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<mask> was a supporter of the Republican Party. Death
On December 2, 1990, <mask> died of kidney failure and complications from pneumonia at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He is interred in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. Filmography

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 The Roof (1931)
 Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (1934)
 Faithfully Yours (1951)
 The Wayward Stork (1966)
 Remember It's Never Too Late (1972)

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 My Hero (1951–1952) as <mask>. Beanblossom
 Justice ("The Crisis") (1954)
 Disneyland (1954) as Himself
 Studio One in Hollywood (1954–1956) as George Lumley / Juror No. 8
 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ("A Marital Mix-Up") (1957) as Bob Collins / <mask>
 General Electric Theater ("Too Good with a Gun") (1957) as Russ Baker
 The <mask> Show (1955–1959) as Bob Collins / Grandpa Josh Collins / Josh Collins
 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957–1960) ("The Ricardos Go To Japan") (1959) as Himself
 The Twilight Zone ("King Nine Will Not Return") (1960) as Capt. With Amusement For All. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. .
 Christensen, Lawrence O., ed.Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999. .
 Critchlow, Donald T. When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. .
 Gilmore, Susan. "Tired of the commute? All you need is $3.5 million". The Seattle Times, September 5, 2006. Greenwood, James R. "Meet <mask>...Pilot, Actor, Businessman".Flying, 66:3, March

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 Lyon, Christopher, James Vinson, Susan Doll and Greg S. Faller. The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. New York: St. James Press, 1987. .
 Maltin, Leonard."<mask>". Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. New York: Dutton, 1994. .
 McGivern, Carolyn. The Lost Films of John Wayne. Nashville, Kentucky: Cumberland House, 2006. .
 Tucker, David C. Eve Arden: A Chronicle of All Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland& Company, 2011. . Wise, James E. and Paul W. Wilderson.Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and the Air Services. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2000. .
 Woog, Adam. Sexless Oysters and Self-Tipping Hats: 100 Years of Invention in the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch Books, 1991. . External links

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<mask>'Dwyer (born October 10, 1945) is an American lobbyist and lawyer. O'Dwyer was appointed the Commissioner of the United States National Commission of UNESCO by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Early years and education

O'Dwyer was born on October 10, 1945 in the Upper West Side of New York City. He attended the High School of Music and Art (which later became Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts). In 1961 following the election of John F. Kennedy he was one of the founders of the High School Democratic Association, with members drawn from most of New York's top high schools. Educational background
<mask>'Dwyer received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University in Spanish-American Literature and his Master of Arts degree in Spanish-Language Literature from Middlebury College in Madrid. Before becoming a lawyer, he studied Spanish at the National University of Mexico.He then received his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University and his Masters in Law from the George Washington University. In July 2013 he was an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Dublin City University. On August 16, 2019, his graduate alma mater, Middlebury College, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (hc) at its Language Schools commencement. Honorary awards
O'Dwyer is a member of the Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honorary Society, as well as a member and past International President of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was honored in 2011 by its members as "Man of the Year". In 2000, he received recognition from the Catholic Church by being named as a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, a papal knighthood conferred by Cardinal Edward Egan and has also been conferred The Child of Peace Award by the Catholic Home Bureau. He has received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Dublin City University in 2013, which is the highest award given by the University.In

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 October 2015 O'Dwyer was awarded the Sean MacBride Humanitarian Award by the Ancient Order of Hibernians for his work "To memorialize the human rights contributions made by Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Sean MacBride and to recognize the efforts of others who make similar contributions in the cause of peace, justice, and the economic well-being of the Irish people…" On August 16, 2019, Middlebury College conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters. New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade Grand Marshal
It was announced in the fall of 2018 that O'Dwyer would be honored by the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee by serving as the parade's Grand Marshal in 2019. <mask> has long served as an advocate for the Irish-American community in New York, focusing on immigration rights and reform for Irish citizens immigrating into the United States as well as supporting investment and development throughout Ireland, particularly focused on his family's original home of County Mayo. He will be the third O'Dwyer honored as Grand Marshal, following in the footsteps of his Uncle William O'Dwyer who held the title in 1938 and his father, Paul O'Dwyer, who did the same in 1974. Work

Legal career
O'Dwyer has spent virtually his entire legal career at O'Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP, a law firm founded by his late father, Paul O'Dwyer, which concentrates on personal injury, immigration rights, labor relations, disability rights and general commercial litigation. He serves as the firm's senior partner. He has been cited as a New York Super Lawyer since its inception, which is a peer ranking is given to only the top 5% of the profession as surveyed by the Bar of New York City.He has also been awarded a rating for 25 years that puts him at the very top of his profession. He serves as General Counsel of the US Airline Pilots Association, and represents pilots throughout the United States. O'Dwyer has been cited as winning the highest personal injury award


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 – $61 million – in the United States. Academic studies
As a former teacher of Spanish at the George Washington University and Malcolm King College, O'Dwyer has been active in education. He serves as Treasurer of the City University of New York Law School Foundation and was a recipient of the Dean's Medal. He also serves as a Co-Chair of the board of the Graduate School of Political Management of the George Washington University. He was national president of his college fraternity, Kappa Sigma, and serves as an advisor to many chapters in the New York City area.He was also named as the Fraternity's Man of the Year in 2011, only one of 84 in the history of Kappa Sigma. Lobbyist and causes
O'Dwyer is known as a Democratic Party "stalwart." He considers the Democratic Party the party for the "poor and dispossessed." Immigration
Immigration is high on O'Dwyer's list for lobbying. He has received special citations from Governor Mario Cuomo at the New York City Council for his work with immigrant groups. As a son of Irish immigrants, O'Dwyer has been especially influential and active in America's Irish Community. He has been a guest of honor and an award recipient by the Irish Immigration Reform Movement; an award recipient of the Brehon Law Society, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and was selected Chief Brehon of the Coney Island Irish Fair.In 1998, he was the Grand Marshal of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, in Rockaway, N.Y.

O'Dwyer has been a consummate advocate for immigrants' rights. He was founder of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, which is the largest Irish immigrant center in the United States. In its almost 25 years of existence, the center has helped literally thousands of Irish men and women as they immigrated to New York City. The center also serves as a focal point for the advocacy of Irish immigrant causes. <mask> has served as chairman and counselor to the Associacion Tepeyac as well, which provides advocacy and services to


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 New York's growing Mexican community. One of his greatest accomplishments for immigration reform was when helped convince the late New York City Mayor Edward Koch to open the doors of New York City's public universities and colleges to all immigrants regardless of their documented status. As an attorney he has concentrated on defending undocumented workers hurt in the course of their employment.Causes
O'Dwyer has been cited for his efforts on behalf of the people of Puerto Rico by the Governor of Puerto Rico and was made Honorary Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Parade in 1993. He has been chosen by "Irish America" magazine on numerous occasion as a member of the "Top 100" Irish in the United States. O'Dwyer is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award and the Outreach Project Annual Service Award 1994. In June 2012, O'Dwyer was honored as one of the top 25 Irish who have made a difference by Irish Voice Magazine. The award recognized him as one of the top leaders of the Irish Community in the New York area, and as someone who has had a significant positive impact in changing the community. The Irish Echo, the oldest Irish American Newspaper, has bestowed upon him 2013's Man of the Year Award. <mask>'Dwyer's work in the political arena has concentrated largely on promoting Irish and Irish-American interests.He served as national chairman of Irish Americans for Clinton-Gore in 1992 and 1996 and Irish-Americans for Gore in 2000, and was founding member of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee and Irish American Democrats. He was part of the delegation that accompanied President Bill Clinton to Ireland on each of his three trips and served as an advisor to the White House on Irish issues including the peace process. He was appointed by President Clinton as a Commissioner of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and was awarded the Director Citation for Exemplary Public Service by the White House


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 Director of Personnel citing his work on the Commission. In June 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed him as Commissioner of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. O'Dwyer has actively worked to advance Ireland's cause in the United States. He has been recognized with numerous awards by Irish organizations in special recognition of his work in promoting Irish interests in the United States. He serves as chairman of the Irish Chamber of Commerce USA where he works to facilitate American investment in Ireland and Northern Ireland.He has accompanied many US public officials on their trips to Ireland and Northern Ireland, including New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Comptroller John Liu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and New York's Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to Ireland. He also serves as a member of the Board of Ireland West Airport in Knock, County Mayo Ireland. In 2015 O'Dwyer, along with radio broadcaster Adrian Flannelly and 200 others attended a pilgrimage led by Cardinal Dolan to the Knock Marian Shrine in County Mayo, Ireland. The visit was the first official chartered pilgrimage to Ireland's national Marian Shrine from anywhere and the first diocesan pilgrimage from the archdiocese of New York to the Marian Shrine. The pilgrimage also marked the first time an Aer Lingus plane has flown from New York to Ireland West Airport Knock. Personal life
He is the son of prominent New York lawyer Paul O'Dwyer, and nephew of Mayor William O'Dwyer. He is married to the former Marianna Page MacWilliam, the former Associate Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York, with whom he has two children, Brendan Keith O'Dwyer and Kathleen Page O'Dwyer, and they have four grandchildren: Paul Ellis O'Dwyer, Patrick Trescott O'Dwyer, Reilly Page O'Dwyer, and Hailey Grace O'Dwyer.References

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<mask><mask> (born October 9, 1957) is an American sports executive who has served as the Commissioner of Major League Soccer since 1999. Garber is also the CEO of Soccer United Marketing and a member of the United States Soccer Federation board of directors. <mask> has spent his entire career in the sports industry, working in a variety of capacities in marketing, events, television, and league administration prior to becoming MLS commissioner. Before joining MLS, <mask> was with the National Football League for 16 years. Under his leadership, MLS has experienced sustained growth in size and popularity in the United States and Canada. During his tenure, MLS has expanded from 10 to 30 teams and set records for attendance and broadcast revenue. In addition, the league has seen significant increases in every metric – including team valuations, attendance, sponsorship, and digital and social media engagement.MLS ranks seventh among global soccer leagues in average game attendance. <mask> has been selected by SportsBusiness Journal as one of the sports industry's most powerful executives every year since 2005. In 2018, he was 16th on the list. In 2016, SportsBusiness Journal presented MLS with its award for League of the Year. In May 2019, <mask> was named the Sports Business Journal Executive of the Year. <mask> has received numerous other industry honors, and in 2011 was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top sports commissioners. He has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from both Montclair State University and the State University of New York.<mask> was also inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at his alma mater, SUNY Oneonta. <mask> was elected into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2016, but deferred his enshrinement until 2018. Early life
Garber grew up in a second generation Jewish family. His mother's parents were socialists from Russia; his father's were Orthodox Jews from Poland. <mask>'s mother worked as a nursery school teacher and <mask>'s father

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<mask> spent 16 years with the National Football League, finishing his tenure as the senior vice president/managing director of NFL International, where he oversaw all aspects of the NFL's business outside the United States, including the NFL Europe League.<mask> began his career at NFL Properties in 1984 as a marketing manager and became the League's director of marketing in 1988. In 1992, he was appointed the NFL's senior vice president of business development and was responsible for a variety of television, special event and marketing activities. MLS Commissioner
<mask> was appointed as Major League Soccer commissioner on August 4, 1999, succeeding Doug Logan. One of his first moves as commissioner was to bring the league more in line with the international standard, eliminating the shootout and having the referee keep the time on the field. In 2004, MLS also eliminated overtime and the three-plus-one substitution rule. This enabled teams to substitute three field players as well as an additional goalkeeper. "This decision reflects our focus on continuing our alignment with the world's game," said <mask> at the time.MLS growth
Garber has emphasized gradual, sustained growth of the league over decades rather than attempting grandiose moves to win headlines. Before <mask> came into the Commissioner's office, the league had only one team in its own stadium, Columbus Crew SC, whose Mapfre Stadium was built by Lamar Hunt in 1999. On December 7, 2001, <mask> met with club owners at the Colorado ranch of Philip Anschutz in order to establish a plan to ensure the league's survival. Among the concepts agreed upon was building soccer-specific stadiums; establishing what would be known as Soccer United Marketing – an agency designed to manage soccer content in the U.S.; and pursuing (and ultimately winning) broadcast rights to the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups. The entire summit led by <mask>

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 at the Anshutz ranch is regarded as a critical moment in the eventual rise of MLS. Soccer-specific stadiums
Following Columbus Crew SC's lead, and after the summit at Anshutz's ranch, MLS clubs soon began building soccer-specific stadiums. The new venues enhanced the game-day experience for fans and granted teams full operating control of the stadiums and greater shares of stadium revenue.In 2003, the "cathedral of American Soccer," the Home Depot Center (now known as Dignity Health Sports Park), was built to house the Los Angeles Galaxy, and both senior national teams. Four more soccer-specific stadiums were built by the start of the 2007 MLS season. In 2021, MLS has 22 stadiums built or transformed for soccer. Within the next few years, a minimum of six more stadiums built for MLS clubs will debut. Soccer United Marketing
Soccer United Marketing (SUM), one of the game-changing ideas to come out of <mask>'s meeting with club owners at the Anshutz ranch, was established in 2002 and manages all sponsorship, licensing and advertising sales for MLS and other premier soccer properties in North America, including US Soccer and the Mexico National Team. SUM's first deal was the purchase of the English-language rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups for $40 million and to have the games broadcast on ESPN, splitting advertising revenue with the network. A decade later, FOX Network paid more than ten times that amount for the same rights.SUM continues to increase its partnerships. In 2016, the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) selected SUM to market and service its worldwide sponsorship rights. Today, SUM is valued at more than $2 billion. Expansion

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 to join MLS in its next wave of expansion is a reported $325 million.On April 18, 2019, <mask> confirmed the league announced it would expand to 30 teams. There are some proposals to expand the league to 32 teams, with potential new teams in Detroit, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and San Diego. However, none of this has been confirmed by MLS. Club valuation
As the league expanded and established a footprint across North America with successful clubs in Seattle, Portland, Toronto, New York, and Atlanta, among many others, team valuations have soared. When Forbes first released valuations of MLS clubs in 2008, the average team value was $48 million. In 2018, Forbes reported that the average value of a MLS club was $240 million – a 500 percent increase in 10 years. Designated Player rule
At the conclusion of the 2006 season, MLS created the Designated Player Rule.The rule enables clubs to sign up to three players whose total costs exceed the maximum salary budget charge. <mask> stated that fan research was one of the driving forces behind the decision to institute the Designated Player Rule. <mask> and the league's owners also acknowledged that MLS needed additional "marquee" players to boost interest and the long-term strength of the league in a quicker fashion. The rule made it possible for clubs to sign an international icon like David Beckham with the LA Galaxy in 2006, or current stars like Jozy Altidore to larger contracts. The strategy for signing Designated Players has evolved in recent years. Whereas clubs were more likely to use the rule to sign older, brand-name stars from Europe toward the perceived latter stages of their careers, teams began to utilize it to acquire younger, rising stars. For example, Seattle won MLS Cup in 2016 in part behind the strong play of 26-year-old midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, who was signed as a Designated Player.When Atlanta United FC won MLS Cup in 2018, its Designated Players were 19-year-old Ezequiel Barco, 23-year-olds Miguel Almiron and Josef Martinez,

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The implementation of high-level player development initiatives has been a hallmark of Garber's stewardship of the league. In 2006, the league mandated the creation of youth development systems and declared that any player developed by a team could be signed by that team without the player having to go through the MLS SuperDraft. In 2010, MLS required each of its teams to establish youth amateur programs separate from the pro club. Players registered for at least 1 year in an MLS youth program became eligible to sign a pro contract with that team without entering the SuperDraft. With a true foundation in place after a decade, homegrown players like FC Dallas’ Paxton Pomykal, LA Galaxy's Efrain Alvarez, Real Salt Lake's Justen Glad and Seattle's Jordan Morris have emerged.Smaller-market clubs like Sporting KC have been able to develop their own stars from local communities. And in 2019, the Under-17 club of Seattle Sounders FC proved how far it had come in a relatively brief time by winning the Champions Division of the Generation adidas Cup over the academy teams of top international clubs. Canada
MLS expanded into Canada midway through <mask>'s tenure. There are currently three Canadian teams playing in MLS. Toronto FC joined the league in 2007, Vancouver Whitecaps FC in 2011, and the CF Montreal in 2012. All of them established successful MLS clubs. The league has signed multiple, long-term broadcast agreements with Canada's sports networks.In January 2017, MLS extended its deal with TSN for five years and signed a new five-year contract with the French language network TVA Sports. This was in the wake of a banner year for Canadian teams in MLS in 2016, as Toronto FC defeated the CF Montreal in the Eastern Conference Final. In 2018, DAZN Canada, a leading live-streaming sports service, and MLS announced a three-year agreement. In 2017, the league enacted a major change in


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 policy. A limited number of Canadians would now be counted as domestic players. Previously, Canadian players only counted as domestic in MLS if they played for one of the three Canadian-based franchises. The change was part of a collaboration with the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and executives from the three Canadian teams to improve youth development for Canada.Another aspect of the collaboration was a Canadian-specific Generation Adidas program to improve development of young players. The league and CSA work together to identify Canadian players who could be signed to contracts and made available in the MLS SuperDraft. Media rights deals
As MLS has grown in scope and popularity, the league's media rights deals have seen major increases. In 2014, the English-language rights to MLS and U.S. Soccer matches were sold to ESPN and FOX for $75 million per year for eight years. Univision won the Spanish-language rights for $15 million a year. The combined average rights fee of $90 million per year for eight years for ESPN, FOX and Univision represented a 500 percent increase from MLS’ previous broadcast deals, which averaged $18 million per year. MLS also signed new international TV agreements in 2015, including deals with Sky Sports, Eurosport and Globosat.In 2017, MLS sold rights to league games to networks in India, Australia and New Zealand. In total, MLS matches can be seen in more than 170 countries. MLS has also been at the forefront of innovation in media among global sports leagues. In 2017, Facebook signed a deal with MLS and Univision to stream at least 22 matches during the regular season and exclusively stream 40 “Matchday Live” shows with highlights and analysis. The games are streamed on the Facebook page of Univision Deportes and the shows are available on MLS’ Facebook page. In 2019 there are six MLS clubs with exclusive streaming partnerships outside of deals with regional sports networks. Sponsors
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During <mask>'s tenure, ownership has been dramatically diversified.In 2001, there were just three investor-operators in the league: Philip Anschutz's Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) controlled six teams, Lamar Hunt's Hunt Sports three teams, and Robert Kraft one team. When AEG sold its remaining interests in Houston Dynamo in 2015, the then 20-team MLS became for the first time a league without multiple-team operators. Garber champions “diversity of thought” among club owners in the current era of Major League Soccer. They range from Atlanta United FC owner Arthur Blank, the founder of Home Depot; NYCFC ownership groups City Football Group (which also owns Manchester City of the Premier League) and the New York Yankees; Brazilian businessman Flavio Augusto da Silva, who owns Orlando City SC; entrepreneurs Merritt Paulson (Portland Timbers), Andrew Hauptmann (Chicago Fire) and Anthony Precourt (Austin FC); and Seattle Sounders owners Adrian Hanauer and Drew Carey. Among the owners of Los Angeles FC, which began play in 2018, are majority owners Larry Berg, Brandon Beck and Bennett Rosenthal, Magic Johnson, movie


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<mask> has been ranked by Sports Business Daily as one of the 50 most influential people in the U.S. sports business every year since 2005. MLS WORKS
In 2007, <mask> formed MLS WORKS, the league's community outreach initiative, dedicated to addressing important social issues affecting young people throughout the United States and Canada. <mask> is married, has two adult children and lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He serves on a variety of professional and philanthropic boards, including the Committee for Club Football at Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). On November 30, 2018, <mask> was appointed the vice-chairman of the World Leagues Forum, an international body convened by soccer leagues. <mask> is also a member of FIFA's Football Stakeholders committee.He is Vice President of Hope and Heroes, an organization raising funds and creating programs for pediatric cancer patients at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. References

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<mask> (嚴可求) (died November 19, 930) was a key official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Wu, as the chief strategist for the Wu regent Xu Wen and each of Wu's three rulers, <mask>, <mask>, and <mask>u. Background
It is not known when <mask>u was born. His family was from Tong Prefecture (同州, in modern Weinan, Shaanxi), but his father <mask> () had served as an assistant to a Tang Dynasty director for Yangtze River-Huai River shipping, and therefore settled at the future Wu capital Guangling (廣陵, in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu), which was then the capital of Tang's Huainan Circuit (). It was said that <mask>u was intelligent and capable of strategies in his youth, and became a guest of the Huainan officer Xu Wen, then serving under Huinan's military governor (Jiedushi) <mask>mi. Through Xu's relationship with <mask>, <mask> became a member of <mask>'s staff and often offered advice to <mask>. Service under <mask>mi
Even though <mask>u was directly serving under <mask>, he remained closely allied with Xu Wen. In 903, when <mask>'s brother-in-law and subordinate <mask> the military governor of Fengguo Circuit (奉國, headquartered in modern Lu'an, Anhui) was planning to join the rebellion started by two other <mask> subordinates, Tian Jun the military governor of Ningguo Circuit (寧國, headquartered in modern Xuancheng, Anhui) and An Renyi () the military prefect (團練使, Tuanlianshi) of Run Prefecture (潤州, in modern Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), it was <mask> who suggested to Xu a plan to

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In 907, the powerful warlord Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan) forced Tang's final emperor Emperor Ai to yield the throne to him, ending Tang and starting a new Later Liang as its Emperor Taizu. <mask>, along with several other

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texts: <mask>.Zhang was depressed at this public display and acquiesced to <mask>'s taking the throne. It was said that the senior general Zhu Jin was so impressed by <mask>'s public display of bravery in standing up against Zhang that he honored <mask> like an older brother. (This might imply that <mask> was older than Zhu; if so, <mask> would have been born before 867, when Zhu was born.) Zhang, however, maintained control over the Hongnong governance, and soon made Xu the governor of Zhexi Circuit (浙西, headquartered at Run Prefecture). <mask> pointed out to Xu, however, that once Xu left Guangling, Zhang would blame <mask>o's death on him. Xu agreed with <mask>'s analysis and asked for <mask>'s help. <mask> persuaded another senior general, Li Chengsi () the deputy military governor of Huainan to meet with Zhang and Xu (persuading Li that once Xu left Guangling, Li himself would be isolated); at that meeting, <mask> openly cursed at Xu for wanting to leave Guangling and not supporting <mask>'s new reign; Xu "apologized" and offered to stay at Guangling, and Zhang acquiesced.Zhang soon thereafter realized that <mask> was working in league with Xu, and so sent an assassin to kill <mask>. When the assassin arrived, <mask> did not beg for his life, but instead begged to write a letter to <mask> to bid farewell. After he did so, the assassin read the letter and was touched by it, and therefore spared him, taking only his treasure. Meanwhile, Xu and <mask> were planning on eliminating Zhang. They persuaded

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 the officer Zhong Taizhang () to join the plan, and Zhong gathered 30 soldiers and assassinated Zhang. Shortly after, Xu publicly stated that Zhang was the one behind the plot to assassinate <mask>, and pledged loyalty to <mask>. Effectively, he became Hongnong's regent.He divided up the administrative responsibilities between <mask> (who became in charge of military matters) and Luo Zhixiang () (who became in charge of fiscal matters). Both were capable in what they did, and their abilities were appreciated by the people. Service under <mask>
In 909, when Wei Quanfeng, a semi-independent warlord who was nominally submitting to both Hongnong and Later Liang and who controlled the region around Fu Prefecture (撫州, in modern Fuzhou, Jiangxi), rose against Hongnong and claimed to be the military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), Hongnong's rival state Chu (a vassal to Later Liang) sent an army to aid Wei by attacking Hongnong's city of Gao'an (高安, in modern Yichun, Jiangxi). As Wei put Zhennan's capital Hong Prefecture () under siege, Zhennan's military governor Liu Wei sought aid from the Hongnong headquarters. Xu Wen sought <mask>u's advice on whom to send, and <mask> recommended Zhou Ben — who, however, had refused to accept any military commands and claimed to be ill since he was defeated by Wuyue forces at Su Prefecture (蘇州, in modern Suzhou, Jiangsu) in 908. <mask> went to visit Zhou and went directly into his bedroom, forcing a meeting. Zhou confessed

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texts: his opinion that the defeat at Su Prefecture occurred because he was not given full command powers.<mask> promised to get him full authority, and Zhou accepted the command. Zhou subsequently defeated and captured Wei, and Chu forces withdrew, allowing Hongnong to take full control of Wei's territory. Wei's defeat left one semi-independent warlord in the Zhennan region — Lu Guangchou, who controlled the region around Qian Prefecture (虔州, in modern Ganzhou, Jiangxi), who, like Wei previously, was nominally submitting to both Hongnong (which became named Wu in 910 when <mask> claimed the title of Prince of Wu that his father carried) and Later Liang. In 911, Lu died, and his son <mask> inherited his domain, still nominally submitting to both Wu and Later Liang. <mask> proposed posting an army to Xingan (新淦, in modern Ji'an, Jiangxi) to plot an eventual campaign against Qian Prefecture, and that each time a new corps is rotated to the Xingan post, that a small increase be made in the number of soldiers. <mask>'s plan was carried out, and as the Wu army at Xingan gradually increased, the Qian Prefecture army did not realize Wu's intent. By 916, Xu was remotely controlling the Wu command decisions from Sheng Prefecture (昇州, in modern Nanjing, Jiangsu), leaving his son Xu Zhixun in command at Guangling as the junior regent.Early that year, the officers Ma Qian () and Li Qiu () seized <mask> one night and intended to attack Xu Zhixun. Xu Zhixun wanted to flee Guangling that night, but <mask> pointed out

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texts: that if he did, the situation would become uncontrollable, so Xu Zhixun did not. The headquarters officials were still panicking, but <mask> comforted them and then went to sleep himself in the open, showing that he was not fearful, and this calmed the other officials. The next morning, Zhu Jin arrived with an army from Run Prefecture, and the mutineers under Ma and Li collapsed in fear, and Ma and Li were captured and killed. In 918, Wu finally launched an operation to capture Qian Prefecture and the surrounding region, which by that point was controlled by Lu Guangchou's old associate Tan Quanbo, with the general Wang Qi () in command. Prior to the attack's being launched, <mask> hired engineers to open up the Gan River rapids at Ganshi (贛石, in modern Ji'an), allowing the Ganshi rapids to be navigated by the Wu fleet and allowing the Wu attack to quickly reach Qian Prefecture. (Wang Qi would subsequently be stymied by Tan's defense and would eventually die in illness while still sieging Qian, but the succeeding commander Liu Xin () was able to defeat Tan and capture Qian Prefecture, allowing Wu to take over the region.)While the Qian campaign was going on, though, another plot against Xu Zhixun was occurring at Guangling. Zhu, who had previously had a good relationship with Xu Zhixun, had drawn Xu Zhixun's jealousy for carrying a greater title than Xu Zhixun himself, as the deputy generalissimo of all circuits (with <mask> himself as generalissimo). Xu Zhixun therefore wanted to eject Zhu from

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texts: Xu Wen's anger subsided gradually, and he did not carry out the large-scale reprisals that he initially was inclined to carry out. In the aftermaths of Xu Zhixun's death, Xu Wen, seeing no other options (as his other sons were young), made Xu Zhigao junior regent at Guangling, and Xu Zhigao, by behaving humbly and reasonably, gradually won the hearts of the people. <mask>, seeing this and believing that Xu Wen should eventually pass his powers to a biological son, repeatedly suggested to Xu Wen that he had another biological son, Xu Zhixun (younger), take over as junior regent.Knowing that <mask> was against him, Xu Zhigao, in cooperation with Luo Zhixiang, tried to have <mask> ejected from Guangling to serve as the prefect of Chu Prefecture (楚州, in modern Huai'an). When <mask> received the order, however, he went to see Xu Wen. At the meeting, he pointed out that at that time, Wu's nominal ally and fellow rival to Later Liang, Jin, was winning victory after victory over Later Liang, and that Jin's prince Li Cunxu appeared to be posturing to claim the imperial title himself and claim lawful succession from the Tang emperors. <mask> argued that, with that being the case, Wu's political structure was untenable since it, like Jin, had been claiming its desire to reestablish Tang. <mask> instead suggested that Xu Wen advise <mask> to claim imperial title as well and restructure the Wu political structure to cut off connections to Tang. Xu Wen agreed, and he kept Yan at Guangling to prepare for

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 ceremonies for such a break with Tang. Xu Zhigao, seeing that he could not eliminate <mask>, instead decided to make peace with <mask> by giving a daughter in marriage to <mask>'s son <mask>.In 919, under Xu Wen's advice, <mask>, while not claiming imperial title, claimed the greater title of King of Wu and formally broke from Tang-bestowed titles. In the new Wu government, modeled after the Tang imperial government and no longer structured like a circuit headquarters, <mask> received the title of Menxia Shilang () — the deputy head of the examination bureau of government (門下省, Menxia Sheng) (although in effect in command of examination bureau, as since middle Tang times, the position of head of examination bureau, Shizhong (), was usually an honorary title that was rarely actually filled, and in the edicts that <mask> issued after becoming king, no one was made Shizhong). After <mask> died in 920 and was succeeded by his brother <mask>u, <mask> continued to serve in the Wu government. Service under <mask>u
In 923, Li Cunxu claimed imperial title as the emperor of a new Later Tang (as Emperor Zhuangzong), and was soon set to make a final confrontation with Later Liang after gaining a foothold south of the Yellow River (which had generally defined the boundary between his former Jin state and Later Liang) at Yun Prefecture (鄆州, in modern Tai'an, Shandong). He sent emissaries to Wu, requesting that Wu jointly attack Later Liang with him. Xu Wen considered launching a fleet north but not actually

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 commit to attacking Later Liang — instead, having the fleet observe the campaign and aid the winning side. <mask>u opposed, pointing out that the Wu fleet could be caught in the middle if Later Liang requested aid, so Xu did not do so.After Later Tang forces captured the Later Liang capital Daliang later in the year, destroying Later Liang (as Later Liang's final emperor, Zhu Zhen, committed suicide before Daliang's fall), Later Tang emissaries delivered the news to Wu and Former Shu, drawing apprehension from both states that they would be the Later Tang emperor's next target. Xu blamed <mask> for not launching the fleet north, but <mask> believed that the Later Tang emperor's victories were unsustainable given his own personal behavior, stating while smiling:

Possibly under <mask>'s advice, <mask>u subsequently refused to receive edicts (i.e., communiques that would imply that he was a subject of Later Tang's) from Emperor Zhuangzong. Emperor Zhuangzong, not yet wanting to break with Wu, instead resent his communique as a letter (i.e., treating Wu as an equal state) that started with the greeting of, "The letter of the emperor of the great Tang to the lord of Wu." Wu's return communique started with the greeting of, "The respectful letter of the lord of the great Wu to the emperor of the great Tang," to show respect and yet equality. Late in the year, Wu sent the official Lu Ping () as an emissary to Later Tang. Before Lu went to the Later Tang court, <mask> anticipated what kind of questions

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 submitting the petition.Xu Zhigao, hearing the news, was prepared to resign his post as junior regent and request a post as the military governor of Zhennan Circuit, but while the younger Xu Zhixun was still on the way, Xu Wen died, causing the younger Xu Zhixun to immediately return to Sheng Prefecture, so Xu Zhigao never actually submitted his resignation. Shortly after Xu Wen's death, <mask>, in accordance with his petition, claimed imperial title. <mask> himself died in 930, while serving as Zuo Pushe and chancellor. Notes and references

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<mask> ( ; born August 9, 1970) is an American television journalist, best known as the former presenter of Cuomo Prime Time, a weeknight news analysis show on CNN. He has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC's 20/20, and News anchor for Good Morning America from 2006 to 2009. Subsequently, he was one of two co-anchors of the weekday edition of New Day, a three-hour morning news show, until May 2018. Cuomo is the brother of <mask>, who was the 56th Governor of New York from 2011 to 2021, and the son of <mask>, who served as the 52nd Governor of New York from 1983 until 1994. In November 2021, Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by CNN, after reports that he assisted in the defense against the sexual harassment allegations that led to his brother's resignation. He was fired by CNN the following month. Early life and education
<mask> was born in the New York City borough of Queens.He is the youngest child of <mask>, the former governor of New York, and <mask> (née Raffa), and the brother of <mask>, the former Governor of New York. His parents were both of Italian descent; his paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in the Campania region of southern Italy, while his maternal grandparents were from Sicily (his grandfather from Messina). Cuomo was educated at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica, Queens, and at The Albany Academy, a private university preparatory day school in Albany, New York, followed by Yale University, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and the Fordham University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1995. He is a licensed attorney. <mask>'s early career in journalism included appearances related to social and political issues on CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN. He was a correspondent and political policy analyst for Fox News and Fox Broadcast Network's Fox Files, where he covered a wide range of stories focusing on controversial social issues. When asked if he should be considered a journalist on his show Cuomo

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texts: said: "I don't know how that's relevant.I don't care what they classify me as. I'm not forwarding my agenda. That's not my thing. My opinion is irrelevant." When hired for Fox Files Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman called Cuomo "fearless." At ABC and as co-anchor of 20/20, his year-long coverage of heroin addiction revealed the extent to which it was affecting suburban families. His other work has included coverage of the Haiti earthquake, child custody, bullying, and homeless teens.Policy changes followed his undercover look at for-profit school recruiters, including an industry-wide cleanup. <mask>'s tip from a BMW owner led to a recall of over 150,000 affected vehicles. From September 2006 to December 2009, he was the news anchor for Good Morning America. He was the primary reporter on breaking news stories, both in the U.S. and around the world, including dozens of assignments in some 10 countries. He covered the war on terrorism, embedded on multiple occasions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (where his convoy was hit by an IED). In the U.S., he covered the Virginia Tech shooting, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings. He did live broadcasts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Sago Mine collapse, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse in August 2007.He anchored morning and evening coverage. During his period at ABC, he had a website, "Cuomo on the Case," as well as two weekly digital programs: The Real Deal and Focus on Faith. He also appeared with Father Edward Beck on ABC News Now, the network's 24-hour digital outlet. In February 2013, Cuomo moved to CNN to co-host its morning show. He made his debut on CNN as field anchor on the February 8, 2013, episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, covering the February 2013 nor'easter. In March 2018, while serving as the co-anchor of CNN's morning show New Day, it was announced that Cuomo would move to prime time to host Cuomo Prime Time. In October 2017, sister network HLN premiered a new documentary series hosted by the anchor,


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 Inside with <mask>, which focused on "stories affecting real people, in real towns and cities across America."In September 2018, he began hosting a two-hour weekday radio show "Let's Get After It" on the P.O.T.U.S. channel on SiriusXM. Andrew Cuomo coverage and termination from CNN
While recovering from COVID-19 in early 2020, <mask> interviewed his brother, New York Governor <mask>, on his CNN program. After reports about sexual harassment allegations against his brother surfaced, Cuomo said on his program in March 2021 that he could not cover any issues regarding the allegations on the program, acknowledging his obvious conflict of interest. In May 2021, Cuomo was reported to have participated in strategic discussions to advise his brother on how to respond to the allegations. CNN called Cuomo's engagement in the conversations "inappropriate" but said that it would not take any disciplinary action against him. Multiple CNN staffers said they were "vexed" by Cuomo's conduct and the violation of journalism ethics and standards.Cuomo subsequently issued an apology and stated that advising his brother was a "mistake" that would "never happen again." In August, <mask> addressed his brother's impending resignation, reiterating he was not an adviser to Andrew and noting he had persuaded his brother to step down as governor. On November 29, 2021, the New York attorney general's office released documents that show Cuomo used his media sources to uncover information about his brother's known accusers and inquire about the possibility of new accusers who had yet to come forward publicly. The documents also show that Cuomo helped formulate statements for Andrew and that Cuomo was actively in touch with a top aide to Andrew about future reports about Andrew's alleged misconduct. The following day, Cuomo was suspended indefinitely from CNN. Cuomo called his suspension "embarrassing" but said he understood "why some people feel the way they do about what I did." On December 4, after an internal review conducted by a law

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On December 6, 2021, Cuomo announced he would be leaving his job on SiriusXM where he hosted a two-hour a day show. On the same day, it was reported that Cuomo is threatening to file a lawsuit against CNN to recover the $18 million of his remaining contract, on the grounds that network president Jeff Zucker understood the details of <mask>'s involvement with his brother's defense. Zucker has denied this was the case, and subsequently claimed in a virtual meeting with employees that he had reprimanded Cuomo in May, and that "<mask> had gone further than he had told me and told other members of our senior executive team." On December 7, 2021, HarperCollins announced they would not be going forward in publishing Cuomo's book, originally titled "Deep Denial" in the fall of 2022. The book was to be an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Presidency of Donald Trump. Sexual misconduct allegations
In September 2021, Cuomo's former boss Shelley Ross accused him of sexual harassment in a New York Times op-ed.Stopping short of asking him to be fired from CNN, she said she would "like to see him journalistically repent." <mask> admitted to the incident, describing it as "not sexual in nature." He said he "apologized to her then, and I meant it." In December 2021, Debra Katz, the attorney for another former colleague of <mask>'s, informed CNN that her client had accused <mask> of sexual misconduct. Katz has since claimed that this accusation precipitated <mask>'s termination. Awards
Cuomo has received multiple Emmy Award nominations. His Good Morning America profile of the 12-year-old poet Mattie Stepanek was recognized with a News Emmy, making him one of the youngest correspondents to receive the award.He has been awarded Polk and Peabody Awards for team coverage. His

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 work has been recognized in the areas of breaking news, business news, and legal news, with the Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage, the 2005 Gerald Loeb Award for Television Deadline business reporting for "Money for Nothing? ", and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for investigating juvenile justice. Personal life
In 2001, <mask> married Gotham magazine editor Cristina Greeven in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Southampton, New York. They reside in Manhattan with their three children. <mask> also owns a home in Southampton. On August 13, 2019, in Shelter Island, New York, Cuomo threatened to throw a heckler down a flight of stairs at a bar, and chastised him with profanity-laced insults after the man called him Fredo, in reference to the fictional character from The Godfather novel and films.Cuomo told the man that the use of the name "Fredo" was tantamount to "the n-word" for Italian-Americans, which caused debate on Twitter about the assertion. <mask> addressed the incident publicly, tweeting his appreciation to his supporters but acknowledging that he "should be better than what [he] oppose[s]." During the COVID-19 pandemic, <mask> announced on March 31, 2020, that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19. During his quarantine, he broadcast his usual weekday program from his home. <mask> later said he had a hallucination of his dead father, former New York Governor <mask>, as a result of symptoms from the virus. See also
Cuomo family
New Yorkers in journalism

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ABC News personalities
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<mask> (born 11 February 1966 in Essex, England) is a British writer of non-fiction books. She also writes romance novels under the pseudonym of Kate Hardy, and formerly wrote erotic novels as Lucinda Chester, Evelyn D'Arcy, Chelsea Miller and <mask>. Her novels won three Love Story of the Year awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association: in 2008, Breakfast at Giovanni's; in 2014, Bound by a Baby; in 2021, A Will, a Wish and A Wedding

Biography
<mask> was born in Essex, England, UK and grew up in Norfolk, England, UK. At university, she specialized in Old English and Thomas Hardy. She married Gerard "Gerry", and settled in Norwich, Norfolk, where she sold her first novel. They have two children, Chris and Chloë. (2008)
 The Millionaire Boss's Reluctant Mistress (2009)
 Temporary Boss, Permanent Mistress (2009)
 Falling for the Playboy Millionaire (2009)
 Good Girl Or Gold-Digger?(2010)
 Red Wine and Her Sexy Ex (2010)
 The Doctor's Lost-and-Found Bride (2010)
 Neurosurgeon... and Mum! (2010)
 Champagne With a Celebrity (2010)
 A Christmas Knight (2010)
 The Fireman and Nurse Loveday (2011)
 A Moment on the Lips (2011)
 Italian Doctor, No Strings Attached (2011)
 The Ex Who Hired Her (2012)
 Dr Cinderella's Midnight Fling (2012)
 The Hidden Heart of Rico Rossi (2012)
 Once a Playboy... (2012)
 Ballroom to Bride and Groom (2013)
 The Brooding Doc's Redemption (2013)
 Bound by a Baby (2013)
Behind the Film Star’s Smile

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Crown Prince, Pregnant Bride (2014)
Bachelor at Her Bidding (2015)
A Baby to Heal Their Hearts (2015)
It Started at a Wedding (2015)
A Promise. . . to a Proposal? (2015)

 Falling for Mr December (2015)
 Her Playboy’s Proposal (2016)
 Capturing the Single Dad’s Heart (2016)
 Falling for the Secret Millionaire (2016)
 The Midwife’s Pregnancy Miracle (2016)

 Her Festive Doorstep Baby (2016)
 Mummy, Nurse, Duchess? (2017)
 His Shy Cinderella (2017)

 Christmas Bride for the Boss (2017)
 Unlocking the Italian Doc’s Heart (2018)
 Reunited at the Altar (2018)
 Carrying the Single Dad’s Baby (2018)

 A Diamond in the Snow (2018)
 Heart Surgeon, Prince… Husband! (2019)
 Finding Mr Right in Florence (2019)
 Nurse and a Pup to Heal Him (2019)
 Mistletoe Proposal on the Children’s Ward (2019)
 One Night to Remember (2020)
A Will, a Wish and a Wedding (2020)
Forever Family for the Midwife (2020)
Surprise Heir for the Princess (2021)

London City General
 The Doctor's Tender Secret (2004)
 The Baby Doctor's Desire (2004)
 The Doctor's Pregnancy Surprise (2005)

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 Her Celebrity Surgeon (2005)
 Her Honorable Playboy (2006)

The London Victoria
 The Greek Doctor's New-Year Baby (2008)
 The Children's Doctor's Special Proposal (2009)

To Tame a Playboy
 Surrender to the Playboy Sheikh (2009)
 Playboy Boss, Pregnancy of Passion (2009)
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<mask> (14 December 1901 – 23 October 1990) was a Georgian-British architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, London Zoo penguin pool, Finsbury Health Centre and Spa Green Estate. Early years
Although certificates exist stating that his birth was in Warsaw in 1903, <mask> described these as false documents which he had used to conceal time spent in the Red Army. It is believed he was born in Tbilisi, (now the capital of Georgia), into a Jewish family. His father, Roman (Reuben<mask> (1885, St. Petersburg – 1942, Auschwitz), was a civil engineer for the railroad. <mask> studied in Moscow and Leningrad where he witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1917 and absorbed elements of Constructivism, both as a participant in street festivals and as a student at VKhUTEMAS. <mask> practised in Paris in the 1920s in partnership with Jean Ginsburg, with whom he designed an apartment building on the Avenue de Versailles (number 25).In Paris, he associated with the leading figures of the European Avant Garde including Le Corbusier. He continued to participate in the debates of Constructivism, designing a trade pavilion for the USSR in Bordeaux and participating in the Palace of the Soviets competition, for which his entry was shortlisted. Tecton in the 1930s

Emigrating to London in 1931 from the Soviet Union, <mask> settled in the artists' community associated with the British art critic Herbert Read, located in Hampstead. In London he set up the architectural practice Tecton. The first projects of Tecton included landmark buildings for London Zoo, the gorilla house and a penguin pool (clearly showing the influence of Naum Gabo). <mask> and Tecton set up the

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texts: Architects and Technicians Organisation in 1936. Tecton were also commissioned by London Zoo to design buildings for their reserve park at Whipsnade and to design a completely new zoo in Dudley.Dudley Zoo consisted of twelve animal enclosures and was a unique example of early Modernism in the UK. All of the original enclosures survive, apart from the penguin pool, which was demolished in 1979. According to the 20th Century Society: 'Encapsulated in the playful pavilions at Dudley is a call to remember the higher calling of all architecture, embracing not just material needs but also the desire to inspire and delight.' Tecton's housing projects included private houses in Sydenham, one of the UK's few modernist terraces at 85-91 Genesta Road in Plumstead, south London, and most famously the Highpoint apartments in Highgate. Highpoint One was singled out for particular praise by Le Corbusier, while Highpoint Two exhibited a more surreal style, with its patterned facade and caryatids at the entrance. The Labour Party council in the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury were major patrons of Tecton, commissioning the Finsbury Health Centre, which was completed in 1938. Lubetkin and Tecton's achievement in Finsbury was to unite the aesthetic and political ambitions of Modernism with the radical municipal socialism of the Borough.The health centre resolved the tension between three key modernist ideals. First: a social function; universal access to healthcare free at the point of use for the borough's residents (a decade before the NHS). Second, the political;  no longer was social good to be achieved through charity or hope, instead it was provided by a democratically elected and accountable municipal authority, funded through local


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 taxation. And third, the element which made Tecton's work unique, the aesthetic. The building's  tiled facade shone above the surrounding slums, its rational conception asserted the ideal of a socialist future as the rational endgame to progress;  in <mask>'s words the architecture "cried out for a new world". <mask>'s modernism –  'nothing is too good for ordinary people' – laid down a challenge to the class bound complacency of thirties Britain. But Tecton's plans to replace Finsbury's slums with modern flatted housing were stopped by the onset of war in 1939.Paradoxically the war would move <mask>'s work from the radical fringe to the mainstream. As the fighting progressed, the British government became increasingly committed to the idea of building a fairer society when peacetime came. As this was articulated through propaganda, Modernist architecture became the visual expression for this radiant future. Abram Games designed a series of posters comparing the promise of modernism, one featuring the Finsbury Health Centre, with the appalling realities of pre war Britain. The uncompromising title to each poster was: 'Your Britain- Fight for it Now'. A further sign of this political shift was the erection in 1941 of a statue in memorial to Lenin. Designed by <mask>, the memorial marked the site of Lenin's lodgings at Holford Square, London in 1902/3.The Monument had been defaced many times by those opposed to Communist Russia and its ideals at the time. This resulted in the monument being placed under 24-hour police guard. Post-war

The post-war Labour victory was built on the promise of modernism as pioneered by Tecton. The Finsbury Health Centre became a model for the new National Health Service. To confirm the

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texts: significance of <mask>'s vision, the Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan laid the foundation stone to Tecton/Finsbury's Spa Green Estate in winter 1946. Spa Green remained the flagship estate, adapting many features from the luxury Highpoint flats for working families (including lifts, central heating, balconies, daylight from multiple directions, and a spectacular roof terrace); in 1998 it received a high Grade II* listing for its architectural significance and the 2008 restoration brought back the original colour scheme. Spa Green was the first of a series of housing projects for the practice including Finsbury's Priory Green Estate and Tecton's work in Paddington (led by Denys Lasdun) at the Hallfield Estate.These all showed a more decorative, patterned style which contrasted greatly with the Brutalist style that was soon to emerge as the dominant form of welfare state architecture. Ironically, however, several features of <mask>'s 1940s neo-Constructivist modernism have become staples of postmodern architecture, for example at Spa Green the floating roof canopy, the stairwells marked by repeated clusters of square 'windows', and the acute-angled canted meeting lodge. For most of these projects Lubetkin and Tecton worked closely with Ove Arup as structural engineer. Arup's innovative concrete 'egg-crate' construction at Spa Green gave each flat clear views unobstructed by internal pillars, and his aerodynamic 'wind roof' provided a communal area for drying clothes and social gathering. In 1947, <mask> was commissioned to be master planner and chief architect for the Peterlee new town. The following year Tecton was dissolved. Commenting on this, Lubetkin wrote to fellow Tecton member Carl Ludwig Franck "that after the war

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texts: Tecton was at best a ghost of its former self".<mask>'s masterplan for Peterlee included a new civic centre for which he proposed a number of high rise towers. However the extraction of coal was to continue under the town for several years which posed a risk of subsidence. As a result, the National Coal Board (NCB), itself an agency of the Ministry of Fuel and Power would only consider a dispersed low density development. Despite investigating a number of options that would have allowed coal extraction to continue without preventing the proposed development, the NCB would not alter their policy. As <mask> was the employee of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning this developed into an inter-ministerial battle, and despite attempts at dispute resolution at cabinet level the difference in approach between the ministries remained. Frustrated at the unresolved bureaucratic battles, <mask> resigned from the Peterlee project in spring 1950. The only physical sign of his involvement in the scheme exists in the adjoining opposed parabola forms of the road layout at Thorntree Gill.<mask> returned to Finsbury to complete (in collaboration with Francis Skinner and Douglas Bailey) his final project for the Borough, Bevin Court. Initially named Lenin Court the housing scheme was to incorporate <mask>'s Lenin Memorial. Post-war austerity had imposed far greater budgetary constraints than in the showpiece Spa Green Estate, forcing <mask> to strip the project of the basic amenities he had planned; there were to be no balconies, community centre or nursery school. To save costs, <mask> made significant use of prefabricated floor and wall components. Instead he focused his energies on the social space. Fusing his aesthetic and

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texts: political concerns he created a stunning constructivist staircase – a social condenser that forms the heart of the building. Before the building was completed the Cold war had intensified and as a result the scheme was renamed Bevin Court (honouring Britain's firmly anti-communist foreign secretary Ernest Bevin).In defiance, <mask> buried his memorial to Lenin under the central core to his staircase. The staircase was painted red as part of a restoration in 2014-2016. Tecton's work would also be a major influence on the Festival of Britain. However <mask>'s efforts to gain employment with the London County Council (the authority with responsibility for building the Festival) were rebuffed. Frustrated, <mask> spent increasing time at the Gloucestershire farm he had managed for Beamish family since the start of World War II, before purchasing it for himself. Though he failed to win several design competitions during the 1950s, he (again with Bailey and Skinner) designed three large council estates in London's Bethnal Green (now a part of Tower Hamlets). These schemes, the Cranbrook Estate, Dorset Estate (which featured the tower Sivill House) and the Lakeview Estate all made increased use of precast concrete façade panels while developing the idiom of complicated abstract facades and Constructivist staircases established in the 1940s.<mask> eventually moved to Bristol where he lived with his wife. He campaigned in later life to protect the views of Brunel's Clifton Bridge; for <mask>, Brunel epitomised the spirit of technological progress which had first attracted him to England. In 1982, <mask> was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He died in Bristol in 1990. <mask> (with Tecton) was the subject of a travelling exhibition


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 sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain which opened at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and toured the UK and Europe 1980 – 1983, under the title "Lubetkin and Tecton: architecture and social commitment". This featured specially commissioned  models and illustrative material from his archive and was designed by David King. He was also the subject of a Design Museum exhibition in 2005.His daughter, Louise Kehoe, published an award-winning memoir in 1995, 'In This Dark House', which included previously unknown details of <mask>'s early years. In 2009, East Durham & Houghall Community College, based in Peterlee, named its theatre after Lubetkin in honour of the vision he had for the town. The Lubetkin Theatre was officially opened by his daughter <mask> on 5 October 2009. At the opening <mask> said: "I’m immensely proud that this beautiful theatre has been named after my father and that his work is remembered in spite of the brutal way it ended. He had such dreams for Peterlee, he wanted to turn it into the miners capital of the world. His respect and admiration of the miners made him want to create something really special that didn’t exist anywhere else but unfortunately that wasn’t possible." The British Cement Association established the Berthold Lubetkin Memorial Lecture, the first given by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando in 1992, and RIBA the annual Lubetkin Prize for International Architecture.Associated with Lubetkin
 Ove Arup
 Marcel Breuer
 Wells Coates
 Carl Ludwig Franck
 Arthur Korn
 Denys Lasdun
 Francis Skinner

See also
 Ernő Goldfinger
 Isokon
 MARS Group
 Constructivist architecture

References

Further reading
 John Allan – Lubetkin: Architecture and the Tradition of Progress (RIBA Publications,

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 1992, second expanded edition by Artifice Books, 2013)
 John Allan and Morley von Sternberg – <mask> <mask> (Merrell Publishers, 2002)
 Louise Kehoe – In This Dark House: A Memoir (Schocken Books, 1995)
 Malcolm Reading and Peter Coe – Lubetkin and Tecton: An Architectural Study (Triangle Architectural Publications, 1992)

External links

Twentieth Century Society article on Dudley Zoo
Lubetkin at A&A
Tecton at A&A
Lubetkin's Sivill House, Bethnal Green, London E2
Spa Green Tenants' Website
Utopia London, Website of film documentary exploring impact of Lubetkin's work in Finsbury

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20th-century Russian architects
20th-century British architects
Constructivist architects
Jewish architects
Modernist architects
Royal Academicians
Russian Jews
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Architects from Tbilisi
Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom
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<mask>. W<mask> (born ) is known for intelligence work done behind the Iron Curtain in 1988 under the pseudonym "<mask>". He is currently a dean at the International School of Project Management in New Delhi, India. Early life
<mask> was born in London. He lived Kingston upon Thames  attending prep school at Highfield School (Liphook, Hampshire). He suffered from Dyslexia, and made slow progress in the educational system. In 1982 he moved to Spain, and took up Hispanic Studies in a small private college in Salamanca where he met up with friends of Golo Mann. Upon return to France he qualified for the Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles.He accomplished his Khâgne in the Lyceé Jules Ferry. The same year he discovered a new archeological area at Les Baux-de-Provence. He accomplished his BA Humanities in the radical Paris Nanterre University. He completed M. Phil at the Geneva-based IUEE (Institute for European Studies), and later attended the doctoral seminars of Wlad Godzich in the University of Geneva. April 1988
The students of the IUEE (as above), sympathising with many of the faculty in exile, organised two study tours of the Soviet Union. The first one went to Kiev and Moscow, the second to Budapest and Prague. He attended both.The tour of the Ukraine gave him insight into the degree of hostility vis-à-vis Moscow, and the signs of dissidence in the leadership of the Komsomol. In Moscow, a student from the highest school of politics and administration leaked the shape of the army: suicides and an organizational incapacity. Moving on to Budapest, the dissent was quite open, and Bain saw the opportunity of a break-apart of the Communist Block. In a meeting with the then dissident Professor Géza Jeszenszky the option of letting East Germans out of Hungary was discussed as a means of bringing the Wall down. Bain also met with FIDESZ leaders, and learned that recently NGOs in Hungary were allowed to be financed internationally, an open door for

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 the West to finance dissident organisations. He went to Prague to meet leaders of the democratic opposition, in an underground Café called "U Kafku" and further discussed the plan of letting East Germans through Czechoslovakia into Hungary. He was followed in Prague by the police, and in a jest of defiance took them on a 14 kilometre walk around Prague.On his return to the Europa Hotel, the receptionist called him into the lift and explained that the police had been through his belongings. He had to leave. Bain escaped from Prague due to an InterRail pass, he was able to get into a train without buying a ticket (he would have been noticed at the ticket counter). On the train, stooges noticed him but it was too late; the train had already crossed the border into Germany. In Munich, he was hidden by a friend for 5 days, while the German television showed pictures of him as accused of common crimes of murder in Czechoslovakia. He escaped from Munich thanks to former Hungarian exiles, in a freight compartment, then from Zurich to Geneva in a toilet compartment. On arriving in Geneva he went to the house of Professor Dusan Sidjanski.Here he discussed all the plans of the dissidence to bring down the Wall, and subsequently hid for a month in a flat in neighbouring France, in Annemasse. His research report signed with the pseudonym "<mask>" was shared with Emile Noel, Secretary General of the European Commission. It was also shared with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as well as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It is said to be one of the key documents that alerted the West of changes in the East, and triggered of a change in their foreign policy towards the East and Central Europe just a year and a half before the Wall falling. Pro-European militancy
In the summer of 1991, Bain led a group of young European enthusiasts from different European Union (EU) Member States during a 2-day meeting in Romainmôtier, Switzerland on the


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 theme "An EU Constitution". The same year he initiated a process in the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Currently Corvinus University of Budapest) that led to the attribution of a Doctorate Honoris Causa (see Honorary degree) to the President of the EU Commission Jacques Delors (attributed in 1994). He is a member of the UK European Movement and the French Mouvement Européen.He has taken part in the UK Liberal Democrats Brussels Chapter, and has been a close friend of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg during his European years. In 1993, as shadow director projects for Fidesz, in the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, he revised the firstly refused Hungarian application for the EU. His draft was approved by both the EU Parliament and the EU Commission, paving the way for an accession to the EU for Hungary in the first round of enlargement of the EU. At the same time, Bain has been a public opinion maker in Hungary, with a series of articles published in the Budapest Sun, and the Budapest Week. He has held several postings with the European Commission, including as a diplomat in New Delhi, India. Alternative activism
Bain's alternative action started after seeing the film "Gandhi" in Madrid at the age of 18. He had a Basque companion, and befriended the Basque cause.In the early eighties he took part in the Aberri Eguna nationalist demonstrations, in despite of serious deterrence by the Spanish Guardia Civil. His basque friends used to call him "la naranja" (because of his orange hair), from which his nickname emerged. He subsequently went to Kreuzberg, Berlin, the heart of alternative Germany. This is where he got a first sight of the Wall, and a first taste for the underground exchanges between the East and the West. Bain was militant in the French Lycée system, and as délégué sat on two school boards (Conseils d'établissement). In 1988, Bain took the French Ministry of Education to court for discrimination on the ground of nationality


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 after his refusal to take the CAPES (secondary school teachers' exam). He won his case in 1992 under European law, opening the secondary school exams to foreign European nationals in France and several other countries of the EU.In 1991, out of idealism, he set up the trainee's newsletter "Le Piston" (nepotism) in the European Commission, and denounced several scandals. For this, he was tortured by the French Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) for more than two hours. The "Piston", which lasted for 4 years, is considered by the grapevine in Brussels to be one of the elements that forced the European Commission to adopt a reform including contractual and financial control over all expenditures. In the same 1991 he left for Budapest where he founded the Rugby club the Budapest Exiles RFC

Dyslexia
As soon as 1988 he realised to potential of IT for the dyslexic, in particular the possibility of correcting himself before printing. In 1991–1992 he worked with Microsoft managers in Budapest to determine how to create grammar correctors in Microsoft Word. Bain established the relationship between a database structure of language rules (encoded), and the scientific structural linguistic approach developed in Nanterre University. The matter was taken up as a research project in Harvard University, and finally when it came to be in MS Word, the grammar corrector logic enabled Microsoft to also improve the spelling correctors.Scholarship
Whilst in the last year of high school, Bain attended the post-graduate seminars of the literary critic Lucette Finasse in the "Collège International de Philosophie" in Paris. Later on he joined the group of young Spanish language scholars that surrounded Golo Mann in the later years of his life, and stayed regularly in Golo Mann's country residency in Berzona, Switzerland. References

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British academic administrators
British intelligence operatives
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<mask> (born October 9, 1976)  is an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series Reno 911!, for his work with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, and for his own personal sketch comedy series <mask>'s Pretend Time. Early life
A native of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, <mask> was born to Pamela and <mask>, and is the youngest of three siblings—he has a sister, Rachel, and a brother, John. <mask> (1934–2003) was an editor and journalist—having written for publications such as the Cincinnati Enquirer and City Pages, as well as founding the Grand Gazette, a former Saint Paul community newspaper. <mask> also invested in land development in Saint Paul, revitalizing Grand Avenue—an area now known as Victoria Crossing. Roger and Pamela divorced in 1989. Swardson has Swedish ancestry.He attended St. Paul Central High and started acting and performing improv comedy at the age of 16. A mischievous student who struggled with alcohol and drugs, Swardson was expelled from school on four occasions for pulling fire alarms in order to go outside and smoke cigarettes, fighting, posting a lewd sign in class, and for smoking marijuana; he was enrolled in a rehab program while still in school. After graduating in 1996, Swardson decided to pursue stand-up comedy rather than attend college. Although Swardson was a fan of sketch comedy, he saw stand-up comedy as a stepping-stone to a career in film, more so than he would working within a comedy troupe. <mask> is an avid Minnesota Vikings fan. He

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 is also good friends with fellow Minnesota resident Josh Duhamel. Career
Swardson started performing stand-up at the age of 18, attending open mic nights at the Minneapolis comedy club Acme Comedy Co.. <mask> stated in a 2007 interview with The Portland Mercury that he did his first open mic "as a goof" but he was encouraged by the club owner to perform again and he went on to win the comedy club's award for the "Funniest Person in the Twin Cities".He also went on to perform regularly at Knuckleheads, a defunct comedy club which was located in the Mall of America. <mask> was also an occasional performer at Balls Cabaret. After garnering some attention within comedy circles, <mask> was selected to perform stand-up at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival at 20 years of age. The festival, which up to 2007 was held in Aspen, Colorado, was a yearly festival attended by entertainment insiders and was a place for comics and comedic actors to get exposure to the industry. It was once the largest comedy convention of its kind in the US and became the launch pad for many comedians and comedy writers. After <mask>'s first performance at the festival comedian Tony Camin, acting as the night's MC, was quoted as saying: "There's a deal waiting to happen.I can see the TV show now: 'An Aspen Kid With Altitude.'" Swardson eventually left the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area for New York City where he would appear in such venues as the Luna Lounge, then on to Los Angeles where he headlined at many nightclubs. In addition to his stand-up, Swardson began to get work in commercials and in small roles in both

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texts: TV in film, such an appearance in an episode of the Al Franken sitcom LateLine in 1999, and playing the role of a crazed David Bowie fan in the 2000 film Almost Famous. In 2001, <mask>'s stand-up act was featured in a half-hour Comedy Central Presents special. He appeared on the show a second time in 2006 — a performance that was featured on the DVD compilation The Best of Comedy Central Presents: Uncensored II released in 2008. In 2003, <mask> co-wrote the screenplay for Malibu's Most Wanted along with the film's star Jamie Kennedy and Adam Small. That same year he took on the role of Terry Bernadino on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.A recurring character throughout the series' run from 2003 to 2009 — in addition to appearing in the film Reno 911! : Miami — <mask> played the role of a flamboyant gigolo who was often seen wearing roller skates. 2003 also marked the beginning of a longtime working relationship and friendship with Adam Sandler. After having seen <mask>'s Comedy Central special, Sandler contacted <mask> to ask if he'd be interested in collaborating; <mask>'s first project with Sandler was co-writing the screenplay for Grandma's Boy — Swardson also co-produced and had an acting role in the film which was released in 2006. In 2004, Swardson wrote, produced and starred in a TV show pilot for Comedy Central called Gay Robot, which was based on a comedy bit by the same name that appeared on Adam Sandler's fifth album, Shh...Don't Tell; Comedy Central, however, decided to pass on the TV project. Swardson then had intentions on making it an animated show, but the

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Film

Television

Discography
Gay Robot by Adam Sandler (2004)
Calling Home by Adam Sandler (2004)
Party (2007) (Stand-Up)
Seriously, Who Farted? (2009) (Stand-Up)

References

External links

Gay Robot on MySpace

1976 births
Living people
Writers from Minneapolis
American male comedians
American male film actors
American male television actors
American stand-up comedians
Male actors from Minneapolis
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
20th-century American comedians
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<mask> (1 August 1897 in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium – 16 July 1988 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) was a Belgian-American pianist, organist, teacher, and composer. Biography

<mask>'s father, <mask>, was composer and organist of the deanery church of St. Nicholas. His mother, Mary Pelagia Coppens, was a gifted pianist and singer. At age six, <mask> got his first musical education in piano and music theory, and later in harmony and counterpoint, from his father, a disciple of Edgar Tinel. By the age of twelve, he was able to play the organ, lead a choir, and sing Gregorian chant from attending church services with his father. From then on, he regularly substituted for his father as organist and conductor. <mask>e attended school in Sint-Niklaas at the St. Joseph Institute and then studied Greek and Latin at the  St. Joseph Minor Seminary, a Roman Catholic college which provided basic training for the priesthood.He followed this course until the first quarter of his third year, after which he devoted himself entirely to music. In addition to his passion for music, he also loved to read. He kept in touch with his former teachers and old college friends. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, van Hulse joined the military at the age of seventeen. During the war, he

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texts: suffered exposure to poison gas and was told that he had six months to live. He also suffered from tuberculosis. In 1919, he began study at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp despite his poor health.He studied with Edward Verheyden (harmony and composition), Frans Lenaert (piano), Constant Lenaert (chamber music), and Lodewijk Mortelmans (counterpoint). That same year, he succeeded his father as organist at St. Nicholas Church in Sint-Niklaas. In 1922, he was awarded the prize for harmony with highest distinction and the Royal Medal, as well as the Albert De Vleeschouwer prize. In 1923 he was awarded the highest distinction for piano and the Royal Medal. After graduating, van Hulse's first concern was his health. His doctor told him that he would benefit from a warm and dry climate. Therefore, he moved to Oklahoma in September 1923 and then to Tucson, Arizona, at that time one of the most musical cities in America.Tucson is also known for its favorable climate for pulmonary patients. After spending a summer in Tucson, where the temperature is close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, he felt much better and decided to stay there. During that time he also changed the spelling of his name from Kamiel to <mask>. In 1924, he married Augusta Nijs, a woman to whom he had already been engaged


texts: in Belgium. They had two children, Lesghinka and Aziadé. For van Hulse, the musical life of Tucson was of great importance. He gave private lessons in piano, organ, harmony, and counterpoint.In 1924 he was given a permanent position as organist at All Saints Church, and later he became organist and choirmaster of Ss. Peter and Paul Church. He was the founding conductor of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He combined this work with a busy career as a concert pianist. As a composer, he published 130 works. He composed music in all major genres except opera. <mask>e maintained the late romantic style, but combined this with modern trends such as Expressionism.In 1956, he retired in order to devote himself entirely to composition. His compositions received numerous awards. In addition to his professional career as a musician, he was also a skilled linguist and is included in the Dictionary of Linguists. He also has a place in the Dictionary of Musicians. In 1930, <mask> <mask> returned to Belgium for the first time. For a while, he traveled back to his native country every two years to visit his family and friends. In 1946 he won four prizes - two awarded by the Society of Arizona Composers for an instrumental composition Suite for Cello and Piano and for a vocal number, and 'The

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 Beatitudes', a choral work with piano and organ accompaniment (first presented in Tucson on 8 May that year).A fourth prize was the national J. Fischer & Bro. prize from the American Guild of Organists, won with his 'Toccata' for Grand Organ. In 1957, the Bibliotheca Wasiana organized a tribute concert in honor of his sixtieth birthday. For the 750th anniversary of the city of Sint-Niklaas, he wrote The Ballad of the Six Knights for orchestra, choir and baritone solo on a text by Anton van Wilderode. <mask> <mask> died at the age of 91 in Tucson, Arizona. Works

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Opus 39-Toccata for grand organ (1946)
Opus 52-Festival "Veni creator spiritus" Postlude on For the organ. (1948) (sometimes also, probably erroneously, referred to as "Festival Prelude etc.')Opus 53-Symphonia mystica (1953) (here a recording of the Scherzo by Gabriel Dessauer)
Opus 56/1-Ricercata quasi fantasia sopra B. A. C. H. (1949)
Opus 58-Fantasia contrappuntistica sopra "O filii et filiae". (1949)
Opus 62-Gaudeamus (Toccata-fantasy) (1953)
Opus 63, No. 1-Little Suite for carillon (1970)
Opus 63, No. 2-Lamentoso for organ (1951)
Opus 65-Jubilee Suite (1951)
Opus 66-St. Louis, King of France: symphonic poem in seven tableaux, for organ (1954)
Opus 68-Devotional Moments for Organ, Book 1

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Opus 73 1-3-Three Short Pieces for Organ (1951)
Opus 73/4-6-Three interludes (1951)
Opus 73/7-9-Three chorale preludes (1951)
Opus 73/10-Chorale-fantasy on St. Magnus (1952)
Opus 76/1? -Five Christmas fantasies (1951)
Opus 76/1-Father Brebeuf's carol (1951)
Opus 76/2-Papago Christmas (1951)
Opus 76/3-Papago Christmas (Based on a flute call and two authentic Indian melodies collected at the Papago Reservation, south and southeast of Tucson, Arizona) (1951)
Opus 76/3 (! )-Yuletide fantasy on old English carols echoes.(?) Opus 76/4 The child Jesus in Flanders: On the chant ' Puer natus est nobis ' and two old Flemish carols. (1951)
Opus 76/5-Joyeux noel! = Sei du mir gegruesset: "Enchiridion"; Morning breaks upon the tomb: Innocents; Triptych: Christ is Christ ist erstanden arisen; Vesper musings: Abide with us, the day is waning = Wer nur den lieben Gott; Easter chimes: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain = Schwing dich auf; Flourish: Awake, my heart, with gladness = Auf, auf, mein Herz)
Opus 80/29-35? -Seven preludes on hymns for general use (1961) (Open now thy gates of beauty; God of mercy, God of Grace; O day of rest and gladness; Blessed are the sons of God; All ye who on this earth do dwell; It is not death to die; Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow)
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