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<mask> (20 July 1913 – 11 October 1940), known as <mask> or <mask>, was an English cabaret dancer notable for being a favourite of Ibrahim, Sultan of Johor and for being briefly engaged to him. A new Art Deco house, Mayfair Court, was funded for her in Herne Bay, Kent, by the Sultan. She was killed during World War II in her native Canterbury at the age of 27 in a German airstrike. There is an elaborate, marble monument on her grave in Herne Bay cemetery, Eddington, paid for by the Sultan. Ancestry and early life

Grandparents and parents

Cissie's paternal grandfather was <mask>, a 'gentleman', possibly of Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Her maternal grandfather was George Henry Benge, a dairyman born around 1862 in Hastings, Sussex, and retired by 1910. Her maternal grandmother was <mask>. Benge born around 1866 in Aston Clinton; Cissie's grandparents married in the second quarter of 1886 in Blean.In 1901 the Benge grandparents were living at 32 Radigund Street (now St Radigund Street) in Canterbury Northgate. Living with them were their four sons, their daughter <mask> born in Canterbury in the first quarter of 1889, and George's married sister. Cissie's mother was <mask> <mask> nee Benge, married at the age of 21 on 20 December 1910 at St Gregory's Church, Canterbury. Cissie's father was <mask>, R.N., born 11 December 1882 in Portsea: a leading seaman in 1910; a petty officer in 1913; made lieutenant commander in 1915; retired in 1932. He was called up from the Retired List in 1935 and served until 1946. In 1911 Florence was twenty-two and living at 2 Kitchener Terrace, Sturry Road, Canterbury; her husband was absent, presumably on tour. Cissie had an elder sister Etta Florence V. <mask>, born 13 January 1912.<mask>

Cissie was born at 2 Kitchener Terrace in Canterbury on 20 July 1913. Her family moved to Herne Bay by 1917 and lived at 4 Kingsbury Villas in Kings Road, Herne Bay, until 1927. She attended Kings Road School which has now been replaced by Herne Bay Junior School. She was crowned May Queen at the school around 1923–1924. She would have left school in the summer of 1927, 14 years being the national school leaving age at the time. Between 1927 and 1934 the family lived at Hyacinth, Queensbridge Drive, Herne Bay. She trained as a dancer and joined the Grosvenor House cabaret, but has also been described as a minor actress, with platinum hair and blue eyes.She was known as Cecily or Cissie. The Herne Bay Press said: "She had a talent for dancing, and linked with it was a charming personality, so that for some years she enjoyed much popularity locally, appearing in dancing displays at the old Pier Theatre and elsewhere. Her attractiveness won her success as a dancer in London, where she appeared for several seasons in the West End." Cissie and the Sultan

Courtship

On 25 June 1934, it was announced in the Court Circular that Ibrahim, Sultan of Johor had arrived at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane at the West End of London, during part of his world tour that year. He left for continental Europe, but returned to the Grosvenor House Hotel on 6 September. Cissie was appearing as a dancer in the floor show at the same hotel, and first met him there. She became his favourite, and the Sultan was "fabulously wealthy": in 1935 he gave £500,000 to the British Government for the defence of Singapore, and in 1940 he gave £250,000 towards the cost of World War II.He was also a six-foot-six-inch-tall playboy, whose playgrounds included Sumatra and London, and the relationship with Cissie continued. The Sultan funded a new home for Cissie in Herne Bay in 1934 or 1935, and by 1935 she was living in the newly built Mayfair Court. She is recorded as living there in 1935; also in 1936 when her father, <mask>, retired and came to live with her and her mother. On 20 July 1936, Cissie and her mother <mask> <mask> arrived at Southampton from Colombo on the ship Sibajak. According to local historian Harold Gough, she and the Sultan travelled frequently to Johor and Europe in the 1930s. Sometime in 1937, robbers broke into Mayfair Court and stole £5,000-worth of jewellery from Cissie's bedroom; this brought the affair with the Sultan into the public eye. Descriptions of the stolen items were published, and it was disclosed that two of them were inscribed, "With all my love, S.I."S.I. was Sultan Ibrahim, but Cissie's personal life had been private, and local rumour had invented an Indian maharajah to account for the <mask> family's rise in fortune and for the building of Mayfair Court by a resting dancer in 1934. The publicity embarrassed the family, and Cissie's mother <mask> told a Press reporter that "<mask>" had gone into hiding under medical care due to shock at public attitudes, and that they knew no maharajah. It is not known whether the pressure of this publicity incited the Sultan to announce an engagement in May, 1938. Engagement and denial

On 12 May 1937 the Sultan attended the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London, and is said to have renewed the relationship with Cissie then, divorced his Scottish wife Helen née Wilson in March 1938, and sailed home in the same month to Singapore and Johor with his new companion and her mother. As they left England it was observed that Cissie was wearing a large diamond engagement ring. By May 1938 the young girl from Kent was back in Colombo where there were rumours of an announcement of an engagement before 9 September 1938 between the "platinum blonde" and "former glamour girl" Cissie and the 64-year-old divorcee Sultan, but on reaching Singapore the Sultan promptly denied any engagement.The Melbourne Argus quoted from the Daily Express that:

"After the Sultan had divorced his wife recently he went to Ceylon and renewed his acquaintance there with Miss <mask>, who was spending a holiday there with her mother. Later the Sultan, Miss <mask> and her mother toured Sumatra. Yesterday they went to Singapore by air, presumably on their way to Johore." The public denial of the engagement may have been associated with political pressure from the British colonial staff at Singapore:

"A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss <mask> was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand" ". . .When Singapore's British society behaved stuffily toward his show-girl fiancee, the Sultan struck back by firing all the Britons in his service and planting shrubs on the fairways and greens of the golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property." The British Colonial staff sent reports to England that the issue of marrying <mask> and a quarrel with the Governor of Straits Settlements had become problematic, and Cissie <mask> (wearing a large diamond ring) and her mother were given first class passage on the ship Indrapoera at Singapore to arrive at Southampton dock on 26 July 1938. The Sultan stood publicly on the dock to wave goodbye, before returning to his playboy life in Sumatra. The Press statement by the Sultan was telegraphed as follows:

"I have never suggested marrying <mask> (stop) Any suggestion of political implications is a lie (stop) Any suggestion of my not faithfully carrying out all agreements with the British Government is also a lie (stop)"

By way of explanation for this, on 19 September 1938 a statement was given to the Daily Express by Roland St John Braddell (1880–1966), then legal adviser in Malaya. He said: "As far as I am concerned, I should love to see the Sultan of Johore married to this most charming lady, Miss <mask>." He added that the Sultan could not marry at present because there was no mosque in Genoa where he was staying, because he could do nothing without the permission of the British Government, and because the Sultan was ill: "He nearly died recently in Johore", having "become ill with heart trouble and gout". The lawyer had been instructed to take his wife and daughter and accompany Cissie to Genoa, because she kept the Sultan "cheered and tranquil".She had performed an African dance for the Sultan, and accompanied him on a two-hour drive along the coast. Although the Sultan had previously announced an engagement in Malaya, the lawyer now said that he would inform the Press if and when any marriage were to occur. Such an engagement was not unique in east Kent in the 1930s. George Henry Milles-Lade, 4th Earl Sondes who lived at Sheldwich, married Pamela McDougall on 17 October 1939; she was understood to have been previously a Bluebell Girl. The relationship continued, and in 1939 the Sultan was visiting Switzerland for his health, accompanied by Cissie and her mother Florence. Cissie lived at Mayfair Court with her parents and sister, E.F.V. Allchin; she never married and was otherwise known as Cissie or Cecily <mask>.However she was seen to wear her engagement ring in Herne Bay, and she was known to have nursed the Sultan through a critical illness. The Herne Bay Press said that there were "few people in Herne Bay to whom she was not known, at least by sight, and she had many friends . . . Good natured, she gave support to charitable objects and other causes, and she was the means of bringing happiness to people in straitened circumstances." Death

On 11 October 1940, several Messerschmitts were being chased over Kent in daylight by British fighter planes. The Messerschmitts dropped three bombs on six shops in Burgate, close to Canterbury Cathedral. At least six people were killed and more were injured; it took two days to dig out the dead from the debris. A furrier's received a direct hit, and Cissie was killed instantly while shopping for a fur rug as a wedding or birthday gift.She was identified by her jewellery, said to be a gift from the Sultan. Apparently she and her friend Peggy Clark had left Herne Bay at 10.15 am to motor into Canterbury. They had been shopping at Courts, then the friend went to Lefevre's shop and Cissie went to the fur shop where she died. She was 27 years old, and the cause was given on her death certificate as "due to War operations". The probate record says she was a spinster living at Mayfair Court, Herne Bay, that she left £16,970 0s 3d and that administration was given to her mother F.C<mask>, wife of <mask>. Her death was announced in The Times.The funeral took place on Wednesday 16 October 1940 at St John's Church in Brunswick Square, Herne Bay, Kent. The Reverend A.W. Parry Williams officiated in the church and at the committal by the graveside; there was a surpliced choir at the church service, and the organ played I know that my Redeemer liveth from Handel's Messiah as the coffin was borne into the church. There were many mourners including the Sultan at the church and cemetery, and a large number of floral tributes. The Sultan's wreath was "laid in the grave with the coffin". The interment was at Herne Bay Cemetery at Eddington. In plot BBR46 at the eastern edge of the cemetery is an elaborate, marble monument to her; it is blue and white like her house.It was paid for by the Sultan and adorned with a standing Saxon-style cross, a marble floor with an engraved poem and an iron fence. The inscription says: "In loving memory of <mask> <mask>; born 20th July 1913; died 11th October 1940. This monument has been erected by a devoted friend. Somewhere back of the sunset / Where loveliness never dies / She dwells in the land of glory/ 'Neath the blue and gold of the skies / And we who have lived with and loved her / Whose passing has caused us tears / Will cherish her memory for ever / Down through the passing years." Sultan Ibrahim owned her grave until his death at the Grosvenor House Hotel in May 1959. Her death is recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the certificate is inscribed, "remembered with honour". Aftermath
Cissie was the Sultan's favourite until she died, and he said he was heartbroken.Then, six days later he met a Romanian girl Marcella Mendl aged 25 who was selling Red Cross flags in London, and it was "love at first sight". He courted her for twelve days and during this time he was visiting Cissie's parents to give his condolences – and perhaps to retrieve some jewellery that he had given to Cissie. On 6 November 1940, less than a month after Cissie's death, the Sultan married Miss Mendl at Caxton Hall register office in London; the bride was wearing "a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws". Cissie's parents said that it had come as a great shock to them. By 10 November 1940, the Sultan was telling the Sunday Pictorial: "I prefer to forget the past. It is for the future I want to live." Mayfair Court

This reinforced concrete Art Deco house has always been painted blue and white; the colour even features on the 1937 plan for an extension.It stands at number two Clifftown Gardens at Westcliff in Herne Bay and was started in 1934 and completed in 1935. Council archives have been lost and the architect is not known. A firm called John Howell & Son was contracted for the extension, greenhouse and air-raid shelter during the 1930s, but it was not John Howell & Son of Hastings; the last partner of that company died in 1903. Although it was funded by the Sultan, Cissie was the executive owner of Mayfair Court and the adjoining two Art Deco houses at 139 and 141 Grand Drive from the beginning. She bought a number of 15-foot-wide plots in Clifftown Gardens and Grand Drive, and built Mayfair Court first. In spite of the cancellation of the engagement in 1938, the Sultan continued to fund Mayfair Court and the associated servants' quarters for her. It has also been suggested that the Sultan (via Cissie) did not build the associated two houses for servants, but built them to claim the land and to prevent unsightly building by neighbours next door.Cissie lived in Mayfair Court with her mother Florence from 1935 until her death in 1940, and from 1935 to 1937 her father <mask> lived there too. In 1937 she applied to build steps and a bedroom to a design by John Howell & Son over the garage at the south end of Mayfair Court. It was approved by the Council in September and completed by November 1937. In 1938 she applied to have a small greenhouse designed by the same architect; it was completed by 10 February 1939. At that time, Mayfair Court stood on an L-shaped plot of land; part of it is now built on. The greenhouse stood on the south-western corner, now occupied by garages. On 22 May 1939 the same architect was employed again to submit an application to build a concrete tube air raid shelter, possibly similar to the Stanton shelter.This was built at the bottom of the garden, parallel with Hampton Pier Avenue. The World War II usage of the house is not known, but from 1945 it was occupied by Cissie's mother Florence until her death in 1973. For some of that time, for example in 1959 and 1969, her father <mask> lived there too. The house was unoccupied in 1974 after Florence's death. Cissie's sister and her husband lived at Mayfair Court in 1945, but moved to one of the associated houses in the 1950s (no.141) and to the other in the 1960s (no.139) until the sister left shortly after her husband's death in 1967; she died in 2005. The survival of Mayfair Court as an architectural asset to its surroundings, and views thereof, has been fragile. In 1984 there were two applications to develop its land with the building of two or three more properties, but both were refused by Canterbury City Council.References

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<mask> (; 28 November 1822 – 7 November 1885) was a Russian Empire naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian and ideologue of Pan-Slavism and the Slavophile movement. He expounded a circular view of world history. He is remembered also for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and for his theory of historical-cultural types. <mask> was born in the village of Oberets in Oryol Governorate. As a member of a noble family, he was educated at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. After graduation, he went on to an appointment with the Military Ministry Office. Dissatisfied with the prospect of a military career, he began to attend the University of St Petersburg, where he studied physics and mathematics.Having passed his master's exams, Danilevsky prepared to defend his thesis on the flora of the Black Sea area of European Russia but in 1849 he was arrested there for his membership in the Petrashevsky Circle, which studied the work of French socialists and included Fyodor Dostoevsky. Its most active members were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. <mask> was imprisoned for 100 days in the Peter and Paul Fortress and then was sent to live under police surveillance in Vologda, where he worked in provincial administration. In 1852, he was appointed to an expedition, led by Karl Ernst von Baer, to assess the condition of the fishing industry on the Volga and the Caspian Sea. The expedition lasted four years, and <mask> was then reassigned to the Agricultural Department of the State Property Ministry. For over 20 years, he was responsible for expeditions to the White Sea, the Black Sea, the Azov Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Arctic Ocean. The expertise that he gained from the expeditions led to the publication of his 1872 book, Examination of Fishery Conditions in Russia.Aside from his work on fisheries and the seal trade, he was the head of the commission setting the rules for the use of running water in Crimea from 1872 to 1879. He ran the Nikitsky Botanical Gardens from 1879 to 1880, and he was part of a commission appointed to deal with the phylloxera epidemic in the 1880s. His papers on Russian climatology, geology, geography, and ethnology earned him a gold medal from the Russian Geographical Society. Danilevsky died in Tbilisi, Tiflis Governorate, and was buried at his estate, in Mshanka. Work

Natural theology and rejection of Darwinism
Danilevsky's Darwinism: Critical research, which brings together more than 1200 pages of arguments against Darwin's theory, mostly assembled from the literature that already existed at the time, was published in 1885. It was meant to be the first volume of a longer work, the second volume containing Danilevsky's own theories, which he characterised as "natural theology", but it was unfinished at his death. When it was published posthumously, it contained only preliminary studies.<mask> had been influenced by the work of von Baer, who had developed his own teleological theory of evolution and gone on to criticise Darwin's work in the 1870s. <mask> took from von Baer's theory the notion of Zielstrebigkeit. The German word means "singleness of purpose" but Danilevsky imbued it with a religious aspect and argued that evolution, as well as the original creation of the world, has a rational purpose and follows the will of a divine creator. Theory of historical-cultural types
Danilevsky first published Russia and Europe: A Look at the Cultural and Political Relations of the Slavic World to the Romano-German World in the journal Zarya in 1869. Later republished as a monograph, it brought him international fame. He pioneered the use of biological and morphological metaphors in the comparison of cultures. Danilevsky compared cultures and nations to biological species, denied their commonality and argued that each nation or civilisation is united by its language and culture, which it cannot pass on to any other nation.He thus characterised Peter the Great's reforms in Russia as doomed to failure, as they had attempted to impose alien values on the Slavic world. Danilevsky distinguished four categories of historical-cultural activity:

 religious
 political
 sociopolitical
 cultural

They gave rise to ten historical-cultural types:

 Chaldean
 Hebrew
 Arab
 Indian
 Persian
 Greek
 Roman or ancient Italian
 Germanic
 Hamitic or Egyptian
 Chinese

Danilevsky applied his teleological theory of evolution by stating that each type went through various predetermined stages of youth, adulthood, and old age, the last being the end of that type. He characterised the Slavic type as being at the youth stage, and he developed a socio-political plan for its development, involving unification of the Slavic world, with its future capital at Constantinople (now Istanbul), ruled by an Orthodox emperor. While other cultures would degenerate in their blind struggle for existence, the Slavic world should be viewed as a Messiah among them. Danilevsky, however, believed that there is no genuine or absolute progress, as history is circular. Aspects of <mask>'s book prefigured some of the theories in Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West. Arnold J. Toynbee mentions them in A Study of History.The Danilevsky hypothesis became the subject of much controversy and polarised its readers. On one hand, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy praised it, but on the other hand, Occidentalists, such as Nikolai Kareev, Pavel Milyukov (1859-1943) and Nikolai Mikhailovsky (1842-1904), strongly opposed it. See also
List of Russian historians
Social cycle theory

Sources
Eduard I. Kolcjinsky, "Nikolaj Jakovlevich Danilevsky", in Encyclopedia of Anthropology ed. H. James Birx (2006, SAGE Publications; )
 Danilevsky Nikolai Yakovlevich. 1885-1889 Darwinism. A Critical Study (Дарвинизм. Критическое исследование) at Runivers.ru in DjVu format
 Danilevsky Nikolai Yakovlevich.1895 Russia and Europe. A look at the cultural and political relations of the Slavic world to the German-Roman (Россия и Европа. Взгляд на культурные и политические отношения Славянского мира к Германо-Романскому)
 Danilevsky Nikolai Yakovlevich. 1890 Collection of political and economic articles (Сборник политических и экономических статей)

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Jean-<mask> (known by the stage name Ismaël) (28 April 1825 – 13 June 1893) was a French opera singer. During a stage career spanning 40 years, he created many leading baritone roles, including Zurga in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and Ourrias in Gounod's Mireille. Born in Le Passage d'Agen near the town of Agen, he was largely self-taught and made his stage debut in 1841 at the age of 16. After singing in several provincial theatres, he was engaged by the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris and later by the Opéra-Comique. Following his retirement from the stage, Ismaël lived in Marseille where he died at the age of 68. Biography

Early life and career
Ismaël was born Jean-<mask>, the son of an illiterate tailor in Le Passage near the town of Agen. He showed an early interest in singing and as a teenager developed a beautiful baritone voice.However, his family were too poor to afford any kind of music lessons for him, and at the age of sixteen he left home to earn a living as a street singer, working his way on foot to Bordeaux and then Nantes. At Nantes, he was taken on as a chorister at the opera house during the  1842-1843 season and before his 17th birthday achieved local success when he stepped in at the last minute to sing the role of Max in a production of Adam's Le chalet. He then set off for Paris hoping to further his training as a singer, but he was virtually illiterate and was refused admittance to the Paris Conservatoire. Instead, he taught himself to read and write and took a few singing lessons, although it is not clear who the teacher was. He worked largely on his own to learn the music of the major baritone roles of his day and managed to secure a position singing baritone and bass roles in a small opera house at Verviers in Belgium. He soon returned to France and after performing in several small provincial theatres as well as the Opéra de Marseille, where he appeared each season between 1854 and 1860, he was engaged on a permanent contract by the Opéra de Rouen. He appeared there with great success in a series of leading roles between 1862 and 1863 and came to the attention of the impresario Léon Carvalho.On the Paris stage

In 1862, Ismaël was engaged by Carvalho for his Théâtre Lyrique company in Paris. Ismaël's time with the company marked the peak of his career. His debut on 30 September 1863 was as Zurga in the premiere of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles. This was followed by appearances beginning on 24 December in the title role of Verdi's  Rigoletto, a new production which was highly successful and established Ismaël as one of the leading singers in the French capital. He also created the role of Ourrias in Gounod's Mireille and sang the title role in  Verdi's Macbeth for the premiere of its revised version on 21 April 1865. Other roles included the title role in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Falstaff in Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Sganarelle in Gounod's Le médecin malgré lui (1866). Ismaël stayed with the Théâtre Lyrique until Carvalho went bankrupt in 1868.He then sang at the Opéra de Marseille before returning to Paris in 1871 to join the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart, where he sang in the premieres of several more operas and operettas including Offenbach's Fantasio and Delibes' Le roi l'a dit as well as the company's first performances of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (as Frère Laurent) and Le médecin malgré lui (as Sganarelle). Later career
In the mid-1870s, vocal problems attributed to laryngitis caused him to retire from the Opéra-Comique. He was appointed Professor of Lyric Declamation (Opera) at the Paris Conservatoire on 1 February 1874, but on 23 December 1876 he was abruptly dismissed from his post without explanation. Ismaël repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, asked for a public investigation into the affair. Following his dismissal from the conservatoire and the subsequent loss of his salary there, he returned to the stage appearing in comic operas and operettas at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte Carlo and the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris until 1880. In 1877, the year in which Ismaël appeared in the premiere of the Strauss operetta La tzigane at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, the satirical revue Le Trombinoscope devoted an entire issue to him with a biography by "Touchatout" (Léon-Charles Bienvenu). He went on to appear in two more world premieres at the Théâtre de la Renaissance—Lecocq's La jolie persane in 1879 (as Nadir) and Planquette's Les voltigeurs de la 32ème in 1880 (as Richard).Amongst his performances at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte Carlo was the title role in Planquette's Le chevalier Gaston for its world premiere in 1879. Marriage and retirement years
 His pupils included Max Bouvet and Jean Delvoye. Ismaël married twice, first at the age of 27 to the soprano Alceste Cœuriot (also known by the first name "Anaïs"). The couple were both singing at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon at the time of their marriage in 1852, after which Alceste appeared under the last name "Ismaël". They continued their careers as a couple – first at Lyon, next at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, and finally at the Opéra de Marseille in 1854. However, from 1854 on, their marriage was troubled, and Cœuriot asked for and obtained a separation in 1860 at the expense of Ismaël. As early as the first half of 1856, Cœuriot no longer appeared on the attendance lists of the Opéra de Marseille next to him.In order to marry one of his students, Ismael requested a divorce as soon as she returned to the jurisdiction of French law ( she could not be served by judicial authorities as she was continuing her career in Belgium). They were officially divorced in 1885 after years of living apart, and shortly thereafter he married Marie Garcin (1858–1946), a young opera singer who had been one of his pupils. The following year, he brought a lawsuit against his first wife to prevent her from continuing to perform under his last name but was unsuccessful, with the court ruling that Cœuriot won a definitive right to perform as "Madam Ismaël", which had been her stage name since 1852, while Garcin, the second wife, would then be called "Ismaël-Garcin". At the time of the court case (May 1886), and much to the onstage consternation of Alceste, both she and his second wife found themselves singing in the same production of Faust at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse—Alceste Ismaël as Marguerite and Marie Ismaël-Garcin as Marguerite's guardian, Marthe. According to Étienne Destranges, writing in Le Théâtre à Nantes, Marie Ismaël-Garcin had been a singer of great promise and achieved a considerable success in Nantes as Dinorah in Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel, but by 1889 her light voice was already in decline. Ismaël spent the last years of his life with Marie at his villa in Marseille and gave private singing lessons. The villa, which he had bought in 1861, still exists and is situated in the Roucas-Blanc neighborhood on the Traverse Ismaël (named after him).A public staircase, the Escalier du Prophète, leads from the Traverse Ismaël to the  beach, Plage du Prophète. According to local newspapers, the staircase and beach took their name from Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète, which Ismaël would often practice on the beach. Jean-Vital <mask> died in Marseille on 13 June 1893 at the age of 68. Marie Garcin never remarried and lived in the villa for the rest of her life. She died at her home in 1946 and is buried with her husband in the family tomb at the Cimetière Saint-Pierre in Marseille. Le Théâtre à Nantes: depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours. Fischbacher
Élart, Joann (2004).Catalogue des fonds musicaux conservés en Haute-Normandie: Tome I : Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. Vol. I : Fonds du Théatre des arts, 18e et 19e sicèles Mont-Saint-Aignan (Seine-Maritime): Publications de l'Université de Rouen. .
Fétis, François-Joseph and Pougin, Arthur (1880). "Ismaël (Jean-Vital-Ismaël  Jammes)", Biographie universelle des musiciens. Supplément et complément, Vol. 2.  pp. 13–14.Firmin-Didot . Copy at Google Books. Heylli, Georges d' (1887). "Ismaël", Dictionnaire des pseudonymes, . Dentu
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Silvestre, Armand (1886). "Deux femmes pour un mari" (originally published in Gil Blas), Georges d'Heylli (ed.) Gazette anecdotique, littéraire, artistique et bibliographique, Vol. 1, p. 213.Librairie des bibliophiles
Vapereau, Gustave (1870). "Ismaël (Jean-Vital-Ismaël  <mask>)", Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Vol. 2,  p. 943. Hachette
Walsh, T. J. (1981). Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870. New York: Riverrun Press. .External links

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<mask> (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959). In his career spanning 70 years, <mask> appeared in seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, of which Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Ben-Hur (1959) were winners. <mask> was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended George Watson's College and worked as organist and choir director. In 1898 he got his first job in Benjamin Fuller's theatre group, and appeared with them for almost 10 years. After emigrating to the United States in the late 1890s, <mask> and his wife, Maude Courtney, did a song-and-dance act on the stage.He made his first film , The Old Man, in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing Second World War film Undercover (1943). His most famous film role was the convict, Abel Magwitch, in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). He also earned praise for his portrayal of Queen Victoria's highland attendant John Brown in The Mudlark (1950). In the following years he appeared in Hollywood film epics, including such roles as Saint Peter in Quo Vadis (1951), as Balthazar, one of the Three Magi, in the multi-Oscar-winning Ben-Hur (1959); the Pope in Francis of Assisi (1961); and an aged, wise senator in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father, Sir Cedric, in MGM's Technicolor version of Ivanhoe (1952). But Ivanhoe also gave <mask> one of his most delightful roles, highlighting his comic capabilities, as well as a willingness to still do some action scenes, even in his 70s.In 1962, he starred in an episode of NBC's The DuPont Show of the Week, The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1963, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre in London. In 1966, <mask> played Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. His last performance was for the television series The Saint which starred Roger Moore. <mask> played a dying mafioso boss in the two-part episode "Vendetta for the Saint", which was shown posthumously in 1969. Late in life, he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals.He was also a longtime collector of the works of Robert Burns. Personal life and death
<mask> was married to American actress Maude Courtney. They had two children, George and Marion. <mask> died on 9 May 1968 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire at age 90. His ashes were scattered in Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, Middlesex. Complete filmography

 The Old Man (1931) as Rennett
 The Frightened Lady (1932) as Brooks
 Rome Express (1932) as Sam (publicist)
 The Good Companions (1933) as Monte Mortimer
 Excess Baggage (1933) as Inspector Toucan
 It's a Boy (1933) (uncredited)
 Princess Charming (1934) as Baron Seegman
 Orders Is Orders (1934) as Dave
 Little Friend (1934) as Grove
 Gay Love (1934) as Highams
 My Old Dutch (1934) as Mo
 Mr. Cinders (1934) as Henry Kemp
 The Big Splash (1935) as Hartley Bassett
 In Town Tonight (1935) as The Manager
 Heat Wave (1935) as Captain (uncredited)
 The Improper Duchess (1936) as Milton Lee
 The Gay Adventure (1936) as Porter
 Wanted! (1937) as Uncle Mart
 Glamorous Night (1937) as Angus MacIntosh
 Catch as Catch Can (1937) as Al Parsons
 The Edge of the World (1937) as James Gray
 Command Performance (1937) as Al, Arthur's Manager
 Paradise for Two (1937) as Creditor (uncredited)
 The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938) as Rubin
 Follow Your Star (1938) as Maxie
 Around the Town (1938) as Sam Wyngold
 The Royal Family of Broadway (1939, TV movie) as Oscar Wolfe
 Leviathan (1939, TV movie)
 Sun Up (1939, TV movie) as Pap Todd
 The Great Adventure (1939 TV Movie) as Texel
 One Night, One Day... (1939, TV Movie) as James
 Crook's Tour (1941) as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
 49th Parallel (1941) as The Factor
 The Day Will Dawn (1942) as Capt.Alstad
 Thunder Rock (1942) as Capt. Joshua Stuart
 The Bells Go Down (1943) as District Officer MacFarlane
 Warn That Man (1943) as Captain Andrew Fletcher
 Theatre Royal (1943) as Clement J. Earle
 Undercover (1943) as Father (uncredited)
 They Met in the Dark (1943) as Merchant Captain
 The Shipbuilders (1943) as McWain
 Don Chicago (1945) as Bugs Mulligan
 I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) as Ruairidh Mhór
 The Trojan Brothers (1946) as W. H. Maxwell
 School for Secrets (1946) as Sir Duncan Wills
 In the Zone (1946, TV Movie) as Scotty
 Spring Song (1946) as Cobb
 Great Expectations (1946) as Magwitch
 Musical Chairs (1947, TV Movie) as Samuel Plagett
 Woman to Woman as Theatre Manager
 You Can't Take It with You (1947, TV Movie) as Martin Vanderhof
 The Brothers (1947) as Hector Macrae
 The Great Adventure (1947, TV Movie) as Texel
 So Evil My Love (1948) as Dr Krylie
 My Brother Jonathan (1948) as Dr Hammond
 Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948) as Sir Joshua Varley
 Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) as Alastair MacBain
 Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) as the Marquis of Tullibardine
 The History of Mr. Polly (1949) as Uncle Jim
 Edward, My Son (1949) as Sir Lawrence Smythe (uncredited)
 Whisky Galore! (1949) as Narrator (uncredited)
 Treasure Island (1950) as Captain Billy Bones
 Trio (1950) as Mr McLeod (in segment Sanatorium)
 My Daughter Joy (1950) as Sir Thomas McTavish
 The Black Rose (1950) as Alfgar
 The Mudlark (1950) as John Brown
 People Will Talk (1951) as Shunderson
 Quo Vadis (1951) as Saint Peter
 Walk East on Beacon (1952) as Professor Albert Kafer
 Kangaroo (1952) as Michael McGuire
 Ivanhoe (1952) as Cedric
 Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) as Colonel Randolph
 Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) as MacDougal
 The Broken Jug (1953, TV Movie) as Inspector Walter
 The Lass Wi' the Muckle Mou (1953, TV Movie) as Sir Gideon Murray
 Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) as Hamish MacPherson
 The End of the Road (1954) as Old "Mick-Mack"
 Beau Brummell (1954) as McIver, Brummel's Publisher (uncredited)
 Third Party Risk (1954) as Mr. Darius
 Captain Lightfoot (1955) as Callahan
 Make Me an Offer (1955) as Abe Sparta
 Thunder Rock (1955, TV Movie) as Capt. Joshua Stuart
 Footsteps in the Fog (1955) as Inspector Peters
 King's Rhapsody (1955) as King Paul
 Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Andrew Stuart, Reform Club member
 Zarak (1957) as the Mullah
 Seven Waves Away (1957) as Mr Wheaton
 The Little Hut (1957) as the Reverend Bertram Brittingham-Bell
 Saint Joan (1957) as Archbishop of Rheims
 Campbell's Kingdom (1957) as Old Man
 Dangerous Exile (1957) as Mr. Patient
 The Naked Earth (1958) as Father Verity
 Tempest (1958) as Count Grinov
 6.5 Special (1958) as Himself
 Corridors of Blood (1958) as Supt Matheson
 Solomon and Sheba (1959) as King David
 Ben-Hur (1959) as Balthasar / Narrator
 Hand in Hand (1960) as Mr Pritchard
 Kidnapped (1960) as Cluny MacPherson
 The Angel Wore Red (1960) as Bishop
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) as Capt. Sellers
 Clue of the Silver Key (1961) as Harvey Lane
 Edgar Wallace Mysteries – "Clue of the Silver Key" (1961; US TV: The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre) as Harvey Lane
 Five Golden Hours (1961) as Father Superior
 Francis of Assisi (1961) as the Pope
 Joseph and His Brethren (1961) as Jacob
 Go to Blazes (1962) as the Judge
 The Inspector (1962) as De Kool
 The Amorous Prawn (1962) as Lochaye
 Cleopatra (1963) as Titus (uncredited)
 Murder at the Gallop (1963) as Old Enderby
 The Cracksman (1963) as Feathers
 Billy Liar (1963) as Duxbury
 West 11 (1963) as Mister Cash
 The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) as Grandpa Stirling
 The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Senator
 Who Was Maddox?(1964) as Alec Campbell
 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965) as Emcee
 Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) as Dollmaker
 Brigadoon (1966, TV Movie) as Mr Lundie
 Alice in Wonderland (1966, TV Movie) as Dodo
 Vendetta for the Saint (1969) as Don Pasquale

Partial television credits
 Danger Man – Episode "That's Two of Us Sorry" (1965) as Jock
 The Prisoner – Episode "The Chimes of Big Ben" (1967) as General
 The Saint – Episode "Vendetta for the Saint" (1968) as Don Pasquale (final television appearance)
 Gideon's Way Episode "The Thin Red Line" (1966) as the General

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<mask> (born February 25, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a film producer, director and writer. After World War 2 his father <mask>, who was an influential businessman in Budapest, sent him to an elite boarding school located in Switzerland. Returning to Budapest, first he studied chemistry upon the wish of his father and older brother <mask>, but later enrolled in the Hungarian Film School. He left Hungary in 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution. He settled in Paris with his wife and two daughters as a refugee. There he directed his first films for the French Red Cross, unpaid. After his successful application as Head of the Film Division in the Nigerian Ministry of Information, he lived in Africa for three years and produced films, one of which won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.In 1963 he moved to Germany and worked for television, established his own film production company, creating many documentaries, TV and feature films. He was awarded the “Grimme-Preis”, the top German TV award. In 1992, he settled in Hungary again, continued to produce films and won the “Golden Butterfly Award”. Biography
<mask> attended elementary school in Budapest, secondary schools in Budapest, Sárospatak (Hungary) and later in Zugerberg (Switzerland). In 1951 and 1952, he was a student of the Hungarian Film School, which he had to leave for political reasons. From 1952 to 1956 he translated works by Jean Anouilh, Georges Sadoul and Béla Balázs into Hungarian. In 1956, he participated in the Hungarian Uprising and had to leave the country with his family.He later then established himself in Paris. From 1957 to 1960, <mask> wrote and directed three short films financed by the French Red Cross: Un Homme dans l'Inhumanité (about Imre Nagy), Sans Passeport and Terre Retrouvée (both about refugees). 1960-62, he was Head of the Film Division, Ministry of Information, Nigeria. He wrote, directed and produced a newsreel, and various documentaries there. In 1962, as head of the Nigerian delegation to the Berlin Film Festival, he won the "Silver Bear Award" for "The Ancestors", a documentary film written, directed and produced by him. He settled in West Berlin and from 1962-72, he wrote, directed and produced numerous TV films for German, French and US television (see filmography). He settled in Munich 1972, became a German citizen, and created his own production company "André Libik Filmproduktion" in Munich and Berlin.From 1972 to 1992, he wrote, directed and/or produced many films for German TV, became a specialist for international co-productions. <mask> won various international and German TV awards, is also a founding member of the German Association of Film and TV Producers and member of the German Union of Film Directors. In 1992, he resettled in Hungary and resumed Hungarian citizenship. He continued to produce films, but also represented German companies and became one of the initiators and managers of the "ALFA TV" project. In 1994, he was the first Hungarian to receive the "European Order of Merit" in the European Parliament in Brussels. In 1996, he became Knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta and representative of the "European Order of Merit" in Hungary. As a member of the European Film Academy, he also received the “Golden Butterfly Prize" of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture.Between the years 1997 and 2000, he was Director for International Affairs of the United Nations European Economic Commission’s Regional Centre in Budapest. In 1998, he became Knight Commander of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. From 1999 to 2001, he was Line Producer of various major German TV productions and in 2000 he published his autobiography “Pretty Girls and Terrorists”, which received considerable critical acclaim. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Director for International Affairs of the Central and East European Institute for Environmental Development. In 2006, the second edition of “Pretty Girls and Terrorists” was published. In 2007, he became Director for International Affairs of the Széchenyi Scientific Society and between 2008 and 2010, he was Secretary General of this Society. Filmography

Writer and Director
 1958: Un homme dans l’inhumanité ("A Man in Inhumanity”) - Short documentary about Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy.Co-written and co-directed with cinematographer Jean Badal
 1959, Paris: Sans passeport ("Without a Passport”) - Short documentary about refugees in Paris. Produced by the French Red Cross. 1959, Paris: Terre retrouvée ("Refound Earth”) - Short documentary about refugees resettling in Southern France. Produced by the French Red Cross. 1961, Nigeria: Sunrise in the East- Documentary about Eastern Nigeria. Grand Prix - Mogadishu African Film Festival, 2nd Prize with Silver Plaque at International Exhibition, Rome, 1962
 1962, Nigeria: The Ancestors - Documentary about ancestral worship in Nigeria. Silver Bear - Berlin Film Festival.1963: Alte Leute heute ("Old People Today”)

 Schmuck aus Neu-Gablonz ("Jewelry from New Gablonz”)

 Nürnberger Tand geht durch alle Land ("Playthings from Nuremberg”)

 Three short documentaries - German Federal Press Office. 1964: Auf der Suche nach dem Heil ("Search for Salvation”) - Documentary about religious sects. (ARD - German TV)
 1964: Die Grenzen der Vernunft ("Frontiers of the Mind") - Documentary about parapsychology. Over 18.000 letters from viewers. (ARD - German TV)
 1964-68: Der politische Mord ("Political Assassination”) Documentary TV series:

 Jean Jaurès, Tod eines Visionärs ("Death of a Visionary") Honorary Mention, "Grimme Award" (Top German TV Award)
 Trotsky, Tod eines Propheten ("Trotsky, Death of a Prophet") "Grimme Award"
 Gandhi, Apostel der Gewaltlosigkeit ("Gandhi, Apostle of Non-Violence")
 Mord in Marseille ("Murder in Marseille") (Assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Barthou, 1934)
 Malcolm X  (Assassination of famous Black Liberation leader in New York)
 Ein General muss sterben ("A General Must Die”) Assassination of Portuguese General Humberto Delgado

 1967: Die künstlichen Paradiese ("Artificial Paradise”) - First German documentary about drug abuse. (ARD - German TV)
 1968: Grossmacht Erdöl ("The Power of Oil”) - Documentary about the international oil companies. (ARD - German TV)
 1968: Kinder auf der Folter ("Children Under Torture”).Documentary about child beating. (ARD - German TV)
 1969: Uran, Schlüssel zur Weltmacht ("The Key to World Power”) - Documentary about atomic energy, with General Groves, head of the "Manhattan Project”. (ARD - German TV)
 1969: Ich bin ein Söldner ("I am a Mercenary”) - Documentary about mercenaries in the Congo. (ARD - German TV)
 1970: Theatrum sacrum - Documentary about scenic art in Bavarian and Austrian churches (BR – Bavarian TV)
 1970: Weltmacht aus der Retorte ("The Story of IG Farben") - Documentary about the infamous German manufacturer of Cyclone B gas. (BR – Bavarian TV)
 1970: Fünf Finger sind eine Faust ("Five Fingers Make a Fist”) - Documentary about the New Left in Germany. (ARD - German TV)
 1971: Wer nicht schweigt, muss sterben ("He Who Speaks Must Die”) - Documentary about the Sicilian Mafia. (ARD - German TV)
 1972: Leben in Beton ("Living in Concrete") - Documentary about people living in social projects  (ARD - German TV)
 1972: Einige Tage im Leben des Dr. Spirgi ("A Few Days in the Life of Dr. Spirgi") Documentary about a delegate of the International Red Cross).(ARD - German TV)
1973:   Einmal Urwald und zurück("Return Ticket to the Jungle") Documentary about an "Adventure Holiday" (ARD - German TV)
 1984: Raketen abgeschossen, Ziel vernichtet ("Rockets Fired, Target Destroyed”) - Documentary about the shoot-down of a Korean airliner by the Soviets - Nominated for "Grimme Award". (ARD - German TV)
 1986: Zwölf Tage zwischen Angst und Hoffnung ("Twelve Days Between Fear And Hope”) - Documentary about the Hungarian Revolution 1956 - "Film of the Year" by German TV Critics. (ZDF - German TV)

 Director
 1955: Az útkarbantartás korszerűsítése ("Modernization of Road Maintenance") (Industrial film for the Hungarian Ministry of Transport)
 1974: Hafen am Rhein ("Port on the Rhine") Pilot film for a TV drama series (ARD - German TV)

 Writer and Producer
 1975: Im Zweifel gegen den Angeklagten  ("In Doubt Against the Defendant”) - TV documentary drama about a criminal case in West Berlin 1950. (ZDF - German TV)

 Writer, Director and Producer
 1972: Potpourri von Ferenczy - A portrait of the famous German media tycoon. (ARD - German TV)
 1972: Musste Tommy sterben? ("Did Tommy Have to Die?") - Documentary about a child killed by his parents.(BR - Bavarian TV)
 1973: Grenzstation Krebsklinik ("Border Station Cancer Clinic”) - Documentary about a terminal cancer clinic. (ARD - German TV)
 1973: Kaputt geht’s ganz bestimmt ("Planned Obsolescence”) - Documentary about consumer protection. (ARD - German TV)
 1974: Dem Unheimlichen auf der Spur ("Investigating the Twilight”) - Four-part TV documentary series about Extrasensory Perception, Spiritualism et al. (ARD - German TV)
 1975: Die jungen Löwen von Arabien ("The Young Lions of Arabia”) - Documentary about young managers in Kuwait. (ARD - German TV)
 1979: Ein Mythos will nicht sterben ("A Myth That Will Not Die”) - Documentary about the French Foreign Legion. (German-French Co-production)
 1980: Ein Volk im Exil ("No More Mountains”) - Documentary about the Hmong people in Laos. (German-US-French Co-production)
 1987: Der Verführer – Joseph Goebbels ("The Seducer”) - Documentary about the Nazi Minister of Propaganda.(ZDF - German TV)

 Producer
 1958: Der Nürnberger Prozess ("The Nuremberg Trial") - Feature-length documentary about the Nazi War Criminals' Trial. (Production Manager - Continent Film, Munich)
 1967: Search for Vengeance - Documentary about Nazi War Criminals. (Executive Producer - ABC, Wolper Productions USA)
 1969: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Four-part US TV documentary based on the famous book. (Associate Producer - ABC, Wolper Productions USA)
 1975: Cafe Hungaria - 13-part drama series based on Hungarian short stories. (German-Hungarian Co-production)
 1976: Jugend vor der Wahl ("Young People Elect") - Documentary about young people before elections. ARD-German TV
 1976: Ein Sonntag im Oktober ("A Sunday in October”) - Feature film based on events in Hungary in October 1944. (German-Hungarian Co-production)
 1978: Heinrich, der gute König ("Henri Quatre”) - 6-part drama series based on Heinrich Mann's famous novel.(German-French Co-production)
 1980: Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste ("The Man Who Went Up in Smoke”) - Feature film based on the Sjöwall-Wahlöö novel. (German-Swedish-Hungarian Co-production)
 1982: Albert Einstein - Four-part biographical drama miniseries. (International Co-production - Broadcast by the US Disney Channel)
 1982:  (“Viadukt”) - Feature film with Michael Sarrazin. (German-US-Hungarian Co-production)
 1983: Zeugnis aus der grünen Hölle ("Letters From Green Hell”) - TV drama filmed in French Guyana. (German-French Co-production)
 1983: Titanic - Nachspiel einer Katastrophe ("The Titanic Investigation”) - TV drama based on US Congressional Records. (ZDF - German TV)
 1984: Flug in die Hölle ("Flight Into Hell”) - 6-hour drama series shot in Australia. Best ratings in Germany in 1985.9th best rating on Channel Four in the UK. (German-French-Australian Co-production)
 1985:  ("Leon Bisquet’s Dilemma”) - TV drama based on Simenon's novel "Le nègre". (ZDF - German TV)
 1987: Ekkehard - 6-part drama series about a medieval monk. "Best Production" - Bristol Film & TV Festival. (ARD - German TV)
 1988: Schloss Wutzenstein ("Wutzenstein’s Castle”) - 12-part comedy series. (German-Hungarian Co-production)
 1990: Mikis Theodorakis - Documentary about the Greek composer. (German-Greek Co-production)
 1991: Softwar - TV drama.(German-French Co-production)
 1991: Ruby - Four-part comedy-SF miniseries. (ARD - German TV)
 1992: Tanger Melody - Documentary about US writer Paul Bowles. (ARD - German TV)
 1993: Les vacances de l'inspecteur Lester ("Inspector Lester’s Vacation”) - TV thriller with Claude Rich. (Executive Producer - French-Hungarian Co-production)
 1994: Baldipata - TV drama with Charles Aznavour, Annie Cordy. (Executive Producer - French-Hungarian Co-production)
 1995: Sonatina Romana - Lyrical documentary about Rome. (Hungarian-Italian Co-production - Directed by István Gaál)
 1996: Pop for Peace - Pop concert in Okučani, Croatia, for IFOR soldiers of 9 nations. (MTV - Hungarian TV)
 1999: Bei aller Liebe ("By All My Love”) - 2 episodes of a German TV drama series.(Line Producer - TeleNorm Film and ARD Germany)
 2000: Luftpiraten ("Air Pirates”) - Action movie directed by Joe Coppoletta. (Line Producer - TeleNorm Film and RTL Germany)

 Bibliography Pretty Girls and Terrorists was written by <mask> and published in 2000. The book is an autobiography and describes many parts of his life. It has received considerable critical acclaim. In 2006 the second edition of Pretty Girls and Terrorists'' was published. References

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<mask> (born August 8, 1989) is an American professional baseball infielder who is currently a free agent. The St. Louis Cardinals selected him in the seventh round of the 2010 MLB draft from the University of Hawaii. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2014 and has also played in MLB for the San Diego Padres. Early life
<mask> was born in El Cajon, California, and grew up a San Diego Padres fan. He is a grandson of former MLB manager <mask>. His brother, <mask>, is a former professional baseball player. Amateur career
<mask> graduated from Valhalla High School.In 2009, <mask> played for the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, <mask> led the team in 2010 with a .358 batting average. After being named to the second team Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in both of his first two seasons at UH, he drew a first team all-WAC selection in 2010. <mask> was teammates with future Cardinal teammate Kolten Wong at the University of Hawaii in 2009 and 2010. Professional career

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2010–13
The Cardinals selected <mask> in the seventh round of the 2010 MLB draft from Hawaii. With the Rookie-level Johnson City Cardinals in 2010, <mask> batted .286 with a .363 on-base percentage (OBP), four HR, 15 doubles and 24 RBI in 58 games. He batted .283/.384/.392 combined with the Class A Quad Cities River Bandits and Class A-Advanced Palm Beach Cardinals in 105 games in 2011.He was a Midwest League All-Star selection that season. In a full season with the AA Springfield Cardinals in 2012, he batted .284/.408/.420, with 20 doubles, three 3B, 10 HR, 10 SB, 80 BB in 124 games and 504 plate appearances (PA). He spent the next two seasons with the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), batting .271/.377/.384 in 116 games in 2013, and .272/.358/.382 in 106 games in 2014. The franchise selected him as their player of the month for August 2013. The club added <mask> to its 40-man roster after the 2013 season. 2014–15
The Cardinals promoted <mask> to the major leagues on April 28, 2014. His first career run batted in came on a walk-off hit by pitch while pinch hitting with the bases loaded in the 12th inning of a 4–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium on May 13.After about two weeks with the team, the Cardinals optioned him back to Memphis. <mask> was recalled to St. Louis on August 19, after an injury to Mark Ellis, and was optioned back to AA on August 25. For the 2014 season with St. Louis, <mask> batted .143/.333/.214 with no home runs and one RBI in 14 at bats. Beginning the next season with Memphis, <mask> batted .361 in May, including 11 multihit games. That month, he also amassed four doubles, 12 RBI and five stolen bases, and reached base in 23 of 27 games for a .421 on-base percentage. His batting average ranked 10th-best in the PCL, and <mask> was named the St. Louis Cardinals organization Player of the Month. His totals for Memphis until the time of his major league call-up included a .313 average, 25 RBI and 31 BB.<mask> made his 2015 season debut in the major leagues on June 19 against the Philadelphia Phillies. <mask>'s first major league home run was on June 26 in the eighth inning against Pedro Strop of the Chicago Cubs, tying the score in an extra inning, eventual 4–3 Cardinals win. It was his first home run in 294 major and minor league at bats. For the 2015 season with St. Louis, he batted .240/.337/.387 with two home runs and four RBIs in 75 at bats. 2016

The Cardinals opened the 2016 season with <mask> on the major league roster. His first home run of the season, on April 8, became part of a unique event in major league history. Playing the Atlanta Braves, Jeremy Hazelbaker, Aledmys Díaz, and he established a new MLB record by each hitting a pinch hit home run, becoming the first to hit three pinch hit home runs in one game for the same team.The previous record of two pinch hit home runs by the same team in the same game had previously occurred on 57 occasions, most recently in 2011. The Cardinals won this contest, 7–4. The Cardinals optioned <mask> to Memphis on April 18. The Cardinals recalled <mask> from Memphis on May 26, where he had batted .269 in 30 games. For the 2016 season with St. Louis, he batted .276/.393/.369 with three home runs and 17 RBIs in 214 at bats. On defense, in 2016 he played 31 games at third base, 30 games at shortstop, and 26 games at second base. 2017
<mask> played in a career high 133 games, although he started only 52, and hit .253 with 2 home runs and 20 RBIs in 241 at bats.2018
On April 14, 2018, <mask> homered twice in a 6−1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds for his first multiple home run game in the major leagues. Both home runs came versus left-handed starter Brandon Finnegan, marking the first home runs <mask> hit versus a left-hander in the major leagues. He established another career high with 10 total bases. <mask> finished his 2018 campaign batting .221/.309 (a career low)/.304 with three home runs and 15 RBIs in 114 games. San Diego Padres
On November 1, 2018, <mask> was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres. He played in 134 games in 2019, hitting .248/.364/.354 with a career high 4 home runs and 31 runs batted in. In 2020, <mask> appeared in 35 games for San Diego, hitting .200/.279/.250 over 71 plate appearances.On December 2, 2020, <mask> was non-tendered by the Padres. Detroit Tigers
On February 9, 2021, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers organization that included an invitation to Spring Training. On March 26, 2021, <mask> was granted his release by the Tigers after exercising an opt-out clause in his contract. Philadelphia Phillies
On April 22, 2021, <mask> signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies organization. On May 3, <mask> triggered the opt-out clause in his contract and was released by the Phillies. Awards
 Baseball America Toolbox Award for Pacific Coast League "Best strike zone judgment" (2015)
 Midwest League All-Star (2011)
 MiLB.com Organizational All-Star (2012)
 St. Louis Cardinals organization Player of the Month (May 2015)

Personal life
<mask> married girlfriend Hannah Barnett on November 12, 2016, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Their daughter Olivia was born in June 2018.See also

 St. Louis Cardinals all-time roster

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<mask><mask> (born 1948)  is the director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) at Rutgers (NJ) Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) and the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. In 2013, Blaser was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an established researcher in microbiology and infectious diseases. Blaser's work has focused on Helicobacter pylori,  Campylobacter species, Salmonella, Bacillus anthracis, and on the human microbiome. Education, early work, recent service

Blaser obtained his undergraduate education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1973, and did his post-graduate training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1973 to 1979. Blaser has, since 2013, been married to fellow microbiome researcher and colleague Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello. Two prior marriages, first to the artist Susan J. Walp and later to the writer and editor Ronna Wineberg ended in divorce.Blaser was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1979 to 1981. In 1998, Blaser established the Foundation for Bacteria, which started the Virtual Museum of Bacteria. Blaser was elected as the President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2006 for a one-year term. He has served the National Institutes of Health on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute (2005–2010; Chair 2009–2010), and on the Advisory Board for Clinical Research (2009–2013; Chair 2012-2013). In 2011, he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), in recognition of professional achievement and commitment to service in medicine and health. In 2014, he was the Kinyoun Lecturer at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH, and received the Alexander Fleming Award for lifetime achievement from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He received the Cura Personalis award from Georgetown University in 2015.His scientific papers have been cited more than 130,000 times (Google Scholar). In 2015, he was selected to be in the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the world, He served on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health from 2015-2019. He was appointed as the Chair of the President's Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) for a term from 2015–2022. In 2019, he founded the Rutgers University Microbiome Program (RUMP), which is a university-wide project to develop microbiome science, and examine its impact on health, agriculture, the environment, and human culture. He now co-leads RUMP with Rutgers professors Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello and Liping Zhao. Blaser sits on scientific advisory boards for Elysium Health, Procter & Gamble, Dupont, and several biotechnology start-up companies. In June 2018, Blaser joined the Scientific Advisory Board of the newly founded Seed.In December 2020, he became the chair of start-up Micronoma's scientific advisory board. He is a senior advisor to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a Puretech Health company Collaborator. In 2019 he received the Robert-Koch-Medal in Gold, and the Karl August Mobius Fellowship from Kiel Life Sciences. In 2020, he received the Prize Medal from the Microbiology Society (UK), for his studies of the human microbiome including Helicobacter pylori as an agent of disease in humans. Research

Blaser is best known for his studies of Helicobacter pylori and its relationship with human diseases. Initially dismissive and skeptical of Nobel laureate Barry Marshall's findings of H. Pylori's relationship to gastric and peptic ulcers, which Blaser described as "the most preposterous thing I’d ever heard; I thought, this guy is a madman,” Blaser's work nonetheless later helped establish the role of H. pylori in the causation of gastric cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the world. Studies of the diversity of H. pylori lead him to identify the CagA protein and its gene in 1989, which broadened understanding of H. pylori interactions with humans.His team found that cagA+ strains induced enhanced host responses, development of atrophic gastritis, gastric cancer, and peptic ulcer disease, compared to cagA− strains, and that cagA+ strains signal human gastric cells differently from cagA− strains, and affect gastric physiology in markedly different ways than in the absence of H. pylori. This work led to a general model for the persistence of co-evolved organisms, based on the presence of a Nash equilibrium, and also for the relationship of persisting microbes to cancer, and age-related mortality. Beginning in 1996, he hypothesized that H. pylori strains might have benefit to humans as well as costs. Despite considerable and ongoing skepticism by the community of H. pylori investigators, Blaser and his colleagues progressively developed a body of research that provided evidence that gastric colonization by this organism provided protection against the esophageal diseases of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), Barrett's esophagus, and esophageal adenocarcinoma, work that has since been confirmed by independent investigators. His work has suggested a benefit of H. pylori against such early life illnesses as childhood diarrhea and asthma. This work is consistent with the hypothesis that H. pylori is an ancient, universal inhabitant of the human stomach that has been disappearing as a result of 20th century changes in socio-economic status, including the use of antibiotics and that this loss has health consequences, not only good (less gastric cancer), but bad as well. In 1998, Blaser created the term acagia, to indicate a susceptibility for esophageal diseases in persons not carrying cagA+ H. pylori strains.Since then, acagia has come to reflect the rise in other diseases associated with the loss of cagA+ H. pylori, and may become a metaphor for the disappearance of members of the human microbiome that have symbiotic roles. In 2009, with Stanley Falkow, he hypothesized that human microecology is rapidly changing with potentially substantial consequences. He envisioned a step-wise (generational) change to explain the epidemic rise of such diseases as childhood-onset asthma and obesity. Blaser has proposed that greater understanding of our indigenous (and sometimes disappearing) microbiota can lead to improvements in human health. He has proposed that the routine use (and overuse) of antibiotics in young children may be causing collateral damage, with extinctions of our ancient microbiota at critical stages of early life. This scenario may be contributing to the risk of epidemic metabolic, immunologic, and developmental disorders. Studies in mice have contributed strong support to these hypotheses., and on-going work in children with reference to many diseases, including asthma, show the importance of early life microbiome perturbation in increasing risk.Recent studies provided evidence that the effects of antibiotic perturbation on the microbiota can be transmitted via the mother to the next generation, affecting both intestinal micro-ecology and disease manifestations. Missing Microbes

Blaser is the author of a book for general audiences, Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, about the degradation of internal microbial ecosystems of humans as a result of modern medical practices. Professional science writer Sandra Blakeslee helped write Missing Microbes, which was published by Henry Holt and Co. in April 2014, and has been translated into 20 languages. The book was a finalist for the 2015 LA Times Book Prize in Science, and won the National Library of China's 2017 Wenjin Book Award. Under the leadership of his wife, Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, a group of scientists have formed the Microbiota Vault, Inc. (www.microbiotavault.org ), a not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) public charity in the United States; Blaser serves as a member of the Board of Directors and an officer of the Foundation. Modeled after the Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, the Microbiota Vault has the purpose of creating a repository for the preservation of the human microbiota for future generations before it disappears, and fostering research and education about the human microbiota in developing countries. References

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Terry Gross interview on NPR

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<mask> (born 19 February 1929) is a historian and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, member of Kibbutz Palmachim, research fellow at Yad Tabenkin: the institute of research and documentation of the kibbutz movement, researcher of the history of communes in the world and co- founder of the International Communal Studies Association. Biography
<mask> was born on 19 February 1929 in Haskovo, Bulgaria. When he was eight years old, he immigrated to Palestine with his parents, Ovadia and Bella Varsano and brother Eliyahu. The family resided in Tel Aviv. Yaacov went to Echad Haam School and Gymnasia Herzliya High School and joined the Scouts youth  movement. In 1946 he enlisted in the "Hagana" organization and was a member of the Palmach unit and was assigned by it to be a leader in the Scouts Movement in 1947. In 1949 he was part of a Palmach core-group that established Kibbutz Palmachim.In 1941-1954 he was sent  by Hakibbutz Hameuchad to Argentina to work as educator emissary in the youth movement "Hanoar Hechalutz  iBorochovy Hakibbutz Hameuchad". In 1951, he married Tehila Kiriaty and the couple made their home in Palmachim, where their son and three daughters were born and educated. In 1954-1959 he worked in agriculture on the kibbutz, and from 1959 to 1961 he studied in the  two-year higher education course in the Hakibbutz Hameuchad Seminar  at Efal. Later he began teaching at the high school in kibbutz Palmachim. In 1967 he set out on a brief mission to Argentina. On this occasion he changed his surname to the Hebrew name <mask>. In the 1950s he published several articles about Latin American affairs in Israeli journals.In 1958, in one of the articles about Cuba, he predicted that Fidel Castro would overthrow the dictatorship  of Batista and start a Socialist revolution. In 1960 he joined the Israel-Cuba Friendship League and in 1964 was part of the League's delegation to Cuba. In the course of his visit he witnessed several facets of the regime that he did not regard favorably, and after the visit he left the League. In 1959-1961 he studied in the Higher Education Course of social sciences run by Hakibbutz Hameuchad in Efal. Later he became a teacher  at the Kibbutz Palmachim High School. In 1969 he started  to study at the Departments of History  and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and graduated with "Summa cum Laude". In 1971, he started his PhD at Oxford University.His dissertation was on Anarchism and the Workers’ Movement in Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century. It was supervised  by Professor Michael Confino of Tel Aviv University and Professor Ezequiel Gallo of the University of Buenos Aires. After his thesis was approved in 1975 by the Senate of Tel Aviv University, <mask> was appointed as a lecturer in the Tel Aviv University's Department of History. At the same time he  joined Yad Tabenkin, the Institute for Study and Documentation of the Kibbutz Movement, as a teacher and research associate. It was in this institute that he began to study the history of communes  around the world. In 1978, while on  a research  journey to investigate communes' archives  in the United States, he participated in a conference of the American National Historic Communal Studies Association in Omaha Nebraska. In the meeting with the association's  president, Donald E Pitzer, he raised the idea of holding an international conference  of commune and kibbutz researchers in Israel.Yad Tabenkin undertook the initiative and  in 1985, under its auspices, the first international conference of kibbutz and commune scholars took place. At the end of the conference, the International Communal Studies Association was founded. Prof. <mask> elected to serve as its Executive Director, a position which he continued to fill until 2004. Since its founding, the association has held 11 tri-annual international conferences in different universities and commune venues around the world. During that period, <mask> <mask> served as the acting chairman of the association. In 1994, <mask> <mask> was nominated full professor at Tel Aviv University, retiring in 1998. During the years that followed, he was dedicated  to the Yad Tabenkin Communes Department.In this framework he cultivated relations with commune researchers from around the world. These relationships deepened  the  ties between the Kibbutz Movement and the world communes. Prof. <mask> was devoted also to enlarging the Yad Tabenkin scientific  library on communes, whose collection on communes and kibbutz publications has earned a high reputation among scholars of  these fields. Scientific activities
<mask> <mask>’s  PhD  thesis on anarchism in the Argentine labor movement in the early 20th century was published as a book in Spanish in 1978 by Siglo XXI Publishing and an extended second edition was printed in 2013 by Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires. In 1986, <mask> <mask> published his comprehensive book Two Hundred Years of American Communes, and subsequently published additional books on contemporary communes. In addition to his books about communes, Prof. <mask> has published books and articles about anarchism, utopian anarcho-communist philosophy and anarchistic communes in the Spanish Civil War. In 2014, he published an article about independent kibbutz high education that reviews the history of the Efal high education courses in which <mask> <mask> was both a student and a teacher.Research awards

The Communal Studies Association, USA, bestowed honorary awards on Prof. <mask> <mask> in the years 2000 and 2004 for his research and contribution to promoting international relations:

 Distinguished Scholar Award, Communal Studies Association, USA, 2000
 Donal Pitzer Distinguished Service Award, Communal Studies Association, USA, 2004
 European Utopian Studies Society awarded Prof. <mask>  the "Founding Member Award" in 2009 for his contribution in founding the society. The International Communal Studies Society awarded Prof. <mask> the "Founding Member Award" in 2010 for his scientific lifetime achievement. 25 1964
 "Anarchist Culture in Argentina at the Beginning of the 20th Century", Latino America: Anularlo/Estudios Latino Americanos, no. 17, UNAM, Mexico, 1985
 "The Future Society According to Kropotkin" (Hebrew), Shorashim 6, Tel Aviv: HaKibbutzHameuchad  Publishers and YadTabenkin, 1991
 "Influence of Spanish Anarchism on the Formation of Argentinian Anarchism" (Spanish), in: EstudiosInterdisciplinarios de America Latina v el Caribe, Universidad de Tel-Aviv: Escuela de HistoriaEneroJunlo, 1991
 "The Future Society According to Kropotkin", Cahiers du Monde RusseetSovietbue:  Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales, Paris, July 1992
 "CommunismoLibertarlo and Communes in the Spanish Collectivization", in:   Anarchism–Communitv and Utopia, Praha: Institute of Philosophy, Chechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, FilosofickyGustav, AVCR, 1993
 "The Uniqueness of Anarchism in Argentina", EstudiosInterdisciplinarios de America Latina, vol. 8/1, Enero/Junio, 1997
 "Introduction" to Peter Kropotkin, Fields Factories and Workshops, New Brunswick N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993
 "The Rise and Fall of Anarcho Communism in Argentina", in: Z. Medin& R. Rein (eds), Society and Identity in Argentina, (Hebrew), MifalimUniversitaim, 1997
 "MouvementsCommaunautaire au XX Siecle", in: Utopie La quete de la societeidealeen Occident (French), Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2000
 "Communal Movements in the Twentieth Century", in: Utopia, The Search of Ideal Society, Oxford UK: The New York Public Library, 2000
 “Anarcho-Communism and Collectivism”, in: Raanan Reich (ed. ): Fascism will not Pass: the Spanish Civil War. Tel Aviv University: Zemanim, 2000(Hebrew)
 “Social Justice in Communes”, in Abraham Yasour, Yaacov Oved, Danny Rosolio and Menachem Rosner (eds.), Social Justice and Equality in aChanging World, BeneiBerak: HakibbutzHameuchad, 2003
 Communal Trends in the World Mifne (Hebrew) EfalYadTtabenkin September 2003
 "L'anarchismedans le movement des kibbutz", in: Juifset anarchists, Paris: Editions de l'éclat, 2008
 "Unainmigracion peculiar: La Sociedad de Hermanosen p-Paraguay", Buenos Aires: El Hilo Rojo – EdicionesPaidos, 2009
 “Kibbutzim and Communes: Comparative Aspects”, in Aviva Chalamish and ZviTzameret (eds.

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<mask> (born October 12, 1938) is an American retired sportscaster, best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings team of the National Hockey League on Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket. <mask> held that post with the team from 1973 until his retirement in 2017. He was partnered with Jim Fox from 1990 to 2017. Early life and career
<mask> received his degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa. While there, he began his broadcasting career, covering the school's football and basketball games for campus station KRUI-FM. After his graduation in 1960, <mask> began working in television sports journalism in Wisconsin. He later would add announcing duties for the football and hockey teams at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Los Angeles Kings
Jiggs McDonald was the Kings' original play-by-play announcer, serving from their inception in 1967 to 1972, when he left to join the newly-established then-Atlanta Flames (now the Calgary Flames). It was in 1972 that <mask> submitted a tape to Kings founder and owner Jack Kent Cooke, who was also the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. While Cooke said to him "You're going to be my choice", Cooke instead decided to hire long-time San Francisco Bay Area announcer Roy Storey to fill the void left by McDonald. When Storey left the team after one season, the Kings turned their attention back to <mask>, who was then hired in 1973, and served as their play-by-play announcer until his retirement in 2017. <mask>'s broadcast partners have included Dan Avey, Rich Marotta,  Pete Weber, the current radio voice of the Nashville Predators, current Kings radio voice Nick Nickson and former Kings right wing Jim Fox. He called games on both television and radio until 1990, when the Kings stopped simulcasting and <mask> went exclusively to television. Due to the NHL's exclusive national broadcast contract with NBC that prevented local television announcers to call playoff games beyond the first round, <mask> and Fox were not allowed to call the Kings' Stanley Cup Finals games on television.But due to their overwhelming popularity among fans, Kings management had <mask> and Fox record their call of the potential clinching games for later distribution. As a result, when the Kings won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in 2012, <mask> told the story of the franchise up to that point when he said:

<mask> later recalled that he'd written out his final call in advance, and saved it so he could keep from stumbling over the words out of excitement. With the Kings having locked up the game and the Cup with an outburst of three goals on a five-minute power play in the first period, many fans sitting below the press box exchanged high fives with <mask> and Fox during the final minutes. Two years later, <mask> called Alec Martinez' overtime goal, which gave the Kings their second Stanley Cup. As the celebration got underway, <mask> added a postscript which began, "Royalty reigns again in the National Hockey League!" He later recalled that he had been saving it for the Cup-clinching game, as he had in 2012. <mask>'s first book, Tales From the Los Angeles Kings, was published in October 2006.<mask>'s second book, Tales From The Los Angeles Kings Locker Room: A Collection Of The Greatest Kings Stories Ever Told, was published in April 2013. On March 2, 2017, due to health reasons, <mask> announced his retirement as the team's television play-by-play announcer, a position he held for 44 years, and at the time of the announcement, having called 3,351 Kings games. His retirement became effective after the final two regular season games of the Kings' 2016-17 season, a home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on April 8, 2017, and a road game against the Anaheim Ducks on April 9, 2017. On September 12th, 2017, the Kings announced that <mask> would remain with the Kings organization as an ambassador and continue to contribute to the team on a part-time basis which includes being the MC for the Kings Legends Nights. Other appearances
He has performed voice over and on-camera work for television shows and movies in scenes which included a hockey announcer. Among his credits are an episode of Cheers and the films Rollerball, Miracle on Ice, The Mighty Ducks, and D2: The Mighty Ducks. Nationally, he has worked for ESPN, ABC and FOX.He also called some games for FX during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. Honors
<mask> was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame as the 2000 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, and was inducted into the Los Angeles Kings Hall of Fame, into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame, and into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The press box at Staples Center, the Kings' home arena, is named in his honor. <mask> received the 2,319th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in television, on October 2, 2006. At the ceremony he noted, "My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year." Those fears would never come to be as on June 11, 2012, the Kings finally won the Stanley Cup. The team would win another one two years later in 2014.In 2014, <mask> was honored by the Big Ten Club as their Person of the Year. In 2015, <mask> received  the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 65th annual Golden Mike Awards. On January 13, 2018, <mask> became the third person from the Los Angeles Kings to be honored with a statue outside of Staples Center, joining Luc Robitaille and Wayne Gretzky. <mask> also became the first non-player to be honored with a banner hanging from the Staples Center's rafters. Personal
<mask> is married. He and his wife Judy have two children. References

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<mask> is a Canadian-American architect, researcher and professor. He is most known for his work on The Bone Wall, The Water Planet and Johnson & Johnson's Olympic Games Pavilion. He founded Urban A&O, a design firm in 2004 and now serves as one of its principals. <mask> uses parametric modeling tools of CATIA-based software combined with digital fabrication processes to produce sculptural and geometrically complex forms and environments. He has received several research grants and awards, including four research grants from Harvard Graduate School of Design, China's Most Successful Design Award, Vanguard Award "Top 10 Emerging Firms from around the World" by Architectural Record, and the Outstanding Property Award, London (OPAL) Platinum Award, Property Development, Environmental, Sustainable for Project Energos, in Nevada. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Canada. He completed his B.A.in architecture, environmental design, from University of Washington in 1987. In 1992, he received his M.Arch. from Harvard University after briefly studying at the Architectural Association in London under Zaha Hadid. His master's thesis was titled Navigable Sites: Toronto Island Airport. Career
<mask> joined Harvard University as an assistant professor in 2000. In 2004, while teaching at Harvard University, he founded Urban A&O, a boutique design firm specializing in advanced computational design work. Through the firm he started working on residential, commercial and exhibition design projects.In the same year, he became an associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. <mask> collaborated with sound artists O+A on an installation called Blue Moon. As part of the installation, three tuning tubes were installed in the North Cove Harbor, which created melodies and chords in response to ambient noise on the Hudson River. The sound was then played back through five cube loudspeakers. <mask> designed The Bone Wall, a solo exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, in 2006. The Bone Wall was supported by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and became of one of <mask>'s early well known works. In 2006, <mask> collaborated with Thinc to design Water Planet, a multi-media aquarium experience at California Academy of Sciences.The Water Planet is shaped by an aggregate of seven walls surrounding three interactive islands. The seven walls house exhibits that illustrate a variety of evolutionary adaptations of life to water. <mask> designed the fiberglass walls to resemble waves and the effect of an underwater experience. Openings in these walls provide windows to various aquarium tanks. ArtDaily reviewed the Water Planet and wrote that "Constructed using new technologies for computer-aided design and fabrication, the complex molded surfaces seemingly flow into one another, inviting touch and creating an immersive, watery setting." In its review, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "when the lights are dimmed and images of kelp and underwater life are projected onto the cases, viewers get the feeling of being fully submerged." In 2008, he designed the Johnson & Johnson's Olympic Games Pavilion for the Beijing Olympics.The pavilion was surrounded by a bamboo forest that sheltered its guests and housed The Caring World, an exhibition exploring how people care for each other and the world. The exhibition highlighted the views of individuals through storytelling, documentary video and photo exhibition. The project China's Most Successful Design Award and LEED Gold recognition award. Through his firm Urban A&O, <mask> was the lead architect for the 400th Henry Hudson anniversary exhibition in 2009. <mask> left Harvard University in 2010. His research at Harvard was focused on advanced and emerging computational developments into parametric modeling. He has also received several other grants for his research on social patterns within dense urban environments.<mask> has regularly incorporated his academic research into practice, most notably in his projects, The Bone Wall and Cairo Tower. <mask> has designed urban and residential development planning projects in China and India. He has also worked with Audi, General Electric and Metropolis magazine as an architect. He regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world and was a speaker at TED 2006. He has lectured extensively on the relationship between architecture and technology. In 2010, he was recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for "demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in architecture and design." From 2017 to 2021, <mask> served on the Weitzman School of Design's faculty at University of Pennsylvania, offering the final 700-series travel studio, to Dubai, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo.His focus in studio aligns with his research-based practice, net-zero and carbon neutral design solutions. Personal life
In 2008, he married Tom Hennes, the principal of New York-based design firm, Thinc. They divorced in 2013. Awards and honors
McDonald has received following awards and honors:

 2008: New Practices New York from the New York Chapter of the AIA
 2008: Architecture Magazine's Vanguard award
 2009: IDEA International Design Excellence Silver Award for Environments for the Water Planet
 2009: China's Most Successful Design Award for the Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion in Beijing
 2009: Good Design Award
 2009: Archi-tech AV Award for the Water Planet
 2009: LEED Gold recognition award for Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion in Beijing
 2009: LEED Double Platinum Recognition for Water Planet
 2020: Project Energos Wins Platinum 2020 Outstanding Property Award London In Property Design. 2021: OPAL Platinum Award, Property Development, Environmental, Sustainable for Project Energos, in Nevada
 2021: Novum Design Award
 2021: ICONIC Award, sustainability, German Design Council

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2018 - Creativity Continuum, Principal Investigator
2006 - Studio Works 10, Editor
2006 - Studio Works 11 (Graduate School of Design, Studio Works), Editor

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