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 five different churches in Norway with musicians including Vidar Eldholm (piano), Thomas Dahl (guitars), and Kjetil Fluge (bass) and 2009 Eurovision winner 2009 Alexander Rybak. In December, <mask> returned from her trip to Afghanistan, where she performed for the Norwegian, German, Swedish and American soldiers stationed in the northern part of the country. She performed with musicians from the Norwegian forces (Forsvarets Musikkorps Vestlandet). 2010
<mask> performed at various gatherings initiated by Den Norske Sjomannskirken.She mainly performed in Millenium Place, situated in the Olympic city Whistler under the Vancouver/Olympic Winter Games of 2010. From September 2010 to January 2011, <mask> played Maria in Norway's The Sound of Music. Espen Hana played the male role, George von Trapp. <mask> was featured as one of many artists on the album Bergensbølgene - Et Dykk I Bergens Pop- og Rockhistorie where she sings the song "Telefonen" by the famous Norwegian singer/songwriter Jan Eggum. Several of Bergen's most distinguished artists participated in the album. In December 2010, <mask> held several Christmas concerts with the tenor Mads Belden and Sigurd Sele. 2011
Gulbrandsen released the album Color in April 2011.The ten songs on the album were composed and had lyrics by several people, including Gulbrandsen, Kjetil Fluge, Hans Petter Aaserud and Eivind Buene. Albums, singles and charts

Albums

Singles

See also
 Melodi Grand Prix 2006
 Eurovision Song Contest 2006

References

External links

 Official website
 Guldbrandsen's official fansite
 Listen to clips from <mask>brandsens English fan page

1985 births
Living people
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Norway
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2006
Melodi Grand Prix contestants
Melodi Grand Prix winners
Nordic folk musicians
Musicians from Bergen
21st-century Norwegian singers
21st-century Norwegian women

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<mask>  (born August 16, 1996) is an American professional swimmer who specializes in freestyle, butterfly, and individual medley events. He swims representing the Cali Condors as part of the International Swimming League. He won a record seven gold medals at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, nine medals, six of which were gold, at the 2018 World Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, and eight medals, including six gold, at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju. <mask> is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and holds world records in the 100 meter butterfly (long course and short course), 50 meter freestyle (short course), and 100 meter individual medley (short course). At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, <mask> won five gold medals, which made him the fifth American to win five gold medals in a single Olympic Games after 1970. Mark Spitz, Michael Phelps, Eric Heiden, and Matt Biondi were the other four. He also became the first swimmer in the history of swimming at the modern Olympic Games, since 1896, to win gold medals in the 50 meter freestyle, the 100 meter freestyle, and the 100 meter butterfly at the same Olympics.<mask> holds American records in the 50 meter and 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter and 100 meter butterfly (all long course meters). He also holds American records in the 50 yard and 100 yard freestyle events, the 100 yard butterfly, and the 200 yard individual medley, and formerly held a national record in the 100 yard breaststroke. Early life
<mask> was born on August 16, 1996, in Green Cove Springs, Florida, the son of Christina and <mask>. His father is a veterinarian specializing in urgent care for cats

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 and dogs. Dressel is the third of four children; his three siblings, one brother and two sisters, plus his father were all competitive swimmers setting records and earning honors across the high school and university levels. He and his siblings learned to swim at a young age, for him when he was 4 years old, and by the time Dressel was 8 years old he had committed to competitive year-round swimming. Dressel attended Clay High School in Green Cove Springs, Florida, and trained with the Bolles School Sharks in Jacksonville where he met his then training partner and now wife, Meghan Haila.He was a collegiate swimmer at the University of Florida starting in 2014, and he graduated in 2018. Career

2012
He led off the 200-yard free relay in 19.82, where he became the first swimmer under 16 years old to break 20 seconds. 2012 US Olympic Trials
At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Dressel was the youngest male swimmer at 15 years of age and ranked 100th in the 200 meter individual medley in a time of 2:08.08, 121st in the 100 meter butterfly at 57.21 seconds, 121st with a time of 1:55.17 in the 200 meter freestyle, tied for 145th in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 23.87 seconds, and tied for 152nd in the 100 meter freestyle with his time of 52.21 seconds. After not making the 2012 US Olympic Team, Dressel refocused and set his sights on the 2016 Summer Olympics. 2013

2013 World Junior Championships

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At the 2013 Speedo Winter Junior National Championships (the USA Swimming sanctioned national championship meet for 18 and under swimmers), <mask> became the youngest swimmer in history to break the 19 second barrier in the 50 yard freestyle, swimming an 18.94 to lead off his club team's relay. 2015

2015 NCAA Championships
During his freshman year at the University of Florida, <mask> won the 2015 NCAA title in the 50 yard freestyle when he was 18 years old with a time of 18.67 seconds, which was his first NCAA title, the first NCAA title for the Florida Gators in the men's 50 yard freestyle, and set a new 17—18 national age group record in the event. With his performance, Dressel also became the fastest freshman in the 50 yard freestyle in the history of the NCAA and the second-fastest American in the event, only

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At the senior 2015 National Championships (long course) in San Antonio, Texas, he won two individual titles, in the 50 meter and the 100 meter freestyle. His winning time of 21.53 in the 50 meter freestyle ranked 4th in the world for 2015.2016

2016 NCAA Championships
At the 2016 Men's NCAA Division I Championships, he broke the American and US Open records in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 18.20 and the 100-yard freestyle with 40.46. 2016 US Olympic Trials
At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, <mask> made the 2016 US Olympic Team in the 100 meter freestyle by finishing second with a time of 48.23 seconds, he also placed 4th in the 50 meter freestyle, 7th in the 100 meter butterfly, 32nd in the 200 meter freestyle, and was disqualified in the 200 meter individual medley for a false start. In addition to the five events he raced, <mask> had entered to compete in the 100 meter breaststroke with his best time of 1:02.26 and the 100 meter backstroke, and decided not to race the events. Dressel's performances leading up to and at the 2016 US Olympic Trials earned him recognition as America's best young sprinter by Sports Illustrated and CBS News. Overall, Dressel and coach Gregg Troy chose a forwards mentality to Dressel's training, with Troy expressing Dressel's best could still be four, eight, or more years down the road. 2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, <mask> won his first Olympic medal, a gold medal, in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay. In the final, he swam the first leg in 48.10 seconds, which was the second-fastest lead-off relay leg in the finals heat,

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 and was followed by relay teammates Michael Phelps, Ryan Held, and Nathan Adrian in that order.The American team recorded a time of 3:09.92. Of the 13 medals won by Florida Gators at the 2020 Summer Olympics, <mask> became the first athlete to win a medal from the University's sports teams with this gold medal. <mask> and his finals relay teammates earned USA Swimming's Golden Goggle Award for best relay performance of the year in 2016 for their efforts. <mask> and his teammates shared tears in the medal ceremony and while doing a victory lap around the pool after they received their medals, their tearful reactions were highlighted by local news outlet The Florida Times-Union. The relay was also highlighted by SwimSwam as one of their five unforgettable moments of the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 100 meter freestyle, Dressel finished sixth in the final in a time of 48.02 seconds with fellow United States swimmer Nathan Adrian taking the bronze medal and Kyle Chalmers of Australia winning the gold medal. <mask> also swam freestyle in the heats of the 4×100 meter medley relay, and won his second gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games when the finals relay of Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Cody Miller (breaststroke), Michael Phelps (butterfly), and Nathan Adrian (freestyle) placed first in Olympic record time.He swam a time of 47.74 seconds for the freestyle leg of the prelims relay consisting of him, David Plummer (backstroke), Kevin Cordes (breaststroke), and Tom Shields (butterfly). 2017

2017 NCAA Championships
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At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, <mask> won seven gold medals and set numerous American records. <mask> was named the male swimmer of the meet. He also became the second swimmer to win seven gold medals at a single World Championships, after Michael Phelps in 2007.On the first day of competition, July 23, <mask> set the American record in the 50 meter butterfly with a time of 22.76, topping the semifinals. Later that evening in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, <mask> set the American record in the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 47.26 in the leadoff leg. Combined with Townley Haas, Blake Pieroni, and Nathan Adrian, the American team won gold with a time of 3:10.06, earning him his first gold of the Championships. On day two, <mask> finished fourth in the 50 meter butterfly final with a time of 22.89, missing a medal by 0.05 seconds. On day four, <mask> took part in the 4×100 meter mixed medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg and splitting a 49.92. Along with teammates Matt Grevers, Lilly King, and Simone Manuel, the American team won gold in a new world-record

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2018 SEC Championships
At the 2018 Southeastern Conference, SEC, Swimming and Diving Championships in College Station, Texas in February, Dressel lowered his best time in the 100 yard breaststroke from a 51.88 to a 50.03, which broke the former American, US Open, and NCAA records set by Kevin Cordes in 2014 at 50.04 by one hundredth of a second. Earlier in the Championships, <mask> also set a new American record in the 200 yard individual medley with his time of 1:38.13, lowering the record set by David Nolan in 2015 by 0.25


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 seconds. <mask>'s 100 yard breaststroke record garnered the attention of 2016 Olympic bronze medalist in breaststroke, Cody Miller, who produced a perspective piece on the American record and posted it to his, Miller's, YouTube channel less than two weeks after Dressel broke the record. Later on, in August 2020, Dressel provided his analysis of the record in a video and put it on his own YouTube channel. 2018 NCAA Championships

At the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in March, Dressel won all three of his individual races, and won his first relay national title. On day 2 of the competition, March 22, 2018, Dressel broke the American and US Open records in the 50 yard freestyle thrice.He first swam an 18.11 in the individual preliminaries race in the morning session. He later improved upon that record in the evening leading off The University of Florida's national championship winning relay with a 17.81 split, and finalized his record with a 17.63 in the 50 yard freestyle final. The next day, he broke the American and US open records in the 100 yard butterfly, swimming a 42.80. On the final day of competition, <mask> won the 100 yard freestyle by more than a second in a time of 39.90, completing his sweep of individual events for a second time. This secured him CSCAA Swimmer of the Meet honors for the third year in a row, as he became the first swimmer ever to break the 18 second 50 free barrier, the 40 second 100 free barrier, and the 43 second 100 fly barrier in the history of yards swimming. His split of 17.30 on the 4×50 yard medley relay marked the fastest 50 yard freestyle split time in the history of the NCAA.


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In advance of the 2018 National Championships, <mask> was highlighted by NBC Sports as one of ten swimmers to watch at the meet with his entries in the 50 meter freestyle, 50 meter breaststroke, 50 meter butterfly, 100 meter freestyle, 100 meter breaststroke, 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter freestyle, and 200 meter individual medley.At the 2018 US National Championships held in July 2018 in Irvine, California, Dressel won the 100 meter butterfly with a time of 50.50 seconds after finishing second in the 50 meter butterfly and sixth in the 100 meter freestyle. <mask>'s win in the 100 meter butterfly secured him a spot on the Pan Pacific Championships team, where he could also compete in the 100 meter freestyle even though he finished sixth because qualified athletes were allowed to compete in any event at the meet. He also placed second in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.67, just 0.18 seconds behind Michael Andrew, and decided not to swim the 50 meter breaststroke, 100 meter breaststroke, 200 meter freestyle, and 200 meter individual medley. 2018 Pan Pacific Championships

In August 2018 at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo, Japan, <mask> won the 100 meter butterfly after tying for second place in the 100 meter freestyle. His winning time of 50.75 seconds in the 100 meter butterfly set a new Championships record in the event. He won the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.93, finishing only behind fellow American Michael Andrew, and won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay alongside Ryan Murphy who swam backstroke, Andrew Wilson who swam breaststroke, and Nathan Adrian who


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At the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China in December 2018, Dressel tied Kelsi Dahlia for the most number of medals won at the World Championships meet with nine medals, he won six gold medals to Dahlia's seven. He swam on the same finals relay as Olivia Smoliga in the mixed 4x50 meter medley relay, both helping set a new swimming world record in the event and win the gold medal. <mask>'s efforts contributed to Smoliga's winning eight gold medals at the Championships and breaking <mask>'s former Guinness World Record for "most number of gold medals won at a single FINA World Championships (individual)", which he held from 2017 when he won seven gold medals. <mask> won the silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly with a time of 48.71 seconds, twenty-one hundredths of a second behind gold medalist Chad le Clos of South Africa. In the 4x50 meter freestyle relay, Dressel swam in the final, helped the relay earn the gold medal and set a world record in the event, and split a 20.43 on the first leg of the relay, setting a new American record in the 50 meter freestyle. For the 50 meter freestyle individual race,


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On May 17, 2019, <mask> edged out Chase Kalisz in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 2019 Atlanta Classic in Atlanta with a time of 1:01.22 in the final, dropping over a second from his best time of 1:02.26 heading into the 2016 Olympic Trials, and qualifying for the 2020 US Olympic Trials in the event. 2019 World Championships

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea, he first won a gold as part of the team in men's 4×100 meter freestyle relay. He then won gold in the 50 meter butterfly, an event he failed to win in 2017. He is the first American man to win that event, and he set a new national and championship record time of 22.35 seconds for the event.This is followed by a national record and the third fastest time in history (46.96) in the 100 meter freestyle. In the 100 meter butterfly event, <mask> broke Michael Phelps' ten-year-old record by 0.32 second in the semi-final, setting a


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International Swimming League
In 2019 he was a member of the inaugural International Swimming League representing the Cali Condors, who finished third place in the final match in Las Vegas, Nevada in December. Dressel won the Most Valuable Player of the match honor in all 3 matches he participated in as well as winning the skins race each time. <mask> swam the 50 meter freestyle in Las Vegas and beat Florent Manaudou's world record of 20.26 from 2014 by going a 20.24. He also won the 100 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly, and 50 meter butterfly. 2020

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2020 US Olympic Trials
In total, <mask> qualified to compete in seven events at the Olympic Trials: the 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle, 200 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly, 100 meter breaststroke, and 200 meter individual medley. On day two of the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials (held in June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), June 14, 2021, <mask> competed in the 200 meter freestyle prelims in the morning, swimming a 1:46.63 and ranking 2nd overall for the heats. <mask>'s swim moved him up in rankings to the all-time 20th fastest American in the event. Following his morning swim, Dressel decided not to swim in the event's semifinals. On day four of competition, Wednesday June 16, 2021, <mask> ranked 5th out of all prelims heats in the 100 meter freestyle swimming a 48.25 and advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals in the evening of the same day, <mask> ranked first with a time of 47.77 and advanced to the final.On day five, June 17, 2021, <mask> won the 100 m freestyle with a time of 47.39 and qualifying him for the US Olympic Swimming team in the 100 m freestyle and the 4×100 m freestyle relay for the 2020 Summer Olympics. He tied the US Open record and Championships record for the 100 meter freestyle with his swim. This marked the second Olympic Games Dressel qualified to compete at. On day six, <mask> won

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 the prelims heats of the 100 meter butterfly with a 50.17 breaking the US Open record and Championships record. On the same day in the semifinals, he improved further on his US Open record dropping it to a 49.76, earning <mask> the top 3 times in history in the event. In the morning of day seven, <mask> swam a 21.29 in the prelims heats of the 50 meter freestyle, taking first, breaking the Championships record, and advancing to the semifinals. In the evening of day seven, Dressel swam in the final of the 100 meter butterfly and the semifinals of the 50 meter freestyle.In the final of the 100 meter butterfly, <mask> swam a 49.87, winning the final and swimming under 50 seconds for the fifth time. His swim qualified him to represent the United States in the 100 meter butterfly at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In the semifinals of the 50 meter freestyle, Dressel posted a 21.51, advancing as the fastest seed to the final. On the final day, <mask> qualified to swim the 50 meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympic Games by winning the final with a time of 21.04. <mask>'s swim also tied his personal best time and set a new US Open record. <mask>'s engagement with fans, including a look-alike, and embracing being a role model for swimmers across America during the Olympic Trials led Swimming World to herald Dressel as "the face of USA Swimming's men's team". 2020 Summer Olympics

<mask> was selected as one of two male USA swimming captains for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan along with Ryan Murphy.On day three of competition, <mask> won his first medal at the 2020 Olympics swimming in the finals of the 4x100 meter freestyle relay. He helped the relay win

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In the 2021 International Swimming League, Dressel was selected early on in the draft process as a protected swimmer to compete for the Cali Condors again. For the fourth match of the regular season, Dressel earned match Most Valuable Player, MVP, honors with a total of 112.5 MVP points, which was over 50 points ahead of the next-highest scorer Kelsi Dahlia also of the Cali Condors. In match six, Dressel swam a personal best time of 1:51.14 in the 200 meter individual medley, finishing second only behind Daiya Seto of the Tokyo Frog Kings. His swim also registered Dressel as the second fastest American swimmer in the event, a slim second and a half slower than American Ryan Lochte who set the world record in the event at 1:49.63 in 2012. Partway through the regular season, in mid-September 2021, Dressel and team general manager Jason Lezak decided Dressel would withdraw from competing for the remainder of the regular season and return for the playoffs. For the first match of the playoffs season, Dressel joined fellow Cali Condors teammate and Olympian Hali Flickinger in not partaking in match competition. For the fourth match of the playoffs season, Dressel was entered on the start lists for a number of events including the 50 meter freestyle where he entered to compete against Kyle Chalmers of London Roar.Come race time, <mask> placed third the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.04, finishing seven-hundredths of a second behind first-place finisher Kyle Chalmers and earning 6.0 points for his team. He swam the anchor leg of the 4x100 meter freestyle relay for his next race, splitting a 47.26 and


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Guinness world records
 "Most FINA world records held by an individual (current)", August 11, 2021: 9 FINA world records in swimming. In the first video, he analyzed one of his swims where he set a new world record in the 100-meter butterfly. He has also shared critique of his past races and swims with SwimSwam.Stewart, Mel (April 8, 2021)."<mask> Dressel Plays Swim Nerd Analyst On The ISCA International Cup". SwimSwam. Retrieved June 26, 2021. Leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, he ventured into analyses of swimming in pop culture. Dressel provided his perspective to GQ on swimming scenes from various movies including scenes featuring survival swimming (such as in Cast Away and Kingsman: The Secret Service) and competitive swimming (as in Pride). Sponsorships and collaborations
On July 19, 2018, Dressel turned professional by signing a sponsorship deal with swimwear brand Speedo. In September 2020, SPIRE Institute and Academy announced collaborations with Dressel for providing support to students of SPIRE through various avenues such as curriculum development, training, and facilities design.Leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, one of Dressel's sponsors, Toyota, specially designed a vehicle inspired by his tattoos. Marriage
In 2013, <mask> started a romantic relationship with his wife, Meghan, a child counselor and former breaststroker who competed collegiately for

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He was raised Christian in his youth and his faith grew while in college. His large eagle tattoo was inspired by the Bible verse Isaiah 40:31, which he shared with Sports Illustrated'' in 2016 is his favorite Bible verse. During his senior year of high school, Dressel gave up swimming for a time because of his struggle with "mental demons", speaking about that period in his life Dressel said:

See also

 List of world records in swimming
 World record progression 100 metres butterfly
 World record progression 50 metres freestyle
 World record progression 100 metres individual medley
 World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
 List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
 List of people from Florida
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<mask> (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, Jazz poet, playwright and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community. Biography
<mask> was born in Bakersfield, California, to Lena Leila Marie Siler and <mask>, who were migrant farm workers. She was raised in the projects on the east side of Bakersfield and picked cotton and fruit with her parents and three sisters in the fields and orchards of Fresno, California. <mask> was eight when her father died of tuberculosis and was 16 years old when her mother died from a heart attack. <mask> graduated from Thomas Alva Edison High School in Fresno, in 1962. In 1966 she earned her bachelor's degree in English at what is now California State University, Fresno, and she received her master's degree at Brown University in 1972.The following year (1973), <mask> became a professor of African-American Literature at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Over the course of her career at UCSD, <mask> served as chair of the literature department from 1977 to 1980, traveled to Ghana as a senior Fulbright scholar in 1984, and a served as a visiting professor at USC, Stanford, and Sweet Briar College. In 1987, <mask> was the Distinguished Professor of the Year by the UCSD Alumni Association. In 1998, <mask> was awarded the African American Literature and Culture Society’s Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature and Poetry. <mask> published two collections of poetry: The Peacock Poems (1975), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award,

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 album Compositions And Improvisations, which also featured various jazz and blues artists including Vinny Golia, Jerome Rothenberg, Quincy Troupe, and Nancy Turetzky. <mask> is credited as a vocalist for her contributions to Turetzky's album. Three of the songs featured on the album were previously-written poems by <mask> recorded in musical format: "One-Sided Bed Blues", "Big Red And His Brother", and "The Wishon Line". The album was recorded at Studio 101 in Solana Beach, California, during the summer of 1992, and released by Nine Winds Records in 1993. <mask> <mask> died of cancer on July 6, 1999, in San Diego, at the age of 54.Bibliography

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 Dessa Rose (1986)
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Letters from a New England Negro (1992)

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 The Peacock Poems (1975)
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 Giving Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature (1972)
"Meditations on History." In Mary Helen Washington, ed, Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black women Writers. New York: Anchor Books, 1980, 195–248. "Two Words on Music: Black Community." In Gina Dent, ed, Black Popular Culture: A Project by Michele Wallace. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1992, 164–72. "The Blues Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry."In Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto, eds, Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. New York: Modern Language Association, 1978, 72–87. "Cultural and Interpersonal Aspects of Black Male/Female Relationships: Comment on the Curb." Black Scholar, 10, 1979: 49–57. "The Lion's History: The Ghetto Writes B(l)ack." Soundings 76. 2–3 (1993):

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 248."Some Implications of Womanist Theory." In Angelyn Mitchell, ed, Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994: 515–521. Further reading
 Davis, Mary Kemp. "Everybody Knows Her Name: The Recovery of the Past in <mask> <mask>'s Dessa Rose", Callaloo 12.3 (Summer 1989), pp. 544–558. Draper, James P. "Sherley <mask>", Black Literature Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant Works of Black Authors Over the Past 200 Years, Vol.3. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992, pp. 1950–1961. Nagel, Carol De Kane. "Sherley <mask> Williams", African American Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994, pp. 787–789.Tate, Claudia. “<mask> <mask>.” In Black Women Writers at Work. New York: Continuum, 1983, pp. 205–213. References

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<mask> (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the former United States Ambassador to Israel. He joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres) in 1994, where he met and represented Donald Trump, then chairman and president of The Trump Organization. He was an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign. In December 2016, President-elect Trump's transition team announced that <mask> was Trump's nominee for ambassador. He was narrowly confirmed by the Senate, officially sworn in by Vice President <mask> on March 29 and presented his credentials on May 15. Early life and education
<mask> was one of four children born to <mask><mask> (d. 2005), a Temple Hillel rabbi and <mask>, a high school English teacher. He grew up in North Woodmere, New York.His father was a rabbi at Temple Hillel, a Conservative synagogue in North Woodmere, and served as the head of the New York Board of Rabbis. He graduated from Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) high school in 1974, and earned his B.A. degree in anthropology from Columbia University, graduating in 1978, and his J.D. degree from New York University School of Law, graduating in 1981. He has been a member of the New York State Bar Association since 1982. Legal and philanthropic career
In 1994, he left the now-defunct law firm Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon to form the bankruptcy practice at Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres. <mask> was promoted to name partner in 1995, and the firm was renamed Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman.As the head of the creditors' rights and bankruptcy practice group, <mask> advised and represented Donald Trump and The Trump Organization in bankruptcies involving his Atlantic City casinos. <mask> volunteered to head American Friends of Bet El Institutions, an organization that advocates against a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and provides around $2 million per

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 year to the Israeli settlement Bet El. The organization also received donations from the family foundation of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. In 1999, <mask> dedicated the Friedman Faculty House. The settlement runs the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva, where <mask> was a columnist. In his writings and statements, <mask> repeatedly argued in support of Israeli settlements, declaring them legal. He has also contributed to United Hatzalah ("united rescue"), an Israeli organization that provides emergency medical services, and Aleh Negev, a village for disabled Bedouin and Jewish people in southern Israel.Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
<mask> advised Trump on Israel-related and Jewish issues during his presidential campaign, co-chairing Trump's Israel Advisory Committee along with Jason D. Greenblatt, an executive vice president for The Trump Organization. During the presidential election, he donated a total of $50,000 to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. Four days prior to the election, <mask> and Greenblatt released a joint statement promising to move the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of Trump's campaign promises. Other presidential candidates, including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Hillary Clinton, had also promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem during their campaigns. Moving the embassy would be a significant departure from U.S. policy. Since the end of the Six-Day War in 1967, the U.S. officially maintained that Jerusalem's final status should be decided by direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians; it did not recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory. Relocation would be in accordance with the Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed by Congress in 1995, which required moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by May 31, 1999.The executive branch has consistently waived implementation of the act, arguing it would have a negative impact on national security. On June 1, 2017,

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 in accordance with his predecessors, President Trump signed an executive order keeping the embassy in Tel Aviv instead of relocating it to Jerusalem. However, on December 6, 2017, President Trump reversed course and issued a "Presidential Proclamation Recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel and Relocating the United States Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem." Nomination for U.S. Ambassador to Israel

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On December 15, 2016, the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump announced that <mask> had been selected to be the nominee as the United States Ambassador to Israel. <mask>'s nomination was controversial; some American Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian individuals and advocacy groups argued against his nomination. Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, said that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and annexing West Bank settlements would lead to the "destruction of the peace process" and send the region down a path of "chaos, lawlessness, and extremism".Although none of these predictions happened,  <mask> had said in an interview for Haaretz during the campaign that Trump would be open to Israel annexing parts of the West Bank. The U.S. has opposed Israeli settlements in the West Bank since 1967. The liberal advocacy organization J Street "vehemently opposed" <mask>'s nomination. During the presidential campaign, <mask> had attacked J Street supporters, writing in Arutz Sheva in May 2016:

Are J Street supporters really as bad as kapos? The answer, actually, is no. They are far worse than kapos—Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps. The kapos faced extraordinary cruelty and who knows what any of us would have done under those circumstances to save a loved one?But J Street? They are just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas—it's hard to imagine anyone worse. When asked about his comments on J Street at the Saban


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<mask>'s confirmation hearing was held on February 16, 2017. The hearing was contentious; protesters from Americans Muslims for Palestine and the Jewish

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<mask> became the U.S. ambassador to Israel on May 15, 2017 when he presented his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. In 2019, The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world's 50 most influential Jews. The New York Times in

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<mask> is an Orthodox Jew and is fluent in Hebrew. He has been married to his wife, Tammy Deborah Sand, since 1981. They have five children and seven grandchildren. <mask>'s daughter, Talia <mask>, immigrated to Israel and officially became an Israeli citizen on August 15, 2017. In 1984, <mask> met President Ronald Reagan when Reagan visited Temple Hillel and became the first sitting president since George Washington to visit a synagogue. <mask> became friends with Donald Trump in 2005, after Trump paid him a condolence call during shiva for his father. References

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<mask> (;  – 3 December 1976) was the chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Force during the Soviet Union's involvement in the Second World War. Lauded as "the man who has piloted the Red Air Force through the dark days into the present limelight", and a "master of tactical air power", he was twice given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union as well as a number of other Soviet decorations. A gifted air force commander and one of the leading men of the Soviet armed forces, <mask> was involved in nearly all exploits of the air force during the war and was at the forefront of developments in command and control and of air combat techniques. After the war, <mask> was arrested by order of the Politburo, and was forced by the NKVD chief, Lavrentiy Beria, into a "confession" that implicated Marshal Georgy Zhukov in a conspiracy. <mask> was then imprisoned until the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, whereupon he became an avionics teacher and writer until his death. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Kryukovo, a village in Nerekhta, in Kostroma Oblast. In 1919 he became an infantryman in the Red Army, and in 1920 became a party member.He served in the 384th regiment of the Russian 7th Army, helped put down the Kronstadt uprising in March 1921, and he served as a platoon commander during anti-guerrilla fighting in the Caucasus in 1922. Having graduated from the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in 1930, <mask> moved to the air force in 1933, and served as chief of operations until 1935, when he took command of a light bomber squadron. <mask> was expelled from the party and the armed forces in 1937;

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 however, he was re-admitted by the Commissioner of the Belarussian Military District, A. I. Mezis, who was in turn arrested. <mask> served as chief of the air force staff of the Leningrad Military District prior to serving in the Soviet-Finnish War during 1939 and 1940. For his service in the conflict he was promoted to major general and earned the Order of Lenin. He continued to command the Air Forces of the Leningrad Military District until the outbreak of World War II. World War II

During the early setbacks of the Russian army at the hand of Nazi Germany, Novikov and the Leningrad air forces took part in a number of strikes against the advancing German armies, including the first Soviet air operation of the war, from 25 to 30 June 1941, which cost the Germans 130 aircraft.During this time, <mask> was noted for his skill in command and for his innovation, particularly the then unknown use of radio to coordinate bomber flights. In July 1941, <mask> expanded his command from Leningrad to include air forces of the Northern Front, Northwestern Front and the Baltic Fleet, and as the Germans approached Leningrad, <mask> and his forces flew 16,567 sorties. <mask> briefly held the position of first deputy to the air force commander from February until 11 April 1942. He then became commander of the Red Army Air Force – deputy to the people's commissar of defense of the USSR for aviation, a position from which he began to reorganize the Soviet air force. He worked specifically for the creation of separate divisions and air corps, as well as the improvement of front line coordination. During the siege

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 of Stalingrad, <mask> successfully persuaded Georgy Zhukov and, in turn, Joseph Stalin that the air force was not ready for a planned counter-offensive, an argument to which both commanders eventually conceded. After a substantial period of development, <mask> was able to provide Zhukov with an aerial blockade of the German forces at Stalingrad, along with the destruction of 1,200 enemy planes.Later operations over Kuban destroyed another 1,100 planes. At the Battle of Kursk, <mask> introduced new innovations such as shaped-charge bombs, night fighters and ground-attack aircraft. The Battle of Königsberg saw 2,500 combat aircraft under <mask> being made available to the besieging armies, with the Soviet air marshal recommending low-level heavy night bombers being used. 514 of these dropped 4,440 tons of bombs on the beleaguered city. For his part in the operation <mask> was made Hero of the Soviet Union, and on 24 June 1944 the United States awarded him a Legion of Merit. <mask> then transferred to the Pacific Theatre to fight against Japan, where he was made Hero of the Soviet Union a second time for his Far Eastern efforts. Post-war career
On 16 January 1946 <mask> submitted to Stalin plans that would lay the groundwork for the modern Soviet air force and the industry that would supply it.On 22 April 1946, however, before these could be enacted, <mask> was stripped of his rank and titles and arrested. The reason for this was that at the Potsdam conference it was discovered that the United States had better spy planes than the Soviet Union. He was interrogated and tortured the next day, and

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 again between 4 and 8 May 1946 by Lavrentiy Beria before being forced to read a confession to the Politburo implicating Zhukov. <mask> was tried by the Military Collegium and sentenced to fifteen years in a labour camp. <mask> was released on 29 June 1953, six years into his sentence following Stalin's death, and reinstated as chief marshal of aviation, where he was able to put his ideas into practice. A plan for using newly available jet aircraft and nuclear weapons to wage a possible future war with the United States was laid out by <mask> and shown to Nikita Khrushchev, who turned the proposal down in favor of ballistic missiles. Following his retirement in 1958, <mask> accepted an offer to become head of the Higher Civil Aviation School in Leningrad, where he worked for ten years.He became a professor and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1961. In retirement, <mask> wrote a number of works on aviation and warfare, which were used to educate new Soviet air force pilots. He died, aged 76, on 3 December 1976. Novikov – His 100th Birthday

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<mask> ("<mask> (July 14, 1939 – July 6, 2018) was an American marine biologist, oceanographer, professor, and distinguished research scientist, notable for early work on the communities associated with deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and for his involvement in the creation of the Census of Marine Life and the first integration of marine biological data on a global scale, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Cleveland, Ohio to parents <mask> and Norah Iris (Fleck) <mask>. He graduated from Bay Village High School in 1957 and went on to study Zoology at Yale University, receiving his degree in 1961; his studies included a summer internship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) which led to his lifelong interest in oceanography and marine biology. He then studied for his doctorate at Duke University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967 for a study entitled "Influence of environmental variation on species diversity in benthic communities on the Continental shelf and slope". He received a Fulbright Fellowship which he took up at the University of Queensland in Australia, studying animal succession on the reef crest at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Career
In 1969, <mask> joined WHOI full time as an Assistant Scientist, working initially with Howard Sanders on deep-sea biodiversity. In 1977 he participated in the first biological expedition to survey the recently discovered hydrothermal vents at the Galapagos Rift, and contributed to the understanding of these unique ecosystems which are fueled by chemical energy from the Earth's interior rather than by sunlight.This expedition was documented in the National Geographic

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During his academic career <mask> authored over 80 scientific publications and was awarded many honors including the 2005 Grand Prix des Sciences de la Mer Albert 1er de Monaco, for "major contributions to the advancement of sciences throughout the world", the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award (2011) and the 2013 Japan Prize. Between 1994 and 2002, he was president of the International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO). He was a member of the Committee on Biological Diversity in Marine Systems which in 1995 produced a report entitled "Understanding marine biodiversity: a research agenda for the nation". He was a founder member and the initial chair (1999-2008) of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life, which in 2010 named its summing-up science symposium after him; this Committee also received the 2011 International Cosmos Prize in recognition of its decade of international ocean research spanning multiple scientific disciplines. He has had six species and one genus of polychaetes, three species of mollusks, and three species of crustaceans named after him. References

External links
 J. <mask>le Curriculum Vitae with selected publications list
 Publications of J<mask> <mask> on Google Scholar
 Rutgers Magazine: Sea Worthy (article on J. <mask>le by Christopher Hann)
 Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences: Mourning the passing of our leader, mentor and friend Fred Grassle

1939 births
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Nicolás Ladislao Fedor Flores (born 19 August 1985), commonly known as <mask>, is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Deportivo de La Coruña as a striker. He spent most of his career in Spain, having played for a host of clubs and starting with Valencia. In La Liga, he also represented Getafe and Rayo Vallecano, and won a Scottish double while on loan at Celtic in 2013. <mask> represented Venezuela in two Copa América tournaments. Early years
The son of a Hungarian father and a Venezuelan mother, <mask> was born in Caracas and received his nickname after Miklós, the equivalent of his first name in the Hungarian language, not the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. Club career

Valencia
Having arrived in Valencia CF's youth system in 2001, <mask> turned professional three years later, going on to serve five consecutive loans afterwards, in both the second and third divisions. On 27 August 2009, having returned to the Che after a strong season with UD Salamanca (finishing as joint-fifth in the goal charts), he scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 home win against Stabæk Fotball in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League.Getafe
However, clearly deemed surplus to requirements at Valencia – only third or fourth-choice striker – <mask> was sold in January 2010 to Getafe CF, signing a -year deal. He scored on his debut, a 2–1 away victory over RCD Mallorca in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, as a second-half substitute. Benefitting from the absence of first-choice Roberto Soldado due to injury, <mask> began appearing regularly as a starter. On 28 March 2010 he netted twice in a 3–1 win at Deportivo de La Coruña, adding another brace three rounds later, in a 3–0 home defeat of Villarreal CF, also in La Liga. <mask> started the 2011–12 season as first choice, over veteran Dani Güiza and Adrián Colunga. He scored three goals in his first two league games, against Levante UD (1–1 home draw) and Real Madrid (4–2 away loss), and ended the campaign with 12 goals, best in the squad. On 31 August 2012, the last day of the summer transfer window,

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 <mask> moved on loan to Celtic.He appeared in only 14 competitive matches during the season, and told Venezuelan media that he regretted his decision to join the Hoops. Al-Gharafa
On 30 September 2013, <mask> joined Qatar Stars League side Al-Gharafa Sports Club for an undisclosed fee. He scored five goals in 15 games in his debut campaign, in an eventual ninth-place finish out of 14 teams. Rayo
<mask> returned to Spain on 2 February 2015, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal with Rayo Vallecano. On 12 February 2016, after contributing to a 2–2 away draw against Sporting de Gijón, he became the first Venezuelan to score in four consecutive Spanish top flight matchdays; he was named February's La Liga Player of the Month for this feat. Bengaluru
In August 2017, 32-year-old <mask> joined Indian Super League franchise Bengaluru FC on a two-year contract. He scored his first goal for them on 26 November in a 4–1 rout of Delhi Dynamos FC, adding three braces in his first season, against FC Goa in a 4–3 away defeat, FC Pune City (3–1, away) and Kerala Blasters FC (3–1, also away).In the 2018–19 season, <mask> and his team won the competition after a 1–0 extra time defeat of Goa in the final. Later years
On 20 August 2019, Cypriot First Division club AC Omonia announced the signing of <mask> for one year. He returned to Spain on 25 September 2020, after agreeing to a contract with Deportivo La Coruña, recently relegated to the third tier. International career
<mask> made his debut with Venezuela on 16 August 2006, in a 0–0 friendly with Honduras. Later, he was an important member of the squads that competed in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, scoring in a 2–0 home victory against Colombia on 31 March 2009. On 9 September 2009, <mask> netted twice in a 3–1 home win over Peru; this brought Venezuela closer to its first-ever FIFA World Cup qualification, which eventually did not happen. He represented the nation at the 2011 Copa América, scoring in a 3–3 draw against Paraguay, helping his team to the second place in the group stage and an eventual fourth-place

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 finish.Four years later, in the next edition of the competition in Chile, <mask> scored an 84th-minute goal in a 2–1 defeat to Brazil; a win would have sent his country through, but instead they were eliminated in last place in their group. Later that year, he was among 15 national players who threatened to quit the team after the president of the Venezuelan Football Federation accused them of conspiring to get the manager sacked. Career statistics

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Scores and results list Venezuela's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each <mask> goal. Honours
Celtic
Scottish Premier League: 2012–13
Scottish Cup: 2012–13

Bengaluru
Indian Super League: 2018–19
Indian Super Cup: 2018

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Venezuelan people of Hungarian descent
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La Liga players
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Elizabeth M<mask> (born February 8, 1977) is an American columnist and conspiracy theorist. <mask> grew up in Glenview, Illinois and graduated from New Trier High School. She attended the University of Iowa studying political science and journalism. While there, she was an organizer for Students for Bush, an organization supporting the George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign. She later interned at the U.S. State Department during Bush's first term and for conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly's show The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. Career
<mask> began working in 2002 for the Chicago Tribune, before moving to their RedEye daily tabloid writing a column called "Liz in the Loop" (previously "Eye Contact") which covered celebrity news in the Chicago area. In 2010, Crokin moved to Los Angeles and began working as a freelance entertainment reporter for National Enquirer, Star, In Touch Weekly, US Weekly where she focused on celebrity breakups.Crokin returned to Chicago in 2012 to work for lifestyle magazine Splash, a Chicago Sun-Times publication at the time, writing a column called "LA LA Liz". In September 2012, Crokin developed a viral form of meningitis which progressed into meningoencephalitis and caused daily migraines, vertigo, and photophobia resulting from brain damage. Her health problems resulted in a loss of work, including being laid off in 2013 by American Media Inc., parent company of Star and National Enquirer. <mask> and others had previously accused AMI content officer Dylan Howard of sexual harassment, and has suggested that the layoffs were done in retaliation. <mask>'s column in Splash ended in February 2014. In 2015, Crokin resumed her career as a columnist by writing for Townhall. Though her columns for that magazine focused mostly on sex crimes, in 2016 she published a paper titled Trump Does the Unthinkable, which listed good deeds attributed to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, mixing truths and untruths.That column became very popular on social media among Trump supporters.

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 Also in 2015, <mask> self-published a semi-autobiographical novel, Malice. The book contained a thinly veiled portrayal of her relationship with a man whom she sued for alledgedly exposing her to herpes. Crokin's ex-boyfriend countersued her for his fictionalized portrayal in the novel. The matter was partially settled in 2018. Conspiracy theories
Crokin first  became an adherent of the discredited Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which she says "awakened" her to the evils of Democrats. Crokin continues to believe Pizzagate is true, as of 2020.She then became a follower of QAnon, another conspiracy theory whose wider scope includes that liberals and elites are running worldwide child sex-trafficking rings whom Donald Trump is secretly fighting. QAnon is derived from a belief the 4chan, then 8chan imageboards have been used by members of the Trump administration to disseminate top secret information about the presidency. The QAnon source making "intel drops" on 4chan and 8chan, she believed, was Trump himself or Stephen Miller. According to Crokin, she "immediately knew [QAnon] was legit" upon discovering the first "drop". She went on to become one of QAnon's most prominent QAnon "influencers". Crokin shares the QAnon beliefs that the Mueller investigation was a cover for a pedophile investigation and that the cabal of child abusers will ultimately be defeated and its members arrested en masse in an event known as "the Storm". In 2017, future congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene credited Crokin for making her discover QAnon.At the end of December 2017, <mask> claimed on Twitter that photographs posted on Snapchat by Chrissy Teigen, which showed the model with her one-year-old daughter, contained concealed messages suggesting Teigen was connected to Pizzagate. After Twitter removed her verification, Crokin went on to contend that Teigen might be under the CIA's Project MKUltra mind control program (long since scrapped). Other people possibly under MKUltra, according to Crokin, include Harvey Weinstein and

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 Jeff Bezos. She featured in Out of Shadows, a documentary uploaded to YouTube in April 2020. For her, Jeffrey Epstein and the NXIVM scandal demonstrated the continuing validity of Pizzagate. Crokin was the original source for Roseanne Barr's deleted tweet in March 2018 claiming President Donald Trump had released hundreds of children from bondage each month. Crokin had used fake figures in a 2017 blog post for the conservative Townhall website entitled "Why the MSM Is Ignoring Trump's Sex Trafficking Busts" claiming a "staggering 1,500-plus arrests" of involved individuals in the first 30 days of Trump's presidency.Another thesis she has spread is that John F. Kennedy Jr. did not die in a 1999 plane crash, but faked his death, and is behind QAnon. According to Right Wing Watch, she predicted in March 2018 that the conspiracy theories suggesting "thousands of high-level political, business and entertainment figures are involved in cannibalistic satanic pedophilia" would be proven as true before President Trump leaves office. In February 2019, Crokin expressed disappointment that Trump had not yet conducted the "mass arrests" of the child sex ring members as promised by Q, and worried that Trump might lose support if he waited too long. She added that she was in favor of citizen's arrests against John Podesta and other people, and warned that people might lose patience and take the street to conduct "vigilante justice". During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she relayed the #FilmYourHospital hashtag, as an attempt to prove that the pandemic was a "lie" engineered by the "cabal" and China. Crokin was eventually banned by all mainstream social media platforms for her activism and misinformation campaigns. References

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<mask> (January 11, 1941 – August 12, 2000) was an American big band-style musician who most notably was the lead alto saxophonist and multireedist for the long running weekly television series, The Lawrence Welk Show from 1968 through 1979. Early life, education, and growing up in Alabama
Born in Opelika, Alabama, and reared in Tuskegee, he later moved with his family to Fairhope, Alabama. He attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, where he played the saxophone and reeds (Multireedist) with The Auburn Knights Orchestra; <mask> would later try to complete his education at California State University, Los Angeles during the late-1980s while residing in Burbank. Out of school early from Auburn University (having played with The Auburn Knights Orchestra and singer Toni Tennille) he would play on the road with Richard Maltby and then with the Glenn Miller Orchestra before being drafted into the United States Army and stationed with the NORAD band in Colorado Springs, CO.

Armed Forces and NORAD band
While stationed at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) during the 1960s, <mask> would serve in the United States Army and play in the American/Canadian, joint armed serves NORAD Commanders Jazz Band alongside future Lawrence Welk Show musicians Richard Maloof and Johnny Zell. Stationed in Colorado Springs,  this unit became one of the elite musical groups of the armed forces during the Cold War/Vietnam era due to the plethora of talented, young musicians being drafted into military service. <mask> would first meet longtime musical associates <mask>, Warren Luening, Bob Payne, and Larry Ford while stationed at Colorado Springs. He toured extensively with the NORAD musical groups to include appearances at Carnegie Hall (May 1966), the Hollywood Bowl and Disneyland (September 1966), Expo '67 - Montreal World's Fair, the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (August and September 1967), the CBS The Mike Douglas Show, the Today Show, and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.The Lawrence Welk Show

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 1968-1979
After being discharged from the Army, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Lawrence Welk Show orchestra in early 1968. In his first season with the show he replaced Mahlon Clark on 2nd alto sax in the reed section and then moved later to playing the lead alto/reed chair with Russ Klein moving to tenor. <mask> performed on The Lawrence Show while it was carried on ABC-TV (up to 1971) and then in syndication; he left in 1979, when he was replaced by reedman Skeets Herfurt. The sax/reed section for The Lawrence Welk Show would finally be settled into having <mask>-lead alto/Section Leader, Bob Davis-2nd Alto Sax/lead Flute/Piccolo, Henry Cuesta-2nd tenor/clarinet soloist, Russ Klein- lead tenor sax, and Dick Dale- baritone/bass clarinet. During this time <mask> proved to be one of the finest lead alto players for big bands and orchestras of a generation being able to fit any style, display incredible consistency, and having total command of playing lead piccolo/flute/clarinet/soprano sax/alto sax or even the oboe. The schedule for rehearsing and taping the show was rigid, constant, and sometimes hectic; the musicians were expected to play almost exclusively for the Welk television production rehearsals plus live taping (with studio audience) every week at the Hollywood Palladium from 1968 to 1976, 1976-77 at the Hollywood Palace, and CBS Television City from 1977 to 1979. Later professional work and style
<mask> was prominent on movie and T.V.soundtracks on shows such as the ABC Captain & Tennille Variety Hour; he is most well known for playing the credits theme (soprano saxophone) for the 1980s T.V. show Moonlighting. During this time he lived in Burbank, CA near NBC Studios. While working in Los Angeles during the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s <mask> played and recorded with a wide range of artists to include Ernestine Anderson, Nat Pierce, Roger Neumann, Frank Capp,   Frank Sinatra Jr. and Madeline Vergari. Though his musical style could readily transform to the many venues or artists he played with, <mask>' personal

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 saxophone playing was most heavily influenced by the alto saxophonists Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley. This style was much better shown when <mask> had the rare opportunity to be featured (at length) in 1987 on the premiere of Charlie Richard's Suite for Alto Sax and Jazz Orchestra. <mask> later relocated in the 1990s to the Orlando, Florida region (with his wife Phyllis and sons David and Charles) and continued to work for Disneyworld, several bands locally, and across the country.<mask> commented on the need to move away from the difficulties of living in the Los Angeles area and wanted to relocate back to the South. <mask> died suddenly on August 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest at the age of 59. Select discography
 1959: The Legend Of Bix, Metropolitan Jazz Octet (Argo Records)
 1966: The NORAD COMMANDERS, The NORAD Commanders Jazz Band (Columbia Records special issue)
 1977: Music from New York, New York,  Bill Tole
 1977: Come in from the Rain, Captain and Tennille (A&M Records)
 1987: In the Mood (original movie soundtrack)
 1987: Live at the Alley Cat, Frank Capp
 1994: Here's That Swing Thing, Pat Longo
 1994: Don't Stop Now, Louie Bellson
 1995: This Is My Lucky Day, Madeline Vergari
 2013: Hot Nights/Ready for Your Love, Buddy Greco

References

Bibliography
<mask>, <mask>. Alabama Music Office, 4810 Watermelon Road, Northport, AL 35473, Copyright © 2011
Fuqua, C. S.  <mask>  Alabama Musicians: Musical Heritage from the Heart of Dixie The History Press. 2011. External links
<mask>' discography can be obtained at <mask> (AMG discography)

<mask>' television credits can be obtained at the Internet Movie Database
<mask> and more about him with Lawrence Welk at Welk Musical Family

1941 births
2000 deaths
American saxophonists
American male saxophonists
American flautists
Auburn University alumni
People from Fairhope, Alabama
People from Opelika, Alabama
People from Tuskegee, Alabama
20th-century American musicians
Lawrence Welk
20th-century saxophonists
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<mask> ( 1026 – 16 September 1087), born Dauferio, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 May 1086 to his death. He was the successor of Pope Gregory VII, yet his pontificate is far less notable than his time as Desiderius, the great abbot of Montecassino. His failing health was the factor that made him so reluctant to accept his pontifical election and his health was so poor that he fell to illness during his coronation. The only literary work of his that remains is his "Dialogues" on the miracles performed by Saint Benedict of Nursia and other saints at Montecassino. <mask> beatified him on 23 July 1887. Family
Dauferio was born in  1026. He was the only child of Prince Landulf V of Benevento, one of the last Lombard rulers in Italy.After his father died in battle with the invading Normans in 1047, Dauferio fled from an arranged marriage and, though brought back by force, eventually fled again. He went to Cava de' Tirreni, where he obtained permission to enter the monastery of S. Sophia at Benevento, where he changed his name from Dauferius to Desiderius. It was a decision that his mother vehemently opposed, as he was the sole heir. Abbacy

The life at S. Sophia was not strict enough for the young monk, who betook himself first to the island monastery of Tremite San Nicolo in the Adriatic and in 1053 to the hermits at Majella in the Abruzzi. About this time he was brought to the notice of St. Leo IX, and it is probable that the pope employed him at Benevento to negotiate peace with the

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texts: Normans after the fatal battle of Civitate. Somewhat later Desiderius attached himself to the court of Pope <mask> at Florence. There he met two monks of the renowned Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, with whom he returned in 1055.He joined the community and was shortly afterwards appointed superior of the dependent house at Capua. In 1057 Pope Stephen IX, who had retained the abbacy of Monte Cassino, came to visit and at Christmas, believing himself to be dying, ordered the monks to elect a new abbot. Their choice fell on Desiderius. The pope recovered, and, desiring to retain the abbacy during his lifetime, appointed the abbot-designate his legate for Constantinople. It was at Bari, when about to sail for the East, that the news of the pope's death reached Desiderius. Having obtained a safe-conduct from Robert Guiscard, the Norman Count (later Duke) of Apulia, he returned to his monastery and was duly installed by Cardinal Humbert on Easter Day 1058. Pope Nicholas II elevated him into the cardinalate the Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Sergio e Bacco on 6 March 1058.He opted to be the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia in 1059. Desiderius rebuilt the church and conventual buildings, perfected the products of the scriptorium and re-established monastic discipline, so that there were 200 monks in the monastery in his day. On 1 October 1071, the new Basilica of Monte Cassino was consecrated by Pope Alexander II. Desiderius' reputation brought gifts and exemptions to the abbey. The money was spent on church ornaments, including a


texts: great golden altar front from Constantinople adorned with gems and enamels and "nearly all the church ornaments of <mask> II, which had been pawned here and there throughout the city". Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti. Desiderius had been appointed papal vicar for Campania, Apulia, Calabria and the Principality of Beneventum with special powers for the reform of monasteries.So great was his reputation with the Holy See that he "...was allowed by the Roman Pontiff to appoint Bishops and Abbots from among his Benedictine brethren in whatever churches or monasteries he desired, of those that had lost their patron". Within two years of the consecration of the Cassinese Basilica, Alexander II died and was succeeded by Hildebrand as Pope Gregory VII. Desiderius was able to call forth the help of the Normans of southern Italy repeatedly in favour of the Holy See. Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation


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 of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento. In 1074 and 1075 he acted as intermediary, probably as Gregory's agent, between the Norman princes themselves, and even when the latter were at open war with the pope, they still maintained the best relations with Monte Cassino. At the end of 1080 Desiderius obtained Norman troops for Gregory. In 1082 he visited the Italian king and future Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV at Albano, while the troops of the Imperialist antipope were harassing the pope from Tivoli.In 1083 the peace-loving abbot joined Hugh of Cluny in an attempt to reconcile pope and emperor, and his proceedings seem to have aroused some suspicion in Gregory's entourage. In 1084, when Rome was in Henry's hands and the pope besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo, Desiderius announced the approach of Guiscard's army to both emperor and pope. Papacy

Though certainly a strong partisan of the Hildebrandine reforms, Desiderius belonged to the moderate party and could not always see eye-to-eye with Pope Gregory VII in his most intransigent proceedings. Yet when the latter lay dying at Salerno on 25 May 1085, the Abbot of Monte Cassino was one of those whom he recommended to the cardinals of southern Italy as fittest to succeed him. The Roman people had expelled the Antipope <mask> from the city, and hither Desiderius hastened to consult with the cardinals on the approaching election. Finding, however, that they were bent on forcing the papal dignity upon him, he fled to Monte Cassino, where he busied himself in


texts: exhorting the Normans and Lombards to rally to the support of the Holy See. When autumn came, Desiderius accompanied the Norman army on its march to Rome.However, when he became aware of the plot between the cardinals and the Norman princes to force the papal tiara on him, he would not enter Rome unless they swore to abandon their design. They refused to do that, and the election was postponed. At about Easter the bishops and cardinals assembled at Rome summoned Desiderius and the cardinals who were with him at Monte Cassino to come to Rome to treat concerning the election. On 23 May a great meeting was held in the deaconry of St. Lucy, and Desiderius was again importuned to accept the papacy but persisted in his refusal, threatening to return to his monastery in case of violence. On the next day, the feast of Pentecost, the same scene was repeated very early in the morning. The Roman consul Cencius now suggested the election of Odo, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (afterwards pope Urban II), but this was rejected by some of the cardinals on the grounds that the translation of a bishop was contrary to ecclesiastical law. Cardinal Desiderio, O.S.B., abbot of Montecassino, was elected successor to Gregory VII on May 24, 1086, in the deaconry of S. Lucia in Septisolis and took the name <mask> III.Four days later, pope and cardinals had to flee from Rome before the imperial prefect of the Eternal City, and at Terracina, in spite of all protests, <mask> laid aside the papal insignia and once more retired to Monte Cassino, where he

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 excommunication of the Antipope Clement III and the condemnation of lay investiture, proclaimed a kind of crusade against the Saracens in northern Africa and anathematised Hugh of Lyons and Richard, Abbot of Marseilles. When the council had lasted three days, <mask> became seriously ill and retired to Monte Cassino to die. He had himself carried into the chapter-house, issued various decrees for the benefit of the abbey, appointed with the consent of the monks the prior, Cardinal Oderisius, to succeed him in the abbacy, just as he himself had been appointed by Stephen IX, and proposed Odo of Ostia to the assembled cardinals and bishops as the next pope. He died on 16 September 1087 and was buried in the tomb he had prepared for himself in the abbey's chapter-house. Odo was duly elected his successor as Pope Urban II. Writings
Pope <mask>'s only existing literary work "Dialogues," is on the miracles wrought by St. Benedict and other saints at Monte Cassino.There is also a letter to the bishops of Sardinia, where (since c. 1050 brought under Pisan and Genoan control) he sent monks while still abbot of Monte Cassino. In his "De Viris Illustribus Casinensibus", Peter the Deacon ascribes to him the composition of a "Cantus ad B. Maurum" and letters to King Philip I of France and to Hugh of Cluny, which no longer exist. Posthumous legacy

The cult of Blessed <mask> III seems to have begun not later than the pontificate of Pope Anastasius IV, about six decades after his death (Acta Sanctorum, Loc. cit.). In 1515, <mask>'s body was

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