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<mask>, born 13 March 1760 at Évreux in Upper Normandy, died on 9 November 1828 in Paris; he was a French bookseller, printer, journalist, and writer. He was also a political figure of some relevance at the time of the French Revolution and into the early years of the next century. Youth
A son of the prosecutor, <mask>, <mask> was expelled from university during the first year of his philosophy studies after he created a scandal by refusing to support his contention that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an atheist. Before taking up philosophy, he began, like his compatriot, , as a student of languages with an interest in philology. He was also a follower, though without sharing all of his ideas, of . As a young man, he produced German and English translations of the works of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, which financially supported him until his death. In particular, he was known for reproducing the essay on the origins of freemasonry by Thomas Paine, who became his close friend.Freemasonry
Initiated into freemasonry in 1786 during a stay in England, he wrote two books on the subject, the "Jesuits Expelled from Masonry", and "Dagger Shattered by the Masons", both in 1788, in which he accuses the Jesuits of having introduced into the symbolic degrees of freemasonry, the myths of the Templars and their doctrine of revenge, based on the "crime" of their destruction, and the four vows of the Templars included in their higher degrees. Earlier, in 1787, the leading Bavarian illuminist and freemason, Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, is said to have converted the German-speaking Bonneville to a faith that combined esoteric symbolism with radical ideas of popular sovereignty bordering on direct democracy. Politics
On the eve of the Convention of the Estates General, he began a passionate career in politics by publishing a

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 newspaper, The Tribune of the People. Its proposals included the creation of a militia. During the Revolution, he was among the first to propose the storming of the Bastille. Once the prison had fallen, the first mayor of Paris, Jean Sylvain Bailly, praised his "zealous and courageous" though "imprudent" initiatives, and he commissioned him as a lieutenant colonel in the militia, with the task of overseeing the water supply of the city of Paris. Soon afterward, he became president of the District of the Carmes Déchaussés, much to the fury of Jean-Paul Marat who had held that position.Society of the Friends of Truth
On 13 October 1790, he founded, with Claude Fauchet, the Society of the Friends of Truth (also known as the Amis de la Verité or the Social Club), whose purpose was to rally the human race to "the doctrine of love, which is the religion of happiness." The club became a forum for revolutionary and egalitarian ideas, attracting Sylvain Maréchal and Gracchus Babeuf into his circle. It was at the time unique for its focus on social, sexual and racial equality. The reports of the Social Club were published in the newspaper, Mouth of Iron. He also published newspapers called The Tribune of the People, The Chronicle of the Month, and The Well Informed. In addition to Fauchet, <mask>'s collaborators included Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Nicolas de Condorcet, Nicolas-Edme Rétif, and Thomas Paine. Political and philosophical beliefs
In a famous letter, Nicolas de <mask> demanded freedom of the press, the abolition of Catholic worship, and the communal ownership of land.In 1791, he founded the "Republican Society", whose members included Nicolas de Condorcet and Manon Roland. He was also friend and disciple to the occultist, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. In his book "The Spirit of Religions", published in

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 1791, he sought to resolve the issue of social happiness by describing a universal religion which would have philosophers and scholars for priests. Following a disagreement with the Abbe Fauchet, he found himself alone at the Mouth of Iron. Nonetheless, the newspaper became one of the most sophisticated instruments of the Cordeliers Club, and it remained so until the cessation of its publication in the aftermath of the massacre on the Champ de Mars, 17 July 1791. <mask>'s attempts to be elected to the National Assembly and the Convention failed. Hostile to the wantonly bloody violence of the Revolution, his denunciation of the massacres of September 1792 in "The Chronicle of the Month", earned him the wrath of Marat, who denounced him as an aristocrat.Soon afterward, he was arrested, but he was not executed; instead, he was released after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre. Retrenchment
Retiring for some time to Évreux in 1800, Thomas Paine, who had lived with him and his wife since 1797, helped with the burden of translating the "Covenant Sea". The advent of Napoleon plunged him into trouble again when he hid the royalist, Antoine Joseph Barruel-Beauvert, at his home, and employed him as a proofreader. Beauvert had been proscribed following the coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797). <mask>'s generous act, earning him a portrayal by Charles Nodier as "a frequent host of all the unfortunate of all parties", aroused the suspicions of authorities. He was later jailed for comparing Napoleon Bonaparte to Oliver Cromwell, in The Well Informed of 19 Brumaire Year VIII (November 1800), and, although he was freed quickly enough, he found his presses had been confiscated. Ruined, he took refuge with his father in Évreux, and he remained under police surveillance.In 1802, Tom Paine left for the United States with

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 <mask>'s wife, Marguerite Brazier (1767–1846), who was a disciple of <mask>'s associate, the radical feminist, Etta Palm d'Aelders, and Brazier's three sons, Benjamin, Louis, and Thomas, of whom Paine was godfather. They settled in New Rochelle, New York on Paine's farm. In his will, Paine left the bulk of his estate to Marguerite who had cared for him until he died in 1809. The inheritance included one hundred acres (40.5 ha) of his New Rochelle farm where they had been living, so she could maintain and educate her sons. The fall of Napoleon in 1814 finally allowed <mask> to rejoin his wife in New Rochelle, where he remained for four years before returning to Paris. There, he earned a living by opening a bookshop in the Latin Quarter. During the latter years of his life, he fell into misery and madness, naturally taking a more pessimistic view on the possibilities for the happiness of mankind.His funeral expenses were paid for by Charles Nodier, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Vigny. His son, <mask>, undertook a career in the U.S. Army in which he retired as a brigadier general; his life was immortalized by Washington Irving's "Adventures of Captain Bonneville". <mask> played a crucial role in the advent of Romanticism. His own writings and inspirations make him an essential precursor of this literary movement. His translations from German of Goethe, Lessing, and Schiller also laid the groundwork for later French poets would wished to become familiar with the German stage. References

Sources
Jean-Francois Bailly, Memoires, Paris, Paris, Baldwin Brothers, 1821, t. II, p. 334
Francois Furet, Nicolas de <mask> and the Social Circle, 1787–1800, Paris, Hachette Desktop Publishing, 1976
Philippe Le Harivel. Nicolas de <mask>, pre-Romantic and Revolutionary, 1760–1828, Strasbourg, Librairie Istra; London, New York:

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 H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923
Simon Linguet, Memoirs of the Bastille, Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1889
Jules Michelet, History of the French Revolution, Paris, A. Lacroix, 1877–1879, t. II, pp.230–232. James H Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men, Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, London, 1999. Additional works
The Poetry of Nicolas Bonneville, Paris, Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1976, 1793
In the Spirit of Religion: book promised and necessary to the Federal Universal Friends of Truth, Paris, Impr. Social Circle, 1792
History of Modern Europe: From the Invasion of Northern Peoples in the Roman Empire until the Peace of 1783, 3 vols. Paris, Geneva, [sn], 1789–1792
Scottish Masonry, Nîmes: C. Lacour, 1788, 1998
The Tribune of the People, or, Collection of letters from some voters in Paris before the Revolution of 1789 Paris, Impr. Social Circle, 1789
The Old People's Tribune, Paris, Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1793
Jesuits Expelled from Masonry, and Dagger Shattered by the Masons, Paris, C. Volland, 1788
"Letter from Nicolas de <mask>, a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, M. le Marquis de Condorcet", London: J. Rovinson, 1976, 1787
The Anthem of Fighting: a Tribute to the Armies of the Republic, Paris, Librairie-Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1976, 1797
<mask>, Elector of the Department of Paris to the Real Friends of Freedom, Paris, Impr. Social Circle, 1976, 1791

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<mask> (born 21 June 1954) is an Austrian writer. Biography
<mask> was born in Vienna. As an undergraduate, he studied German studies, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis "Der Typus des Außenseiters im Literaturbetrieb. Am Beispiel Hermann Schürrer" ("The outsider phenotype within literature"). Between 1981 and 1988 Menasse worked as a junior lecturer at the Institute of Literature Theory at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been working as a freelance publicist, columnist and translator of novels from Portuguese into German ever since.His first novel Sinnliche Gewissheit, published in 1988, is a semi-autobiographical tale of Austrians living in exile in Brazil. The magazine Literatur und Kritik published Menasse's first poem ("Kopfwehmut") in 1989. His later novels were Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt (1991, translated into English as Wings of Stone ),  Schubumkehr (1995, Engl. Reverse Thrust) and Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle (2001, Engl. Expulsion from Hell). Menasse's language is at times playful and at times subtly sarcastic. Recurring themes in his
novels are loneliness and alienation within human relationships and as a result of his character's lives' circumstances.In his work Menasse often criticises what he sees as the latent form of antisemitism still widespread in the German-speaking world today. Menasse has also written some essays on Austria (especially on Austrian identity and history; "Land ohne

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 Eigenschaften" (1992) a.o.). More recently, he wrote about the future of Europe and the European Union, criticizing tendencies of re-nationalization (especially in Germany, but also elsewhere) and anti-European integration movements, which he interprets as a reaction to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its aftermath (Euro crisis) ("Der europäische Landbote", 2012). Since returning to Europe from Brazil, Menasse has mainly lived in the cities of Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam. He currently lives in Vienna and is married. Since 2011 Menasse has been curating a writer in residence programme with the one world foundation in Sri Lanka. His books have been translated in over twenty languages, among others: Arabic, Bask, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Flemish, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.Today, Menasse lives alternately in Vienna, in the Waldviertel (Forest Quarter) in Lower Austria, and in Brussels. He is the son of the footballer <mask> and the brother of the journalist and writer <mask>. Novels
<mask>'s first short story Nägelbeißen (Engl. Nail-Biting) was published in the journal Neue Wege in 1973. From 1975 to 1980 he worked on his unfinished and unpublished novel Kopfwehmut (Engl. Mind's Melancholy), a social novel set in 1970s Vienna. His first published novel, Sinnliche Gewißheit (Engl.Sensual Certainty) appeared in 1988 as the first part of a trilogy started in

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texts: <mask> Ben Israel for his novel Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle translated in ten languages, Menasse formulated the hypothesis of Abaelard‘s influence on <mask> Ben Israel and Spinoza, published among others in his essay Enlightenment as Harmonious Strategy. In 2007 he published Don Juan de la Mancha, where he tells of more or less fictitious events from the (love) life of the newspaper editor Nathan – a mixture of listlessness, drive, lust and the search for the fulfilment of love. As a character, Nathan stands for the generation that was socialised in the 1970s with the claim for the “sexual revolution".In 2017 Menasse published his analytical novel Die Hauptstadt (The Capital), which has been described as the first novel about Brussels as the European Union's capital, and which received the German Book Prize. The story is focused on officials from the Department of Culture, who are expected to add polish to the image of the EU Commission on its birthday. This is to be accomplished with a "Big Jubilee Project" event with concentration camp survivors in Auschwitz. The life stories of characters lead the reader into six EU countries. The stage director Tom Kühnel and the dramaturg Ralf Fiedler translated the novel into a theatrical version with about twenty characters played by seven actors, which was premiered in January 2018 at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich. The English translation, The Capital by Jamie Bulloch, was published by MacLehose Press in February 2019. Essays and

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In his political and journalistic work, Menasse is seen as an "old-style Enlightenment thinker," whose intellectual predecessors are especially Hegel and Marx but also Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch  and the philosophers of the Frankfurt School.Essays like Die sozialpartnerschaftliche Ästhetik (1990; The Aesthetics of Social Partnership) and Das Land ohne Eigenschaften (1992; The Country without Qualities), which brought Menasse fame as an essayist, but also provoked criticism for "fouling his own nest," were followed in time by the essay collections Hysterien und andere historische Irrtümer (1996; Hysterics and Other Historical Errors) and Dummheit ist machbar (1999; Stupidity is Doable), Erklär mir Österreich (2000; Explain Austria to Me) and Das war Österreich (2005; That Was Austria). In these texts the author deals in critical-ironic way with political history, mentality history and literary history of the second Republic of Austria, takes a position on the current cultural policy situation in his homeland and recurrently draws attention to the latent continuity of Austrofascism. Since 2005, i.e. since his Frankfurt Poetics Lecture, Die Zerstörung der Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The Destruction of the World as Will and Representation), Menasse has increasingly devoted his essays to themes around the EU and globalisation. In this European or worldwide context Menasse criticises in particular what he sees as the deficits in democratic policies and the


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 idea that these deficits are structurally determined, which he argues obscures the prospects of possible alternatives. In doing so he does not oppose the European Union in principle but bases his critique of democratic deficits especially in the influence and power of individual nation states, while valuing positively the purely European institutions, such as the Commission. In Der Europäische Landbote (2012; Engl.transl. 2016 as Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits: Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For The European Messenger), he draws a portrait of the non-petty-minded supranational organs and bureaucracies of the EU in Brussels and further develops the "Habsburg Myth" of Claudio Magris into a "European Myth". This also leads to a different and more positive retrospective of the Habsburg Monarchy. In this connection Menasse also speaks in favour of the specific vision and its realization of a “European Republic” formulated together with the political scientist Ulrike Guérot on the basis of a Europe of regions beyond the nation states. Controversy about fake quotations

In December 2018, Welt am Sonntag revealed that <mask>e had fabricated several quotes attributed to Walter Hallstein (1901-1982), one of the founding fathers of the EU) to support his argument for overcoming nation states. Menasse had been using these alleged quotes in many of his articles, essays and speeches since 2013, and they had been taken up in parliamentary


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 debates and publications by other authors. Menasse defended himself arguing that these sentences reflected what Hallstein had meant and that Hallstein "would have had nothing against" Menasse invoking his authority in this way.However, historian Heinrich August Winkler disputed <mask>'s interpretation of Hallstein's actual statements on the matter. Prizes, awards and scholarships
 1987: State scholarship for literature of the Austrian ministry of education and literature
 1989: Encouragement prize for literature of the city of Vienna
 1990: Heimito von Doderer Prize
 1991: State scholarship for literature of the Austrian ministry of education and literature
 1992: Hans Erich Nossack encouragement prize for prose of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Köln
 1992: Theodor Körner Prize
 1992/1993: Elias Canetti-scholarship of the city of Vienna
 1994: Berlin residency in the context of the DAAD-scholarship
 1994: Marburger Literaturpreis i.e. Literaturpreis der Universitätsstadt Marburg und des Landkreises Marburg-Biedenkopf
 1994: Encouragement prize for novels of the Austrian ministry of education and literature
 1994: Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize
 1996:  of the city of Pirmasens
 1998: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik
 1999: Grimmelshausen-Preis
 1999: Writer-in-residence in Amsterdam
 2002: Joseph Breitbach Prize
 2002: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
 2002: Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis
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 2003: Erich Fried Prize
 2006: Knight of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres
 2007: Prix Amphi of the University of Lille for the novel Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle publ. in French as Chassés de l’enfer for the best non-French novel
 2010: Goldenes Wiener Verdienstzeichen
 2012: Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur
 2013: Donauland-Sachbuchpreis for Der europäische Landbote. Die Wut der Bürger und der Friede Europas
 2013: Heinrich Mann Prize
 2013:  (Engl. The political book), prize of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
 2014: Max Frisch Prize of the city of Zurich
 2014: Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Niederösterreich
 2015: Niederösterreichischer Kulturpreis – Würdigungspreis
 2015: 'Prix du livre européen' (Engl. European Book Prize), that seeks to promote European values, and to contribute to European citizens' better understanding of the European Union as a cultural entity.2017: German Book Prize
 2018:  of the city of Aachen

With the prize money that <mask> received for the Austrian State Prize (1998) he re-founded the Jean Améry- Preis für Europäische Essayistik, whose winners so far have been Lothar Baier (1982), Barbara Sichtermann (1985), Mathias Greffrath (1988), Reinhard Merkel (1991), Franz Schuh (2000), Doron Rabinovici (2002), Michael Jeismann (2004), Drago Jančar (2007), Imre Kertész (2009), Dubravka Ugrešić (2012), Adam Zagajewski (2016) and Karl-Markus Gauß (2018). Bibliography
 Sinnliche Gewißheit. Roman. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1988,
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 sozialpartnerschaftliche Ästhetik. Essays zum österreichischen Geist. Sonderzahl, Vienna 1990. Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt.Roman. Residenz, Salzburg/Vienna 1991. . Translated into the English: Wings of Stone. Calder Publications Ltd. 2000, transl. by David Bryer. Das Land ohne Eigenschaften. Essay zur österreichischen Identität.Sonderzahl, Vienna 1992. Phänomenologie der Entgeisterung. Geschichte vom verschwindenden Wissen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995. Schubumkehr. Novel. Residenz, Salzburg/Vienna 1995,
 Hysterien und andere historische Irrtümer.Nachwort von Rüdiger Wischenbart. Sonderzahl, Vienna 1996. Überbau und Underground. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997,
 With <mask> und Eva Menasse: Die letzte Märchenprinzessin. Illustrated by Gerhard Haderer. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997. With <mask> und <mask>: Der mächtigste Mann.Illustrated by Kenneth Klein. Deuticke, Zsolnay, Vienna/Munich 1998. Dummheit ist machbar. Begleitende Essays zum Stillstand der Republik. Sonderzahl, Vienna 1999. Erklär mir Österreich. Essays zur österreichischen Geschichte.Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000. Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle. Roman. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001. Das war Österreich. Gesammelte Essays zum Land ohne Eigenschaften. Hrsg.v. Eva Schörkhuber. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005. Die Zerstörung der Welt als Wille und Vorstellung – Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen. Edition Suhrkamp 2464, Frankfurt am Main 2006. Das Paradies der Ungeliebten. Political theater play. Debut performance

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 on 7 October 2006 at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.Don Juan de la Mancha oder die Erziehung der Lust. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007. . Translated into the English: Don Juan de la Mancha or an Education in Pleasure – Novel, Alma Books/Calder Publications 2009. Das Ende des Hungerwinters. Lesung- Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2008, . Doktor Hoechst – Ein Faustspiel.A Tragedy. A theater play. Debut performance on 25 April 2009, at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Production: Hermann Schein. Ich kann jeder sagen: Erzählungen vom Ende der Nachkriegsordnung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009. . Translated into the English: Anyone Can Say "I".Tales from the End of the Post-war Era. Ariadne Books 2009, transl. by Thomas S. and Abby J. Hansen. Permanente Revolution der Begriffe. Vorträge zum Begriff der Abklärung, Essays. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009,
 Der Europäische Landbote, Die Wut der Bürger und der Friede Europas oder Warum die geschenkte Demokratie einer erkämpften weichen muss. Zsolnay, Vienna 2012, .Translated into the English: Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits: Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For. Seagull Books 2016, transl. by Craig Decker,
 Heimat ist die schönste Utopie. Reden (wir) über Europa. Edition Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014,
 "Weil Europa sich ändern muss." Im Gespräch mit Gesine Schwan, <mask>, Hauke Brunkhorst. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015,
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 2015,
 Europe. The Future of History. Catalogue and exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich (Zuercher Kunstgesellschaft). Cathérine Hug und <mask> (eds. ), with contributions by a.o. Melinda Nadj Abonji, Zygmunt Bauman, Horst Bredekamp, Burcu Dogramaci, Julia Kristeva, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Thomas Maissen, NZZ libro 2015.Feiert das Leben! Catalogue and exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna. <mask> and Cathérine Hug (eds. ), with contributions by Kader Attia, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Daniel Knorr, Manuela Laubenberger, Erik van Lieshout, Teresa Margolles, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Schabus, Hubert Scheibl, Daniel Spoerri, Nives Widauer und Josef Zotter, Vienna 2016. Europa. Akzente, 3 /2016. <mask> and Jo Lendle (eds.), with contributions by Lily Brett, György Dragomán, Dana Grigorcea, Zbigniew Herbert, Elfriede Jelinek, Ingo Schulze, Adam Zagajewski, among others. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016. Warum? Das Vermächtnis des Jean Améry. <mask>e on Jean Améry, his impact and topicality (in an interview with Cathérine Hug). Bernstein-Verlag, Siegburg 2016. Kritik der Europäischen Vernunft – Critique de la raison européene – A Critique of European Reason.Festrede vor dem Europäischen Parlament: 60 Jahre Römische Verträge. Including the “Manifesto for the foundation of a European Republic” co-written by <mask> and Ulrike Guérot. Tri-Lingual Deutsch/Français/English. Bernstein-Verlag, Siegburg 2017. . Die Hauptstadt, Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017. References

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<mask> (21 January 1948 – 18 February 2018) was an English writer and novelist. Early life
The third and youngest child of the artist and sculptor <mask> (née Booth) and <mask>, a District Officer in the British Colonial Service, <mask> was born "in something of a hurry on a bench in a third-class Chinese ward at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital" in Singapore. He grew up speaking Malay amid an extended household of Malays, Javanese, Chinese and Indians, later commemorated by his parents in their memoirs. At three, <mask> experienced a formative culture shock upon the family's relocation from tropical Malaya to England, before spending two years on Africa's Gold Coast where his father was helping to administrate the transition from British colonial rule in soon-to-be independent Ghana. Parts of the story of his early life are told in his father's book Colonial Postscript (1992). Educated at St George's School, Windsor, and Clifton College, <mask> graduated from Merton College, Oxford, with a degree in English Language and Literature in 1969. Later the same year he left England for Munich, Germany.Career
While working as a stage-hand at Munich's Kammerspiele in 1969, <mask> received a call from a family friend, Nevill Coghill, asking whether he wished to spend the coming months at the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico residence of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, as tutor to Taylor's son Christopher Wilding. <mask> would later recount his friendship with Burton and Taylor in a tribute published in Vanity Fair in December 1984, the year that Burton died. In 1973, <mask> was awarded a three-year scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study at the Language Research Institute of Waseda University in Tokyo. His stay in Japan would form the basis of his first published book, the fictionalised memoir Pictures from the Water Trade. A New York Times Book Review notable book which also featured in

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 Time Magazine's list of the "Best of '85", the novel was translated into half a dozen languages and became a bestseller in Japan. From 1979-2000 <mask> worked as a researcher and interpreter for the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), as a freelance journalist for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and Condé Nast Traveler, and as a correspondent for the short-lived Asia Times. During the 1990s, he wrote op-ed pieces in German for the feuilleton of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.<mask> published one collection of journalism and ten works of fiction, of which the last, Ella Morris, appeared in September 2014. <mask>'s papers are collected at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. He died on Sunday, 18 February 2018, aged 70. Bibliography

Novels

 Pictures from the Water Trade (1985)
 In the Labyrinth (1986)
 The Case of Thomas N. (1987)
 The Feast of Fools (1994)
 The Anatomy Lesson (1995)
 Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities (1996)
 Journey to the End of the Whale (2005)
 Passage (2007)
 The Book of Opposites (2010)
 Ella Morris (2014)

Journalism
 Encounters (1990)

Themes
<mask>'s novels revolve around themes of love, loss, the quest for identity and the journey into the unknown. Almost, if not all, involve a protagonist's assimilation into an unfamiliar culture, be it Japan in Pictures from the Water Trade, the unnamed city in The Case of Thomas N., the indigenous whaling-village in Journey to the End of the Whale, the literal New World of Passage, or the East German experience of the newly united Berlin in The Book of Opposites. Identity
In a 1987 profile in The Guardian, on the publication of The Case of Thomas N., Hugh Hebert singled out the identity issue. "Thomas N. never uses the word 'I', and that disappearance of the personal pronoun is also an important thread in <mask>'s essay on the

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 Japanese language," Hebert noted of a theme common to <mask>'s first three books."In the Japanese book, <mask> wrote in the third person, calling his young Englishman Boon. In the Labyrinth suddenly, a third of the way through, turned into a first person narrative – <mask> went back and wrote it all as 'I'. Thomas N. is a youth without qualities, a large zero in which the people around can write their own ideas." "<mask> is an immigrant of the imagination" observed Richard Eder in his review of The Feast of Fools in The Los Angeles Times Book Review: "His cityscape, his celebrations, his meals, his very weather and noises are German. Yet his principal characters mount their national ladders into a universality that is sweetly particular." Frank Kermode echoed Eder's notion in his tribute to <mask>'s Passage twelve years later: "A remarkable feat of imagination and sheer narrative energy. What <mask> has achieved is the apotheosis of the picaro.The old style picaresque confined the hero to a single lifetime; <mask> has burst free of such constraints and deals in centuries, with corresponding geographic advantages." Humanism
Informed by the specter of the post-war years and the era of division in Germany, the unnerving bleakness of certain of <mask>'s earlier books (the stark prison sequences of In the Labyrinth, for example, or the disturbingly ambiguous coda of The Case of Thomas N.) gives way, over the course of his body of work, to a more hopeful, even profoundly life-affirming vision of the nature of existence, as evidenced in his narrator's conjectural conclusions on cetacean physiology in Journey to the End of the Whale and on the cosmic implications of quantum mechanics in The Book of Opposites. Reviewing the former in The Sunday Telegraph, Matthew Alexander applauded the "rich spiritual-thematic explorations" of the book: "The whale legends and ancient traditions of the islands, the

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 submarine lives of giant mammals connected by sound-telepathy across vast tracts of ocean... from these and many more images and experiences emerges a poignant kind of personal spirituality which leads Daniel to a new understanding of his own humanity." As the author and translator Suzanne Ruta noted in The New York Times Book Review of The Feast of Fools: "<mask> writes less as a moralist than as a celebrant." Love Triangles & Telepathic Lovers
At least half of <mask>'s novels involve a love triangle, more commonly between two men and one woman (though in the Pernambuco, Brazil sequence of Passage this template is reversed). Yet, in contrast to the love triangle of  The Feast of Fools, in which the male lovers' rivalry reaches comically ludicrous proportions (ultimately culminating, as Andy Solomon wrote in The Chicago Tribune, "with an excremental duel that would fall beneath the dignity of the grossest Animal House on any college campus"), those in The Anatomy Lesson, Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities and, most especially, The Book of Opposites are emblematic of unusually happy, tender interminglings between three human beings united by mutual affection. "<mask>’s observing eye," wrote Christina Patterson in The Times Literary Supplement, "though unfailingly cool, is capable of both wit and compassion and he has a good understanding of 'that inequality which is in the nature of love', writing movingly of the tension between life and death, joy and pain."Telepathy between lovers is also a common feature of <mask>'s works, notably in Journey to the End of the Whale, in which Daniel's wife Kozue instinctively knows that he is near death, despite his being on the other side of the world at the time, via a mental connection seemingly akin to that of whales echolocating in the deep. This trope attains a new dimension, though, in The Book of Opposites within the tripartite love affair

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 between the "drifter" and sometime physicist Frank, the photographer Wilma Pfrumpter, whose peculiar gift of precognition results in an early career as a remote viewer, and her husband Pfrumpy, whose training in Tibetan Buddhism, in part, holds the key to the mystery of why their car flew off the Glienicker Bridge. The largely anonymous narrator of the novel, who styles himself the "observer", even intuits a possible scientific raison d’etre for this phenomenon of lovers' telepathy in evidence supporting the existence of quantum entanglement. Writing as 'highwire act'
The idea of writing involving a restive, dangerous commitment on the part of the writer is apparent in <mask>'s work. Any catharsis found in the act of storytelling seems linked to the inherent risks involved, as evidenced by Boon's descriptions of shodo in Pictures from the Water Trade, specifically in his comparison of the art of Japanese calligraphy to the violence of sumo or the ritual act of seppuku:
"When Boon knelt on the tatami in his cold bare room (for some reason the cold had a beneficial effect on shodo) and began to prepare for his calligraphical exercises, images of the ritual performance of seppuku would spontaneously come to his mind. Tense, a little excited, like a coiled spring, he mentally went through the motions of the strokes he intended to put down on paper, waiting until he was sure what we wanted and for the moment when he could do it. Now – and without thinking that he had already made up his mind to begin he found the brush suddenly dropping down onto the paper, almost of its own accord.The tip of the brush struck the paper with a slight jar. With a sense of shock he watched it cut a dense black swathe on the blank paper, irreversibly, he could no longer draw back. His pent feelings were released and began to flow down the page in the wake of the glossy ink." Described in a 2005 profile in The Observer


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 magazine as a man defined "by his compulsion to ride his adrenaline", <mask>, on several occasions, came close to death while discovering his fiction. Indeed, when asked by The Observer'''s reporter "if he started out with nine lives, how many does he think he has left? ", <mask> answered: "Four". His numerous close calls included a 1973 skiing accident (in which he broke both legs, suffered an embolism and was on life-support for a week), a 1995 bout of malaria tropica in Burma and Thailand, a near-drowning in a local lake in Munich in 2001 on account of a stenosis of the aorta, and two subsequent experiences of open heart surgery, the latter an emergency operation conducted by a doctor who declared his patient to be "a medical miracle"."When I sit down and get seriously into a book, my pulse rate rises considerably," <mask> once said. "You cannot live a safe life and an interesting one in this profession. Writing is a frightening business." Marcus (The New York Times Book Review, 21 April 1996)
 Review by <mask> <mask> of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (The New York Times Book Review, 5 October 1997)
 Review of <mask>'s Journey to the End of the Whale (The Observer, 25 September 2005)
 Review of <mask>'s Journey to the End of the Whale (The Times, 20 November 2005)
 Review of <mask>'s Passage (The Sunday Telegraph, 30 September 2007)
 Brief Review of <mask>'s Passage (The Independent, 14 September 2008)
 Brief Review of <mask>'s Passage (The Independent, 19 September 2008)
Brief Review of <mask>'s Ella Morris  (The Times'', 18 October 2014)

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<mask> (born October 12, 1952) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 13th Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii from 2010 to 2013. Prior to serving as interim Mayor following the resignation of former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann (in Hannemann's unsuccessful bid to run for Hawaii State governor against former U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie), <mask> had served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu from 1996 to 2010. Personal life

<mask> was born in 1952 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He attended Kent School in Connecticut and pursued an undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and English, he attended the UCLA School of Law. <mask> first came to Hawaii in 1978 where he met and married Judy. <mask>'s first experience with prosecution in Hawaii came in a work/study program with the Honolulu prosecutor's office.After receiving his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA, he was recruited as a deputy prosecutor for the City and County of Honolulu. He remained in that job for over a decade, attaining the responsibility of chief of the Career Criminal Unit. In 1988, <mask> went into private practice for the Honolulu law firm of Shim, Tam, Kirimitsu, Kitamura and Chang where he worked for eight years, mostly handling personal injury cases. In 1996 he ran for Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu and was elected. <mask> is an opponent of capital punishment. While in office as prosecuting attorney he pushed for tougher sentencing laws and led a successful fight to amend the state constitution to allow for "information charging" and eliminate the requirement that victims and other witnesses testify during preliminary or grand jury hearings. He was later criticized by the Hawai'i Supreme Court for using taxpayer money to promote the constitutional amendment.Election history
<mask>’s opponents in 1996 for the role of Honolulu Prosecutor were defense attorney and three-year deputy prosecutor David Arakawa and former deputy prosecutor and Liquor

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 Commission administrator Randal Yoshida. Keith Kaneshiro, who was Prosecuting Attorney since 1988, endorsed David Arakawa. David Arakawa came out ahead of <mask> in the primary, but did not win over 50% of the vote in the September election to win outright. <mask> steadily gained in the polls after the September Primary and beat Arakawa in the November runoff in the general election. Political analysts credited <mask>’s more extensive experience as a deputy prosecutor, his independence from political parties, and his performance in televised debates as reasons for winning. <mask> ran unopposed in 2000 for a second four-year term as Prosecuting Attorney. In the 2004 Hawaii Primary Election, former Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro challenged <mask>.<mask> received 58.4% of the vote as opposed to Kaneshiro's 34.1%. In 2008, <mask> ran unopposed for an unprecedented fourth term as Honolulu Prosecutor. On September 18, 2010, <mask> won the special election for Honolulu mayor to complete the final two years of former mayor Mufi Hannemann's term. Hannemann resigned as mayor to run for Hawaii governor. <mask> was sworn into office as the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu on October 11, 2010. He ran for re-election in the 2012 mayoral election but failed to advance to the general election after finishing third in the primary behind former Hawaii Governor Ben Cayetano and former acting Mayor Kirk Caldwell. On August 12, 2012, <mask> came in third out of three candidates in the non-partisan Honolulu mayoral primary election, thus eliminating him from the race.Neither of the top two finishers, Ben Cayetano and acting Mayor Kirk Caldwell, garnered the necessary 50% plus one vote necessary to win the Mayor's office outright. They went on to a runoff election on November 6, 2012, which Caldwell won. As Prosecuting Attorney
Along with administering the Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office, <mask> personally prosecuted several cases during his term, including the mass murder trial of Byran Uyesugi who shot and killed seven of his co-workers at a Xerox

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 warehouse in Honolulu. The jury found Uyesugi guilty of First Degree Murder. He also successfully prosecuted Kirk Lankford. <mask> held faculty positions as an adjunct professor with the University of Hawaii System William S. Richardson School of Law, at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. He was a member of the board of directors of the National District Attorney’s Association and in 2002 was awarded the Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Criminal Justice Award.As Honolulu mayor

In July 2009, <mask> announced that when Mayor of Honolulu Mufi Hannemann left office to run for governor, he would resign from the office of the prosecuting attorney to run for mayor of Honolulu. On July 20, 2010, Mufi Hannemann announced his resignation from the mayor's office. <mask> subsequently announced his resignation as prosecuting attorney. He ran against three other major contenders: Acting Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, who was appointed managing director by Mufi Hannemann and became the acting mayor when Hannemann resigned to run for governor, UH Professor and former Mayoral candidate Panos Prevedouros, and City Councilmember Rod Tam. <mask> won the special mayoral election on September 18, 2010, and was sworn into office on October 11, 2010, becoming the first mayor in Honolulu history to be identified as an Independent. As mayor, <mask> was a major supporter of the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project, and worked to redevelop and restore Honolulu's infrastructure. During the APEC United States 2011 summit meetings in Honolulu, <mask> promoted Honolulu as a major hub for Asia-Pacific and international business, and as a world-class city and Pacific icon.<mask> was also an advocate of alternative energy and environmental sustainability. References

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Prosecutor's Office biography
<mask> For Mayor

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<mask> "Tom" <mask> (born 14 July 1959, Abington, Pennsylvania) is a Pennsylvania public finance attorney. He served several terms as county commissioner of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, one of the largest counties in Pennsylvania, before being dropped from the ticket during an intra-party feud. An ally of controversial Republican National Committeeman Bob Asher, he is a prominent figure in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. Education and legal career
He earned a degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985, where he was Editor of University of Pennsylvania Law Review. As special counsel with Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, he handles public finance and higher education legal issues. Specifically, his legal works focuses on facilitating tax-exempt financing projects for local governments and municipal authorities.He also manages the firm's lobbying on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Political career
From 1990 to 2002, he served as a member of the Cheltenham Township Board of Commissioners. In 2001, he was appointed as a board member of SEPTA. He was first elected as a county commissioner in Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in 2003 as running mate with <mask>. He was chair of the county commissioners' board from 2006 through 2008. 2008 election and scandal
In the 2008 election, <mask> was dropped from the Republican ticket because of an incident with former fiancée who filed and then withdrew a protection from abuse order against him. As a result, <mask> was unable to secure the county GOP's endorsement for a second four-year term in 2007.While <mask> denied physically abusing her, he did publicly apologize to her at a county commissioners meeting. <mask> unsuccessfully attempted to obtain the Republican nomination independent of the party apparatus, losing to Bruce Castor and <mask>. In 2008, he was the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania Treasurer. He was endorsed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, whose editorial board praised his "good credentials" and his "interesting ideas" on

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On April 13, 2010, Montgomery County Web editor Marina Bradley accused <mask> of threatening her job. Bradley, who had recently broke off her relationship with <mask>, alleged that <mask> made multiple phone calls to Bradley, including some to her county office, and sent multiple e-mails to her. Montgomery County commissioners were advised of the accusation in a closed-door meeting. Shortly afterward, solicitor Barry M. Miller confirmed that <mask> violating the agreement restrictions and allegedly tried to contact Bradley again by phone when he learned the commissioners had been briefed. <mask> denies contacting Bradley. Asked to respond to the allegations in the complaint, <mask> responded by e-mail, stating, "Any comment would have to come from Bev <mask> as I can't violate Marina's confidentiality. Can tell you case was closed without consequence?"However, <mask>, releasing a letter Monday evening that he sent Saturday to county Chief Operating Officer Robert W. Graf, denies violating the agreement. The letter, in part, states: "As for Ms. Bradley and myself, that case was amicably closed April 1 and never violated by either party. As I told Ms. <mask>, I did mistakenly dial Ms. Bradley on her cell when trying to call someone with a very close number and I dialed too quickly...after four years, it was an old habit. Nothing was said and I immediately hung up when I realized my mistake. That happened one time in a month. I have said nothing to Ms. Bradley nor seen her in or out of the county workplace." When asked if he would call for the treasurer's resignation, Montgomery County commissioner <mask> said he was still looking into the matter."I'm waiting to get more information from our staff," he said. "I'm very troubled by it." Run for

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In May 2018, <mask> started an attempted run for Chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party. <mask> was opposed by a Liz Preate and eventually withdrew from consideration. The opposition to <mask> according to the Philadelphia Inquirer was based upon the 2008 election scandal and the 2010 Harassment scandal outlined above. In his defense, <mask> stated to the Philadelphia Inquirer that he had "long ago apologized (for his behavior in the scandals), redeemed himself, and had only the party's best interests at heart.". SEPTA Board
<mask> has served on the SEPTA board on three occasions.First as a Montgomery County appointee from 2001 to 2011, when he resigned in the wake of charges of workplace harassment. Second as an appointee of Republican governor Tom Corbett from 2011 to 2015. His third stint came when appointed to the board by the Republican PA Senate Majority Leader in 2021. DVREDF scandal
In July 2018 <mask> was listed as a defendant in an action alleging misuse of public funds by the Delaware Valley Regional Economic Development Fund (DVREDF) filed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for <mask>' alleged role in running the Delaware Valley Regional Economic Development Fund as a member of its board of directors. <mask>, along with other board members, is accused of breach of fiduciary obligations at paragraph 66 of the Complaint. The PUC complaint at paragraph 73 also cites an article by Ryan Briggs of City and State PA which alleges that: ... "[W]hat the [DVREDF] does, besides throw money at consultants and other dubious expenses, is a mystery. Its website hasn't been updated in six years.The phone number listed goes to an answering service inside a property manager's office downtown. And its executive director and board members – all Fumo cronies – dodged multiple press inquiries." References

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<mask> (born 1 April 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician and former management consultant who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury in Wiltshire since the 2010 general election. Formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, he currently serves as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister. Early life and career

<mask> was born in Bath on 1 April 1974, and was brought up in a family horticultural business in rural Wiltshire. He was privately educated at King Edward's School, Bath, where he was head boy, and Mansfield College, Oxford, where he read modern history and was elected president of Mansfield College JCR. He was the first person in his family to go to university. After graduating from Oxford, <mask> worked for two Conservative ministers in 1996–1997. He helped with the unsuccessful campaign to get the Conservative candidate, Michael Bates, elected in the constituency of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland at the 1997 general election.Following the election of a Labour government in 1997, he joined the strategy practice of Accenture, a large management consultancy firm. Whilst there he worked on projects for Glaxo Wellcome, BP and the Post Office. In 2000, <mask> went to work for William Hague, who was then leader of the Conservative Party. In his role as head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, he helped prepare Hague for Prime Minister's Question Time and briefed the Shadow Cabinet for media appearances. <mask> was first a parliamentary candidate at the 2001 general election, when he unsuccessfully stood in Plymouth Devonport as the Conservative candidate. He came second, achieving 27.1% of the vote and a 2.9% swing. Following the election, he

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 took an MBA at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and worked in the oil and gas industries in the UK and in the United States.Early in 2004, he returned to the Conservative Party to work as deputy director of the Conservative Research Department in the run-up to the 2005 general election. He then became director of the department and set up the secretariat for the policy review that was established after David Cameron became party leader. He returned to business in 2006, managing his firm's relationship with the World Economic Forum. He became a magistrate (JP) at Horseferry Road, Westminster in 2006. Parliamentary career
<mask> was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury at the 2010 general election. A safe Conservative seat, his percentage share of the vote showed an increase over the previous election in 2005. In 2010, <mask> was criticised for being one of eight MPs claiming public expenses to rent houses or pay for hotel rooms in London, despite already owning homes in the capital that the MPs rented out to provide themselves with additional income.The practice was entirely legal. <mask> was criticised in April 2012 by campaigners for employing an intern from a charity that had recently sponsored an event where a "cure" for homosexuality was discussed. <mask> argued that the views expressed at the conference were those of one specific lecturer and were not advocated by the charity more generally. In the September 2012 reshuffle, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. He was succeeded by Henry Smith in May 2015. On 31 January 2013, <mask> published a paper titled "Completing the Reform, Freeing the Universities" as a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs. The paper advocated encouraging universities to

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texts: build up endowments, which could then replace income from grants; reforms to the tuition fee cap towards "total course costs" instead of per-year caps, and allowing fee differentials by subject group; changes to the way in which research funding is allocated; and administrative savings by the Research Councils and the Office of Fair Access.He wrote an op-ed for The Daily Telegraph about the policies advocated in the paper, titled "Tuition fees cannot be the last reform of university funding". In June 2013, <mask> joined the Delete Blood Cancer register at an event in parliament. Despite the 1 in 1200 chance of being matched with a cancer sufferer, less than a year later he had been matched with a blood cancer patient. In January 2015, <mask> donated his blood stem cells at The London Clinic, enabling the patient to be treated. In 2014, he sat on the Downing Street Policy Board with responsibility for constitutional affairs. In a 2014 survey by a non-campaigning website that enables constituents to contact their MP, <mask> was ranked as the second most responsive MP. In 2015 he completed an MA in international security and strategy, with distinction, at King's College London through the Royal College of Defence Studies.He retained his seat at the 2015 election with 55.6% of the vote – an increase of 6.4% from 2010. Subsequently, he was made PPS to Business Secretary Sajid Javid. Despite describing himself as a Eurosceptic, <mask> was a "reluctant Remainer" prior to the 2016 referendum as he did not feel it was the right time for the UK to leave the European Union. He later voted to trigger Article 50. In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to parliament's register

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Tim Montgomerie, former Times columnist and Editor of ConservativeHome, has described <mask> as a "full spectrum Conservative" – meaning one who is Eurosceptic and supportive of low taxation, but also concerned with social issues and the environment. Social issues
<mask> took part in the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty inquiry, and argued in 2014 that prosperity needs to be shared, and that the Department for Work and Pensions should improve benefit payment reliability to prevent the need for foodbank use. Trussell Trust chairman Chris Mould and CEO David McAuley said that <mask> "been very supportive of The Trussell Trust and has played an important role as a key member of the APPG Inquiry Panel".He welcomed the rise in the minimum wage and supports employers paying the living wage. Ethics and religion
He is an advocate for religious education. On 5 February 2013, he voted against allowing same-sex couples to marry due to his Christian beliefs. This decision was criticised by Nick Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury at the time. On anti-mitochondrial donation therapy, <mask> described himself as "instinctively cautious about technologies that, while noble in intent, could potentially open the door to the development of 'genetically modified babies'". In 2016, he was a trustee and chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, an organisation within the Conservative party. References

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 UK Conservative Party profile

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<mask> (born 22 June 1953) is a British songwriter, producer, and DJ. A moderniser of Northern soul music in the UK, and a developer of the style of Hi-NRG, he has written and produced records with sales totalling over 40 million. <mask> is also known as a former fan of the long-running television show Doctor Who. Early and personal life
<mask> was born into a Jewish family; his parents owned and ran the "Lemon Tree" complex in Blackpool, including its casino and nightclub. <mask> is openly gay. He suffered a major stroke in July 2014, leaving him with severely limited movement on the left side of his body. Career

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<mask> began collecting Motown records from the age of 13, building a collection from UK record shops and those his family visited on holidays to Miami and New Orleans.He later became an avid collector of soul, R&B, and Northern soul. After his parents emigrated to the Caribbean in 1979, <mask> sold most of his records to fund a house purchase in London. Having attended some early Northern soul all-nighters at "The Twisted Wheel" nightclub in Manchester with DJ Stuart Bremner, on leaving school in 1971 he became a disc jockey at the Blackpool Mecca. <mask> joined other DJs in travelling to Stoke on Trent to join the Northern soul all-nighter "Torch", which was quickly shut down but was the fore runner of the Wigan Casino events, which <mask> opened. Working with fellow DJ Colin Curtis, the pair was responsible for guiding the Northern Soul scene away from its oldies-only policy and towards modern soul and disco. This resulted in BBC Radio 1's DJ John Peel travelling to Blackpool to interview <mask>. In 1979, <mask> began

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 advising London's gay disco Heaven on its set-up, and became the club's first resident DJ, remaining through most of the 1980s.<mask> was also one of the first DJs to mix records in the UK. Writer/producer
In 1974 <mask> assisted Dave McAleer with in compiling "Solid Soul Sensations", which was released on the British Disco Demand label and reached No. 30 in the UK Albums Charts. With the proceeds he travelled to New York City and co-produced Reaching for the Best with girl band The Exciters, which reached No.31 on the UK Singles Charts selling 80,000 records. This allowed <mask> to then travel to Chicago, where he signed postman L.J. Johnson, Barbara Pennington (who both after appearing on Top of the Pops reached the UK Singles Charts), as well as Evelyn Thomas. Although Thomas's 1976 record Weak Spot was not a big success reaching No.26 in the UK, <mask> later co-produced Thomas's 1984 record High Energy. Hi-NRG and Pop

In 1983, the London-based record shop Record Shack offered <mask> £2,000 to set up a new joint-veture record label, Record Shack Records. Through friend Jean-Philippe Iliesco he used his Trident Studios, and formed a songwriting partnership with Fiachra Trench. The first record from the label was So Many Men, So Little Time by Miquel Brown, which sold two million copies and got to number 2 on the American Dance Club Songs charts. This was quickly followed by High Energy by Evelyn Thomas. The partnership with Record Shack ended in 1985, but by that time the label had sold 12 million records. Afterward his return to the UK following the financial failure of Motorcity Records, <mask> wrote and produced Hi-NRG-derived singles for

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 various bands, including Take That (he co-produced three tracks on their debut album, and co-wrote one), and The Pasadenas.During the 1980s and 1990s he co-wrote and/or mixed a number of dance-pop hits for a variety of artists, including: Pet Shop Boys; Bucks Fizz; Erasure; Kim Wilde; Bronski Beat; Amanda Lear; Bananarama; Tiffany; Dollar; and Hazell Dean. He has also latterly written and produced several TV themes including "Discomania", "Gypsy Girl", "ITV Celebrity Awards Show", "Christmasmania" and "Abbamania". Manager
<mask> founded bands, including: Seventh Avenue, which featured two members of Big Fun; Optimystic; and Bad Boys Inc. In 2010 <mask> formed a new boy band called "Inju5tice". After the commercial failure of debut "A Long Long Way From Home" the band and <mask> split, and the band relaunched itself as ELi'Prime. Record labels

In 1987, <mask> began recording some former artists from Motown. After a reunion of 60 Motown stars, including Edwin Starr and Levi Stubbs on top of a hotel opposite the original Hitsville USA building, Motorcity Records was launched as a record label.Initially distributed by PRT, then Pacific, Charly and finally Total/BMG, by the time that the label ended in the 1990s due to severe financial losses, 850 songs had been recorded by 108 artists. Doctor Who
<mask> is well known as a fan of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. <mask> was, in part, responsible for the return of a number of missing episodes of the show to the BBC's archives. He also retained many off-air recordings. <mask> was consulted by members of the production team about continuity for a while during the mid-1980s. In 1985,

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 when the BBC announced that the series would be placed on an eighteen-month hiatus, and the show's cancellation was widely rumoured, <mask> was heavily involved with the media protest covertly organised by series producer John Nathan-Turner. He appeared on the ITN's News at One arguing against the decision, and together with the series' production manager Gary Downie gathered a group of actors from the series to record Doctor in Distress.The single was universally panned. <mask>a with animation and newly recorded dialogue from many surviving cast members. <mask> had hoped that the project would be released on DVD, but the commissioning editor of the Doctor Who DVD range did not use <mask>'s animation on the DVD release of the story. The completed <mask> version appeared on torrent sites almost two years later, on 12 October 2013. <mask> has been responsible for producing a number of extras on the Doctor Who DVD releases: the documentaries "Over the Edge" and "Inside the Spaceship" were included on the 3-disc set "The Beginning", while "Genesis of a Classic" appeared on the release for Genesis of the Daleks. He also co-wrote the theme music for K-9 and Company, a pilot for a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series featuring the robotic dog and Sarah Jane Smith. In October 2017, <mask> claimed he had quit Doctor Who fandom in response to harsh criticism from other Who fans.American comic books
<mask> claimed to have the only complete set of DC Comics in the world, with at least one copy of each DC comic book sold at retail from the 1930s to 2004. He later sold the collection. Genealogy

<mask> has been working on his family tree  since his grandmother

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 Golda Cooklin died on February 18, 1995. In July 1996 they organised a Cooklin Reunion in London for 400 people, covered on the BBC Evening News. They discoved that Cooklin was an anglicised version of Kuklya, from Latvia. In July 2017, they organised a huge Kuklya Reunion in Watford for 500 people from all over the world which was covered in a five-minute piece on the BBC One's The One Show. and a two-page centre spread of the Sunday Mirror.In October 2018, a group of 100 family members gathered in Rezekne in Latvia to lay a memorial stone to the family, many of whom were killed in the Holocaust. In September 2019, there was another reunion in Haifa in Israel, for 150 family members. In 2016, <mask> made a four disc, eighteen hour documentary on DVD called "The Cooklins Anthology", distributing one thousand copies for the entire family. In February 2017 <mask> wrote and created a 608-page book, "The Kukla Chronicles", again distributing one thousand copies for the entire family. <mask> is distantly related to Bob Dylan, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth Ephraim Mirvis, the celebrated writer Saul Bellow and the film director Harold Ramis. References

Sources

External links
<mask>'s YouTube Channel
<mask>'s Top 40 Northern soul Playlist "Reaching For The Best"

Interview by Bill Brewster

1953 births
Living people
People from Blackpool
British Jews
People educated at Arnold School
English DJs
Club DJs
Doctor Who fandom
English record producers
English songwriters
English film directors
English film producers
Science fiction fans
LGBT DJs
LGBT musicians from England
British Hi-NRG musicians
LGBT Jews
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<mask> (born 7 March 1993 in Miri, Sarawak) is a Malaysian racing driver. Early life
Born to a Scottish-Malaysian parentage <mask> and her family lived in Kuching since she was two until they relocated to Ampang, Kuala Lumpur in 1996. Career

Karting
<mask>  made her freshman debut in karting in 2005. She started her career as a junior member of the Klub Kart Selangor and placed overall 3rd in the KKS series in 2005. In 2006, she got two 1st places in the KKS club series. In the same year at the age of 11 years, she entered her first international race in Dubai using a Biland 250cc kart. Since her debut she has competed in championships held across Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Macau, India,  China,  Singapore, Japan and United Arab Emirates.During 2008, she placed 2nd in the Yamaha SL Cup Malaysian series and third in the senior ladies in Yamaha SL Cup, Japan. In the same year she was placed 4th in the Asian Karting Open Championship in the 125cc KF3 series with 5 podium wins. Formula BMW, Formula Pilota, Formula Gulf

Her racing career was elevated to the next level when she was awarded with the Petronas Formula Xperience (PFX) scholarship. <mask> defeated her male counterparts (of the same of age) in four PFX races. She is the first racer in PFX history to obtain 1st place four times in a row in the formula BMW racing car. The races were also part of the support race of the Millennium Endurance Race 2009 held at Sepang, Malaysia F1 circuit. Her unprecedented success secured her a spot in the Petronas Mofaz Racing Team in which she competed as the first

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texts: and only female racer and was dubbed rookie of the year in 2009.<mask> became the first female Malaysian racer ever to race in the Formula BMW Asia Pacific Series when she competed as a rookie in 2010. In August 2011 she has been quoted as Asia’s fastest female formula driver in the local paper after her first podium win in the Pilota series in China. <mask> also gained international exposure by participating in the Macau Street Race, Singapore F1  Street Race and Okayama International Circuit, Japan and  Buddh International Circuit, India. She also finished in the top ten racing in the  JK Racing Asia Series at Sepang International Circuit and Guangdong International Circuit, China. In January 2011, <mask> was the youngest and only female racing driver who was tested and approved by former F1 champions, Nigel Mansell, Jean Alesi and the current lotus F1 development driver, James Rossiter to drive the new Lotus T125 at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. <mask> participated in the 2011 JK Racing Asia Series and her best race was in Singapore where she qualified as 3rd fastest and her best finish is 5th. She was invited as guest driver in the VW Women’s VW polo cup race in Chennai where she emerged 3rd.She also raced in the Formula Pilota China Series in Ordos where she was also 3rd. She took part in the Merdeka 12-hour endurance race in a Scirocco (the only female participant) and her team got 6th place in class. She has raced in the FG1000 formula gulf series in Dubai and Abu Dhabi where she has set the record for being the fastest female racer in the Middle East. In

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 Feb 2012 she made history by becoming first female ever to win a race in the Middle East. In March 2012 she set the fastest lap time in the Yas Marina Circuit Abu Dhabi in the Formula FG1000 gulf series. 2011/12 Formula Gulf 1000 Series (UAE) Championship runner up with 6 podiums. 2012/13 Formula Gulf 1000 Series UAE Gulf Sport Champion with 10 podiums.She was invited as guest driver for 2013/14 Formula Gulf Series UAE in Nov 2013 and won 2 races and set fastest lap. GT Asia Cup, Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, VW Polo Cup Race, VW Scirocco MME
Driver for Team Craft Bamboo for GT Asia Cup in Aston Martin Vantage, South Korea in 2014. Awarded best performing driver Trophy. Guest standin driver for Team Starchase, for the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia during the support race for F1 Shanghai in 2013 in Group A. Guest driver for VW Polo Cup Race in Chennai, India  in 2011 (3rd). Guest driver for VW Scirocco Team in Malaysia Merdeka Endurance Race 2011 (6th in class). Malaysia Super Series MSS

2013 Malaysia Super Series Championship Runner up with 4 podiums for the GT open category in a Radical SR8 despite having 2 DNFs for engine failure.Media

She has been featured on covers of 2 international magazines,  Intersection magazine Feb 2012 and Women’s Health & Fitness Feb 2012 and 8 local covers such as P1 Circuit Magazine (Jan 2010), Prestige magazine (May 2010), Wanita (May 2010), 360 Celsius (June 2011), Glam Magazine (March 2012), Majalah Wanita & Wawasan (March 2012),  Campus Life Magazine (Sept 2013)and Health & Beauty Magazine Malaysia (Dec 2013). Other feature stories appeared


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 in Mingguan Wanita, Go karting magazines, Faces Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Malaysia, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Cleo, Hanger, Crank & Piston, F1weekly, Female Racing News, Gulf news, Sport 360,  sport 247 Malaysia, Unreserved, Seventeen, NewMan, The Heat, Singgah, Female, 2013 Malaysia F1 programme book, Brand Laureate Magazine, Berita Harian, Harian Metro, The Edge Financial, New Straits Times, The Star and The Malay Mail. She has appeared as guest in numerous radio and local TV and also interviewed on various sports news channels in China, Macau, India, Japan, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and also on ESPN Star Sports, Mobil 1 The Grid, and F1 Weekly. She was featured in the Spring/summer edition of Harpers Arabia as one of top 20 best dressed in Middle East. <mask> was awarded The BrandLaureate country branding award as a top athlete in 2013. <mask> has big ambitions to compete in the GT Asia, LMP2 , Le Mans 24 series and of course sets her dream to compete in the Formula 1. New Straits Times
 <mask>i, Ishak (9 March 2011)."Racing is a piece of cake for <mask>". New Straits Times
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120319005704/http://www.motorstv.com/car/others/asian-festival-of-speed/02032011/seatter-switches-eurasia-jk-racing-asia-series
 http://www.racerevo.com/2011/04/07/jk-racing-asia-series-announce-2011-driver-lineup/
 http://news.faisunan.com/search/natasha-seatter/
 http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2011/3/27/sports/8357962&sec=sports

1993 births
Living people
Malaysian racing drivers
Female racing drivers
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Malaysian people of Scottish

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<mask> (14 January 1794 – 20 February 1850), known as <mask>, was a Mexican President, state governor, city mayor, army general, defense minister and conservative politician. As of now, he is the only Mexican President to be from the city of Monterrey. He was a supporter of a centralist (as opposed to a federalist) national government, and a confidante of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, who then was the President of Mexico. <mask> was President of Mexico two times, for a total of about one year in 1843 and 1844, during the complex Mexican historical times after the one decade-long Mexican War of Independence and before the Mexican–American War. <mask> had previously been the Mayor of Mexico City, after being Governor of the state of Puebla, and years before, Mayor of the city of Cuernavaca. He was military governor of both the states of Oaxaca and State of Mexico in the early 1830s. At age 53, three years before his death, he served as Minister of War (Defense Minister) with President <mask>.He led the North and East Army Divisions to fight in the Mexican–American War, defending Northern and Eastern Mexican territory. In his late teens as his first job in the army, he fought in the Mexican War of Independence. Career
He was the son of <mask> and María Josefa Bocadillo and baptized on 16 February 1795 at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Monterrey,

The War of Independence
In 1811, at age 17, he entered the Celaya Regiment as a royalist infantry cadet, fighting against the insurgents. On 2 March 1821, under the influence of Agustín de Iturbide, whom he knew and respected, he swore allegiance to independent Mexico. After that he participated in the siege of Valladolid (Morelia) and the capture of San Juan del Río and Zimapán. He was forced to surrender to General Bracho

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 at San Luis Potosí, and he was wounded in action at Azcapotzalco. He received a battlefield promotion to lieutenant colonel, and was in command of two companies during the siege of Mexico City.After independence
After independence, he was an aide to General José Joaquín de Herrera in the Jalisco campaign. In December 1829 he joined the Plan de Jalapa. Having been promoted to colonel, he was second in command of the brigade that pacified Jamiltepec, the Costa Chica and the Mixtecs. He was part of the court that sentenced Vicente Guerrero to death in 1831. He opposed the revolution of 1832, but later accepted the Conventions of Zavaleta. In 1833, he revolted in favor of Santa Anna under the slogan of religión y fueros ("religion and privileges", referring to the privileges of soldiers and the clergy that had been eliminated by Liberal reformist President <mask> Gómez Farías). Under this banner he took over Oaxaca.He was military governor of the states of Oaxaca and México during the centralist period. From 1835 to 1841, he fought intensely against the Liberals. He broke the siege of Acapulco, went on a military expedition to the Mixteca region, broke another siege in Oaxaca. He attacked Urrea in Durango and Longinos Montenegro in Tampico, occupied Monterrey and Monclova, pursued Servando Canales, and finally returned to Mexico City. In 1841, Santa Anna promoted him to brigadier general. First term as president
In December 1842 he supported the Plan de Huejotzingo. He contributed to establishing the dictatorship of Santa Anna on 4 March 1843.Santa Anna named him president on 4 October 1843. This transfer was approved by Congress. <mask>'s period in office lasted until 4 June 1844. Santa Anna remained at his hacienda Encero during that time. The government gave aid to the

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 charity sisters (Hermanas de la Caridad) and the San Gregorio School (Colegio), and established the ordinances governing the Military College. They transferred the Medical School to the Colegio San Ildefonso. Taxes were increased to support the army.Congress during this time established garrisons in the Western (Occidente) and Eastern (Oriente) departments, and struggled to regulate the chopping of the nation's forests. <mask> arranged a new meeting place for the Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives, USA / House of Commons, UK) after flooding had wrecked the old chamber. He appointed José Joaquín de Herrera president of the Consejo de Gobierno (Government Council). In 1844, <mask>'s presidential office term ended and Santa Anna went back into power. <mask> went off to San Luis Potosí to take command of the Ejército del Norte (North Army) and prepare it for a campaign in Texas. Second term as president
<mask> <mask> returned to Mexico City in September 1844 to replace José Joaquín de Herrera as president of Mexico. This time he served from 21 September 1844 to 6 December 1844.During this term he was in open conflict with Congress, because of its strong opposition to Santa Anna. <mask> had received verbal instructions from Santa Anna to dissolve the Congress, but when he attempted this, the members objected. Thereupon he issued a decree suspending the Congress and prohibiting its meeting. Immediately, on 4 December 1844, the statue of Santa Anna in El Volador was decorated with a white hood and a rope noose, like a hanged man. On 30 October 1844, the local authorities in Guadalajara revolted under Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga. On 30 November, the palace guard prevented the deputies (congressmen / MPs) and senators from entering the chambers of Congress. By 6

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 December, the revolution had spread throughout the country.On that day the troops of the  barracks, other soldiers and much of the populace joined the revolt. The soldiers from  took Canalizo prisoner. They turned over the government to José Joaquín de Herrera. Plans were made to bring charges against Canalizo, but soon a general amnesty was declared. <mask> was conducted to San Juan de Ulúa, where he sailed for Cádiz, Spain, on 25 October 1845. He returned to Mexico in 1846 and was "Minister of War" (Defense Minister) in the cabinet of President <mask> Gómez Farías (24 December 1846 - 23 February 1847). During this term he supported the mortmain law and dealt severely with disturbances of the public peace.Mexican–American War
<mask> was given command of the Eastern Division at the time of the United States attack on Veracruz. He prevented the soldiers under his command from joining the 1847 Revolt of the Polkos and he negotiated an end to the revolt with Matías de la Peña y Barragán. (The convention ending the revolt was signed on 21 March 1848.) He then marched to Veracruz, but Santa Anna took command of the troops. Puente Nacional was abandoned without a fight, and Santa Anna was decisively defeated at Cerro Gordo. The Mexicans abandoned a supply of arms at the castle of Perote, Veracruz. Canalizo abandoned the war, and refused to return to battle because of severe war strategy disagreements with Santa Anna, and thus took no part in the defense of Mexico City.Final years and descendants
Retired from public life as of December 1847, he died of pneumonia in his Mexico City house on 20 February 1850 at age 56. He was buried at the Convent of San Diego in central Mexico City (today, Ex-Convento de San Diego). His granddaughter Josefa <mask> Valdez, daughter of his son

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texts: <mask> Danila and Procopia Valdez Osuna, married Don Guillermo Haas de la Vega, a legendary half-German entrepreneur from Mazatlán city and grandson of Sinaloa state governor Rafael de la Vega y Rábago of the De la Vega family dynasty of state governors. Because Don Haas was a prominent figure in Sinaloa state, President of Mexico Francisco I. Madero invited him to become state governor in 1912, a political post that he turned down due to his numerous business responsibilities. Among other things, he owned "El Roble", a Sinaloa sugar cane hacienda and village founded by him (the famous mariachi song "El Sinaloense" is dedicated to El Roble and the Haas Canalizo family), and the Mazatlán Central Hotel (the largest and finest in town), as well as his silver mines, his two department and hardware stores (the only ones in the city), his farming haciendas in Navolato, and his company "Northwestern Liquors", and he held posts as co-founder of the Occidental Bank of Mexico, chairman and president of the Mazatlán Chamber of Commerce, and co-founder and vice president of the Mazatlán Water Supply Company. Josefa <mask>'s husband, Guillermo Haas de la Vega, was the son of German immigrant Agustín (August) Haas Bertram and Rafaela de la Vega, daughter of Sinaloa state governor Rafael de la Vega y Rábago of the Veguist historic period also known as Veguism when all Sinaloa governors were members of the De la Vega family. Today's Casa Museo Haas in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, was the family mansion of Doña Josefa Canalizo and Don Guillermo Haas de la Vega and their eleven children.The mansion's last inhabitant was a grandson of theirs, and great-great grandson of President <mask> <mask>, Antonio Haas, a renowned lawyer and economist from Harvard and Georgetown Universities, founder of the

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 Mazatlán Literature Award of Mexico, author, journalist and twice Mexico National Journalism Award, horticulturist, and cultural philanthropist who died in the house in 2007. His public wake for the people of Mazatlán was held in the Mazatlán Cathedral, and hours later at the Mazatlán Opera House Teatro Ángela Peralta which he rescued and restored, his statue was placed at the opera's foyer. The local city theater Teatro Antonio Haas also bears his name. Upon his passing, the Mazatlán city government bought the Haas Canalizo family home. In 2011, with the support of the Mazatlán Institute of Culture, Tourism and Art general director Raúl Rico Mendiola, the Haas Canalizo mansion became Mazatlán's cultural center the Haas House Museum (Casa Haas) by wish of the family, and by initiative of Guillermo Haas de la Vega and Josefa Canalizo's great-granddaughter, Lady Marina De Santiago-de Borbón Haas Canalizo (Marina St James-of Bourbon Haas Canalizo), great-great-great granddaughter of President <mask> <mask>, and also great-great granddaughter of Prime Minister of Spain Luis González-Bravo and Queen of Spain Isabella II of Bourbon (Isabel II de Borbón). See also

 List of heads of state of Mexico

References

  "Canalizo, <mask>", Enciclopedia de México, v. 3. Mexico City, 1996, .García Puron, Manuel, México y sus gobernantes, v. 2. Mexico City: Joaquín Porrúa, 1984. Orozco Linares, Fernando, Gobernantes de México. Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1985. External links
  Short biography
  Short biography at Encarta

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Mexican people of Spanish descent
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<mask> (born May 1968, Ashington, Northumberland, England) is an English record producer, musician, and audio engineer, best known for his production work with artists such as Spiritualized, The Divine Comedy, and, more recently, Efterklang, Belle & Sebastian and Amatorski. Career

The Church Studios
Following a series of sessions with Dave Stewart at Ezee studios, in 1990 <mask> joined Eurythmics' The Church Studios as an in-house engineer. He remained there for five years, working on albums with indie bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Curve, and on Stewart's own sessions with such  rock musicians as Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Bootsy Collins, and occasional visitor Bob Dylan. Freelance
In 1995, <mask> left The Church Studios, to concentrate on the production of Neil Hannon's third album under the moniker of The Divine Comedy. The album, entitled Casanova, was released in 1996 and spawned three top 20 hit singles. He was then invited to work with Spiritualized, on their album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. Selected discography

 1990: BAT – Angel Single (Co-Producer/Engineer/Mixing)
 1990: Silver Bullet – Bring Down The Walls LP Tracks (Engineer/Mixing)
 1990: Jesus Jones – Doubt LP tracks (Engineer)
(includes singles "Right Here, Right Now" and

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 "International Bright Young Thing")
 1990: Peter Blegvad – King Strut & Other Stories LP tracks (Engineer/Mixing)
 1991: Gheorghe Zamfir – Dances of Romance LP (Engineer)
 1991: My Bloody Valentine – Loveless LP (Engineer)
 1992: Stex – Spiritual Dance LP (Engineer/Mixing)
(includes "Still Feel the Rain" Single)
 1992: Vegas – Vegas LP (Engineer)
 1992: Savageworld – Timebomb Single (Mixing)
 1993: Eurythmics – Live 1983-1989 LP tracks (Engineer)
 1993: The Divine Comedy – Liberation LP (Co-Producer/Engineer/Mixing/Drums/Percussion)
 1993: Ioni – Sentence of Love Single (Mixing)
 1994: F.O.U.R.– Wait Until Tonight Single (Mixing)
 1994: Catchers – Cotton Dress Single (Engineer)
 1994: Catchers – Shifting EP (Engineer)
 1994: The Almighty – Wrench EP tracks (Engineer/Mixing)
 1994: Mike TV – Money Shot EP (Producer/Engineer/Mixing)
 1994: The Divine Comedy – Promenade LP (Co-Producer/Engineer/Mixing/Drums/Percussion)
 1994: Dave Stewart – Greetings From the Gutter LP (Engineer)
(includes "Heart of Stone" Single)
 1994: Nick Green – Where Love Is Found EP Track (Engineer)
 1994: Nick Green – Skeletons LP (Engineer)
 1995: Luz Casal – Como La Flor Prometida LP (Engineer)
(includes "Entre Mis Recuerdos" Single)
 1995: Eusebe – "Summertime Healing" Single (Mixing)
 1995: The


texts: Richard P<mask> (January 25, 1975 – January 9, 2005), who was formerly known as David Moses Zerby, was a Spanish-American former member of a religious cult called The Family who murdered his childhood sexual abuser and then died by suicide. <mask> and his parents David Berg and Karen Zerby, both of whom were cult group leaders, traveled across the world while they were members of the cult, which was formerly known as Children of God (COG). Berg believed <mask> was called upon to become a prophet during biblical End Times. During his early childhood, <mask> was brought up in a heavily promiscuous environment and was sexually abused by numerous people, including a cohort of nannies, as described in the COG-published document titled "The Davidito Book". In 1999, he married, left The Family and went to live in the United States but he struggled to adjust to life outside the cult and sought revenge for his abuse. <mask> left his wife in Tacoma, Washington, and traveled across the U.S. in an attempt to find Zerby. After learning his former nanny Angela M. Smith was in Tucson, Arizona, he stayed with people he knew there until he settled in an apartment.On January 7, 2005, he recorded a video, saying he needed to take retribution for abuse in The Family—including his own—alluding to murder. The next day, <mask> invited Smith to his home for dinner, where he stabbed her to death before driving to Blythe, California, and dying by suicide. The Family urged its members to disregard media reports about <mask> and Smith, and a spokesperson for the group said reports neglected to show Smith as a victim. Former members' reactions to the death ranged from calling it "a monumental event" in the

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 group's history to a devastating situation that was "the only way anybody's listening" to stories of abuse within The Family. Experts on cults noted that <mask>'s anger towards The Family was understandable, with cult specialist Rick Alan Ross describing the case as a major example of someone who suffered in "one of the most horrifically abusive and destructive cults in American history". Early life
Richard P<mask> was born on January 25, 1975, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, as David Moses Zerby. His mother was Karen Zerby, the spiritual leader of the religious cult Children of God (COG), and his father was a hotel waiter named Carlos whom Zerby "Flirty Fished", a practice in which female cult members would have sex with men to draw in potential converts.<mask> was unofficially adopted by David Berg, the group's founder and Zerby's husband, and was dubbed the name "Davidito" and was often referred to as "the prince". <mask>'s legal name was changed multiple times as he traveled across the world with Berg and Zerby. However, no official adoption by them ever took place, and he was cared for by "nannies", young female members of the group. He was also raised alongside Techi, Zerby's daughter. On May 2, 1978, Berg declared in a publication that <mask> and Zerby would one day have the power to "call down fire from Heaven and devour their enemies". He also predicted they would both be killed and raised from the dead "3  days" later, and <mask> would go on to guide followers as a prophet during biblical End Times. Many who knew <mask> said he grew shy and uncomfortable around group members because his status as a prophet made him prominent.Sexual abuse and aftermath

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texts: growing up in the COG, <mask> was frequently exposed to adults engaging in sexual intercourse at Berg's home as part of the group members' sexual "sharing". When he was 10 months old, Zerby and Berg asked Sara, one of <mask>'s nannies, to start creating a document titled "The Davidito Book" (also referred to as The Story of Davidito). The book contains descriptions of sexual interactions between the child <mask> and adults, most of which was previously sent out to members in the form of pamphlets called Davidito letters. The 762-page document also included pictures of him with naked teenage girls and being present during the group's orgies. One of his nannies, Angela M. Smith, who was also Zerby's personal secretary, was included in the pictures, in one of which she is undoing his pants; the picture is captioned "Undressing ... for Sue!" (Smith). The material also contained captions and text written by Berg commenting on the situation in a sexual manner.Berg later ordered "Davidito" and similar documents that had been created to be purged or references to sex removed but former members were able to establish its existence by distributing the material via email. Davida Kelley, who lived with Berg from the age of 13, said <mask> was sexually abused "[by] all the adult women. Most of them, at least", including Zerby. According to an article by the Los Angeles Times, Berg reportedly had sex with numerous female members of the group; in an effort to prepare <mask> to do the same when he became leader, he was put into "teen training", in which he would have sex with multiple older teenage females every afternoon. In 1986, the COG, which was now called The Family (eff. 1978), banned

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 sex between minors and adults along with Flirty Fishing. Berg died in 1994 and Zerby, alongside her then-husband Peter Amsterdam, took full leadership of the cult.A British court, headed by Lord Justice Ward, issued a verdict during an investigation related to a 1995 UK trial, stating that the Davidito book was an example of Berg's promotion of pedophilia within the group, and that the leadership considered it a guidebook for adult-child relationships. Amsterdam, as ordered by Ward, distanced The Family from Berg's writings on child upbringing. Adult life

Departure from The Family
In 1996, <mask> moved to a Family-owned home in Budapest, Hungary, where he met his girlfriend Elixcia Munumel, who returned with him to Zerby's home in Oporto, Portugal, and lived with him there. In 1999, the couple told Zerby they were going to The Family's compound in Mexico, but instead, Munumel went to England and <mask> went to the United States. <mask> stayed at the non-for-profit charity The Family Care Foundation's headquarters in Dulzura, San Diego. <mask> sold a car Zerby had given him so Munumel could meet him in Tacoma, Washington. <mask> and Munumel married in a minister's home; according to Munumel, they struggled with finances and experience in the outside world, and  moved into a low-rent apartment.<mask> took a job on a fishing boat in Alaska, began to take knife-based martial arts lessons, and spent time at a shooting range while trying to obtain a gun permit. Resentment towards Family leaders
According to The Family, <mask> officially left the cult to pursue his education and he remained on good terms with it. According to Munumel, however, when they first met in Budapest, <mask>

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texts: began having reservations about Berg's teachings, which noticeably contradicted the Bible, and expressed his frustrations to her about the group as a whole. She said he heard stories from former members and carried guilt because of his position as a future leader of The Family, which he felt contributed to the abuse of other children. <mask>' friend Celeste Jones also said he felt angry because "there was no justice" to apprehend abusers in The Family and that he pretended that he was not angry around members of the group; according to the Tucson Citizen, however, <mask> became more vocal around the time he started talking to former members. In 2002, <mask> made a post on the website "Moving On" accusing Berg of abusing his daughters and granddaughter in the Philippines, and describing Zerby as apathetic and violent towards them. He also mentioned his 'teen training' in most of his posts on the site.<mask> met ex-member Sarah Martin, who became his friend on the site. Martin said <mask> "carried this huge weight on his shoulders", never got over the 'Davidito' prophecy and felt he had a need to "put an end" to Zerby's abuse. <mask> also said he thought about suicide since his "teen training" and that he hoped the group's leader's "evil legacy will die with The Family". In a similar 2004 post, he said he realized he could not move on because "the first 25 years of my life will always haunt me", with the end of his post asking those "who have nothing to lose, such as myself" to help him with a plot for revenge. He also told his martial arts teacher Kevin Schmitt he had considered murdering members of The Family in the past. <mask>'s friend Daniel Nathan Roselle, who was also a

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