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<mask> (June 6, 1907 – November 12, 1993) was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 19 seasons. <mask> managed the Yankees as a player-manager in 1946 in his last season as a player. <mask> played with the Yankees from 1928 through 1943. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, <mask> returned to the Yankees in 1946 as a player and manager. He retired after the 1946 season, but returned in 1949 as a coach, where he taught Yogi Berra the finer points of catching. During <mask>'s playing career, the Yankees went to the World Series nine times, winning eight championships.He was named to 11 All-Star Games. As a manager and coach, he led the Yankees to another six World Series titles. <mask> was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. Early life
<mask> was born in Bastrop, Louisiana, on June 6, 1907. He was one of seven children born to John and <mask>. The <mask>s moved to Kensett, Arkansas, where <mask> worked as a brakeman for Missouri Pacific Railroad. <mask> had played baseball for a semi-professional team based in Memphis, Tennessee.<mask>'s older brother, Gus, was a second baseman and pitcher in the East Arkansas Semipro League, while his younger brother, George, would go on to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher. <mask> attended Searcy High School in Searcy, Arkansas. At Searcy, <mask> played for the school's baseball team as a pitcher and second baseman. He enrolled at Little Rock College, where he played guard for the school's American football team and pitcher for the baseball team. <mask> substituted for a friend on a semi-professional team based in Hot Springs, Arkansas as a catcher, impressing the team's manager with his throwing arm. Lena Blackburne, manager of the Little Rock Travelers, a minor league baseball team, noticed <mask> while scouting an outfielder on the Hot Springs team. Blackburne signed Dickey to play for his team.Minor league career
<mask> made his professional debut at the age of 18 with the Little Rock Travelers of the Class A Southern Association in 1925. Little Rock had a working agreement with the Chicago White Sox of the American League, which involved sending players between Little Rock, the Muskogee Athletics of the Class C Western Association, and the Jackson Senators of the Class D Cotton States League. <mask> played in three games for Little Rock in 1925, then was assigned to Muskogee in 1926, where he had a .283 batting average in 61 games. <mask> returned to Little Rock, and batted .391 in 17 games at the end of the season. <mask> played in 101 games for Jackson in 1927, batting .297 with three home runs. As a fielder, <mask> compiled a .989 fielding percentage and was credited with 84 assists while he committed only nine errors. New York Yankees
Jackson waived <mask> after the 1927 season.Johnny Nee, a scout for the New York Yankees, wired his boss, Ed Barrow, the Yankees' general manager, that the Yankees should claim him. The Yankees purchased <mask> from Jackson for $12,500 ($ in current dollar terms). Though he suffered from influenza during spring training in 1928, <mask> impressed Yankees manager Miller Huggins. <mask> hit .300 in 60 games for Little Rock, receiving a promotion to the Buffalo Bisons of the Class AA International League. After appearing in three games for Buffalo, <mask> made his MLB debut with the Yankees on August 15, 1928. He recorded his first hit, a triple off George Blaeholder of the St. Louis Browns, on August 24. <mask> played his first full season in MLB in .He replaced Benny Bengough as the Yankees' starting catcher, as Bengough experienced a recurrent shoulder injury, and <mask> outperformed Bengough and Johnny Grabowski. As a rookie, <mask> hit .324 with 10 home runs and 65 runs batted in (RBI). He led all catchers with 95 assists and 13 double plays. In 1930, <mask> hit .339. In 1931, <mask> made only three errors and batted .327 with 78 RBI. That year, he was named by The Sporting News to its All-Star Team. Although his offensive production was overshadowed by Yankee greats Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, <mask> posted some of the finest offensive seasons ever by a catcher during the late 1930s, hitting over 20 home runs with 100 RBI in four consecutive seasons from 1936 through 1939.His 1936 batting average of .362 was the highest single-season average ever recorded by a catcher, tied by Mike Piazza of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1997, until Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins hit .365 in 2009. In 1932, <mask> broke the jaw of Carl Reynolds with one punch in a game after they collided at home plate, and received a 30-day suspension and $1,000 fine as punishment. That year, he hit .310, with 15 home runs and 84 RBI. In the 1932 World Series, he batted 7-for-16, with three walks, 4 RBI, and scored two runs. In 1936, <mask> hit .362, finishing third in the AL behind Luke Appling (.388) and Earl Averill (.378). <mask> held out for an increase from his $14,500 salary in 1936, seeking a $25,000 salary. He ended the holdout by agreeing to a contract worth $17,500.<mask> earned $18,000 in 1939. <mask> signed a contract for 1940, receiving a $20,500 salary. The 1941 season marked <mask>'s thirteenth year in which he caught at least 100 games, an MLB record. He also set a double play record and led AL catchers with a .994 fielding percentage. <mask> suffered a shoulder injury in 1942, ending his streak of catching at least 100 games in a season. When <mask>'s backup, Buddy Rosar, left the team without permission to take examinations to join the Buffalo police force and to be with his wife who was about to have a baby, Yankees manager Joe McCarthy signed Rollie Hemsley to be the second string catcher, relegating Rosar to the third string position. <mask> saw his playing time decrease with the addition of Hemsley.He returned for the 1942 World Series, but was considered to be fading. <mask> hit the series-clinching home run in the 1943 World Series. After the season, <mask> was honored as the player of the year by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Manager and coach
<mask> was rumored to be a candidate for the managerial position with the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1943 season. <mask> entered the United States Navy on March 15, 1944, as he was categorized in Class 1-A, meaning fit for service, by the Selective Service System. He served at the Navy Hospital Area in Hawaii. He was discharged in January 1946 as a lieutenant senior grade; one of his main tasks had been to organize recreational activities in the Pacific.Returning to the Yankees in 1946, <mask> became the player-manager of the Yankees in the middle of the  season after Joe McCarthy resigned. The Yankees did fairly well under <mask>'s watch, going 57–48. However, owner Larry MacPhail refused to give <mask> a new contract until after the season. Rather than face the possibility of being a lame-duck manager, <mask> resigned on September 12, but remained as a player. having compiled 202 home runs, 1,209 RBIs and a .313 batting average over his career. In 1947, <mask> managed the Travelers. The team finished with a 51–103 record, last in the Southern Association.<mask> returned to the Yankees in 1949 as first base coach and catching instructor to aid Yogi Berra in playing the position. Already a good hitter, Berra became an excellent defensive catcher. With Berra having inherited his uniform number 8, <mask> wore number 33 until the 1960 season. <mask> later instructed Elston Howard on catching, when Berra moved to the outfield. Managerial record

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While still an active player in 1942, <mask> appeared as himself in the film The Pride of the Yankees, which starred Gary Cooper as the Yankee captain and first baseman Lou Gehrig. Late in the movie, when Gehrig was fading due to the disease that would eventually take his life, a younger Yankee grumbled in the locker room, "the old man on first needs crutches to get around! "—and <mask>, following the script, belted the younger player, after which he said the kid "talked out of turn."<mask> also appeared as himself in the film The Stratton Story in 1949. In the film, <mask> was scripted to take a called third strike from Jimmy Stewart's character. <mask> objected, stating "I never took a third strike. I always swung", and asking the director, Sam Wood, to allow him to swing through the third strike; Wood insisted that <mask> take the third strike. After many takes, <mask> commented: "I've struck out more times this morning than I did throughout my entire baseball career." Personal life

On October 5, 1932, <mask> married Violet Arnold, a New York showgirl, at St. Mark's Church in Jackson Heights, New York. The couple had one child, Lorraine, born in 1935.<mask> was an excellent quail hunter. He spent part of his retirement in the 1970s and 1980s residing in the Yarborough Landing community on the shore of Millwood Lake in southwestern Arkansas. He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1993. Legacy

<mask> was noted for his excellent hitting and his ability to handle pitchers. He was also known for his relentlessly competitive nature. <mask> was inducted into the Hall of Fame in . In 1972, the Yankees retired the number 8 in honor of <mask> and Berra.On August 22, 1988, the Yankees honored both <mask> and Berra by hanging plaques honoring them in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. <mask> opined that Berra was "An elementary Yankee" who is "considered the greatest catcher of all time." <mask> was named in 1999 to The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players, ranking number 57, trailing Johnny Bench (16), Josh Gibson (18), Yogi Berra (40), and Roy Campanella (50) among catchers. Like those catchers, <mask> was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, but the fan balloting chose Berra and Bench as the two catchers on the team. In 2007, Dickey-Stephens Park opened in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The ballpark was named after <mask>; his brother George; and two famous Arkansas businessmen, Jackson and Witt Stephens. In 2013, the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award honored <mask> as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the United States Navy during World War II.See also

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<mask> "<mask>" <mask> (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, North American blues and is considered a pioneer of African desert blues. <mask> was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stones list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 37 on Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Biography

Early life
<mask> was born in 1939 in the village of Kanau, on the banks of the Niger River in Gourma-Rharous Cercle in the northwestern Malian region of Tombouctou. His family belonged to the Arma community and moved to the nearby village of Niafunké when he was still an infant. His father died serving in the French Army in 1940. He was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy."The name I was given was <mask>, but it's a custom in Africa to give a child a strange nickname if you have had other children who have died", <mask> was quoted as saying in a biography on his record label, World Circuit Records. His nickname, "Farka", chosen by his parents, means "donkey", an animal admired for its tenacity and stubbornness: "Let me make one thing clear. I'm the donkey that nobody climbs on!" Ethnically, he was part Songhai,  part Fula. Early musical influences
In Malian society, musical performance was the duty of a lower caste known as the ‘Griot’. Since <mask> was from the ‘Nobel’ caste he was forbidden to play any musical instruments. He disregarded this and secretly built a monochord from a tin can and played it with his friends.Having worked various jobs as a young adult including as a chauffeur and an ambulance boatman, it was a performance by the national ballet of Guinea in 1956 that would influence Touré to pursue a career in music. It was the guitar playing during this performance that made <mask> determined to learn the instrument. During the 1960s, Mali hosted and held national talent competitions aimed at bringing together the various diverse groups of people that lived within the newly independent nation such as the Bambara in the south, the nomadic Tuareg in the North and the Fula and Songhay in the Sahel. It was at these competitions that Touré soaked up the music of all these different cultures and learned to sing in seven languages. Naturally <mask> was a great success at these competitions and ended up heading to Bulgaria to represent Mali internationally. It was during this trip that he bought his first guitar, and it was also the first time that he heard the music that was being produced in the USA during the 1960s, of which <mask> instantly became a fan. He was particularly fond of the music of John Lee Hooker and has stated that, “The first time I heard John Lee Hooker, I heard his music but I said ‘I don’t understand this, where did they come up with this culture?This is something that belongs to us.”

Although <mask> has been described as ‘The African Bluesman’, he insists that his music is not blues having stated that “To me blues is a type of soap powder, my music is older than the blues”. Musical career
As the first African bluesman to achieve widespread popularity on his home continent, <mask> was often known as "the African John Lee Hooker". Musically, the many superpositions of guitars and rhythms in his music were similar to John Lee Hooker's hypnotic blues style. He usually sang in one of several African languages, mostly Songhay, Fulfulde, Tamasheq or Bambara as on his breakthrough album, <mask> Farka Touré, which established his reputation in the world music community. <mask>’s first job in the music industry was as a sound engineer at Radio Mali in Bamako. This job allowed him the opportunity to use the radio station’s recording studio, which at the time was the only recording studio in Mali. Touré sent tapes of his recordings to various record labels in France and eventually ended up releasing a series of albums simply titled ‘<mask>ka Touré’ in the late 70s and early 80s.in 1986 <mask> captured the attention of the British market when tracks from one of his albums referred to as ‘the red album’ was played on British radio. British DJ Andy Kershaw discovered ‘the red album’ whilst in Paris looking for albums that were difficult to find in the UK. He recalls how he purchased the album at random amongst a pile of others as the album cover had stood out to him. Upon listening to the album after he had returned home to North London he realised that he had found something special. Upon playing a few tracks on his segment on BBC Radio One it provoked an extraordinary reaction from his listeners. It was this that grasped the attention of Anne Hunt of 'World Circuit Records'. In the mid-1980s, Hunt travelled to Mali to track down <mask> <mask>, she eventually found him by broadcasting a message on Radio Mali seeking information about his whereabouts.World Circuit records brought him to Britain for the first time in 1987 and <mask> went on to record seven records with them. The first few of these albums included some interesting collaborations such as with Seán Keane and Kevin Conneff of The Chieftains on The River in 1990 and Nitin Sawhney and the American blues player Taj Mahal on The Source in 1992. Although, his most high-profile collaboration of the early 90s was 1994’s Talking Timbuktu with Ry Cooder. Cooder  later recalled how Touré didn’t like recording the album in the Hollywood studio and described it as a place of ‘bad energy’ and The USA in general as a ‘spiritual car park’. <mask>'s first North American concert was in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. 1994's Talking Timbuktu, a collaboration with Ry Cooder, sold promisingly well in Western markets, but was followed by a hiatus from releases in America and Europe. He reappeared in 1999 with the release of Niafunké, a more traditional album focusing on African rhythms and beats.<mask> was the mentor and uncle of popular Malian musician Afel Bocoum. Some of <mask>'s songs and tunes have been used in different programmes, films and documentaries. For instance, his guitar riff on the song "Diaraby", from the album Talking Timbuktu, was selected for the Geo-quiz segment of The World PRI-BBC program, and was retained by popular demand when put to a vote of the listeners. This song is likewise used in 1998 as a soundtrack for the film L'Assedio (Besieged) by the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. His songs Cinquante six, Goye Kur and Hawa Dolo from the album The Source are also used as a soundtrack in the French film Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September) directed in 1998 by Olivier Assayas. The song "Lasidan" was featured in the award winning documentary "Sharkwater" by Rob Stewart. In 2002 Touré appeared with Black American blues and reggae performer Corey Harris, on an album called Mississippi to Mali (Rounder Records).Toure and Harris also appeared together in Martin Scorsese's 2003 documentary film Feel Like Going Home, which traced the roots of blues back to its genesis in West Africa. The film was narrated by Harris and features <mask>'s performances on guitar and njarka. In September 2005, <mask> released the album In the Heart of the Moon, a collaboration with Toumani Diabaté, for which he received a second Grammy award. His last album, Savane, was posthumously released in July 2006. It was received with wide acclaim by professionals and fans alike and has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Contemporary World Music Album". The panel of experts from the World Music Chart Europe (WMCE), a chart voted by the leading World Music specialists around Europe, chose Savane as their Album of the Year 2006, with the album topping the chart for three consecutive months (September to November 2006). The album has also been listed as No.1 in the influential Metacritic's "Best Albums of 2006" poll, and No. 5 in its all-time best reviewed albums. <mask> <mask> has also been nominated for the BBC Radio 3 awards 2007. In February 2018 Idrissa Soumaoro's song Bèrèbèrè, featuring <mask>, was used in Black Panther. Personal life
In 2020, Touré featured in the book ‘Greenlights’ by Matthew McConaughey. In part five, McConaughey recalls how in 1999 he was inspired to visit the African continent by a dream that he had. He goes on to reveal that <mask> <mask> was one of his favourite musicians and that it was listening to Touré’s music that inspired him to choose the country of Mali for his visit to the African continent.He spent four days travelling to Niafunké from Bamako and spend the day with <mask> and his wife before continuing his journey along the Niger River. In 2004 <mask> became mayor of Niafunké and spent his own money grading the roads, putting in sewer canals and fuelling a generator that provided the impoverished town with electricity. On 6 March 2006, the Ministry of Culture of Mali announced <mask>'s death at age 66 in Bamako from bone cancer, which he had been battling for some time. His record label, World Circuit, said that he had recorded several tracks with his son, Vieux <mask> <mask>, for Vieux's debut album which was released in late 2006. In popular culture
 In the French film l'Auberge espagnole (2002), two characters are seen playing air guitar to "Ai Du". In the movie Unfaithful (2002), Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez slow dance to "Ai Du". In the French film Irma Vep (1996), Maggie Cheung and Nathalie Richard ride an old motorcycle down the quay to <mask>'s song "Soukora".In the 2005 travel film Michael Palin: SAHARA, his music is heard in a scene about Nigerian nomads. The World, a radio show distributed by Public Radio International, uses the song "Diaraby" as the theme to their Geoquiz. The song is a collaboration between <mask> and Ry Cooder; the song is featured on their Talking Timbuktu album. The 2018 Marvel Studios film Black Panther features the song "Bèrèbèrè". The title "Bèrèbèrè" – meaning "to help each other" in Bambara – Malian guitarist and singer Idrissa Soumaoro illustrates the moment when T'Challa and Nakia walk in the market after their long separation. The cover of the album "Djitoumou" from which this title comes seems to have inspired the scene of the film in which we can hear "Bèrèbèrè", in the heart of a lively market. In the French localizations of Nintendo's Animal Crossing games, the song called "Safari K.K."in English-speaking regions is instead referred to as "Ali Farka Kéké". At Documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017, Igo Diarra and La Medina paid tribute to the life and artistic work of <mask> <mask> with the contribution "Studio Ali Farka Touré - Proud and Well". Photographs, record covers, objects and his music were presented. The program also included a workshop and a performance by the <mask>ka <mask> Band in the official performance program in the Henschel halls. I'll Sing for You, 2001

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 Kubik, Gerhard (1999). Africa and the Blues. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.(hardcover);  (paperback). Guralnick, Peter, ed. (2003). Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. A companion book to the PBS documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. Foreword by Alex Gibney; afterword by Chuck D. New York: Amistad. External links

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<mask> (born October 3, 1959) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his work as an improvisational comedian on the U.K. and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? He also performed on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and voiced the title character on the animated children's show Bob the Builder from 2005 to late 2007. Early life
<mask> was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco, attending San Carlos High School. He attended the College of San Mateo and spearheaded the comedy duo "Proops & Brakeman". Later, he took courses in improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University, though he never finished college. Career

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After college, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane.Both <mask> and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He frequently instigated jokes concerning various idiosyncrasies and differences between British English and American English, and would frequently banter with Clive Anderson on these matters (among others). He lived in London for four years when he was doing the show and lists McShane, Richard Vranch and Colin Mochrie among his best friends. After the show ended, he was recalled for the American version and has been a frequent "fourth contestant". Through 2020, he has appeared in 74 U.S. Whose Line episodes, more than any other non-regular cast member. <mask> also appeared in every episode of the short-lived Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, where the performers would play improv games (some of which were taken from the show's main influence Whose Line Is It Anyway?) in front of a massive green screen.Later, animators would draw on the background and other props. In April 2011, Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza premiered on GSN featuring <mask> along with other frequent guests from Whose Line is it Anyway? In July 2012, <mask> appeared in ABC's improvisation show, Trust Us with Your Life. In November 2011, <mask> did a week on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas with the Lewis Black Comedy Cruise Tour. He performed the entire week of stand-up with other artists, which included a live, one-hour podcast in front of his entire audience. Film and television
<mask> has performed his stand-up act across Britain, mainland Europe, Australia and New Zealand. His other credits include hosting Space Cadets, a mid-1990s science-fiction comedy game show on Channel 4 in the UK, which also featured Craig Charles (Dave Lister from Red Dwarf) and Bill Bailey, and appearances on BBC2's Mock the Week.He appeared as a panelist on the 2000 revival of To Tell the Truth. <mask> has also hosted game shows, including VS. in 1999, Rendez-View in 2001, and Head Games, a Science Channel game show which ran for one season in 2009. In addition to his stand-up and improv acts, <mask> has done voice work in various films and TV shows, including Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the miniseries Stripperella with Pamela Anderson. <mask> provided the voice of Bob in the US version of the TV series Bob the Builder for the five seasons of Project Build It. He has also featured in 2003 film Brother Bear as the voice of one of the Love Bears and provided the voice as Cryptograf in 2006 film Asterix and the Vikings. <mask> has been involved with Turner Classic Movies since 2013, appearing on several of the network's podcasts and in person at public events. In 2016, he appeared as a television presenter for TCM, introducing comedy films by the Marx Brothers and Wheeler & Woolsey.<mask> has been involved with the Star Wars franchise as well. He played the role of Fode in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. He would later work with the Expanded Universe, reprising his role as Fode in the video game Star Wars Episode I: Racer and the video game adaptation of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and he guest-starred on two episodes of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars ("The Mandalore Plot" and "Voyage of Temptation") as Tal Merrick. In 2018, <mask> voiced Jak Sivrak in Star Wars Resistance. <mask> appeared as a guest on The George Lucas Talk Show during their May the AR Be LI$$ You Arli$$ marathon fundraiser. Radio and podcast

Since 2010, <mask> hosts a podcast called The Smartest Man In The World, often together with his wife Jennifer Canaga, in which he talks about current events, celebrity culture, and his personal life, usually in front of a live audience. Before Smartest Man, <mask> hosted a podcast called The <mask>ops Experiment.From 1995–1996, <mask> presented Bits from Last Week's Radio on BBC Radio 1. He did voice work for the BBC Radio 2 series Flight of the Conchords, first broadcast in September 2005. <mask> also played the title role in BBC Radio 4's sci-fi comedy series Seymour the Fractal Cat. <mask> was in the cast of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack and movie, providing the voice for the Harlequin Demon, the Devil, and the Sax Player. Video games
<mask> provides voice-over work as Howard "Buckshot" Holmes, a game show announcer along with John DiMaggio for the Nintendo Wii game MadWorld. DiMaggio and <mask> play as comical announcers on a brutal game show set in the future. <mask> provided the voice of Matthew Black, a reporter in the forgotten Psygnosis game, ZombieVille (1997).<mask> also provided the voice of Fargus, a pyromantic court jester for the PlayStation Pandemonium game series. He later worked as a voice actor in Skylanders: Imaginators, where he voiced a Brain that was freed by Kaos in order to help perfect his Doomlanders project. Comedy albums
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 Back in the UK (1997)
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 Joke Book (2007)
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 In the Ball Park (2015)
 The Resistance (2018)

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 <mask> released nonfiction book The Smartest Book in the World through publisher Touchstone. The book is based in part on Proops's weekly podcast The Smartest Man in the World, detailing the author's movie and poetry recommendations, baseball facts, powerful women, and misconstrued history. The paperback version of the book was released from Touchstone on February 21, 2017. Filmography

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<mask> ( Spatola; born July 21, 1988) is an American curler from McFarland, Wisconsin. She was the skip of the American women's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the third at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Career
<mask> began curling in 1998 and six years later played in her first United States Junior National Championship. She would compete in five more Junior Nationals, winning the title in 2006 and 2008. As a member of the Junior Championship team she qualified for two World Junior Curling Championships. Skipping the teams both times she finished tenth at the 2006 Jeonju, Korea Worlds and seventh at the 2008 Östersund, Sweden Worlds. <mask>'s senior career began in 2009 as the third for Erika Brown's team.They qualified for the 2009 US Nationals where they placed fourth. <mask> returned to the United States Nationals in March 2010 where Team Brown won the National Championship earning the right to compete as Team USA at the 2010 Swift Current World Championships. There they lost in a tiebreaker match, settling for fifth place. In her last season as a member of the Brown rink, the team would finish in fourth place at 2011 Nationals. On the World Curling Tour, the <mask> rink played in three Grand Slam events making it as far as the quarterfinals at the 2010 Sobeys Slam. In 2011, <mask> joined the Patti Lank rink as third. They finished in eighth place at the 2012 United States Women's Curling Championship.They played in just one Grand Slam that season, the 2011 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, failing to qualify. Elsewhere on the tour, the team won the St. Paul Cash Spiel. The next season, <mask> moved to play second on the team. The team played in the 2013 United States Women's Curling Championship and finished in fifth place after losing in a tiebreaker. Also that season, the team defended their title at the St. Paul Cash Spiel. At the start of the 2013–14 curling season, <mask> joined Becca Hamilton's rink as their skip and Hamilton throwing third stones. The team would win the 2014 United States Women's Curling Championship, but did not have enough tour points to represent the United States at that years' World Championship.The following season, Jamie Sinclair was added as the team's third, Hamilton moved to play second, and Tara Peterson was added at lead position. The team had less success at the 2015 United States Women's Curling Championship, just missing the playoffs with a 4–5 record. On the tour, the team played in two slams but missed the playoffs in both. In 2015 <mask> formed a new team consisting of Monica Walker, Aileen Sormunen and Vicky Persinger. The team made it to the finals of the 2016 United States Women's Curling Championship, where they lost to <mask>'s former skip, Erika Brown. The next season, Becca Hamilton came back to the team to play lead, Geving was moved to second and Tabitha Peterson was added to play third. The team lost in the finals at the 2017 Nationals to Jamie Sinclair.However, they had enough points on the tour to represent the United States at the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship. There they just missed the playoffs, finishing with a 6–5 record. On the tour they won one event, the Molson Cash Spiel. That season the team also represented the United States at the 2017 Americas Challenge, where they easily beat Brazil to qualify the U.S. for the 2017 Worlds. The team would get the best of Sinclair at the 2017 United States Olympic Curling Trials, where they defeated the Sinclair rink in the final, winning the right to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics. There <mask> led the United States to a 4–5 record, missing the playoffs. Because they played in the Olympics, Team <mask> opted to skip the 2018 US Nationals.On the tour that season they won the Canad Inns Women's Classic and played in two slams, making it as far as the quarterfinals at the 2018 Players' Championship. Team <mask> attempted to defend their title at the 2019 United States Women's Curling Championship, but lost out to Team Sinclair in the final. They had better luck on the Grand Slam tour, making it to the semifinals of the 2018 Tour Challenge and the 2019 Canadian Open. Her team also represented the United States in the First Leg and the Grand Final of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup, finishing with a 3–3 and 2–4 record respectively. The teams first World Curling Tour event of the 2019–20 season was the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic where they missed the playoffs. The following week, they won the Beyer & Simonson US Open of Curling. They also won their following event, the 2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup, defeating Kim Eun-jung in the final.<mask> missed most of the season while on maternity leave, with Tabitha Peterson skipping the team. During the 2020 off-season the team announced that Peterson would remain as skip when <mask> returned from maternity leave. <mask> re-joined the team as vice-skip at third, with Hamilton moving to second, Tara Peterson to lead, and Geving to alternate. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Peterson team did not compete in events for most of the 2020–21 season until entering a bio-secure bubble held in Calgary, Alberta in the spring of 2021 for three events in a row. The first two events were the Champions Cup and Players' Championship grand slams, with the team missing the playoffs at both. The third event in the Calgary bubble for Team Peterson was the 2021 World Women's Championship, which they earned a spot at as 2020 National Champions after the 2021 National Championship was moved to later in the spring due to the pandemic. They finished the 13 game round-robin in fifth place with a 7–6 record, earning them a spot in the playoffs and securing a 2022 Olympic berth for the United States.In the playoffs, Team Peterson defeated Denmark's Madeline Dupont but lost to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni to end up in the bronze medal game. There, Peterson faced off against Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and won with a score of 9–5, including scoring five points in the seventh end. Team Peterson's bronze medal finish was the first World Women's medal for the United States in 15 years, and the first ever bronze medal. Personal life
<mask> earned a nursing degree from Edgewood College and works as a registered nurse. She married <mask> in 2014 and they have one child. She is of Italian descent. Teams

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<mask>, 7th Earl of Perth,  (17 August 1876 – 15 December 1951), was a British politician and diplomat who was the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations (1920–1933). Quiet and unassuming, he succeeded in building an effective international staff. However he failed to resolve major international disputed because of pressure from Britain and France, the most powerful League members. He moved on to become British Ambassador to Italy (1933–1939) and then the chief adviser on foreign publicity in the Ministry of Information (1939–1940). In 1946, he became deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. Early life and career

Family
Drummond was born into the Scottish nobility, the Chiefs of Clan Drummond. His father was James David Drummond, 10th Viscount Strathallan (1839–1893), an army officer of Machany in Perthshire who had three children with his second wife, Margaret Smythe, the daughter of William Smythe of Methven Castle in Perthshire.<mask> Drummond was the eldest and the only son but Drummond had two half-sisters and one half-brother, William Huntley Drummond, from his father's first marriage to Ellen Thornhill. Drummond's brother William succeeded their father as Viscount Strathallan in 1893 and, in 1902, succeeded their distant cousin, George Drummond, 5th Earl of Perth, to become the 6th Earl of Perth. On 20 August 1937, Drummond's half-brother died and so Drummond became the 7th Earl of Perth and inherited these titles: Lord Drummond of Cargill and Stobhall, Lord Maderty, 12th Viscount Strathallan, Lord Drummond of Cromlix, Hereditary thegn of Lennox, Hereditary Steward of Menteith and Strathearn and Chief of Clan Drummond. He was raised in a Presbyterian family but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1903. That became a hindrance during his career when Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald vetoed his appointment as ambassador at Washington in 1933. His conversion was most likely caused by his wish to marry a Roman Catholic, the Hon. Angela Mary Constable-Maxwell (1877–1965), the daughter of Marmaduke Francis Constable-Maxwell, 11th Lord Herries of Terregles and Hon.Angela Mary Charlotte Fitzalan-Howard (daughter of the 1st Baron Howard of Glossop), which he did on 20 April 1904. They had four children:
 Lady Margaret Gwendolyn Mary (1905)
 John David Drummond, Viscount Strathallan (1907), inherited his father's titles
 Lady Angela Alice Maryel Drummond (1912)
 Lady Gillian Mary Drummond (1920). Education and early career
Drummond was educated at Eton College, where he graduated in 1895. There, he learned French, which later would become an important tool in his diplomatic career. His upbringing in the British establishment helped to pave the way into the diplomatic world as a civil servant. Drummond is best known for his 13 years as secretary-general in the League of Nations. Before accepting that prestigious position, however, he had served mainly as a private secretary for various British politicians and diplomats, including the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.On 20 April 1900, Drummond entered the British Foreign Office as a clerk. From 1906 to 1908, he was the private secretary of the under-secretary to Lord Fitzmaurice. Between 1908 and 1910, he occupied two functions: précis writer of the foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey and the private secretary of the parliamentary under-secretary, Thomas McKinnon Wood. From 1912 to 1918, Drummond worked as the private secretary of respectively: the prime minister, H. H. Asquith, and the foreign secretaries, Sir Edward Grey and Arthur James Balfour. In April to May 1917 he was a member of the Balfour Mission, which was intended to promote cooperation between the British and the Americans during the First World War. League of Nations career
Between 1918 and 1919, he was a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, where he was engaged in the drafting of the Covenant of the League of Nations. In 1919 he accepted the position of the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, on the recommendation of Lord Cecil.Before the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in 1919, much work had been put into finding a suitable candidate for secretary-general of the newly-established League of Nations. Cecil, who played an important role in drafting the Covenant and organising the League, initially wanted a person with a background in politics for the post; but despite the existence of several candidates, none accepted his proposal. He believed that only somebody of the highest ability would be sufficient for this role. However, after the office would not be given as many powers as initially thought, Cecil reconsidered and sought to find somebody who was a well-trained civil servant and less known as a big political figure. He first approached Maurice Hankey, who for some time showed interest in the position but in the end rejected the offer only ten days prior to the Paris plenary session. In the event that Hankey would turn down the offer, Cecil and the American Edward M. House had developed a contingency plan to substitute Hankey with Sir <mask>. As early as 1915, Drummond expressed himself favourably towards the establishment of an international organisation.As such, Drummond was involved in negotiations regarding the establishment of the League of Nations. In addition, he was also a British national, which Cecil valued very highly. Drummond was an experienced diplomat and had earned a high reputation during his 19 years at the Foreign Office, which helped him to be considered the best choice available. After some initial doubt in which Drummond expressed anxiety about organising the League, he finally accepted the proposal. At the Paris Peace Conference's plenary session on 28 April 1919, the conference accepted the appointment of Drummond as the first secretary-general of the League of Nations. Establishment of permanent secretariat (1919–1920)

One of the secretary-general's major deeds was the establishment of a permanent and strictly-international secretariat. No such thing had ever been attempted, and prewar secretariats had largely been confined to the national sphere in both the context of who supplied them and the civil servants who worked there.The creation of an international civil service was not without problems, and administrative leaders thought it unthinkable that such a body would ever be united, loyal or efficient. By August 1920 the secretariat was fully established. The personnel staffing the secretariat came from over 30 countries and differed in language, religion and training, all of whom were appointed by the League, not by national governments. That once again underscored the difference between the new international body and previous national secretariats. In total, the secretariat came to consist of seven sections: a Mandate Section, an Economic and Financial Section, a Section for Transit and Communication, a Social Section, a Political Section, a Legal Section and an International Bureau Section. Leadership style
Drummond approached the role conservatively. His somewhat-subdued role in the British Foreign Office easily transferred over to the position of secretary-general.He was not a major political figure and so did not seek to turn the office into a reflection of his personality. Drummond set about creating the administrative divisions for the League. He took no risk in his appointments to senior positions in the League of Nations and chose to appoint only members who supported their nation's government and gave the positions only to members of leading states. Drummond was regarded as taking great care with issues and taking his position very seriously. He would read everything that came to his desk and would often call meetings regularly to discuss various issues. The meetings would often take place with various members of governments, which managed to established contact by his appointments to the League. Drummond thus became aware of sensitive information from various governments and nongovernmental organisations but became someone who could be trusted by various politicians worldwide.He was widely regarded as shying away from the public and political spotlight, despite the high-profile nature of his position. He, however, was believed to be highly political behind the scenes but was often forced to do to appease various nations and because of often lacking support from many governments. One example was his 1920s dealings with Benito Mussolini's policies towards the Balkans, Africa and Europe. Drummond was unable to condemn any of Mussolini's policies publicly, as he did not have the backing of Britain and France. He wanted to maintain good relations with Italy, which helped to render him somewhat impotent. Drummond had to perform his function behind the scenes of the League of Nations. He took great care to maintain world peace, as was hoped during the creation of the League, but he also appeased nations, rather than keeping them in check against international law.Despite the limitations coming from outside the League, he largely decided how he would run the office since he was very seldom under any kind of supervision. Drummond became regarded as a central hub within the League of Nations for most issues, and he would often pick the ones that interested him the most and delegate the lesser issues to his staff. He could thus be regarded as a leader who used the office for his own political interests. National allegiance of League staff
The ideal underpinning the secretariat and those working there was one much resembling a Weberian understanding of bureaucracy that was also seen in Protestant-secular rationalism, the idea of a non-political, neutral, effective and efficient bureaucrat. Drummond admitted, "It is not always those who secure public praise to whom thanks are mainly due, and the work unknown to the public which is done behind the scenes is often a large factor in the success which has been obtained". The ideal was not always upheld, and national preferences were never really abandoned. New under-secretaries-general who were appointed were more often than not of the same nationality, with candidates of smaller powers excluded.Drummond did not practice what he preached, which created small national islands from which the appointed officials conducted national, rather than international, politics. In 1929, the Assembly decided to make a thorough investigation of the secretariats, the International Labour Organization and the Permanent Court of International Justice. The minority report showed that the political influence in substantive issues by the secretariats and its main officers was enormous and could not be overlooked. However, that was not recognised by Drummond before the 1950s and until then had readily defended the notion of nonpolitical character of international secretariats. Despite the political character of the international civil service, the Secretariat came to be widely recognised as an instrument of the highest efficiency and the structural framework became a model for future international civil services, such as seen in the United Nations. Role during crises
During Drummond's secretary-generalship were several crises that called for his attention. The League of Nations' Council relied on the willingness of its members to use their militaries to apply its collective security mandate during crises.Many of them centred on border disputes from the collapse of empires after the First World War. As the League got involved in such matters throughout the 1920s with members and non-members alike, Drummond was at the centre of the talks and the negotiations. The League was involved in disputes in Latin America, the Baltics and then China. Peter Yearwood argues that although Drummond was an idealist, as were most other people, he also 'made use' of his connections in politics. Drummond was widely regarded as somebody who shied away from the public and political limelight, despite the high-profile nature of his position. He managed to achieve that but was believed to be highly political behind the scenes. He was often forced to appease various nations because he often lacked support from governments.One example was his dealings with Benito Mussolini's policies in the 1920s towards the Balkans, Africa and the rest of Europe. Drummond was unable to give a public condemnation of Mussolini's policies, as he had the backing of neither Britain nor France and wanted to maintain good relations with Italy. That was one of the many reasons that helped to render him a somewhat-impotent leader. Drummond had to perform his function behind the scenes of the League of Nations. He took great care to maintain world peace, as was hoped during the creation of the League of Nations, but he appeased nations, rather than keep them in check against international law. Despite the limitations coming from outside the League of

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 Nations, he largely decided how he would run the office within it since he was very seldom under any kind of supervision. He became regarded as a central hub within the League of Nations for most issues and would often pick the ones that interested him the most and delegate the lesser issues to his staff.He could thus be regarded as a leader who used the office for his own political interests. Another issue that partly drove Drummond's ambitions and his way of handling the crises presented before him was his religion. A devout Catholic, that had a significant impact in his dealings with the Polish–Lithuanian War early in his career. He strongly urged for a plebiscite to which Poland could agree, most Poles being Catholic. Aldo, Drummond seemed to be pro-active. On the crisis between Russia and Finland over the latter's independence gained after the First World War, Drummond was one of the first to consider a possible solution. Another important factor of his secretary-generalship was his willingness to step beyond the boundaries given to him in his position.During the crisis over the Chaco War near the very end of Drummond's career at the League, he was praised for being a helpful mediator and for doing more than his position allowed. Mukden Incident

One of the less successful moments for Drummond's was one of the most prominent crises of Drummond's career, the Mukden Incident. China allegedly blew up part of a railroad, which Japan then used as an excuse to invade Manchuria. China appealed to the League for measures against Japan. According to Michael E. Chapman, Drummond's initial response was not that of an imperialistic western leader but that of a bureaucrat. Somewhat limited in his powers, he looked towards the two most powerful Western nations in the region, Britain and the United States, which more or less stated that they were 'too busy' to deal with the crisis at hand. When the crisis reached its peak, Stimson advised Drummond to "strengthen and support treaty obligations" the Japanese action had caused British discomfort.He was advised to try not to arouse nationalist feelings in Japan. Drummond wanted to be an active player in the crisis but was mostly outplayed by Henry Stimson and Hugh R. Wilson. He resigned in 1933 and was succeeded by his deputy Joseph Avenol, from France. British ambassador in Rome (1933–1939)
After leaving the League, Drummond was chosen as candidate to the post of British ambassador to Washington, but his candidacy was vetoed by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, allegedly because Drummond had converted to Roman Catholicism at 27. Instead, he was appointed British ambassador to Rome in October 1933 and he served there until he left Italy in April 1939. He retired from foreign politics a month later, in May 1939. Throughout his time in Rome, Drummond found it "difficult to get close to Mussolini".He noted that "[Mussolini]... had to be treated with great caution when he [was] in 'a highly sensitive condition'"

The Italian foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, thought that Perth, as he had now become, was convinced that the harsh attitude of France towards Italy was unreasonable. Furthermore, Perth tried to convince the Italians that the British government was "conciliatory" and even went so far as "[...defending] Italian policy." Ciano, whose Italian secret service efficiency allowed him to read many of Perth's reports, states in his diary that the British ambassador had been opposed to the fascist regime when he came to Rome but had developed into a "sincere convert" who "understood and even loved Fascism". Caution must always be employed in using Ciano's statements, but Perth's reports suggested that there was a certain amount of truth in the remarks:

"Perth may have misjudged Mussolini's attitude to Germany but, in the last analysis, even here he was not far wrong, for the limitations of Italian power made it impossible for Mussolini, in 1939, to carry out his intention of siding with Germany in the war". Second World War and domestic politics (1939–1951)
During the Second World War, Perth worked for the Ministry of Information as a senior bureaucrat. After the war, he served until his death as a deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. His involvement with the party did not slow its decline in electoral and ideological influence.Legacy
It is useful to make an overall assessment of Drummond's working career within the framework of the institutions, such as the limitations and restrictions put by the guiding principles and contradictions of the institutions and his liberal ideological background, upbringing and character traits. For a fair evaluation of his leadership as the first secretary-general of the League of Nations, his leadership could be judged in two areas: the traditional political issues concerning security and national sovereignty and the softer technical issues. In regards to the security role of the League, his role could be assessed as negligible, especially for the second half of his tenureship, which was characterised by the systematic undermining competition of the great powers, notably Britain and France and the security structure impaired by 19th-century imperialism of the League: its Council. His pragmatic and co-operative approach resulted in some successes in the early years of the League, but his role is considered inadequate when it was confronted with issues such as the Manchurian Crisis. His involvement in setting the organizational infrastructure in areas such as the dealing with refugees, the minority regime and the mandate system could be seen more positively since during his time, especially during the first half of the 1920s, had some successes in resolving and tackling issues, such as the 1925 Greek–Bulgarian Conflict in 1925 and the 1932-1933 Colombia–Peru War. However, it was the technical issues, such as humanitarian aid and the supervision of a series of "technical organizations and committees", in which he had the most enduring positive legacy. Drummond was part of an international technocratic elite of experts that favoured the initiation of international standards in health and labour issues, the gathering and the sharing of statistical information and a spirit of internationalism to deal with problems.After his post at the League, he was assigned to the post of ambassador of Fascist Italy. A combination of his own restricted ability to see the overall situation and Britain's strategy of appeasement of fascist regimes that he served could account as a failure and quite possibly the darkest period of his career. The non-resolution of the Ethiopian Crisis had the effects of undermining League's security role and sening the wrong signals to both Mussolini and Hitler. Drummond, as the British ambassador to Italy, was one of the actors who failed to anticipate the negative results of the British appeasement policy:

His handling of the political tasks of the League [of Nations] has been criticized as over cautious, but he did not lack courage for decisive action when such action was necessary for the maintenance of the authority of the League. His slow somewhat hesitant approach was useful in avoiding disappointments and setbacks and contributed to the League’s steady gain in prestige. The above assessment of how Drummond's pragmatic and contemplative character had a positive impact on League's administration, notably the Secretariat, can be contrasted with Drummond's ideas of liberalism, anticommunism and internationalism and with his flirting with fascist ideas. His career and life followed a similar trajectory with the broader ideological, imperial and internationalist ideas.The Second World War signalled the defeat of liberal politicians and of their declared vision of peace, as well as the prevailing of fascist and nationalist ideas over the international vision that Drummond had tried to materialise with the League. Titles and honours
During his life, Drummond received a variety of titles for his accomplishments. He was awarded the following by King George V:
 Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) 22 June 1914. Knight Commander Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) 21 December 1916. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) 30 January 1934. See also
 United Kingdom and the League of Nations
 Earl of Perth
 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Notes

Bibliography
 "The Secretariat of the League of Nations" (1931), Paper read before the institute of public administration, 19 March 1931, English. "Ten Years of World Cooperation" (1930), book, published by the Secretariat of the League of Nations.Foreword by Drummond, English. "The International Secretariat of the Future; Lessons from Experience by a Group of Former Officials of the League of Nations." (1944), book, co-authored by Drummond, English. Procès-verbal... du Conseil de la Société des nations...    (Minutes of the Council of the League of Nations (1920–24), Speech. English. The League of Nations BBC National Lectures (1933)
 The organisation of peace and the Dumbarton Oaks proposals (1945), pamphlets on Dumberton Oaks proposals, Vol. 8, no.1
 Annuaire de l'Association yougoslave de droit international: Année (Journal, French)
 Procès-verbal... du Conseil de la Société des nations = Minutes of the... Council of the League of Nations (1921).Book
 Germany after the war: proposals of a Liberal Party Committee by <mask> (1944). Book. Ten years of world co-operation. Published by League of Nations. Foreword by Drummond (1930)
 Procès-verbal... du Conseil de la Société des nations = Minutes of the... Council of the League of Nations Minutes of the... Council of the League of Nations. 1st–15th session, Jan. 16, 1920-19 Nov. 1921. Book
 The aims of the League of Nations (1929).Book
 Les réfugiés Russes : Lettre du Comité International de la Croix-Rouge et réponse du Secrétaire Général by League of Nations (1921). Book in French
 Dix ans de coopération intellectuelle (1930). Book in French
 Speech made by Sir <mask>, Secretary-general of the League of nations by Conference for the Codification of International Law (1930). Book
 Brief van <mask> Drummond (1876–1951) aan Willem Jan Mari van Eysinga (1878–1961) (1921). Book in Dutch
 Correspondence respecting League of Nations matters, Feb. 1918-Oct. 1924 [accumulated at the Foreign Office during the first part of his term of office as Secretary-general of the League of Nations] (1924). Book

Further reading
 James Barros: Office Without Power (1979), book about Drummond and his time as secretary-general. Araceli Julia P. Gelardi: Sir <mask>, Britain’s Ambassador to Italy, and British Foreign Policy during the Italo-Abyssinian Crisis of 1935–1936 (1982), master's thesis about Drummond as British ambassador to Italy.Sources
 Chapman, Michael E. Fidgeting over Foreign Policy: Henry L. Stimson and the Shenyang Incident, 1931. Oxford Journals: Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 4 (2013). Dykmann, Klaas & Naumann, Katja, eds. Changes from the "Margins": Non-European Actors, Ideas and Strategies in International Organizations (Leipzig, 2014). Craig, Gordon A., and Gilbert, Felix. eds. The Diplomats 1919–1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994).Barros, James. Office Without Power: Secretary-General Sir <mask> 1919–1933 (Oxford 1979). Lorna Lloyd. "Drummond, (James) <mask>, seventh earl of Perth (1876–1951)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed, January 2011 accessed 7 October 2014
 Lloyd, Lorna. "The League of Nations and the Settlement of Disputes"  World Affairs. Vol. 157, No.4, Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations: Part One (Spring 1995). Macfadyen, D.; Davies, M.; Carr, M.; Burley, J. 2019. <mask> and his Legacies: The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance. Palgrave, 2019  online
 Walters, F. P., A History of the League of Nations, Oxford University Press, 1952. (available online)
 Yearwood, Peter J. Guarantee of Peace: The League of Nations in British Policy 1914–1925.Oxford Scholarship Online (2009)

External links
 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm
 Earl of Perth#Earls of Perth (1605, restored 1853)
 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

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<mask><mask><mask> (23 April 1925 – 21 September 2008) was a New Zealand professional wrestler, trainer and promoter. Hobman was one of the first homegrown stars to emerge from the Dominion Wrestling Union, and later Steve Rickard's All Star-Pro Wrestling, during the 1960s and 70s such as Tony Garea, Peter Maivia and The Sheepherders. Hobman twice won the NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship from John Da Silva in 1960 and Steve Rickard in 1964 with a combined reign of nearly 6 years as champion. He and Rickard were also the first New Zealand Tag Team Champions. Prior to wrestling, Hobman had a successful athletic career playing rugby union at Rongotai College as a lock for Oriental Rongotai as well as a professional bodybuilder winning both the Mr. Australasia and Mr. New Zealand bodybuilding competitions in 1951. Hobman wrestled throughout the world during his career, most often in Asia and the South Pacific, but also had successful stints in the United States, most notably, against then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Gene Kiniski in 1969. He was a successful promoter both prior to and during his later career, mainly working with Da Silva's Central Wrestling Association, and trained a number of wrestlers with Bruno Bekkar at the famed Koolmans Gym including Jock Ruddock and Butch Miller; two of his four children, Kurt and <mask>, both became wrestlers as well with the elder Hobman staging the country's first officially sanctioned women's wrestling match between his daughter and Dutch female wrestler Monica Schumaker.He was among several New Zealand wrestling legends involved with Kiwi Pro Wrestling, one of the first wrestling promotions to open since the close of All Star-Pro Wrestling in 1992, and inducted into KPW's New Zealand Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006. He also attended live events made other public appearances until his sudden death two years later. In 2009, less than a year after his death, Hobman was ranked No. 5 in a top ten list of New Zealand's greatest wrestlers by Fight Times Magazine. Career

Early athletic and wrestling career
A lifelong resident of Wellington, <mask> was active in sports and athletics at a young age and began playing rugby union at Rongotai College as a lock for the Oriental Rongotai. Hobman weighed around 75 kg at this time and suffered constant injuries going up against 100 – 130 kg sized opponents. He was soon introduced to weightlifting by a friend of his and, with nutrition and training regimen, gradually built up his body-weight to around 110 kg.In addition to improving his performance in rugby, Hobman also took up competitive bodybuilding and won both Mr. Australasia and Mr. New Zealand titles in 1951. Hobman spent much of his training at Koolman's Gym in Wellington where he also acted as a sparring partner to boxers and wrestlers from both New Zealand and overseas. It was during this time that Hobman became interested in a professional career as a wrestler, which he described as being claimed by its "call", and was wrestling for promoters throughout the country by the late-1950s. His debut match against Australian wrestler Rick Wallace ended with his losing two falls to one in the Wellington Town Hall. Wrestling for the New Zealand Wrestling Union, he soon became a familiar face to New Zealand wrestling fans wrestling in nearly every town and city "from Kaitaia to Invercargill". Hobman was soon invited to his first overseas tour for Greek promoter George Gardiner in Australia followed by visits to the United States, Canada and the South Pacific; specifically the Cook Islands, Tahiti, Fiji, Malaysia and Singapore. He was also brought over to Japan by Canadian and Commonwealth Champion, Gordon Nelson.Headliner during the 1960s and 70s
<mask> was not only as a formidable journeyman wrestler but was also a top draw in his native country with bouts at the Wellington Town Hall against The Great Zorro, Tony "The Greek" Kontellis, John Da Silva, Pat O'Connor and Bruno Bekkar among others. One of his bouts against Becker in New Plymouth featured Lofty Blomfield as special guest referee. The proceeds from this match were donated to the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Society of which Blomfield was president. On 26 October 1960, <mask> defeated Da Silva for the vacant NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship. He won the title a second time from Steve Rickard in 1964 and held the belt for three years before losing it to Da Silva in Wellington on 7 September 1967; his combined title reigns totalled nearly six years. He and Rickard also became the first New Zealand Tag Team Champions. On 22 April 1969, Hobman wrestled Gene Kiniski for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in Portland, Oregon.Much of his early career was spent in Rickard's NWA-affiliated All Star-Pro Wrestling, however, he also competed for smaller promotions such as South Pacific Wrestling Association and John Da Silva's Central Wrestling Association. Towards the end of the decade, he became a promoter for the CWA as well and trained a number of wrestlers out of Koolmans Gym with Bruno Bekkar and George Kidd. Among his students were Jock Ruddock and Butch Miller. Two of his four children, Kurt and <mask>, also became professional wrestlers with <mask> promoting the first-ever women's wrestling match between his daughter, wrestling under the name Linda Tyson, and daughter Dutch professional wrestler Willen Schumaker, Monica Schumaker. Prior to 1973, female wrestling was illegal in New Zealand. He also made appearances on the popular television programme On the Mat. Retirement and later years
Retiring by the 1980s, he remained absent from the industry for a quarter of a century until the opening of Kiwi Pro Wrestling in May 2006.It was one of the first promotions to open since the close of All Star-Pro Wrestling in 1992, one of three major companies to emerge during the 2000s, with Hobman as one of its strongest supporters. He appeared at many of its live events and was one of several New Zealand wrestling legends to be interviewed by KiwiProWrestling.co.nz. Hobman was also inducted into the New Zealand Wrestling Hall of Fame by former student and KPW Commissioner Butch Miller on 8 December 2006, along with Bob Crozier, Bruno Bekkar and Rip Morgan. He and other veterans also worked with KPW's younger wrestlers and remained closely associated with the promotion until dying unexpectedly at his home on 21 September 2008. A month after his death, <mask>, Steve Rickard, Bruno Bekkar, Juno Huia, Cowboy Billy Wright, Ricky Wallace and Bob Crozier appeared at the KPW supercard "Halloween Howl 3" held in Wellington High School to pay tribute to Hobman's death; the main event between KPW Champion H-Fame and Inferno was dedicated to Hobman's memory. In a statement from KPW's website, Off the Ropes play by play announcer Blair "The Flair" Rhodes wrote "Mr. <mask> was renowned not only as an exemplary sportsman in the ring, but was also remembered amongst all his peers as a gentleman outside the ring. Being such a man of real character and bearing, Mr Hobman was a true ambassador for the business of professional wrestling".Five months later, he was ranked No. 5 in a top ten list of New Zealand's greatest wrestlers by Fight Times Magazine. Championships and accomplishments

Bodybuilding
Mr. Australasia (1951)
Mr. New Zealand (1951)

Professional wrestling
Kiwi Pro Wrestling
New Zealand Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
NWA New Zealand
NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
NWA New Zealand Tag Team Championship (1 time, first) – with Steve Rickard

References

External links
<mask> at Genickbruch.com

1925 births
2008 deaths
New Zealand male professional wrestlers
New Zealand rugby union players
Professional bodybuilders
People from Wellington City
People educated at Rongotai College
Stampede Wrestling alumni

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Linda Hobman
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Guillermo C. "<mask><mask> (born 10 July 1978) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins. He also was a member of the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of South Florida. <mask> is perhaps best known for tearing a knee ligament in a celebratory leap in 2001. Early years
<mask> was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Laura and <mask>. <mask> is the younger brother to fellow placekicker <mask> and older brother to <mask>.Laura and <mask> decided to move their family from Argentina to LaBelle, Florida, in 1983. <mask> graduated from LaBelle High School, as did his two brothers. As a senior in 1995, he made 15-of-20 field goals and 44-of-45 extra points, tying a school record with a 52-yard field goal. He received first-team Class 3A All-State and honorable-mention USA Today All-American honors. College career
<mask> accepted a football scholarship from Florida State University. He was redshirted, while senior Scott Bentley finished his college eligibility. As a redshirt freshman in 1997, he competed with true freshman Sebastian Janikowski for the stating placekicker job.He began the first 4 games of the season as the starter, showing inconsistency by making 2-of-4 (50%) on field goals and 10-of-12 (83%) on extra points. He was passed on the depth chart by Janikowski, asked head coach Bobby Bowden to be released from his scholarship and left school. On October 7, 1997, he announced that he was transferring to Division I-AA University of South Florida. As a sophomore in 1998, he set school records with 16-of-24 field goals made (66%), 46-of-47 extra points made (97%) and 94 scored points. He received second-team Division I-AA All-American honors. As a junior in 1999, he was limited with a groin injury and posted 4-of-5 field goals (80%). Tony Umholz replaced him in the games he missed.As a senior in 2000, he made 16-of-24 field goal attempts (66.7%), 29-of-30 extra points (96.7%), 77 scored points and 6 punts with a 33.7-yard average. In the season finale against Austin Peay State University, he set a school record and tied a Division I-AA record with a 63-yard field goal. In 2001, after his graduation, he was replaced with his younger brother Santiago, who became a four-year starter and made 38 field goals. Gramática finished his college career after setting most of the kicking records at the University of South Florida, among them, 36 career field goals, 67.9% career field goal accuracy, 85 career extra points, 193 career points, longest field goal (63 yards), 8 consecutive field goals made and 45 consecutive extra points made. On July 22, 2016, he was named to the school's all-time team. Professional career

Arizona Cardinals
<mask> was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round (98th overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft. As a rookie, he passed Cary Blanchard on the depth chart and his NFL career began with promising results.On December 15, in the thirteenth game against the New York Giants, he injured himself, after jumping up in celebration of a 42-yard made field goal and tearing his right ACL upon landing. Even though he was seriously injured, he still kicked one field goal and 2 extra points, while Pat Tillman did the kickoffs. On December 18, he was placed on the injured reserve list. He was replaced with Cedric Oglesby. He finished the season with 16-of-20 field goals (80%) and 25-of-25 extra points (100%). He made 4 field goals in one game against the Oakland Raiders. He set a franchise rookie record with 73 points scored.In 2002, he regained his starting job, registering 15-of-21 field goals (71.4%) and 29-of-29 extra points (100%). In 2003, he made 3-of-4 field goals (75%) and 6-of-6 extra points (100%). On November 19, he was placed on the injured reserve list with a back injury. He was replaced with Tim Duncan. He was not re-signed after the season. New York Giants
On May 14, 2004, he was signed as a free agent by the New York Giants, to compete for the starting job against Matt Bryant. He was passed on the depth chart by Steve Christie and was released on August 31.Miami Dolphins
On November 6, 2004, he was signed as a free agent by the Miami Dolphins, to replace an injured Olindo Mare. He played in one game and was cut from the team on November 10, after making 3-of-3 field goals, but also missing his first career extra point kick, which came in a one-point loss (23-24) against his former team the Arizona Cardinals. <mask> finished his professional career posting 37-of-48 field goals (77.1%) and 60-of-61 extra point (98.4%) attempts. Tampa Bay Storm (AFL)
On October 19, 2005, he was signed by the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, after being out of football. In 2006, he made 12-of-30 field goal attempts (seventh in the league) and 94-of-108 extra points attempts (eight in the league). He was waived on March 6, 2007. Personal life
During his time with the New Orleans Saints, <mask> witnessed the devastation Hurricane Katrina left and wanted to give back once his career came to an end.Together, Martin and <mask> searched for a product to build houses out of that could withstand the forces of a hurricane; joined by former USF kicker <mask>, the <mask> family founded SIPS International in 2009, providing a full line of services involving Structural Insulated Panel Systems (SIPS). Such panels provide an environmentally friendly protection against extreme weather conditions like hurricanes, earthquakes, and other hazardous weather. The family has built resistant, affordable houses in cities like New Orleans and Tampa, along with countries like Israel, Argentina, and Haiti. "It's really been rewarding to help out," <mask> stated in an article for AZCentral.com. "We're doing our best to find people to donate one building, one school, one village. There is no better feeling than knowing you've made a positive impact in someone's life. It is our responsibility and privilege to help provide a safer, more energy efficient product that will reduce the cost of ownership."While in the Tampa Bay area, the Gramática brothers saw the need to support deserving members of their community, especially combat wounded veterans. Through partnerships with other organizations, they raise awareness and support bay area veterans returning from combat duty that may face health and financial challenges. In order to assist a greater number of worthy local residents, the Gramáticas have founded the Gramática Family Foundation; a non-profit whose mission is to provide energy efficient housing initiatives and development assistance to disabled military veterans, the underprivileged, and the ailing. References

1978 births
Living people
Argentine players of American football
American football placekickers
South Florida Bulls football players
Arizona Cardinals players
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
Argentine emigrants to the United States
People from Hendry County, Florida
Players of American football from Florida
LaBelle High School alumni

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William Gramática
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Martin Gramática
Santiago Gramática
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<mask> (June 21, 1862 in Querfurt – February 2, 1941 in Querfurt) was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism. As a translator he was important for exposing the German-speaking world to the works of Walt Whitman, Émile Verhaeren and Émile Zola and is known as a founder of the "Whitman Cult" in Germany. His literary achievements lie foremost in the scenic-dialogue innovations of "sequential naturalism" and in the formalization of literary impressionism. He also contributed to the emergence of the "intimate theater." Some of his poems have been set to music by composers Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. He is sometimes mistakenly cited for coining the term "The Third Reich" in relation to Nazism because of his 1906 novel by that name. The Nazi use of the term comes from a 1923 book Das Dritte Reich by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.Childhood
Schlaf was the son of a commercial clerk in Querfurt, a town in Saxony-Anhalt. Because his family lived in cramped quarters, he lived temporarily with his grandparents. His Grandmother, an educated woman, supported him in his passion for art and literature at an early age. In an autobiographical sketch from 1902, Schlaf claimed to have written verses and puppet shows at the age of 12 and short stories while an adolescent. He also showed a talent for drawing. In 1875, <mask>'s father took a job in a construction business in the emerging industrialism of nearby Magdeburg. Schlaf returned to his family where his father enforced a strict regime, and where Schalf felt more fear than affection.Education
From 1875 to 1884 Schlaf attended the cathedral school in Magdeburg, joining a student club, "Covenant of the Living" in 1882. With this club he encountered recent writings in the fields of philosophy, science, and literature. In 1884 he graduated and went to study in Halle, the largest city in Saxony-Anhalt. His program of study was theology, German, classicism, and philosophy, but he was more engaged in connecting with other students than his studies. His earliest publications date from his time in Halle. He moved to study in Berlin 1885 and in 1886 joined the literary group Durch of young naturalist writers including Gerhart Hauptmann, Arno Holz, and William Bölsche. Throughout his studies he felt torn between his studies and the urge to devote himself entirely to writing.
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During this time <mask> developed a friendship with Arno Holz and around 1887 he agreed to an offer from Holz to share a vacant summer home of a friend from Niederschoenhausen and from there work on his writing.It was then he broke off his formal studies. Early work with Arno Holz
Schlaf and Holz presented their first joint work, the anthology, "New Tracks" in 1892. In it the term "Sequential Naturalism" (Konsequenter Naturalismus) made its first appearance. The anthology consisted of three parts, each with its own preface. The middle part had been published in 1889 under the pseudonym Bjarne B. Holmsen. It contained the short story "Papa Hamlet." The third part of the anthology, the drama "The Family Selicke" had been published in 1890.In Sequential Naturalism, one encounters a moment-to-moment description of events without a governing overarching narrative or perceiver. The style is also called the "Sekundenstil" or second-by-second style. In Papa Hamlet, the story is told almost entirely in dialogue, much of it in dialect. There is almost no intervention by the narrator. Dialogue contains contradictions, grammatical inaccuracies, dialect, other elements of a "realist" atmosphere. The works in the story center on broken families, alcoholism, financial hardship, and sickness. The observance of unity of place and time in the narrative give the works an oppressive atmosphere.The Family Selicke found little success at first when it was first staged in April, 1890. It did have its defenders, however. Holz and <mask> felt increasing alienation through the 1890s, with early tensions over artistic notions exacerbated by public debate over the relative contributions and merit of both writers. The dispute reached its climate between 1905 and 1906. Today, <mask>'s esteem pales in comparison to Holz's – a situation convenient given <mask>'s support of the Nazis in the 1930s (Holz died in 1928 before the Nazi rise to power). At the turn of the century
In 1893 <mask> suffered from a nervous breakdown and was admitted to Charité, a Berlin hospital. He sustained several visits to the hospital by 1897 and later described his illness as a nervous disorder and depression.Holz used these experiences to discredit his former friend and wrote about his paranoia. In Schalf's novels published after 1900 one can find representations of schizophrenic and psychotic behavior. He also started to investigate the occult and cosmology. <mask> published his first independent drama, "Meister Oelze" in 1892, which received its Berlin premiere on February 2, 1894. The play was widely successful. It shows many of the features found in "New Tracks," but also a focus on internal psychological processes. He produced several other dramas through the 1890s, with his last published play, "Weigand" appearing in 1906.Between 1900 and 1914 Schlaf wrote ten novels. His works show the influence of his readings of Whitman and Ernst Haeckel as well as traces of turn of the century decadence. In 1904, Schlaf moved to Weimar. During the Weimar Republic
Germany's defeat in the First World War was a great blow to national pride, but they did not significantly alter the ideas developed by Schlaf. Like other authors of the period, he threw himself into his literary work – devoting himself to philosophical and cosmological speculation. During the war he had developed ideas connecting war with evolutionary selection as well as patriotic ideas of German cultural hegemony. During this time there developed a contradiction between the relative lack of success of his recent writings and the growth of his public recognition.Especially during birthdays, Schlaf was celebrated in public ceremonies, commemorated in the naming of streets, the foundation of a "Society of the Friends of Johannes Schlaf" and the construction of a museum. During the Third Reich
In the 1930s Schalf confessed to the creed of National Socialism. Before the First World War, <mask>'s naturalism extended into racial aspects, but the vague concept of a Germanic race could apply to virtually every European nation. After the war, <mask>'s notions of biological evolution extended to the superiority of the German people. After the Nazi takeover in May 1933, <mask> was appointed to the "cleaned" Prussian Academy of Arts.. In October of that year, <mask> was among the 88 writers who signed the "vow of most faithful allegiance." He aligned with the Nazis to his death.<mask> returned to Querfurt in 1937. His late writings focused on the Geocentric model and cosmological speculation and remain mostly unpublished. He continued to be honored by numerous awards in his late age, especially for his early works as a naturalist writer. He died at age 78, and high representatives from the National Socialist government attended his funeral. His papers are held by the State Library in Dortmund. Selected works
 Detlev von Liliencron
 Papa Hamlet, with Arno Holz, 1889 (originally published under the pseudonym Bjarne P. Holmsen)
 Die Familie Selicke, Drama, with Arno Holz, 1890
 In Dingsda, Prose verse, 1892
 Meister Oelze, Drama, 1892
 Gertrud, Drama, 1898
 Die Feindlichen, Drama, 1898
 Stille Welten. Neue Stimmungen aus Dingsda, 1899
 Der Bann, Drama, 1900
 Das dritte Reich, Novel, 1900
 Die Suchenden, Novel, 1902
 Peter Boites Freite, Roman, 1903
 Der Kleine, Roman, 1904
 Weigand, Drama, 1906
 Kritik der Taineschen Kunsttheorie, 1906
 Der Prinz, Roman, 1908
 Am toten Punkt, Roman, 1909
 Aufstieg, Roman, 1911
 Religion und Kosmos, 1911
 Mieze.Der Roman eines freien Weibes, Roman, 1912
 Das Recht der Jugend, Erzählung, 1913
 Tantchen Mohnhaupt und Anderes. Dingsda-Geschichten, 1913
 Professor Plassmann und das Sonnenfleckenphänomen. Weiteres zur geozentrischen Feststellung, 1914
 Auffallende Unstichhaltigkeit des fachmännischen Einwandes. Zur geozentrischen Feststellung, 1914
 Mutter Lise, Roman, 1917
 Zwei Erzählungen, 1918
 [https://archive.org/details/geozentrischesWeltbild/DasGeozentrischeWeltbild1919/mode/2up Die Erde – nicht die Sonne. Das geozentrische Weltbild], 1919
 Gedichte in Prosa, 1920
 Miele. Ein Charakterbild, 1920
 Die Greisin. Vorfrühling, Stories, 1921
 Die Wandlung, Novel, 1922
 Das Gottlied, 1922
 Seele, 1922
 Ein Wildgatter schlag' ich hinter mir zu … Vaterländisches aus Dingsda, 1922
 Radium, Stories, 1922
 Die Wandlung, Stories, 1922
 Der Weihnachtswunsch und anderes.Neue Erzählungen aus Dingsda, 1924
 Deutschland, 1925
 Die Nacht der Planeten, 1925
 Die andere Dimension, Stories, 1926
 Die Mutter, Poems, 1927
 Das Spiel der hohen Linien, Poems, 1927
 Kosmos und kosmischer Umlauf. Die geozentrische Lösung des kosmischen Problems, 1927
 Die Sonnenvorgänge, 1930
 Neues aus Dingsda, 1933
 Zur Aprioritätenlehre Kants, 1934
 Vom höchsten Wesen, 1935
 Ein wichtigstes astronomisches Problem und seine Lösung, 1937
 Aus meinem Leben. Erinnerungen, 1941

Bibliography (in English)
 Raleigh Whitinger: <mask>af and German naturalist drama. Columbia: Camden House 1997. (= Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture)
 Frisch, Walter, "German Modernism" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) pp 39–43. External links

1862 births
1941 deaths
Prussian Academy of Arts faculty
German male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century German dramatists and playwrights
19th-century German male writers
20th-century German dramatists and playwrights

masks:
Johannes Schlaf
Schlaf
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