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 Home". People who pre-ordered the new album from the new website's store also received a download to the non-album track "Parasol". The Baroness was released on 11 March 2008. The iTunes version of the album included two additional non-album tracks, "The Rose" and "The Lonely Side of the Moon." In September 2008, <mask> announced her intention to release the non-album tracks from The Baroness as an EP.Both Parasol and Modern Man have been confirmed by <mask> in Question and Answer sessions in her official website. On 13 November 2008, the official Sarahslean.com newsletter announced the title for the EP to be The Baroness Redecorates. A full track list was also provided. <mask> released her fifth studio album, a double album entitled Land & Sea, on 27 September 2011. As previously with Beauty Lives, a 100 special handcrafted editions were sold of the album. Land & Sea is also <mask>'s first record to be released on vinyl. <mask> composed the orchestral arrangements for three songs and her mentor Jonathan Goldsmith arranged three others .<mask>'s studio album Metaphysics was released in April 2017. A pre-order campaign for the album was held on PledgeMusic. Other music work
In 2006, she contributed two covers ("Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb") to Pink Floyd Redux, a modern 12-track tribute to Pink Floyd. Another notable cover in <mask>'s repertoire is her down-tempo rendition of Our Lady Peace's guitar-driven song "Julia". Our Lady Peace has performed <mask>'s "piano" version of their song in their own concerts. Vocalist Raine Maida explained the origins of the piano version: "We’re gonna do a song from our first record now, that was given to us on a cassette tape, a very different version, from a girl named <mask> from Toronto..."

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 featured on the Fox TV network as the pianist in Sunrise, the fictional town where bodies started piling up in Murder in Small Town X, a short-lived reality TV series. In October 2008, <mask> performed at the first annual Canwest Cabaret Festival in Toronto.Slean performed sets of her own music accompanied by bassist Joe Phillips and drummer Mark Mariash, and also contributed to multi-artist "songbook" performances of the songs of Leonard Cohen and Kurt Weill. In March 2009, Slean took part in the Juno Songwriter's Circle in Vancouver, alongside fellow songwriters Jim Cuddy, Jacob Hoggard (of Hedley), Doc Walker, Buffy Saint-Marie, Vancouver upstart Ndidi Onukwulu, and Hawksley Workman, who hosted. She played two songs from The Baroness, "Notes from the Underground" and "Looking for Someone". In 2009 she took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, had her talk about performing at the Rivoli while attending the University of Toronto. On 18 April 2011, Slean chose a song called "New Pair of Eyes" from Land, to be included on the compilation album Songs of Love for Japan. She described the song as an "ode to the shocking wonder of existence".Songs of Love for Japan was available for only 3 days, with all proceeds going toward relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011. Personal life
<mask> was born in Pickering, Ontario. She attended Dunbarton High School in Pickering. Before heading to college she worked with Sean Butler at Loeb. After initially studying music at York University, she completed a degree in music and philosophy at the University of Toronto. In 2008, <mask> and fellow singer-songwriter Royal Wood got engaged while in

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EPs and live albums

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Radio releases
 "Sweet Ones" (2002)
 "Weight" (2002)
 "Duncan" (2003)
 "Lucky Me" (2004)
 "Day One"(2005)
 "Mary" (2005)
 "Somebody's Arms" (2005)
 "Get Home" (2008)
 "Set It Free" (2011)
 "<mask>" (2017)

Music videos
 "Weight" (1998)
 "High" (2000)
 "Sweet Ones" (2002)
 "Lucky Me" (2004)
 "Day One"(2005)
 "Mary" (2005)
 "Get Home" (2008)
 "The Rose" (2010)
 "Set It Free" (2011)
 "The Devil & the Dove" (2012)
 "Society Song" (2012)
 "<mask>" (2017)
 "Every Rhythm Is The Beat" (2017)

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 Ravens (2004)
<mask>'s first collection of poetry, containing 21 poems in 69 pages, including original artwork. The Baroness (2008)
A companion poetry book to the eponymous album, containing 46 pages. Filmography
 Black Widow (2005)
In late 2004, she filmed Black Widow with Canadian director David Mortin, a film noir musical based on the Evelyn Dick murder case. It premiered in September 2005 on the film festival circuit and on CBC Television in January 2006. Tales of the Baroness (2007)
In 2006, Slean teamed up once again with video director Nelson Chan ("Mary", "Day One") to create a three-part short film titled Tales of the Baroness.The first segment aired on 11 May 2007 on Bravo!. Last Flowers (2009)
In 2009, <mask> was in another short film, Last Flowers (Parts 1 and ), written and directed by CJ Wallis and produced by Elli Weisbaum. Writing obituaries for a local newspaper to keep the wolf from

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 the door, coupled with the complete avoidance of his own mother's death, universally rejected novelist Harvey Harris (Joseph May) is feeling more distanced than ever from the world and those who surround him. An attempt to ease his guilt leads Harvey to sneaking into the very funerals he writes about, where a chance meeting of a strong-willed woman named Mona Miller (<mask>) will force Harvey to confront his greatest fears about loss and rejection and how to find a way to connect through the most severe forms of disconnection. The Translator (2010)
Slean landed the part of the Woman in French Film in Sonya Di Rienzo's short film, The Translator. (See )

Awards and recognitions
 2003 Juno Awards: New Artist of the Year – Nomination
 2005 Juno Awards: Adult Alternative Album of the Year (Day One) – Nomination
 2005 Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series (2004 Governor General's Performing Arts Award) – Nomination
 2006 Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series (Black Widow) – Nomination
 2009 Juno Awards: Adult Alternative Album of the Year (The Baroness) – Nomination
 2011 Leo Awards: Best Music Video ("The Rose": CJ Wallis – Producer)

It can be noted that two record engineers have been nominated in the Recording Engineer of the Year category at the Junos for their work with Slean: Peter Prilesnik in 2005 for Day One, and Jeff Wolpert in 2012 for Land & Sea. References

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Vice Admiral Baron  was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Doctor of Engineering and head of the engineering school of Tokyo Imperial University and a leading Japanese naval architect in the 1910s and 1920s, responsible for designing a number of famous warships, many of which would later see action during World War II. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology from 1941. Biography
<mask> was born in Tokyo and grew up in Yokosuka, Kanagawa although his family was from Hiroshima, where his official family registration was located. He graduated from what is now Hibiya High School, and entered the engineering department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1898, specializing in marine engineering. He was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1899, but allowed to continue his studies, and graduated in 1901 as a sub-lieutenant. He immediately went to work for the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal as a design engineer for new warships. Promoted to lieutenant on 28 September 1903, he was transferred to the Kure Naval Arsenal in 1905.From 1905, at the height of the Russo-Japanese War, <mask> was dispatched to the United Kingdom for further studies. He left Yokohama in January, and travelling across the Pacific Ocean, the United States and the Atlantic Ocean, he arrived in London in April. From October, he was enrolled in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, where he studied the latest techniques in warship design. He graduated in June 1908, and spent the next six months touring various shipyards in France and Italy before returning to Japan in early 1909. In September of the same year, he became a professor of engineering at Tokyo Imperial University, and was promoted to lieutenant-commander on 1 October. In 1912, <mask> was head of the design team for the new battleship , and the conversion of  from battlecruiser into a battleship. He also worked on the designs for the s, and received promotion to commander on 1 December.In 1913, <mask> became Director of Shipyards for the Imperial Japanese

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 only possible through generous underestimation of the vessel’s true displacement, and sacrifices in terms of safety. In 1929, after <mask>'s design for the  was shelved, he went into semi-retirement, and retired from active military service in 1930, becoming an advisor to Mitsubishi shipyards. In April 1934, <mask> faced a board of inquiry after the Tomozuru Incident, a marine accident involving the torpedo boat , which overturned and capsized during trials at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal. Resulting investigation revealed what a number of Western engineers had long suspected: <mask>'s designs were top-heavy and tended towards instability.The Tomozuru Incident sent shock waves through the Japanese military, as it called into question the safety and basic design concepts of the most modern warships in the Japanese inventory. <mask>'s reputation suffered a further setback due to the Fourth Fleet Incident, in which many destroyers of the Hiraga-designed s were so damaged in a typhoon that the whole class had to be reconstructed. However, <mask>'s engineering expertise and designs were eventually vindicated in the investigation, and subsequently appointed to the design team for the superbattleship . In December 1938, <mask> became the President of Tokyo Imperial University. In 1939, he conducted what journalists later termed the "Hiraga Purge", by expelling most of the facility of the university’s School of Economics, for publicly supporting liberal political doctrines. On February 17, 1943, <mask> died at Tokyo University Hospital of complications arising from pneumonia. He was posthumously awarded with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun and also with the kazoku peerage title of baron.His brain was removed on his death, and is preserved at the Tokyo University Hospital. His grave is at the Tama Reien in Fuchū, Tokyo. Notes

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<mask> of Connaught  (<mask>; 13 January 1883 – 12 September 1938) was a British military officer and a grandson of Queen Victoria. He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 20 November 1920 to 21 January 1924. Early life

<mask> was born on 13 January 1883 at Windsor Castle. His father was <mask>, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria and <mask> of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His mother was the former Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. <mask> was baptised in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle on 16 February 1883, and his godparents were Queen Victoria (his paternal grandmother), the German Empress (his great-great aunt, for whom his paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (his maternal uncle, who was represented by the German Ambassador Count Münster), Princess Henry of the Netherlands (his maternal aunt, who was represented by Countess Münster), the Duke of Cambridge (the Queen's cousin), and the Duke of Edinburgh (his paternal uncle, whose brother the Prince of Wales represented him). <mask> was the first British royal prince to be educated at Eton College.He was known to his family as "young <mask>" to distinguish him from his father. Military career
<mask> was educated at Eton College, but left there early to join the Royal Military College, Sandhurst at the age of sixteen years and two months. From there he was commissioned into the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars as a second lieutenant in May 1901. He saw his first active posting the following year. After the end of the Second Boer War in June 1902, most of the British troops left South Africa, but the 7th Hussars were posted there to keep the peace. <mask> and 230 men of his regiment left Southampton in the SS Ortona in October 1902, and arrived at Cape Town later the same month. He spent several months stationed at Krugersdorp.In 1907, he was promoted to the rank of captain in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). He became the

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Since the king's children were too young to undertake public duties until after the First World War, Prince <mask> carried out a variety of ceremonial duties at home and overseas. Human zoo in Edinburgh
Between 1 May and 31 October 1908 the Scottish National Exhibition, opened by <mask> of Connaught, was held in Saughton Park, Edinburgh. One of the attractions was the Senegal Village with its French-speaking Senegalese residents, on show demonstrating their way of life, art and craft while living in beehive huts.Marriage

On 15 October 1913, Prince <mask> married his cousin Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (17 May 1891 – 26 February 1959) at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London. The couple were attended by five bridesmaids: The Princess Mary, <mask> of Fife, Princesses Mary, Helena, and May of Teck. Princess Alexandra was the eldest daughter and heir of the 1st Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII. As such, the couple were first cousins once removed. They had a son, Alastair. Later life

After the accession of his cousin, King George V, Prince <mask> and his aging father were the most senior male members of the Royal Family over the age of 18 to reside in the United Kingdom. As such, he undertook a wide variety of royal duties on behalf of the King, and acted as a Counsellor of State during periods of the King's absence abroad.In 1906, by order of the King, he vested the Meiji Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Garter, as a consequence of the

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 Anglo-Japanese Alliance. In 1918, he was a guest aboard the Japanese battlecruiser  when she voyaged from Japan to Canada. He visited Tokyo and then Nagoya and was welcomed at Tsuruma Park and the Buntenkaku, and then traveled on to Kyoto. In 1920, <mask> succeeded Viscount Buxton as governor-general and commander-in-chief in South Africa. The Earl of Athlone succeeded him in these posts in 1924. Upon returning to Britain, <mask> became involved in a number of charitable organizations, including serving as chairman of the board of directors of Middlesex Hospital. Like his father, the Duke of Connaught, he was active in the Freemasons, becoming Provincial Grand Master for Berkshire in 1924.<mask> of Connaught died of stomach cancer at age 55 on 12 September 1938. He is buried in the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore. One of his last public appearances was at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1937. His father, the <mask> Connaught, survived him by four years. <mask>'s only son, who used the courtesy title Earl of MacDuff after 1917, succeeded his paternal grandfather as 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1942. In 1917, the inescutcheon was dropped by royal warrant from George V.

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<mask> (born September 13, 1990) is an American professional snowboarder. She won the gold medal in the inaugural Women's Slopestyle Event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and repeated the feat at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, making her the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal. She has won gold medals in slopestyle at the Winter X Games in consecutive years in 2007/8 and 2012/3. She has 25 total medals: eighteen gold, five silver, and two bronze. Personal life
<mask> was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe, California, the fifth of eight children. She snowboarded for the first time at age nine, and immediately fell in love with the sport. <mask> was homeschooled at Visions in Education, allowing her to spend almost every day on the mountains.<mask> currently resides in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada with her fiance, Tyler Nicholson, a Canadian snowboarder. She met Nicholson at a bar at Whistler, and they've been together since 2015. She also owns The Dream Inn, a private residence suite that overlooks Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort and other private places in Tahoe and Colorado. Aside from snowboarding, <mask> does yoga and meditation to keep her healthy for her upcoming competitions. She is also a member of the POW's Athlete Alliance & an ambassador for Protect Our Winters. Career
<mask> has built a reputation as one of the top slopestyle riders in the business. She has been one of the most successful female snowboarders on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour and took home the gold medal in the Olympic debut of women's snowboard slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.In addition to her many career wins, <mask> has been giving back to the snowboarding community through participation in the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. She has hosted a Signature Session™ at High Cascade in 2009–2012 and is scheduled to host another Signature Session™ camp in 2014. <mask> began snowboarding in 2000, when she received a hand-me-down snowboard at the age of nine, and qualified for the 2004 Winter X Games just

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 four years later. In 2005, she took home a bronze, becoming the youngest female medalist in the competition at age 15. Through the Jamie Anderson Foundation established in 2013, she has provided more than 30 young winter sports athletes with equipment, clothing, season passes and financial backing for travel to the USASA national competitions. 2006–2007
During the 2006–2007 season, <mask> won the TTR 6Star Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships slopestyle, and the Roxy Chicken Jam emporium in Kaprun, Austria, the quarterpipe event at the O'Neill Evolution in Davos, the Billabong slopestyle Jam and the Abominable Snow man. 2007–2008
With impressive  results at all major events on the TTR World Snowboard Tour in 2007–2008, among those victories at the Burton European Open slopestyle and the Roxy Chicken Jam US slopestyle, she took home the Women's Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion title.2008–2009
<mask> started off the season with the first half pipe victory of her career with a win in both the slopestyle and halfpipe events of the 5-Star Burton New Zealand Open. After her successful start and after leading the rankings for over 40 weeks, <mask> finished the season in third place on the Swatch TTR Tour due to injury. 2009–2010
Again, there was another promising kick-off for <mask> on the TTR World Tour with a win at the 5-Star Burton New Zealand Open slopestyle and the 3Star Billabong Bro Down in Australia. <mask> continued her season with good results from the Winter Dew Tour, finishing off the season in the lead of the Winter Dew Tour Cup Standings. <mask> then returned to the TTR Tour and took home the Roxy Chicken Jam US slopestyle title and podium finish at the Burton US Open slopestyle. She ended her season in world no. 5  on the Swatch TTR World Tour.<mask> ended her season in the no. 1 spot on the Swatch TTR World Tour. 2013–2014
<mask> won an Olympic gold medal, the first ever offered in slopestyle, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. 2017–2018
<mask> won her second Olympic gold medal at the 2018 Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

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 She also won a silver in the big air event. This was the second time slopestyle had been offered in the Olympics, making it so <mask> has won both gold medals in the slopestyle in Olympic history, and making her the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal. 2019–2020
<mask> won a bronze medal in the big air event at the 2019 Winter X Games Aspen.She also participated the 2019 FIS Snowboard World Championships where she won a bronze medal and denounced the FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper in response to an article from Deadspin, where Kasper "denied the existence of climate change and spoke disparagingly about immigrants and lauded the ease of working with dictators to organize Olympic Games." Her winnings in that event were donated to Protect Our Winters and on her Instagram post, she urged her fellow competitors to do the same thing. In 2020, she won a gold medal in the slopestyle event at the 2020 Burton US Open and at the 2020 Winter X Games Aspen, where she became the most-medaled female competitor in the history of X Games. Television appearances
In 2015, <mask> competed on the seventh season of The Celebrity Apprentice for her charity, Protect Our Winters. She was fired in the fourth episode. In April 2018, <mask> was announced as one of the celebrities who will compete on season 26 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev.She was eliminated on the first episode, and she finished in 9th place. References

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<mask> (born 5 June 1960) is a British Conservative politician. She was the Member of Parliament for the Conservative stronghold of Bromsgrove from the 1997 to the 2010 general elections. Early life
Kirkbride was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Her father was a lorry driver, who died when she was seven. Her mother was a secretary at Rowntree Mackintosh (now owned by Nestlé). She went to the Highlands School (now North Halifax Grammar School) in Illingworth, Halifax. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge from 1978–81, receiving an MA in Economics and History, and serving as vice-president of the Cambridge Union Society in 1981.From 1981–2, she worked as a journalist for the Parliamentary Weekly House Magazine. She went to the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California Berkeley from 1982–3. She was a researcher for Yorkshire Television from 1983–6, a producer for BBC News and Current Affairs from 1986–9, then worked as a producer at the ITN Parliamentary Unit from 1989–92. She was the political correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1992–6 and social affairs editor of The Sunday Telegraph from 1996 until 1997. Parliamentary career
In 1997 general election Kirkbride was elected MP of Bromsgrove, a seat which had consistently been Conservative since the 1970s. She was re-elected in 2001 election and 2005 election with over 50 percent of votes. Kirkbride was the Conservative spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport from 2003 to 2004, but was replaced in a reshuffle by the party leader at that time, Michael Howard.On 10 November 2006, it was revealed that she had links with the Midlands Industrial Council, which has donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party. She stood down as a Member of


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On 14 May 2009, her husband Andrew MacKay, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, resigned from his position as parliamentary aide to David Cameron, in the wake of the furore over Parliamentary expenses after what was described as an "unacceptable" expenses claim. MacKay and Kirkbride owned two homes: one in her constituency of Bromsgrove; and a house close to Parliament in Westminster. In a case of so-called double-dipping, according to The Daily Telegraph, Mackay had used his Additional Costs Allowance to claim more than £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments on their joint Westminster house – even though he did not have a residence in his Bracknell constituency – while Kirkbride used her Additional Costs Allowance to claim over £900 a month to pay the mortgage for their family home in her constituency. "This means," reports The Daily Telegraph, "they effectively had no main home but two second homes – and were using public funds to pay for both of them".During 2008–9, MacKay claimed a total of £23,083 under Additional Costs Allowance, while Kirkbride claimed £22,575. They also claimed for each other's travel costs, with Kirkbride claiming £1,392 to meet spouse travel, while MacKay claimed £408. <mask>de employed her sister at taxpayers' expense as her secretary despite her sister living 140 miles from the constituency. Kirkbride also extended her mortgage to pay for a £50,000 extension to her house, which she said was to provide a separate bedroom for


texts: her son, and claimed for this on expenses. She said she allowed her brother to stay rent free in her house some of the time so that he could care for her son, Angus, while she undertook constituency work in the evening. Kirkbride also suggested that criticism of her expense claims could deter women from entering Parliament. On 28 May 2009, Kirkbride cancelled a meeting in her Bromsgrove constituency to discuss the expense claims, and it was announced that owing to press criticism of her expense claims, she intended to stand down at the next election.In a letter to Cameron, she said, "My principal concern has to be for my very loyal local supporters in Bromsgrove whose trust in me has been very humbling in the last few weeks ... I also must take into account the effects on my family." A petition in the Bromsgrove constituency demanding Kirkbride's resignation had attracted over 5,000 signatures. Kirkbride also lost the trust of party activists: the results of a poll on the ConservativeHome website showed that 81% of those responding (a self-selecting sample) thought Kirkbride should go and only 6% that she should remain as a Conservative MP. Shortly before her decision to stand down, she had stated that it never crossed her mind that she was doing anything wrong; however, she was also quoted as saying that it was "hugely upsetting to realise I have let people down". On 5 November, she reversed her decision, telling a meeting of the Executive Council of Bromsgrove Conservative Association that she wanted to be considered as their candidate for the next general election. On 18 December she announced she would indeed stand down, in a Christmas and New Year message on her website saying "this is entirely my decision".The Legg review of


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Kirkbride has been a trustee of the charity Volunteering Matters since 2016. In 2019, she became a non-executive director of the education inspectorate Ofsted That same year she also became a trustee of the education charity the New Schools Network. Personal life
She had previously been the girlfriend of Conservative MP Stephen Milligan before his death by auto-erotic asphyxiation in 1994. In August 1997, she married Andrew MacKay, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, and their son was born in October 2000.References

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UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni
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<mask> (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist  based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptures, and iconic land art works, such as Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre field of wheat in downtown Manhattan, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, and Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule (1992–96) in Ylojärvi, Finland. Early life and early career
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931, her family survived the war, the Nazi occupation, and moved to Sweden on their way to the United States. Still a teenager, she created her first environmental/philosophical work, Bird Project, in Sweden, comparing migrating bird colonies to people — the migrants of the world. She studied painting at the New School and Columbia University in New York. She began her artistic career as a poet. Her poetic practice eventually became works of a unique intellectual content and form she later called Visual Philosophy.<ref name="Ottmann"><mask>'s Visual Philosophy, essay by Klaus Ottmann, Chief Curator of The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in <mask>: Absolutes and Intermediates, edited by Emma Enderby, The Shed, 2019</ref> She has said that the repeated changes in language led her to focus on the visual arts.She soon abandoned painting, due to the constraints of the canvas, and focused broadly on ideas she could explore in other mediums, saying, "I found its vocabulary limiting." In the early 1970s, she joined the A.I.R. Gallery as a founding member. She has since participated in more than 600 exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world, and has written 6 books. She has one son, Robert T. Frankel and twin grandchildren, Ian and Alessa Frankel. She lives and works in New York City. Her image is included in the iconic 1972

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 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.Selected works

EcologicalRice/Tree/Burial 1968, Eco-Logic, Sullivan County, New York; re-created 1977 at Artpark
As a pioneer of Land Art, <mask> created Rice/Tree/Burial in 1968 in Sullivan County, New York. Acknowledged as the first site-specific performance piece with ecological concerns, it was enacted ten years later on an expanded scale at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. This performance piece involved planting rice seeds in a field in upstate New York, chaining surrounding trees and burying a time capsule filled with copies of her haiku. "It was about communication with the earth," Denes said, "and communicating with the future."" <mask> at Artpark, 1977-1979
During her time at Artpark, <mask> recreated her Rice/Tree/Burial piece from 1968. In 1977, she planted a half acre of rice 150 feet above the spot where Niagara Falls has originally formed. The land itself that she worked on was known to have been an industrial dumping ground, which affected the quality of the rice.In 1978, she continued the project by chaining together trees in the forest in the park to symbolize interference with growth. On August 20, 1979, Denes buried a time capsule at 47° 10′ longitude, 79° 2′ 32″ latitude set to be opened in the twenty-third century. The capsule includes microfilmed responses of university students to questions about the nature of humanity. Along with the rice, time capsule, and ceremonial chaining of trees in the park, Denes shot photographs of Niagara Falls for this iteration of Rice/Tree/Burial to "add natural force as the fourth element and fuse the other three".Wheatfield — A Confrontation 1982 Manhattan, Battery Park City landfill

After months of preparations, in May 1982, a 2-acre wheat field was planted on a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade

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 Center, facing the Statue of Liberty, sponsored by the Public Art Fund. Two hundred truckloads of dirt were brought in and 285 furrows were dug by hand and cleared of rocks and garbage. The seeds were sown by hand and the furrows covered with soil. The field was maintained for four months, cleared of wheat smut, weeded, fertilized, and sprayed against mildew fungus, and an irrigation system was set up.The crop was harvested on August 16 and yielded over 1,000 pounds of healthy, golden wheat.Tree Mountain-a living time capsule 1996, Ylöjärvi, Finland
A monumental earthwork reclamation project and the first man-made virgin forest, situated in Ylöjärvi, Western Finland. The site was dedicated by the President of Finland upon its completion in 1996 and is legally protected for the next four hundred years.A Forest for Australia reforestation of Red Gum, She Oak, and Paperbark trees in Melbourne Australia 1998
6000 trees of an endangered species with varying heights at maturity were planted into five spirals by the artist, creating a step pyramid for each spiral when the trees are fullgrown. The trees help alleviate serious land erosion and desertification threatening Australia. Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie Master Plan, 2000
A 25-year master plan to unite a 100 kilometer-long string of forts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Incorporating water and flood management, urban planning, historical preservation, landscaping, and tourism into a single plan.North Waterfront Park Masterplan, Berkeley, California, 1988-91. Site plan and art concept. A conceptual master plan was developed for the conversion of a 97-acre municipal landfill, surrounded by water on three sides in the San Francisco Bay, into an oasis for people and nature.The Living Pyramid, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, 2015.One in a series of large earth sculptures, The Living


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 Pyramid, was the first land art work by the artist in New York City in over 3 decades. Commission by the Socrates Sculpture Park, it was on view from May through October 2015, and recreated in 2017 for documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Visual philosophy
Beginning in 1968, she began an intensive exploration of philosophy through art. The result was, according to Jill Hartz of Cornell University, "an amazing body of work, distinguished by its intellectual rigor, aesthetic beauty, conceptual analysis, and environmental concern." Paradox and Essence (Philosophical Drawings), 1976, Published by Tau/ma Press, Rome, Italy, in English and Italian. Edition of 200; 60 pages
 Sculptures of the Mind, 1976, Published by the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio. Edition of 1,000, 250 signed and numbered; 50 pages
 Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space: Map Projections (from the Study of Distortions Series, 1973-1979), 1979.Published by Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, New York. Edition of 200 hardback copies in silver foil, signed and numbered by the artist; edition of 600 in paperback; 100 pages, color and black and white throughout, 29 original drawings specially created for the book, 22 transparent pages.Original drawings for Isometric Systems, from the Museum of Modern Art Collection Early Philosophical Drawings, Monoprints, and Sculpture 1970-1973

Sculpture
 Sculptures of the Mind 1968-2012

Writing
 See three titles under Visual Philosophy, above. Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter, 1989 Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, New York. Edition of 1,100 of which 200 are signed with an original artwork. Insert ("The Debate - 1 Million B.C. - 1 Million A.D.); 200 pages, 16 full-page duotones
 The Human Argument, 2008 Spring Publications, Putnam, Connecticut. Poetry Walk—Reflections: Pools of Thought, 2000 Charlottesville, Va.:


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 University of Virginia Art Museum.Catalogues
 <mask>es: Perspectives, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974
 <mask> Haus Berlin, 1978
 <mask>es 1968 -1980, Gary Garrels curator, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Boston, 1980
 <mask>es: Concept into Form, Works : 1970-1990, Arts Club of Chicago, 1990
 <mask>es by Jill Hartz, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1992
 The Visionary Art of <mask>es: An Exhibition of 85 Works, Gibson Gallery, 1996
 Project for Public Spaces, a Retrospective, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA; 2003Agnes Denes: Work 1969 - 2013, curated and edited by Florence Derieux, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Firstsite Colchester, Mousse Publishing, 2013-2016Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates'', edited by Emma Enderby, The Shed, 2019

Public collections
Denes has more than ten works in the Museum of Modern Art's collection. In the Metropolitan Museum, the artist has five pieces in the permanent collection. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Denes has three pieces in the permanent collection. Beyond that, the artist has work in forty-three additional museum permanent collections. Travel: Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis;

Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milkwaukee, Wisc. ;

Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida. (catalog)

"Anima/Persona - The Seed", Elise Meyer, Inc., New York

"<mask>es", Galleriet, Lund, Sweden

Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden

 1979: "Agnes Denes Work: 1968-1978", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, Italy

 1978: "Agnes Denes - Philosophical Drawings", Amerika Haus, W. Berlin, W. Germany (catalog)

"Agnes Denes: Work 1968-78", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (catalog)

"Sculptures of the Mind," Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

 1977: Tyler School of Art, Temple University,

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 Philadelphia, Penn."Animi Pathema - The Emotional Animal", 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York

 1976: "<mask> Denes", Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. "<mask> Denes", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif.

"Sculptures of the Mind", University of Akron, Ohio (catalog)

 1975: Stefanotty Gallery, New York
 1974: "<mask>es: Perspectives", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalog)

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

 1972: A.I.R. Gallery, New York
 1968: Ruth White Gallery, New York
 1967: New Masters Gallery, New York
 1965: Lewisohn Hall, Columbia University, New York

Awards
 Four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
 Four grants from the New York State Council on the Arts
 CAPS grant (1972)
 National Endowment Fellowships (1974 and 1975)
 The DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany (1978)
 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (1985)
 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT (1990)
 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1998)
 Jill Watson Award for Transdisciplinary Achievement in the Arts from Carnegie Mellon University (1999)
 Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007)
 Ambassador's Award for Cultural Diplomacy (2008) from the American Embassy in Hungary. Art Innovation Impact Award, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. (2020)

References

External links

  Interview of Denes, images of Wheatfield

 Agnes Denes: Sculptures of the Mind: 1968 to Now, Exhibition Site at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery Nov 15, 2012 - Jan 19, 2013
<mask>es: Absolutes and Intermediates retrospective exhibition at The Shed, October 9, 2019 - March 22, 2020

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American conceptual artists
Women conceptual artists
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The New School alumni
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<mask> (born 12 July 1952) is a Jamaican-British singer, best known as one of the original singers of the 1970s disco/reggae band Boney M.

Early life
<mask> was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. At the age of eleven, <mask> and her family emigrated to London, England, in 1963; her childhood home was in the district of Harlesden. By the end of the decade, she auditioned for Hair and eventually moved to Berlin to join the German cast where she replaced Donna Summer. After Hair, <mask> joined the Les Humphries Singers for a few years and represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest with the Ralph Siegel title "Sing Sang Song". The band was then reduced to only six singers for the show (their usual line-ups consisted of 20 performers and up) and came in 15th place with only 12 points, which they regarded as their beginning of the end as a band. Boney M.
A phone call from Katja Wolff agency in February 1976 persuaded <mask> to return to Germany to join a new group being assembled by record producer Frank Farian which would become known as Boney M. Though the group's initial purpose was simply to lip-synch for TV and discothèque performances of Farian's song "Baby Do You Wanna Bump", Boney M. soon became a legitimate recording group with <mask>, Marcia Barrett, and producer Farian as the vocal core. <mask> became widely regarded as Boney M.'s lead vocalist.Farian later stated that "All members (of Boney M.) could be replaced, except <mask>". Although Boney M was largely a Farian vehicle for his own songwriting, <mask> is credited as co-composer of the Boney M song, "African Moon", which appeared on their album, Boonoonoonoos (1981). Though she did not contribute significantly as a songwriter, <mask>'s vocals are

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 widely regarded as the most distinctive part of the Boney M. sound. Boney M. would disband in 1986. After Boney M.
After the group split up shortly after their 10th anniversary in 1986, fellow group member Bobby Farrell convinced <mask>, Maizie Williams and a replacement for Marcia Barrett to re-group for a tour in 1987. A recording contract for the group was also arranged. When Farrell and the replacement singer failed to show up for the rehearsals, <mask> and Williams recruited singer Celena Duncan and dancer Curt Dee Daran for the tour.As Williams had never sung on Boney M.'s recordings, <mask> ended up recording the scheduled album on her own. However, it proved difficult for <mask> to find a record label to release the album, entitled No One Will Force You. It was released in Spain in the Autumn of 1988, supported by the singles "Mandela" (a re-work of Boney M.'s 1979 hit "El Lute") and "Niños De La Playa" (Children of the Beach). The latter was also released on Mega Records in Scandinavia where the group did a tour in October. By this point, Williams had been replaced by Carol Grey. At the same time, Simon Napier-Bell had produced a remix album of Boney M.'s greatest hits and wanted the original line-up to promote it. <mask> reluctantly accepted the offer and Boney M. appeared together again on German TV, even though <mask>'s new line-up still had gigs to play.The success of the remix album led <mask> to sign her album for a French and Dutch release in 1989, and due to personal differences within the group, she eventually decided to focus on her solo career. Even though Madeleine Davis took her place in the group, Farian eventually called <mask> back for a second remix album by the end of 1989 and also had her

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texts: front a new Boney M. line-up for the single, "Stories", as an answer-back to an unofficial Boney M. single, "Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker", recorded by the other three with Madeleine Davis, without Farian's approval. In 1990, <mask> re-formed her 1988 line-up with Patricia Foster replacing Celena Duncan and kept touring the cabaret circuit. In April 1991, she released the single "Mocking Bird", produced by longtime Boney M. collaborator, Helmut Rulofs to minimal attention. After three dire years, the success of Boney M. Gold - 20 Super Hits boosted the career of her line-up, entitled 'Boney M. feat. <mask>', and they were officially approved by Farian to promote the album and the accompanying singles. For the follow-up More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol.II, <mask> recorded four new songs. No One Will Force You with two previously unreleased tracks from 1984 was also re-released in Denmark, five years after it was recorded. In 1996, <mask> and her husband Thomas Pemberton built the Dove House Studios and formed Dove House Records. With a newly founded fan club, <mask> recorded an EP with four Christmas songs as a special Christmas gift for her fans. In November 1999, <mask> finally released her album Share the World, which had taken three years to complete. In November 2000, she released the seasonal album Christmas Rose which consisted of partly new material, including the title track, "Lord's Prayer" and "I Want to Go to Heaven" co-written by herself, part re-recordings of Boney M.'s Christmas Album. <mask>, now a born-again Christian, continued the inspirational path on Let It Be, her fourth solo album, released in November 2004.Just a few months later, the album <mask> Sings the Hits of Boney M.,

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 recorded in Prague, backed by a Czech symphony orchestra, was released. A song recorded in 2006, called "A Moment Of Love", can be found on the compilation album, The Magic of Boney M..

She is still touring, billed as Boney M. featuring <mask>. In 2014 an English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at <mask>'s childhood home on Wrottesley Road in Harlesden, London, where her father still resided at this time. <mask> now resides in Caversham, Reading. Discography
Albums
 No One Will Force You (1988, re-released 1989 and 1993)
 Share the World (1999)
 Christmas Rose (2000)
 Let It Be (2004)
 <mask> Sings the Hits of Boney M. (2005)

7" Singles
 "Got a Man on My Mind" / "Perfect" (Hansa 11 327 AT, Germany 1977)
"Got a Man on My Mind" was taken from Boney M.'s 1976 album Take the Heat Off Me. "Perfect" was a 1974 demo with Malcolm Magaron (despite the label crediting Farian as the producer). "Lord's Prayer" (3:53) (Dove House DHR 0004 CD, 1999)
 "Let It Be" (4:08) / "You're Excellent" (3:50) (Dove House DHR 0009 CD, 2004)
 "My Life Is in Your Hands" (5:04) / "I Want To Go To Heaven" (4:08) / "Share The World" (Remix) (4:26) / "When A Child Is Born" (3:40) / "Grandmother's Song" (4:27) (Dove House DHR 0012 CD, 2006)

References

External links

 Liz <mask> official website
 Boney M. feat.<mask> Profile & Image

1952 births
Living people
20th-century Black British women singers
21st-century Black British women singers
20th-century Christians
21st-century Christians
Boney M. members
British Christians
English people of Jamaican descent
British pop singers
Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom
Les Humphries Singers members
People from Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Singers from London
Hansa Records artists
Jamaican expatriates

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<mask> (born November 2, 1984) is a professional Canadian football running back for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played as a tailback until 2014, when he became the starting fullback for the Edmonton Eskimos. McCarty is known for being able to fill many roles at his position, with TSN sportscaster Chris Schultz noting in 2010 that he is a "multi-purpose running back who catches the ball extremely well, blocks well and runs well". He is a champion of the 103rd Grey Cup. Prior to being drafted by the Eskimos in the fourth round of the 2007 CFL Draft, McCarty played high school football for the St. Thomas More Knights, where he broke multiple school records. He later played college football for the Western Washington Vikings. With the Vikings, McCarty developed into a dual threat, being used heavily as a rusher and receiver.McCarty has spent his entire professional career with the Edmonton Eskimos, making him the most veteran player on the team as of the 2015 season. High school career

McCarty played high school football for the St. Thomas More Knights in Burnaby, British Columbia beginning in 1998, playing as both a running back and middle linebacker on the Grade 8 team. He quickly became a key player on the team, including rushing for 185 yards and four touchdowns while adding 10 defensive tackles in the Grade 8 provincial semi-finals on November 24 against the Handsworth Royals. For that performance, he was named "Star of the Week" by The Vancouver Sun. The Knights went on to defeat the Vancouver College Fighting Irish 48–0 in the Grade 8


texts: B.C. championship game, where McCarty scored another three touchdowns. The following year, McCarty joined the senior team at St. Thomas More, skipping the junior team entirely.He continued in his role as a running back while switching to the secondary defensively. Despite being a rare Grade 9 player on the senior team, he was one of the Knights' two leading rushers that year. McCarty scored a touchdown in the AAA B.C. championship game, helping the Knights win their first senior title as they beat the Pinetree T-Wolves 29–6. While K.C. Steele, the Knights' coach, has a policy of not recording player statistics, it is estimated that McCarty finished 1999 with over 1,000 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns. In 2000, McCarty played a significant role in the Knights' rushing and return game.He rushed for 150 yards and three touchdowns against the Burnaby Central Wildcats in the annual Burnaby Bowl, adding two punt returns for touchdowns. By the end of October, the Knights had compiled a perfect 6–0 record, and defensive coordinator and former CFL defensive back Lou Deslauriers called McCarty "the best player for his age and talent that we've ever had at our school". He recorded 238 yards and four consecutive touchdowns with only 23 carries in the Knights' 46–12 victory over the W. J. Mouat Hawks in the AAA championship game. For his role in earning the Knights their second AAA title, McCarty was named the game's MVP, becoming the youngest player to earn this award. McCarty remained a presence on the field for the Knights in 2001, expanding his role by playing some snaps as a fullback.


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 He rushed for 160 yards in that year's Burnaby Bowl, including three touchdowns as a halfback and one as a fullback. McCarty had another notable performance in a 67–7 blowout against the South Delta Sun Devils, running for 200 yards and three touchdowns.He also showed himself to be a capable receiver, including making five catches for 66 yards in a match against the Holy Cross Crusaders. McCarty also finished that game with 110 yards and two touchdowns on only three carries. Despite giving up only 19 points during the entire regular season, the Knights lost 32–26 in the quarter-finals of the playoffs against the Centennial Centaurs after McCarty was stopped one yard away from the endzone on the last play of the game. As a senior, McCarty recorded 2,400 yards and scored 33 touchdowns in just nine games, averaging 266.7 yards and over three touchdowns per game. He ran for 380 yards and three touchdowns in a 21–20 loss against the W. J. Mouat Hawks in the quarter-finals of the AAA playoffs. He was named the 2002 Provincial Player of the Year for his performance and finished his four-year AAA career at St. Thomas More with 84 touchdowns, breaking a school record. Other sports

McCarty played basketball and baseball during high school as well.He lettered in basketball with the Knights. At the 2001 Big League World Series, McCarty played for Team Canada as a shortstop and center fielder, helping the team to third place in the international competition. Despite being skilled as a baseball player, McCarty chose football over professional baseball due to the physicality of the former


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Boise State

McCarty originally committed to Boise State University and played for the Broncos. In 2003, he was given redshirt status and did not play. McCarty played a limited role the following year, but capitalized on the opportunities he was given, rushing for 104 yards on only 10 carries. His only touchdown came on a 7-yard carry in the October 24 game against the Fresno State Bulldogs.The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 season in 2004. Reedley

<mask> transferred to Reedley College and played for the Tigers in 2005. He ended the season with 620 rushing yards, 500 receiving yards, and 14 touchdowns, as the Tigers earned a 10–1 record along their way to the Central Valley Conference championship title. McCarty also played baseball at Reedley. Western Washington

After his single season at Reedley, McCarty transferred to Western Washington University and played football for the Vikings. McCarty was immediately a significant factor in the Vikings' gameplan. In the season opener, he rushed for 139 yards and three touchdowns on 30 carries against the Humboldt State Lumberjacks.He also played a large role in the passing game early in the season, making eight receptions for 126 yards through the first two games. After starting the first seven games for the Vikings, McCarty broke his foot in a game against the South Dakota Hardrockers. At the time of his injury, he led the Vikings in rushing and receiving yards. He finished the season with 492 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 130 carries, as well as 30 receptions for 278 yards. McCarty was also named


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Edmonton Eskimos

Following his only season at Western Washington, McCarty declared himself eligible for the 2007 CFL Draft. He was selected in the fourth round of the draft by the Edmonton Eskimos with the 27th overall pick.He was re-signed on December 19, 2008 to a multiple-year contract, and again following the 2011 season. 2007 season

McCarty made the active roster and played in all 18 regular season games his rookie season. He was used in the passing game and on the special teams, finishing with seven receptions for 99 yards and a touchdown as well as five special-teams tackles. McCarty made his CFL debut on June 28 in the season opener against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He received his first carry and reception in a Week 10 game against the Calgary Stampeders, where he was given two carries for one yard and caught one reception for 10 yards. 2008 season

McCarty played a larger role in his second season with the Eskimos, especially as a receiver. On September 1 in a match against the Stampeders, starting running back A. J. Harris was injured, and McCarty rushed for 73 yards on 12 carries as a backup.Filling in again for the injured Harris on September 13 against the Montreal Alouettes, McCarty was named Canadian Player of the Week for the first time with 72 yards on only 9 carries and a touchdown. Receiving his first start of his career on October 4, McCarty rushed for 88 yards on 19 carries with a touchdown along with eight catches for 80 yards, earning him another Canadian Player of the


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McCarty split time with Arkee Whitlock in 2009.He rushed for two touchdowns in Week 4, being named the Canadian Player of the Week for the third time. He was also named the Canadian Player of the Month in July after continuing to play a large role in the rushing game. In August, McCarty injured his hamstring in a game against the Stampeders and missed several games. He briefly returned in mid-September before being sidelined again with recurring hamstring issues until late October. In Week 19, McCarty ran for 81 yards and a touchdown off of 10 carries, helping the Eskimos defeat the BC Lions in a 45–13 blowout. Despite having his season sidetracked by injuries, McCarty finished 2009 with 348 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 67 attempts, as well as seven special-teams tackles. He saw a significantly smaller role as a receiver, catching 20 passes for only 124 yards.2010 season

McCarty remained in a multi-purpose role in 2010 and was utilized more frequently in the passing game compared to the previous season. He made a reception for a first down following a fake punt in Week 6. He missed two games later in the season due to a hand


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In 2011, the Eskimos utilized a committee of running backs, with McCarty, Daniel Porter, and Jerome Messam all receiving significant playing time. McCarty was used mostly in short-yardage situations on the ground, while also being active as a receiver and on special teams. He played in 18 games, made eight starts, and finished with 209 yards on 52 carries with no touchdowns. He also caught 22 passes for 150 yards and a touchdown. McCarty played in both of the Eskimos' playoff games. In the West Semi-Finals against the Stampeders, he rushed for a goal-line touchdown, in addition to making three receptions and two special-teams tackles. McCarty played a more limited role in the West Finals against the BC Lions, where he was given only one carry for six yards, made one tackle on special teams, and caught two passes for a total of four yards.2012 season

McCarty played a limited role in 2012, both due to injuries and competition from other backs, including Cory Boyd, Hugh Charles, and Jerome Messam. McCarty missed six games due to a high


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McCarty played a role as a receiver and special teams player in 2013, but was almost entirely absent from the rushing game. He rushed for 48 yards on 9 carries, but caught 20 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns. He continued to play on the special teams, and recorded nine special-teams tackles.2014 season

<mask> was shifted from playing mostly as a backup tailback to the fullback position, where he started all 18 regular season games. In his new position, McCarty was primarily used for blocking and remained involved on special teams and as a receiver. He continued his extremely limited role as a rusher, finishing the season with just eight carries. McCarty had 16 catches for 123 yards and two touchdowns, as well as a career-high 12 special-teams tackles. 2015 season

McCarty was again used as a fullback and special teams player in 2015. After sustaining an unspecified injury in week 12, he missed several games and was placed on the six-game injured list. McCarty finished the season with only one carry and nine catches, his lowest total number of touches in any CFL season.With 12 starts, McCarty finished with one carry for 20 yards, nine receptions for 68 yards, as well as five special teams tackles and one kick return for 17 yards. McCarty played in the West Final and had one special teams tackle. He became a Grey Cup champion for


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On July 25, 2021, it was announced that McCarty had signed with the Calgary Stampeders. Season statistics

Personal life

McCarty grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma. After his mother, Jackie Conway  Sent calvin mccarty to Canada to live with his father, <mask>.His mother was a college softball player for the NEO Lady Norse, while his father was a college basketball player for the Bacone Warriors and the Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm. McCarty's siblings were also college athletes; Tiffany played softball for the McPherson Bulldogs while Jordan was a quarterback with the Reedley Tigers. References

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Living people
Canadian football fullbacks
American football running backs
Boise State Broncos football players
Western Washington Vikings football players
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texts: <mask> (October 21, 1844 – May 12, 1926) was an American memoirist. She was a Nantucket, Massachusetts native who later on in life immigrated to Arizona. A well travelled and educated woman, Summerhayes spent two years, from 1871 to 1873, studying literature in Germany. Her passion for writing took her into a career as a writer. She became well known as a writer in Massachusetts, but she usually did her writing during the winter, which, in turn, led to her becoming interested in the warmer weather of Arizona. In 1873, she married soldier <mask>, a veteran of the American Civil War. <mask> was still in the military when the couple married, so <mask> further expanded her travels by going with her husband wherever the military sent him when no war was being fought.The Summerhayes arrived at Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyoming shortly after marrying. In 1874, they were sent by the military to an Arizona that at the time counted with only about 20,000 inhabitants. They stayed at a ranch owned by Corydon Cooley, a White man who had two Indian wives. Accommodations at Cooley's ranch were quite different from what <mask> had experience in the east and Europe. She was also disturbed by the fact that Cooley had two wives. Her observations were published in 1908 in an autobiography named "Vanished Arizona" that details her memories of Arizona and the West before widespread settlement and the experiences of military wives. Summerhayes travelled, in August 1874, about 200 miles by a steamboat to Fort Mohave from Fort Yuma, enduring temperatures along the Colorado River that soared to 122 degrees.Soon after arriving at Fort Mohave, the military and their families loaded their belongings into wagons, heading to Prescott, near where Fort Whipple stood. For <mask>, the experience of traveling through the desert was both adventurous and frightening; she was not used to using snake protection before sleep, witnessing dogs being eaten to their deaths by these animals, and other experiences. Soon after

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texts: arriving at Prescott, the group of soldiers and their families moved slightly to the north, to Camp Verde. <mask> by this point began to think that the military had better accommodations for prostitutes than they had for the soldiers' wives themselves. In Camp Verde, she befriended Mrs. George Brayton, who advised her to "Take all you need, and it will get carried along, somehow". The military group, consisting of 100 people, mostly men, faced a two-month-long trip to Camp Apache, passing by the Mogollon Rim. According to <mask> in her autobiography, they were attacked by Indians along the way.During that era, Apache Indians went twice a week to Camp Apache to be counted and receive food and water. At one point, she noticed that one Apache woman had a disfigured face and that she had lost her nose because she had supposedly committed adultery. Another time, she was watching a show, when the Apache chief "Diablo" supposedly approached major William Worth and asked him how many ponies would Worth accept in exchange for Worth's wife. Again, she attended an Apache show, and she feared for her life when the Indians, painted and wearing feathers, began to jump and shout around fires. She said that they had knives and recalled her fear. Eventually, she was able to leave the show. During her stay at Camp Apache, she found out that soldiers had also used cruelty in killing Apaches.Once handed a box, she noticed a foul smell coming from it. A soldier told her that the box had rotten cheese, and, in reality, it had the head of an Apache Indian, a fact which she found out about later, because she did not open the box herself. In January 1875, she was by herself as she gave birth to her son Harry. She had to perform various tasks by herself, because there were no nurses around, no running water for her or the newborn, barely any food (she and her baby survived the first days only on vegetables and milk), and, perhaps more importantly, no doctor to attend to them, as the military doctor on base

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 was not well prepared to handle newborns and their mothers. In April 1875, despite the pleas of Mexicans not to try to travel to Phoenix because of hazards related to warring tribes, the Summerhayes made it to Arizona's future capital. Soon after, however, she and her husband, whom she affectionately nicknamed "Jack", moved back to Nantucket, thinking about baby Harry's welfare and about the hot Arizona summers. But they missed Arizona and returned shortly afterwards.In 1878, the Summerhayes moved to California. This was followed by various other moves which were appointed by the military. After Geronimo's campaign was over, the Summerhayes were ordered to Arizona once again. They arrived at Tucson using a Pullman car. In 1900, her husband retired from the military, and the Summerhayes returned to the East, where they lived in various cities including Washington, D.C., New York and Nantucket. After her 1908 autobiography was published, <mask> became a celebrity, receiving fan mail from hundreds of people, especially military men and students that valued her view of military. <mask> died on May 12, 1926 at Schenectady, New York.She and her husband John are buried next to each other, at the Arlington National Cemetery. References

Leo Banks, Stalwart Women: Frontier Stories of Indomitable Spirit ()
Bill W. Smith, Journal of Arizona History, Spring of 1996, Vol 37, No. 1. "<mask> <mask>, Correcting the Biographical Record"
Lamar (Current Edition) The New Encyclopedia of the American West
Obituary for <mask>, The Schenectady Gazette, Schenectady, New York, May 13, 1926
A copy of <mask> Death Certificate is available from The New York State Department Of Health
A copy of the Birth Certificate for <mask> (Her Maiden Name) is available from The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts (Archives Department)
The Headstone of <mask> (Arlington National Cemetery)

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<mask> (18 September 1901 – 20 October 1983) was a German anti-fascist and communist and survivor of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Biography

<mask> was born in Harburg on the Elbe (today part of Hamburg). He learned the trade of boilermaker in Hamburg and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919. He and his wife Martha were married in 1926 and had one son, Rainer. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, <mask> was arrested. For over two years, he was sent to various prisons and concentration camps, including KoLaFu and by 1936, one of the Emslandlager, before finally being sent to Sachsenhausen. Beginning in November 1936, <mask> worked as a prisoner in the camp administration and in 1939, was named Lagerältester (camp supervisor) "because of his unflappable calm and his organisational talent".In May 1942, he was ordered by Lagerführer Fritz Suhren to execute a fellow prisoner by hanging, but refused, a dangerous act of insubordination. He was able to survive the insubordination and to avoid executing the prisoner himself, but he was forced to stand next to the gallows during the hanging, which was made to be particularly slow and painful. In November 1942, he and 17 other prisoner functionaries in the clandestine camp resistance group were arrested, tortured and deported to Flossenbürg concentration camp for extermination. Only through solidarity with the prisoners there that he survived maltreatment from the guards. After 1945
After the war, <mask> was the chairman of the Hamburg KPD and remained politically active after the KPD was banned in 1956. A particular focus of his political activity was his work as chairman of the West German Sachsenhausen Committee along with his work for the International Sachsenhausen Committee and the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime. He

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 lived in Stübeheide in the Klein Borstel suburb of Hamburg till his death in 1983.Legacy
Martha and <mask>' library, containing 2,000 volumes, was donated to the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen, making it the most comprehensive individual donation. Among the documents are files from the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi doctors, judgments for treason from the Volksgerichthof and files from the Nazi Party Chancellery. On 16 April 1999 there was an exhibition called "<mask> (1901-1983) — Lagerältester und Chronist des KZ Sachsenhausen" at the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen. It opened with presentations by Dr. Winfried Meyer, Prof. Nozicka of Prague, Ursel Hochmuth and <mask>' son, Rainer. Memoirs
<mask> documented his memoirs and interviews with other former Sachsenhausen prisoners on a collection of taped recordings. He creates a vivid picture of camp life and the resistance work at Sachsenhausen. This recorded archive was transcribed into a book in 1987 by his wife, Martha and historian Ursel Hochmuth.Called My life in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1936-1942 (original title: Mein Leben im KZ Sachsenhausen 1936–1942), it was re-released with added material in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)  in 1989. His recollections were valuable because his position gave him access and the length of his imprisonment gave him insights. Naujoks chronicled both the indignities of daily life and the crimes of the Nazis at Sachsenhausen. Every SS guard had to be greeted by the prisoners. When a prisoner walked by an SS guard, six paces beforehand, the prisoner had to place his left hand on the seam of his trousers and with his right hand, quickly doff his cap and lay it on the seam of his trousers on the right-hand side. The prisoner had to walk by the guard while looking at him, as at attention. Three

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 paces afterward, he was allowed to put his cap back on.This had to be done with the thumb pressed against the palm, the four fingers resting on the cap, pressed against the seam of the trousers. If this didn't happen quickly enough or the prisoner didn't snap to attention enough or his fingers weren't taut enough, or anything else happened that struck the SS guard as being insufficient, then one's ear was boxed, he had extra sports, or was reported. — written after 1945

Describing life at the barracks, he wrote,

When we came back to the barracks in the evening, tired after work, everything was all thrown together. The lockers were tipped over, preserves, margarine and any other food lay in a pile in the middle of the barrack with toothpaste, laundry, broken glass, etc. The iron bed frames were all knocked over, the straw sacks [the bedding] emptied out... When we were finally in bed, then the barracks supervisor would come in the middle of the night and it was get out of bed, get on the joists, under the beds — for as long as the barracks supervisor wanted... Many never even went to bed at night, but slept on the floor so they wouldn't have to reconstruct a bed.To avoid being seen by the barracks supervisor, they would crawl under the beds. — written after 1945

Sachsenhausen was built with 67 barracks designed to hold 100 to 120 people, but ultimately held 600. The population expanded dramatically in mid-1938, after the Nazis carried out their "Aktion Arbeitscheu Reich", arresting 10,000 "azociale" (undesirables) as being "work averse" and the "June Initiative", the first mass arrests of Jews. After these massive arrests, thousands of people were deported to concentration camps. Sachsenhausen's population went from 2,920 in May 1938 to over 9,200 in June 1938. Naujoks recalled the


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 overcrowding. In normal occupancy, each barrack had 146 prisoners.This was true until mid-1938. After that, a third bed was added. Then the barrack occupancy was 180-200 men... In essence, this was case only in the first ring after 1938-1939... In other barracks, the overcrowding of the camp led to the beds being removed and the straw sacks were laid on the ground. There were also times where day rooms were covered with straw sacks at night; during the day, the straw sacks were stacked in the other room with the beds. In the large barracks, dubbed "mass barracks", often 400 prisoners were jammed together.From July to September 1942, almost all of the pink triangle prisoners then at Sachsenhausen fell victim to a targeted SS extermination initiative. After liberation, Naujoks reported the murder of 200 individuals in this initiative. Selected works
 Nahrung für das Notstandsgebiet Hamburg, KPD, Hamburg (1947)
 'Das Gestern soll nicht das Heute bestimmen, Sachsenhausen booklet, No. 3. Dortmund (1962)
 Mein Leben im KZ Sachsenhausen 1936–1942. Erinnerungen des ehemaligen Lagerältesten.'' Edited by Ursel Hochmuth.Published by <mask> and the Sachsenhausen Committee for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Röderberg-Verlag, Cologne (1987). Also published by Dietz Verlag, Berlin (1989) and Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne (1989),

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 Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen Official website. Retrieved May 5, 2010
 Internationales Sachsenhausen Komitee Official website. Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime Official website

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<mask> (born August 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, director, and producer. He is best known for writing and producing the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. <mask> has also produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. He has won seven Emmy Awards. <mask>'s film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos. Early life and education
<mask> was born into a working-class Italian American family in Mount Vernon, New York, the only child of Henry and <mask>.His paternal grandmother had changed the family name from "DeCesare" to "<mask>". His father owned a hardware store. He grew up in a small garden apartment in Clifton, New Jersey, and in North Caldwell, New Jersey. He grew up watching matinée crime films and was well known as a creative storyteller. He has stated that he had many problems with his parents when he was a child. He says that his father was an angry man who belittled him constantly, and his mother was a "passive-aggressive drama queen" and a "nervous woman who dominated any situation she was in by being so needy and always on the verge of hysteria." A character he created for The Sopranos, Livia Soprano, is based on his mother.<mask> struggled with panic attacks and clinical depression as a teenager, something he dealt with into adulthood. He graduated from high school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his depression worsened. "I slept 18 hours a day," he has stated. He described his problems as "normal, nagging, clinical depression." He also worked as a drummer during this period and aspired to be a professional musician. After

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 two years, he transferred to New York University where he chose to pursue a career in film—a decision that was not well received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford University's School of Film, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1971.Career
<mask> started in Hollywood as a story editor for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and then produced episodes of The Rockford Files and Northern Exposure, among other series. He also worked as a writer of 19 episodes while on The Rockford Files—a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years. He won several Emmy awards, including one for a television movie, Off the Minnesota Strip, the story of a runaway he scripted in 1980. His first original created series was Almost Grown in 1988, with Eve Gordon and Timothy Daly. Although the one-hour series was well received by critics, only 10 episodes aired from November 1988 to February 1989. The Sopranos
<mask> worked in relative anonymity before The Sopranos debuted. The story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about "a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother".<mask> got some input from his manager Lloyd Braun and decided to adapt it into a television series. He signed a development deal in 1995 with production company Brillstein-Grey and wrote the original pilot script. He drew heavily from his personal life and his experiences growing up in New Jersey, and has stated that he tried to apply his own "family dynamic to mobsters". For instance, the tumultuous relationship between series protagonist Tony Soprano and his mother Livia is partially based on <mask>'s relationship with his own mother. He was also in psychotherapy at the time and modeled the character of Jennifer Melfi after his own psychiatrist. <mask> had been fascinated by organized crime and the mafia from an early age, witnessing such people growing up. He also was

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texts: raised on classic gangster films such as The Public Enemy and the crime series The Untouchables.The series is partly inspired by the Richard Boiardo family, a prominent New Jersey organized crime family when <mask> was growing up, and partly on New Jersey's DeCavalcante family. He has mentioned American playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as influences on the show's writing, and Italian director Federico Fellini as an important influence on the show's cinematic style. The series was named after high school friends of his. <mask> and producer Brad Grey pitched The Sopranos to several networks; Fox showed interest but passed on it after <mask> presented them the pilot script. They eventually pitched the show to Chris Albrecht, president of HBO Original Programming, who decided to finance a pilot episode which was shot in 1997. <mask> directed it himself. They finished the pilot and showed it to HBO executives, but the show was put on hold for several months.During this time, <mask>, who had long experienced frustration at being unable to break out of TV and into film, considered asking HBO for additional funding to shoot 45 more minutes of footage and release The Sopranos as a feature film. In December 1997, HBO decided to produce the series and ordered 12 more episodes for a 13-episode season. The show premiered on HBO on January 10, 1999, with the pilot, The Sopranos. In 2022, <mask> and Phil Abrham created the 2022 Super Bowl spot for Commonwealth / McCann. Thirty episodes of The Sopranos are explicitly credited to <mask>; however, as the show's creator, showrunner, and head writer, he had a major role in all the scripts, including producing and touching up each script's final draft. He also directed the pilot episode and the series finale (both of which he also wrote). Of the controversial final scene of the series finale, <mask> said, "I have no

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 interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there."Not Fade Away
Not Fade Away (2012), <mask>'s feature film debut, was released on December 21, 2012. It centers on the lead singer of a teenage rock 'n' roll band (played by John Magaro) in 1960s New Jersey. Described as "a music-driven coming-of-age story," the film reunites <mask> with James Gandolfini (former star of Sopranos), who co-stars as Magaro's father. Other cast members include Bella Heathcote, Christopher McDonald, Molly Price, Lisa Lampanelli, Jack Huston and Brad Garrett. <mask> himself has described the film as about "a post-war, post-Depression-era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up, but now can't help feeling jealous of the liberated, more adventurous destiny his son is able to enjoy." Another former Sopranos cast member, Steven Van Zandt, served as music supervisor and executive producer. The Many Saints of Newark
Although <mask> was "against [the movie] for a long time", Deadline Hollywood reported in March 2018 that New Line Cinema had purchased the script for The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos written by <mask> and fellow screenwriter Lawrence Konner.<mask> said of the storyline, which centers on the 1967 Newark riots and racial tensions between the Italian-American and African-American communities, "I was interested in Newark and life in Newark at that time... I used to go down there every Saturday night for dinner with my grandparents. But the thing that interested me most was Tony's boyhood. I was interested in exploring that." <mask> served as producer, and in July 2018, Alan Taylor, who previously directed episodes of the series, was hired to direct the film. The film was initially scheduled to be released on September 25, 2020, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, its release date was

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 rescheduled to March 12, 2021 and later September 24, 2021 before ultimately being released on October 1, 2021. More recently, he and his Chase Films production company struck a deal with WarnerMedia.Unrealized projects

A Ribbon of Dreams
<mask> has previously developed A Ribbon of Dreams, a miniseries for HBO. According to an HBO press release, the series' pilot would "begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures." Specifically, the two men would "begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others who gave shape to Hollywood as it grew from the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day." In 2021, <mask> revealed that HBO agreed to proceed with the production of the miniseries but with "a cheesy budget", to which <mask> refused to agree. Therefore, <mask> and HBO parted ways on the project and A Ribbon of Dreams fell through. Personal life
After graduating from NYU in 1968, <mask> moved to California and married his high school sweetheart Denise Kelly. He is the father of actress Michele DeCesare, who appeared in six The Sopranos episodes as Hunter Scangarelo.<mask> has stated that he "loathed and despised" television shows, watching only The Sopranos and movies. However, he has said in recent interviews that he watches Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men, the work of former Sopranos writers and producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, respectively. He said that he made those negative comments in part because he had been frustrated working within the confines of 1990s network

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<mask>. (July 27, 1926 – June 9, 1995) was an influential leader in the Phoenix-area Civil Rights Movement. Known for his outspokenness, <mask> was instrumental in various reform efforts in the Valley, including voting rights and the desegregation of schools, neighborhoods, and public accommodations. Early life

<mask> was born on July 27, 1926, to mortician <mask> and schoolteacher <mask> (née Perkins) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and subsequently grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma. In 1921, Hartwell's mortuary was located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, the site of the violent Tulsa race riot, which he narrowly escaped; the business was burned down by a mob along with most other businesses in that black community. Hartwell's oldest brother, <mask>., was a taxi driver who served whites and blacks and was the first of the six brothers, who started the family legacy of funeral service by opening the nation's first African-American funeral business still owned by the same family. <mask> has said that he grew up hearing about it. <mask>, the first person in her family to earn a college degree, was the president of the National Association of Colored Women's Oklahoma chapter.Hartwell's mortuary business, relocated to Ardmore, became a success and the <mask>s lived more comfortably than most black families during the Great Depression. Theodore "Ted" <mask>, a cousin of <mask>, followed in William Jr.'s footsteps to become Oklahoma NAACP president in the 1930s despite the earlier death of his brother. <mask>'s parents instilled in him the value of education. He attended the segregated Douglass High School in Ardmore, and around this time began to develop both his love for flying and his entrepreneurial acumen by earning his own money to pay a local pilot to take him up in his plane regularly. Military career

When <mask> graduated high school in 1944, the new Tuskegee Airmen, a corps of black military pilots in World War II, appealed to both

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 his interest in flying and in racial equality. He later remarked that he enlisted to refute the popular notion that blacks could not successfully fly planes. Trained at Tuskegee Army Air Corps Field in Alabama in 1945, he became part of the US Army's early integration effort.In Alabama, <mask> experienced racially motivated violence firsthand, narrowly escaping a lynching at the hands of local police at the age of 19. As he tells it, <mask>, less deferential than normal because of his recent graduation and because he was accustomed to giving orders, had drawn the ire of a white gas station attendant, who alerted the police to his behavior. He was followed out of the station by a police car, and, after pulling over, brutally beaten by three officers with shotguns; one suggested killing him, but another objected because he was wearing a military uniform. <mask> was transferred to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona for gunnery training, becoming one of the first black soldiers involved in the base's integration. <mask> later remarked upon his surprise at discovering the extent to which Phoenix was plagued by racism similar to the South's. In November 1945, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps. Phoenix and entrepreneurship
After the war, he went on to settle in Phoenix in 1946, where he and brother Hartwell <mask> family profession.<mask> was initially unable to secure a loan, being rejected by all of the banks in town, until a stranger agreed to make a personal loan of $35,000 to start the business after hearing his story. This made Lincoln Ragsdale Phoenix's first black funeral home owner in Arizona in 1948. He would later graduate from the Arizona State University, and also received a doctorate in business administration from Union Graduate School. In 1949, he married <mask>, a local schoolteacher at Dunbar Elementary School who became an important activist in her own right. <mask>'s many business

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 holdings over the years included the mortuary business, a real estate agency, a construction business, a restaurant and nightclub, various insurance companies in several states, an ambulance service, and a flower shop. During his years of activism, <mask> nevertheless became wealthy in his many business dealings. <mask>'s original business model subverted Phoenix's discriminatory practices to his own economic gain.Because blacks and Hispanics were not permitted to patronize white establishments, he expected to be able to corner the market in his industry among those underserved groups—and while Hispanics were not major customers, his business with the small black community boomed. However, Ragsdale, somewhat controversially for the time, began to specifically cater to white and Hispanic clientele in the 1960s, putting him at odds with the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, Inc., a black trade association. He employed white workers and took his name out of the business', renaming from "Ragsdale Mortuary" to "Universal Memorial Center." <mask> saw this business decision as part of his broader activism for racial integration: "I was almost bankrupt in 1965. There just wasn't enough business to support me, so I decided to go after the white business. We talk about integration but too often continue to work in all-black situations." Civil Rights-era activism

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The Ragsdales were founding members of the Greater Phoenix Council for Civic Unity (GPCCU) in the late 1940s.One of <mask>'s first forays into civil rights action was in a case that touched both his military and mortuary careers. In 1952, <mask>'s business received the body of Pfc. Thomas Reed, a black soldier killed in the Korean War. While the family wanted to have him buried in the military veterans' plot at the Greenwood Memorial Park cemetery in Phoenix, cemeteries were segregated and the veterans' plot was all-white. <mask> worked with the

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