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 1884, while at Johns Hopkins, Talmage journaled about many laboratory experiments, including one on the ingestion of hashish.After researching at Johns Hopkins, he returned to BYA and became a professor of geology and chemistry. Shortly after returning to BYA, Talmage became the counselor (chief assistant) to its principal, Maeser, and worked as acting principal during Maeser's absence. He also became a member of BYA's board of trustees, an alternate member of the Utah Stake high council and was a common speaker at youth meetings across Utah county. That same year, Talmage was elected as a People's Party candidate to the Provo City Council. His main goal in joining the city council was to implement anti-saloon legislation, but he did not succeed. Shortly before taking office as a member of the city council, Talmage had a lab accident that nearly cost him his sight. A few months later, he was elected an alderman which added judicial as well as legislative duties to his assignments.LDS College
In the summer of 1888, Talmage was recruited by the church's First Presidency to lead the new Salt Lake Stake Academy in Salt Lake City, a high school for the stake, where he worked closely with Angus M. Cannon. In 1889, the Salt Lake Stake Academy was renamed LDS College and Talmage continued as its head until 1892. While in this position he was recruited widely to give lectures to civic groups, various assemblies connected with the LDS Church and other groups. One of Talmage's first tasks as principal of LDS College was to write a science textbook for the youth in the school. He produced First Book of Nature which went to press in November 1888. In 1891, Talmage published a work entitled


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 Domestic Science at the urging of Wilford Woodruff and the other members of the First Presidency. This was a more general work on science aimed at an older audience.In April 1889, <mask> was appointed a member of the examining board for all schools of LDS Church, along with Maeser and Joseph M. Tanner. This board approved teachers to teach with any school run by the church. In January 1891, Talmage was replaced at LDS College by his assistant, Willard Done. Talmage was appointed, along with Willard Young, to form a new university to be run by the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, called Young University. He continued lecturing on scientific subjects at LDS College through the end of that academic year. U of U president
In the summer of 1894, an agreement was made between the LDS Church's First Presidency and representatives of the U of U. The agreement allowed for Talmage to become the institution's president, in return for which the church donated the resources it had gathered for Young University to the U of U and funded the creation of the chair of geology, to which Talmage was appointed.Shortly after <mask> became the university's president, a department of philosophy was created. Also during his tenure, the department of history and civics was created, and the school of mines was organized. In 1896, the U of U organized a department of economics and sociology, with George Coray as head. Coray was also made head of the library. In 1897, Talmage was able to persuade the state legislature to appropriate money for the expansion of the university library. Talmage also organized and directed a program of evening lectures run by the university, where he served on the lecture

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 steering committee. The lectures were mainly aimed at the general public.Also under Talmage's direction the university began publication of the U of U Quarterly. Academic citizenship
In 1891, Talmage became curator of the Deseret Museum. In 1909, while Talmage was serving as the director of the Deseret Museum, he went to Detroit, Michigan, in November of that year to participate in diggings connected with the Scotford-Soper-Savage relics craze. Talmage would go on to denounce these findings as a forgery in the September 1911 edition of the Deseret Museum Bulletin in an article entitled, "The Michigan Relics: A Story of Forgery and Deception". In 1911, after becoming a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, his son, <mask>, replaced him as curator of Deseret Museum. Talmage spent much of the summer of 1890 in Britain. His main goal was attending the meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society where he gave a lecture on the Great Salt Lake and its brine shrimp.He also presented some horned toads that were then donated to a branch of the British Museum. During this trip, he regularly participated with missionaries of the LDS Church in street and other meetings. He also spent some time in and around Hungerford gathering records of his ancestors to do their temple work. He then traveled continental Europe, including Italy, with Reed Smoot and two other missionaries about to return home. For many years, Talmage was a Fellow of the following learned societies: the Royal Microscopical Society (London), the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), the Geological Society (London), the Geological Society of America, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the American


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 Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also an Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, or Victoria Institute. He received a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University in 1891 and a PhD from Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work in 1896.In 1912, Talmage received an honorary PhD from Lehigh University. He was the president of Latter-day Saints' University from 1889 to 1894 and then was president of the University of Deseret from 1894 to 1897. Talmage became president of the U of U in 1893 and continued there until 1897. From 1897 until 1907 he held the chair of geology at the U of U. Mining consultant
From the late 1890s to 1911, Talmage worked as an independent mining consultant and served as a scientific consultant in legal disputes surrounding Utah's mining industry. Talmage was an expert in mining and applied chemistry and had cultivated a positive reputation in his various religious and civic leadership positions. Due to his financial success in consulting, he officially ended his academic career in 1907.The most controversial mine Talmage analyzed during his career was John A. Koyle's Relief Mine, the Dream Mine, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Koyle had allegedly prophesied that the mine would offer the LDS Church resources and lead many to invest in the mine, believing it contained valuable materials. Talmage assessed the mine and determined it was worthless. LDS Church writings and service

Religious literary works
Talmage was the author of several religious books, including The Articles of Faith, The Great Apostasy, The House of the Lord, and Jesus the Christ. These volumes remain in print and are still widely read in the LDS Church. In


texts: 1905, the church's First Presidency requested Talmage write the book that would come to be known as Jesus the Christ. They requested he compile his lectures about the life of Jesus Christ into a book that would be widely available to church members and other readers.At that time, Talmage had many responsibilities with his church callings, his family, and his profession that kept him from starting the book but nearly ten years later, following another request from the First Presidency, he started writing Jesus the Christ. The significance that was placed on the writing of this book about the life of Christ is seen in the First Presidency's setting aside space in the Salt Lake Temple for Talmage to work on the book uninterrupted and without distractions. Jesus the Christ was published in September 1915, just under one year after Talmage started writing it. In 1911, the First Presidency learned that a man named Max Florence, a former theater owner in Salt Lake City, had gained unauthorized access to the Salt Lake Temple. He had taken numerous photographs of the interior and was holding those photographs for ransom, but the church president at that time, Joseph F. Smith, would not negotiate with Florence on the subject. Florence said that he would sell the pictures to anyone who named a high enough price. A few days after this news was publicized, Talmage suggested to the First Presidency that they commission their own photographs of the Salt Lake Temple and publicize them as a book of photos.Smith authorized Talmage to get the pictures and also write on the subject of the temple to accompany the publication of the photographs. The House of the Lord was completed and published


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Before he became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Talmage was an alternate high councilor in the Utah Stake of Zion. He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 7 December 1911, after Charles W. Penrose was appointed as second counselor in the First Presidency. Additionally, from 1924 to 1928, Talmage served as president of the church's European Mission. Views on science and religion
Talmage was an attentive student and teacher of science, but he did not believe there was conflict between science and religion and did not worry about differences or discrepancies between the two fields of thought. He believed that with time and continued learning, these discrepancies would eventually be resolved.He had confidence in the scientific method and was able to accept scientific discoveries and findings supported by it while still holding fast to his religious beliefs. His views on science and religion are demonstrated by this statement: "Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room for every truth thus far learned by man, or yet to be made known." Talmage's views on science and religion can also be seen through an event that took place in 1929. In that year, B.H. Roberts, a scientific scholar and LDS Church leader, presented a 700-page manuscript to the First Presidency which attempted to completely align theology and science. Other church leaders were concerned with what was written in this manuscript and disagreed with the claims about evolution represented. Joseph Fielding Smith, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, made a statement against what was written about evolution in the manuscript


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Almost immediately after his return to Provo, Utah after his schooling in the East, Talmage was asked to run for the office of Territorial Superintendent of Schools by the People's Party. He could not accept due to his recent appointment as the first counselor in the presidency of BYA. Additionally, he was ineligible to run for office since he was not a United States citizen. Soon, he applied for citizenship and received his naturalization papers and although he was uninterested in political involvement aside from necessity, Talmage went on to serve on the Provo City Council as an alderman, and as a justice of the peace. Death
Talmage died on 27 July 1933 in Salt Lake City at age 70.He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. The vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve created by his death was filled by Charles Albert Callis. Personal life
In 1888, <mask> married Merry May Booth (1868–1944), on 14 June 1888. Booth was a native of Alpine, Utah, and the daughter of immigrants from Lancashire. She started studies at the normal school connected with BYA in 1885, when she was 16. It was there she met <mask>, who was one of her instructors. While at BYA, Booth was secretary of the Polysophical Society.After completing her course of normal study, May took a job as a teacher in Kaysville, Utah. A few months later, Talmage undertook a project to study the waters of the Great


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The Mathematics and Computer Sciences Building at Brigham Young University is named after <mask>ge. The University of Utah College of Science is housed in the <mask> E. Talmage Building.Published works

See also
 Mormonism and evolution

References

External links

Archival collections
<mask><mask> papers
<mask> Talmage's diary
<mask>. Talmage Journals Vols 1-5
Additional Talmage Journals
Transcription of letters from <mask>. Talmage to May Booth Talmage

Online works

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<mask> (born Michael Hubert Bourne, 24 September 1942) is an English singer and actor. He is known for his top ten hits "Don't You Think It's Time" (1963) and "The Sunshine of Your Smile" (1980) in a singing career spanning nearly 60 years. He became an actor in the 1970s, and was best known for his appearances as Mr. Spooner on the British sitcom Are You Being Served? in the early 1980s. Early life
<mask> was born in Northampton. His parents grew up in Rhodesia but met in England and his mother was an amateur actress and singer. Six months after his birth his mother moved with him to North Wales for two years.The family then moved to Stoke Newington where he attended William Pattern Primary School and passed his eleven plus exam, winning a scholarship to Hackney Downs Grocers' School. He left the school aged 16 without qualifications to become an apprentice compositor. <mask> was a fan of skiffle and rock and roll music as a teenager and he formed his own skiffle group called "The Rebels" and then introduced electric guitars as "Kenny Lord and the Statesmen." Joe Meek became their recording manager and producer, and he signed up a group called the Stormers as his new back-up band, naming the new group "<mask> and the Outlaws." He had three hits in the 1960s in the UK Singles Chart, his most successful being "Don't You Think It's Time", reaching No. 6 in January 1963. His "Tribute To Buddy Holly" is also noted for having been banned by the BBC for being "morbid."The hit singles

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In the 1970s, <mask> developed a career as an actor and he appeared in many television commercials. In 1979, he was cast as the father (Mr. Peters) of the two children in the TV version of the Worzel Gummidge books, along with Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs. In 1981, he replaced Trevor Bannister's character (Mr. Lucas) in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? and stayed until the end of the show's run in 1985. Upon the death of Nicholas Smith in December 2015, he is the lone surviving actor from the show who played a major recurring character. <mask> also starred in a series of commercials for Blue Riband in the 1980s.His most recent film work was acting in Julie and the Cadillacs (1999). Family
His brother is the actor, performer and activist Bette Bourne. Discography

Singles
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" / "My Baby Doll" (with The Outlaws – Decca 11314 – 1961)
"Tribute to Buddy Holly" / "What's the Matter" (with The Outlaws – HMV 912 – 1961) - UK No. 24
"It's Just a Matter of Time" / "Little Boy Blue" (with The Admirals (Outlaws) – HMV 979 – 1962)
"Every Little Kiss" / "How Many Times" (HMV 1042 – 1962)
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"My Little Baby" / "You'll Do It You'll Fall in Love" (with The Outlaws – HMV 1142 – 1963) - UK No. 9
"If I Could Only Make You Care" (Polydor - 1980) - UK No. 37
"Memories" (Polydor - 1981) - UK No.55
"Diana" (Polydor - 1981)
"What'll I Do" (Polydor - 1982)
"Everyone's a Wally" (B-side to cassette release of computer game - 1985)
"It's Time For <mask> - Vinyl EP" - (Rollercoaster Records - 1990)
"Sounds Of The Sixties" (Rollercoaster Records - 1992)
"Rock'n'Roll Daze" (Rollercoaster Records - 1998)
"Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Live In Sweden" (Rollercoaster Records - 2001)
"About Time Too! - with The Crickets, Recorded in Nashville" (Rollercoaster Records -2005)
"Befor I Grow Too Old - CD EP" - (Rollercoaster Records - 2006)
"Hi There Darlin'! Merry Christmas" - Mr. Bert Spooner with instrumental accompaniment by <mask> & The Outlaws - (Rollercoaster Records - 2007)
"Sunshine Of Your Smile - Hits and Memories from the 1980s" - (Rollercoaster Records - 2016)
"Drift Away" - (Rollercoaster Records - 2019)

References

External links

 [ <mask> biography @ Allmusic.com]
 <mask> discography

 Interview with <mask>, The Spectrum, Accessed July 6, 2017

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Living people
English male television actors
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<mask>'Orléans, <mask> de Joinville (14 August 1818 – 16 June 1900) was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, <mask> was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours. He married Princess Francisca of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I and sister of Emperor Pedro II. The dowry received by <mask> upon the marriage became the Brazilian city of Joinville. <mask> and Francisca's grandson Jean went on to become the  Orléanist claimant to the extinct French throne, a claim passed on to his son, grandson and now great-grandson Jean, Count of Paris, current Orléanist claimant to the French crown. Early life and military career
He was born <mask>-Marie d'Orléans at the Château de Neuilly, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Educated for the navy, he was commissioned lieutenant in 1836.His first conspicuous service was at the Bombardment of San Juan de Ulúa, in November 1838, commanding the corvette , when he headed a landing party and took the Mexican general Mariano Arista prisoner at Veracruz. The <mask> was promoted to captain of the frigate La , and in 1840 was entrusted with bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France. Marriage to Francisca of Brazil

In 1838, <mask> had made his first trip to Brazil, where he had been warmly hosted by Emperor Pedro II, son of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria, a Habsburg. During his time in the Brazilian court, <mask> met Princess Francisca, Pedro's younger sister, then 16 years old. In 1840, <mask> again stopped in Brazil for two weeks on his way back from St. Helena, where he had headed the expedition entrusted with bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France. Three years later, <mask> headed once again to Rio

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 de Janeiro, in order to marry Princess Francisca. They married in that city on 1 May 1843.<mask> received as dowry an area of over 580 km2 in the South of Brazil, in the state of Santa Catarina, until then called Colônia Dona Francisca after its owner, the newly-wed princess, sister to the emperor. The area, near the coast and devoid of any populational settlements, therefore became the Brazilian part of the lands of the <mask> of Joinville. Exile and sale of the lands of Joinville
In 1844 he conducted naval operations on the coast of Morocco, bombarding Tangier and occupying Mogador, and was rewarded with the rank of vice-admiral. In the following year he published in the Revue des deux mondes an article on the deficiencies of the French Navy which attracted considerable attention. In 1848, <mask>' father, King Louis Philippe, was deposed as the monarchy was abolished in France and the French Second Republic instaurated. Like his parents and siblings, <mask> nominally lost all his properties and lands in France, including the French lands of the principality of Joinville, and hastily went with his wife and family to exile in England. Having taken refuge with his family at Claremont, and with the Brazilian lands of Joinville as his only remaining property, <mask> decided to make profits off those that were last remnants of his former principality.With the assistance of Hamburg Senator Christian Mathias Schroeder, with whom the gains were split, parts of the lands were sold to German-speaking immigrants, who started arriving in the Brazilian Joinville on 9 March 1851 and built the first facilities in the area, including a small royal palace. The titularity of the principality was negotiated with Heinrich Ferdinand Wiese, German-speaking noble-man from Schleswig-Holstein whose family was fleeing as the Danish troops invaded their territory during the First Schleswig War. It

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 was agreed that the transferred title could only be used by Heinrich Ferdinand or his descendants after the passing of <mask> and Francisca, who officially kept the titles of Prince and Princess of Joinville until their death. Political career and service in the American Civil War

Being excluded from continuing a career in the Second Empire's navy, in 1851 <mask> announced his candidacy for the French presidential election to be held in 1852, hoping to pave the way for an eventual restoration of the monarchy. The attempt to become a second "Prince-President" was aborted by the 2 December 1851 coup by which the first "Prince-President", Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, effected his own ascension to the throne. In 1861, upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he proceeded to Washington, D.C., and placed the services of his son and two of his nephews at the disposal of the United States government. U. S. President Lincoln appointed him and his nephews to the staff of Major General George B. McClellan.In June 1862, disagreements with the United States position towards Mexico caused the prince to withdraw from the Union forces, and he returned to Europe. With the overthrow of the Second French Empire in 1870, <mask> re-entered France, only to be promptly expelled by the government of national defence. Returning incognito, he joined the army of general Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, under the assumed name of "Colonel Lutherod", fought bravely in Orléans, and afterwards, making public his identity, formally sought permission to serve the French army. Gambetta, however, arrested him and sent him back to England. In the elections of 1871 to the French National Assembly, the prince was elected to sit for the Haute-Marne, the department of his former principality. By an arrangement with Thiers, however, the prince did not take his seat until the latter had been chosen president of the

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 provisional republic. Deafness
Starting at a young age, <mask> became increasingly deaf, and surgery to cure his hearing loss was totally unsuccessful.His friend Victor Hugo wrote in his memoirs, "The <mask> de <mask>'s deafness increases. Sometimes it saddens him, sometimes he makes light of it. One day he said to me: 'Speak louder, I am as deaf as a post'''". His increasing deafness prevented him from making many contributions to the National Assembly, and he resigned his parliamentary seat in 1876. Later life and death
In 1886, a new law against pretenders to the throne being part of the French armed forces deprived <mask> of his rank as admiral. <mask> and Francisca lived their last decades of life together in Paris, at their home in avenue d'Antin. Francisca died in 1898, aged 73, and <mask> outlived her by two years, dying at home on 16 June 1900, at the age of 81.Works
The <mask> Joinville was the author of several essays and pamphlets on naval affairs and other matters of public interest, which were originally published for the most part either unsigned or pseudonymously, and subsequently republished under his own name after the fall of the Empire. They include Essais sur la marine française (1853); Études sur la marine (1859 and 1870); Guerre d'Amérique, campagne du Potomac (1862 and 1872); Encore un mot sur Sadowa (Brussels, 1868); and Vieux souvenirs (1894). <mask> <mask> was also a painter. He was present at the Revolution of 1830 when Charles X was replaced as king by <mask>' father, the Orleanist Louis Philippe. Before and after that, in a number of portraits of French national life he depicted several great events in the life of the French monarchy. As Charles X's troops marshalled at the Place de la Concorde he depicted them firing on the crowd. He painted Charles X as the mob invaded the Palais-Royal, with <mask>' father, future King Louis-Philippe,

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 standing behind him.In a famous scene (depicted on right), <mask> drew a woman atop some men handing her the Tricolor as they marched on July 31, 1830. <mask>' royal motifs contrasted heavily with  Delacroix' famous depiction of the same event. <mask> also painted his own delivery of Napoleon's body on returning from St Helena. In total, <mask> painted 35 watercolours. Honours
  Kingdom of France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
 : Grand Cross of the Southern Cross
 : Knight of the Golden Fleece, 29 October 1846    Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1864  Beylik of Tunis: Husainid Family Order
 : Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit
 : Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword
 : Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 22 March 1842''

Ancestry

Children
<mask> and Francisca's oldest daughter, <mask>, was the mother of Prince Jean, pretender to the French throne. His own son and his grandson have been considered the legitimate claimants to the throne of France, and his great-grandson, Jean, Count of Paris, is the current claimant to the French crown. <mask> and Francisca' son, Pierre (1845–1919), entered the United States Naval Academy on 15 October 1861.He received an honorary appointment as an ensign in the United States Navy on 28 May 1863 and served on the frigate USS John Adams. He was granted a leave of absence from the Navy as of 1 January 1864 and resigned from the Navy on May 30, 1864. He returned to France in June of that year. References

External links
 Works by <mask>, prince of Joinville - in Wikimedia Commons

 Memoirs of the <mask> de Joinville, English translation by Lady Mary Loyd, from Project Gutenberg

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<mask> of Castile (March 1230 – 8 August 1303), called the Senator (el Senador), was a Castilian infante, the fourth son of Ferdinand III of Castile by his first wife, Beatrice of Swabia. Youth and rebellion
<mask> spent his childhood at Burgos, where among his tutors was the future cardinal Giles of Torres. He received the typical education of a royal prince in both arms and letters. In 1246, <mask> accompanied his father on the expedition to Jaén. His father granted him in fief the first of the new conquests: Morón de la Frontera and Cote. After the fall of Seville, he was enfeoffed with more conquered towns: Jérez de la Frontera, Lebrija, Arcos and Medina Sidonia. In the repartimiento (division) of Seville itself, <mask> and his retinue received a part.He spent the next few years mostly at Seville, often at the court of his father's second wife, Joan of Ponthieu. The troubadouric allusions to their illicit relationship are, however, of no evidentiary value. As early as 1246, <mask> had refused his father's request that he pay homage (homagium) to his elder brother, the future Alfonso X. After their father's death in 1252, <mask> and his brother Frederick chafed under the rule of Alfonso. In March 1253, Alfonso withdrew the privileges which Ferdinand had granted <mask> on his vast southern estates. He also interfered to prevent <mask> from contracting an advantageous marriage. At Calatayud, according to the Libro de las armas of Juan Manuel, <mask>'s nephew, he asked for the hand in marriage of king of Aragon's daughter, Constance of Aragon, but Alfonso prevented it.These insults induced <mask> plot against Alfonso. In a meeting at Maluenda in 1255, <mask> temporarily

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 brought James I of Aragon over to his side. Finally, in October, leagued with Diego López IV de Haro, lord of Biscay, and drawing support from Galicia as well, he went into open rebellion. Despite an initial victory over troops of the royal party, he was defeated near Morón and forced to flee the country. He took ship at Cádiz and sailed through the Mediterranean, stopping at Valencia, and passed through France, initially seeking refuge with his stepmother in Ponthieu. She may have suggested he visit his half-sister Eleanor, who was married to Edward, the son and heir of King <mask> of England. English exile
<mask> arrived at the English court in towards the middle of 1256.He lived comfortably there for three years entirely on King <mask>'s good graces, but the English offered him no political support. In the spring of 1257, Giovanni Colonna, archbishop of Messina and an ambassador from Pope Alexander IV, arrived in England to negotiate with the king the investiture of his second son, Edmund, with the Kingdom of Sicily. <mask> offered to lead troops to Italy to conquer the kingdom for Edmund, but a rebellion in Wales diverted attention from these projects. After several sojourns in France proved fruitless, <mask> decided to seek his fortune in Africa, where the Hafsid emir of Tunis, Muhammad al-Mustansir, had carved out a large empire. After securing a vow that he would not attack Castile, the king of England let <mask> leave for Tunisia in July 1259, even granting him a safeconduct through the Gascon ports under his control. Tunisian expedition
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<mask> later made his way to Italy, where he joined his cousin Charles of Anjou's campaign in 1266 to become King of Sicily (Battle of Benevento) and lent him large sums of money.It was here that <mask> earned his title of El Senador when Charles had him made senator of Rome (at the time, the ancient Senate of Rome evolved into an institution where a single senator was entrusted with civil power in the city of Rome). However, he was never repaid by Charles; and <mask> had aspired to the kingship of Sardinia or some other high title, and found the senatorship poor compensation. As a result, when his cousin Conradin invaded Italy in 1268, <mask> changed sides and joined him. He was one of Conradin's generals at the Battle of Tagliacozzo; he was in command of a host of three hundred Spanish knights sent by his brother Afonso X of Castille. He won the first encounter against the French, but was

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According to Ferdinand Gregorovius he spent the next twenty-three years in captivity—in the castle of Canosa from 1268 to 1277, and in Castel del Monte from 1277 to 1291.In 1272, his half-sister Eleanor and her husband King Edward I of England came to Sicily on return from the Crusades. Eleanor's attempts to get him released from prison were unsuccessful, but she kept in touch with him until her own death. On 8 March 1286, Pope Honorius IV absolved him from the excommunication he had incurred when he had ravaged the city of Rome with Conradin, and committed insults and harm to Cardinal Giordano Orsini (the future Pope Nicholas III), his nephew Matteo Rosso Orsini, and Giordano Savelli. His absolution was conditional upon sacramental confession and restitution for all the damages done to interested parties, or, if he had insufficient means, a solemn promise to make full restitution when he was able. Both Eleanor and Charles were dead before <mask> was finally released in 1291. He returned to Castile in 1298, where he was appointed regent for his grandnephew, King Ferdinand IV. He married Juana Núñez de Lara, but had no known legitimate children before his death in 1304.Traditions
According to tradition he had a son out of wedlock with a lady called Mayor Rodríguez Pecha, daughter of the lord (Alcaide) of the castle of Zamora. This son was called Enrique Enriquez de Sevilla, who became Justicia Mayor or Chief Judge of Castile


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Further reading
 Ballesteros Beretta, Antonio. Sevilla en el siglo XIII
 Parsons, John Carmi. Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth Century England

 Santiago Sevilla Setecientos años buscando al Author del "Amadís" in Liceus El Portal de las Humanidades. Santiago Sevilla Personajes Reales en el Amadis in Liceus El Portal de las Humanidades
 Santiago Sevilla El Verdadero Author del Amadís de Gaula Diario de León Jueves 13 de Marzo de 2008
 Santiago Sevilla Parentescos Principescos y Amadís in Liceus El Portal de las Humanidades.Santiago Sevilla La Geografía fantástica del Amadís de Gaula in Liceus El Portal de las Humanidades. Paolo Borsa Letteratura Antiangioina tra Provenza, Italia e Catalogna. La Figura di Carlo I
 Peter Herde Die Schlacht bei Tagliacozzo, Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte
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 Valeria Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Universitá di Pisa Don Enrique / Don Arrigo: un infante di Castiglia tra storia e letteratura. ALCANATE IV 2004-2005 Revista de Estudios Alfonsíes El Puerto de Santa María

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<mask> (born September 23, 1965) is a Sri Lankan poet, critic, journalist, translator, political commentator, and activist. Known for his outspoken political views, his opinion pieces are among the most widely read in English in Sri Lanka. His poetry collections and translations of Sinhala texts have also been widely read and acclaimed, and have been frequently shortlisted for the prestigious Gratiaen Award. On February 17, 2021, he assumed duties as the Director of the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Colombo to <mask>, a civil servant who would retire as the chairman of the Coconut Development Authority, and <mask>, who taught English literature and Greek and Roman civilization in various schools, her longest tenure being at Royal College, Colombo. Both of them were English honours graduates from the University of Peradeniya. Malinda is the second in the family.His elder brother is Arjuna and younger sister Ruvani, an acclaimed novelist in the United States. They were all born to a culture of connoisseurship and appreciation of the arts. <mask>'s later forays into literature were therefore initiated by his parents, especially his father, who had got him to write a poem when he was 12 years old about a tune played on the piano. He attended Royal College, Colombo. He dabbled in several extra curricular activities, with chess and scouting being his main interests. Although initially a student in the Mathematics stream, he eventually won all major awards for English literature. He captained the school chess team in 1983 and under his leadership Royal won the National Championship in 1983.That year he sat for his A

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Early forays into politics
Malinda's early initiation into politics and Marxism was through his father, who had been a Trotskyite as an undergraduate, and the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist League at the University of Peradeniya, Kamkaru Mawatha (“The Path of Labour”).Nanda Wickramasinghe, a batch-mate of his father who was attached to the League and who regularly visited him, enthralled young <mask>. When he entered Peradeniya in the eighties, however, he found himself disagreeing with the UNP and the JVP, as well as the then emaciated and divided SLFP. Towards 1987, one year before the UNP-JVP bheeshanaya commenced, <mask> began supporting Vijaya Kumaratunga and his newly formed United Socialist Alliance (USA), and though he would later disengage from Vijaya's political beliefs, he felt at the time that he was the only person who could reckon with both sides of the political divide. After his assassination in 1988, <mask> would support Ossie Abeyagoonasekera, who would later leave the US and support the UNP. An even more significant political association with the then newly formed Ratavesi Peramuna, the precursor to the Sinhala Nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), would follow his return from Harvard, having falling under the influence of two ideologues he'd known through University: Patali Champika Ranawaka and Athuraliye Rathana Thera. In 1992, an exhibition displaying LTTE, IPKF, and JVP human rights abuses in Matara was attacked by thugs connected to the UNP, which compelled a meeting in Wadduwa to discuss what the party members could do next. The meeting was disturbed by the police who, on a tipoff,

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 arrested 15 members including Rathana Thera, Champika, and <mask> and held them for three weeks.Tortured at the orders of a drunken OIC, they took their case to the Supreme Court. The case, Channa Pieris and Others v. Attorney General and Others, would later be archived by the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Library. Justice A. R. B. Amerasinghe, in his judgment, argued that the Ratavesi Peramuna “was not an organisation whose members or adherents were engaged in purposes prejudicial to national security or the maintenance of public order” and was therefore entitled to freedom of association, the deprivation of which by the police compelled the Court to order the State to pay 5,000 rupees per applicant as compensation. In the meantime, the Ratavesi Peramuna morphed into the Janatha Mithuro. Later political career
After completing his higher education, though only partially, at Cornell University, <mask> continued his association with Ranawaka and Rathana following their formation of the Sihala Urumaya (SU), the next avatar of the Janatha Mithuro. Malinda supported them and ended up eventually as the party candidate in Jaffna. The SU received more votes than the JVP and the Nava Sama Samaja Peramuna and Malinda received just seven preferential votes.He joined The Sunday Island immediately after the election and thereafter was not associated with any political party. However, he was associated with the National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT), which he joined in 2006 on the condition that NMAT would operate independently of the SU. NMAT was a formation launched by those earlier associated with the Janatha Mithuro and it was in effect an agitation front for the SU. His association

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<mask>'s political beliefs have been a mix of Marxism, nationalism, and liberalism, though he has on separate occasions rejected these ideologies. A firm believer in citizenship unhindered by racial or religious prejudices, he nevertheless remains a staunch opponent of Tamil separatism, which has earned him the ire of those who advocate federalism and devolution. His articles to various publications during the war years (from 2000 to 2009) and even afterwards have uncompromisingly taken issue with Eelamist propaganda, particularly the traditional homelands thesis of the LTTE.His nationalist outlook underlines his belief in good governance and democracy. Having written on the dangers inherent in the 18th Amendment, which the government of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa enacted in order to do away with presidential term limits, he has also frequently discussed the need for independent commissions, institutionalised on paper via the 17th Amendment. He has on several occasions expressed his views on federalism and devolution at various forums, and even submitted certain proposals and recommendations to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission in 2011, where he noted with respect to separatist propaganda that “A pandering to political realities based on constructed mythologies can tide a country over in the short term but necessarily generate further rupture down the line” and added that “In the absence of a robust case for devolution, minority grievances must necessarily defer to the


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Early stints: From “The Island” to “The Nation”
In October 2000, after his return from Cornell University and prior to his engagement with the Sihala Urumaya, <mask> was hired as an “understudy” to the then Editor of the Sunday Island, Manik de Silva. After a tussle with some disagreeable journalists attached to its Sinhala paper, the Divaina (to which he contributed as well), he left the Island in 2004 and did part-time work as a Copywriter at Phoenix Advertising via an invitation from its Chairman, Irvin Weerackody. In 2006 he was hired as the Deputy Features Editor and Editorial Writer at The Nation upon an invitation by the founder CEO of Rivira Media Corporation (which owned the paper), Krishantha Cooray. After running into some disagreements there, <mask> was hired as an assistant consultant director of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process for three months in 2007 and as the consultant director of the Special Media Unit at the Government Information Department from November 2007 to November 2008. From then on, he worked as a freelance writer, submitting a weekly average of 10 or 11 articles to six different publications (including the Daily Mirror and the Daily News), as well as a copywriter at Phoenix, until October 2011, when upon another invitation by Rivira Media Corporation he assumed the role of chief editor at The Nation.Through these years <mask> shaped The Nation to a more nuanced format, with sections devoted to poetry, arts columns exploring both English and non-English cultural spheres, and political columns articulating divergent ideologies. It was during his editorship that the paper gave coverage to the infamous


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<mask>'s interest in literature, sustained by his parents, his school, and later his university, was fermented by his discovery of Pablo Neruda and his Residence on Earth in a bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the day of Neruda's death (which incidentally happens to be <mask>'s birth date, September 23), in the 1990s. He was profoundly influenced by Neruda, García Márquez, and Eduardo Galeano, as well as his childhood encounters with Western literature, music, and elocution. His first poetry collection, Epistles: 1984–1996, was published in 1999.He submitted his poetry, in manuscript form, for the Gratiaen Award on six occasions between 2007 and 2013. Five of these collections were shortlisted: Threads in 2007, The Underside of Silence in 2008, “Some texts are made of leaves” in 2011, “Open Words are for Love Letting” in 2012, and “Edges” in 2013, while “Stray Kites on Stringless Days” didn't make it to the shortlist in 2010. He won the Gratiaen Award for "Edges". Two years earlier, in 2011, he had won the H. A. I. Goonetilaka Award (also with the Gratiaen Trust) for his translation of Simon Navagattegama’s acclaimed Sinhala novel Sansaranyaye Dadayakkara, which he first read at Cornell University and


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<mask>'s first marriage in 1994 ended a year later. In 1998 he married Samadanie Kiriwadeniya, who is currently the chairperson of SANASA Development Bank. They have two daughters, Mithsandi and Dayadi, who attend school at Ladies' College, Colombo. References

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<mask> (March 24, 1939 – December 24, 2009) was an American broadcaster best known nationally for The George Michael Sports Machine, his long-running sports highlights television program. Originally named <mask>'s Sports Final when it began as a local show in Washington, D.C., in 1980, it was nationally syndicated by NBC from 1984 until its final installment was aired on March 25, 2007. <mask> won a Sports Emmy in 1985 for his work on The George Michael Sports Machine. Early life and career
<mask> was born <mask> in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 24, 1939, the son of Margaret and Earl Herman Gimpel. He grew up near Tower Grove Park in the city's south side, and graduated from St. Louis University High School. While attending Saint Louis University, he worked as a Midwest promoter for several record labels such as Scepter and Motown. It was also during this time when he made his radio broadcasting debut on a one-hour Sunday night show at midnight on WIL, which invited individual SLU students to be the hosts every week.He earned a full-time job as a disc jockey at the station after he was judged to be the best of the group. His first radio appointment outside of his hometown was in 1962 at WRIT in Milwaukee, where he worked the 6-to-10 pm shift until he was reassigned to 5-to-9 morning drive time in early 1964. His next stop was at KBTR in Denver later in 1964, working under the name "King" <mask> for the first time. He earned the nickname due to his success in "ruling" evening radio. He became one of the original Boss Jocks at WFIL in Philadelphia when its new Top 40 rock and roll format debuted on September 18, 1966. He served as music director and evening deejay for the next eight years. WFIL, which promoted itself as "Famous 56" after the transition, ended WIBG's listener ratings dominance and became the city's most popular station by the summer of 1967.<mask> was the first Philadelphia rock and roll radio personality to read the scores of local high school football and

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As the primary sports anchor at WRC-TV in Washington from 1980 to 2007, <mask> was easily one of the most popular media personalities in the Washington area. <mask> got significant latitude in his programming, employing a bevy of segments some viewers  might consider old-fashioned, including his "Tuesday Replays" and "Wednesday Wrestling". He also had devoted extensive coverage to and was considered a significant influence in the popularity of NASCAR, broadcasting interviews with famous drivers such as Dale Earnhardt well before that sport became what it is today. An avid equestrian, <mask> also broadcast segments on bull riding and rodeo. He was the play-by-play announcer for most of the Professional Bull Riders's Built Ford Tough Series NBC telecasts during the 2003 and 2004 seasons, including the final day of the PBR World Finals each year. <mask> also covered the career of bull rider Lane Frost, who was killed at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1989 by the bull he rode.<mask> covered the matchups between Frost and the undefeated bull Red Rock called the Challenge of the Champions. <mask> was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2006 for his efforts. <mask>'s affable personality enabled him to land rare interviews with many aloof local and national sports personalities. For example, <mask>'s team at WRC-TV had been the only local sportscasters allowed to broadcast from inside the Washington Redskins' FedExField during the season. Two movies, 8 Seconds and The Rookie, were inspired by stories featured on The Sports Machine. <mask> made a cameo appearance in the former, as well as in The Silence of the Lambs and Tin Cup. The Sports Machine was also featured in There's Something About Mary.In November 2005, <mask> was

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<mask> left his role as WRC-TV's daily sports anchor on March 1, 2007, following a dispute with WRC-TV over layoffs of his staff imposed company-wide by NBCUniversal. The George Michael Sports Machine went off the air on March 25, 2007. He continued to host weekend sports panel shows such as Full Court Press (basketball season) and Redskins Report (football season) as well as interviews at Redskins Park on Mondays with Jim Zorn and Joe Bugel through December 2008. He was completely dropped from WRC-TV owing to budget cuts despite the fact Redskins Report was consistently one of WRC's top sports shows.He indicated at the time of his layoff that he would like to work on a panel show again but not on a nightly newscast. Personal life
He and his wife, Pat, whom he married in 1978 and who produced the Sports Machine, had daughters Cindi and Michelle and son Brad. <mask> died at age 70 at Sibley Memorial Hospital on December 24, 2009, after being diagnosed with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia two years prior. References

External links

 <mask> radio interview with Mark Simone on WABC-AM, March 25, 2006
 ESPN: <mask> steps down as Sports Machine host, November 16, 2006
 Video: <mask> disccused his horse riding accident in 2005
 USA Today article, "<mask>'s 'Sports Machine' going silent", March 22, 2007

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<mask> is an American lawyer and diplomat who served in the Obama Administration as Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as  Director of the Department of Justice's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office). Public Service Career

Department of Justice (1993–2007)
After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, <mask> was hired by the Department of Justice as a civil rights prosecutor. He investigated and prosecuted cases involving human trafficking, official misconduct, and hate crimes, as well as money laundering, organised crime, and alien smuggling. He became the Department's Involuntary Servitude and Slavery Coordinator and later the Chief Counsel of the U.S. Human Trafficking Prosecutions Unit upon its founding. During this time, CdeBaca developed the modern "victim-centered approach" to investigating human trafficking cases cooperatively with non-governmental organizations and those who advocated for workers and survivors of prostitution and sexual abuse. Among other cases, he prosecuted the high-profile "Deaf Mexican" forced labor case; the garment factory case United States v. Kil Soo Lee, the largest slavery case in US history; and the pathbreaking Cadena case, which applied the Thirteenth Amendment to forced prostitution and impelled legislative efforts to update the slavery statutes. CdeBaca also pursued other civil rights cases, for instance, obtaining the conviction of a man who used a Confederate Flag to intimidate an African-American family in the exercise of their housing rights.As a result of these cases, <mask> received the Attorney General's John Marshall Award from Attorney General Janet Reno and the Distinguished Service Award from Attorney General John Ashcroft. He worked with Senators Paul Wellstone and Sam Brownback, and with Representatives Chris Smith and Sam Gejdenson and their staff to incorporate the interagency model and

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From 2007 to 2009, CdeBaca served on detail as Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee under Rep. John Conyers, Jr. In this role, CdeBaca advised Chairman Conyers and other committee members on immigration reform, civil liberties — especially the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — and civil rights issues such as involuntary servitude. US Department of State
In March 2009, President Barack Obama nominated <mask> to be Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The United States Senate confirmed CdeBaca on 6 May 2009.As the director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, he led U.S. government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery. As ambassador, <mask> continued his victim-centered approach to human trafficking prosecution. He drove change across U.S. government agencies, leading the Cabinet-level President's Interagency Task Force on Trafficking (PITF) and the interagency Senior Policy Operating Group, resulting in the development of the US Victim Services Strategy, and Executive Order to prevent exploitation in government contracting. He published the "gold standard" snapshot of global anti-trafficking efforts, the Trafficking in Persons Report and conducted extensive bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, pressing for governments to apply the 3P paradigm of Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution, as set forth in the TVPA and the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. As in the Civil Rights Division, CdeBaca rooted his work as ambassador in the United States' own struggle against slavery, and supported efforts such as

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In November 2014, President Obama appointed <mask> as Director of the Justice Department's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (“SMART Office”) where he was responsible for implementing the Adam Walsh Act's comprehensive set of minimum standards for sex offender registration and notification in the United States. <mask> convened and supported law enforcement, policymakers, and academics to develop strategies and programs for combating sexual assault and protect communities, aligning scientific evidence on effective sex offender management and prevention with policy and practice. He spearheaded new methods of sex offender management, research, and prevention through the Office's Sex Offender Management


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CdeBaca was raised on a cattle ranch in Iowa and was active in 4-H and politics from an early age, winning the 1984 National 4-H Beef Award  and supporting such candidates as U.S. Senator Tom Harkin.His family has been in what is now the United States since the explorations of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1527. In the ensuing years, his family has played a prominent role in New Mexico politics and culture, including the first Hispanic Governor Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (1917), Lieutenant Governor <mask> (1937), and the education pioneer and Latina author Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. He graduated from Iowa State University and attended the University of Michigan Law School where he was editor of the Michigan Law Review. CdeBaca is Roman Catholic and has cited Gaudium et Spes and the Second Vatican Council as inspirations for his anti-slavery public service. In a 2009 interview with Catholic News Service CdeBaca said, "the notion of the church in the world is... about going out and really engaging the community, engaging the broader community." In a 2012 speech to Canadian parliamentarians urging a victim-centric approach to human trafficking prosecution, Cde Baca stated, "There is the notion in the Christian tradition that Jesus went out of his way not just to be seen with the woman in prostitution, but to honor her, to put in check those who would say she was not worthy of attention." References

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<mask> (; 1 October 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator from Persian. He had a reputation for his highly non-orthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism. Life
His parents, the two prominent poets <mask> and Anna Akhmatova, divorced when <mask> was 7 years old, and his father was executed by Cheka, Bolshevik  secret-police, when <mask> was just 9. <mask> spent most of his youth, from 1938 until 1956, in Soviet labor camps. He was arrested by the NKVD in 1935 and released, but rearrested again and sentenced to five years in 1938. After serving the time, he joined the Red Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin of 1945.However, he was arrested again in 1949 and sentenced to ten years in prison camps. Aiming to secure his release, Akhmatova published a dithyramb to Joseph Stalin, which did not help to release <mask>, although it possibly prevented her own imprisonment. The Soviet secret police had already prepared an order for her arrest, but Stalin decided not to sign it. Relations between <mask> and his mother became strained, as he blamed her for not helping him enough. She described her feelings about the arrest of <mask> and the period of political repressions in Requiem (published in 1963). After Stalin's death in 1953, <mask> joined the Hermitage Museum, whose director, Mikhail Artamonov, he would come to appreciate as his mentor. Under Artamonov's guidance, he became interested in Khazar studies and in steppe peoples in general.In the 1950s and 1960s, he participated in several expeditions to the Volga Delta and to the North Caucasus. He proposed an archeological site for Samandar as well as the theory of the Caspian transgression in collaboration with geologist Alexander Alyoksin as one of the reasons for Khazar decline. In 1960, he started

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 delivering lectures at Leningrad University. Two years later, he defended his doctoral thesis on ancient Turks. From the 1960s, he worked in the Geography Institute, where he would defend another doctoral thesis, this time in geography. Although the official Soviet authorities rejected his ideas and banned most of his monographs from publication, <mask> came to attract much publicity, especially in the Perestroika years of 1985–1991. As an indication of his popularity, the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва, founded in 1996) to be erected just opposite from his own palace on the central square of the new Kazakh capital, Astana.Ideas
<mask> attempted to explain the waves of nomadic migration that rocked the great steppe of Eurasia for centuries by geographical factors such as annual vacillations in solar radiation, which determine the area of grasslands that could be used for grazing livestock. According to this idea, when the steppe areas shrank drastically, the nomads of Central Asia began moving to the fertile pastures of Europe or China. To describe the genesis and evolution of ethnic groups, <mask> introduced the concept of "passionarity", meaning the level of  activity to expand typical for an ethnic group, and especially for their leaders, at the given moment of time. He argued that every ethnic group passes through the same stages of birth, development, climax, inertia, convolution, and memorial. It is during the "acmatic" phases, when the national passionarity reaches its maximum heat, that the great conquests are made. <mask> described the current state of Europe as deep inertia, or "introduction to obscuration", to use his own words. The passionarity of the Arabic world, on the other hand, is still high, according to

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 him.Drawing inspiration from the works of Konstantin Leontyev and Nikolay Danilevsky, <mask> regarded Russians as a "super-ethnos" which is kindred to Turkic-Mongol peoples of the Eurasian steppe. Those periods when Russia has been said to conflict with the steppe peoples, Gumilyov reinterpreted as the periods of consolidation of Russian power with that of steppe in order to oppose destructive influences from Catholic Europe, that posed a potential threat to integrity of the Russian ethnic group. In accordance with his pan-Asiatic theories, he supported the national movements of Tatars, Kazakhs, and other Turkic peoples, in addition to those of the Mongolians and other East Asians. Unsurprisingly, <mask>'s teachings have enjoyed immense popularity in Central Asian countries. In Kazan, for example, a monument to him was erected in August 2005. Historian Mark Bassin writes that Gumilyov was "not a credible theoretician... [and] his hypotheses are filled with inconsistencies, misunderstandings, and misapplications of the concepts he borrowed" (4) but that while his social theory is thoroughly problematic and lacks any sort of scientific or intellectual authority, his ideas are important to understand in that his theories of ethnos, ethnogenesis, and passionarity (among other concepts) have been massively influential and have had significant impact in a range of Soviet and post-Soviet contexts. Criticism
Several researchers, such as Vadim Rossman, John Klier, Victor Yasmann, Victor Schnirelmann, and Mikhail Tripolsky describe <mask>'s views as antisemitic.According to these authors, <mask> did not extend this ethnological ecumenism to the medieval Jews, whom he regarded as a parasitic, international urban class that had dominated the Khazars and subjected the early East Slavs to the "Khazar Yoke". This last phrase he adapted from the traditional term


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 "Tatar Yoke" for the Mongol domination of medieval Russia, a term <mask> rejected for he did not regard the Mongol conquest as a necessarily negative event. In particular, he asserted that the Radhanites had been instrumental in the exploitation of East Slavic people and had exerted undue influence on the sociopolitical and economic landscape of the early Middle Ages. <mask> maintained that the Jewish culture was by nature mercantile and existed outside and in opposition to its environment. According to this view, Jews share a specific way of thinking, and this is associated with the moral norms of Judaism. According to Gumilyov, the medieval Jews also did not bear arms themselves, but waged wars by proxies or mercenaries. Personal life
Gumilyov identified himself as an Orthodox Christian.Gumilyov married in 1967, the year after his mother died. Works
The Hsiung-nu (1960)
Ancient Turks (1964)

The Hsiung-nu in China (1974)
Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere of Earth (1978)
Ancient Rus and the Great Steppe (1989)
An End and a New Beginning (1989)
From Rus to Russia (1992)

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Gumilevica: All about Gumilev (Biography, Bibliography, Works & Maps)
Electronically available publications by <mask> (Russian)
<mask>, Ethnogenesis and Eurasianism by Alexander Sergeevich Titov

1912 births
1992 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
Russian historians
Soviet historians
Russian orientalists
Turkologists
Khazar studies
Russian ethnologists
Russian geographers
Russian anthropologists
Sharashka inmates
National mysticism
Eurasianism
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors faculty
20th-century historians
Russian people of Tatar descent
Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery
20th-century anthropologists
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Soviet military personnel of World War

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Bishop <mask> (born May 10, 1955)  is founder of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Sudan and the non-profit Water is Basic. A former child soldier, Taban holds a diploma in civil engineering and an advanced diploma in theology. He served as a colonel in the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) during the second civil war before becoming an advocate for peace who is widely respected by the governments of Sudan and South Sudan. The Bishop's ministry has focused on building wells, orphanages, schools, and health clinics, as well as advocating for the Arms Trade Treaty. From 2003 to the present, Bishop <mask> has served as the president of the Sudan Evangelical Alliance. He and his wife Annegrace live in Yei South Sudan with their five adopted children. Early life
Taban spent the first 40 years of his life in war.On the day he was born, a massacre in his hometown of Yei forced his mother to flee into the jungle where she hid with her newborn for the first three days of his life. From the ages of 8 to 13 he was forced to serve as a child soldier in Sudan's first civil war until his family helped him escape to Uganda. While in Uganda and as a soldier in the second war, Bishop was condemned to death; he was released upon the word of a ranking official that he'd led to Christ. Taban went on to earn a degree in civil engineering and an advanced degree in theology. During Sudan's second civil war, he served as a colonel in the SPLA and founded the army's chaplain's corp. In 1990 <mask> founded the Presbyterian Church in his province and was elected the national bishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in 2003. The Bishop was also elected president of the

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One of Bishop <mask>'s ministries, Water is Basic, was born out of a 2006 peace conference between pastors from Sudan and South Sudan. Access to clean water is one of the major challenges facing South Sudan and threatening its stability. Most water extracted from local rivers host parasites and other diseases, which results in widespread illness among local populations. Water is Basic has built nearly 500 wells across South Sudan since 2008, providing clean water to approximately 10% of the population.The non-profit operates through a sustainable model that requires local communities to finance the repair and maintenance of the wells and creates jobs by hiring local Sudanese workers. Proceeds from the wells fund job training businesses, orphanages, health clinics, and schools throughout the country. The Bishop, with American Evangelical support, has helped establish close to 200 churches and two orphanages in southern Sudan. The Bishop is the Sudan Project Director of Basic Ministries International, an Evangelical organization that has started churches across South Sudan and has drilled more than 400 water wells in communities. Bishop <mask> has also delivered humanitarian relief to Jonglei state, an area where intertribal conflict has displaced hundreds of

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 thousands of people over the past years. He has built a small hospital there and has set up livelihood projects in communities from all of the groups to help address poverty. Another ministry in Sudan, His Voice Global, works to house and educate orphans in the region.In an effort to make that ministry financially independent and operationally successful, Bishop <mask> was an instrumental part of the establishment of Lion of Judah Trucking Company, which now completely supports three orphanages financially. As of 2010, the trucking company has been able to keep them self-sustained. The Bishop is also a leader in the ongoing peace process in Jonglei state between warring ethnic groups. Despite his strong Christian faith, Bishop <mask> encourages reconciliation and cooperation among people of all religions. "For people to move away from violence, people need to see beyond religious differences," he says. The nation-building projects, including the wells, schools, and clinics, do not discriminate against any religions or require people to be of a particular religion to receive clean water or services. Broker for peace
In 2012, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Bishop <mask> as part of a trip to urge Sudan and South Sudan to resolve an oil dispute that threatened to undermine existing peace agreements.Bishop <mask> was a prominent public voice urging South Sudan to resume oil exports to the north and brokering peace between the two governments. The Bishop was also a strong advocate for the international Arms Trade Treaty, and traveled to New York for the treaty's final negotiations at the UN before its successful adoption. There, he was


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 invited to address the full UN General Assembly on the need for an International Arms Trade Treaty. In September 2013, Bishop <mask> was selected to receive the prestigious Global Citizen Award by the Clinton Foundation to be presented during the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City. In honor of receiving the award, Bishop <mask> sat down for an interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network. Then, after the ceremony, the Bishop sat down with Secretary Clinton for an interview. He was honored for his vision and leadership in addressing global problems, which range in scope from the Arms Trade Treaty to access to clean water in Sudan to work with orphanages.He is praised as a respected broker for peace in both North and South Sudan, and the Clinton Foundation Global Citizens Award reflects that commitment. References

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<mask> (born March 28, 1967) is a former radio program host, documentary film writer/director, and conservative journalist. <mask>'s most prominent work in radio has been as the evening (7-10 PM) host of a radio talk show called The <mask> Show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, California, from January 12, 2004, until November 13, 2007. Talkers Magazine listed <mask> as number 54 on their "Heavy Hundred" list of the most important U.S. radio talk show hosts in 2007. He co-hosted, with Leah Brandon, a Sunday evening radio program, the <mask> and Leah Show, which was nationally syndicated and in 2016, was considered the 99th most influential talk shows by Talkers Magazine, and a staff columnist for Mediaite. He makes appearances on television cable news as a conservative pundit. Early life and education
<mask> was born in a U.S. Army post in Heidelberg, Germany, and grew up as the eldest son of a financial manager in the small village of Washington Crossing, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a standout golfer in high school, being named High School Golfer of the Year by the Bucks County Courier Times.In 1985, <mask> graduated from the Catholic Holy Ghost Preparatory School located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. He then attended Georgetown University, graduating in 1989 with a degree in Government and a minor in Theology and Philosophy. While attending Georgetown, he lettered in golf for three years. Concerning his family's religious background, Ziegler has stated that he "grew up in an incredibly, very strict Roman Catholic family on both sides, my mother and my father's side. I've got numerous aunts who've been in the convent. I went to Catholic high school, Catholic college, as did almost all of my relatives, so, I mean, I'm very steeped in Catholicism". Ziegler is, however, an agnostic, referring to himself as a "recovering Catholic".Career
After graduating from college, <mask> became a sportscaster, moving his way up to a full-time position at WTOV in Ohio. He left the position to write a book about high school football in Steubenville, Ohio,

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 <mask> was the focus of David Foster Wallace's cover story in the April 2005 Atlantic Monthly, which examined the American talk radio industry through the lens of The <mask> Show. <mask> viewed the article as "a partial hit piece;" in response to the article, he wrote an obituary of Wallace following his death in 2008, stating that Wallace "was an overrated writer in life. His suicide should not be used to elevate him even further beyond what he deserved, in death." The <mask> Show

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<mask> was the evening (7-10 PM) host of a radio talk show called The <mask> Show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, California from January 12, 2004 until November 13, 2007. The program was mostly news-based political commentary, but it also brought up other issues such as events happening in <mask>'s personal life.The <mask> Show was advertised as Getting it Right at Night and a common catchphrase that <mask> used to describe the show was "three hours of rationality in a world of ever increasing insanity". <mask> was suspended for two days in 2006 following an on-air confrontation with <mask> of KFI's <mask> and Ken Show. On November 13, 2007, the day after he announced his departure from KFI, <mask> broadcast his last show. He told a reporter that the decision was due to mental and physical exhaustion, and to his work on a documentary. KGIL 1260 AM
In June 2009, <mask> began a show on Los Angeles news/talk radio station KGIL 1260 AM, which ran from 11 AM until 1 PM. weekdays. Nationally syndicated program
Beginning November 2, 2014, <mask> rejoined Brandon to host the <mask> and Leah Show on KHTS in Santa Clarita, California.In March 2015, the program became nationally syndicated through Envision Networks, with 24 stations nationwide doing business under the name Free Speech Broadcasting Network. The program moved its home base to KRLA in Los Angeles in August 2015. <mask> and Leah was named as one of the 100 most influential radio talk shows in the United States by Talkers Magazine in 2016, coming in at #99. Leah Brandon left the show in November

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After leaving his talk show on KFI AM 640, <mask> was involved in two documentary film projects. In August 2008, <mask> and producer David Bossie of Citizens United premiered a documentary co-produced, written and directed by Ziegler entitled Blocking The Path to 9/11, which revisits the political controversy about the ABC docudrama miniseries The Path to 9/11. Through interviews with the Path to 9/11 filmmakers and others, news clips about the controversy, and footage from the miniseries, the documentary makes the claim that Disney/ABC ultimately shelved plans to release a DVD of the miniseries as a result of pressure from the political left, specifically the Clintons.As noted in the documentary, Disney/ABC denies this and claims the move was merely a business decision. But commission member Richard Ben-Veniste said that the miniseries misrepresented facts presented in the 9/11 Commission report. Two FBI agents also criticized the film's accuracy. Thomas E. Nicoletti was hired by the filmmakers as a consultant, but quit, saying "There were so many inaccuracies...I'm well aware of what's dramatic license and what's historical inaccuracy," Nicoletti said. "And this had a lot of historical inaccuracy.'" Shortly after the 2008 U.S. presidential election, <mask> announced that a documentary titled Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected was in production (the full title was later changed to Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected And Palin Was Targeted). The film claims that a liberal bias in the media was responsible for Barack Obama being elected president.The film was originally released live on the Today Show on February 23, 2009. Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal documentary
<mask> released a 32-minute "mini-documentary" on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, criticizing media accounts that Joe Paterno was aware of Jerry Sandusky's abuse of children. The documentary interviews former Penn State players Franco Harris and Christian Marrone, as well as Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola and Penn State trustee

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Mediaite column
<mask> has been a columnist at Mediaite since 2016. His contributions to the site have often been critical of President Donald Trump as well as Trump's progressive opponents. Relation with David Foster Wallace
The writer David Foster Wallace's article "Host"  is about Ziegler. It quotes
<mask> refuting a radio phone-in caller about O.J. Simpson "...because of the history of racism which is real in this country, and which is insidious, the one guy—-the one guy-—who gets the benefit of all of that pain and suffering
over a hundred years of history in this country is the one guy who deserves it less than anybody else..."
Wallace says it should be 400 years but <mask> lives in a bleak and merciless world.The essay was published twice in Atlantic magazine and is the final chapter in Wallace's book Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, the final published work before Wallace's suicide. Personal life
He is married to Alison Kallik; they have two daughters. See also

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<mask>'s official website

American talk radio hosts
American agnostics
Former Roman Catholics
Radio personalities from Louisville, Kentucky
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<mask> (born September 12, 1993) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She began songwriting as a child and signed with Black River Entertainment in 2014, releasing her debut studio album the following year, The First Time. Her second studio album, Unapologetically, followed in 2017. <mask>'s first two albums have accounted for seven charted songs on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. She has four No. 1 singles on the latter, starting with her debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It", which made her the first female artist to send a debut single to the top of that chart since Carrie Underwood in 2006. It was followed by "Dibs" and "Peter Pan", whose peaks also made her the first female country artist to send her first three singles to the top of that chart since Wynonna Judd.Ballerini's fourth No. 1 single is "Legends". Her third and fourth studio albums, Kelsea and Ballerini, were both released in 2020. Early life
Ballerini grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Ed, a former sales manager for a country radio station, is of part Italian descent. Her mother, Carla, has worked in marketing for Thomas Nelson Bible publishing and a sponsorship company. She is an only child.She started taking dance lessons at Premiere Dance Studio in Seymour, Tennessee when she was three and stopped ten years later. She sang in the church and school choirs. She wrote her first song at 12 for her mother and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, three years later. She attended Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee; Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee; and then Lipscomb University for two years until she pursued a musical career. Career

2014–2016: Self-titled EP and The First Time
At 19, she signed a deal with Black River Entertainment. In late 2014, she released her debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It", which debuted on the Country Airplay chart in October 2014. She released a self-titled

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 extended play for the label in November.She was named one of CMT's Next Women of Country in 2014. She performed for the first time at the Grand Ole Opry on February 14, 2015, and sang "Love Me Like You Mean It". On May 19, 2015, Ballerini's debut album The First Time was released through Black River. For the chart dated July 4, 2015, "Love Me Like You Mean It" , the album's first single, reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, making Ballerini the first solo female country music artist to score a number one hit with her debut single since Carrie Underwood did so with "Jesus, Take the Wheel" in 2006, and only the eleventh in history to achieve the feat. Ballerini also became only the fifth solo female country music artist to score back-to-back number one hits with her first two singles when "Dibs" reached the top of the Country Airplay chart and the first to do it since Jamie O'Neal in 2001. The album's third single, "Peter Pan", was released to country radio on March 21, 2016. "Peter Pan" reached number one on both the Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts in September, making Ballerini the first solo female country music artist to top both country music charts simultaneously.This achievement also made her the first solo female to send her first three singles to number one since Wynonna Judd accomplished the same feat in 1992. The album's fourth single, "Yeah Boy", was released to country radio on October 10, 2016. 2017–2019: Unapologetically, coaching The Voice, and joining the Grand Ole Opry
In early 2017, Ballerini was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 – Music list at number two. In 2017, Ballerini received two Academy of Country Music Award nominations for Female Vocalist of the Year and Video of the Year for "Peter Pan." In June 2017, Ballerini released "Legends" as the first single from her second studio album. On November 3, she released her second album, titled Unapologetically. The


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In July 2019, Ballerini confirmed in an Instagram post that work on her third studio album was complete. On September 6, 2019, Ballerini released the first single off of her then upcoming third album, titled "Homecoming Queen?" The song debuted at number 22 on the Country Airplay chart, making it