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<mask> (Ferrol, La Coruña, 11 December 1923 – San Fernando, Cádiz, 14 September 1979) was a Spanish writer. He wrote six novels, the first of which, El mundo de Juan Lobón (1967), is his best known work. It won the Premio de la Crítica and was turned into a television series. He also won the Premio Alfaguara in 1971 for Lena Verde. Family background
<mask> was born in El Ferrol (La Coruña) on December 11, 1923. He did not have Galician roots. He was born there, as he himself used to say, by "Ministerial order" as his father had been posted to El Ferrol as a naval doctor.<mask> was the third son of <mask> de las Cagigas and <mask> Moreno de Guerra. His Berenguer forebears came from both old Navy and landowning families. His paternal grandfather, <mask> Salazar, born in Callosa de Ensarriat (Alicante), was also a naval doctor. Specializing in tropical diseases, he spent thirteen years in the Philippines before being sent to help with a cholera epidemic in Valencia, where his son was born. Another paternal relation was General Dámaso <mask> y Fusté (1873-1953), Presidente del Gobierno (i.e. Prime minister) during the short period called "Dictablanda", which in 1930 followed the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Although only second cousins, they had been very close since childhood and one of <mask>'s brothers, Juan, married the general's granddaughter.On <mask>'s mother's side his grandfather Rafael Moreno de Guerra y Croquer, a native of San Fernando (Cádiz) and another naval officer, pursued a typical colonial career: after four years in Cuba and two in Fernando Po he spent twelve years in the Philippines, where his last posting was civil-military governor in Pollok (Mindanao). Rafael's second wife, Emilia Fernández Ruiz de Morales, daughter of an Army officer from Extremadura, had lived in Manila since her childhood. Their daughter, <mask>'s mother, <mask> Moreno de Guerra, was born aboard ship in the bay of Zamboanga at the moment that the Spanish flag was lowered in the islands: thus in the family it was always said that she was the last Spaniard of Filipinos. Many more distant ancestors on <mask>'s mother's side (the Moreno de Guerra, Macé, Croquer y Tiscar) played distinguished roles in the history of San Fernando. His great-grandfather, Juan Nepomuceno Moreno de Guerra y Macé, was the Mayor of the city in 1846-1847, Member of Parliament, hereditary Knight of Ronda and rich landowner, who donated land for a public park in San Fernando (which still exists under his name) in 1853. The Croquer, another old naval family from San Fernando, came originally from Cornwall. In 1927 the Berenguer-Moreno de Guerra family moved to Madrid, taking <mask>'s maternal grandmother with them.<mask> used to recall from his childhood that "Grandma told us stories of those islands that excited our imagination, using some words in Tagalo (the native language of the Philippines), stories of lizards and snakes and a wet-nurse who wanted to exchange her son for my cousin Paco, because he was more beautiful". His grandmother told further stories, more or less apocryphal, of how she was defending the bay when the enemies took her prisoner and burned her finger to force her to reveal where the cannons were. Such eccentricities all added to <mask>'s upbringing within a conservative and religious Spanish family. Early life

Part of the reason why <mask> ended up in San Fernando was that his mother's family had deep roots in the South of Spain, as we have seen. At the beginning of the Civil War, however, his father <mask> de las Cagigas was on leave in Madrid, having just disembarked from his ship Cervantes. He was taken prisoner by the Republican government, as one of the many officers suspected of cooperation with the Nationalist rebels and was taken to San Antón jail in Cartagena. His wife and his three children, plus two nephews who had just lost their parents in the bombing of Madrid, were taken in due course to La Aljorra outside Cartagena, where Rafael, her husband and still a prisoner, had been put to work as a doctor.For <mask>, his brother and his cousins, all "children of the war", the civil war was a time of freedom. He loved Nature and every kind of animal. He was taken to farms. He played Tarzan and the Apes with his cousins in the countryside around Cartagena. "We never had a better time in our lives", as his brother wrote later. They rode a bicycle (only one between five children). They had a donkey which they loved so much that they brushed its teeth.They fed the horses and chickens. They milked the goats and sheep and picked everything they could find: tomatoes, wild artichokes, oranges, figs and almonds. At the end of the war <mask>'s father's status was extremely delicate. Like many others he might have faced death for giving help to the now defeated Republicans in spite of the fact that he only did so under duress. As it was, he was brought before a military court (Tribunal de Depuración) and cleared, a verdict no doubt helped by family connections. In 1940 the family moved to San Fernando, where Rafael was appointed Director of San Carlos, the naval hospital. In 1944 <mask>, followed by his brothers and his two cousins all joined the Navy.“That was something so obvious for us that we never thought you could become anything else". He married Elvira Monzón Ristori (b. Grazalema, 1927) in April 1954 in San Fernando and moved to Madrid, where their first two daughters were born. He found the job of a junior officer at the Admiralty (Cuerpo General) boring and decided to widen his studies in order to become an engineer. For that, he had to remain in Madrid. He frequented literary circles, above all at the Gijón café. His extrovert and generous personality made him particularly welcome and he made many friends. He met Dámaso Alonso, Gerardo Diego, José García Nieto, Ramón de Garciasol, Ángel Oliver, José Gerardo Manrique de Lara and Juan Garcés (writer and naval judge), among others.With Oliver he used to pay visits to Pío Baroja. Berenguer confessed that the first Spanish literary figures that he admired were Miguel de Unamuno and then José Ortega y Gasset. These were in turn displaced by Pio Baroja and then by his friends and contemporaries Camilo José Cela and Miguel Delibes. To conclude his studies in engineering (naval weapons), he was sent to Washington. The year in the United States (1956-1957) was very pleasant for him: the comfortable "American way of life" bore no comparison with the poor standard of living in Spain; neither did the ease of social relationships. Back from America he applied for a posting in Cádiz. Several issues combined to make him take this decision, which meant moving away from Spain's literary circles.His father had cancer and lived in San Fernando, as did his parents-in-law; it was cheaper than Madrid and they were expecting their fourth child (of eleven eventually). <mask> came to say, maybe just to console himself, that, if he had remained in Madrid at the in-crowd at the Gijón café, he would not have written a single line. Still a naval officer, he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1979. By then he had completed six novels, through which he had ridden rapidly to the Spanish literary Olympus, thanks particularly to the first, The World of Juan Lobón (El mundo de Juan Lobón), which was later made into a television series. The writer

In an unpublished text and in several interviews Berenguer affirmed that he did not find his own identity in his childhood and youth; rather - following, perhaps, Baroja's "sentimental base" of every writer's feelings - that "his vital time", i.e. his own world rather than his parents´ world, was the decade of the 1950s: all the time before that was in a way outside him, to be recalled later through adult eyes. Since his early 20s, though, he had been conscious of his literary vocation, writing in secret in between his naval duties without publishing anything until 1967.Berenguer was fond of sport shooting. This took him deep into the Andalusian countryside and mountains, where he formed friendships with some of the peasants who eked out their solitary lives in those wild surroundings. From these encounters came the inspiration for a series of biographical sketches, of which the most important was that of José Ruiz Morales (Alcalá de los Gazules, 1927 - Marbella, 1996), better known by everybody as “Perea”. This provided the initial idea for his first book, as a result of an incident that he recounted as follows:

 "The series of biographical sketches of wild Gaditanos came to me like a shot from my gun. At the start these were festive vignettes written for fun rather than from any idea of serious literature and only developed in that direction when I introduced the character who was to become Juan Lobón. The note of pathos demanded by the strength and integrity of Lobón's character inevitably broke the comic mood, culminating in a trivial incident which gave me the story's true theme. Three days before Christmas Juan Lobón arrived at my front door to ask me to do him the favour of going with him to the Guardia Civil headquarters to get his shooting licence back.There, in reply, the Police produced a criminal record, as long as a roll of lavatory paper. In its summary it said: A dangerous person, living in sin and dwelling outside the law. The brutal shock that Juan Lobón suffered on listening to such a description became the theme of my novel, i.e. that of a man who is persecuted for his virtues and for the skill with which he conducts his life; a man with a noble personality and a self-sufficient way of being at the edge of a society, from which he only calls for a doctor to help others rather himself". Such was the origin of The World of Juan Lobón (El mundo de Juan Lobón, 1967), a novel that was short-listed for the Alfaguara Prize funded by the publishing firm of the Cela brothers. But the success of the book did not end there. The Cela brothers put it forward for the Nacional de la Crítica prize, the most prestigious award in the Spanish language at that time.<mask> won, an unknown junior Naval officer, aged 43, who thus became a national figure in 1968-69. The World of Juan Lobón follows the traditional picaresque path encouraged by Camilo José Cela. In the book, a peasant living in the wilds is taken to prison for an offence that he has not committed. In prison he learns that the woman he loves is going to have a baby and he cannot bear the idea that his child should grow up ashamed of his father because he had been condemned as a vago y maleante, a vagabond and evil-doer. Inspired by Lobón, Berenguer was sailing close to the wind in his implied criticism of the Spain of the 1960s when the censor still ruled. Juan Lobón embodied many of Berenguer's ideals: a primitive man, strong, free, honest, funny and generous; who, acting as if still in the hunter-gatherer era of human development, confronts the landowners and the civil authorities, convinced that nobody has the right to enclose the land and that wild animals and birds exist to provide food for the hunter. Lobón is the incarnation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's good savage; and, as another critic said, a border-line individual, between a gaucho and a cowboy, inside one of the great landed estates of Andalusia.Writing in the first person and with echoes of Genesis, Leviticus and also Kipling's Jungle Book, Berenguer's ideal Juan Lobón opens the book with statements of his creed, explaining the conflict between the age-old unwritten law and the new law made by the rich against the poor:

 "They made the law for other people, for inadequate people, for ignorant people, who have never had to struggle for life in the wild […]. I know that nobody gets off his donkey just to allow the donkey rest; he does so only because he has become tired of riding on the donkey or because he has reached his destination […]"

Berenguer reflects the rural poverty of the South which he had seen with his own eyes since the 1940s. The natural environment of Lobón is that of traditional Andalusia, a countryside in deep crisis where a primitive economy still existed, based on hunting and gathering (asparagus, snails, palm hearts, mushrooms, heather roots). However, this world, romantically seen as a Garden of Eden, is changing: in a few short years it is leaving behind the feudal attitudes of the great estates and the poverty which was rife in the post-war years, to embrace the developments of the 1960s and the arrival of the Sunday hunters of the urban middle class, both of which threatened the traditional life of the wild. After the success of his first book Berenguer, with the discipline of a professional writer, published five more novels with different, though often related, themes: The hard life of the fishermen along the Cádiz coast (Marea escorada, "High Tide" 1969); the insuperable tensions between landowners and peasants in the Andalusian countryside (Lena Verde, "Green Firewood", 1972); the historic neglect leading to the eventual defeat of naval officers sent out to the colonies in the 19th century (Sotavento. Crónica de los olvidados, "Leeward, chronicle of the Forgotten Ones", 1973); the decline of the old seigneurial class and the arrival of new money in the countryside (La noche de Catalina virgen "The Night of Catalina the Virgin", 1975); and, finally, the feeling of alienation felt by those trapped by their education and their past and thus left behind by the modern world (Tamatea, novia del otoño, "Tamatea, Autumn's Girlfriend", published posthumously in 1980). All Berenguer's books are still in print, the last complete edition being in 2009.As we have seen, one of them was adapted for a television series (El mundo de Juan Lobón). The author would also have been very pleased to see just how many words, previously only current in Andalusia, have now been incorporated into the Diccionario del Español Actual (1999, 2011), thanks to him and to the power of the characters that he created. Bibliography

Berenguer, <mask>. El mundo de Juan Lobón, ed. Ana Sofía Pérez-Bustamante Mourier. Madrid: Cátedra, 2010. _. Biblioteca Berenguer, 6 vols., Sevilla, Algaida, 2009.Domingo, José. La novela española del siglo XX, 2: De la postguerra a nuestros días. Barcelona: Labor, 1973, págs. 142-143. Fortes, José Antonio. La nueva narrativa andaluza. Una lectura de sus textos.Barcelona: Anthropos, 1990. Grosso, Alfonso. “Prólogo” a Juan Lobón y otras historias. Barcelona: Dopesa, 1976, págs. XIII-XVI. Martínez Cachero, José María. La novela española entre 1936 y 1980.Historia de una aventura. Madrid: Castalia, 1985. Morán, Fernando. Novela y semidesarrollo (Una interpretación de la novela hispanoamericana y española). Madrid: Taurus, 1971. Núñez, Antonio. “Encuentro con <mask>r” (entrevista), Ínsula (Madrid), nº 305, 1972, pág.4. Ortiz de Lanzagorta, <mask>. Narrativa andaluza: doce diálogos de urgencia. Sevilla: Universidad, 1972. Pérez-Bustamante Mourier, Ana Sofía. Los pasos perdidos de <mask> (1923-1979). Biografía y textos inéditos.Sevilla: Alfar, 1999. _. “El epistolario de <mask>guer: el escritor, los diccionarios y la Real Academia Española de la Lengua”, Salina(Tarragona), nº 24, 2012, págs. 55–70. Ramos Ortega, Manuel J.; Pérez-Bustamante Mourier, Ana Sofía (eds.). La narrativa de <mask>r (1923-1979). Cádiz: Universidad, 1998
Ruiz-Copete, Juan de Dios.Introducción y proceso a la nueva narrativa andaluza. Sevilla: Diputación, 1976. Soldevila Durante, Ignacio. La novela española desde 1936. Historia de la literatura española actual, 2. Madrid: Alhambra, 1980, págs. 186-189.Tovar, Antonio. Novela española e hispanoamericana. Madrid: Alfaguara, 1972, págs. 281-288. Wood, Guy H. “La tradición del hombre salvaje en El mundo de Juan Lobón”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 28, nº 3, 1994, págs. 419-441.References

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<mask> (born September 28, 1962) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) where he performs as a Técnico (face or "good guy" character) and is one of the longest-tenured luchador in CMLL history. Atlantis was trained by Diablo Velasco, made his in-ring debut in 1983 and has always wrestled under the ring name Atlantis, named after the sunken city of Atlantis. Atlantis has held a large number of professional wrestling championships over the years, both in Mexico and in Japan, both individually and as a tag team. He has also won the mask of several prominent wrestlers through his career including Kung Fu, Villano III, Último Guerrero and La Sombra. Atlantis earned the nickname El idolo de los Niños (the children's idol) as he was always a favorite with the younger fans. He even retained the nickname when he worked as a Rudo (a wrestler who portrays the bad guy) for several years. Atlantis' real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.In the 1990s <mask> starred in a couple of Lucha films, including one where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y <mask>, la revancha ("Octagón and Atlantis, the rematch"). Professional wrestling career

Atlantis made his professional wrestling debut on June 12, 1983, after training under world-renowned Mexican wrestling trainer Diablo Velazco for just under a year. He adopted the masked ring persona of "<mask>", a supposed warrior from the lost city of Atlantis, complete with a mask that had the image of two fish on it. After working for various Mexican promotions for the first year of his career <mask> became a regular for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's oldest professional wrestling promotion. On November 30, 1984, Atlantis defeated Jerry Estrada to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, the first wrestling title of his career. Atlantis held the Middleweight title for 457 days, with several high-profile title defenses that helped establish the young wrestler's reputation for good matches. On March 2, 1986 Atlantis lost the Middleweight title to Talismán.By 1988 Atlantis had formed a regular tag team with Ángel Azteca and on March 6, 1988, the duo defeated Los Infernales (Masakre and MS-1 to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship. Three months later Atlantis became a double champion when he defeated Kung Fu to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship, the highest championship in the middleweight division. Atlantis only held the title for 37 days before losing it to Emilio Charles Jr. in his first defense. He quickly regained the title, defeating Charles Jr. on July 20, 1988, and held it for two weeks before losing the title back to Emilio Charles Jr. On May 25, 1990, after an 811-day reign, Atlantis and Ángel Azteca lost the Mexican Nation Tag Team Championship to Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje. The loss of the title was used as a storyline motivation for Ángel Azteca turning Rudo (villain or heel by attacking Atlantis. The feud between the two continued off and on over the years until Ángel Azteca's death in 2007. The two fought in several intense and bloody battles, but remained close friends backstage.The feud with Ángel Azteca, coupled with a third run with the NWA World Middleweight title made <mask> one of the rising stars in EMLL, and he was one of the key figures in the "rebranding" of the company to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in 1990. In 1991 <mask> starred in a movie called La Fuerza Bruta ("The Brute Power") and soon after began filming another movie where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y Atlantis, la revancha ("Octagón and Atlantis, the revenge") that opened in 1992. On April 4, 1991, Atlantis, Octagón, and Máscara Sagrada, a team nicknamed "Los Movie Stars" defeated Los Thundercats (Leono, Panthro, and Tigro, a team of masked wrestlers patterned on the Thundercats cartoon) to win the Mexican National Trios Championship. The trio held the title for 94 days before losing it to Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000) on August 11, 1991. Not long after the title loss Octagón and Máscara Sagrada left CMLL for the recently formed Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion, jumping ship before the "Atlantis y Octagón" movie opened in the theaters. Atlantis was also offered a contract by AAA but decided to stay with the company he ended up working for almost his entire career. On March 3, 1993, Atlantis lost the NWA World Middleweight title to Mano Negra, as part of a long-running storyline between the two.While Mano Negra won the championship, <mask> gained the ultimate measure of revenge as he unmasked Mano Negro by defeating him in a Lucha de Apuesta (bet match) as the main event of CMLL's 60th Anniversary Show. On March 2, 1994, <mask> defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, officially moving from the Middleweight to the Light Heavyweight division, a title he would hold for 655 days. In 1995 <mask> brother made his wrestling debut as Atlantico and the two teamed up on a regular basis, including second annual Gran Alternativa tournament, losing to Dr. Wagner Jr. and Astro Rey Jr. in the second round. On November 3, 1995, Atlantis teamed with Rayo de Jalisco Jr. to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship from The Headhunters. The team lost the tag team title in August 1996 but Atlantis and new partner Lizmark won the titles back from La Ola Blanca (Spanish for "the White Wave"; Gran Markus Jr. and El Hijo del Gladiador). Atlantis and Lizmark only held the title for 12 days before the titles were vacated following an inconclusive match with the Headhunters. Atlantis and Lizmark continued to team and were joined by Mr. Niebla in 1997 to form La Ola Azur ("The Blue Wave"), a reference to the fact that all three wrestlers mainly wore blue.La Ola Azul won the CMLL World Trios Championship from Rey Bucanero, Emilio Charles Jr. and El Satánico. La Ola Azur defended the title for over 500 days until October 1998 where an injury to Mr. Niebla forced the team to give up the title. On May 10, 1990, Atlantis defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. to become only the second man to ever hold the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship two times. Over the next 196 days <mask>' CMLL World Light Heavyweight title defenses headlined several shows in Mexico City before he lost the title to Villano III on November 22, 1999. The title change was just one of the highlights of a long-running feud between Atlantis and Villano III, a feud that also included III's younger brothers Villano IV and Villano V. On March 17, 2000, at CMLL's Juicio Final event, Atlantis won his biggest Apuesta victory to date as he defeated and then unmasked Villano III in a match that was voted the Wrestling Observer 2000 Match of the Year. On June 16, 2002, Atlantis, Mr. Niebla, and Black Warrior defeated Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the CMLL World Trios title, a title the team held for 278 days. In 2003 <mask> travelled to Japan, working for Michinoku Pro where he won the Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Championship from Dick Togo on August 26, 2003.<mask>' tour of Michinoku Pro was so well received that he was allowed to retain the title when travelling back to Mexico and has been invited on annual tours with the promotion every year since then. On March 28, 2004, <mask> lost the Michinoku Pro title to The Great Sasuke, returning the belt to Japan. On June 25 Atlantis teamed up with Blue Panther to defeat Los Guerreros del Infierno ("The Warriors of Hell"; Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero) to win the CMLL World Tag Team Title. Their title reign lasted 280 days until <mask> turned on his partner during a match and cost them the titles. The fact that the career tecnico (face or "good guy" character) turned rudo for the first time helped revitalize a career that was stagnating. Los Guerreros de la Atlantida

The Rudo Atlantis joined up with Los Guerreros del Infierno, renaming the group Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (The Warriors of the Atlantis) out of respect for their new co-leader. Shortly after his turn Atlantis won the 2005 International Gran Prix by eliminating Rey Bucanero and Perro Aguayo Jr. to be the only survivor in the match.Soon after he defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship. 2005 turned out to be <mask>' strongest and most successful year as he also won that year's Leyenda de Plata tournament, as well as teaming up with La Máscara to win the 2005 Gran Alternativa. On September 29, 2009, Los Guerrero de la Atlantida won the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship by defeating Perro Aguayo Jr., Héctor Garza and Shocker in a tournament final. On November 2, 2009, Atlantis won his fourth CMLL World Tag Team title, this time teaming with Último Guerrero to defeat Místico and Negro Casas for the championship. The team lost the Tag Team championship to Averno and Mephisto on February 1, 2008. Atlantis, Último Guerrero and Negro Casas (collectively nicknamed Los Guerreros Negros, the Black Warriors) won the CMLL world Trios Title and held it for 166 days, before losing it on January 1, 2009, to El Hijo del Fantasma Héctor Garza and La Máscara. On April 5, 2009, Atlantis lost the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship to El Texano Jr. in the main event of a show in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico ending Atlantis' reign after 988 days.In late 2009 it was rumored that Los Guerreros de la Atlantida had split up, but when <mask> and Último Guerrero teamed up on CMLL's Sin Salida show the rumors turned out to not be true. On January 22, 2010, Atlantis teamed up with Máscara Dorada to participate in CMLL's Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles("National Amazing Pairs tournament"), a tournament where CMLL teams up a Tecnico (Dorada) and a Rudo (Atlantis) for a tournament. The two defeated Dragón Rojo Jr. and La Sombra in the opening round, Mr. Niebla and Máximo in the second round and Místico and Averno in the semi-final to earn a spot in the final of the tournament. During the tournament <mask> wore his old Tecnico white mask, acting and wrestling a tecnico style. On February 5, 2010 Atlantis and Dorada defeated Negro Casas

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 and La Máscara in the finals to win the tournament. On July 12, 2010, at the Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show Atlantis participated in a match where 10 men put their mask on the line in a match that featured five parejas increibles teams, with the losing team being forced to wrestle each other with their mask on the line. His partner in the match was Olímpico, facing off against the teams of Místico and El Oriental, La Sombra and Histeria, El Alebrije and Volador Jr., and Último Guerrero and Averno.Olímpico and Atlantis was the last team that escaped the match, leaving El Oriental and Místico to wrestle for their masks, which ended with Místico defeating El Oriental. After teaming up and working well together during the Ruleta de la Muerte tournament Olímpico, Atlantis and Último Guerrero teamed up more frequently. During a trios tournament on the August 13 Super Viernes Olímpico caused his team to be disqualified and then attacked his former teammates, ending their tentative relationship. As a result of his actions after the match Olímpico, Último Guerrero and Atlantis were all added to the main event of the CMLL 77th Anniversary Show, a 14-man steel cage Lucha de Apuestass, mask vs. mask match. In May 2010 Rayo de Jalisco Jr. returned to CMLL after not having worked for the promotion for five years. During one of his first interviews back with CMLL he commented that it was strange to see his former friend and tag team partner Atlantis as a rudo. The seemingly unrelated comment slowly build into a storyline between the two former partners, initially facing off on opposite sides of trios matches.During the build of the match <mask> has expressed an interest in challenging Rayo de Jalisco Jr. for his WWA World Heavyweight Championship, but also stated that it was too early to talk about a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match, between the two as they had not even faced off in a one on one match yet. <mask> was the ninth man to leave the steel cage match at the 77th Anniversary, keeping his mask safe. The match came down to La Sombra pinning Olímpico to unmask him. On November 2, <mask> was scheduled to challenge for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship alongside Último Guerrero, but could not take part in the match due to an injury and was replaced by Dragón Rojo Jr. In the end Guerrero and Rojo Jr. went on to win the titles, after which Rojo Jr. was made an official member of Los Guerreros de la Atlantida. On February 25, 2011, Atlantis and Máscara Dorada defeated Blue Panther and Dragón Rojo Jr. in the finals to win the Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles for the second year in a row. In June, Atlantis replaced an injured Shocker and teamed with Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr. in the Forjando un Ídolo tournament, which they eventually went on to win.On July 31, 2011, Atlantis and Rey Bucanero made an unadvertised appearance for American promotion Chikara, losing to F.I.S.T. (Chuck Taylor and Johnny Gargano) via disqualification, when Gargano faked taking a low blow from Atlantis. After weeks of tension between Atlantis and Último Guerrero, CMLL held a press conference on August 11, where Atlantis officially turned technico and left Los Guerreros de la Atlantida. Los Reyes de la Atlantida
Atlantis and Último Guerrero faced each other in a big grudge match on September 23, which saw Atlantis pick up the win. On November 16, Atlantis announced that he was officially forming a stable named Los Reyes de la Atlantida ("The Kings of the Atlantis") with Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr. On December 16, the trio defeated Los Invasores (Olímpico, Psicosis and Volador Jr.) for the Mexican National Trios Championship at CMLLL's Sin Piead show. On March 2, 2012, at Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, Atlantis won his third National Parejas Increibles tournament in a row, this time teaming with Mr. Niebla. On June 22, Los Reyes de la Atlantida lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to Los Depredadores del Aire (Black Warrior, Mr. Águila and Volador Jr.).On the August 3 Super Viernes show, <mask> and Diamante Azul defeated Dragón Rojo Jr. and Último Guerrero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. On October 30, Los Reyes de la Atlantida regained the Mexican National Trios Championship from Los Depredadores del Aire. On November 13, 2012 Atlantis and Demonio Azul lost their tag team championship to El Terrible and Tama Tonga. On December 16, Los Reyes de la Atlantida lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to the Los Invasores team of Kraneo, Mr. Águila and Psicosis II. In January 2013, <mask> returned to Japan, when he, as a late replacement for an injured Místico II, took part in the three-day Fantastica Mania 2013 event, co-promoted by CMLL and New Japan Pro-Wrestling in Tokyo. During the first night on January 18, he teamed with Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask in a six-man tag team match, where they were defeated by Gedo, Jado and Mephisto. The following night, Atlantis defeated Euforia in a singles match.During the third and final night, Atlantis teamed with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Prince Devitt to defeat Euforia, Kazuchika Okada and Mephisto in a six-man tag team main event. In early 2013 the long-running feud between Atlantis and Último Guerrero came to the forefront of CMLL booking once more. The two were booked for the 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles tournament, forcing the two rivals to team up. Before their qualifying round both Atlantis and Gurrero stated that they would put their differences aside for the sake of the tournament. Atlantis and Guerrero displayed the teamwork they had developed by being partners in Los Guerreros de la Atlantida for several years as they defeated the teams of Valiente and Pólvora, Diamante Azul and Euforia and finally Dragón Rojo Jr. and Niebla Roja to qualify for the finals of the tournament. The finals took place as part of the 2013 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show and saw La Sombra and Volador Jr. win the match and the tournament. Following the loss a frustrated Atlantis attacked Último Guerrero and tore his mask apart.Atlantis subsequently made a Luchas de Apuestas challenge to Último Guerrero that was not immediately accepted. The two rivals officially signed the contrat for the mask vs. mask match on March 21, but did not announce an actual date for the match. At the same press conference it was announced that CMLL would commemorate Atlantis' 30 year anniversary as a wrestler with a special Super Viernes show on May 3. <mask> was teamed up with Hombre Bala Jr. for the 2013 Gran Alternativa, the son of Hombre Bala that Atlantis unmasked in 1986. The team competed in Block A of the tournament on April 12, 2013. The duo defeated Akuma and Mephisto in the first round, Taurus and Averno in the second round and Guerrero Negro Jr. and Último Guerrero in the semi-finals to earn a spot in the finals. The finals took place on April 26, 2013 during the Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show and saw Boby Zavala and Rey Escorpión defeat Hombre Bala Jr. and Atlantis, two falls to one to win the 2013 Gran Alternativa tournament.During the celebration of Atlantis' 30th anniversary as a wrestler Guerrero appeared after a match to berate Atlantis, which turned out to be a distraction for the real Último Guerrero to attack Atlantis from behind. The two identically dressed Guerreros proceeded to beat up Atlantis and tear his mask apart. Following the match Último Guerrero introduced his brother "Gran Guerrero". The much anticipated and hyped Mask vs. Mask match between Atlantis and Último Guerrero at the 80th Anniversary Show on September 13 never came to fruition as the two were defeated in a Relevos Suicidas match by La Sombra and Volador Jr., who instead advanced to the Lucha de Apuestas against each other. On March 21, 2014, Atlantis won the Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles for the fourth time, this time teaming with Euforia. On June 20, Atlantis won the 2014 Leyenda de Azul, scoring the last elimination over Último Guerrero.Atlantis defeated arch rival Último Guerrero in a Luchas de Apuestas match, in the main event of the CMLL 81st Anniversary Show. After the match Guerrero was forced to unmask as per the stipulation. In January 2015, Atlantis returned to Japan to take part in the Fantastica Mania 2015 tour, during which he and Máscara Dorada won the Fantastica Mania 2015 Tag Tournament. On April 26, 2015, Los Reyes de la Atlantida won the Mexican National Trios Championship for a record-breaking third time by defeating La Peste Negra (El Felino, Mr. Niebla and Negro Casas). On August 9, 2015 Los Reyes de la Atlantida lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to Los Hijos del Infierno ("The Sons of the Inferno"; Ephesto, Mephisto and Lucifierno), ending their third reign as champions. 15 days later, on August 24, Atlantis defeated Mephisto to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. Over the summer of 2015 Los Ingobernables started to wrestle against tecnico teams instead of generally facing rudo teams as they had been up to that point.In August 2015 Los Ingobernables found themselves facing off against Atlantis on multiple occasions, often with La Sombra going out of his way to attack Atlantis, tearing Atlantis' mask apart during matches to show his disdain for the veteran tecnico. On August 19, 2015 CMLL held a press conference where they announced that the winner of the main event of the 80th Anniversary, La Sombra, would put his mask on the line against the winner of the main event of the 81st Anniversary Show, <mask>, in the main event of CMLL's 82nd Anniversary Show on September 18, 2015. The match saw Atlantis defeat La Sombra, two falls to one, forcing La Sombra to unmask. Since he was the reigning Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship Atlantis participated in the 2015 Universal Championship tournament, which he won, defeating Último Guerrero in the finals on October 16. On January 1, 2016 CMLL held a major show called Sin Piedad ("No Mercy") where <mask> teamed up with Marco Corleone, and Valiente, losing to Los Revolucionarios del Terror (Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, and Thunder). He also participated in the Fantastica Mania 2016 tour of Japan, where most nights he was part of the losing side against Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Bushi and

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<mask> (born September 2, 1971) is a Filipino comic book writer, artist and self-taught animator best known for his graphic novels The Mythology Class (1999) and Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat (2006). He was born in Metro Manila, Philippines. Biography
<mask> has won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle for his graphic novels The Mythology Class (1999), a four-part action-adventure miniseries and Trip to Tagaytay (2000), a one-shot future fiction short story. The Mythology Class, which has been described as "genre-breaking", has the distinction of being the first graphic novel to win in the Manila Critics Circle National Book Awards Comic Books category. <mask>'s other titles include the romantic comedy After Eden (2002), Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat (2006), and "Martial Law Babies" (2008). Aside from his comics work, <mask> did numerous design and illustration jobs for various clients such as the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts and Sony BMG Music Entertainment Philippines. He also took part in local and international group exhibits and has had a one-man fantasy-themed show, Mythos in 2000.In 2007, producer Tony Gloria of Unitel Productions optioned the film rights to <mask>'s novel Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat. <mask> has mentioned in an April 2014 interview that the project is still under development. In 2011, <mask> studied the art of animation and made a 4-minute short film titled Andong Agimat: Kanya ang Kalye based on the main character in his book Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat. In November 2011 he was commissioned by Gang Badoy of Rock Ed Philippines and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) to make an animated music video for Kaninong Anino in celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Filipino hero Jose Rizal. The following year, he was commissioned by Rock Ed Philippines and the NHCP to make an animated music video for Lupang Hinirang, the Philippine National Anthem which was broadcast on national television on June 12, 2012, Independence Day (Philippines). In September 2012, he did a series of educational animated videos titled Tandaan. Kalayaan.Alagaan. to mark the 40th anniversary of the Philippines' freedom from Martial Law. The series was commissioned by Rock Ed Philippines and the National Youth Commission (Philippines). In July 2013, <mask> finished his first 20-minute animated short film titled Milkyboy. The film went on to win awards at the 25th Gawad CCP Para Sa Alternatibong Pelikula in November 2013, the 7th Animahenasyon (Philippine Animation Festival) in November 2013, and the 30th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) in May 2014 where <mask> was awarded the Linda Mabalot New Directors/New Visions Award, presented to a short film that demonstrates innovative and original use of cinematic language and vision. <mask> is based in Quezon City and is married to graphic designer Cynthia Bauzon.

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<mask> (born July 28, 1979) is an American author, drummer, and educator. <mask> is an active educator and performance artist in advanced drumming and has shared rosters with other percussion educators including, Chad Wackerman, Chris Coleman, Chip Ritter, Danny Seraphine, Derek Roddy, Dom Famularo, and Mike Mangini. Drumming technique

<mask> is known for exhibiting advanced technical drumming abilities as a performance artist through drum clinics, master classes and workshops, as well as online video demonstrations and tutorials via 100+ YouTube videos. Highlighted skill sets include master hand technique, speed drumming, and writing complex vertical and horizontal hybrid compositions when arranging and composing music, drum solos, and rudimental drumming pieces. The Davis Method is his personalized hand and drum set technique and overall approach to drumming and percussion education and performance. <mask> explains his drum method as a 5-part, pronation and supination based technique, with a French timpani grip. While <mask> teaches drumming proficiency through physical training and practicing on and off the instrument, he accredits mental training as the secret for achieving and possibly exceeding one's personal drumming goals through the utilization of specific brain wave cycles, self-hypnosis, selective meditation, and creative visualization.Career

Recording and touring
<mask> was the drummer for Berklee College of Music based progressive rock band Abigail's Ghost from 2004 to 2006. From 2007 to 2011, <mask> performed as a session musician in the downtown area of New Orleans known as the French Quarter, performing an estimated 500+ shows with local artists on the Bourbon Street club circuit. While working in New Orleans, he met Kyle Thomas of the legendary metallers, Exhorder. He joined the New Orleans-based groove metal band in the spring of 2010, touring the U.S. and headlining metal festivals  through winter of 2011 performing hits from the band's two seminal albums - "Slaughter in the Vatican" and "The Law." Chris Nail, the original drummer, wrote and recorded all drum arrangements for the two aforementioned studio albums. In 2016, <mask> arranged and released his first instrumental studio album through <mask> Drumming, titled "The Darkling Throng." This is the first album in a music series he created called "M.U.S.I.C.– a tribute to modern-day composers" inspired by the late Neil Peart’s catchphrase "Make-up something interesting and complimentary." The recording features various composers with stylistic influences ranging from art rock, djent, and industrial music to progressive rock, progressive metal, and symphonic metal music genres. Rankings and records

<mask> became ranked as one of the top 10 fastest drummers in the world  during the 2002 Warped Tour, certified by the World's Fastest Drummers Org. After being welcomed into what WFD champions refer to as "The Thousand Club", their elite club for speed drummers by playing 1000+ single strokes in 60 seconds, he continued to break his initial single stroke speed ranking. He went on to set 3 world speed records for the double stroke roll  from 2002 to 2004, establishing himself as a world-recognized speed champion. "<mask> was the first person in history to officially play a clean, open, double stroke roll over the 1000, 1100, and 1200 strokes per minute mark. Through permission from the WFD, <mask> created the double stroke category to teach how to play a clean, open roll, as well as perform various accuracy demonstrations with rudiments from multiple sticking families.<mask> was ineligible to compete in any NAMM WFD finals for single strokes because of becoming a world champion first." He co-hosted the WFD competitions from 2005 to 2006  with fellow speed champion Mike Mangini at the Nashville, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis NAMM Show. <mask>'s official hand speed rankings and records:

 Single Stroke Roll: 1005, 1024, and 1044 strokes in 60 seconds
 Double Stroke Roll: 1021, 1084, and 1200 strokes in 60 seconds

He states his top speed for the single stroke roll is 17 1/2 to 18 strokes per second when applied to the drum set as a rhythmic phrasing and 20 strokes per second for the double stroke roll. He accredits fellow world speed champions through social media video posts as the World's Fastest Drummer Champions who are able to reach and exceed 20 strokes per second while playing a single stroke roll. In 2012, <mask> trained a late-blooming 50+-year-old drummer named Nick Stefano to compete in the WFD. Through <mask>' instruction, Nick placed third in official competition, playing 948 single strokes with an unofficial score of 1022. Both scores were recorded using the traditional grip.Following a 10-year hiatus from the WFD, <mask> reemerged at the 2016 summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee, giving an exclusive interview about his experience in the organization, including an introductory speech at the world finals. Retirement
<mask> announced his retirement from drumming in December 2016 due to non-drumming related physical injuries. On September 13, 2017, he announced that he had started training and practicing again. Current
<mask> is in collaboration with Spain-based composer Miquel Novella, also known as mikkogtr on social media. The two composers release weekly music video snippets based on <mask>’s book, Revolutionizing Rhythm. The series is titled M.U.S.I.C. — “Make up something interesting and complimentary.”

Philanthropy
<mask> was one of seven celebrity drummers featured at the 9th annual Woodstick Big Beat in Kirkland, Washington in 2011.The proceeds from the World Record Drum Event went to for purchasing musical instruments for underfunded local schools and to Camp Korey, a camp in Mount Vernon, Washington to help assist and aid kids battling serious illnesses. Endorsements
 Drumsticks: London Drumstick Company  - On February 14, 2019, LDC announced and confirmed via social media that the "<mask>" model drumstick was available. The London Drumstick Company specializes in custom drumsticks and is based in London, England. Drumheads: Attack Drumheads  - In May 2020, Attack Drumheads officially welcomed <mask> to the Attack Drumhead family via social media announcements. Cymbals: Paiste  - Paiste Artist Since January 2022

Books & Videos
 Revolutionizing Rhythm (2021)
 VDTs - Video Drum Transcriptions (2021)

“I am happy to announce the release of my book. It is an honor and a privilege to be included in the Hudson catalog of artists, an archive which includes some of the finest drummers in the world; many of which are my greatest inspirations. Special thanks to Joe Bergamini.Revolutionizing Rhythm Project: 2014-2021.” -SD

Discography
 Abigail's Ghost: Selling Insincerity (2007)
 <mask> Drumming: The Darkling Throng (2016)

See also
List of notable drummers

References

External links
 Official website
 Official YouTube

Progressive rock musicians
American heavy metal drummers
American heavy metal musicians
Progressive metal musicians
1979 births
Living people
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
21st-century American drummers
20th-century American male musicians
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<mask><mask> (March 31, 1912 – April 5, 1993) was a 20th-century American government official, best known as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1953 to 1981, including Interim FCC Chairman (February 5, 1981 – April 12, 1981) and  Chairman (April 13, 1981 – May 18, 1981). Background

<mask><mask> was born on March 31, 1912, in Chicago to a family of Irish immigrants. He had at least one sibling, a brother <mask>. In the 1920s, He attended St. Vincent's Grammar School. In 1935, he graduated from DePaul University's College of Commerce and Law. Career

In 1932, while still a student, <mask> began his career as a night clerk and auditor at the Congress Hotel in Chicago. In 1933, he had become assistant auditor at the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago.In 1935, he became auditor of the Roosevelt Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. Later that year, he became auditor of the American Bond and Mortgage Company Bondholders Protective Committee. In 1938 through 1941, <mask> served as a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked in Washington, Newark, New York City, and Chicago. From 1941 to 1946, he became a chief FBI clerk and then administrative assistant to J<mask> Hoover. In 1946 through 1953, <mask> became director of Surveys and Investigations on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. <mask> List

The Dixie Mission (July 22, 1944 – March 11, 1947), was the first U.S. effort to establish official relations with the Communist Party of China. Domestic suspicion about China Hands undermined mission members such as State Department official John S. Service (who, in an August 3, 1944, report The Communist Policy Towards the Kuomintang stated "impressive personal qualities of the Communist leaders, their seeming sincerity, and the coherence and logical nature of their program leads me, at least, toward general acceptance of the first explanation – that the Communists base their policy toward the Kuomintang on a real desire for democracy in China under which there can be orderly economic growth through a stage of private enterprise to eventual socialism without the need of violent social upheaval and revolution.").Service was implicated in the "Amerasia Affair" espionage investigations of 1945–1946. In November 1944, U.S. General Joseph Stilwell was recalled from China amidst controversy about American support for nationalist and communist Chinese forces that made the cover of TIME magazine. In 1946, a House Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Rep. Samuel F. Hobbs (followed in 1950 by the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, commonly known as the Tydings Committee) investigated the Amerasia case. "Thus, by 1946, "members of both parties and both houses were focused on the security shop at Satate, albeit from different angles, by the latter part of 1946." Fueling debate was the best-selling book Thunder Out of China by former TIME magazine correspondent Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby. During 1946, Congress attached a "McCarran Rider" to appropriations for the State Department:  it empowered the U.S. Secretary of State to fire summarily  anyone deemed "necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States." In the Fall of 1947, <mask> (a Republican now working in the Republican-dominated 80th United States Congress) discovered and examined security files for 108 suspect cases, which resulted in the "Lee List" used by a congressional subcommittee.(Historian <mask> Haynes has stated, "<mask><mask> was the committee's lead investigator and supervised preparation of the list." Haynes has also compiled a comparison between the <mask> and other lists of communists used by McCarthy, available online.) During a congressional hearing on March 10, 1948, Assistant Secretary of State John E. Peurifoy claimed the number had dropped from 108 to 57 names. On February 9, 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day "Enemies Within" speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. His words in the speech are a matter of some debate, as no audio recording was saved. However, it is generally agreed that he produced a piece of paper that he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department. McCarthy is usually quoted to have said: "The State Department is infested with communists.I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." There is some dispute about whether or not McCarthy actually gave the number of people on the list as being "205" or "57". In a later telegram to President Truman, and when entering the speech into the Congressional Record, he used the number "57." FCC commissioner

In 1953, U.S. President Dwight D<mask> appointed <mask> commission to the new Federal Communications Commission, where he served for nearly 28 years to 1981. <mask> was a personal friend of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and so faced some opposition in the American press when <mask> appointed him FCC commissioner. Subsequent presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan re-appointed him.In his final year, he served briefly as Interim Chairman (February 5, 1981 – April 12, 1981) and  Chairman (April 13, 1981 – May 18, 1981). While in office, he served as vice chairman or chairman on a number of U.S. delegations to Geneva:  Space Conference (1971), Telephone and Telegraph Conference (1973), World Administrative Radio Conference (1974), World Administrative Radio Conference for Broadcast Satellites (1977). In October 1979, he was a U.S. delegate to an International Conference on Satellite Communication in Dublin, Ireland. In March 1980, he chaired a U.S. delegation, Inter-American Telecommunication Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the 1980s, <mask> served as consultant on telecommunications for law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, which specialized in telecommunications. In 1983, he was a delegate to the Geneva World Administrative Conference on Broadcast Satellites. Personal and death

In July 1936, <mask> married Wilma "Rex" Rector; she died in 1971.On September 27, 1974, he married Rose Anne Bente. <mask> had three children: <mask>, <mask> <mask>, and <mask>. <mask> died age 81 on April 5, 1993, of liver cancer in Arlington, Virginia. At time of death, he was the longest-serving FCC commissioner. Legacy

<mask> championed ultrahigh-frequency television (UHF), RCA Corporation's system for color broadcasting, educational television, pay or subscription television, and expanding FM radio. <mask>'s autobiography, "In the Public Interest", co-authored with John Shosky, was published in 1996. His papers were donated by his widow to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in 1998.References

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Chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission
1993 deaths
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Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel
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Reagan administration personnel

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<mask> (* 1964 in Erding, Upper Bavaria) is a German media theorist. Since October 2015 he has been Rector of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Life
<mask> studied art history, ethnology, aesthetics and design theory in Munich and Wuppertal. He completed his master's degree at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 1989 with a thesis on the relationship between architecture and philosophy. In 1996 he received his doctorate at the University of Wuppertal near Bazon Brock with a thesis on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. His work was published by Passages publisher Wien in 1997 under the title "Apophatik und Politik". At the beginning of the 1990s, <mask> recognized the increasing influence that rapidly developing electronic media would have on many areas of life.In addition to his work on his doctorate, he also ran an agency at the time that dealt with first-generation media products. In 1997, Heinrich Klotz, founder of the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), brought him to Karlsruhe as a representative for Expo 2000. In 1998 he became deputy director of the new media museum under Hans-Peter Schwarz and at the same time head of Medialab. Blechinger concentrated on expanding media production and research. The first prototypes for Web 3.0 applications were created in Blechingers Medialab at the end of the nineties. Following Hans-Peter Schwarz's appointment as Rector of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (HGKZ), Blechinger followed him in 2000 as Vice Rector for Research, Development, Services and Technology Transfer. His task was to orient research in the field of design to the new technological possibilities and to advance the digitisation of the university.At the same time, <mask> was also head of the IT department at the university and increased the technology budget by a factor of 100 during his seven years of activity. At times, the Zurich University of Art and Design raised up to 80% of Swiss research funds for universities of applied sciences. In 2004, Blechinger founded the "TRACE" research group together with the philosopher Heiner Mühlmann and Thomas Grunwald (linguist, neuroscientist and medical director of the Swiss Epilepsy Centre). The acronym "TRACE" means "Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution" In close cooperation with the founding president Yun Jeduk († 2012) and in cooperation with several colleges and universities in Germany (TU München, RWTH Aachen, Filmhochschule Babelsberg), Blechinger was involved in the founding of the "Korean German Institute of Technology" from 2003 in a leading position. Horst Teltschik was the founding director of the institute. Blechinger received a professorship for media at KGIT 2007. In 2007, Blechinger founded the Institute for Design and Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and cooperated with technology and media partners such as Vodafone Pilot Development, Swisscom, Lucent, Alcatel, Pro7 and Ars Electronica.After leaving Switzerland in 2010, <mask> and Thomas Langhanki founded the company "Experimental Game" in Berlin, where he was a member of the management during the founding phase. At the same time, he was a lecturer in media theory at the Macromedia University in Munich. In 2011, Blechinger became head of the Multimedia Art course at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, specialising in Film, Animation, Media Design, Audio and Management and Producing. The "CHE Ranking", renowned in German-speaking countries, named Multimedia-Art the best course of studies in Austria in 2014. Also in 2014, the Salzburg Urstein Institute (SUI), which serves as the sponsoring company of the Berlin School of Sustainable Futures, University of Applied Sciences gGmbH, was founded by the Salzburg Urstein Institute (SUI). The state recognition as a private university pursuant to Section 123 of the Act on Higher Education in the State of Berlin (BerlHG) took place on 1 June 2018. The BSSF offers four Master's programmes that close an existing gap in the higher education landscape because they place sustainability, media, culture and society in the context of globalisation developments and digitisation.Blechinger has been Academic Director of the conference format futur.io since 2016 and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Salzburg in the technology class since 2017; since 2018 he has been a member of the board of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership Foundation. In April 2019 he was re-elected for a second term from October 2019. From 2020 to 2021, Blechinger is the regular chair of the Salzburg University Conference. Fonts (selection)
 A Short History of Moonshots, in: Harald Neidhardt, Moonshots for Europe, future.io, Berlin 2019
 Publisher of the book series "Transmissions in Rhetorics, Art and Cultural Evolution", (TRACE) Fink Verlag since 2016
 The Idea and Death, in: Festschrift Klaus Dieter Müller, Potsdam Babelsberg HFF, 2011
 Brain Electrical Response to High and Low Architecture, Ilan Oppenheim, Heiner Mühlmann, <mask>, Ian W. Mothersill, Peter Hilfiger, Henric Jokeit, Martin Kurthen, Günter Krämer and Thomas Grunwald, in: Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, Phoenix Arizona, USA 2009
 Editor of the book series "Transmissions in Rhetorics, Art and Cultural Evolution", (TRACE) Vienna and New York 2004 - 2008 What comes after "Song for C". Catalog Ars Electronica, Linz 2006
 The Renaissance of Meta-narrative. On the relationship between art and technology as paragons in: Hans-Peter Schwarz (Ed. ), Zurich Yearbook of the Arts, Zurich 2004
 Art and the ideology of suffering in: Cultural Policy 9/98
 Apophatic and Politics, On a Deconstruction of the Rhetorical by Jacques Derrida, Passages publisher, Vienna 1997

Presentations (selection)
 High-Tech and the R/evolution of Art, Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin University, 2019
 Art and Innovation, Red Bull Academy, Lisbon 2019
 Heiner Mühlmann as political philosopher, Berlin Heiner Mühlmann for the 80th birthday 2019
 War, lecture Series at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences 2017
 Insights on how to Manage Expert Systems and how to better leverage them, Startup Executive Round Table, Salzburg 2017
 Suh Yongsun as political painter in Korea, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftszentrum DAAD Bonn 2014
 Neuro Research, Media, Innovation, Potsdam 2013
 Inspiration and Rhetoric, subnet; Castle Leopoldskron Salzburg 2012
 Where's the Cash?New value chains in the gaming industry. Berlin 2012
 Innovative Zurich. An R&D Status Quo & Outlook, Zurich 2005
 Mobile Application Design, Boston 2005
 MPEG 7 and the Poetry of the Gesture, San Marino 2000
 New Tendencies in Media Art, Berkeley CA 1999 · Wireless Art and Mixed Reality, Lisbon 1998

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
University of Wuppertal alumni
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<mask> (born 22 July 1985) is an English rugby union player who plays for Rugby United New York (RUNY) in Major League Rugby (MLR). A fullback or scrum-half, he won 34 caps for England between 2009 and 2013. Career
Born in Chester, Foden was educated at Bishop Heber High School in Malpas, Cheshire before moving to the sixth form at Bromsgrove School. His Bromsgrove School teacher Paul Mullan was a big influence on his career, as was his father, Rob, who coached <mask> and brother Tom's youth team. His career has been divided between playing at scrum-half and fullback, though he can also operate on the wing. In an interview in March 2009, Foden accepted that his future lay at playing fullback. Foden played for Cheshire and North of England U16s, and England U16s.He then went on to play for England U19s, and England Counties. Club
He joined Sale Sharks in 2004. Foden's desire to play scrum half saw him sign for Northampton Saints on the basis of a promise to play him at his preferred position; a promise that Sale Sharks could not give him, considering his strong performances at full-back, and the club presence of England international scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth and the arrival of Welsh international Dwayne Peel for the next season. In the 2005–2006 season, Foden played as a replacement in the final as Sale won their first ever Premiership title. He gained his nickname of "Pop Idol" or "Pops" by missing the first day of pre-season with the Sharks for an audition on the programme. He began his Northampton Saints career competing with Lee Dickson for the scrum half position; Dickson won the battle for the scrum half shirt, and Northampton frequently used Foden at full back. In the 2008–09 season, he helped the Saints win the European Challenge Cup.In March 2011, following a Saints win over Wasps, Foden was arrested following an altercation with a taxi driver in London, but both Northampton and the RFU were happy to let the issue lie after he accepted a police caution. In May 2014, Foden won the Aviva Premiership title with Northampton, playing 80 minutes plus extra time in the final against Saracens at full back and scoring a try. Foden played on the wing for most of the 2016-17 season, scoring five tries. The most recent of those tries came as Saints secured their place in the European Rugby Champions Cup for the following campaign as they fought off Stade Francais in the European Champions Cup play-off final. After a decade with the club Northampton confirmed that Foden would be leaving at the end of the 2017/18 season. In July 2018, Rugby United New York announced that they had signed Foden for the 2019 Major League Rugby Season. International
He was included in the England U21s team for the 2005 Six Nations and World Championships, and the 2006 Six Nations and World Championship.Foden was a member of the 2006 Grand Slam winning England U21 squad, playing in all five matches and notching up three tries. He went on to play at the 2006 Under 21 Rugby World Championship later that year, sharing the number 9 jersey with Danny Care. He played for the England Sevens in 2006/7 and 2007/8, and the England Saxons at the 2008 Churchill Cup against USA before being included in the England Elite Playing Squad. Foden was named in the England squad for the Six Nations on 14 January 2009, and earned his first cap for the England v  match on 7 February 2009 when he came on as a replacement at scrum-half for Harry Ellis, with England winning 36–11. He was included in the England squad for the 2009 summer tour against the Barbarians and Argentina and made his first start for England in the uncapped game against the Barbarians on 30 May 2009, a game which saw him playing on the wing and scoring a try in the 32nd minute. Despite fullback Delon Armitage being injured for the 2009 Investec Autumn Internationals, Foden was not included in the squad – manager Martin Johnson instead preferring to play wings Ugo Monye and Mark Cueto out of position. By the 2010 Six Nations, Armitage was fit again, though a series of below par performances saw Foden seize the 15 shirt, with substitute performances against  and , before gaining his first Test start against .An improved performance by the England side saw Foden score his first try in a Test match, though the team lost 12–10. Foden retained his starting place for the summer tour to , playing with club colleague Chris Ashton. Although England lost the first Test, they won the second 20–21. He also featured as a replacement in an uncapped game for England against the  side. He was named in the elite player squad for the 2010–11 season. Later that year he cemented his place as England's first-choice fullback, his early flirtation with scrum-half shelved after some strong form. Foden was a key member of the side that beat Australia twice in 2010 and also started all of England's Six Nations games as they came up short of a Grand Slam in 2011.He gained more metres (100.6) in the 2011 6 Nations than any other player in the Championship. Foden was selected for England's 2011 World Cup squad, holding off the challenge of Delon Armitage to retain the fullback shirt during England's disappointing campaign. Television

In October 2019, Foden was a contestant in The X Factor: Celebrity as a member of the group, Try Star, alongside Levi Davis and Thom Evans. They were eliminated in the semi-final, finishing in fifth place. In October 2021, it was announced that Foden would be participating in the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice. International tries

† Full international cap not awarded for Barbarians Test match

Personal life
Foden married Una Healy of girl group The Saturdays on 30 June 2012 in her native Ireland. They have two children, daughter Aoife (b.2012) and son Tadhg (b.2015).In July 2018, it was announced that <mask> and Healy had separated. Foden married Jackie Belanoff-Smith in 2019. On 20 May 2020, Jackie gave birth to their daughter Farrah. References

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England profile
Northampton Saints Profile

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Whitchurch Rugby Club
Career Stats@Statbunker
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England international rugby union players
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<mask> (born 19 April 1974) is a Dutch environmental activist and politician. After studying aerospace engineering, he started working for the environmental organization Greenpeace. He participated in numerous protest actions, leading to a number of arrests and a criminal record. In 2016, he became co-director of Greenpeace Netherlands. He left his job to participate in the 2021 general election, in which he was elected to the House of Representatives. There, he represents the Labour Party. Early life and education
He was born in 1974 in the Gelderland city Arnhem, and he studied aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology starting in 1992, graduating cum laude in 2000.He was a member of the student rowing club DSR Proteus-Eretes. He traveled around the world after his second year of study. According to Thijssen, this made him think about how humans are affecting the planet. For his thesis about landing a lunar lander on the south pole, he interned at the European Space Agency (ESA) for two years under the supervision of astronaut Wubbo Ockels. Thijssen's father died when <mask> joined the environmental organization Greenpeace as a volunteer in the second half of the 1990s. In 1997, he went to Normandy with future politician Diederik Samson to measure the level of radioactivity at a discharge pipe from a boat using kites. After he completed his studies, he became a paid employee at the organization. He campaigned against nuclear energy and researched the melting of glaciers. In July 2002, Thijssen managed to enter the grounds of palace Huis ten Bosch, where the first Balkenende cabinet was presented. In protest, he held up a banner saying "the Minister of Environment reports" before being removed from the property by guards ten minutes later. The Royal Marechaussee had let Thijssen, who was dressed up and arrived in the back seat of a rental car, in after his chauffeur had said that he was the new environmental minister.Two months later, on the day after , <mask> illegally entered the plenary hall of the House of Representatives during budget debates. He was escorted out and arrested before he could chain himself and speak. He was released form his cell later that day. He was not prosecuted for those actions after reaching a settlement of €250. <mask> served as climate and energy campaign leader at Greenpeace Netherlands until he moved to China in 2007 to work as an advisor at the organization's Beijing office for a year. Subsequently, he held a position at Greenpeace International for two years, coordinating forty regional offices and assisting their campaigns. In 2009–10, <mask> spent twenty days in the Danish Vestre Prison in remand after he and three other activists had been arrested for trespassing on government property and forgery during the Copenhagen Summit.He had assisted two activists who had entered a gala dinner for foreign dignitaries at Christiansborg Palace and had shown banners in protest. He later received a two-week suspended sentence but was also given €2,400 in damages for his earlier detention. After this, <mask> returned to Greenpeace Netherlands to serve as campaign director and later as program director. He again tried to make an appearance as environmental minister during the presentation of the first Rutte cabinet in 2010 at Huis ten Bosch. This time, he failed to set foot on the premises, and he was detained for a number of hours after claiming to be the Minister of Defence and showing his banner. Thijssen also served as Greenpeace's negotiator for the Social and Economic Council's 2013  (Energy accord), in which 47 Dutch organizations including the government agreed to make the energy supply more sustainable. Co-director (2016–2020)
<mask> became executive director of Greenpeace Netherlands on 1 September 2016 together with Anna Schoemakers.They succeeded Sylvia Borren. <mask>'s main focus was Dutch politics and corporations, while Schoemakers was more involved with foreign issues. A week after being promoted, Thijssen, Schoemakers, and another activist lay in hammocks that were attached to a cable between two wind turbines at the Eemshaven in order to prevent a ship carrying coal from reaching a coal power plant. The following month, <mask> participated in a Dutch climate conference that was held after the signing of the Paris Agreement to discuss its implementation. There, he was noted for shaking the hand of the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands, Marjan van Loon. Under Thijssen's and Schoemakers's leadership, Greenpeace Netherlands raised its budget to recruit donors, as that number had fallen by over a fifth in the five-year period preceding 2018. Greenpeace was also one of the participants in the negotiations for the Dutch climate accord in 2018.Weeks before the accord was planned to be completed, Greenpeace and three other environmental organizations threatened to not sign it. In December – on the day before it was offered to the cabinet – the organizations announced definitively that they would not support the draft agreement. <mask> said in an interview that he believed that the measures would not be sufficient to halt "dangerous climate change". Furthermore, he opposed the accord's carbon capture and storage, and he believed that people were paying too much relative to corporations to mitigate climate change. He resigned from his position at Greenpeace as soon as it was announced in November 2020 that he would participate in the 2021 general election. The reason for his departure was to maintain the political neutrality of Greenpeace. Politics
<mask> ran for member of parliament in the 2021 general election, being placed sixth on the Labour Party's party list.He was elected with 2,666 preference votes and was sworn into the House on 31 March. <mask> is his party's spokesperson for climate, energy, and agriculture. He is also on the parliamentary Committees for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; for Defence; for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy; and for Infrastructure and Water Management. When in November 2021 oil and gas multinational Royal Dutch Shell expressed its intention to cease to be a partly Dutch company, <mask> called it "a blessing for the country". However, he removed his post on Twitter shortly after following criticism. Personal life
He lives in the North Holland village Muiderberg with his girlfriend and two sons, and he is a vegetarian. References

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 Ir.J. (<mask>) Thijssen MBA, Parlement.com

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<mask> (born ) is an American microeconomist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. She served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research. She is currently on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, Ripple, and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action. She also serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.She is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. Her parents are Elizabeth Johansen, an English teacher and freelance editor, and Whit <mask>, a physics scholar. <mask> attended Duke University as an undergraduate, completing three majors (economics, mathematics, and computer science) and graduating with a BA in 1991. She got her start in economics research during a summer job preparing bids for a company that was selling personal computers to the government through procurement auctions, working on problems related to auctions with Bob Marshall, a professor at Duke University who worked on defense procurement and helped her with procurement auctions. She was involved in a number of activities at Duke and served as treasurer of Chi Omega sorority and as president of the field hockey club. <mask> graduated with a Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business at the age of 24 in 1995.Her thesis was supervised by Paul Milgrom and Donald John Roberts. <mask> also received an honorary doctorate from Duke University. <mask> has been married to economist Guido Imbens since 2002. Career

Academic career
<mask>'s first position was as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she taught for six years before returning to Stanford's Department of Economics as professor, holding the Holbrook Working Chair for another five years. She then served as professor of economics at Harvard University until 2012, when she returned to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, her alma mater. Research Interests
Because of <mask>'s completion of triple majors---economics, mathematics and computer science---in Duke University during her undergraduate period, she always utilized programming and statistics as tools to solve problems in the field of economics. Based on this background, <mask> is interested in economics of the Internet, economics of the news media, internet search, econometrics and machine learning, big data and math-based currency.Besides, there are other related fields such as platform markets, online advertising and industrial organization where she puts efforts on. Currently, she focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. Applied auction research
Auctions were the reason <mask> went into economics. She has contributed on all dimensions to research on auctions. <mask>'s theoretical work on collusion in repeated games applies to auctions. As well as her existence theorem for sets with private information, she has done an innovative job on the econometrics of auctions. She has performed significant empirical work in econometrics of auctions.She also designed work that has had significant effects on business and public policy. <mask> and Jonathan Levin examined the U.S. Forest Service's, oral ascending auctions for the rights to cut timber in the national forests. Typically, a given tract contains several different species of timber-yielding trees. The Forest Service publishes an estimate of the proportions of the various species based on an inspection. Potential bidders then can conduct their inspections. Bids are multidimensional: amounts to be paid per unit for each species. The winner is determined by aggregating each bidder's offer using the Forest Service's estimated proportions.The actual amount the winner pays, however, is computed by applying the bid vector to the exact amounts that are ultimately harvested (the winner has two years to complete the harvest). These rules create an incentive for a bidder whose estimate of the proportions differs from that of the Forest Service to skew its bidding, raising the price bid for the species that the bidder believes are less common than does the Forest Service. Conversely lowering the price bid for the species that the bidder believes are more common than does the Forest Service. For example, suppose there are two species and the Forest Service estimates that they are in equal proportions, but a bidder believes they are in dimensions 3:2. Then bids of ($100, $100) and ($50, $150) yield the same amount under the Forest Service proportions and so are equally likely to win, but the bidder's expected payments under the first and under the second differ). One of <mask>'s best-known works that deals with auctions is called “Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Timber Auctions." In this paper, <mask> works with Johnathan Levin and Enrique Seira.She and her peers were interested in testing to see if the participation effects on auction were important.” There are two types of auctions, open and sealed-bid auctions. Open auctions are where bidders are constantly outbidding one another until the last bidder gives up and the auction ends, and sealed-bid auctions are when individuals write down their bids and submit them, whomever has the highest bid wins. The data that they used came from the United States Forest Service auctions. As a conclusion, they found that participation matters. It even matters more than what is actually taking place during the auctioning process. Research contributions
<mask>'s early contributions included a new way to model uncertainty (the subject of her doctoral dissertation) and understand investor behavior given uncertainty, along with insights into the behavior of auctions. <mask>'s research on decision-making under uncertainty focused on conditions under which optimal decision policies would be monotone in a given parameter.She applied her results to establish conditions under which Nash equilibria would exist in auctions and other Bayesian games. <mask>'s work changed the way auctions are held. In the early 1990s <mask> uncovered the weaknesses of an overly lenient dispute mechanism through experiences selling computers to the U.S. government at auctions, discovering that open auctions which resulted in frequent legal disputes followed by settlements were actually rife with collusion, e.g., auction winners shared a portion of their spoils with losers who had cooperated in bidding. She also aided British Columbia in the design of the pricing system used for publicly owned timber. She also published articles about auctions for online advertising and advised Microsoft about the design of their search advertising auctions. Professional service
<mask> has served as an associate editor of several leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the RAND Journal of Economics, as well as the National Science Foundation economics panel, and she also served as an associate editor for Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She is a past co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.She was the chair of the program committee for the 2006 North American Winter Meetings, and has served on numerous committees for the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, and the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She is a member of President Obama's Committee for the National Medal of Science. Furthermore, besides professional services in academic committees, <mask>, as a "tech economist", also used to serve as consultant chief economist for Microsoft Corporation for a few years and now serves on the board of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover Turo, and Ripple. She also serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system. <mask>nov v. Ripple Labs Inc. (case number 18-6753), running since 2018 that claim <mask> and her employers, Ripple Labs Inc. have been in breach of various California and Federal securities laws. Awards and honors

Academic
Duke University Alice Baldwin Memorial Scholarship, 1990-1991
Mary Love Collins Scholarship, Chi Omega Foundation, 1991-1992
Jaedicke Scholar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1992-1993
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994
State Farm Dissertation Award in Business, 1994
 State Farm Dissertation Award (1995)
 Elaine Bennett Research Prize (2000) (This award is given every other year to a young woman economist who has made outstanding contributions to any field.)

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<mask> (7 August 1942 – 8 January 1995), nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun in Spanish), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for 7 years. He successfully defended his title 14 times against 11 different fighters and is widely regarded as not only one of the best middleweights in history but also one of the greatest boxers of all time pound-for-pound. Known for his speed, punching power and relentless work rate, Monzon ended his career with a record of 87-3-9-1 with 59 knockouts, each one of his losses were early in his career and were avenged. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, he was chosen by The Ring magazine in 2002 as the 11th greatest fighter of the last 80 years and voted him as the best middleweight title holder of the last 50 years in 2011. As of January 2018, <mask> holds the 2nd longest unified championship reign in middleweight history at 9 consecutive defenses. <mask> spent several years in prison for killing his wife Alicia throwing her out of a balcony, he admitted that he hit every single woman he had dated. Argentinians adored Monzon throughout his career.His glamorous and violent life was avidly followed both by the media and Argentine people. He was, however, accused many times of domestic violence by his two wives and many mistresses, and of beating paparazzi. Charged with killing his wife Alicia Muñiz in 1988, the former champion was sentenced to 11 years in jail. He died in a January 1995 car crash during a weekend furlough. Early life
<mask> was born in the city of San Javier, Argentina, in a family of Mocoví descent. His parents were Roque <mask> and Amalia Ledesma. <mask> was raised in poverty with his twelve siblings.When <mask> was six years old, his family moved to Barranquitas Oeste, a poor neighborhood, of Santa Fe, the capital of Santa Fe Province. To help out his family, he quit school in third grade, working different jobs, such as shoe shiner, paper boy and milk man. As a youngster, he showed an interest in boxing. When he was sixteen, he met Zulema Encarnación Torres, with whom he had his first son, <mask> <mask>. Later, on 11 May 1962, he married Mercedes Beatriz García, nicknamed 'Pelusa.' They were so poor that they did not have enough money to buy the marriage license. They had three kids: Silvia Beatriz, Abel Ricardo and <mask> (adopted).Boxing beginnings

<mask> had his first amateur fight on 2 October 1959. This first fight ended in a draw. Three years later, after a 73-6-8 amateur record, he became a professional. His first professional bout was held on 6 February 1963. He knocked out his opponent in the second round. In 1966, he won the Argentine middleweight title. In 1967, he won the South American middleweight title.After this success, Argentine boxing promoter <mask> Lectoure pushed him into the international boxing scene by organizing fights with foreign boxers such as Douglas Huntley, Charles Austin, Johnny Brooks, Harold Richardson, Tommy Bethea, Bennie Briscoe (a ten-round tie) Manoel Severino and Eddy Pace. World middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti had long had a distinguished career that included championships in 2 divisions and 2 wins in 3 bouts vs all-time great Emile Griffith. He had lost the year before to American Tom Bethea in Australia, but in an actual title fight in Yugoslavia, he avenged that loss. Nobody expected Monzón to beat Benvenuti in their title match (very few knew of him). Yet Monzón applied pressure from the start, and in the 12th, a right hand landed perfectly on Benvenuti's chin, and the title changed hands. <mask> also beat Benvenuti in a rematch, this time in only three rounds in Monte Carlo when Benvenuti's seconds threw in the towel. Champion
In 1971, <mask> became only the second man to stop former three-time world champion Emile Griffith in 14 rounds, and later out-pointed him over 15 in a close fight (before the fight Monzón had to spar three rounds and run three miles in order to make the weight).<mask> then scored a win over tough Philadelphian Bennie Briscoe in their rematch, over-coming a shakey 9th round, in which Briscoe almost scored a knockout; a knockout in five rounds over European champion Tom Bogs, a knockout in seven rounds over Cuban-Mexican José Mantequilla Nápoles in Paris, France and a 10-round knockout of tough Tony Licata of New Orleans at the Madison Square Garden, in what would turn out to be <mask>'s only fight in the United States. <mask>'s middleweight championship title was lifted in 1975 by the WBC for not defending it against mandatory challenger Rodrigo Valdez. Valdez, a Colombian, won the WBC's title, while <mask> kept the WBA's championship. In 1976, they finally met, this time, world champion vs. world champion. Valdez's brother had been shot to death one week prior to the fight and he did not feel like fighting. Still, the fight went on, as they were both under contract. It took place in Monte Carlo.<mask> handed Valdez a beating, winning a 15-round unanimous decision and unifying the world title once again. Facing a lack of good challengers, <mask> was offered a high purse to again fight the Colombian. The second fight was different. Monzón-Valdez II is a classic. Valdez came out roaring this time. In the second round, right cross to the chin put <mask> down for the first and only time in his career. Valdez built a lead through the first part of the fight.<mask>, however, mounted a brilliant comeback and outboxed Valdez for the last 8 rounds, winning a unanimous decision to retain the title and score his 14th title defense. Retirement
<mask> retired after the second Valdez fight defense. His record stood at 87 wins, only three losses, nine draws and one no contest. Of his wins, 59 came by knockout. His only losses were by points and early in his career. In 2003, he was named by the Ring Magazine as one of the 100 greatest punchers of all time. On the independent computer-based ranking of boxrec.com, he is listed as the twelfth best middleweight boxer of all time.Always known for his overhand right, following <mask>'s victory over Mantequilla Nápoles, Angelo Dundee said: "<mask> is the complete fighter. He can box, he can hit, he can think, and he is game all the way." Before retirement, in 1974, he starred in La Mary, a hit movie directed by Daniel Tinayre. After retirement, he participated as an actor in a couple of Argentine movies, which were not very successful, and TV shows. A monument to him stands in Santa Fe, Argentina. Personal life

Monzón was tremendously popular throughout his career. During <mask>'s fights, Argentina would stand still, cities had no traffic, and all TV sets and radios were tuned to the fight.While filming La Mary, he met famous Argentine actress and model Susana Giménez. They started a tumultuous relationship, which led to <mask>'s divorce. Since then, his glamorous and sometimes violent life was avidly followed by the media. He toured Latin America and Europe with Argentine models and actresses. While still a champion, a darker side of <mask> began to emerge. In 1973, <mask> was shot in the leg by his wife, requiring seven hours of surgery to remove the bullet. In 1975, he began a very publicized romance with Susana Giménez; they had previously met in the 1974 thriller La Mary, directed by Daniel Tinayre, where the two played husband and wife.<mask> hated paparazzi who detailed his affairs. He went to Italy with Giménez to participate in a movie, and started increasingly traveling with her to locations in Brazil and the rest of Latin America, allowing himself be seen with her, although still married. He was accused of domestic violence and of beating paparazzi. Soon the beatings he gave Giménez became public knowledge. <mask> was repeatedly detained by the police. Giménez began wearing sunglasses more often, presumably to hide her bruises, and many times, paparazzi had to be hospitalized from the beatings suffered at the hands of <mask>, who had unpredictable violent outbreaks. During this period, <mask> divorced his wife.Susana Giménez left him in 1978. After the breakup, <mask>'s private life was fairly low key. In 1979, he met Uruguayan model Alicia Muñiz, with whom he had an on-and-off relationship for many years. They eventually married and had a child together, Maximiliano Roque. But his violent behavior continued. In 1988, while vacationing in the resort city of Mar del Plata, after a heated argument, he beat Muñiz. According to the investigation after this incident, he strangled her, picked her up, and pushed her off the second floor balcony, killing her, after which he followed her in the fall, injuring his shoulder.In 1989 he was found guilty of homicide. He received an 11-year prison sentence. In January 1995, <mask> was given a weekend furlough while serving his term in Cárcel de Las Flores, Santa Fe Province, to visit his family and children. On 8 January 1995, when returning to jail after the weekend, he and a passenger, Gerónimo Domingo Mottura, were killed instantly when their vehicle rolled over near Santa Rosa de Calchines. The other passenger, Monzón's sister-in-law Alicia Guadalupe Fessia, was injured. Even in death, <mask> drew a crowd. Thousands sang "Dale campeón" ("Go Champ") during his funeral.Professional boxing record

See also
List of middleweight boxing champions
List of WBC world champions
List of WBA world champions

References

External links

<mask> "Escopeta" <mask> - IBHOF Biography
Sports Illustrated, 8 August 1977, Volume 47, Issue 6

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