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<mask>. (born April 8, 1961) is an American former reality television contestant. In 2000, he won the first season of the CBS reality series Survivor. He was a contestant on a subsequent All-Stars season of Survivor, the fourth celebrity edition of Celebrity Apprentice, and season 17 of The Biggest Loser. In 2006, <mask> was convicted of tax evasion and served 51 months in prison. <mask> served another nine-month sentence in 2011 for a probation violation. TV Guide included him in its 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time". Early life and education
<mask> was born and raised near Newport, Rhode Island, graduating from Middletown High School in 1979.He first majored in Marine Biology and Oceanography at Florida Institute of Technology before he enlisted in the Army in 1980. After enlisting, <mask> was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, by Rhode Island Senator John Chafee. <mask> served five years and was honorably discharged in 1985. He was first stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort Stewart, Georgia, before attending USMAPS in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. <mask> left West Point for New York City, where he worked for Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell (owners of Studio 54) at the Palladium. He later attended Baruch College in New York and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, during which time he became a sperm donor. <mask> spent eight years in the Washington, D.C. area and graduated from National-Louis University with a bachelor's degree in Management/Applied Behavioral Sciences.<mask> returned to Newport, Rhode Island and adopted a 7-year-old boy, Christopher. He later attended Rhode Island's Providence College, pursuing a master's degree in Education and Counseling. <mask> worked as a bartender, auto salesman, and licensed real estate agent before nearly 15 years as a corporate trainer and consultant for his own company. Survivor

Survivor: Borneo
In 2000, <mask> competed in Survivor: Borneo, the first edition of the show in the United States. Beginning the game on the Tagi tribe, he quickly assembled a voting alliance with former Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, Sue Hawk, and Kelly Wiglesworth. <mask> slid into the role of fisherman for his tribe to ensure that he would be too valuable to vote off, despite his nudist tendencies and perceived overconfidence. After six eliminations, Tagi merged with the other tribe, Pagong, to form a new tribe called Rattana.After the merge, the voting alliance eliminated the leader of the former Pagong tribe, Gretchen, who was unwilling to play the game strategically and therefore did not assemble a voting block to counter Tagi's. They then piggybacked off Sean Kenniff's alphabet voting strategy to pick off the remaining Pagong contestants one by one. Wiglesworth, perceiving this systematic elimination as unethical, began having second thoughts about the alliance and started to bond and vote with the Pagong members. This led to a rift in the relationship between Hawk and Wiglesworth; the former accused the latter of acting cowardly and pandering to the future members of the jury to increase her odds of winning. The core alliance of three decided to target Wiglesworth for her duplicity; however, when she won the next two immunity challenges, they stuck to the original plan and eliminated Kenniff and the last former member of Pagong. Down to four contestants, Wiglesworth won immunity yet again, ensuring that one of the alliances would be voted out. In a two–two tie, <mask> and Hawk were both in danger of elimination.On a revote, Wiglesworth opted to vote out Hawk. At the final immunity challenge, <mask> eliminated himself early, trusting both Wiglesworth and Boesch to take him to the end regardless, and not wanting the option to go back on his word to Boesch if he himself won the challenge. When Wiglesworth won immunity, she voted out Boesch as she believed she had a stronger chance at defeating <mask> than Boesch in the final two. In the final tribal council, <mask> was deemed arrogant and was both praised and vilified for his leadership of the voting alliance. Hawk compared <mask> to a snake and Wiglesworth to a rat; she voted for him to win because nature intended for "the snake to eat the rat." <mask> became the first Sole Survivor in a 4–3 vote, earning the votes of Boesch, Hawk, Kenniff, and Greg Buis. Survivor: All-Stars
<mask> appeared on Survivor: All-Stars as part of the Mogo Mogo tribe.Knowing that there were secret pre-game alliances against him as well as a conspiracy to eliminate previous Survivor winners, <mask> approached the season with a carefree attitude; he focused on being an entertainer, spending his time fishing for sport and lounging around camp in the nude. Mogo Mogo lost one member when Survivor Amazon winner Jenna Morasca quit the game to attend to her dying mother. When the Saboga tribe was dissolved, Mogo Mogo gained two extra members; when they next lost immunity, they immediately eliminated <mask> making him the fifth person eliminated from Survivor: All-Stars, to nobody's surprise. Before he was voted out, he was involved in an incident with his former friend and ally, Sue Hawk. Hawk later claimed, during an immunity challenge, that <mask>'s genitals touched her as he passed her by on the course. The next day, Hawk resigned from the game voluntarily as she was too upset to continue. Post-Survivor

In 2008, Survivor host Jeff Probst admitted he mistakenly judged Colby Donaldson to have lost a competition with Boston Rob, resulting in <mask> leaving the game before he should have.Probst also mentioned a rumor that <mask> smuggled a canister of matches onto Survivor: All-Stars "in a little container up his bum." Despite the rumor, the Mogo Mogo tribe was not able to make fire. Since this rumor, all contestants are now strip searched. In 2010, Probst revealed that <mask> was considered a strong candidate to return for the 20th season, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, as a villain. However, <mask> was unable to return because prosecutors refused to grant him permission to do so. Shortly afterward, <mask> revealed that he was cast to return, alongside Russell Hantz, in Survivor: Redemption Island but his visa was reportedly denied again by a judge. Eventual winner Rob Mariano was put in his place.In another interview by Us Weekly in 2020, Probst revealed <mask> was also considered a candidate to participate in an all-winners 40th season, Survivor: Winners at War, but was cut citing concerns on his conduct in All-Stars as "inappropriate" and the fact that the show was in a different culture and time and hoping to show better conduct for the other castaways by not expecting future castaways to lounge around camp naked. Other appearances
In 2000, <mask> had a cameo as a patient in the Becker episode "One Wong Move" where Ted Danson's character received him as a patient, discussing the bizarre eating habits of the people on Survivor, and mentioning that he did not mind if he had to take his clothes off. <mask> appeared on an all-reality show edition of the game show Dog Eat Dog in 2002; he lost his challenge and was placed in the show's "dog pound". In 2005, <mask> was a contestant in Battle of the Network Reality Stars in which his team lost in the finals. He appeared as himself in the 2006 film Another Gay Movie. In a 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Survivor producer Mark Burnett said that if <mask> were not under house arrest, he would have been invited to participate in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. In 2011, he appeared on the fourth celebrity edition of the US version of The Apprentice.He appeared on the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, where he flunked at the fourth question ("What is 11x12? "); he was the first contestant of the Australian edition to win nothing, and became the first, and so far only recorded case, of a celebrity contestant worldwide to leave with no winnings. In 2016, he competed in The Biggest Loser: Temptation Nation and was eliminated in the fourth week. Personal life
<mask> is openly gay and married Emiliano Cabral in a 2005 Nova Scotia wedding. <mask> filed for divorce in December 2017. After his Survivor win of $1 million, <mask> was charged with tax evasion and convicted for not paying taxes on that winning sum. He served a 51-month sentence in federal prison.<mask> and his attorneys had attempted to argue that the prosecution and conviction were flawed because the IRS never completed the investigation of his 2000 and 2001 tax returns and never determined that any particular sum of taxes was due. After being released from prison, he later
served an additional nine months in prison for not amending his 2000 and 2001 tax returns. A property purchased by <mask> in Sydney, Nova Scotia, following his Survivor win was included in a tax sale during a public auction in 2013. The CBRM tax office indicated that <mask> had not paid property taxes on the property for a period of more than six years. See also
 List of Survivor contestants
 List of The Apprentice (U.S.) candidates

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General <mask>, VSV, USP is a retired, senior Sri Lanka Army officer, and a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Sri Lankan military and Commander of the Sri Lankan Army. During the closing stages  of the Sri Lankan Civil War, he served as the Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Wanni with overall command of SLA offensives in the Wanni region during the 2008 - 2009 period. He was also the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Suriname from June 2014 to August 2017. Education and family
Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, <mask> captained the college boxing team in 1977, winning colours for boxing and was a senior prefect. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College; the Defence Resource Management Institute, Naval Postgraduate School; and the National Defence University. In 1990 he gained a Master of Science Degree in Defence Studies from the University of Madras and had also attended the School of Armour, Pakistan and the Armoured Corps Centre and School, India. <mask> is the youngest of six brothers, three of whom (Sumith, Aruna and Nimal) also attended Royal College and, alongside <mask>, were prize-winning boxers.One of his older brothers would go on to become  officer in the Sri Lanka Navy. Military career
Joining the army after completing schooling in 1978 as a cadet officer, he was at the top of his class at the Army Training Centre and was commissioned into the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps as a Second Lieutenant in 1980 with his military career spanning the Sri Lankan Civil War. He was promoted to the ranks of Lieutenant in 1981, Captain in 1984, Major in 1988 and Lieutenant Colonel in 1993. During this time he had served as a troop leader (1980–1983) and adjutant (1984–1985) of the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment. After a brief posting as a staff officer at Army Headquarters, he was later appointed as squadron commander, 1st Reconnaissance Regiment. From 1990 to 1992 he had served as a Brigade Major, 9 Brigade in Jaffna and served as Chief Instructor at Officers Study Centre and Staff Officer II (Training), Army Training Centre. In 1992 he was the Second in Command of the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment and had served as a Staff Officer of the Armoured Brigade in 1994 he became the Commanding Officer, 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, Sri Lanka Armoured Corps till June 1995.During July 1995 - May 1996, he was the General Staff Officer at the Joint Operations Headquarters (JOH) and later served as Military Secretary Army Headquarters. In 1997, he was the Brigade Commander of the armoured brigade and in 1998 posted to the 563 Infantry Brigade as its brigade commander. He was critically wounded during the Operation Jayasikurui in 1998, when his jeep hit a land mine in the Kolamadu area. After recuperating he was the military liaison officer at Ministry of Defence till 2002 and was promoted to Brigadier in 2001. That year he was appointed as the Commandant of the Sri Lanka Military Academy. In December 2004, he was appointed Director of Operations at Army Headquarters and thereafter promoted to the rank of Major General he took over as General Officer Commanding of the 52 Division. In mid-2007 he was appointed as Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W).From this capacity he directed the military operations in the Wanni region that was aimed at regaining area controlled by the LTTE. This saw several major battles which included the Battle of Vidattaltivu, the Battle of Paranthan, the Battle of Kilinochchi, the Third Battle of Elephant Pass and the Battle of Mullaitivu. At the height of the war he had 5 divisions and 3 task forces under his command, thus making it the largest military command in Sri Lankan military history. He is the Colonel Commandant of the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps and the Mechanized Infantry Regiment. In 2009, he left SFHQ-W to take over as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army. In June 2012, he was promoted to the rank of General and was appointed as Chief of Defence Staff with effect from August 2012, when he relinquished command as Army Commander. He held the post till June 2015 when he retired from the army.Post-military career
Following his retirement from the army, General <mask> was appointed as Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil, in which capacity he is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Suriname. His tenure ended at the end of August 2017. Allegations of war crimes
Having been a central figure in the deciding stages of Eelam War IV, <mask> has, like Sarath Fonseka and Gotabhaya Rajapakse, been accused of being complicit in the alleged war crimes carried out by the SLA during this period. On 28 August 2017, the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP)- a group affiliated with the Foundation for Human Rights based in South Africa- filed lawsuits against <mask> in Brazil and Colombia, citing his alleged complicity and command role in artillery strikes on hospitals and other civilian targets, torture (including sexual violence) and enforced disappearances. The same lawsuits were planned to be filed in Argentina, Chile and Peru, while Suriname had refused to accept them. In September 2017 current Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena refused to let several human rights groups take <mask> <mask> to court for war crimes. Sirisena reportedly said "I stated very clearly that I will not allow anyone in the world to touch <mask> <mask> or any other military chief or any war hero in this country," in reference to the lawsuit.Personal life
He is married to Manjulika Aruna (who served as President of the SLA Seva Vanitha welfare unit), and has two children. Decorations
His awards and decorations include the distinguished service medals Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya (VSV) and Uttama Seva Padakkama (USP); the wound medal Desha Putra Sammanaya; the long service medals Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal and clasp; campaign medals Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal, Purna Bhumi Padakkama, North and East Operations Medal and Riviresa Campaign Services Medal; and President's Inauguration Medal, 50th Independence Anniversary Commemoration Medal and Sri Lanka Army 50th Anniversary Medal. References

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<mask> (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, <mask> received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977). Biography

Early life
He was born in Manhattan, New York City on April 27, 1901. He grew up in the Harlem area of Manhattan. His father was a prosperous dentist and his mother was May Doty. The family resided at 823 West End Avenue in Manhattan.<mask>'s father was a keen fisher and hunter, and <mask> accompanied the family on annual summer vacations from the age of six months to 17, usually in the Thousand Islands region on the Canadian shore, about seven miles from the village of Gananoque. When he was three years old, on one of these vacations, <mask> fell into the river at the end of a long pier and contracted pneumonia

A lifelong resident of New York City, <mask> was educated in the New York City public school system. As a boy he was fascinated by natural history, and wrote that he dreamed of running "away from home and explore the great rain forests of the Amazon." He developed his interest in the weird by reading the Oz books, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells as well as Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allan Poe. Though writing was to be his life's work, he once commented that as "important as writing is, I could have been completely happy if I had a secure position in a field that has always had a tremendous emotion and an imaginative appeal for me—that of natural history." In his late teens, he was active in the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA) in which he won a prize from The Boy's World (around 1919) and thus discovered amateur journalism.His first published tale was "Dr Whitlock's Price (United Amateur, March 1920). <mask>'s story "The Eye Above the Mantel" (1921), a pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe, in UAPA, caught the eye of H. P. Lovecraft, sparking a friendship and correspondence that would endure until Lovecraft's death in 1937. <mask> attended New York University from 1920 to 1921, studying journalism but later transferred to Columbia, leaving without a degree. In 1921, he suffered a severe attack of appendicitis, leading to a ruptured appendix and peritonitis. He spent a month in New York's Roosevelt Hospital, where he came close to dying. <mask>'s brush with death propelled him into a decision that he would leave college to pursue a freelance writing career. Early career: the 1920s

In 1924, at the age of 22, he sold his first short story, "The Desert Lich", to Weird Tales magazine.Throughout the next four decades, <mask> was to be a frequent contributor to pulp magazines, including two of the most famous: Weird Tales (under editor Farnsworth Wright) and Astounding Science Fiction (under editor John W. Campbell). <mask> was an active freelance writer, also publishing many non-fiction articles. His first book, the scarce volume A Man from Genoa and Other Poems, was published in 1926 by W. Paul Cook. Two copies are held in the collections of John Hay Library. The poems in this collection won praise from a great variety of writers, among them Arthur Machen, Robinson Jeffers, William Ellery Leonard, John Drinkwater, John Masefield and George Sterling. Samuel Loveman declared that <mask>'s poem "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" was worthy of Christopher Marlowe. <mask>'s closest friends (apart from H. P. Lovecraft) in this period included Samuel Loveman, H. Warner Munn, and James F. Morton.He had several encounters with Hart Crane, who lived one flight above Loveman in Brooklyn Heights. 1930s

"The Horror from the Hills", a story serialised in 1931 in Weird Tales, incorporated almost verbatim a dream H. P. Lovecraft related to him (among other correspondents) in a letter. The short novel was published many years later in separate book form by Arkham House in 1963, as The Horror from the Hills. In the late 1930s, <mask> turned his hand to science fiction, writing for Astounding Science Fiction. He also contributed horror stories to Unknown (later called Unknown Worlds). <mask> contributed an episode (along with C.L. Moore, Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft) to the round-robin story "The Challenge from Beyond" (1935).Like The Man from Genoa and Other Poems, his second book is a volume of fantastic verse: The Goblin Tower (1935), published jointly by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow under Barlow's The Dragonfly Press imprint. (A variant edition of this volume was published in 1945 by New Collectors Group - see Bibliography). Published in an edition of only 100 copies, this volume is exceedingly scarce; two copies are held at the collections of the John Hay Library. 1940s

In pulps such as Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories during the 1940s, <mask> sometimes wrote using the pseudonym "Leslie Northern". What <mask> characterized as a "minor disability" kept him out of World War II and writing full-time during the early 1940s. <mask> reputedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of the Ellery Queen Junior novels (see Ellery Queen (house name) (mentioned in correspondence with August Derleth)) but did not identify the three titles. It has been speculated by researchers that the two are The Golden Eagle Mystery (1942) and The Green Turtle Mystery (1944).The third one may have been The Mystery of the Golden Butterfly, which apparently was never published. (This volume is mentioned as <mask>'s on the rear panel of The Horror from the Hills and on the rear flap of The Rim of the Unknown). He wrote comic books in the 1940s, including horror stories for Adventures Into the Unknown (ACG). <mask> contributed several original scripts to this comic's early issues, as well as an adaptation of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. He authored scripts for Planet Comics, Superman, Congo Bill, DC's Golden Age Green Lantern, and the Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel. He worked in the 1940s as a script-reader for  Twentieth Century Fox Long wrote crime and weird menace stories for Ten Gang Mystery and other magazines. During the 1940s, <mask> lived for a period in California.<mask> credited Theodore Sturgeon, whom he met several times in the mid-1940s, as being instrumental in getting one of his middle-period stories, "A Guest in the House", produced on CBS-TV in 1954. In 1946, Arkham House published <mask>'s first collection of supernatural fiction, The Hounds of Tindalos, which collected 21 of his best tales from the previous twenty years of magazine publication. It featured works which had appeared in such pulps as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Super Science Stories, Unknown, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Dynamic Science Fiction, Startling Stories,  and others. In "The Man from Time", a time-traveller from the future has an encounter with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. His later science fiction works include the story collection John Carstairs, Space Detective (1949) about a 'botanical detective', and the novels Space Station 1 (1957), Mars is My Destination (1962) and It Was the Day of the Robot (1963). 1950s

In the 1950s he was involved with editing five different magazines. He was uncredited associate editor on The Saint Mystery Magazine and Fantastic Universe.He was associate editor on Satellite Science Fiction, 1959; on Short Stories, 1959–60; and on Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine until 1966. <mask> several times met fellow Weird Tales writer and poet Joseph Payne Brennan, and later provided the foreword for Brennan's The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing (1977). 1960s

After the decline of the pulps, <mask> moved into the prolific production of  science fiction and gothic romance novels during the 1960s and 1970s. He even wrote a Man from UNCLE story, "The Electronic Frankenstein Affair",  which appeared under the pen name Robert Hart Davis in the Man from UNCLE Magazine. In 1960, he married Lyda Arco, an artists' representative and aficionado of drama. She was a Russian descended from a line of actors in the Yiddish theatre who ran a salon in Chelsea, NY. They stayed together till <mask>'s death in 1994, but had no children.<mask> described himself as an "agnostic." Referring to Lovecraft, <mask> wrote that he "always shared HPL's skepticism . . . concerning the entire range of alleged supernatural occurrences and what is commonly defined as 'the occult.'" In 1963 Arkham House published <mask>'s novel The Horror from the Hills, a work partly incorporating Lovecraft's account of a dream Lovecraft had experienced. This work introduced <mask>'s alien entity Chaugnar Faugn into the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. 1970s
In 1972 Arkham House published The Rim of the Unknown, their second hardcover collection of <mask>'s work - a volume focusing primarily on his science fiction short stories. <mask> Belknap <mask>", a combination of his wife (Lyda Arco <mask>)'s first name and his middle name and surname.Seven of these appeared during the 1970s; all were entirely his own work and were workmanlike products intended to support him and his wife rather than to be of high literary quality. Illumination on <mask>'s own life and work is provided by his extensive introduction to The Early Long (1975), a collection of his best early stories which essentially duplicates the contents of The Hounds of Tindalos but to which <mask> adds detailed headnotes to each story. Further writing on his own life is found in his Autobiographical Memoir (Necronomicon Press, 1986). <mask>'s book-length memoir of H. P. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside, was issued by Arkham House in 1975. It was written in haste as a result of <mask>'s reading of L. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975), which <mask> felt to be biased against Lovecraft. In 1977, Arkham House issued <mask>'s hardcover poetry collection In Mayan Splendor, containing all the poems from A Man from Genoa and Other Poems (1924) and The Goblin Tower (1926). The same year he won the First Fandom Hall of Fame award (1977).In 1978 he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 4th World Fantasy Convention). Later career: 1980s–1990s

<mask>'s literary output slowed down after 1977, with his gothic The Lemoyne Heritage. He published several scattered stories in the 1980s including the story chapbook "Rehearsal Night" (Pub: Thomas L. Owen,1981) and one episode in the round-robin sequence Ghor Kin-Slayer (Necronomicon Press, 1997). He and his wife lived in extreme poverty during the 1980s and 1990s in an apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan - a period documented in Peter Cannon's memoir Long Memories (1997). In 1987, <mask> was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (from the Horror Writers Association). <mask>, though confined to a wheelchair, was a Guest of Honour at the H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1990, where he spoke on panels regarding his memories of his great friend and literary mentor. <mask> died of pneumonia on January 3, 1994, at the age of 92 at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan, after a seven-decade career as a writer and editor.He was briefly survived by his wife, Lyda. Due to his poverty, he was interred in a potter's field. Friends and colleagues had his remains reinterred at New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery, in a family plot near that of Lovecraft's grandparents. A graveside ceremony on November 3, 1995, was attended by such figures as Scott D. Briggs, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Ben P. Indick, S. T. Joshi, T.E.D. Klein and others and with a homily delivered by the Rev. Robert M. Price. On November 17, 1995, the actual interment of <mask>'s body took place, an event witnessed by Peter Cannon, Ben P. Indick and S. T. Joshi.<mask>'s fans contributed over $3,000 to have his name engraved upon the central shaft of his burial plot. Lyda died shortly after <mask>; her ashes were scattered on his grave. Legacy
<mask> <mask> left behind a body of work that included twenty-nine novels, 150 short stories, eight collections of short stories, three poetry collections, and numerous freelance magazine articles and comic book scripts. Author Ray Bradbury summed up <mask>'s career: "<mask> <mask> has lived through a major part of science fiction history in the U.S., has known most of the writers personally, or has corresponded with them, and has, with his own writing, helped shape the field when most of us were still in our early teens." Friendship with Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was a close friend and mentor to <mask> <mask>, with whom he came in contact in 1920 when <mask> was nineteen. Lovecraft found <mask> a stimulating correspondent especially in regard to his aesthetic tastes, focussing on the Italian Renaissance and French literature. Lovecraft published some of <mask>'s early work in his Conservative (e.g.Felis: A prose Poem [July 1923], about <mask>'s pet cat) and paid tribute to <mask> in a flattering article, "The Work of <mask> Belknap Long, Jun.," published anonymously in the United Amateur (May 1924) but clearly by Lovecraft. They first met when Lovecraft visited New York in April 1922. They saw each other with great frequency (especially during Lovecraft's Brooklyn residence in New York City from 1924 to 1926), at which time they were the chief members of the Kalem Club and wrote to each other often. <mask>'s family apartment was always Lovecraft's residence and headquarters during his periodic trips from Providence to New York. <mask> writes that he and Lovecraft exchanged "more than a thousand letters, not a few running to more than eighty handwritten pages" before Lovecraft's death in 1937. Some of their correspondence has been reprinted in Arkham House's Selected Letters series, collecting the voluminous correspondence of Lovecraft and his friends. <mask>'s Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side was extensively edited by James Turner.During the 1920s, <mask> and Lovecraft were both members of the Kalem Club (named for the initials of the surnames of original members—K, L, or M). <mask> was also part of the loosely associated "Lovecraft Circle" of fantasy writers (along with Robert Bloch, August Derleth,

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 Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, C. M. Eddy, Jr., and Donald Wandrei) who corresponded regularly with each other and influenced and critiqued each other's works. <mask> wrote a brief preface to the stillborn edition of Lovecraft's The Shunned House (1928). Lovecraft, in turn, ghostwrote for <mask> the preface to Mrs William B. Symmes' Old World Footprints (W. Paul Cook/The Recluse Press, 1928), a slim poetry collection by <mask>'s aunt. <mask>'s short novel The Horror from the Hills (Weird Tales, Jan and Feb-March 1931; published in book from 1963) incorporates verbatim a letter by Lovecraft recounting his great 'Roman dream' of Hallow'een 1927. <mask> teamed with Lovecraft in a revision service with Lovecraft in 1928. <mask>'s parents frequently took Lovecraft on various motor trips between 1929 and 1930, and Lovecraft visited <mask> at Christmas between 1932 and 1935 inclusive.Lovecraft helped set type for <mask>'s second poetry collection, The Goblin Tower (1935), correcting some of <mask>'s faulty metre in the process. Lovecraft's letters to <mask> after 1931 have all been lost, with the letters up to that date existing primarily in transcriptions prepared by Arkham House. The <mask> friendship was fictionalized in Peter Cannon's 1985 novel Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club as if Narrated by <mask> <mask>, Jr.. <mask> was a Guest of Honour at the Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence in 1990. <mask> wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Tindalos" (the first Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos), and "The Space-Eaters" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as its main character). A number of other works by <mask> can be considered as falling within the Cthulhu Mythos; these include "The Brain Eaters" and "The Malignant Invader", as well as such poems as "The Abominable Snowman" and "When Chaugnar Wakes". A later Mythos story, "Dark Awakening", appeared in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.The story betrays the influence of <mask>'s pseudonymous romantic fiction, and the final paragraph was added by the editor at <mask>'s suggestion. The "Hounds of Tindalos" is <mask>'s most famous fictional creation. The Hounds were a pack of foul and incomprehensibly alien beasts "emerging from strange angles in dim recesses of non-Euclidean space before the dawn of time" (<mask>) to pursue travelers down the corridors of time. They could only enter our reality via angles, where they would mangle and exsanguinate their victims, leaving behind only a "peculiar bluish pus or ichor" (<mask>). Influence on popular culture
The Hounds of Tindalos have been used or referenced by many later Mythos writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley and Peter Cannon. Cannon's story "The Letters of Halpin Chalmers", a direct sequel to "The Hounds of Tindalos", in which the main characters are thinly disguised versions of <mask> and Lyda <mask>, appears in Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg, 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (NY: Barnes and Noble, 1994). Peter Cannon's novel Pulptime features <mask> as the narrator.<mask> also appears in Richard Lupoff's novel Lovecraft's Book (1985) and its full-text version Marblehead. "The Hounds of Tindalos" inspired a number of metal and electronic music artists, such as Metallica (with their song "All Nightmare Long" from their ninth studio album Death Magnetic), Epoch of Unlight, Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe, and Univers Zero, all of whom have recorded tracks based on it. Charles P. Mitchell has suggested that the drone dog in the film Phantoms (film), based on a novel by Dean R. Koontz, is reminiscent of the Hounds of Tindalos. Bibliography

Poetry
A Man from Genoa and Other Poems (1926) (Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook)
The Goblin Tower (Cassia FL: Dragon-Fly Press, 1935; New Collectors Group, 1945). Note: Due to the somewhat misleading publisher's introduction to the New Collectors Group  edition, it is often mis-catalogued as a reprint of the 1935 Dragon-Fly Press edition. In fact, the selection of poems differs; the New Collectors Group edition drops four, "When Chaugnar Wakes," "Exotic Quest," "West Indies" and "Martial: The Vacationist" and adds three, "The Prophet," "Prediction" and "Walt Whitman." The collection is not to be confused with the novel of the same title by L. Sprague de Camp.On Reading Arthur Machen: A Sonnet. (Penngrove, Palo Alto, CA: Dog and Duck Press, 1949). 20 copies, privately printed. Note: H. P. Lovecraft quotes <mask>'s sonnet in full within his discussion of Arthur Machen's work in Supernatural Horror in Literature. The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville John Mandeville (Roy A. Squires, 1976). 22 copies signed by the author. In Mayan Splendor (Arkham House, 1977); <mask>'s own selection of his best verse; includes contents of A Man from Genoa and The Goblin Tower plus additional poems.Includes introduction by Samuel Loveman. When Chaugnar Wakes Chaugnar Faugn (Fantome Press, 1978; 80 copies only). A chapbook of this single poem, originally published in Weird Tales 20, No 3 and reprinted in In Mayan Splendor. The Darkling Tide: Previously Uncollected Poetry (Tsathoggua Press, 1995; edited by Perry M. Grayson)

Novels
Space Station 1 (Ace Books D242,1957 - an Ace double, bound with Empire of the Atom by A.E. van Vogt)
Mission to a Distant Star (Satellite SF magazine serial in 5 parts)
Woman from Another Planet (Chariot Books,1960)
The Horror Expert (Belmont Books, Dec 1961)
The Mating Center (Chariot Books,1961)
Mars is My Destination (Pyramid Books, June 1962)
The Horror from the Hills (Arkham House,1963); expanded edition as Odd Science Fiction (1964)
Three Steps Spaceward (Avalon Books, 1963)
It Was the Day of the Robot (Belmont Books, 1963). Reprint: Dennis Dobson, 1964. The Martian Visitors (Avalon Books, 1964)
Mission to a Star (Avalon Books, 1964)
Lest Earth Be Conquered (Belmont Books, Dec 1966); reissue as The Androids, (Tower Books, 1969)
This Strange Tomorrow (Belmont Books, Feb 1966)
So Dark a Heritage (Lancer Books,1966)
Journey Into Darkness (Belmont Books, April 1967)
...And Others Shall Be Born (Belmont Books, Jan 1968) (bound with The Thief of Thoth by Lin Carter)
The Three Faces of Time (Tower Books, 1969)
To the Dark Tower (Lancer Books, 1969) (as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
Monster From Out of Time (Popular Library, 1970 pbk original).Reprinted in hc, London: Robert Hale, 1971. Survival World (Lancer Prestige/Magnum, 1971)
The Witch Tree (Lancer Books, 1971) (as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
Fire of the Witches (Popular Library, 1971) (as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
The Shape of Fear (Beagle Books, July 1971) (as by Lyda/<mask> <mask>; the author's pseudonym 'Lyda Belknap long' was misprinted on the cover as '<mask> <mask>'). The Night of the Wolf (Popular Library, 1972)
House of the Deadly Nightshade (Beagle Books, March 1972) (as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
Legacy of Evil (Beagle Books, June 1973) (as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
Crucible of Evil (Avon, July 1974)(as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
The Lemoyne Heritage (Zebra Books, 1977)(as by Lyda <mask> <mask>)
Rehearsal Night (Pub: Thomas L. Owen,1981)
Ghor Kin-Slayer (<mask> has one episode in this round-robin sequence; Necronomicon Press, 1997)

Story collections
 The Hounds of Tindalos (Arkham House, 1946). Reprints: London: Museum Press, 1950. NY: Belmont books, Aug 1963. John Carstairs: Space Detective (Frederick Fell, 1949). Reprints: Toronto: McLeod, 1949 (?); Kemsley, 1951. Odd Science Fiction (Aug 1964). Reprint, London: Brown Watson, 1965 (as The Horror from the Hills). Contains "The Horror from the Hills", plus "The Flame of Life" and "Giant in the Forest". The Dark Beasts and Eight Other Stories from the Hounds of Tindalos (1964). Contains half the contents of the 1946 The Hounds of Tindalos collection. The Rim of the Unknown (Arkham House, 1972).Reprint (pbk) Condor Books, 1978. The Black Druid and Other Stories. (London: Panther, 1975)
 A Dangerous Experiment (Necronomicon Press, 1977; single story in chapbook form). This tale is also reprinted in The Eye Above the Mantel and Other Stories. The Early Long (NY: Doubleday, 1975) (London: Robert Hale, 1977). (NY: Jove/HBJ, 1979 as The Hounds of Tindalos). Night Fear (Zebra Books, 1979).Intro by Roy Torgeson. 16 tales from the pulps including "The Horror from the Hills". Escape from Tomorrow: Three Previously Unreprinted Weird Tales (Necronomicon Press, 1995)
 The Eye Above the Mantel and Other Stories: 4 Previously Uncollected Weird Tales. Foreword by H. P. Lovecraft. Edited by Perry M. Grayson. West Hills, CA: Tsathoggua Press, Aug 1995. The Foreword is Lovecraft's essay "The Work of <mask> <mask>, Jr", reprinted from The United Amateur (May 1924).The Man Who Died Twice & Three Others (Wildside Press, 2009)

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A Guest in the House (CBS-TV television play, 1954)

Recordings
Audio recording of author panel discussion from First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, 1975. <mask>'s voice was preserved on a flexi-disc record of this speech issued with the fanzine Myrrdin Issue 3 (1976). The other side of the flexi-disc contains a recording of Robert Bloch's speech from the convention. Memoirs of H. P. Lovecraft
 "Random Memories of H. P. Lovecraft" (Marginalia)
 "H.P.L. in Red Hook" (in The Occult Lovecraft, ed. Anthony Raven, 1975)
 Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side (Arkham House, 1975). Italian translation published by Profondo Rosso, Rome, 2010 as H. P. Lovecraft e le ombre
 "H. P. Lovecraft".Poem. Weird Tales (June 1938); reprinted in In Mayan Splendor (p. 66)

Other essays
 "At the Home of Poe". Reprint in Lon Milo duQuette, ed, The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the scary Stories That Started It All, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2014. Introductions to books by others
Joseph Payne Brennan. The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing. Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Richard Lupoff.The Return of Skull-Face. Fax Collectors Editions, 1977. H. P. Lovecraft The Colour Out of Space (Jove, 1978). <mask>'s brief preface was inadvertently omitted from the first printing of this collection. H. P. Lovecraft. The Conservative Complete 1915-1923. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1976 (50 copies only); 1977 (2000 copies).Edited by Marc A. Michaud. Awards
 Edna St Vincent Millay Poetry Award
First Fandom Hall of Fame award (1977). World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 4th World Fantasy Convention),
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association). <mask>'s poem "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" was a retrospective Nominee for Best Long Poem in the 1977 Rhysling Awards

Media adaptations
 <mask>'s short story "The Space Eaters" was adapted as episode 63 of the television series Monsters, starring Richard Clarke, Mart Hulswit and Richard M. Hughes. See also

References

Further reading
 Mike Ashley. "Frank B. <mask>".Fantasy Media, 1980, 13. Mike Ashley. "Fiction of <mask> Long". Pulp Vault 12/13 (1996), ix. Mike Ashley, "Memories of <mask> Belknap Long". Pulp Vault 12/13 (1996). Leigh Blackmore."On the Rim of the Unknown: A Visit with <mask> and Lyda <mask> <mask>". Shoggoth No 1 (1992). Peter Cannon <mask> Memories: Recollections of <mask> <mask>, Stockport: British Fantasy Society, 1997. Afterword by Ramsey Campbell
 Peter Cannon. "<mask> Long: A Personal Tribute" in Cannon's 'Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft' and Other Essays. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, July 1990,29-30. Tom Collins."<mask> Long on Literature, Lovecraft and the Golden Age of 'Weird Tales'"". Twilight Zone 1, No 10 (Jan 1982)
 Interview. "<mask> Long". Fantasy Newsletter (August 1980). Grayson, Perry M. "<mask> Long: Fantasist of Multiple Dimensions: A Preliminary Critical & Historical Overview". Grayson, Perry M. "<mask> <mask>, Jr (1903-1994): Six Decades of Night Fear in the Eyes of 'The Young Man with Spectacles': A Selected Bio-bibliography". Yawning Vortex 1, No 1 (Summer 1994).Grayson, Perry M. "<mask> Long Pioneers the Unknown". Other Dimensions: The Journal of Multimedia Horror No 3 (Winter 1996), 24–27. On <mask>'s contribution to the early horror comics. Grayson, Perry M. "Hail Francis, Lord Belknap!". Intro in Escape from Tomorrow (Necronomicon Press, 1995)
 Grayson, Perry M. "The Lyda Books". Yawning Vortex 2, No 2 (Aug-Sept 1995)
 Ben P. Indick. "In Memoriam: <mask> <mask>".Lovecraft Studies No 30 (Spring 1994)
 S. T. Joshi "<mask> Long: The Gods Are Dead", chapter 6 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry. Sydney: P'rea Press, 2008. (pbk) and  (hbk). S. T. Joshi. "Things from the Sea: The Early Weird Fiction of <mask> <mask>". Studies in Weird Fiction No. 25 (Summer 2001).Reprint in Joshi's The Evolution of the Weird Tale. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 98–106. [Locus Editors] Obituary: <mask>, <mask>, Locus v32:2 No.397 Feb 1994
 <mask>, <mask>, Autobiographical Memoir, Necronomicon Press, 1986. <mask>, <mask>, The Early Long: the Hounds of Tindalos, Jove Books, 1978. <mask>, <mask>, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side, Arkham House, 1975. <mask>, David. "A Short Long Life".(review of Peter Cannon's Long Memories (see above). Necrofile No. 27 (Winter 1998), 19–20. Phelps. Donald. "<mask>knap Long". Pulpsmith (Summer 1984).Price, Robert M (ed). Crypt of Cthulhu No. 42 (1986) is a special issue devoted to <mask>. [Price, Robert M.] "The Black Druid" (obituary). Crypt of Cthulhu 13, No 2 (Whole number 86)(Eastertide 1994): 52. External links

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Prince <mask>ni (; ; complete title: His Serene Highness Prince (Mom Chao) <mask>; born 20 January 1922) is a prince of Thailand, a member of the Thai royal family, and a member of the House of Rajani, a royal house which was originated by his father and descends from Chakri Dynasty. He is one of the longest-living royal personages in the Thai history. He was a close friend of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is also his third-degree cousin (since they both share a common great-great-grandfather, King Rama II and their great-grandfathers, King Mongkut and Prince Pinklao are brothers, henceforth, King Chulalongkorn and Prince Wichaichan, their respective grandfathers are related as first cousins, which in turn begat their respective fathers, Princes Mahidol Adulyadej and Bidyalongkorn, who are related to each other as second cousins, henceforth, he and the late King and his siblings, the late Princess Galyani Vadhana and the late King Ananda Mahidol as well as the daughter of King Vajiravudh, the late Princess Bejaratana are all related to him as third-degree cousins). In addition, he is also an author and worked as one of the directors of the Royal Project Foundation for the late king. He is also a great-grandson of Siamese Viceroy, Prince Pinklao, who in turn was one of the sons of King Rama II, a grandson of Prince Wichaichan and one of the grandnephews of King Chulalongkorn as well as one of the nephews to Kings Vajiravudh and Prajadhipok. Biography
Prince Bhisadej Rajani was born on 20 January 1922. He is the youngest son of Prince Rajani Chamcharas, the Prince of Bidyalongkorn (son of Prince Yodyingyos, the Prince Bovorn Vichaichan) and Mom Chao Barabimalabanna Voravan (daughter of Prince Vorawannakara, the Prince Naradhip Prabandhabongs).He is the great-grandson of the Viceroy Pinklao. He is the younger brother of Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit, Queen Sirikit's lady-in-waiting and well-known royalty author, who was shot down in a helicopter by insurgents while visiting soldiers. He graduated from Debsirin School and continued his education at Dulwich College in England where he played rugby, tennis, and squash. Running many races a day, young Prince Bhisadej finally won the Victor Ludorum gold medal (Latin for 'winner of the games') at the annual Thai students in the UK meeting. During World War II, he joined the British Army in 1943 as a soldier and British spy. He was trained to walk up the hills with a rifle and heavy back pack. He trekked the Himalayan Mountains for two weeks with an army from Darjeeling Hill Station in India to Nathula Pass in Tibet.After the army training, he engaged the underground resistance movement activities against Japanese called Free Thai Movement during the War. After the war, he came back to Thailand and worked as an officer in the Border Patrol Police in their schools along the northern Thai border for a few years. Royal duties

<mask> was a close friend of King Bhumibol Adulyadej since the king held the title Prince during his elder brother's, King Ananda Mahidol, reign. In a 1969 narcotics campaign, during which hill tribe villagers in the northern territory grew opium, King Bhumibol Adulyadej established the Royal Project Foundation centred in Fang District under his command to encourage hill tribes to renounce opium-growing. As president of the organisation, Bhisadej gave advice to them about growing instead cash crops such as strawberries, peaches, plums, as well as vegetables and fruits. He also served as president of the Thai-United Nations Hill-Tribe Economic Development Project and of the Highland Agricultural Research Committee. Later life

While working in Chiang Mai Province, Prince Bhisadej lives a very simple lifestyle.His hobbies are reading, listening to music, and photography. He has been fond of photography since he was 14 years old. He enjoys taking pictures of flowers grown at The Royal Development Centres, particularly English roses at The Royal Agricultural Station Ang Khang, which are in full bloom in April. He enjoys novels and books about history and rural travels that describe the lives of farmers, especially in France and Spain. His most recent book in Thai entitled Cheewit Chun Chun (; ), published in 2002 under the pseudonym P. of Pramualmak (; ); the letter P stands for his name when romanised in the RTGS style, Phisadet. His book is autobiographical and also deals with Thai history some 100 years ago. Prince <mask> is respected by Thais for his dedication and long contributions to King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Royal Projects.The prince is frequently invited to preside over academic or international meetings and social events. He turned 100 in January 2022. Marriage
Prince Bhisadej married his first cousin, Mom Rajawongse Dajriraj Vorawan, daughter of Mom Chao Nitayakara Vorawan and Mom Kaew Vorawan na Ayudhya. She is the granddaughter of Prince Voravannakara, the Prince Naradhip Prapanpongse, and is the direct niece of Mom Chao Barabimalabanna Voravan, who is Prince Bhisadej's mother. The couple has two daughters and one son:
 Mom Rajawongse Dajrabimala Rajani
 Mom Rajawongse Bhavari Rajani
 Mom Rajawongse Dhiradej Rajani

The prince and his family reside at Pramual Palace in Silom, Bangkok, but frequently reside at his private residence in the area of The Royal Project Development and Agricultural Centre, Doi Ang Khang, Fang District, Chiang Mai Province. Title

 His Serene Highness Prince (Mom Chao) <mask> Rajani : 20 August 1922–present

Royal decorations
 Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Illustrious Order of Chula Chom Klao (5 May 1988)
 Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant (2004)
 Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand (2004)
 Recipient of the King Rama IX Royal Cypher Medal (1954)

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<mask> (born September 2, 1984) is an American former soccer player who last played for LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer as a forward. In the 2013 season with the Chicago Fire, <mask> scored 21 goals and was named the MLS MVP. Club career

MetroStars

<mask> graduated from USSF's Bradenton Academy he entered the 2003 MLS SuperDraft, where the MetroStars traded the previous year's third overall selection, Brad Davis, to acquire <mask> with the fourth overall pick. With Metro coach Bob Bradley familiar with <mask> from his youth soccer days, the youngster quickly stepped into the Metro lineup, and played every game of the 2003 season except the meaningless finale. He became the youngest player in team history to start a game and score a goal. He scored seven goals, nearing the rookie record, which included a couple of game-winning and game-tying efforts. When the MetroStars signed a trio of foreign strikers before the 2004 season, <mask> struggled for playing time early on.But he soon found a new niche as an attacking midfielder, as his skill on the ball, leadership, precise passing, and overall intelligence made him an important part of the Metro team. <mask> ended up with three goals on the season, one of them in the 90th minute to give the Metros a 2-1 win over Los Angeles Galaxy. He scored five in 2005, adding five assists. <mask> followed that with three goals in an injury-filled 2006. <mask>'s injury woes continued in 2007 as he was limited to 7 league matches. The 2008 season saw <mask> receive significant playing time as an attacking midfielder, but it was apparent that he was not fully recovered from his injuries. He was then moved to his natural forward position and had a resurgence as he scored in 3 consecutive matches, helping the club to three straight wins.He ended the 2008 season scoring five key goals, helping the club reach the MLS Playoffs. LA Galaxy

<mask> was traded to Los Angeles Galaxy in January 2009 in exchange for a 2nd round pick in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. In his first season with Los Angeles, <mask> appeared in 23 league matches scoring 2 goals. During the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs <mask> started all 4 of the team's playoff matches scoring two goals in helping lead the club to the MLS Cup Final. At the MLS 2009 Cup Final <mask> scored the Galaxy's only goal but the team ended up losing during an overtime penalty shoot out. <mask> made his first professional appearance as a goalkeeper on June 25, 2011, moving to the position in the 43rd minute of a match against San Jose Earthquakes, after starting goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts was injured and reserve goalkeeper Josh Saunders received a red card for an elbow to the face of Steven Lenhart. <mask> made 4 saves, including a late stop on a 1-v-1 against Lenhart, preserving a clean sheet for the Galaxy in a 0-0 draw.It was the first time <mask> had played in goal at any level of soccer. <mask> had his most productive season during the 2011 campaign scoring 10 goals in all competitions for the Galaxy including 3 in the MLS playoffs, helping the Galaxy to capture the 2011 MLS Cup. <mask> has become LA's "Mr. November" due to his repeated ability to deliver goals and in form clutch performances in the post-season, having scored 8 goals in his 15 playoff matches for the team. Chicago Fire

On May 24, 2013, <mask> was traded to Chicago Fire for the MLS rights to Robbie Rogers. He made an immediate impact with the club, scoring 7 goals in his first 7 matches across all competitions. He won the June Player of the Month Award. The Fire missed the playoffs by three goals and <mask> lost to Camilo Sanvezzo for the MLS Golden Boot.Camilo had 22 goals and 6 assists, while <mask> had 21 goals and 4 assists. On November 20, <mask> along with Robbie Keane and Marco Di Vaio, was nominated for the MVP Award. On December 5, he was named the MVP of MLS. <mask> became the first Chicago Fire player ever to win the award. In September 2014, <mask> underwent a right hip surgery to address an injury of the labrum and to repair articular surface damage. He would miss eight months due to recovery. In May 2015, <mask> was loaned to Chicago's USL affiliate, Saint Louis FC, to begin his on-field recovery from this injury.Return to LA Galaxy
On January 14, 2016, the Galaxy announced that <mask> would return after he became a free-agent. International career
<mask> has spent time with various U.S. youth national Teams. He played in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates, scoring the game-winner against Paraguay. In November 2013, Republic of Ireland national team captain Robbie Keane revealed that he would recommend <mask> to Martin O'Neill as a possible call-up. <mask> was called up by Jürgen Klinsmann for the 2014 January Camp. However, he was left out of the lineup on February 1 against South Korea due to food poisoning. Personal life
<mask> spent some of his earliest years living in Elmhurst, Illinois before moving away, and has lived considerable time in South Barrington.He played AYSO; one year, his team name was the "Green Slimers". <mask> and his wife, Kristen Pizzolato were married in 2012, had a daughter in 2010 and a son in 2015. In 2018, <mask> became the owner of Sneaky Fox Spirits and Sneaky Clean Hand Sanitizer in 2020. Career statistics

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Los Angeles Galaxy
 MLS Cup (2): 2011, 2012
 MLS Supporters' Shield (2): 2010, 2011
 MLS Western Conference Playoffs (3): 2009, 2011, 2012
 MLS Western Conference Regular Season (3): 2009, 2010, 2011
 MLS Player of the Month (1): March 2013
 MLS Player of the Week (2): 2011, 2013

Chicago Fire
 MLS Player of the Month (1): June 2013
 MLS Best XI (1): 2013
 MLS MVP (1): 2013

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<mask>Eddie<mask> (born April 23, 1946) is a former leading member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party who in 1971 was convicted of murder of a police officer a year earlier, in a trial with many irregularities. In 2014 he was released on parole, after an appellate court ruled that his jury had been given improper instructions. Background
In addition to his position in the Black Panther Party, <mask> was also employed by the United States Postal Service. He was unaware that some of the founding members of the Baltimore chapter of the Party were actually undercover officers at the Baltimore Police Department who reported daily on his activities at the chapter. At the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had also started its own investigation of <mask>, recording his whereabouts, contacting his employers at the Post Office and maintaining contact with the Baltimore Police Department. BPD shooting
On the night of April 21, 1970, Baltimore Police Officers Donald Sager and Stanley Sierakowski were shot by three assailants who fired at least eight rounds at the officers during their response to a domestic disturbance call. Officer Sager was killed and Officer Sierakowski was critically wounded.About an hour later, Officers James Welsh and Roger Nolan arrested two men near the scene of the shooting, based on information they received over police radio. The men were Jackie Powell and Jack Ivory Johnson, and two pistols were found near the location where they were hiding. The police determined that these two men, Powell and Ivory Johnson, knew members of the Baltimore Black Panther Party chapter or were affiliated with it. Immediately after contact with the two men, Officer Nolan briefly chased a black man on foot and tried to make contact with him. The man then fired several shots at Nolan and escaped. Nolan stated that he had previously seen this man on his assigned beat and could recognize him, but he did not know his name. Based on the affiliation of the two suspects with the Black Panther Party, Nolan was shown two photo line-ups of party members.In the first line-up, Nolan claimed that a picture of <mask>, taken seven years earlier in 1963, resembled the shooter. In the second line-up, which used a current photograph of <mask>, Nolan positively identified <mask> as the individual who had shot at him. Welsh also positively identified <mask> as the man whom Nolan had chased. The next day, <mask> was arrested while working at the Post Office. Following an investigation where the ballistics of both shootings were determined to match, <mask> was charged with both the murder of Officer Sager and the attempted murders of Officers Sierakowski and Nolan. According to <mask>, he was working during the time of the shooting and his supervisor at the Post Office affirmed his alibi. One of the weapons found with Powell and Johnson was also matched through ballistics testing to the murder of Officer Sager.Black Panther Party member Jack Ivory Johnson was released from Prison on May 2010. Trial
<mask> appealed to the court to be represented by either Charles Garry or William Kunstler, two attorneys who consistently represented party members. Both lawyers had offered their services free of charge. However, the court denied <mask>’s request and appointed a lawyer who performed no pre-trial investigation and never met with <mask>. Therefore, <mask> chose to absent himself from much of his January 1971 trial. Before the trial, Johnson had confessed to the police, naming Powell and <mask> as the ones who shot Officers Sager and Sierakowski. According to court testimony, Johnson stated he fired into the air because "I didn't have the heart to kill the pig."But later, Johnson refused to testify against <mask> and claimed his statement was coerced. The state’s case was based partially on photo identification by Officer Nolan. To strengthen its case, the state called Charles Reynolds, a known jailhouse informant. He testified that while he shared a cell with <mask> before the trial, <mask> confessed to him. However, as was verified by the court transcript, <mask> had protested greatly when Reynolds was placed in his cell because everyone knew he was an informant. One of the points that proved key to the truthfulness of Reynolds was that Reynolds was told by <mask> that he had taken Officer Sierakowski's watch, a fact that was not released by the police during the investigation. Finally, the ballistic evidence connecting the weapons to the murders also played a significant role in the trial.After hearing all the evidence, the jury convicted <mask> of the murder, and both he and Powell were sentenced to life in prison. Both men appealed but the appellate court upheld the convictions. Controversy
There are several controversies involving the trial and conviction of <mask>. The trial took place just two years after the 1968 Baltimore riot, the use of the photo line-up was questioned and the reliability of the jailhouse informant was brought up. In addition, <mask> fired two lawyers, the first (Nelson Kandel) over trial strategy differences and the second one that was appointed to represent him and who <mask> refused to cooperate with. <mask> requested that his cellmate, attorney Arthur Turco, be appointed to represent him. Turco requested bail to be able to do so, but both of these requests were denied.<mask> claims to have been a political prisoner. Imprisonment
During his imprisonment, <mask> earned three college degrees, started a literacy program, and was an "exemplary" prisoner. During the entire time, <mask> maintained his innocence. <mask>'s supporters have called him one of the country’s longest-held political prisoners. While incarcerated, <mask> tried to organize prison unions and organized a prison library. In February 2001, the Baltimore City Council passed a resolution urging the Governor of Maryland to pardon <mask>, over the strident protests of police officers. <mask> has written a book on his life, Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, that was released on April 4, 2011.Release
After an appellate court ruled that his jury had been given improper instructions, state prosecutors agreed to change his life sentence to time served and probation, and <mask> was released from prison on March 4, 2014 after having served 43 years and 11 months. He is currently a producer at The Real News and hosts the show Rattling the Bars. See also
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 Black Panther Party official website
 A history of the Black Panther Party, with original documents, described from a Marxist perspective
 Audio clips of <mask> "Eddie" <mask>
 "Reality Asserts Itself" interviews on The Real News
 COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story
 25 Years Behind Bars: Interview with Imprisoned Black Panther
 Free <mask> "Eddie" <mask> and All Political Prisoners! How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated (1/2). The Real News. January 4, 2015. 1946 births
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Members of the Black Panther Party
People from Baltimore
American people convicted of murdering police officers
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People paroled from life sentence

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<mask> (29 March 1824 – 30 April 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Biography
<mask> was born at Darmstadt on 29 March 1824. From 1842 to 1848 he studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, where he graduated in 1848 with a dissertation entitled Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System). Afterwards, he continued his studies at the University of Strasbourg, the University of Würzburg (where he studied pathology with the great Rudolf Virchow) and the University of Vienna. In 1852 he became lecturer in medicine at the University of Tübingen, where he published his magnum opus Kraft und Stoff: Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien (Force and Matter: Empiricophilosophical Studies, 1855). According to Friedrich Albert Lange (Geschichte des Materialismus, 1866), Kraft und Stoff was imbued with a fanatical enthusiasm for humanity. Büchner sought to demonstrate the indestructibility of matter, and the finality of physical force.The scientific materialism of this work, which contemporaries often lumped together with the publications of other 'materialists' like Karl Vogt and <mask>, caused so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen, and he retired to Darmstadt. He practiced as a physician and contributed regularly to pathological, physiological and popular magazines. He continued his philosophical work in defense of materialism, and published Natur und Geist (Nature and Spirit, 1857), Aus Natur und Wissenschaft (From Nature and Science, vol. I., 1862; vol. II., 1884), Der Fortschritt in Natur und Geschichte im Lichte der Darwinschen Theorie (Progress in Nature and History in the Light of the Darwinian Theory, 1884), Tatsachen und Theorien aus dem naturwissenschaftlichen Leben der Gegenwart (Facts and Theories in the Scientific Life of Present, 1887), Fremdes und Eigenes aus dem geistligen Leben der Gegenwart (Strangers and Selves in the Spiritual Life of the Present, 1890), Darwinismus und Socialismus (Darwinism and Socialism, 1894), Im Dienste der Wahrheit (In the Service of Truth, 1899). <mask>'s materialism was the founding ground for the freethinkers' movement in Germany. In 1881 he founded in Frankfurt the "German Freethinkers League" ("Deutsche Freidenkerbund").He died at Darmstadt on 30 April 1899. Philosophical work
In estimating <mask>'s philosophy it must be remembered that he was primarily a physiologist, not a metaphysician. Matter and force (or energy) are, he maintained, infinite; the conservation of force follows from the imperishability of matter, the ultimate basis of all science. <mask> is not always clear in his theory of the relation between matter and force. At one time he refuses to explain it, but generally he assumes that all natural and spiritual forces are indwelling in matter. Just as a steam engine, he says in Kraft und Stoff (7th ed., p. 130), produces motion, so the intricate organic complex of force-bearing substance in an animal organism produces a total sum of certain effects, which, when bound together in a unity, are called by us mind, soul, thought. Here he postulates force and mind as emanating from original matter, a materialistic monism.But in other parts of his works he suggests that mind and matter are two different aspects of that which is the basis of all things, a monism which is not necessarily materialistic. <mask> was much less concerned to establish a scientific metaphysics than to protest against the romantic idealism of his predecessors and the theological interpretations of the universe. Nature according to him is purely physical; it has no purpose, no will, no laws imposed by extraneous authority, no supernatural ethical sanction. Büchner endorsed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution within a decade of its first issuance, writing the book Man in the Past, Present and Future in 1869 about what he felt were Darwinism's implications. He believed that this included humanity moving into a kinder state of being, where a primitive struggle for life would no longer apply or at least be replaced with purely intellectual struggles, and war would end. To achieve this, Büchner advocated government social programs which would aid greater equality, including the collective ownership of land and women's rights (however he did not extend this to them receiving suffrage, deeming that premature at the time). Modern Christian apologists consider Büchner the father of atheistic evangelism in Germany, a counterpart to Thomas Huxley.<mask> was the brother of <mask>, a famous playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women's rights advocate; and the uncle of <mask>, inventor of the Büchner flask. Notes

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Andreas Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, . Fredrick Gregory: Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany, Springer, Berlin u.a. 1977,
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Biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Complete scanned text of Büchner's Force and Matter

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<mask> (born 8 October 1974), known as "The Lion Whisperer", is a South African YouTube personality, wildlife conservationist and self-taught sanctuary owner who works with African lions, black leopards, spotted hyenas and striped hyenas. Early life
<mask> was born in the Nightingale Clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the 8th of October, 1974. He spent his childhood in the neighbourhood of Orange Grove. His mother, Patricia, worked for Barclays Bank and was also born in South Africa. <mask>'s father, who worked for a pharmaceutical company, was born in the United Kingdom and moved to South Africa from Reading, Berkshire. <mask> is the youngest of four children: he has an older brother and two sisters who are twins. His father died when <mask> was thirteen years old.When he was about sixteen, he met Stan Schmidt and began his career as a "self-taught behaviourist." Career
<mask> went to college and studied zoology, but quit following two years of repetitive lessons on marine biology instead of mammals. As an adult, <mask> believed that he would never have a career working with animals and that it would remain a hobby of his. He started taking courses in physiology and anatomy in college and started a career in exercise physiology and became an exercise physiologist. When he was twenty-three, he had the opportunity to work as a handler and cared for two six-month-old lion cubs, Tau and Napoleon which he later rescued. His early years took place at the Lion Park near the outskirts of his home in Johannesburg. He still runs with the now full grown cubs in the wild.The facility owner, Rodney Fuhr, started him off with a part-time job at the Lion Park. <mask> and his team work with animals for the commercial filming industry and make documentaries to generate income to fund the facility. They also have a volunteer programme which generates income, and volunteers who help to run the sanctuary. Facilities
<mask> worked within a  Lion Park in Broederstroom, a town 35 miles north of his hometown, Johannesburg, in South Africa. Whilst primarily specializing in lions, he has also interacted with hyenas and black panthers. The park, which was set up with the help of Rodney Fuhr, is  and was built for the set of the 2010 movie White Lion. <mask> cares for thirty-nine lions at this facility.the facility was private, but there were plans  to open it to the public. The sanctuary's Web site said in 2020 that it was open for guided group tours and had a volunteering program. In 2015 the Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary relocated to Welgedacht Private Game Reserve near Pretoria. Lion care

He has slept next to, fed, and lived with lions. He has also worked with cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas. He prefers lions to any other big cat. His relationship with the animals, however, has not been an instant one.He has known all of the lions he works with since they were cubs. He still continues his bond with Tau and Napoleon, the lion brothers who were his introduction to big cats. Despite his prior involvement in lion cub petting, <mask> rejects the traditional notion that lions should be mastered and dominated, preferring to develop a relationship over time, based on love and respect. "A lion is not a possession; it's a sentient being, so you must pay attention and develop your bond like with any relationship." Dangers
<mask> has been scratched, punctured, and bitten but is not dissuaded by these dangers. In an interview, he mentions, "Obviously one realizes the danger when working with animals of this caliber, I've weighed the pros and I've weighed the cons, and the pros far outweigh the cons." He warns about following in his footsteps, however.All the pictures of his adventures do not portray his years of experience and bonding. "People like to take things out of context. They don't know the relationship I have with this lion." As a rule, <mask> only interacts with lions he has been with since their birth. <mask> also differentiates his work from that of zoologists interacting with completely wild animals they have not raised, or that of trainers whose animals are required to perform on stage day after day. Controversy
<mask> worked as a lion handler for the lion park that featured in a 2014 segment of the CBS program 60 Minutes, which revealed that the Lion Park in Lanseria bred lions to ensure a supply of cubs year-round. When the lions reached maturity, they were shipped out to canned hunting operations because they were too dangerous to be near tourists.The Lion park has been criticised for allowing lion petting  and for supplying lions to the canned lion industry. He has also been criticised by many in the conservation community, members of whom state that experiences which expressly bring people and lions together on "walks" are risky because of the unpredictable nature of the wild animals. <mask>'s role as a conservationist was also questioned with experts stating that more care was needed in private reserves to ensure they mirror what has been developed in national parks. Conservationists Luke T.B. Hunter, Paula White, Philipp Henschel, and Laurence Frank, in a 2012 article titled "Walking with lions: why there is no role for captive-origin lions Panthera leo in species restoration", concluded that parks in Africa with plans to reintroduce lions into the wild including <mask>'s had yet to do so as of 2013 and found little of conservation value that justifies the use of captive-origin lions for reintroduction. February 2018 fatal attack
On 27 February a young woman was mauled to death in the Dinokeng Game Reserve by a lioness that was under his care. <mask> lost track of the lioness when she pursued an impala for some , whereupon the lioness assaulted the day visitor to the reserve.Wildlife biologist Luke Dollar responded to the killing in an article by National Geographic, stating that "behaviors and programs that skirt the reality of our place in the food chain seem to be an accident waiting to happen." Works/publications

<mask> has been featured in many documentaries, movies, and commercials. It was during his stint at the Lion Park that Michael Rosenberg decided to use <mask> in documentaries such as Dangerous Companions and In Search of a Legend. Growing Up Hyena is a documentary in which <mask> sets out to change the misconception of the hyena as a feared and loathed scavenger. <mask>'s work in the Okavango Delta and Lydenberg had brought forth the documentary concerning black leopards entitled In Search of a Legend. Because of the frequency of filming, <mask> moved all of the animals to one facility at the Kingdom of the White Lion property. <mask> produced the 2010 documentary White Lion: Home is a Journey, about a young white lion, "Letsatsi," who survives against all odds.This film is the first to star native lions instead of the regularly imported ones. Rodney Fuhr and his wife, Ilana, independently funded the movie and served as executive producers. The film was shot at the Kingdom of the White Lion, SA Lion Park, Nash's farm, Glen Afric, and Entabeni Game Reserve. The South African-based company Peru Productions Pty. Ltd.'s first feature film was White Lion. See also
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<mask> (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed "Big Sexy", is a Dominican-American professional baseball pitcher for the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. He has played for eleven different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Cleveland Indians (1997–2002), Montreal Expos (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003, 2009), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004–2007), Boston Red Sox (2008), New York Yankees (2011), Oakland Athletics (2012–2013), New York Mets (2014–2016), Atlanta Braves (2017), Minnesota Twins (2017), and Texas Rangers (2018). <mask> made four MLB All-Star Games: for the Indians (1998), Angels (2005), Athletics (2013), and Mets (2016). He won the American League Cy Young Award with the Angels in 2005, when he led the American League in wins. Early in the 2016 season, <mask> was 42 when he became the oldest  player to hit his first career home run. At age 45 during the 2018 season, <mask> was the oldest active MLB player and the last active Major Leaguer who played for the Montreal Expos. He holds the record for most career wins by a Latin American-born pitcher.In his most recent season (2018), he and Rangers teammate Adrián Beltré were the last active MLB players to have played in the 1990s. On February 14, 2020, <mask> signed with the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. Early life
<mask> grew up in the town of Altamira in the Dominican Republic. He worked long days alongside his father, Miguel, harvesting coffee beans and fruit from the age of 9 to 14. <mask> credited his childhood job with the development of his strength. He does major charity work for his old community. <mask>'s mother, Adriana, died in 2014 of breast cancer.MLB pitching career

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<mask> was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1993 and began his career in their minor league system. In 1995, pitching for Kinston of the Single-A Carolina League, he finished second in wins with 13 and ERA with 1.96, and led the circuit with 152 strikeouts. He was named the league's Pitcher of the Year, despite shutting down on August 1 with a bruised elbow. He was named the Indians' 1995 Minor League Player of the Year (receiving the "Lou Boudreau Award"). He played Triple-A ball with the Buffalo Bisons in 1997 and on June 21 became the only player in team history to throw a no-hitter at  Sahlen Field, then called North AmeriCare Park. <mask> made his Major League Baseball debut against the Anaheim Angels on April 4, 1997, receiving a no decision. In his first MLB season, <mask> went 4–7 with a 5.65 ERA.The following year, he set the modern-day but unofficial MLB record for throwing the most pitches (20) in a single at bat on June 26, 1998 against Ricky Gutiérrez, who eventually struck out. That record would not be broken until 2018. Later that season, <mask> won his only start of the 1998 American League Championship Series, pitching a four-hit, one-run complete game. In his 1999 season, <mask> finished 18–5, pitching over 200 innings with 161 strikeouts and a 3.95 ERA. On September 18, 2000, he tossed a one-hitter against the New York Yankees. In both 2000 and 2001, <mask> posted over 200 strikeouts, making him the first Indians pitcher since Gaylord Perry to record at least 200 strikeouts in back-to-back seasons. Montreal Expos
Just before the 2002 trade deadline, <mask> and Tim Drew were traded to the Montreal Expos in exchange for Lee Stevens, Brandon Phillips, and prospects Grady Sizemore and Cliff Lee.<mask> finished 2002 with a combined 20–8 record and a 2.93 ERA, including 76 earned runs with 70 walks in  innings, three shutouts, and eight complete games. He was the last active player to have played with the Expos. Chicago White Sox
Before the 2003 season, <mask> was traded to the Chicago White Sox with minor leaguer Jorge Nunez for Orlando Hernández, Rocky Biddle, Jeff Liefer and cash. Anaheim Angels

A free agent after the previous season, he signed with the Anaheim Angels in 2004. <mask> won 18 games with Anaheim in 2004. During the 2005 season, he went 21–8 with a 3.48 ERA, and became the first Angels pitcher to win the Cy Young Award since Dean Chance in 1964. Due to a partially torn rotator cuff that he received in a playoff game against the Yankees in 2005, <mask> spent much of the 2006 season on the disabled list with soreness or inflammation in his right shoulder.In 10 starts, <mask> went 1–5 with a 5.11 ERA. On April 21, 2007, his first start of the 2007 season following his return from the disabled list, <mask> pitched 7 innings, allowing one run on seven hits for his first win in 2007. Boston Red Sox

On February 25, 2008, <mask> signed a minor league deal with the Boston Red Sox and was invited to spring training. On May 15, 2008, he threw a one-hitter for the Red Sox' Triple-A team, the Pawtucket Red Sox. Six days later, <mask>'s contract was purchased by the Red Sox, and he was added to the active roster. <mask> pitched his first major league game for the Red Sox on May 21, 2008, against the Kansas City Royals. He earned his 150th career win on June 11, 2008, against the Baltimore Orioles.On September 19, 2008, <mask> was placed on the suspended list by the Red Sox after leaving for the Dominican Republic to handle "personal matters" and deciding to stay, effectively ending his Red Sox career. He was placed on the restricted list on September 25, 2008. <mask> spent the postseason on the restricted list as the Red Sox won the 2008 ALDS against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 4 games, but lost the 2008 ALCS against the Tampa Bay Rays in 7 games. He filed for free agency after the end of the 2008 season. Second stint with the White Sox

<mask> agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract to return to the Chicago White Sox in January 2009, shortly after they traded Javier Vázquez to the Atlanta Braves. He competed for the fourth and fifth starters' positions in the White Sox rotation. <mask> made his comeback from off-season surgery to remove bone chips from his pitching arm elbow during the White Sox Spring training, in the Cactus League in Arizona.Manager Ozzie Guillén named him the White Sox' fifth starter before the start of the regular season. <mask> won his first start in his second stint in Chicago, pitching six strong innings of three-hit ball as the Sox blanked Minnesota 8–0 on April 11, 2009. In doing so he became the first White Sox starting pitcher to win a regular season game in 2009. <mask> then suffered another injury and did not pitch again for the remainder of the season. New York Yankees

<mask> did not pitch in 2010 due to ongoing right shoulder and elbow pain and damage to the rotator cuff, ligaments and tendons. In March 2010, he received a transplant of stem cells to repair the damaged tissues in his right shoulder. The orthopedic surgeon who performed the surgery said he had used human growth hormone in previous surgeries of the same type but not with <mask>.The surgery was scrutinized by MLB but no wrongdoing was found. <mask> then played in the Pre-World Championship in Puerto Rico, winter ball with the Aguilas and the Leones del Escogido, and the Puerto Rican winter league., and announced that he would attempt a comeback to MLB for the 2011 season. He signed a minor league deal with the New York Yankees on January 26, 2011. <mask> was invited to spring training, competing for a spot on the 25-man roster, despite coming into camp 30 pounds overweight. He was named to the Yankees' Opening Day roster in the bullpen. <mask> made his first start for the Yankees on April 20, taking the rotation spot of the injured Phil Hughes. Through May, Colon was 3–3 with a 3.26 ERA.On May 30, 2011, he threw a 4-hit complete-game shutout, his first since 2006 against the Athletics. He sustained a hamstring injury on June 11, 2011, against the Cleveland Indians. When he was injured, he was in the seventh inning of a shutout game, but he limped off the field after covering first base on a ground ball to Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira. <mask> then ended up on the 15-day disabled list. He said that he'd be back pitching right when eligible. On July 2, <mask> returned to the Yankees and threw six shutout innings against the New York Mets. On July 14 against the Blue Jays, <mask> exited after recording only two outs in the first inning while yielding eight runs, the shortest outing of his career.<mask>'s 2011 season was somewhat of a resurgence, going 8–10 with a 4.00 ERA and a WHIP of 1.29. He was demoted to the bullpen when the Yankees made the postseason and the team lost to the Detroit Tigers in the 2011 ALDS. Oakland Athletics

On January 14, 2012, <mask> agreed to a one-year, $2 million contract with the Oakland Athletics. He started the second game of the season for the Athletics in the Opening Series in Tokyo, Japan, throwing eight innings, giving up one run over three hits while recording six strikeouts. On April 18 <mask> threw 38 consecutive strikes, the most since 1988, when the MLB began to collect pitching data in-depth, in a start against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He started the 2012 season with a 3–1 record and 2.64 ERA, but faltered with a 1–4 record and 5.80 ERA in his next seven starts. On August 22, 2012, MLB suspended <mask> for 50 games after he tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.He was the second MLB player to be suspended within a two-week time frame for testosterone (along with San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera). The Athletics signed <mask> to a one-year, $3 million deal for 2013. He was selected for his third All-Star team in July after posting an 11–3 record with a 2.78 ERA. New York Mets

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On December 11, 2013, <mask> agreed to a 2-year, $20 million contract with the New York Mets. On June 18, he got his first hit in nine years when he hit a double off Lance Lynn. On August 8, 2014, <mask> recorded his 200th win in a 5–4 victory over the Phillies. He is the third Dominican-born pitcher to do so, after Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez, and the third pitcher to do so in a Mets uniform, after Orel Hershiser and Martínez.<mask> finished the 2014 season with 31 starts, 15–13 record, 202.1 innings pitched, 151 strikeouts, and a 4.09 ERA while giving up 218 hits, 30 walks, 22 home runs, and 97 runs (92 of them earned). 2015

On Opening Day 2015 against the Washington Nationals, <mask> became the 3rd Opening Day pitcher over 40 years old to strike out eight batters, after Cy Young and Nolan Ryan. On April 12, 2015, against the Atlanta Braves, <mask> hit an RBI single off Alex Wood, the 6th RBI of his career. On April 23, 2015, <mask> completed an unassisted pickoff of Atlanta Braves catcher A. J. Pierzynski en route to becoming the first pitcher aged 40 years or older to win his first four starts in a season in the past 80 years. He also tallied one more RBI, a double on May 31, 2015. <mask> became the first pitcher ever to record wins against one team (the Baltimore Orioles) for seven different clubs. Six pitchers held the previous record of six clubs.On June 9, 2015, <mask> set a new Mets franchise record of most consecutive decisions as a starting pitcher, achieving 26 decisions in 26 consecutive starts. This record was previously held by Dwight Gooden. On September 5, 2015, Justin Bour of the Miami Marlins hit a chopper down the first-base line; <mask> charged and made a behind-the-back flip to first for the out. Video of the play garnered widespread media acclaim. In 33 games (31 starts), he finished the 2015 year with a 14–13 record and a 4.16 ERA. On October 21, 2015, <mask> pitched 1.1 innings in relief to earn the win in game 4 of the NLCS and help the Mets sweep the Chicago Cubs. On October 27, 2015, <mask> pitched 2.1 innings in relief and took the loss at the end of Game 1 of the World Series, becoming the oldest man ever to lose a World Series game.It was his first World Series appearance since he was a rookie with the Indians in 1997, and the Mets lost the series in five games to the Kansas City Royals. 2016

On December 16, 2015, <mask> re-signed with the Mets on a 1-year, $7.25 million contract. He entered the 2016 MLB season as the oldest active player in Major League Baseball. He is also, following the retirement of Maicer Izturis, the last active MLB player who appeared for the Montreal Expos. On May 7, <mask> hit his first major league home run, against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park off of James Shields. At age 42 years and 349 days, <mask> broke a record, becoming the oldest major league player to hit his first home run. On June 21, he was injured when Whit Merrifield hit his pitch right to the pitcher's mound, striking <mask> in the thumb.He was immediately taken out of the game. On July 8, <mask> was named to the 2016 MLB All-Star Game, replacing Madison Bumgarner. On August 15, he drew a walk after having not been walked in his previous 281 plate appearances, achieving a new MLB record. On October 1, <mask> became the 47th player ever to make 500 career starts. Atlanta Braves
On November 17, 2016, <mask> signed a one-year, $12.5 million contract with the Atlanta Braves. The Braves designated him for assignment on June 29, 2017, after he put up a 2–8 record with an 8.14 ERA and 1.78 WHIP in 13 starts. He was released on July 4.Minnesota Twins
On July 7, 2017, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Minnesota Twins. <mask> was called up on July 18 to start against the New York Yankees. On August 4, he threw a complete game against the Texas Rangers; at age 44, he became the oldest American League pitcher to record a 9-inning complete-game win since 45-year-old Nolan Ryan did the same in 1992. Later that month he became the 18th pitcher to record a win against all 30 MLB teams, completing the feat against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Texas Rangers
On February 4, 2018, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that included an invitation to spring training. He was released on March 24, and signed another minor league contract with Texas on March 26. <mask> was called up on April 2 to start against the Oakland Athletics.On April 15, <mask> took a perfect game through 7 innings until walking Carlos Correa. <mask> went through 7 innings, allowing one run as the Rangers won 3–1 in 10 innings. On April 28, 2018, he pitched seven innings while allowing six hits and three runs on 98 pitches, being the winning pitcher in a 7–4 result against the Toronto Blue Jays. This was the eleventh team with which he recorded at least one win. A career win on June 18 against Kansas City moved him past Juan Marichal, the "Dominican Dandy", to become the pitcher with most career wins from the Dominican Republic. On August 7, in an 11–4 victory against the Seattle Mariners, <mask> earned his 246th career pitching win, moving him past Dennis Martinez for the most victories all time by a Latin American-born pitcher. He elected free agency on October 29, and was not signed for the 2019 season.Acereros de Monclova
On February 14, 2020, <mask> signed with the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. However, he never played in 2020, since the Mexican League season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He made his first pre-season appearance for the team on May 1, 2021. Colon made his regular season debut on May 21 and pitched 5 innings, giving up 5 hits and 1 run. Pitching style
<mask> throws four pitches. Early in his career, he had excellent velocity on his four-seam fastball, throwing it in the mid-90s and occasionally touching 100 mph. In his later career, <mask>'s four-seamer sat at 86–91 mph, and he paired it with a two-seamer at 84–88 mph.This combination of fastballs makes up nearly 90% of <mask>'s pitches, but he also throws a changeup to left-handed hitters, and a slider. He is primarily known as a control pitcher, with an exceptional ability to spot pitches at any location. This keeps the number of walks he allows to a minimum, but leads to more hits as he will attempt to throw strikes. Awards and accomplishments

Awards
 Cy Young Award (2005)
 4× MLB All-Star (1998, 2005, 2013, 2016)
 4× Pitcher of the Month Award (June 1998, May 2002, August 2005, June 2013)
 5× Player of the Week Award (June 21, 1998; September 24, 2000; September 14, 2003; September 6, 2016; May 8, 2016)
 Players Choice Award for Outstanding Pitcher (2005)
 The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year (2005)
 Set record for most wins by a Latin American pitcher (247 – August 7, 2018)

League statistical leader
 2× NL bases on balls per nine innings leader (2015, 2016)
 2× MLB complete games leader (2002, 2003)
 NL hits allowed leader (2015)
 MLB shutouts leader (2013)
 AL wins leader (2005)

Nickname

<mask> is known as "Big Sexy" by his teammates and the media. He applied for a trademark on the Big Sexy nickname and plans on making apparel out of it. Personal life
<mask>'s wife, Rosanna, and their sons, <mask> Jr., Emilio, Wilder, and Randy live in New Jersey. On September 30, 2014, <mask> and his wife became US citizens.<mask> met his wife in the Dominican Republic when he was 13 years old. In 2015, <mask> was sued in Manhattan by a Washington Heights woman seeking child support for her son and daughter, who were fathered by <mask> during his marriage. On June 17, 2016, <mask> and Alexandra Santos agreed to a deal that included child support payments.

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