while Qiu accused <mask> of having designs against the imperial government. After Emperor Wenzong died in 840 and was succeeded by his brother Emperor Wuzong, <mask> offered a large horse to Emperor Wuzong, who declined the tribute. <mask> believed that Qiu was the one who persuaded Emperor Wenzong not to accept the tribute and, in anger, killed the horse, and this act drew further suspicions from the imperial government. It was further said that <mask> armed his circuit and conducted commerce to gather wealth such that the neighboring circuits were jealous of and suspicious of him.In 843, <mask> fell ill, and he commented to his wife Lady Pei:

<mask> thus wanted to have his nephew <mask> (whom he adopted as his son. According to <mask>'s biography in the New Book of Tang, <mask>an had some 20 sons, but they were all still children at the time of his death) succeed him. He planned with a number of staff members on how to induce the imperial government into allowing the succession, but before the preparations could be complete, <mask>an died. <mask>'s request to succeed him was subsequently denied, and Emperor Wuzong, under the advocacy of Li Deyu, ordered a general campaign against Zhaoyi, eventually defeating <mask> and slaughtering the <mask> family. <mask>'s body was disinterred, exposed in the street for three days, and then cut into pieces. Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 161.New Book of Tang, vol. 214. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248. 803 births
843 deaths
Tang dynasty jiedushi of Zhaoyi Circuit

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