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<mask> (born 2 February 1950 in Larga village, Briceni rayon) is a Moldovan politician. He held the position of general mayor of Chișinău municipality (1994–2005) and interim prime minister of the Republic of Moldova (5 – 17 February 1999). He was the chairman of the party Our Moldova Alliance (2003–2011), first deputy chairman of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (2009–2010) and president of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova (2011–2016). Biography
<mask> was born on February 2, 1950 at Larga, Briceni, in the Moldovan SSR,   in a peasant's family. Education and career
After graduation of the Middle School in his native village, he continued his education at the Polytechnic Institute in Chișinău, at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering (1969–1974), which he graduated from in 1974, obtaining the qualification of construction engineer. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the same year, the compulsory military service began in the Soviet army, during which, for two years, he participated, directly, in the construction of the famous car plant in Tolyatti, Russia (1974–1976).After demobilization, in 1976, he continued his professional activity in the native district – Briceni as an engineer within the Constructions Enterprise Briceni (1976–1978). In this capacity, he works on the construction sites of the Briceni district. He led construction works on several social-economic sites. In 1978 he was co-opted within the political structures of Briceni district. He held the position of Head of Department for Industrial and Constructions Development, Second Secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova in Briceni (1978–1983). In 1983–1985, he studied at the  Higher Party School of Leningrad, Russia. Returning to the Republic of Moldova, he worked at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova.He holds, for a short time, the position of inspector and, in the same year, he was transferred as the second secretary at the district committee  Anenii Noi of the CPM. In November 1985 he was elected as Chairman of the District Executive Committee of the  Anenii Noi by the People's Deputies (1985–1987). He then worked for the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of the Republic of Moldova (1987–1994), first as vice president, then as first vice president and finally as president. In parallel, for a period, he was an MP at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (1991–1994). In parallel, for a period, he was an MP at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (1991–1994). He led the faction of independent MPs. On August 9, 1994, by decree of the President of the Republic of Moldova, he was appointed as General Mayor of Chișinău Municipality.He was re-elected successively as mayor in the 1999 and 2003. He holds the position of mayor of Chișinău between 1994 and 2005. Since May 23, 1999, the position was called differently as a general mayor. He is a titular member of the Congress of Local and Regional Powers of the Council of Europe, president of the Federation of Local and Regional Powers of the Republic of Moldova (since 1996). He was president of the Chess Federation of the Republic of Moldova between 1995 and 2005. The president of the Moldavian branch of the International Academy of Engineering. As mayor of Chișinău municipality he directly supported and contributed to the organization of several international forums and conferences in Chișinău under the auspice of UN, UNESCO, NATO, TACIS, etc.He is also co-author of the monograph on Scientific and Technological Achievements Related to the Development of European Cities, NATO. ASI Series. Vol. 9. On February 5 and 17, 1999, he held the position of interim prime minister of the Republic of Moldova. President Petru Lucinschi delegated him as a candidate for the position of prime minister, but he did not get the support of the parliament, he withdrew his candidacy. On December 21, 1999, by the Decree no.1263 (art. 3) of the President of the Republic of Moldova, Petru Lucinschi, was declared that <mask> <mask>, in his capacity as general mayor of Chișinău municipality, would become a member of the ex officio Government. He held the position of member of the government by the time of adoption of the Law no. 806-XV of February 5, 2002 for amending and completing the Statute of Chișinău municipality, when he was suspended of being a member of the Government of the Republic of Moldova. <mask> <mask> was very proactive in the political life. In 2001 he became the President of the Social-Political Movement Independents' Alliance of Moldova, in 2003 he became the co-president of the Party Our Moldova Alliance (in 2005 – 2011 he became the president), and in 2004 – 2005 he was the leader of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova. At the parliamentary elections of March 6, 2005, Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova, led by the Chișinău mayor <mask> <mask>, accumulated 28.53% of the votes of the participants and got 34 mandates out of 101.In accordance with article 70 of the Constitution of Moldova, "the MP position is not compliant with the any other remunerated function, except the didactic and scientific activity". On April 18, 2005, in the last day of the one-month term given for the validation of the mandate, provided to decide whether to accept or reject the position for which was elected, <mask> <mask> decided to resign as mayor of Chișinău in favour of the deputy in the Parliament of the Republic Moldova. On April 21, 2011, he was appointed for the position of the chairman of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova. At the local elections in Chișinău held in 2015, <mask> <mask> was a candidate for the position of mayor from the part of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. However, when he appeared on the talk shows during the election campaign, <mask> has stated: "I am not a member of any party, nor of the LDPM. By definition I cannot be, because I am going to chair an apolitical structure. If I become a mayor, I will remain apolitical.I am not going to join any party; I will be mayor of all the citizens of the Chișinău." During two months of election campaign he resigned from the position of the chairman of the Court of Accounts. Following the elections on June 14, 2015, <mask> <mask> has got only 2.97% of the vote. Alliance For European Integration

After the July 2009 parliamentary election, alongside Vlad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, and Marian Lupu, <mask> <mask> signed the Alliance For European Integration in a press conference on August 8, 2009. Personal life
He is married to Tatiana Marcenco and has two children. Distinctions
He is decorated with the Order of the Republic of Moldova (2000), [4] the Order "Shield of Honor", the Order "For the development of science and education", the Orders "Saint Dumitru" of the second grade, "Sergii Radonezhsky" and "Saint Stanislav", granted by the Russian Orthodox Church by the Russian Patriarch, Patriarch Alexy II. In April 2015 he was awarded the honorary title of "Emeritus".External links
 Alianţa Moldova Noastră
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Prime Ministers of Moldova
Mayors of Chișinău
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Moldovan engineers
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<mask> (January 17, 1867 – February 22, 1929) was an American artist and art activist known principally for her landscapes and marine scenes. Her paintings won praise from the critics and art collectors of her time. Writing at the height of her career, a newspaper critic praised her "firmness of character, quick vision, and directness of purpose." She said these traits "proved a solid rock upon which to build up an independent art expression which soon showed to men painters that they had a formidable rival." As art activist, she supported and led organizations devoted to supporting the work of under-appreciated painters, particularly women. Early life

On finishing high school in the late 1880s, <mask> first looked to a career in music, but soon turned her attention to painting. Her desire to become a professional artist may have been influenced by stories she had heard about her great uncle, William Page, a highly regarded artist who had held the office of president of the National Academy of Design in the early 1870s.She undertook formal study at the age of 33 when she attended William Merritt Chase's school for plein air painting held in the summer months at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. She subsequently studied for a short time at Chase's New York School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but principally developed her personal style through close study of the work of other artists both in New York and during travels within the United States. In 1923 she told an interviewer that she sought formal instruction only to learn good technique, believing that the best art showed the artist's individuality and skill of self-expression. She said painting such art cannot be learned in schools. "The great ones," she said, "won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach". In pursuing her career, she obtained the unswerving support of her husband, whose success in the law permitted him to retire at an early age. This support gave her freedom to develop her talent unimpeded by financial need.Her own "firmness of character, quick vision, and directness of purpose" assured that she would apply herself intensely, with courage and originality in making paintings that would quickly be recognized for their "clear, forceful rendering, good drawing, and fine color work". Mature style
Having no need for the money that art sales would provide, <mask> rarely exhibited her paintings in private galleries and never competed for prizes. She preferred group shows to solo ones, and chose for the most part to participate in exhibitions held by clubs, societies, and other institutions of which she was a member, or exhibitions held by museums and other public institutions. The first show of her professional career was a group exhibition held in 1902 at the Art Club in Kansas City, Missouri, where she and her husband made their home. The two landscapes she contributed displayed her skill in creating atmospheric effects. The subject of the first, a peach orchard, was described as "rich with the hues of blossom time and bathed in a bright spring atmosphere", while the other, a forest scene called The Beeches, was seen to possess "the same luminous atmospheric effects". In the early years of the twentieth century, she traveled frequently to New York City, and in 1905 she provided a painting called Moonrise to a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design.Over the next fifteen years, she would exhibit another ten times at the National Academy. About 1909 <mask> began spending most cooler months of the year in Manhattan and the warmer months in the seaside resort and artists' colony in Gloucester, Massachusetts. <mask> at first rented studio space in both locations but, while continuing to rent in New York, in 1912 she and her husband bought land and built a house in East Gloucester which they called the "House on the Hill". That year, she showed three landscapes at the Twenty-third Annual Exhibition of the New York Watercolor Club. She also contributed a picture, called Little Red Boat, to a group show of contemporary American painting at the Corcoran Gallery. The critic for a local paper called her work "sincere, frank and sympathetic", and said <mask>, although "by no means well known", was "rapidly gaining recognition". The following year, her work appeared in one of her few solo appearances in a New York gallery when she contributed 29 landscapes and marines to a show at the Folsom Galleries.In 1914, after a decade of few appearances, <mask> began to place her paintings in group, duo, and solo exhibitions. That year, she showed at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as another Corcoran show; a solo show at the Fine Arts Institute, Kansas City, and a dual-show with M. Bradish Titcomb at the Copley Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. The trend continued during the next few years, with a solo show at the Petrus Stuyvesant Club, New York, in 1916 and group shows over the next three years: (1) in 1915 at the National Academy of Design, Macbeth Galleries in New York, the Association of Women Painters and Sculptors exhibition at Arlington Galleries in New York, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Fine Arts Institute, Kansas City, (2) in 1916 at the Gallery on the Moors, Gloucester, and the Art Institute of Chicago; and (3) in 1917 at the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Gallery on the Moors, the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, Grand Central Palace, New York, and the Chatauqua Institution in the city of that name (New York). By this time her paintings were becoming famous and she was credited with being one of the best women painters of the time. Her work drew praise for its strong brush work, excellent composition and rich, glowing color, clean palette and vigorous handling, and clear, straightforward presentation of subject. Although two critics said draftsmanship of her work was crude and the "tone" needed refining, most gave her unreserved praise and one, obliquely suggesting why a conservative critic might withhold find fault, said she belonged to "the left wing of New York's feminine talent". In 1918 and 1919 she embarked on the first of several trips to California where she painted Pacific Coast scenes.Writing in July 1919, a critic said of these and earlier paintings that <mask>'s work was virile and energetic. In 1921, when the West Coast pictures appeared in a show at Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery, a local critic said they were "characterized by her great versatility and variety of subject matter — still life, the seashore, clouds, snow, forests, mountains—each treated in a different manner" and of one in particular, "a daring essay...there is movement, even excitement, in the canvas, brought out by the opposition of the lines, but chiefly by the opposition of the complementary colors". With the exception of some floral arrangements, <mask> did not paint interiors or urban scenes. Working out of doors in rural settings, she sought to capture the subjective feeling of a scene, its "mood of nature," as she put it, however much time and effort it might take to achieve that goal. While praising the "strong, clean palette and vigorous handling" in her landscapes and marines, one critic noted that her success derived from knowing what to leave out of a picture as well as what to put in it. In 1927, when <mask> turned 60, her skill and her appetite for hard work remained undiminished. The art reporter for the New York Evening Post praised a solo exhibition of that year for the subtlety and rhythm of the flower paintings and landscapes in oil and watercolor that it contained, and the reporter for the Times drew attention to the painting Gloucester in Winter in this show for its success in evoking a mood: the charm of a coastal resort that "flees with the opening of the Summer hotels".Art activist

As an artist, <mask> was viewed as energetic, forceful, virile, and direct. Deploying these character traits as an activist, she became a strong advocate for artists and of democratic principles within the art world. In 1922 she became president of a new society of artists—The Gloucester Society of Artists—devoted to exhibiting work without prior selection by juries. She believed that juries unfairly prevented good art from being seen, particularly art made by women, and, that, by skewing public taste, they inhibited young artists from developing their creative potential. That year she also opened a gallery in her New York apartment both to show her own work, on occasion, and to show the work of other artists who she believed deserved greater exposure. In 1925 she became a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists and participated in its annual shows up to the time of her death. Like the Gloucester society, this one believed in exhibiting with no jury.It also decided that each member should get same amount of space to display her work and that the membership would be limited to 30 painters and sculptors. Exhibitions

<mask> exhibited her work in private galleries, shows of the societies of which she was a member, and public institutions such as the National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy, Albright Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Newark Museum, and the Museum of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Omaha, Nebraska. She also showed at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco in 1915. She participated in a large number of group and solo exhibitions. Solo exhibitions included shows at the Folson Gallery (1913, New York), Fine Arts Institute (1914, Kansas City, Mo. ), Petrus Stuyvesant Club (1916, New York), Albright Art Gallery (1920, Buffalo, N.Y.), Woman's City Club (1922, Kansas City, Mo. ), Art Institute of Chicago (1921), Memorial Art Gallery (1921, Rochester, N.Y.), Knoedler Galleries (1921, New York), Mrs. Sterner's Gallery (1922, New York), Painters and Sculptors Gallery (1926, New York), Marie Sterner's Art Patrons of America (1927, New York).Her participation in group shows included repeated appearances with the Art Institute of Chicago, Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Gallery on the Moors (Gloucester, Mass. ), Gloucester Society of Artists, MacDowell Club Galleries, National Academy of Design, National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York Society of Women Artists, Pen and Brush Club, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, Penn.). Memberships

<mask> belonged to the American Federation of Arts, Art Association of Gloucester, Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, New York), National Arts Club, National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York Society of Women Artists, Pen and Brush Club, Salons of America, and Society of Independent Artists. Personal life

<mask> became a painter after her marriage in 1891 and consistently used <mask> <mask> as her professional name. Her married name, Mrs. <mask>, appeared only in newspapers' society notices. Various truncations and misspellings of her name appeared from time to time. The most common was the rendering her last name as "Brumbach" as in "<mask> Brumbach" or, on one case, "L.M.Brumbach." She was born in Rochester, New York, on January 17. There is disagreement about the year of her birth. Although references published since 1900 give 1872, sources from earlier years give 1867. Census reports for 1870, 1875, and 1880 give her birth year as 1867; her gravestone gives that year; and a genealogy published in 1900 gives it as well. The earliest source giving a later birth date is the United States Census of 1900 which lists her age as 29 with presumptive birth year of 1871 or 1872. Parents

<mask>'s parents were Charles E<mask> and <mask> <mask>.They were sufficiently prominent that the large house in which they lived stood on the corner of a street, Upton Park, named after them. <mask>'s siblings included an older sister, <mask> (born 1860), a brother, George Rackett <mask> (born 1863), and a twin sister, Alice. Following the death of George in 1866, her parents adopted a cousin, Charles F. Gorrard (also known as Charles Torrance) born 1859), as their son. Her father was a banker and speculator in commodities and stocks. In December 1882 he embezzled large sums from a bank he owned in an effort to cover a huge loss he had incurred in a speculation on the price of oil. The bank failed when it became known that <mask> would be unable to repay the money he had taken. Convicted of embezzlement in 1883, he died in 1886 while an appeal was pending.<mask>'s mother was <mask> <mask>, author of a novel, Castles in the Air (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879). Education

At an early age <mask> and her twin sister Alice were sent to Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School, a boarding school in New York City which had a curriculum of sufficient rigor that graduates could pass the examinations for entrance to Columbia College. Established in 1864 the school was run by Caroline Gallup Reed, widow of the Rev. Sylvanus Reed. Upon leaving it, <mask> enrolled in one of New York's conservatories of music. Move to Kansas City and marriage
In 1889 <mask> <mask> <mask> and her two daughters moved from New York to Kansas City and on June 11, 1891, <mask> married Frank Fullerton <mask>, a prominent attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, and author. The couple had one child, <mask> <mask>.He was born on June 9, 1892, in Kansas City and died on December 3, 1918, in Springfield, Ohio. He was killed in flight while serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Service. In 1921 <mask> donated a painting called Fair and Cooler to the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester in memory of her son. <mask> and her husband participated in the well-heeled society of Kansas City at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. She sponsored parties, such as one held in 1896 at Kansas City's Lyceum Hall, participated in musical entertainments, such as one written by her sister Alice that same year, and herself wrote an operetta that was performed at a local club the following year. In 1909 <mask> and her husband built a large house, designed by Louis Curtiss, and she drew murals in its rooms showing scenes of Gloucester much like her easel paintings. Soon after the house was completed, <mask> retired from legal practice and, as already noted, thereafter gave full support to <mask>'s professional career.In 1920 they leased the house for an indefinite period and spent all their time in Gloucester, Manhattan, and in travel. <mask> died at the age of 62 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on February 22, 1929. Notes

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<mask> (1887–1972) (also known as "Rav Ha-Nazir," the Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, kabbalist, and a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. A noted Jewish ascetic, he took a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of World War I. Education
<mask> was born in Maišiagala, near Vilna (in modern Lithuania), the scion of a distinguished rabbinic family. In his youth he studied at the Raduń Yeshiva under Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, at the Volozhin yeshiva, and at the yeshiva in Slabodka. Even at that time, his restless and inquiring mind led him to extend his studies beyond the traditional subjects taught in the yeshivot. Thus he turned to Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the early writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. He also studied Russian to prepare himself for entrance to the university.During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was twice arrested but was not detained. His spiritual unrest and the desire to widen his intellectual horizon led him to enroll in the Academy for Jewish Studies established by Baron <mask>, where one of his close fellow students was Zalman Shazar, later president of Israel. From there he proceeded to Germany to study at the University of Freiburg. At the outbreak of World War I he was interned as an enemy alien, but was released and made his way to Basel, Switzerland, where he became involved in the Jewish Community while continuing studying Torah and also studying philosophy, classical literature, and Roman law at the University of Basel. He was for a time chairman of the Jewish Students' Society there and delivered lectures on Jewish philosophy. It was then that he took upon himself a lifelong Nazirite vow, which involves complete abstention from cutting one's hair and partaking of any products of the vine. However, his personal asceticism went further: he became vegetarian, eschewing not only meat but also any garment made of leather, and practiced self-imposed silence vows (referred to in Hebrew as "Speech Fasts") on a regular basis.A weekly silence every Shabbat; a monthly silence every Rosh Hodesh Eve (Yom Kippur Katan), and the highlight - an annual silence period of 41 days from Erev Rosh Hodesh Elul to the end of Yom Kippur. In addition, despite being proficient in [9] languages, he refused to speak anything but the Holy Language - Hebrew. Additionally, from the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Jordanians in 1947–1949 Palestine war until the capture  by the IDF in the Six-Day War (1967), he vowed not to leave his home. Finally, since Israel's independence (1948), he vowed not to leave the Holy City of Jerusalem and, in fact, left Jerusalem only on 3 occasions after that (24 years until his passing),  with each such departure being formally approved by a special Beith Din (a Rabbinical Court) granting him temporary permission to depart from his undertaking. However, he was not a recluse and was extremely warm, welcoming and respectful towards any person who came to see him, regardless of this person's status, age, or in many cases, eccentricities. Rabbi <mask> was fully aware of the day-to-day occurrences in Israel and did not hesitate to publicly express his views on important topical issues. Meeting Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
The turning point in his life came with his meeting, on 29 Av, with Rabbi Kook, who was then in St. Gallen in Switzerland (1915)."My life then stood in the balance," he noted. "I listened to him and was turned into a new man. ... I had found a master." He decided to abandon his secular studies and devote himself entirely to Jewish thought. In 1922 he received an invitation from Rabbi Kook, who had returned to the Land of Israel, to become a tutor in the yeshiva which he had established. He helped draw up the curriculum, which was also to include history, philosophy, ethics, Hebrew grammar, and Bible.He was appointed lecturer in Talmud, ethics, and philosophy. The two used to meet daily, and Rabbi Kook entrusted him with the editing of his philosophical works, to which, along with disseminating Kook's ideas, he dedicated his life, hardly publishing any of his own works, although he left over 30 works in manuscript. The principal exception was the Kol Nevu'ah, of which the first volume appeared shortly before his death. It is the fruit of his life's work and is in two parts, "The Foundations of Jewish Religious Philosophy" and "The Foundations of Inner Wisdom." The work is based on the premise that there is an original Jewish philosophy and a spiritual Jewish system of logic which is not intuitive speculative but spiritual-acoustic: "Sound and light are the two angels of thought which accompany man everywhere" but "hearing is greater than seeing." The prophetic power is the beginning of Jewish wisdom, and he was convinced that the renewal of Jewish life in Israel would produce a new generation to which would even be vouchsafed the return of the spirit of prophecy. A passionate adherent of Rabbi Kook's doctrine that the return to Zion and its various stages, of which the establishment of the State of Israel was the latest, was itself only a stage in the fulfillment of the Divine Promise that would bring about the complete Redemption and the Messianic Age, he did not hesitate to reprove those rabbis who did not accept this belief.He saw in Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto the harbinger of this redemption, pointing out that the three significant movements, Hasidism, Musar, and Haskalah, had each made certain of Luzzatto's works their classics, and he claimed that both Rabbi Kook and he himself followed his doctrines. <mask> was married to his cousin, <mask> (Etkin) and had a daughter and a son: – Zfia Goren, the wife of Rabbi Shlomo Goren Zt"l, the first Chief Rabbi of the IDF  and Major General (Res), then the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and finally the Chief Rabbi of Israel; and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv <mask>t"l – Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa. <mask>, his wife and his children were vegetarian. <mask>'s Yahrzeit is on the 28th of Av. In 1977, a three-volume Festschrift entitled Nezir Ehav was published in his memory. See also
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<mask> (born 3 June 1954) is a British Catholic layman, author and commentator; a former priest of the Church of England, and a former continuing Anglican bishop. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 3 June 1954 in London, England, the son of <mask> and <mask> (née Simpson, now Salmon). He was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School and as a music scholar at The King's School, Canterbury. He graduated from the University of Bristol, with a degree in law. He trained for the Anglican priesthood at Oak Hill Theological College, where he read for a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology. Whilst at Oak Hill he was also sent as part of his training to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, where he came under the influence of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov).<mask> did postgraduate work at Heythrop College at the University of London with a Master of Theology degree on the psychology of religion. Whilst a chaplain and member of faculty at the University of Sussex, he completed a doctorate on the life and work of Charles Williams (1999). He published Alchemy and Integration, a study of Williams' work in 2007, which was reviewed by the Archbishop Rowan Williams in the Times Literary Supplement. Ministry and other positions

<mask> was ordained at Southwark Cathedral in 1980 and served as a parish priest for 10 years in the Diocese of Southwark, firstly at St James's Bermondsey and then as vicar of Hamsey Green in Sanderstead. In Sanderstead he worked alongside Thomas Smail who had been director of the Fountain Trust. In 1989 he was appointed to the post of university chaplain and senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sussex where he lectured in literature and the psychology of religion. He was appointed a senior officer of the university in 1994.He convened and taught the MA programme "Monotheism and Mysticism in Critical Theology". From 1995 to 2003 he also lectured in systematic theology at the University of Brighton. He was appointed as a canon of Chichester Cathedral in 2003, and then to a further theological canonry (Bursalis Prebendary) in 2006. He was an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chichester and Diocesan Adviser on New Age Religions. In 1998 he was a Church of England delegate to the 8th Council of the World Council of Churches held in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for from 1995 to 2012. He has lectured in the United States, most recently as a visiting theologian for the Lutheran Church in Oregon.In 2012 he took early retirement and moved to a house for duty post as vicar of St Martin de Gouray in Gorey, Jersey. He was vice-chairman of the Keston Institute during the 1980s, and a director of Aid to Russian Christians, in which role he engaged in smuggling Bibles and medicine to the "Underground Church" in the Soviet Union during that decade. He was a member of the Society of the Holy Cross and previously a member of the Little Brothers of Jesus. He was a member of Forward in Faith. He combined the experience of and allegiance to the Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical and Charismatic strands of the Church of England. In 2016, <mask> was appointed to the board of reference for the Global Anglican Future Conference He also joined Anglican TV Ministries as their UK correspondent. Resignation from Church of England positions

In early 2017, <mask> resigned from his position as Chaplain to the Queen after speaking out against a service at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, at which a Muslim law student read (in Arabic) a passage from the Koran that explicitly declared that Jesus is not the Son of God and because of his views on Islam and orthodox Christianity.Ashenden concluded that being a member of the Ecclesiastical Household meant he could not speak out on matters he felt strongly about and that it was his duty and calling to speak on issues relating to the integrity of the Christian faith. One of the consequences of his resignation was a variety of media engagements in several countries, including Fox News in the United States, The Bolt Report in Australia, and James Delingpole's Delingpole Podcast in the UK. On 17 March 2017, <mask> lodged a deed in the High Court of London under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870, to relinquish his orders within the Church of England. Christian Episcopal Church

In September 2017 Archbishop Theodore Casimes of the Christian Episcopal Church announced that Ashenden had been consecrated as a missionary bishop for the United Kingdom and Europe. Ashenden left the Christian Episcopal Church in December 2019. Catholic Church
On 22 December 2019, Ashenden was received into the Catholic Church by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Mark Davies, at Shrewsbury Cathedral. Bishop Davies commented that it was "very humbling to be able to receive a bishop of the Anglican tradition into full communion in the year of the canonization of Saint John Henry Newman."Ashenden may become a priest of the Catholic Church or stay a lay theologian, depending upon the determination of the Holy See. In the media
In 2008, <mask> was appointed to be the presenter of the Faith and Ethics programme for BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey, until 2012. From 2009 to 2012, he also presented the BBC podcast Faith in England. In 2013, he began a weekly column in the Jersey Evening Post, where his defence of orthodox Christianity and its critique of modern culture caused both strong support and opposition. He was a contributor to both Anglican Ink and Anglican TV before creating a new internet programme 'Catholic Unscripted.' He has been interviewed in the media, including by Rod Liddle for The Sunday Times over the controversy surrounding Bishop Curry's sermon following the Royal Wedding in 2018. BBC 2's Newsnight took up the issue when the Archbishop of Canterbury raised questions about God and gender.John Anderson, formerly deputy prime minister of Australia, conducted an interview on the dangers to freedom of speech in his series "conversations", and he has become a regular guest on GBNews. <mask> has contributed Op Ed pieces in both The Times and The Daily Telegraph. He has featured inThe Spectators religious affairs podcast 'Holy Smoke;'   and has written also for Christian Today. He is a regular columnist for the Catholic Herald and an occasional contributor to The Tablet. He maintains a website for the publication of  homilies, articles and commentary at ashenden.org. <mask> has written on Russian Orthodox spirituality in A Guidebook to the Spiritual Life (ed. Peter Toon).He also wrote The Oxford Inklings
and about C. S. Lewis in Persona and Paradox. Distinctions

Styles and titles
The Reverend <mask> (1980–1999)
The Reverend Dr <mask> (1999–2003)
The Reverend Canon Dr <mask> (1997–1999)
The Right Reverend Dr <mask> (2017–2019)
 Dr <mask> (2019–present)

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Honorary Chaplains to the Queen
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Alumni of the University of London
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Academics of the University of Sussex
Alumni of Oak Hill College
English Anglican priests
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<mask> () (November 22, 1947 – June 20, 2006) was a Bulgarian physicist, mathematician, union leader and parliamentarian. He contributed particularly to the application of Chaos theory to mechanical and radiophysical systems as well as to space exploration and space studies. Biography
<mask> was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, the son of a lawyer and of a French language teacher. He received his early schooling in Sofia and at the Georgi Benkovski Gymnasium at Teteven, a mountain town in the Balkan Range, in the District of Lovech. He studied at Moscow Technical University, from which he graduated in 1971 with a degree in Informatics and Engineering Physics. He went on to study at M. V. Lomonossov University (Moscow State University). There, he wanted to change his major to Philosophy, in order to study Bertrand Russell, but was forbidden to do so by the Bulgarian authorities.He shone at chess, earned a degree in radiophysics (1977) and, the same year, received a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. He collaborated at some of the most advanced space programs at the Russian Academy of Science. <mask> became a Doctor of Science at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS, Sofia) in 1992. He was a professor at the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he headed the Department of Nonlinear Space Dynamics. He was a visiting professor at University of Kyoto, University of Leeds, Université de Montréal a o. His colleagues voted him Scientist of Year 2001–2002. He has 17 patents and over 250 publications to his name.He was a member of the New York Academy of Science. Having followed a distinguished career in the Soviet Union and in Bulgaria, <mask> never joined the Communist Party. After the fall of Communism, he joined the Bulgarian Socialist Party and became a leader of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, of which he was a vice-president. As a scientist, he was a member of the reviewing board of the European Union Framework Program for Research and Technological Development, even though Bulgaria itself was not yet a member of the EU. In 2005, <mask> presented himself for the parliamentary elections on the list of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in the District of Lovech, and was elected Deputy to the 40th Parliament of the Republic of Bulgaria (Narodno Sebranie). In his first weeks as a member of Parliament, he chaired an inter-party commission to investigate the severe occurrences of environmental pollution in and around the city of Stara Zagora. <mask> was a member of the Parliamentary Commissions on Education and Research, and on Defense.He was elected Chairman of the Bulgarian Delegation to the European Defense OrganizationEurofor, Western European Union (Union de l'Europe Occidentale). In December 2005, less than six months after his election, <mask> was diagnosed with acute leukemia. He died in Hanover, Germany, the 20 June 2006, before a blood stem cell transplant could be undertaken at the University Hospital (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover - MHH) there. He was buried on June 29 in his home-town of Teteven. Work

Book
 Nonlinear and Parametric Phenomena - Theory and Applications in Radiophysical and Mechanical Systems - World Scientific (Series on Nonlinear Science) - New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing - (2004). Patents
 Methods and Devices for Implementation of Low-Noise Wide-Band Negative Resistances, Negative Capacitances and Negative Inductances (Patents of Republic of Bulgaria, No 25959, No 25960, No 25961, No 25971, No 29260 and No 30008). Method and Device for Measuring Biological Membranes (Patent of Republic of Bulgaria, No 29993).Multielectrode Modulation Device for Measuring the Interplanetary Plasma (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45821). Short-Range Autodyne System (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45520). Short-Range Radar (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 47466). One-Band Modulator (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 35731), with D.V. Stoyanov. Linear Reciprocating Electric Motor (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 44194), with Y.B. Douboshinsky and M.I.Kozakov. Microwave Emitter (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 44197), with D.B. Douboshinsky and Y.B. Douboshinsky. Inductive Sensor - Spectrum Analyser (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 30009). Main Articles in English
Published in (partial list):

 Advances in Space Research, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, (1991). Earth, Moon, and Planets, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1992) with D. B. Douboshinsky, (1993).Aerospace Research in Bulgaria, (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999). Dynamical Systems and Chaos 2, Eds. J. Aizawa, S. Saito, K. Shiraiwa, World Scientific Publishing, London (1995). Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi Publishing, New York, Cairo (1999). Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. (2003) (2003) with Pl. Trenchev and K. Sheiretsky.Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sofia, Bulgaria (2000). Progress of Theoretical Physics Suppl., Kyoto, Japan (2000). Proceedings of the 4th Int. Symposium on Network Theory, Ljubliana, Yugoslavia (1979). IEEE Proceedings of Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Rome, Italy (1982). Proceedings IX Intern.Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations, Kiev, USSR (1984). Proceedings 27th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA (1984) with D.B. Douboshinsky and Y.B. Douboshinsky. Proceedings 5th Intern. Symposium on Network Theory, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (1984). Proceedings of the Xth Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations, Varna, Bulgaria (1984).Proceedings 28th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Louisville, Kentucky, USA (1985) with N.D. Birjuk. Proceedings 26th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Puebla, Mexico (1986) with N. D. Birjuk. Proceedings XIth Int. Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations, Janos Bolayi Mathematical Society, Budapest (1987)
 MTA Sz TAKI Proceedings, Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1988
 Proceedings 1989 SBMO Int. Microwave Symposium, São Paulo, Brasil (1989). Proceedings of Xth Intern. Conference on Noise in Physical Systems, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (1990).Proceedings University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy (2002,) (2003) with E. Spedicato. Articles in Russian
Partial list:
 Vestnik of Moscow State University, series Physics-Astronomy, Moscow, (1977). Izvestiya VUZ. Radioelektronika, Kazan, USSR, (1983), (1985), (1987). Radiotekhnika i Elektronika, Nauka Publ., Moscow, (1984), (1985), (1988). Journal of Technical Physics, Warsaw, (1985). Radiotechnika, Popov's Russian Technological Society, Moscow, (1985), (1987), (1990), (1993).Elektrichestvo, RAN Publ., Moscow, (1988), (1991). Elektrotechnika i Elektronika, Sofia, Bulgaria (1985), (1991). Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences, Sofia, (1986), (1986), (1986), (1987), (1987), (1990), (1991), (1991). Ukrainian Journal of Physics, Kiev, (1993), (1997). In Bulgarian' (partial list):
 Bulgarian Journal of Physics, (1977), (1978), (1979). Elektropromishlenost i Priproborostroene, (1980), (1981), (1989). Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie Bulgare des Sciences, Sofia, (1983), (1984), (1985), (1987), (1990), (1990), (1991), (1991), (1991), (1991), (1992), (1993), (1993), (1995), (1996), (1999).Technical Ideas, (1995), (2002). Proceedings 2nd Intern. Conference on Electronic Circuits ICKC,'' Prague, Czekhoslovakia, (1979). 1947 births
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Bulgarian politicians
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<mask> is a Singaporean author and artist. He is best known for his two part graphic novel adaption of New York Times bestselling Larry Niven's sci-fi novel Ringworld and a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic where 300,000 copies were distributed for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. He is also the creator of the graphic novel Geungsi. Biography
<mask> was born in Singapore. As a young adolescent, he was fascinated with drawing. In the 1980s, he was exposed to the various art from a diverse range of graphic novels ranging from Western comics to Japanese manga and Chinese manhua, which led him to gain a strong interest in this form of art and storytelling. He graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and specialise in traditional and digital art, graphic novel and story writing.Aside from his art career, he is also known to be an avid mixed martial arts and Tai Chi practitioner. Graphic novel career

 Early 2009-2014 Early work and breakthrough
His first foray into the comic industry was the release of It Takes a Wizard, a 480-page single volume manga, written by German writer Thomas R. Hart, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment, an American publisher of original manga-style comics in 2009. Two years later Macmillan Publishers published his two-part graphic novel adaption of the sci-fi novel Ringworld by Larry Niven, namely Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One and Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two. He then went on to develop several bible-themed graphic novels with American publisher Manga Hero, which includes Paul: Tarsus to Redemption, Judith: Captive to Conqueror, Many Are Called, and Habemus Papam! manga. He released a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic which was distributed in August during World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. This was followed by an expanded version of the graphic novel which went deeper into the life of Pope Benedict XVI.In 2012 he won an award for his bible themed graphic novel, Judith: Captive to Conqueror at Angoulême Christian Comics Festival in France. A 48-page paperback, Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy,, was later created to celebrate the appointment of Pope Francis. 2015-2019
In 2015 he collaborated with the Four Lords from San Diego as the main comic artist for The Curseborn Saga manga, and together held a book signing at the Los Angeles Anime Expo for the launch of the first volume, followed by another at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2018, where his team got an exclusive interview by ABC 10 News. They are currently in works on the second volume of the comic and an art book with a consolidation of all his current concept arts and character designs for the story planned for release sometimes towards end of 2018 or early 2019. 2020 to present
Throughout the 20s to present, he has always work closely with his chief editor Junzi (also known as kingB, a contemporary artist and author ) over many past works, including his two new original comic series namely the Red Dot(later renamed Geungsi) and Goddess Punch, both which were introduced exclusively on his social media platform Instagram. Both works aim to appeal to both local Singaporeans as well as the international audience. Apart from working on graphic novels, <mask> has held in-house art gallery showcasing his popular online series of Red Dot and Silent Night series artworks which he has also shared on his Instagram.In early 2021, in a NAFA news article, he shared more updates of his new long running graphic novel series Geungsi, which was slated to be launched later part of the year and also the first time his book is launched in Singapore ahead of its international release. In June 2021, he shared with Asia Contemporary Art platform Artitute some insights of his journey in pursuing his passion as a graphic novelist, and how he came about with the creation of Geungsi being his first written story that sets in Singapore, where he blends social commentary and detailed cultural settings with strong elements of Asian horror, myth and fantasy. American online publishing platform Medium followed up with an article on the book ahead of its launch in Sep, with sneak previews of the book production and a take on his new approach in the art style of Geungsi. In Oct 2021 he officially held a three day launch of his book Geungsi at the Singapore National Library in Singapore with a series of talks where he shares about writing and creating graphic novels. During the talks, he revealed that Geungsi is going to be a long running series with the apocalyptic story spanning across Asia to other parts of the world. He held a solo exhibition called Geungsi Art Exhibition 2021 in November to celebrate the launch of his first work in Singapore and was featured in Singapore's arts and culture guide Alist. In an interview with pop-culture Red Dot Diva on his Geungsi, he shared about how the title Geungsi derived from his love for Jiangshi films back in the 90s.He also quoted inspirations from music in the course of his work whenever he's drawing. In Jan 2022 he did an exclusive interview with The Singapore Straits Times and had Geungsi featured in The Sunday Times line up of hot-off-the-press home-grown books in Singapore. Adam Symchuk of The Grimoire of Horror and Asian Movie Pulse gave the book 4 out of 5 and praised the series being perfectly poised, which touches on a few different genres in an impressive manner and deserved, to bring further recognition to the region – particularly for fans of horror manga. New York City-based literary arts Singapore Unbound puts Geungsi as one of the must-read books in SP Blog’s 8th Annual Books Round-up 2021. In Jan 2022 Yuan magazine of Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations released a full length Chinese interview on him, for the first time sharing deeper insights about his thoughts and life journey through the years abroad in pursue of his passion in graphic novel career. Technique and materials
<mask> is known to use Japanese nib G-pen and Sumi Ink over his pencils for his graphic novel works, and is also versed in using Wacom graphics tablets. He also specializes in using charcoal on large canvas and Chinese and Japanese Ink wash painting.In talking about the artist's work ethic, <mask> has said, "I hope artists strike a balance in using traditional and digital medium. When one uses traditional art medium, they gain a deeper understanding of the materials and fundamentals as opposed to the over-reliance on undoing mistakes using digital, which on the other hand, do offer an increase in productivity on time. Music and fashion
In early 2018 he collaborated with American DJ and record producer Slushii with a anime rendition of him on a limited edition poster of his There X2 Tour, for the first time introducing Slushii clashing with new 'dark Slushii' donned in a black alternate version of his signature T-shirt. In 2020 he collaborated with Japanese brand Maker's Watch Knot to launch a Limited time collection series of the 12 Zodiac Characters artworks together with their Artisan Watches, with each pair of Zodiac inspired male and female characters featured monthly. ‘Knot X SEANLAM Limited Postcard Collection’ consists of character designs which are loosely based on one of his manga story collections '''Moment For Love 愛の瞬間 ‘. Through this collaboration, he expresses that "art is a timeless expression that bonds together the love and people of diversity". He was also the judge for the manga art competition held by Knot in Singapore in April 2020.In Dec 2021, <mask> launched THE YUREI X SEANLAM, a clothing line featuring his new series of artworks introducing a collection of mythical creatures from Asian folklore beyond those of Japanese folklore to the west. This marks his first collaboration with the UK Asian Horror media The Yurei and their collaboration was featured on Arttitute. The clothing line was launched on the same day in UK and Singapore under UK time zone. THE YUREI X SEANLAM made a first appearance at the SG Toycon 2021 in Singapore where <mask> held an exclusive three day autograph session for the launch of the first series of the limited edition T-shirts and bandannas. Words of hope and encouragement
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he extended support to his homeland Singapore through art therapies and free art workshops for children sharing his latest children's illustrated storybook series Growing Up with you, a series of heart-warming local stories. In December 2020 he was commissioned by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)  and REACH to produce a mural to celebrate REACH Singapore 35th Anniversary, to show support to their 35 years of relentless efforts to hear the voices of the public as well as engaging in conversations with all walks of life. The mural aims to start off on an emerging stronger conversation to reach out to different communities in Singapore such as clan associations and youths, to enable participants to share their hopes for what Singapore could look like as the country emerge from COVID-19.In an interview back in 2011, he talked about hopes to bring changes to the art scene in Singapore and to hopefully attract and trigger the creativity in children in comic and manga art, saying “Manga can deliver emotions faithfully and carry a vivid message to readers, evoking a sense of reality in the story. Young children are usually fascinated by the art when they pick up the book. I hope that my artwork can help them understand the emotional background of the set and characters, and bring them into that world to learn about the wonderful stories of faith and goodwill.”

Awards

 2012 Angoulême Christian Comics Festival 2nd award for Judith: Captive to Conqueror

Publications

 Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Many Are Called (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Habemus Papam-Pope Benedict XVI (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two (Tor/Seven Seas, 2015)
 Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One (Tor/Seven Seas, 2014)
 Judith: Captive to Conqueror (Manga Hero, 2013)
 Paul: Tarsus to Redemption (Manga Hero, 2012)
 It Takes a Wizard (Seven Seas, 2009)
 Geungsi (<mask>, 2021)

References

External links

<mask> Author Page from Macmillan Publishers

<mask> on Amazon Author Page
<mask> on Goodreads Author Page

Artist authors
Original English-language manga
Graphic novelists
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Living people
Singaporean comics artists

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<mask> (1610–1682), sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" <mask>, was an English fur trader, militia officer, politician and explorer of 17th century colonial Virginia. <mask> helped build and maintained Fort Henry at the falls of the Appomattox in present-day Petersburg. He also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council. Early and family life
<mask> emigrated from England as a 10-year-old boy in 1620. The English ship "Margaret and John", on which he sailed as an indentured servant or cabin boy was attacked by two Spanish vessels in the West Indies; <mask> was one of the few survivors; the attack led the vessel to turn to the Virginia colonies. Career

By 1625, <mask> worked for Captain Samuel Mathews and lived at Jamestown. He also filed land claims for areas on the lower Appomattox River in the 1630s, and in 1638. by which time he had turned to exploring the colony's interior, and traded for the beaver and deerskin with the native tribes.Upon being expelled from their villages at Bermuda Hundred and Swift Creek, natives had established a village near the falls of the Appomattox River, which would much later would become part of Petersburg. Natives revolted in 1644. Virginia colonists responded in part by building Fort Henry in 1646 at the falls of the Appomatox River. It supposedly marked the legal frontier between the white settlers and the Native Americans, as well as defended both the settler on the south side of the James River (about 20 miles north of the Appomattox River) and the native Appomattoc tribe which had grain fields and fished in the Appomattox River near the falls, and with whom <mask> traded. From 1646 until around 1691, it became the only point in Virginia where Native Americans could legally cross eastward into white territory, or whites westward into Native American territory. Soon after its construction, <mask> commanded a garrison of 3 soldiers from Henrico County, 12 from Charles City County and 15 each from James City County and Isle of Wight County. Not long after, other colonists thought the tax burden too great, so the government allowed the fort and 600 acres of land sold to <mask>, who agreed to keep 10 armed men at the fort for three years.Thus <mask>, who both commanded the fort and privately owned the adjoining land and trading post, a considerable advantage over his competitors in the "Indian trade". <mask> represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1646, then Charles City County from 1652 and 1656. He was a justice of Charles City County in 1655. Also in 1655, he was appointed to a committee to review Virginia's laws. He was elected to the Virginia Governor's Council on March 13, 1657–68 and actively served until at least 1671, and according to correspondence, kept his seat through at least 1676, probably 1680. <mask> dispatched several exploration parties from Fort Henry during these years, including one that he personally led in 1650, which explored the upper reaches of the James River and Roanoke River. In August 1650, <mask> and Edward Bland reached and traveled on the Great Indian Warpath, penetrating the Carolina region southwest of the Roanoke River and discovering westward flowing rivers.Daniel Coxe mentions that "Parts of this Country were discovered by the English long before the French had the least knowledge... <mask> of Virginia... from the years 1654 to 1664 discovered at several times several branches of the great rivers Ohio and Mesechaceba." <mask> also dispatched the first English expeditions to reach the southern Appalachian Mountains. In 1671, explorers <mask>, Thomas Batts (Batte) and Robert Fallam reached the New River Valley and the New River. "Batts was a grandson of Robert Batts, vicar master of University College, Oxford, and possible relation to Nathaniel Batts, first permanent settler in North Carolina and Governor of Roanoke Island. Nathaniel by 1655 had a busy Indian trade from his home on Albemarle Sound. <mask> may have been <mask>'s son.Robert Fallam is a question mark. The journal he kept of their experience shows him to be a literate, educated man." The New River was named <mask>'s River after <mask>, although in time it became better known as the New River. Batts and Fallam are generally credited with being the first Europeans to enter within the present-day borders of West Virginia. In 1673 <mask> sent his friend James Needham and his indentured servant Gabriel Arthur on an expedition to find an outlet to the Pacific Ocean. Shortly after their departure Needham and Arthur encountered a group of Tomahitan Natice Americans, who offered to conduct the men to their town across the mountains . After reaching the Tomahitan town Needham returned to Fort Henry to report to <mask>.While en route back to the Tomahitan town Needham was killed by a member of the trading party with whom he was traveling . Shortly thereafter, Arthur was almost killed by a mob in the Tomahitan settlement, but was saved and then adopted by the town's headman. Arthur lived with the Tomahitans for almost a year, accompanying them on war and trading expeditions as far south as Spanish Florida  and as far north as the Ohio River . <mask> was appointed colonel of a militia regiment in Henrico and Charles City counties in 1655. Later, he was appointed major general but lost this position in 1676 after Bacon's Rebellion either because of infirmity or political differences with Governor William Berkeley. Bacon's rebel forces attacked the Appomattoc Indians on both sides of the river, killed many and dispersed the rest, after burning their town. By 1670 <mask> had relinquished his trading post to his son-in-law, Peter Jones, for whom Petersburg, Virginia would eventually be named, and in 1675 Jones became commander of the reactivated fort.Jones had married <mask>'s daughter Margaret, and a map drafted in 1670 named what had been "Fort Henry" on earlier maps, simply "<mask>". In 1676, Governor Berkeley wrote that Maj. Gen. <mask> of the council kept to his house through infirmity. By March 1678–79, he was strong enough to negotiate with the Native Americans and to arrange for the chief men of hostile tribes to meet in Jamestown. <mask> retired to patent more plantation land in 1680 west of the fort, in what had been Appomattoc territory, notwithstanding it being disallowed by the House of Burgesses. Death and legacy
<mask> died some time between 1681 and 1686, possibly in 1682. Further westward explorations stalled until undertaken by Governor Spottswood. Notes

References

 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed.Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. . Retrieved February 16, 2013. 1610 births
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<mask> (born 1956) is an American writer and researcher of megachurches. He has authored or co-authored 33 books on church leadership, including Emotionally Healthy Church and Prepare Your Church for the Future, which have both achieved the bestseller status of 100,000 or more units in print. He has also overseen more than 25 research reports on issues affecting large and growing churches. His research on megachurches is regularly cited in mainstream and religious media. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Research and Equipping for the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Life and Ministry
<mask> was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and lived there until his college years. His formal academic training comes from Wheaton College (BA, MA), Alliance Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fordham University (PhD).An ordained minister, he has served in several church roles including church planter and assistant pastor, including his longest tenure being for 10 years (1997-2006) on staff at Princeton Alliance Church. While pastoring, he also served as adjunct professor at Alliance Theological Seminary. He has been licensed for ministry under the Christian & Missionary Alliance. <mask> is married to his college sweetheart. He and his wife, Michelle, live in a suburb of New York City. Research and Writing

In his early years, <mask> served on Carl George’s senior management team of the Pasadena-based Charles E. Fuller Institute of Evangelism and Church Growth where he visited, interviewed, researched, and profiled many of the largest, fastest-growing, or newest churches in North America. In subsequent years, he did similar research and development for the Canada-based Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada, and for the Asbury Theological Seminary-based Beeson Institute for Advanced Church Leadership (1996-2006).From 2006 to 2018 <mask> served as Director of Research and Intellectual Capital Development at Leadership Network. In 2018 he became Vice President of Research and Equipping at the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) ,  the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit accrediting agency designed to enhance trust and certify integrity in Christ-centered churches and ministries. He has compiled and maintained a sortable list of US and Global megachurches published by Leadership Network since 2010. Articles
<mask> has published more than 200 magazine articles on church leadership including two cover stories for Christianity Today   and the cover story for Evangelicals (the National Association of Evangelicals). He has also contributed collaborative chapters or sections to 7 other books. He has served on advisory boards for several magazines and several other book projects. He has also written guest columns on megachurch issues such as “Not a Baby Boomer Phenomenon—Megachurches Draw Twice as Many People Under 45” in Christian Post.Megachurch Research, US and Global
Bird’s research has focused mainly on megachurches (Protestant congregations with 2,000 or more weekly attenders). He has authored more than 25 published reports based on original research including a collection of reports on comparative trends in US megachurches. This includes a 2021 co-authored study that was the nation’s largest-ever study of megachurches, “The Changing Reality in America’s Largest Churches: Megachurch Research Report.” Specialty studies include Canadian megachurches, internships/residencies in large churches, multisite megachurches, and salaries in megachurches. He also co-authored a scholarly chapter on the global megachurch phenomenon. He has contributed articles to Review of Religious Research and to the academic journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Books
<mask> has authored or co-authored 33 books (listed below). <mask> received the prestigious Gold Medallion Award, the top honor given by the international trade association for Christian publishers, for Emotionally Healthy Church (2004).Teams that Thrive was named Leadership Resource of the Year by Outreach magazine in 2019.Translations of his books include Burmese, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Korean, Portuguese,[31] Russian,  Spanish, and Indonesian. Books are listed in order of publication newest to oldest:

 Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work, expanded and updated edition, Jim Tomberlin and <mask>, foreword by Craig Groeschel ()
 Next: Pastoral Succession that Works, expanded and updated edition. William Vanderbloemen and <mask>, foreword by John Ortberg ()

 Liquid Church: 6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ, Tim Lucas and <mask> ()
 Hero Maker: Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders, Dave Ferguson and <mask> ()
 How To Break Growth Barriers: Revise Your Role, Release Your People and Capture Overlooked Opportunities For Your Church, Carl George and <mask> ()
 God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church’s Future, Will Mancini and <mask> ()
 Teams that Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership, Ryan Hartwig and <mask>, foreword by Dave Ferguson ()
 Next: Pastoral Succession that Works, William Vanderbloemen and <mask> ()

 Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller: The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership, Lyle Schaller and <mask> ()
 Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work. Jim Tomberlin and <mask> ()
 The Other 80%: Turning Your Church’s Spectators into Active Disciples, Scott Thumma and <mask> ()
 Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers, Ed Stetzer and <mask> ()
 Unleashing the Word: Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture, Max McLean and Warren Bird (
 A Multi-site Church Roadtrip: Exploring the New Normal, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird ()

 Innovative Transitions: How Change Can Take Your Church to the Next Level, Dale Galloway with Warren Bird ()
 Missing in America: Making an Eternal Difference in the World Next Door, Tom Clegg and Warren Bird ()
 Eleven Innovations in the Local Church: How Today’s Leaders Can Learn, Discern, and Move into the Future, Elmer Towns, Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird ()
 Innovation 2007: Connecting Innovators to Multiply. Available free. Leadership Network.

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<mask> (May 14, 1916 – September 27, 2000) was a Jewish Canadian boxer. A former Canadian Welterweight Champion and highly ranked in the Welterweight class during his career, <mask> was forced to retire from the sport due to an eye injury. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. Early career

Luftspring was born to Jewish parents of Polish descent and raised in St. John's Ward, a low class residential area of Toronto that was home to both Jewish and Italian immigrants. His father attempted to make a living as a bootlegger prior to prohibition, and the family struggled to raise six children under difficult circumstances. Luftspring began his boxing career in 1932 out of Brunswick Talmud Torah, a local Toronto Jewish community and recreational centre. Throughout his career, he wore a Magen David on his trunks.Over the next four years, he fought 105 times (attaining a record of 100–5) and captured Golden Gloves Tournaments in various weight classes ranging from bantamweight to welterweight. By 1933, he was the Ontario amateur lightweight champion and regarded as one of the best amateur boxing talents. In 1933, he was involved in the infamous Toronto Christie Pits riot. A wild street brawl first broke out at Christie Pits Park following tensions that occurred during a series of amateur softball games between two rival teams. The riot continued for six hours, and eventually attracted 10,000 locals, mostly spectators. The initial antagonists were a group of young Jewish and Italian men on a local team who started a fight when a Gang unfurled a Swastika, a symbol that had been displayed the previous day and on other occasions by the local Swastika Club, a group of Canadian Nazi sympathizers. 1936 Berlin Olympics boycott

Luftspring was named to Canada's Olympic team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.At the encouragement of his parents, he refused to attend the Games in protest over the poor treatment Jews were receiving in Nazi Germany. He made his views on the subject public in a letter to the Toronto Globe. In the letter, he protested that "the German government was treating its Jewish brothers and sisters worse than dogs". He even went as far as to say that "the German government would exterminate Jews if they had the opportunity". Luftspring and another boxer, Norman "Baby" Yack, attempted to participate in an alternate event being hosted that summer, the People's Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish Civil War broke out prior to the Games' opening ceremonies. The event caused the cancellation of the People's Olympics.By the time Luftspring found out about the cancellation, he had already reached Dieppe, France. Luftspring, disappointed at not having a chance to compete, returned to Toronto. Professional career

Luftspring began to box professionally in the fall of 1936. A year later, he fought Gordon Wallace for the Canadian welterweight championship. He lost to Wallace in a 10-round decision at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. He married his wife Elsie in 1938 at Toronto's McCaul Street synagogue. Canadian Welterweight Champion
In 1938, Luftspring knocked out Frank Genovese before a Toronto crowd of 10,000 in the 13th of 15 rounds to win the Canadian welterweight championship.Genovese was down at least three times in the final rounds for counts of 9. The fight was his first in Canada under the management of French-American Al Weill, who had managed the exceptional welterweight Lou Ambers. Genovese and Luftspring's rivalry was extremely competitive and one of the dominant story lines of Toronto boxing in the late 1930s. That same year, he was ranked as the third best welterweight boxer in the world. He was subsequently offered a chance to fight world champion Henry Armstrong in 1940. Luftspring lost to Greek American boxer Steve Makamos, a Middleweight contender, on February 14, 1940 in a ten round split decision in Toronto. Makamos led in the early fighting, and a late rally by Luftspring in the closing rounds was not enough to gain the decision.In a fight at New York's Bronx Colliseum on May 27, 1940, against Steve Belloise, <mask> received an eye injury in the fourth round from a looping right punch that unintentionally caught his left eye with the thumb of the glove. The medical diagnosis was a detached retina, an inoperable condition, that resulted in nearly complete loss of vision. The fight was intended to be a tune up for a potential championship bout against Armstrong. The injury forced <mask> to quit boxing and ended his contention for the world welterweight title. Details of his career record are unclear. Different reports have him winning 50 of either 55 or 56 pro bouts. More detailed records list him as 32–8 with 14 knockouts.Life after boxing

Luftspring struggled to establish himself immediately after boxing. He became a taxicab driver and then a representative for a liquor company. He began refereeing on occasion at the end of his boxing career, and within five years finally established himself as a respected Toronto referee who would eventually oversee 2000 bouts. Some of the prominent and memorable fights he refereed between 1941-84 include:

 September 15, 1958 – The Canadian heavyweight title match between George Chuvalo and James J. Parker at Maple Leaf Gardens. October 1, 1965 – The WBA heavyweight title match between George Chuvalo and Ernie Terrell at Maple Leaf Gardens. January 27, 1970 – A bout between Humberto Trottman and Clyde Gray at Royal York Hotel in which an upset Trottman, thinking Luftspring was interfering with his style, took a swing at him. Luftspring responded with a bare-knuckle left hook off the side of Trottman's head, forcing Trottman's manager to race into the ring and intervene.Nearing the end of his prolific refereeing career around 1981, he began work as a boxing judge though 1991, judging nearly 100 bouts. Luftspring, along with three partners, Harry Eckler of the baseball hall of fame, Joe Krol of the football hall of fame and their friend Lou Cadsby, opened the Mercury Club in 1948, a dining establishment on Dundas Street, near Bay Street, in Toronto. It was a successful club, which featured popular performers such as Henny Youngman, Vic Damone and Tony Bennett. Luftspring helped to host and operate the club, which had its peak years in the 1950s and 1960s, while simultaneously working as a referee. He subsequently ran other nightclubs such as the Tropicana. After a lengthy illness, Luftspring died at Toronto East General hospital on September 27, 2000. He was buried at the Interment Slipia Synagogue Section of Dawes Road Cemetery in Toronto.Welter Title
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See also
List of select Jewish boxers

Autobiography

 Call Me <mask> – <mask>pring with Brian Swarbrick, Prentice-Hall Canada Ltd., 1975—

References

External links

 BoxRec Referee Profile
 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame Profile
 <mask>pring's Obituary: Canadian Jewish News

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2000 deaths
Jewish Canadian sportspeople
Jewish boxers
Boxers from Toronto
Canadian male boxers
Welterweight boxers

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<mask> (born 2 October 1952) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a cult audience through extensive touring. Biography

1970s and 80s
<mask> was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mountain" was released in 1972, <mask> initially received some coverage on the back of punk rock and a performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test. His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977. It would be his greatest success for some time. The song earned him a five-album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by Pete Townshend but sold only fitfully.The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for <mask> to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, "Frightened and Scared", if their copy was one of only three copies from which the vocal had been omitted. <mask>'s and Barrett's only other UK chart success came in July 1980 with "DK 50/80", a modest No. 45 hit. When <mask> turned solo, his audience remained loyal despite poor record sales. In the mid 1980s, he often appeared on Vivian and Ki Longfellow-Stanshall's showboat, the Old Profanity Showboat, in Bristol's Floating Harbour. He also appeared as the musical guest in the final episode of the British sitcom The Young Ones, "Summer Holiday". 1990s and 2000s

His 1990 autobiography, Cor Baby, That's Really Me (subtitled Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure) was a study in self-deprecation, and his touring continued to sustain him.In the 1990s, he toured as "Headbutts and Halibuts", with Attila the Stockbroker with whom he wrote a surreal rock opera called Cheryl. In 1992 <mask> appeared at GuilFest. In 1993 he was able to draw 2,500 fans to a gig in London and, in 1998, 4,000 celebrated his birthday with him at the Royal Albert Hall, coinciding with the release of Premature Adulation, his first album of new material for over ten years. By then, <mask> had realised he could use his fanbase, who were in on the joke, to engage in minor publicity stunts. A grassroots campaign saw his "Beware of the Flowers Cause I'm Sure They're Going to Get You Yeah" voted the seventh greatest lyric of all time in a BBC poll. In 2002, when asked what he wanted for his 50th birthday, he requested "a second hit". A concerted drive, including a poll (scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society) to select the track, saw "Bunsen Burner" — with music sampled from the Trammps song "Disco Inferno" and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework – reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned <mask> an appearance on Top of the Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.To encourage fans to buy more than one copy each of the single, he released three different versions. The flip-side of "Bunsen Burner – The Hit Mix" was a cover of "The House of the Rising Sun" recorded at Abbey Road Studios and featuring 900 of his fans on backing vocals, each of whom was credited by name on the single's sleeve. Thanks to this second hit he has now been able to release his Greatest Hits album. Commenting on the fact that the title of this album is now in the plural, <mask> said that he was very proud of it, having "finally got it (the 's') on the right side of Hit". Buoyed by the success of the hit campaign, <mask> planned an ambitious world tour in October 2006. He proposed hiring his own jet to take his band, and 300 of his fans, to some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall and Sydney Opera House. Despite over 150 fans signing up, the tour was cancelled as the costs of the plane spiralled.2010s

<mask> is still touring in various formats. In 2009, he was re-united with Wild Willy Barrett for a UK tour, the duo now perform together regularly and even recorded a new album in 2011 called 40-Odd Years of <mask> and Barrett consisting of re-workings of old songs and a new, previously unrecorded song "The Snowflake Effect". <mask> also tours as a solo act, as a duo with Richard Holgarth and often with his Big Band which includes Murray Torkildsen (guitar and stylophone), Seymour Fluids (bass), Adam Batterbee (drums) and guest keyboard player Barry Upton. In October 2012, to celebrate his 60th birthday, <mask> booked the Odeon Leicester Square to show the documentary of his life. Titled Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie, the screening saw cinematic history made with the final scenes of the movie being filmed from the red carpet on the morning of the film. The film was funded by fans becoming producers who, as with the Hit campaign, were all individually credited in the movie credits. Following the success of the producers' premiere, 2013 saw <mask> take the completed movie to the Cannes Film Festival.Ever resourceful and still with an eye for a publicity stunt, <mask> and 100 of his fans (who donned Otway masks and dressed up in Otway's traditional black jeans and white shirt) travelled down the Promenade de la Croisette to the red carpet. The film also had its theatrical release at Glastonbury Festival in June 2013, before going on a national cinema tour in the summer. He delivers occasional (humorous) lectures on the theme, "Making Success Out of Failure", and the sequel to his autobiography, I Did It Otway (subtitled Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure) was published in May 2010. The book was designed by <mask> who has also designed Otway's album sleeves over the past 15 years. At Christmas 2014, <mask> attempted to crack the Christmas market with the EP A John Otway Christma5, the lead track "OK Father Christmas" basing a new lyric on top of the earlier single "DK 50/80". During 2016, <mask> set up an online Kickstarter campaign for 'A New Album of Otway Songs'. The campaign was successful, raising £38,916 from a total of 838 individual backers.The resulting album and DVD, Montserrat, was recorded at Olveston House, Montserrat, in September 2016 and released in March 2017, to those who had supported the Kickstarter campaign, followed by general release on 1 May 2017. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> started a series of Facebook live concerts on 28 March 2020. These receive around 10 thousand views per stream. He performed nine such between March and May 2020. Discography

Bibliography

See also
 List of performers on Top of the Pops

References

External links
 Otway's official website

1952 births
Living people
People from Aylesbury
English male singer-songwriters
Protopunk musicians
Outsider musicians

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<mask> (July 5, 1923 – August 12, 1975) was an internationally renowned architect based in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto School of Architecture in 1946. He designed hundreds of unique homes, stores, offices, and public buildings, and many of his designs from the 1950s and 1960s are still strikingly modern today. His working career spanned three decades, in which time he was also a popular member of Chatham city council. His dedication to his community made the profession of architecture synonymous with that of civic leadership and public service. Storey died suddenly on his way to work in 1975 at the age of 52. The Joseph Storey Architectural Conservancy celebrates his many contributions to his home town every summer with a walking tour of homes he designed.Building a career
After graduation from university, <mask> worked for one year in Toronto in the office of John Land Architect. After winning $750 in a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation competition, he returned to his hometown of Chatham, and at the age of twenty-four he established the practice of <mask>. <mask>, Architect in the fall of 1947. The reputation of the office was quickly established by Storey’s skilled translation of the functional clarity, simplicity, and elegant forms of modernism to the urban form of the then small town of Chatham. As Chatham doubled in size over the next twenty-five years, many of its new buildings found their origins in the office of <mask>. Landmark buildings of Chatham such as the Ursuline Convent, Ursuline Motherhouse Chapel and Ursuline College (1958–1962) the head office of Union Gas (1965, major addition in 1973), the Kent County Courthouse (1949), the Chatham YMCA (1962,) Kent County Municipal Building (1967), the Federal Post Office Building (1955), and the Chatham Civic Centre (1975) came from a close-knit dedicated core of talented people brought together by Storey. Bob Tyndall, Wally Stewart and Roger Duchene worked with <mask>'s firm from the early 1950s until Storey’s untimely passing in 1975. This team was joined by many other talented people through 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, such as architects and OAA members Douglas Hanley, Robert Steele, and James H. Jorden.<mask> brought a level of design and technical excellence that was consistent not only to landmark buildings, but also to elementary and secondary schools, churches, band shells, senior citizen residences, industrial buildings, and to Storey’s favourite challenge, the single family home. Scores of modest ingeniously-planned and executed residences dot the neighbourhoods of Chatham. Examples of his work can also be found in Windsor (The Energy Conversion Plant, University of Windsor), London (Brescia University College), Sarnia (YMCA) and in many other small towns in southwestern Ontario. Although Storey practised architecture out of the spotlight of Toronto, his work was innovative and progressive. His design for the Federal Post Office building (1955) featured the first use of curtain wall in Ontario. One of Storey’s more interesting unbuilt projects of his career is his design for the conversion of four abandoned sugar beet silos on industrial lands into apartments. This idea and the search for investors carried over a number of years.The value of recycling our industrial heritage is well known today, but the silos were unfortunately destroyed after Storey’s death. Ursuline College Chapel

The Ursuline Convent project began when Storey was thirty-two years old. It encompassed the designs for a major chapel, motherhouse, elementary and high school classrooms, and nursery school. Storey established a model here of translating the language of modernism to the traditional public and urban landscape of the small town. The architecture of the convent, known as The Pines integrated major works of art into the siting, the building, and their expressions. Storey maintained an excellent working relationship with the sisters of the Ursuline convent who were encouraging and adventurous clients, and subsequently recommended him highly to become the architect for a similar project for the Ursuline Religious Order in Lima, Peru. This project was prominently featured in both in the RAIC Journal and Progressive Architecture Magazine.The new buildings of the Pines in Chatham were sensitively sited with the nineteenth-century convent structures by making a series of connecting cloisters formed by both buildings and graceful covered walkways. This project has recently been identified by the Ontario branch of the international group for the Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement, to be included on a list of twenty-five examples of significant modern architecture in Ontario. Civic contribution
In addition to the very full schedule of his professional life, Storey was an active member of the local Rotary Club, and also served as member of the Chatham City Council in the years 1956, 1957 and 1958. During that tenure, he brought the Planning Act to Chatham and instituted the first Chatham Area Planning Board. Storey also served on the Ontario Association of Architects Council representing the St. Clair Region of several years. In the latter years of his practice, he turned his artistic talents to photography, and pioneered innovative photographic techniques in presentation and design stages of his work that is commonplace today. Death and descendants
<mask> died suddenly on his way in to work from his summer cottage in Rondeau Provincial Park in 1975 at the age of 52.His career, although filled with uncountable achievements, was only in its middle stage, and the most mature years of his work were yet to come. The sudden loss of his professional skills and civic leadership was felt keenly. <mask> was married to Marjorie Sunnen <mask> of Chatham (d. 2004) and is survived by his sons <mask>, principal of the planning firm of Storey Samways Planning Ltd., of Chatham, and <mask>, an environmental engineer in Vancouver, B.C., and daughters <mask> DuChene, a magazine editor and writer in the Kingston area, and architect <mask>, a partner in Brown and Storey Architects (Toronto) since 1981. References

External links
<mask> at The Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada (1800 - 1950)

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1975 deaths
People from Windsor, Ontario
20th-century Canadian architects

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<mask> (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. <mask> received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to poetry. His subject matter ranges from the black experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights era and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Life and career
According to public records, Komunyakaa was born in 1947 and given the name James William Brown. (His former wife said in her memoir that he was born in 1941.)He was the eldest of five children of James William Brown, a carpenter, and his wife. He grew up in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana. As an adult, he reclaimed the name Komunyakaa, said to be his grandfather's African name. He  said that his grandfather had reached the United States as a stowaway in a ship from Trinidad. Brown served in the US Army, serving one tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. According to his former wife, Mandy Sayer, he was discharged on 14 December 1966. He worked as a specialist for the military paper, Southern Cross, covering actions and stories, interviewing fellow soldiers, and publishing articles on Vietnamese history, which earned him a Bronze Star.After his service, he attended college at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he was an editor for the campus arts and literature publication, riverrun, to which he also contributed. He began to write poetry in 1973 and took the name <mask> Komunyakaa. He earned his M.A. in Writing from Colorado State University in 1978, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine, in 1980. After receiving his M.F.A., Komunyakaa began teaching poetry in the New Orleans public school system and creative writing at the University of New Orleans. Komunyakaa taught at Indiana University until the fall of 1997, when he became an English professor at Princeton University.<mask> <mask> is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Poetry
 <mask>'s collection Copacetic fuses jazz rhythms and syncopation with hip colloquialism and the unique, arresting poetic imagery that has since become his trademark. It also outlines an abiding desire in his work to articulate cultural truths that remain unspoken in daily discourse, in the hope that they will bring a sort of redemption: "How can love heal / the mouth shut this way... / Say something that resuscitates / us, behind the masks." Komunyakaa's I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, published in 1986, won the San Francisco Poetry Prize. More attention came with the publication of Dien Cai Dau (Vietnamese for "crazy in the head"), published in 1988, which focused on his experiences in Vietnam and won the Dark Room Poetry Prize. Included was the poem "Facing It", in which the speaker of the poems visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.:

He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman's trying to erase names
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.— from "Facing It"

Komunyakaa many other published collections of poetry, include Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part I (2004), Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 1975–1999 (2001), Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000), Thieves of Paradise (1998), Neon Vernacular (1994), and Magic City (1992). In 2004, Komunyakaa began a collaboration with dramaturge and theater producer Chad Gracia on a dramatic adaptation of The Epic of Gilgamesh. The play was published in October 2006 by Wesleyan University Press. In spring 2008, New York's 92nd Street Y staged a one-night performance by director Robert Scanlon. In May 2013 it received a full production by the Constellation Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.

Komunyakaa's work has influenced many later American poets. He views his own work as an indirectness, an "insinuation":
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question.Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault. Marriage and family
Komunyakaa married Australian novelist Mandy Sayer in 1985. That year, he was hired as an associate professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. He also held the Ruth Lilly Professorship for two years from 1989 to 1990. He and Sayer were married for ten years. He later had a relationship with India-born poet Reetika Vazirani, and they had a son Jehan together. Vazirani killed the two-year-old boy and committed suicide in 2003.Interviews
Over the years, <mask> has taken part in many interviews on his life and works. In a 2018 interview titled "The Complexity of Being Human," Komunyakaa addresses the careful use of language and influences of some of his most famous works such as "Facing It." He compares his work to that of a painter or carpenter. He states that poetry is vastly different from journalism in that his work is more violent, much like nature. In his interview "The Singing Underneath," Komunyakaa describes the biblical influences in his work. He recalls reading the Bible in his youth and discovering what he believed to be underlying poetic elements. Komunyakaa also pays his respects to early influences such as Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Phillis Wheatley.In a 2010 interview by Tufts Observer, Komunyakaa when asked to list the individuals who most influenced him, he names Robert Hayden, Bishop, Pablo Neruda, and Walt Whitman. Below are a few of his most popular interviews:

 Interview: Paul Muldoon & <mask> Komunyakaa
 An Interview with <mask> Komunyakaa
 Still Negotiating with the Images: An Interview with <mask> Komunyakaa
 <mask> Komunyakaa: The Willow Springs Interview
 A Conversation Between <mask> Komunyakaa and Alan Fox, November 28, 1997

Bibliography

Poetry
Collections and selected poems

Below is a chronological table of Komunyakaa's poetry collections, as well as selected works published in each collection

Anthologies

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, University of Georgia Press, 2018. Essays
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries, edited by Radiclani Clytus (University of Michigan Press, 2017, ). Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries, edited by Radiclani Clytus (Michigan, 2000, ). Notes

References

External links

  The Chameleon Couch by <mask> Komunyakaa (2011)
 Profile and poems of <mask> Komunyakaa, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation. Biography at ibiblio
 Views on Poetry
 Biography
 Profile and poems at Poets.org
 Video of <mask>'s reading, 3/09/09, at the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, CA, as featured on Poetry.LA
 Yusef Komunyakaa Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/yusef-komunyakaa

1941 births
Living people
American male poets
Colorado State University alumni
People from Bogalusa, Louisiana
Poets from Louisiana
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
The New Yorker people
University of Colorado Colorado Springs alumni
University of New Orleans faculty
Writers of American Southern literature
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War

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