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<mask> (born 27 February 1944) is a former cricketer for South Africa, Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family, <mask> is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers, and as one of the finest batsmen to have played Test cricket. Despite <mask>'s international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa, and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia, the leading cricket nations of the day, he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains fourth best after Sir Donald Bradman's (99.94), Steve Smith's, and Adam Voges's averages. <mask> has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including being voted in 1999 as South Africa's Cricketer of the 20th Century, one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1966, as well as being retrospectively selected in 2007 as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1967 and 1969. In South Africa he was player of the year in 1961 and 1984, with special tributes in the S.A. Cricket annuals of 1977 and 1987. Bradman described <mask>, along with Sir Garfield Sobers, as the best left-handed batsman he had ever seen play cricket.In 2009, <mask> was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Youth and early career
<mask> was born into a Scottish family in Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa on 27 February 1944. His grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, and his father, Andrew, was a former first-class cricketer with Orange Free State and the editor of the Eastern Province Herald. As a youth, <mask> earned the nickname Little Dog:
The name arose when his brother [Peter], with voice still unbroken, made queer-sounding appeals for l.b.w. The humorist, Springbok Atholl McKinnon, said they sounded like a dog barking, and called him Pooch. When <mask> joined the provincial eleven they became Big Dog and Little Dog. <mask> attended Grey High School—a noted sporting school in Port Elizabeth—where he was coached by Sussex professional George Cox.In his first match for Grey Junior, aged 9, he took all ten wickets before scoring 117 not out. At one stage, he hit a six into a neighbouring cemetery and had to fetch the ball himself. He was selected for his first match for the school First XI as a leg spinner, taking six wickets for five runs. At 15, <mask> was selected to represent South Africa schoolboys. In 1960, aged 16 and still attending Grey High School, <mask> was chosen to appear for Eastern Province. His first-class cricket debut was against Border at the Jan Smuts Ground in East London, where he made 54 runs before being run out. He then went on to take two wickets in Border's second innings.Later that season he scored his maiden first-class century, scoring 102 against Transvaal B, becoming the youngest South African to score a first-class century. <mask> played five matches for EP in his debut season, scoring 384 runs at an average of 48.00. In 1961, while visiting Britain with his parents, he played six matches with the Sussex Second XI. In the 1962–63 South African season, <mask> finished second in the averages, scoring 839 runs including three centuries at an average of 69.66. The highlight of his season was scoring 209 not out for an Eastern Province Invitational XI against the International Cavaliers, which included bowlers such as Richie Benaud and Graham McKenzie. Benaud was to describe the innings as "magnificent", later saying "I knew I was watching a champion." Aged 19, <mask> was the youngest South African to score a double-century in first-class cricket.Test career

Debut in Australia
<mask> was 19 when he was selected for the 1963–64 South African cricket team's tour of Australia. He had a disappointing start to the tour, making 1 and 0 against Western Australia, dismissed twice by McKenzie. He recovered in the next match scoring 127 not out against a Western Australia Combined XI. He made his Test debut at the Gabba in Brisbane making 25 in a rain-interrupted match before again being dismissed by McKenzie. The match was an infamous one with the Australian bowler Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing, effectively ending his career. <mask> was not successful in the Second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, making 16 and 2 as South Africa were heavily defeated by eight wickets. <mask>'s performances in the first two Tests of the series raised questions over the youngster's place, but, in the third Test in Sydney, <mask> made 122 in South Africa’s first innings.Bradman commented: "Next time you decide to play like that, send me a telegram". At 19 years and 317 days he became the youngest South African to score a Test century, a record that still stands. In Adelaide, in the fourth Test, <mask> and Eddie Barlow shared a South African third-wicket record partnership of 341; <mask> hitting 175 and Barlow 201. South Africa won the Test by 10 wickets to level the series 1–1. <mask> finished his maiden series with 399 runs to his name, at an average of 57.00. During <mask>'s innings of 17 in the drawn fifth Test, he suffered an injury which resulted in him missing the first two Tests of the New Zealand tour which followed. Home and away against England
England toured South Africa in 1964–65 under the captaincy of Mike Smith.<mask> was selected in all five Tests against the tourists. England won the First Test at Kingsmead convincingly by an innings and 104 runs, with <mask> making 5 and a first ball duck. The remaining Tests were all drawn. In the final Test at St George's Park, <mask> made 137 in the first innings, with Wisden Cricketers' Almanack describing it as "a splendid century, distinguished by many drives past cover and mid-on." In the second, he made an unbeaten 77. In the Tests, <mask> made 459 runs at an average of 57.37. <mask> was included to tour England with the South African team in 1965.In the Second Test at Trent Bridge, <mask> made 125, an innings he described in his autobiography as his best. He made his runs out of 160 added in 140 minutes, the last 91 of his runs coming in 70 minutes. He had come in at 16/2, and the score had declined to 80/5, before his partnerships with the captain Peter van der Merwe and with Richard Dumbrill enabled the score to reach 269. John Woodcock wrote in The Cricketer, "Not since Bradman's day could anyone recall having seen an English attack treated in such cavalier style." while the same correspondent in The Times said, "I can think of no innings played against England since the [Second World] war which was so critical and commanding: I can think of none more beautifully played." E.W. Swanton wrote in The Daily Telegraph that it was an innings "which in point of style and power, of ease and beauty of execution is fit to rank with anything in the annals of the game."In the second innings, <mask> scored 59. It was a notable match for the <mask> brothers; older brother Peter took 10 wickets in total as South Africa won the match and, therefore, the three Test series 1–0. His performances during that English season saw him named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1966, acclaimed as "one of the most accomplished batsmen in contemporary cricket". Success then isolation
In 1966–67, Bob Simpson led his Australian team to South Africa for a five Test series. The South Africans won the First Test at Wanderers after trailing by 126 after the first innings and scoring 620 runs in the second innings. <mask> scored 90 from 104 balls. Describing <mask>'s innings, Wisden said "[he] looked without peer and his timing, placing and wristwork were an object lesson for the purist."In the Second Test at Newlands, responding to an Australian total of 542, <mask> made 209 runs from a team total of 353 despite batting with an injured groin which restricted his footwork and running. South Africa, however, were unable to avoid the follow-on and eventually lost the match by 6 wickets. The Third Test was played at Kingsmead in Durban and <mask> made 67 not out in the second innings, with Ali Bacher batting South Africa to an eight wicket victory. The Fourth Test saw rain deny South Africa an almost certain victory. The final Test at Port Elizabeth saw <mask>, on his birthday, score another century as South Africa won the match by seven wickets to clinch the series three Tests to one. For the series, <mask> scored 537 runs at an average of 76.71, trailing only Denis Lindsay on both measures for the South Africans. <mask> and the South Africans were due to play England at home in 1968–69, but tensions stemming from the South African government's apartheid policy came to a head when South African-born Basil D'Oliveira—of Cape Coloured ancestry—was chosen in the England touring team to replace the injured Tom Cartwright.The South African Prime Minister B. J. Vorster denounced the English team as the "team of the anti-apartheid" movement and refused to allow the team to enter South Africa with D'Oliveira in place. The tour was therefore cancelled. South Africa's last Test series before their expulsion from international cricket was against Bill Lawry's Australians. The Australians had just completed a gruelling tour of India in vastly different playing conditions before coming to South Africa. <mask>'s form continued into the series and he averaged 73.85. <mask> managed to break Jackie McGlew's South African Test record of 255 when he scored 274 in the 2nd Test in Durban. When <mask> was batting in this innings with Barry Richards, the opposing captain, Bill Lawry, said about this innings: "Never have I seen the ball hit with such power by two players at the same time."He held this record for nearly thirty years until Daryll Cullinan scored 275 not out against New Zealand in 1999. <mask> was 26 years of age when his Test career was brought to an end. Post-Test career
When the scheduled South African tour of England in 1970 was cancelled, a tour by a "Rest of the World" side was arranged to fill the gap. The side, of which <mask> was a member, played five games against England which were promoted at the time as "Tests," but which are not now recognised as such. <mask> had a poor series by his standards, but he did make 114 in the final match at The Oval, sharing in a fifth wicket partnership of 165 with Gary Sobers. International isolation was keenly felt by the South African team at the time, including <mask>, and the players took measures to try to reverse the looming sporting boycott. In 1971, <mask> took part in a protest organised by Barry Richards and Mike Procter against the South African government's apartheid policy as it referred to cricket.During a match to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the formation of the Republic of South Africa, the players from both teams walked off after one ball, issuing a joint statement: We cricketers feel that the time has come for an expression of our views. We fully support the South African Cricket Association's application to invite non-whites to tour Australia, if they are good enough, and further subscribe to merit being the only criterion on the cricket field. During South Africa's international isolation, <mask> played in 16 unofficial Test matches against breakaway teams from England, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Australia. He ended his international career at the age of 42 with a 144 against the rebel Australian team that toured South Africa in 1987. He scored 1376 runs, including 5 centuries, at an average of 65.52. <mask> continued playing first-class cricket for Eastern Province and Transvaal until his retirement from the first-class game in the 1986–87 season at the age of 43. He made 20,940 runs in first-class cricket, including 64 centuries and 99 fifties, at an average of 54.67.Despite offers, <mask> never played in English domestic cricket, once stating that "the domestic grind was not 'my type of game'". Limited overs matches were introduced some time after his career began, and he played 112 innings in the shorter form of the game, tallying 4,656 runs at an average of over 50. In 1974–75 <mask> scored 222 not out for Eastern Province against Border in the Gillette Cup, this was the first double century in List A cricket and remained the highest individual innings until 2002 when surpassed by Ali Brown. By the time of his retirement in 1988, <mask> was already "established in cricket administration: president of the South African Cricket Players' Association, board member and team selector with the Transvaal Cricket Council." He was appointed a Test selector by the United Cricket Board in 2000, a post he held until 2002, at which point he was appointed as a batting coach to the South African team. <mask>, together with Gary Sobers, was honoured by being chosen to present the match awards following the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final in Johannesburg. On 26 November 2013, the Centurion pavilion at St George's Oval was renamed the "<mask>ock Pavilion" in honour of his contribution to cricket.Playing style
Standing at , <mask> used his height well to get to the pitch of the ball, and utilised a strong sense of timing. He had an upright batting stance and his footwork was balanced and correct. He used a heavy bat and liked to play the cover drive. To rectify an apparent weakness on the leg side, <mask> developed a very good pull and leg drive. With his power, he was able to find the gaps in the field, allowing him to score quickly. His style of batting was aggressive, not waiting for poor deliveries when looking to score:

Aside from his batting abilities, <mask> was also an occasional leg-spinner. His teammate Jackie McGlew claimed <mask> could have made an outstanding bowler—"He bowled right over the top and really made the ball 'fizz'"—but he bowled mainly for enjoyment and with a light heart.In total, he took 4 Test wickets and 43 in first-class cricket. He was also a naturally gifted fielder. Personal life
 <mask>'s Scottish immigrant father <mask> played cricket for Orange Free State, while his brother, <mask>, was a leading fast bowler who played 28 Test matches for South Africa. Both <mask>'s sons, <mask> and <mask> <mask>, played cricket for Transvaal and Gauteng, while his nephew, <mask> (son of Peter), retired from the South African Test team in 2008, played in 108 Test matches, captained the country from 2000 to 2003 and was South Africa's leading wicket-taker before being overtaken by Dale Steyn. In 2003, <mask> expressed his thoughts about the sporting boycott of South Africa:
I was twenty-four. We did not give too much thought to the people who were not given the opportunities. In hindsight we certainly could have done much more in trying to get change to Southern Africa.[...] We had a good series against Australia in '67 and we probably had our best side ever. [...] Poor old Barry (Richards) played just four Tests, Mike Procter seven. But at the same time [the protesters] got it absolutely right that the way to bring about change in South Africa was in sport. It was difficult for twenty-two years ... but in hindsight it was needed and I'm delighted it did achieve change in South Africa. —<mask>

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<mask> "Sami" <mask> (born May 18, 1993) is an American gymnast. She is a five-time member of the US Women's National Gymnastics Team. She was the 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion, 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars and balance beam champion, 2008 Pan American Champion in both women's uneven bars and balance beam, and 2014 NCAA uneven bars silver medalist. Personal life
<mask> was born in Santa Monica, California, to Brent (a former wrestler and marathon runner) and Abbe (a former national champion baton twirler) <mask>, and is Jewish. Her younger  sister, Nicki, is also a gymnast, and a 15-time State champion. <mask> attended Windward School in Los Angeles, and graduated in June 2011. Gymnastics
She began gymnastics in 1996 through a preschool program when she was three years old.Though she was competing at an international level in 2008 and was a top-ranked junior national team member, she was 5 months too young to be eligible for the US Team competing in gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She trains at the All Olympia Gymnastics Center (AOGC) in Los Angeles with fellow National Team member Mattie Larson. Junior career
<mask> won 10 Junior Olympic state titles, and was a three-time U.S. junior national champion. She was a 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion and all-around silver medalist, and 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars and balance beam champion and all-around silver medalist. <mask> first qualified for Junior International Elite in 2006 at age 13, when she finished 4th All-Around at the US Classic in Kansas, and competed in the US National Championships later that year, finishing 13th. In 2007, she returned and competed in the 2007 US National Championships and won the gold medal on the balance beam, and silver medals in the all-around competition, uneven bars, and floor exercise. In 2008, she returned to the VISA Championships to regain her title on the balance beam, and also took the gold on the uneven bars, coming 2nd in the all-around again.<mask> was chosen to join some of the Senior Elite National team to go to the 2008 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, California, where she performed well on all four events, helping the US Team win the gold, and winning gold on the uneven bars and silver in the all-around competition. Her performance on the floor exercise during the team competition was notable when the music cut out as she began her first pass. Seemingly unfazed, she continued her exhibition through to the end as the US team cheered her on and the arena began rhythmically clapping. Senior career
<mask> was a three-time U.S. senior elite national champion, a senior US Women's National Gymnastics Team member from 2006-11. In the fall of 2008, <mask> competed in the 2008 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rosario, Argentina, where she won gold on the beam and uneven bars. She won the bars at the 2008 City of Jesolo Trophy (Italy) Grand Prix. In March 2009, at 15 years of age she represented the US at the Montreal FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, where <mask> sustained a broken foot in training but persevered to win gold on the uneven bars.Injuries, including an ankle injury in 2009, kept <mask> from competing for most of 2009 and 2010, but she resurfaced as a Senior Elite in 2010, qualifying at the US Classic 4th on the balance beam and floor exercise. She fell and injured herself on the vault while attempting a 1.5 Yurchenko, and had to be assisted off the podium. Despite this, she returned to the VISA Championships competing as a senior, and finished 7th on the beam and the All-Around and 5th on the floor exercise. <mask> earned a spot on the USA National Team for the fifth consecutive year. In 2010 <mask> announced her intention to commit to joining the Stanford University Gymnastics Team. In 2011, she appeared on the cover of Inside Gymnastics "50 Most Photogenic" issue as a tribute to the artistry and grace <mask> presented in her years as an international elite gymnast. NCAA career
<mask> was the 2014 NCAA uneven bars silver medalist.In 2011, <mask> retired from elite level gymnastics to compete for the Stanford Cardinal women's gymnastics team, and attend Stanford ('15) where she majored in Engineering. In her freshman season in 2012, she earned the First-Team All-American honor on bars and finished as runner-up on the uneven bars with a score of 9.900 at the 2012 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship in Duluth, Georgia. She was named a Scholastic All-American by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women, capping off a successful freshman year. As a sophomore in 2013, she earned academic honors including the NACGC Scholastic All-American honor for the second year along with receiving an Honorable Mention citation for the 2013 Pac-12 All-Academic Team. In <mask>'s junior year in 2014, she capped off a successful season at the 2014 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship in Birmingham, Alabama, again earning the First Team All-American honor and finishing as runner-up on the uneven bars. On the road to the nationals, in April she was co-winner of the regional title on the uneven bars with a 9.950 at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regionals. During the season, she also earned Pac-12 Conference honors, including being named to the Pac-12 All Academic Second Team and claiming Second Team honors on uneven bars for the 2014 All-Pac-12 Women's Gymnastics Team.In <mask>'s senior year in 2015 she was second team All-American on bars, second team All-Pac-12 on bars, and Pac-12 All-Academic second team. Honors
In 2018 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. References

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<mask>, Jr. (born April 15, 1978) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. Standing  and weighing , <mask> was a switch hitter who threw right-handed. During an 11-year career in Major League Baseball, <mask> played with the Montreal Expos (2000–01), Cleveland Indians (2001–03), Los Angeles Dodgers (2004–05), Oakland Athletics (2006–07), San Diego Padres (2007), Texas Rangers (2008), Chicago Cubs (2009), and Seattle Mariners (2010–11). His career was also marred by legal troubles and several notable on-field incidents. Born in Harbor City, California, <mask> attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School before he was drafted by the Expos in the 1996 Major League Baseball draft. After playing four seasons of minor league baseball for the organization, he made his major league debut on July 19, 2000. In 2001, <mask> was traded to the Cleveland Indians in exchange for pitching prospect Zach Day; he was again traded in 2004 to the Los Angeles Dodgers.After playing in 216 games for the Dodgers, the most among all teams he has played for, <mask> was traded to the Oakland Athletics for Andre Ethier. <mask> was traded to the Padres in 2007, was granted free agency after one season with the team, and signed with the Texas Rangers in 2007. He was voted to the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game with the Rangers, and led the American League with a .436 on-base percentage and a .999 on-base plus slugging percentage. For the year, <mask> finished 17th in American League Most Valuable Player Award voting. After becoming a free agent, <mask> signed with the Chicago Cubs in January 2009, who traded him in December of that year to the Seattle Mariners. In Seattle, <mask> batted .205 in 2010 and .218 in 2011 before he was released by the club. He has a career batting average of .271 with 135 home runs and 481 runs batted in (RBIs) in 1,042 games played, and was described as having "power, speed, a strong arm and star qualities", although "his temper … has never allowed him to fulfill his immense potential."In 2013, <mask> was convicted by a jury of nine counts of physically attacking and threatening his wife including four counts of spousal battery, two counts of criminal threats, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of vandalism and one count of brandishing a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to 32 months in prison. Early life
<mask> was born on April 15, 1978, in Harbor City, California. His mother, Charlena Rector, worked as a clerk at a local Safeway supermarket, while his father, <mask> Sr., was a veteran of the Vietnam War, and was awarded a Purple Heart for his service. <mask> was named <mask> Jr. when <mask> Sr. filled out his son's birth certificate without Rector's permission. According to <mask>.'s mother, <mask>. was addicted to cocaine, physically abused her, and was homeless for several years. Growing up, <mask> had four half-siblings from Rector's previous marriage. <mask> played baseball at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and was a teammate of Chase Utley.After graduating high school with a 3.7 grade point average, he committed to California State University, Long Beach, but instead signed with the Expos on July 1, 1996 after being drafted by the team in the second round of the 1996 Major League Baseball June amateur draft. Major League Baseball career

Montreal Expos (1996–2001)
<mask> began his professional baseball career with the GCL Expos of the Gulf Coast League in 1996; in 32 games, he batted .241 with 27 hits. The following season, he played nine games for the GCL Expos and 50 for the Vermont Expos, a short season affiliate of the Montreal Expos. For Vermont, he was named to the postseason New York–Penn League All-Star team. In 1998, he played for the Cape Fear Crocs and the Jupiter Hammerheads, tying for the Croc team lead in doubles with 21 while hitting .302 for the Crocs and .287 for the Hammerheads. While playing for the Harrisburg Senators the next season, he was suspended seven games for starting a fight after he had been hit by a pitch. He also played for the silver-medal-winning United States in the 1999 Pan American Games.Finishing 76–66, the Senators played the Norwich Navigators for the Eastern League championship. The series was tied two games to two in a best-of-five series. In the final game, <mask> hit a walk-off grand slam with two outs and a full count, in the bottom of the ninth inning, to give the Senators a 12–11 win. During the next season, after playing in 88 games for the Ottawa Lynx, he was promoted to the major league club and made his MLB debut on July 19, 2000. In his debut, he hit three straight singles against the New York Mets; and for the season, he batted .221 with 15 RBI over 42 games played. For the 2001 Expos, <mask> played 67 games, including one on April 26 in which he walked to give the Expos the go-ahead run against Rick Ankiel of the St. Louis Cardinals in the top of the 15th inning. On July 31 of that year, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians to serve as a possible replacement for Kenny Lofton; in exchange, the Expos received right-handed pitcher Zach Day.Speaking to the Associated Press about the trade, Indians General Manager John Hart stated:

Cleveland Indians (2001–2003)

After the deal, <mask> was assigned to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons and reported to the team on August 2. In addition to the 30 games he played for the Bisons, he also played 10 games for the major league Indians. On April 15, 2002, he was placed on the disabled list (DL) following an appendectomy a day earlier at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He went on the disabled list again on May 2 with a broken orbital bone and a scratched iris after a batted ball had bounced off the outfield wall and hit him below his left eye while he was trying to make a catch; up to that point, he was hitting .266 in 23 games. After a rehabilitation stint of six games with the Bisons, he was reactivated by the Indians on June 4 and finished the season with a .249 batting average, 38 RBIs and nine home runs. <mask> spent the 2003 campaign with the Indians. Despite being placed on the 15-day DL with a strained right hamstring and missing the final six weeks of the season with a lower back injury, he led the team in stolen bases, with 17.On August 30, while on the DL with a back injury, he was ticketed for speeding in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. After being stopped, he refused the ticket and sped away. He pleaded not guilty to speeding and fleeing charges on September 12, but was sentenced to a three-day jail term. The ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court of Ohio in December 2004. On November 19, 2003 he signed a one-year, $1.73 million contract with the Indians for the Indians to avoid salary arbitration with him. During spring training, he was banned from the Indians' training camp after not running out a popup a game earlier. On April 3, 2004, he was traded to the Dodgers for Franklin Gutiérrez and a player to be named later (Andrew Brown); the Akron Beacon Journal later reported that manager Eric Wedge had insisted that <mask> be traded.Los Angeles Dodgers (2004–2005)

In his first game with the Dodgers, playing center field, <mask> went 2-for-3, with two singles and two walks. On June 1, he was ejected from a game by home plate umpire Terry Craft for arguing over balls and strikes. After being restrained by manager Jim Tracy, he returned to the dugout and threw a ball bag onto the field. <mask> was suspended for four games and Tracy for one game. On September 19, he hit a 479-foot home run against the Colorado Rockies in Coors Field. On September 28, during a home game against the Rockies, <mask> mishandled a line drive and was charged with an error. A fan threw a bottle at <mask>, who left his position in right field, picked up the bottle and threw it into the stands, yelling at the fan.<mask> was immediately ejected from the game. The next day, MLB suspended him for the remainder of the season and fined him an undisclosed amount. In postseason play, he hit .273 with a home run while the Dodgers lost the National League Division Series to the St. Louis Cardinals three games to one. He finished the 2004 season batting .267 with 19 home runs and 67 RBIs, but was caught stealing 11 times, tying for eighth most in MLB. During the offseason, <mask> went through anger management counseling. In a game against the San Francisco Giants on April 12, 2005, he drove in two runs with a single to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs, the winning run then scoring on Jason Ellison's error in the same play. On August 25, 2005, after hitting .290 with 38 RBIs in 75 games, he was put on the 15-day DL with a torn patellar tendon and anterior cruciate ligament which rendered him inactive for the remainder of the season.On December 13, 2005, the Dodgers traded him to the Oakland Athletics along with infielder Antonio Pérez for outfielder prospect Andre Ethier. Oakland Athletics (2006–2007)
In his first season with the Oakland Athletics, <mask> posted a .276 batting average with 14 home runs and 52 runs batted in, in a part-time role. He went on the 15-day DL on May 11, 2006 for a strained oblique muscle and a sprained right knee. On July 30, he hit a three-run walk-off home run to beat the Toronto Blue Jays with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. During game four of the 2006 American League Championship Series versus the Detroit Tigers, <mask> became the third player in MLB history to hit home runs from each side of the plate in a postseason game, joining Bernie Williams and Chipper Jones. For the series, he went nine-for-eighteen with two home runs and five RBIs. On June 21, 2007, the Athletics designated him for assignment.A trade completed the next day, which would have sent <mask> to the Kansas City Royals for Leo Núñez, was voided by the Royals because <mask> had sustained an oblique injury in his last game as an Athletic. He was then traded to the San Diego Padres on June 29, with cash, in exchange for Andrew Brown; it was the second time those two players had been traded for each other. San Diego Padres (2007)

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 September 23, 2007, however, he tore his right ACL while being restrained by Padres manager Bud Black during an altercation with first base umpire Mike Winters. Home plate umpire Brian Runge reportedly told <mask> that Winters said that he had tossed his bat in Runge's direction in a previous at-bat. After <mask> reached first base, he questioned Winters about the alleged bat throwing and subsequent communication with Runge. According to <mask> and Padres first base coach Bobby Meacham, Winters addressed <mask> with a barrage of profanity.<mask> then moved towards Winters. While restrained by Black, <mask> fell to the ground and injured himself. He missed the final week of the regular season in 2007, during which the Padres lost to the Colorado Rockies in a one game playoff for the National League wild card on October 1. Winters was suspended for the remainder of the season and also spent the postseason on the restricted list for the incident, after MLB determined that he had indeed directed obscene language toward <mask>. <mask> was not suspended, MLB finding no need for such discipline since he did not make physical contact with Winters. Texas Rangers (2008)
After the 2007 season, <mask> agreed to a one-year contract with the Texas Rangers. He announced in early January 2008 that he expected to be healthy and ready to play in the season opener.As the Rangers' designated hitter, he led the AL in on-base percentage (.436) and on-base plus slugging (.999), and was third in batting average (.321). On making the All-Star game, he stated, "If I somehow miraculously made it to the All-Star Game, I would be floored. I'd really be totally humbled by that. I'm just happy right now to play, to produce and to be with a good group of guys." He was selected to play in his first All-Star Game in 2008 as a designated hitter (DH) after being officially selected as a DH reserve, but due to an injury to David Ortiz he became the starting DH in the 2008 MLB All-Star Game. According to The Dallas Morning News <mask> attempted to confront Kansas City Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre in the press box following a June 2008 game for what he believed were unfair comments made on the air. As the Rangers' designated hitter, <mask> watched the broadcast when he was not batting and took offense to a comparison Lefebvre made between him and Josh Hamilton.Manager Ron Washington and general manager Jon Daniels chased after him and stopped him before he got to Lefebvre, at which point he returned to the clubhouse in tears and said:

He was quoted by Rangers radio broadcasters as saying that he never intended to physically harm Lefebvre but did want to speak to him; Daniels said he was upset that someone he didn't know was judging him. Chicago Cubs (2009)
On January 8, 2009, <mask> signed a three-year, $30 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. He was issued a two-game suspension for making contact with umpire Larry Vanover while arguing a strike call on April 16, which was reduced to one game on appeal. During an interleague game against the Minnesota Twins on June 12, he caught a routine fly ball in right field and threw it into the stands, believing it was the third out of the inning when there were only two outs, with runners on third and first base. The umpire allowed the runner on third to score as a sacrifice fly, and allowed the runner on first to advance to third (two bases are awarded to each runner at the time of throw when a wild throw goes out of bounds). Later that month, Cub manager Lou Piniella told <mask> to leave the dugout and go home after he "went after" a Gatorade cooler in frustration after flying out in another interleague game, against the Chicago White Sox. Piniella and <mask> later confronted each other in the locker room and exchanged words.Piniella later apologized to <mask>, and reinserted him back into the lineup during the team's next start. On September 20, 2009, Cubs general manager Jim Hendry suspended <mask> for the remainder of the season after <mask>, in an interview with the Daily Herald, stated the team lacked a "positive environment", that there were "too many people everywhere in your face with a microphone asking the same questions repeatedly" and that "[y]ou understand why [the Cubs] haven't won in 100 years here". In response, Hendry stated he would not "tolerate [<mask>] not being able to answer questions from the media respectably." <mask> later apologized to the Cubs organization for his remarks. For the Cubs, <mask> hit .257 with 12 home runs and 40 RBIs before being traded to the Seattle Mariners for Carlos Silva and cash on December 18, 2009. Seattle Mariners (2010–2011)

<mask> was part of a flurry of offseason moves by the Mariners in hopes of returning to the playoffs, having not reached the postseason since 2001. On May 4, 2010, he removed himself from a game, without permission, and left the stadium after an "angry exchange" with Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu after <mask> struck out with the bases loaded.The Mariners placed <mask> on the restricted list on May 6, and activated <mask> from the restricted list on May 19. He ended the season on the DL after having been placed there on July 31, retroactive to July 27, prior to arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to repair a lateral meniscus tear on August 17. He finished the 2010 season batting .205, with eight home runs and 29 RBIs over 73 games played. On May 9, 2011, the Mariners designated <mask> for assignment after starting the 2011 season hitting .218 with two home runs and 13 RBI in 28 games. Reportedly, the Mariners lost patience with <mask> due to his performance in a series against the White Sox. In the first game, he was ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the eighth inning, preventing the Mariners from putting in a pinch-runner due to not having enough available players. In the second game, he was booed for not hustling after several balls hit his way.In the final game, he made a poor throw that led to two White Sox runs. The Mariners released <mask> on May 16. Personal life
In August 2003, <mask> was stopped in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio for speeding and drove away before signing for his ticket. In February 2004, he was sentenced to serve three days in jail, pay a $250 fine and complete 40 hours of community service. In 2003, <mask> met his future wife, Monique Williams, a community relations intern for the Indians, while with the team. In 2005, <mask> was the Dodgers' nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award for working with the Dodgers Dream Foundation, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the Long Beach Boys & Girls Clubs, among other charities. <mask> has also opened two baseball academies, one in Long Beach and another in Baldwin Hills.In August 2005, Redondo Beach police received three domestic-violence-related calls from <mask>'s house. No charges were filed. In 2006, <mask> filed for divorce but the petition was never finalized. On January 18, 2011, <mask> was arrested at his home in Encino, California and charged with making criminal threats to his wife. When he agreed to participate in an out-of-court hearing process, no charges were filed against him. However, his wife subsequently filed for divorce. In January 2013, <mask> was charged with several crimes stemming from five different domestic incidents which occurred in 2011 and 2012.On June 3, 2013, <mask> was convicted by a jury of nine counts of physically attacking and threatening his wife including four counts of spousal battery, two counts of criminal threats, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of vandalism and one count of brandishing a deadly weapon. On July 2, 2013, <mask> received a sentence of 32 months in prison and 52 weeks of anger management and domestic violence classes. Pending appeal, <mask> was released on $250,000 bail. On September 14, 2013, at the age of 33, <mask>'s wife died at Encino Hospital Medical Center; an October 10 death certificate listed cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver, hemorrhagic shock and cardiac arrest as her causes of death. In 2015, <mask> maintained sole custody of his and Monique's two sons. A Los Angeles appellate court rejected <mask>'s appeal on January 21, 2015. Sports Illustrated reported in May 2015 that following another unsuccessful appeal, <mask> was ordered to begin serving the 32-month sentence for his 2013 convictions, with the hearing judge stating that <mask>'s request for leniency was "breathtaking, frankly, in how callous" it was.In early 2016, <mask>'s request to have his jail sentence reduced was denied by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. By April 2018, <mask>, according to Sports Illustrated, had been married to his second wife, Rachel, for two and a half years. In April 2018, <mask> was charged with spousal battery and taken into custody on bail of $175,000 for allegedly assaulting his wife during a January 2018 incident, at which time <mask> was on probation for his earlier domestic violence conviction. In June 2018 <mask> pleaded no contest to domestic battery, was sentenced to 36 months of probation, and was required to complete 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling. References

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Konstantinos "<mask>" <mask> (; born 2 December 1993) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Bundesliga club VfL Bochum, on loan from 1899 Hoffenheim. He represents the Greece national team. Early career
<mask> started his football career at the age of 6, joining his village football team Aetos Akropotamou. At the age of 12, PAOK scouts recognized his talent, and he joined the club's academies. <mask> has played for all PAOK youth teams. Club career

PAOK
After rising through the youth ranks where he featured at every level, while also breaking into the Greek national youth set up after earning call-ups to the U17s and U19s starting in 2010, <mask> would make his full debut for the White-Blacks in autumn 2011 against Panetolikos, even registering the first assist of his full professional career in the same outing. Bayer Leverkusen
In the summer of 2012 and after his good performance at the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, Stafylidis attracted attention from German club Bayer Leverkusen.After weeks of negotiations and due to PAOK's financial problems the team accepted a bid of €1.5 million from Leverkusen, but decided to stay for one more year as a loan, in his former club. Having failed to break into the first-team at the BayArena for the 2013–14 season, he was again chucked out on loan, this time to England where he would join up with Championship side Fulham. Loan to Fulham
On 9 July 2014, <mask> joined Fulham, recently relegated to the EFL Championship, on a season-long loan. Fulham had the option to buy <mask> permanently at the end of his loan spell. He made 44 appearances with the club in all competitions. At the end of the season, he returned to Bayer Leverkusen. Augsburg
Though he would return to Leverkusen, fellow Bundesliga outfit FC Augsburg would bring him to Bavaria in a deal worth £2.1 million as both Bundesliga clubs confirmed in official statements.On 22 August 2015, he made his debut with the club in a 1–1 away draw against Eintracht Frankfurt. On 12 October 2015, <mask> was injured in the game against Hungary. "It's a minor injury. I will be out for 20 days", he mentioned. On 10 December 2015, he returned to the squad in a historic 3–1 away game against FK Partizan for UEFA Europa League, as they needing to score three and win by a two-goal margin, they were understandably on the front foot from the get-go. On 6 February 2016, in an away 2–1 loss against Ingosltadt <mask> scored his first goal with the club with a wonderful kick, after taking the rebound outside the penalty area. It was his first goal for the season.On 25 February 2016, in the second leg of the last 32 of UEFA Europa League,  Stafylidis one minute before the final whistle, curls his free-kick over the wall but just wide of the upright. That was almost curtains for Liverpool that with James Milner’s early penalty was enough to book their place in the last 16 of the Europa League for the first time in five years at the expense of Augsburg. Despite the move at the beginning of the 2015–16 campaign, <mask> would only go on to make sixteen total appearances (eleven in the Bundesliga) in what would be Markus Weinzierl’s final season in charge before moving Schalke 04 the summer of 2016. It has been under new boss Dirk Schuster that Stafylidis has been truly impressive during the 2016–17 campaign. On 11 September 2016, <mask> notched the fifth direct free-kick in Augsburg's Bundesliga history, helping his club to escape with a crucial 2–1 away win against Werder Bremen. On 18 September 2016, despite his goal in the equaliser a minute later Mainz restore their lead through Yunus Mallı's glancing header, in a frustrating 1–3 home loss. On 16 October 2016, the Greek international defender was the cause of Breel Embolo's severe injury as he broke the Schalke forward's ankle in a tackle, in Augsburg's clash with Schalke and the former has now apologised, stating he never meant to harm him.Switzerland international Embolo could be set to miss the rest of the season after sustaining the injury midway through the first half of 1–1 draw between the teams. <mask>, who was booked for the challenge, was quick to offer his condolences to the 19-year-old striker. On 23 February 2017, the club announced the extension of Stafylidis till the summer of 2019, for an undisclosed fee. On 3 March 2017, he opened the score with a fierce 30-yard strike, in a 2–2 home draw against RB Leipzig. On 18 March 2017, Stafylidis made Lukas Kübler look bad and heads a cross from Georg Teigl to the top of the second post equalizing the score in a 1–1 home draw against SC Freiburg. <mask> not only scored his fourth league goal of the 2016–17 season against the Black Forest outfit, but the Greek defender’s set-pieces were also a constant source of worry for the visitors, who were perhaps lucky to escape the WWK Arena with a share of the spoils. Despite his performance in the 2016–17 season, this year's first half counts for just 31 minutes of participation, as a substitute in two games against Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayern Munich, as he has fallen out of favour with manager Manuel Baum and a move is possible in January transfer window.He returned to Augsburg at the beginning of 2018–19 season, but he made his first appearance in the season on 23 December in a 2–3 home loss game against VfL Wolfsburg. Loan to Stoke City
In January 2018, <mask> joined Premier League side Stoke City on loan until the end of the 2017–18 season, becoming new manager Paul Lambert's first signing. On 3 February 2018, he made his debut with the club as a late substitute for Badou Ndiaye in a 2–1 away loss against Bournemouth. A rib injury restricted Stafylidis to just five appearances for Stoke as the club suffered relegation to the EFL Championship. 1899 Hoffenheim
On 15 May 2019, <mask> will remain in the Bundesliga through 2023 after signing a contract with 1899 Hoffenheim on a free transfer. <mask> spent the last four seasons with Augsburg, with a loan spell at Stoke City, and recorded 61 appearances, five goals, and three assists across all competitions. He is expected to take the place of Nico Schulz, who will likely make a move to Borussia Dortmund this summer.On 18 January 2020, he scored his first goal with the club with a kick in a 2–1 home loss against Eintracht Frankfurt. On 6 September 2020 he faced a shoulder injury that will keep him away of the squad for at least six months. On 23 February 2021, after a very difficult period for the defender marred by injury (167 days to be exact), he injured himself without any outside interference while training. A thorough examination has revealed that the Greek defender has suffered a fracture of the tibial plateau and will be out for several weeks. Loan to Bochum
In August 2021, he signed a season-long loan contract with German club VfL Bochum. On 21 August 2021, for almost 17 months without being even a change in a game, it came in as a substitute, in a 2-0 Bundesliga home win game against Mainz. International career

He also played a major role in the Greek squad at the Under-19 European Champions and won a runners-up medal, after losing 1–0 to Spain U19, being named to the team of the tournament.<mask> made his debut with Greece national football team in a friendly match against Republic of Ireland on 14 November 2012, in which Greece won 1–0. On 11 October 2015, he scored his first goal with Greece in a 4–3 home win against Hungary when he opened the score, scoring their first home goal of the campaign as he turned in a cross from Stelios Kitsiou at close range in the fifth minute. On 10 October 2016, an exact year after his first goal, he scored  from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner, sealing a 2–0 away 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification win against Estonia. Honours
Greece U19
UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up: 2012

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UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2012

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Herbert Alan Gerwig (April 26, 1931 – November 10, 2011) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name of <mask>, who competed in the National Wrestling Alliance as well as international promotions such as All Japan Pro Wrestling, the International Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s. Career
Gerwig began his career in 1956. Rumors were that in 1957, <mask> earned the name, <mask>, when he performed his famous finishing move, the brainbuster, on his opponent by holding him upside down for a period of time and allowing the blood to rush to the brain. As a singles heel through the sixties, he was a top-of-card fixture battling well-established crowd favourites such as Mark Lewin, Spiros Arion, Tex McKenzie, Dominic Denucci and Mario Milano. Enormous numbers from Australia's nascent ethnic community turned out to support Arion, Denucci and Milano, and <mask> risked riots at every appearance. On February 21, 1967, he and Iron Mike DiBiase defeated Pedro Morales & Ricky Romero to win the WWA World Tag Team titles. He defeated Buddy Rogers to win the MWCW North American title in March 1968.Fans longed to see the brainbuster deployed on the side of good, and this boon was granted in 1971 when the <mask> turned into a babyface in a nationally televised mea culpa - he pledged to change his ways on a solemn promise to his dying mother. This created much heat in the already booming Australian wrestling promotion, where the fixture was an ongoing television "war" between the good guys referred to as "The People's Army" (Lewin, Curtis, Arion, Milano and visiting faces from overseas) and the "mercenary soldiers" managed by Kentucky biker / preacher Big Bad John. The turning of the tables saw the erstwhile <mask> create great excitement in tag matches against his former heel comrades Abdullah the Butcher, Brute Bernard, Dick "The Bulldog" Brower, Tiger Singh, Waldo Von Erich and Japanese heels like Mr Fuji and the Tojo Brothers. He lost to Johnny Weaver on May 4, 1973, in a Hair vs Mask match while working as The Masked Menace. He won the Florida Brass Knucks title by winning a tournament, and also defended the title against Rocky Johnson and Steve Keirn. In February 1978, he defeated Dusty Rhodes to win the Florida heavyweight title. At a wrestling show later that year, <mask> was wrestling a match when a fan started to repeatedly hit him with an umbrella.Security got involved and detained the fan, but instead of kicking the fan out of the show, <mask> requested that they bring him into a backroom with the door locked. He allegedly requested that security not let him out until it was alright doing so. Security took the fan to a back room and locked the door. After <mask>'s match ended, he told security to open the door and he went in. Five minutes later, <mask> walked out of the room and the fan was found lying on the floor, covered in blood and was knocked out unconscious. In the wrestling profession, <mask> <mask> was always a popular figure for his humour, behind-the-scenes practical jokes and inventiveness in furthering the promotion ("the greatest gimmicks man in the business" said one admiring colleague). His grudge matches were well-calibrated and exciting, building through a series of disqualifications and non-decisions through run-in interference, and often climaxing in a conditional match in which "the loser packs his bags and leaves town."This saw off one or the other of the combatants as they travelled to fulfill other promotional runs in other countries; battle would be re-joined next season when the participants returned for another highly profitable run. Dick Murdoch once listed a number of people he had supposedly defeated and put out of wrestling, including a midget wrestler from the 1940s (few people caught the jope reference) and also listed on Herb Gelwig, (who was of course <mask> <mask> with whom he teamed several times and was still quite active.) On October 9, 1979, he defeated Wahoo McDaniel to win the Georgia State Heavyweight title. He was cheered in Australia for one of the few times in his life when he faced the team of Abdullah & Bulldog Brower. He then retired in 1982. Among <mask> <mask>'s famous matches in Australia, his feuds with man-mountain Haystacks Calhoun usually involved the insinuation of foreign objects into the proceedings by Kox. At the end of one season, Kox "left Australia for medical treatment in the states" when, in a strap match with Bulldog Brower, his eye was nearly removed (the wound was unbandaged to show the television audience).A headline making event was when a television match for the Australian championship against Spiros Arion was declared ended due to time limit by well-loved commentator Jack Little. <mask> responded by applying the Brain Buster to the unfortunate Little, who was hospitalized and required to call matches the following month in a neck brace. <mask> made his final wrestling-related appearance at VCCW Quest for the Crown II in August 2011, taking part in a meet and greet as well as later presenting the championship to Scot Summers. Death
On November 10, 2011, <mask> died at the age of 80 following a heart attack and a stroke he had suffered nearly three weeks prior, in October 20. Championships and accomplishments
All Japan Pro Wrestling
NWA International Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Cyclone Negro
American Wrestling Association
Nebraska Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Central States Wrestling
NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Takachiho
NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Central States version) (2 times) – with K.O.

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<mask> (born August 8, 1973 in Reggio Emilia, Italy) is an Italian author of historical fiction, thrillers, theater plays and screenplays. Her novels being based on true historical events touch various topics and periods. In addition she publishes some very short stories on her blog in English and Italian. Biography
<mask> only coincidentally was born in Reggio Emilia as her mother visited her family in the vicinity. In fact the parents, her father <mask>, an engineer and business man and her mother Anna Maria Francesconi-Trebeschi a specialist for ancient furniture, lived in Bologna, Italy, which, even after moving several times, <mask> refers to as "her city". Here she also went to the school of the Dominicans from early age till high school. Her father first guided her into the direction of natural science even though, already as a teenager, she took pleasure in humanistic subjects like Literature and History of Art and thanks to one of her teachers, Sister Ignazia, she grew very fond of History.From very early stage she was a ravenous reader and her father encouraged this attitude feeding her hunger with many different genres so that at the age of twelve she already had read, among others, Hemingway’s The old man and the sea, nearly all Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne novels, Dumas's The Three Musketeers and Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, The nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees. Very early in her life she started learning foreign languages and, in order to do it correctly and with adequate pronunciation, she went to England and France for some time before she turned eighteen. At the age of nineteen the family moved to Pescara, Italy where she also went to G. D'Annunzio University. Being fascinated by international Literature and, based on her curiosity for other places and cultures, she decided to study Foreign Languages and Literature. On 27 November 1996 she graduated in foreign languages cum laude at the university of Pescara and exactly two years later on 27 November 1998 she graduated a second time in Italian Literature and History of Art at the University of Chieti. In 1994 she initiates a theater University group called The Merry Devils Group of Players with the goal of putting on stage plays in original language, initially in English and later, from 1997 to 2002 also in French, Spanish, German and Italian. As an actress she went on stage with Shakespearian plays like Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 12th Night, Marlowe's Faustus and, in 2002, she is Katarina in The Taming of the Shrew.Based on these experiences in 2002 she starts writing for the theatre with her first play Nouvelle – Omaggio a D´Annunzio being a theatre-dance opera. Her intensive experience as an actress helps her to write for the stage and many of her original plays as well as her translations and adaptations are produced and taken on stage locally and on Italian tournées. From 1998 to 2005 <mask> <mask> worked as an assistant of Modern and Contemporary History at G. D'Annunzio University in Pescara. These years are frustrating and inspiring for her at the same time whereas 2005 becomes a key year in her life, in February she accomplishes her Ph.D. in History at the University of Basilicata in Potenza, Italy, in May she publishes her first novel Gli Ezzelino. Signori della Guerra and in June she marries and moves to Switzerland. While building up her family, starting to learn German and spending some time in the Goethe city of Weimar, in 2008 her second novel, Le donne del Grimorio, a book about three generations of witches, is published. In 2012, the year she starts to add Spanish to her collection of foreign languages she also moves to Spain and her third novel: La Dama Roja is published in Spanish.Since 2014 <mask> <mask> is living in Germany whilst she is present on various literature festivals in Italy presenting authors like Wulf Dorn, Petros Markaris, Tim Willocks and many others, making use of her language skills and international experience. In 2020 she starts "La rubrica delle parole desuete" becoming a cultural influencer with more than 160.000 followers on Facebook. Awards
Finalist for "Gli Ezzelino. Signori della guerra" - Campiello - Opera Prima 2006. First Prize for the unpublished novel "L'autista di Dio" - Giallo Garda 2017. Special Prize of the jury for the historical novel "Il vampiro di Venezia" - Garfagnana in giallo 2017. First prize historical thriller for the novel "L'autista di Dio" Garfagnana in giallo - Barga noir 2018.Special prize of the popular jury Palmastoria 2018 for the novel "Il vampiro di Venezia". Honour award Premio letterario internazionale città di Cattolica 2020 for the novel "Undici Passi". Best Historical Setting for the novel "La bestia a due schiene" Garfagnana in giallo - Barga noir 2021. Published work

 Gli Ezzelino. Signori della guerra, Oakmond Publishing 2021,
Il convento dei segreti, Newton Compton 2022, ISBN: 9788822756473

Theatre plays

 2002 Nouvelle – Omaggio a D’Annunzio
 2003 Itinerario Shakespeariano
 2003 E le femmine…?! Tutte streghe! 2003 Viaggio Dantesco
 2004 Ilio
 2004 dell’Odissea
 2005 Echeggiano nel Vento
 2005 E le bomboniere??!No! 2006 Carpe Diem
 2006 Arlecchino in cerca d´autore
 2007 Dannunziana
 2009 A letto con... Willy! 2010 Il gran teatro del mondo
 2019 Sulla pelle del diavolo co-author Giorgio Rizzo
 2021 Lo spettacolo delle desuete co-author Giorgio Rizzo

A yet unpublished screenplay, The Confession, dealing with the problem of ethnic cleansing <mask> <mask> wrote in 2004 under the impression of the wars in former Yugoslavia, Darfur and many other places, initially sparked by an intensive conversation with a Bosnian actress at a reception in Berlin, Germany. External links
 <mask> Trebeschi's Official Website
 About "LA DAMA ROJA" in El Mundo
 Giada Trebeschi's Blog (English)
 Giada Trebeschi's Blog (Italian)
 List of scientific publications etc. of Dr. <mask> Trebeschi (Italian)
 Yareah Magazin (Spanish and English)
 A blog article about A letto con... Willy! (Italian)

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Pierre-Justin-<mask> (8 April 1776 – 25 November 1855) was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species. Biography

Early years
Macquart was born in Hazebrouck, France, in 1776 and died in Lille in 1855. He was interested in natural history from an early age due to his older brother who was an ornithologist and a Fellow of the Société de Sciences de l’Agriculture et des Arts de la Ville de Lille and whose bird collection became the foundation of the societies museum, the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille. A second brother founded a botanic garden with a collection of over 3000 species of plants. Macquart, too became interested in natural history. In 1796 he joined the staff of General Armand Samuel then campaigning in the Revolutionary Wars.He was a secretary and draftsman. The general staff was stationed in Schwetzingen, then Heidelberg, Mainz, Aarau, Basel and Zurich. He left the army in 1798 returning to Lille with German books, insects and birds. French Diptera, Meigen and Marriage
He then worked full-time on insects and studying in the library and on 27 Nivôse, Year 11 of the French Revolutionary Calendar (1802) he was elected a Fellow of the Société de Sciences de l’Agriculture et des Arts de la Ville de Lille. Soon he began travelling around France and went several times to Paris where he met Pierre André Latreille who suggested to specialize on Diptera, following the pioneering work of Johann Wilhelm Meigen. After some time in Holland he married and moved from Hazebrouck to Lestrem where he became mayor, from 1817 to 1852, then a member of the Conseil général of Pas-de-Calais. At this time he began intensive studies of Diptera examining the collections of
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy, Gaspard Auguste Brullé and François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau in France.He also went to Hamburg where Wilhelm von Winthem had assembled the largest collection of Diptera in the world. At the age of 25 he was one of the founders of the Société d’Amateurs des Sciences et Arts de la Ville de Lille. Many of his publications were published in the Mémoires of this Society. He also expanded the natural history holdings of the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille. His early taxonomic work included the Insectes diptères du nord de la France, published in Lille in 4 parts from 1826-1829. This prompted Latreille to enlist him as the author of the Diptera volumes of Suites à Buffon under his editorship. This arrangement was continued by Nicolas Roret when Latreille became ill. Two volumes were published (1834-1835) as Histoire naturelle des insectes Dipteres where non-European as well as European Diptera were treated.In 1839 <mask> visited Johann Wilhelm Meigen, then aged 75, in Stolberg, purchasing his notes and drawings and
bringing his collection to Paris where it is now in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. This established <mask> as Meigen's successor and Paris as the centre of Dipterology. Exotic Diptera

The only works on exotic (non-European) Diptera at this time were those of Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann particularly Diptera exotica (1820-1821) and Aussereuropaischen Diptera (1828-1830). Wiedemann had not seen the imposing collections in Paris and these were to occupy Macquart for the rest of his life. He described nearly 2,000 new species in his Insectes diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus (1838-1855) which lists the collections examined to that date. They are those of: Jules Dumont d'Urville with René-Primevère Lesson (the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 (and continued to until 1842); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U.S.A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, into Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens; Peter Claussen (c. 1804–1855) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Diptera from Egypt) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght (1810–1893), Nicholas Funk (1817–1896) and Jean Jules Linden (1817–1898). Material continued to pour into the museum from these and other sources as Macquarts reputation spread.Last years
In 1845 Macquart went to Switzerland to see Maximilian Perty and from there to Germany, aware that events were moving rapidly to the revolutions of 1848. This was his last journey outside Paris. He is buried in Lille. Societies
<mask> was a Member of the
Entomological Society of Stettin, the Linnean Society of London and the Société entomologique de France

Selected works

1811. Mémoire sur les plantations dans le département du Nord. Séance Publique de la Société des Sciences de Lille, 4, 116–131. (first published paper)
1819.Notice sur les insectes Hemiptères du genre Psylle. Seanc Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille 5: 81-86. 1826 Insectes diptères du nord de la France 1 and 2 Asiliques, bombyliers, xylotomes, leptides, vésiculeux, stratiomydes, xylophagites, tabaniens Lille : impr. L. Danel. 1827 Insectes diptères du nord de la France 3 Platypézines, dolichopodes, empides, hybotides Lille : impr. L. Danel. 1829 Insectes diptères du nord de la France 4, Syrphies Lille : impr.L. Danel. 1834-1835. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres Paris : Roret. 1838 Insectes diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Two volumes. Paris: Roret.All these works are available as free electronic texts from the National Library of France, Gallica. 1839 Diptéres. In ‘ Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries,’ by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot,
vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 97. Paris. 1842 Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus Mémoires Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille 1841(1): 62-200.1843 Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus Mémoires Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille 1842: 162-460. 1848 Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus Mémoires Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille 1847(2): 161-237. 1850 Facultés intérieures des Animaux invertébrés. 8vo. Lille. This includes an 80-page autobiography. 1855 Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus Mémoires Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille (2)1: 25-156.Collections

Natural History Museum, Lille, France
Hope Department of Entomology Oxford University Museum, England
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris Natural History Museum, France. External links
Index Novus Litteraturae Entomologicae Full bibliography
EOL Encyclopedia of Life Taxa described by Macquart.Complete and many supported by images.Type Macquart into the search box
Systema Dipterorum Nomenclator Full list of Diptera taxa described by Macquart
Bigot-Macquart Type database OUM
BHL Insectes diptères du nord de la France Lille, Impr. de Leleux[ 1823-33] Volumes 1-4
BHL Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres Paris : Roret. BHL Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus Mémoires Soc Sci Agr Arts Lille

References

Sichel, J. (1855) Ann. Soc.ent. France Paris, Bull. (3)3: CXIV. Lhoste, J. (1987) Les Entomologistes francais 1750 - 1950. INRA, OPIE: 127 - 128, Portr.-Zeichnung [A1036]. Macquart, P.J.M.(1850) Facultés intérieures des animaux invertébrés. Roret, Paris, lxxxii + 272. Pont, A. C. (1996) Dipterists Digest 2(2): 49 - 70 [12117]. Pont, A.C. (2012) Muscoidea (Fanniidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae) described by P. J. M. Macquart (Insecta, Diptera) Zoosystema 34 (1): 39-111. online

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<mask> (March 29, 1858 – August 25, 1936) was an American businessman, industrialist and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his donation of the  Glenriddell Manuscripts to the National Library of Scotland. Biography
<mask> was born March 29, 1858, in Hudson City, (now known as Jersey City), New Jersey, the son of <mask>, a manufacturer of mining equipment, and Anna West Simmons, his wife. Both parents were born in Cornwall, England and emigrated to the United States in 1838. After preparatory courses of study, he entered the College of the City of New York, remaining until 1876. In that year he found employment in the Importers' and Traders' National Bank of New York City, transferring his services, in 1877, to the Leather Manufacturers' Bank in the same city. After remaining with the latter institution until 1883, Gribbel went to Philadelphia as agent for Harris, Griffin & Company, manufacturers of gas meters.In 1890 the firm was reorganized under the name John J. Griffin & Company, and Gribbel was admitted to a junior partnership. Two years later, Griffin died and Gribbel became sole owner of the business, which continued under the same name and ownership and was notably successful. Gas, electricity and other business interests

After becoming head of this concern, the sphere of his interests gradually widened to such an extent as to assume a national character and to include gas, electric and street railway utilities, operating in several parts of the United States. Among the most prominent of Gribbel's gas interests was the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company, of which he was vice-president. He was president of the Royal Electrotype Company, and a director of the Girard National Bank, the Real Estate Trust Company, the Pennsylvania Sugar Company and the National Properties Company, which controlled among other projects the Wilmington and Chester railways and the American Railways System. From 1907, he was president of the Fairmount Savings Trust Company until that company was absorbed by a larger financial institution. Gribbel was also a director of the United Gas and Electric Corporation of New York; president of the Tampa Gas Company, Florida; the Helena Gas and Electric Company, Arkansas; the Corpus Christi Electric Company, Texas; and the Athens Gas Company, Georgia.He was a member of the American Gas Institute and the Association of Illuminating Engineers. Residences

One of Gribbells residences was St. Austel Hall in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer and built between 1899 and 1900 by George F. Payne and Company of Philadelphia at a cost of $74,000. The design was based on an English manor named Kelmscott House, which had been owned by William Morris. It was named for St Austell, Cornwall, his mother's former home before immigrating to the United States. The house included a library, billiard room and a built-in pipe organ. It was located on a 42-acre estate. The house was demolished in the 1950s to make way for a housing project.Only the gardener's cottage remains. <mask> also owned a summer cottage named "Weatherend" on Deadman Point in Rockport, Maine. Litigation
In Gribbel v. Brown (1900) 9 Pa. Dist. 524 and Harris v. Brown (1900) 9 Pa. Dist. 521, which were tried at the same time, the court ruled against Gribbel on the grounds that his lawsuit was champerty. ("The distinguishing feature of champerty is the support of litigation by a stranger in return for a share of the proceeds.") Publishing
Many years previously, Gribbel became interested in the Curtis Publishing Company, of Philadelphia, of which he became a director, and so had a close business and personal association with Cyrus H. K. Curtis for a long time before they purchased, in partnership, the Public Ledger of Philadelphia.This was at the end of 1912. In September 1914, Gribbel severed his connection, resigning the office of vice-president and leaving the management wholly in the hands of Curtis. Politics
Politically Mr. Gribbel was an independent Republican, and in December 1914, was elected president of the Union League, retiring at the expiration of three terms in that office. His other clubs were the Lotos Club, of New York; the University Club of Philadelphia, Art Club, City Club, Five O'Clock Club and Bachelors' Barge Club, all of Philadelphia. He belonged to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, serving as a member of the council. His religious membership was in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a trustee of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, which university conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He was also a trustee of Hackettstown Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, NJ.He received also from Temple University of Philadelphia the honorary degree of LL.D. An address about Abraham Lincoln, delivered by Gribbel at the annual dinner of the Union League on February 12, 1915, was later printed and published by the League. History and the Glenriddell Manuscripts
Apart from business Gribbel's greatest interest was in the study and collection of American Colonial historical documents and of seventeenth-century English books and engravings. He gave lectures on these subjects, notably, one on Robert Burns which he delivered before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In December 1913, Gribbel forever endeared himself to every loyal Scot at home and abroad by purchasing and giving to Scotland under a deed of trust the priceless Glenriddell Manuscripts of the poet Robert Burns. These two volumes, strongly bound in calf, comprise the largest collection of Burns manuscripts in existence, and contain the letters and a selected number of poems which he wrote out and presented to his friend and patron, Robert Riddell of Glenriddell, in 1791. The dedication is considered one of the best pieces, of prose from the poet’s hand.When Riddell died, in 1794, the two volumes passed back to "Bonnie Jean," Burns’s widow, and were given by her to Dr. Currie to be used by him in connection with the preparation of his edition of the poet’s works. In 1853, fifty-seven years after Burns ‘s death, they were placed by the widow of Dr. Currie’s son in the keeping of the Liverpool Athenaeum Library. On the fly-leaf of the volume of letters is pasted the original letter of presentation from Mrs. S. Currie. In the summer of 1913, the trustees of the library sold the volumes to an unknown dealer. Some months afterward, in November 1913, the manuscripts were offered to Gribbel in Philadelphia by a broker, and December 1, 1913, at the annual banquet of the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia, he announced amid applause that he had bought them with the purpose of returning them to the people of Scotland. Gribbel presented them to the Scots people in perpetual trusteeship, to be held alternately five years by Edinburgh and Glasgow. Gribbel also owned the Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum that had been produced for Captain Robert Riddell.Marriage
Gribbel married Elizabeth Bancker (May 17, 1860 – July 1, 1934), daughter of Arnold and Sarah Louise (Reynolds) Wood, on January 8, 1880, and they had the following children: Wakeman Griffin (d. December 11, 1946), Idella L., <mask> (1916–1997) and Elizabeth. There are several recipes by Mrs. <mask>l in The Philadelphia New Century Club Book of Recipes (1915). These include, "Mother's Mutton Broth", "New Amsterdam Molasses Cake", "Rhode Island Rice Pudding" and "Strawberry Sauce". On January 17, 1929, Maj. W. Griffin Gribbel, just released from a sanatorium where he was being treated for shell-shock  (PTSD), caused by his experiences in World War I, shot and killed Inspector of Police, <mask>. Blackburn. Gribbel was himself shot four times but survived. He was charged with first-degree murder and the case went to trial in February 1930. Gribbel was acquitted by a Philadelphia jury, two days later,  on the grounds of insanity.W.G<mask> had previously been in trouble with the law in 1905, when he was twenty-four and a student in the engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. He was arraigned in the West Side Court, New York, on charges that he had attempted suicide after having appeared in the Astor Hotel under the influence of an unidentified drug. Griffin had been taken to the Roosevelt Hospital in a stupor. His parents were travelling in Mexico at the time and Robert Haines, who served as the family butler at their palatial estate in Wyncote, PA, was present in court when he was arraigned. Griffin denied that he had attempted suicide, claiming that he had taken the drug "to sleep", and was discharged by the magistrate in the care of Haines. References

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Sergio "<mask><mask>, (, born December 13, 1943) is a Filipino politician and legislator who served as a Senator of the Philippines. He is a grandson of the 4th president of the Philippines, <mask>. In his eighteen years in the Senate, <mask> chaired the most committees and filed the most bills in the history of the institution. Early life
<mask> was born  in Manila to Sergio "Serging<mask>, Jr. of Cebu and Lourdes de la Rama of Negros Occidental. He finished his elementary studies at De La Salle College in Manila. He spent his secondary studies at the St. Clement's College in Iloilo City, Ateneo de Manila and Beaumont College in Berkshire, England. Although he has never obtained a university degree, he studied in various educational institutions which include University of San Carlos, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Harvard University, and Georgetown University.Prior to the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, <mask> held business positions including:
Assistant to president, Essel Incorporated (1967 to 1972)
Assistant to president, Cebu Autobus Company (1967 to 1972)
Assistant to president, De La Rama Steamship Co., Inc. (1966 to 1972)
General Manager, LRO (Lourdes de la Rama Osmeña) Farms / Hacienda Doña Pepang (1968 to 1972)
Chairman, Cebu Contracting Company (1968 to 1972)

As a son of Marcos' political rival, <mask> was imprisoned in 1972. In November 1974, he embarked on a hunger strike along with his cellmate, Eugenio "Geny" Lopez, Jr., to protest the unjust detention of thousands of innocent Filipinos. This resulted in the release of 1,022 political prisoners in December 1974. <mask> and Lopez escaped from their maximum security prison cell in Fort Bonifacio on September 30, 1977. This exploit was enacted in the 1995 movie, Eskapo. While in exile at the United States, <mask> served as the Director for Movement for a Free Philippines. He was also the founding director of the Justice for Aquino Justice for All (JAJA) Movement.After the removal of Marcos, <mask> returned to the Philippines and held positions in business and government corporations in the 1990s:
Director, Pacific CATV, Incorporated (1994 to 1995)
Director, Telecommunications Holdings Corporation (1994 to 1995)
Chairman, Intervest Group (1994 to 1995)
Director, Micrologic Systems, Inc. (1994 to 1995)
Director, Philippine National Bank (1992 to 1995)
Director, San Miguel Corporation (1993 to 1995)

Political career
He served as Secretary General of the Progressive Party cluster NUCD-UMDP from 1991 to 1992. When it merged with Lakas Tao in 1992, he served as the member of the National Directorate. In 1992, Osmena ran for Congressman in Cebu's Sixth District but lost. In 1995, <mask> was invited by President Fidel Ramos to join
in the senatorial race under the Lakas-Laban ticket. He won in the elections and served his term as senator from 1995 to 2001. During that term he was asked to look for a new site of the Senate after the old Executive Building will be renovated for the National Museum. The Senate offices and session hall were transferred to the GSIS Building at the Financial Center in Pasay.In 1997, <mask> bolted Lakas NUCD to be an independent senator. In 1998, he joined the Liberal Party. <mask> succeeded Senator Edgardo J. Angara as Chair of the powerful Committee on Agriculture and Food and the Congressional Oversight Committee on Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM). As Chair, <mask> tried to block the approval of the construction of the Casecnan and the San Roque dams having discovered gross discrepancies in the costs and benefits of the projects. It was <mask> who pointed out that the government would be investing a ridiculous amount of more than P385,000 to irrigate an additional hectare of rice paddy. The expose led to the cancellation of the proposed Balog-Balog irrigation project. In 2001, <mask> was one of the senators who voted in favor of opening the second bank envelope for the impeachment case filed against Joseph Estrada.The motion was outnumbered, and it led to the second EDSA People Power Revolution. He ran as independent for the position of Senator under the People Power Coalition. He won in the elections and served his second term as senator from 2001 to 2007. Right after Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. was replaced by Senator Franklin Drilon as Senate President, he joined Pimentel's party PDP–Laban. His mandate as senator for the second term expired in 2007. Running independent again in 2010 (although adopted by the Liberal Party and the Partido ng Masang Pilipino), <mask> refused to participate in the sorties of his adoptive parties and opted instead  to campaign all by himself. He graced radio programs and television interviews.Running on a shoe-string budget, <mask> did not have the volume of posters and billboards of his opponents. He had television advertisements that to him would be more effective and more prudent to reach the electorate. <mask> placed tenth and became a senator again for the third time. He ran again in 2016 & 2019 as an independent but failed to make a Senate comeback losing in both elections. Personal life
<mask>, as many people call him, is a farmer and businessman by training and was educated at Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of the Philippines. Raised a Visayan, Osmeña speaks Cebuano and Hiligaynon as mother languages although his first language is Tagalog (Filipino). He is married to Bettina Lopez (daughter of former Congressman Alberto Lopez of Iloilo and Chona Mejia Lopez).He has six children. <mask> came from a family of senators. His grandfather Sergio Sr. served during the American colonial period. His father Sergio Jr. served in the 1960s. His cousin, John Henry served in the Senate from 1971 to 1972, 1987–1992, 1992–1995 and 1998–2004. His maternal grandfather, Esteban de la Rama of Negros Occidental was also a senator. His nephew John Gregory served as Provincial Vice Governor of Cebu and his younger brother Tomas III is the Congressman of Cebu City's south district.Tommy was a close ally of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He was bestowed Doctor of Laws – Honoris Causa, by the Benguet State University in 2000. He is the chairman of the Aquaworld Corporation, which he held since 1992. While serving his initial term as senator he held a concurrent position as board director of San Miguel Brewery (HK), Ltd. He was a member of the Philippine Jaycees, where he served as a senator in 1994. He founded Pundok Sugbuanon while he lived in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1992. He is one of the Directors of the ABS-CBN Bayan Microfinance Foundation, held since 1999, and the Lorenzo Tañada Foundation, held since 1998.In popular culture
<mask> was portrayed by Richard Gomez in the 1995 film Eskapo. References

1943 births
Senators of the 16th Congress of the Philippines
Senators of the 15th Congress of the Philippines
Senators of the 13th Congress of the Philippines
Senators of the 12th Congress of the Philippines
Senators of the 11th Congress of the Philippines
Senators of the 10th Congress of the Philippines
University of the Philippines Los Baños alumni
People from Manila
People from Cebu City
Sergio Osmena III
People from Negros Occidental
Living people
Cebuano people
Visayan people
Filipino Roman Catholics
Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians
Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians
PDP–Laban politicians
Progressive Party (Philippines) politicians
University of San Carlos alumni
Independent politicians in the Philippines
Candidates in the 1998 Philippine vice-presidential election
Harvard University alumni
Marcos martial law victims
Georgetown University alumni

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