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 support for Nazi Germany (to which he preferred Italian fascism).According to Grigore Traian Pop, who cites another piece of writing by <mask>, this was not the case, <mask> having become an adversary of both Nazism and Italian fascism. <mask> also attacked the Guard's leader for maintaining secret contacts with the authorities and receiving bribes and subsidies, claiming that, in 1935, during the repression of the Guard, the leader had taken refuge in the residence of a female relative of Elena Lupescu, the King's mistress — "While everybody was staying in Jilava, and in other prisons, you were being sheltered by a lady. She was a person adverse to your action. How did you get along so well?". He also challenged Codreanu's public image by suggesting that the Guard's leader was in reality a bon viveur, as well as uncultured and a plagiarist. On one occasion, he defied Codreanu's violent methods, writing an open letter stating: "[If I am to be killed,] I ask for one indulgence, let the 'Chief' in person come [and do it], and, if possible, not in the back". Crusade of Romanianism

The Crusade of Romanianism was a nationalist and eclectic organisation, presenting a more leftist and social colouring (its political programme included such items as decent wages, a mandatory 8-hour work day, and pensions for invalid workers) than other right-wing organisations of that time.<mask>'s dissidence may be compared to those of Otto Strasser or Manuel Hedilla. According to Talex, <mask> had the will to make a party. Istrati probably contributed to balancing the ideologies in the Crusade'''s discourse. <mask>

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 received support from a small number of well-known personalities (the Romanian Army officer Nicolae Rădescu, alongside Talex and Istrati), but few Legionnaires joined him. The dissidence's overall impact on the movement was minor, although the Legion did later adopt some of the social aspects of <mask>'s programme. Faced with lack of appeal, the group adhered to the Constitutional Front, a nationalist electoral alliance formed around the National Liberal Party-Brătianu and Alexandru Averescu's People's Party (it also included for some time the short-lived Citizen Bloc, presided by Grigore Forțu). Killing
In 1936, <mask> was admitted to the Spitalul Brâncovenesc, a Bucharest hospital, for an appendectomy.While recovering, he was found by the Decemviri (the "Ten Men"), a Legionnaire death squad led by Ion Caratănase and probably created in 1935 in Târgu Mureș (during a youth congress tolerated by the Gheorghe Tătărescu executive). According to the Legion's version, the assassins riddled his body with some 200 bullets, after which they left the hospital unmolested and surrendered voluntarily to the police. The alternative version claims that the assassins fired some 120 bullets (other sources point a number as low as 38), after which they attacked the cadaver with hatchets or axes, and danced around it until the police arrived. The rumors, disseminated right after the murder, that members of the death squad had engaged in acts of cannibalism, are unfounded. While officially both Codreanu and the Decemviri claimed that action had taken place without Codreanu's knowledge or consent, the probability

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 remains highly unlikely; furthermore, Codreanu personally awarded each one of them the White Cross while they were kept in prison. Notes

References
 Ion Alexandrescu, Ion Bulei, Ion Mamina, and Ioan Scurtu (1995) Partidele politice din România, 1862–1994: Enciclopedie, Bucharest, Editura  Mediaprint,  (in Romanian)
 Neagu Cosma (1998) Culisele Palatului Regal, Ediție revăzută și adăugită, Bucharest, Editura Globus. (in Romanian)
 Victoria Gabriela Gruber, Summary of Partidul Național Liberal (Gheorghe Brătianu) (PDF file)
 Radu Ioanid (1990) The Sword of the Archangel: Fascist Ideology in Romania, East European Monographs, No.292, Boulder, New York, East European Monographs,
 Șerban N. Ionescu (1994) Who Was Who in Twentieth-Century Romania, Boulder, New York: East European Monographs, No. 395,
 Z. Ornea (1995) Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească, Bucharest, Ed. Fundației Culturale Române,  (in Romanian)
 Grigore Traian Pop, "Cînd disidența se pedepsește cu moartea. Un asasinat ritual: <mask> <mask>", in Dosarele Istoriei, 6/IV (1999)
 Francisco Veiga (1993) Istoria Gărzii de Fier, 1919-1941: Mistica ultranaționalismului, Bucharest, Humanitas (Romanian-language version of the 1989 Spanish edition La mística del ultranacionalismo (Historia de la Guardia de Hierro) Rumania, 1919–1941'', Bellaterra: Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, )

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<mask> (born 14 November 1970) is a Czech harpsichordist, horn player, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue, founder and artistic director of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and of the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. He specialises in Baroque music, especially in the works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and others. His activities have played an important role in reviving interest in the works of Czech composers including Zelenka and Josef Mysliveček. Education
<mask> studied at the Pilsen Conservatoire in classes of French horn and piano and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; in 1992, he resumed his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the studios of Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and Jesper Christensen (in the fields of historical keyboard instruments and historical performance practice), graduating as a soloist in 1997. During his studies in Basel and in the years that followed, he gave concerts in Europe and overseas as the principal horn player of the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin. Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704
Upon his return from abroad, <mask> transformed a chamber ensemble which he founded during his studies into the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and the affiliated vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704: the most immediate impulse was the project Bach — Prague — 2005, initiated by <mask> himself. Since 2007, the ensemble has been making regular guest appearances at festivals and concert halls all over Europe: the Salzburger Festspiele (2015, 2016, 2018), the Berliner Philharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien and Konzerthaus, the Lucerne Festival, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts) in Brussels, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, Wratislavia Cantans, and the Elbphilharmonie, and it is an ensemble-in-residence at the festival Oude

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 Muziek in Utrecht and at the Leipzig Bachfest.In 2008, Music Bridge Prague — Dresden began, bringing together the two cities’ wealth of cultural traditions. In 2012 Collegium 1704 started a concert series at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Since autumn 2015, the two cycles have been merged into a single concert season that continues to take place in parallel in Prague and Dresden. In 2019 Collegium Vocale 1704 launched a series of chamber choir concerts in Prague. The ensemble cooperates with prominent soloists, both Czech and international, including Magdalena Kožená, Bejun Mehta, Simona Houda-Šaturová, Martina Janková, Hana Blažíková, Karina Gauvin, Lisandro Abadie, and others. Work with other ensembles
In addition to his work with Collegium 1704, <mask> <mask> also collaborates with international ensembles including Camerata Salzburg, the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, and the Dresdner Kammerchor. Amongst his recent projects have been performances of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas with Ensemble Pygmalion at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and a programme with works by Polish composers with the ensemble Orkiestra Historyczna.At a benefit concert for the restoration of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, <mask> <mask> conducted the Orchestre nationale de France. Teaching
Between 1996 and 1999, <mask> taught basso continuo at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and in 2001–2003 he lectured at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” in Leipzig. He has also worked with the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno and he is regularly invited to sit on juries of international competitions (Schmelzer-Wettbewerb Melk, Prague Spring 2012). Opera and theatre
In 2009/2010, Collegium 1704 under <mask>'s baton performed Handel's Rinaldo at the National Theatre in Prague at Théâtre de Caen, Opéra

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 de Rennes, and Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg. In 2013, they performed Josef Mysliveček’s opera L’olimpiade and the production was nominated for the 2014 International Opera Awards. In 2017, they followed with Antonio Vivaldi’s Arsilda, regina di Ponto in its modern-era world premiere, directed by David Radok - the premiere took place at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava and the production toured several European citites, including Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de Caen, and Opéra Royale de Versailles. Film projects
In 2014 Collegium 1704 led by <mask> collaborated with Bejun Mehta on a DVD of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice with the stage director Ondřej Havelka, and with Rolando Villazón on the making of the BBC 2 documentary Mozart in Prague.The ensemble took part in making the director Petr <mask>’s upcoming epic film Il Boemo about the life of Josef Mysliveček, and previously in the director's documentary about Mysliveček, Confessions of the Vanished. Cooperation with radio stations
Václav Luks works in cooperation with a number of broadcasting networks such as Deutschlandradio Berlin, Schweizer Radio DRS, the Austrian Broadcasting Company (ÖRF), and Radio France and with music publishers including Supraphon, Pan Classics, Zig-Zag Territoires, Arta, and Accent. 4 (PAN Classics, 2001)

References

External links
Václav Luks on the Collegium 1704 official website
 Václav Luks on France Musique
 Václav Luks on the BBC
 Bach & Zelenka: Jan Dismas Zelenka: "Te Deum" [ZWV 146 - Collegium 1704/ Luks (20.08.11) (1of2) (YouTube)

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Czech conductors (music)
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Czech musicologists
Czech harpsichordists
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<mask> (born July 6, 1956) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, he is also proficient on the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel guitar, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone. While a member of the Desert Rose Band, he won the Academy of Country Music's "Guitarist of the Year" award three consecutive years. <mask> has recorded or toured with <mask>, Tommy Emmanuel, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Willie Nelson, <mask>, Emmylou Harris, Hank Williams Jr., Barbra Streisand, Luciano Pavarotti, Roy Orbison, Patty Loveless, Michael Nesmith, <mask>, and Bonnie Raitt. Early years
He was born in 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin, into a musical family. His mother was a piano teacher and his father an orchestra conductor and college music professor. <mask> has played professionally since the age of fourteen, and had been playing both the piano and clarinet since age eight.When <mask> was one, he and his family moved to Redlands, California. <mask> attended high school in Redlands, California, graduating in May 1974. He eventually attended the University of Redlands, majoring in woodwind performance. One of his early bands in this period was named Rocking Pneumonia, c. 1971. In his early 20s he played full-time at Disneyland, playing clarinet with the Main Street Maniacs (Dixieland), mandolin with the Thunder Mountain Boys (bluegrass) and guitar with the Rhythm Brothers (Django Reinhardt style swing). These three groups were composed of the same four members, who changed costumes and music styles at intervals throughout each day. Later years
In 1993 <mask> formed the guitar trio the Hellecasters with Will Ray and guitarist Jerry Donahue of Fairport Convention.Intended as a temporary collaboration, the Hellecasters went on

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 to release several albums during the 1990s. Their debut, Return of the Hellecasters (1993) won both "Album of the Year" and "Country Album of the Year" from Guitar Player magazine. In 1994 he was invited to join <mask>'s band for an 18-month tour. He remained with the band for the next six years, performing both live and in the studio, occasionally on saxophone. In 2002 he played bass guitar in the All-star Bluegrass Celebration in Nashville. Two years later he portrayed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds. <mask> collaborated with Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner on the song "Cluster Pluck", on Paisley's album Play (2009).The song won a Grammy Award in the Best Country Instrumental Performance category. He is a patron for Guitar-X (Tech Music Schools) in London, where he regularly visits to hold master classes. He is also a patron for Le QuecumBar, the world's only music venue dedicated to Gypsy swing in London. His gypsy jazz ensemble, <mask> Quintet includes Doug Martin (rhythm guitar), Jason Anick (violin), Simon Planting (bass), and Rick Reed (percussion). Custom guitars

G&L Guitars made a very few signature <mask>nson ASAT guitars in Silver Sparkle with Silver Sparkle Pickguard, rosewood fretboard and Black ASAT Pickups in 1995. Fender made signature guitar models for Jorgensen in 1997 and 1998. The Fender Limited Edition John Jorgenson Hellecaster was made in Japan in 1997.It features a black sparkle-finished maple body, vintage-tinted, high-gloss maple neck with reversed large-style Strat headstock, rosewood fretboard with gold sparkle dot inlays, 22 jumbo frets and Schaller locking tuners. Refinements included three Seymour Duncan custom-voiced, split-coil, hum-cancelling pickups which allow players to get

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texts: controlled feedback in distortion mode and a custom-wired, five-way pickup selector switch with an additional push/pull control allowing seven tone variations. Other touches included a custom two-pivot-point tremolo, a Wilkinson "Wilkaloid" self-lubricating nut, gold sparkle pickguard and gold hardware. The Fender John Jorgenson Signature Custom Korina Telecaster was made at the Fender Custom Shop in 1998, sporting a solid Korina body, a maple neck with pearloid dot inlays and a 25.5" scale length, African rosewood or an ebony on black finish fretboard with 22 Dunlop 6130 frets. Other features included dual side-by-side Telecaster humbucking pickups, a modified vintage style Tele bridge, a special custom five-way pickup switching featuring five different combinations (each in humbucking mode), 1.688" width at the nut and Sperzel Trimlok locking tuners. In 1994, he became the third artist to have a custom signature series guitar built by Takamine Guitars. The JJ325SRC and the twelve-string JJ325SRC-12, born from the EF325SRCA, feature a spruce top with bubinga back and sides in a gloss red satin finish, a rosewood fretboard on a mahogany neck with his signature J.J. inlay on the 12th fret, and gold tubes with white pearloid knobs.The most recent <mask> signature guitar is the Fret-King FKV25JJ in Arcadian and Versailles Green. Designed in conjunction with Trev Wilkinson, the guitar is packed with a whole host of features including a chambered body, three self-intonating brass saddles, a matched, calibrated set of Wilkinson WVT pickups and two auxiliary ‘ghost’ coils which provide both hum-cancelling and classic single coil tones at the turn of a dial, thanks to the unique ‘Vari-coil’ control. <mask>'s Fret-King signature model will be joined by the FKV25JCAR in Candy Apple Red in 2019. 2019 will also see both

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 Fret-King Jorgenson models shift from chambered to solid body construction. (Warner Bros., 2000)
 Lisa Brokop, Undeniable (Cosmo, 2000)
 Brooks & Dunn, Red Dirt Road (Arista, 2003)
 Mary Chapin Carpenter, Come On Come On (Columbia, 1992)
 Steph Carse, Steph Carse (H2E, 2000)
 Carlene Carter, Little Love Letters (Giant, 1993)
 Carlene Carter, Little Acts of Treason (Giant, 1995)
 Lionel Cartwright, Chasin' the Sun (MCA, 1991)
 Beth Nielsen Chapman, Look (Sanctuary, 2004)
 <mask>wan, Sixty (Compass, 2014)
 Jesse Dayton, Hey Nashvegas! (Stag, 2001)
 Levi Dexter, Pomp! Wham Bam Sam (Curb, 1996)
 Chely Wright, Never Love You Enough (MCA, 2001)
 Chely Wright, Lifted Off the Ground (Vanguard, 2010)
 Trisha Yearwood, Jasper County (MCA, 2005)
 Trisha Yearwood, Prizefighter: Hit After Hit (Gwendolyn/RCA 2014)

References

External links
 Official website
 John Jorgenson Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2018)

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<mask> is an American pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator. He leads his own band Outlaw Jazz and was a founding member of Fat Mama. <mask> is also known for his work with Charlie Hunter, Leftover Salmon, Dixie Chicks, Shooter Jennings, and Citizen Cope. Early life
<mask> was born in Washington D.C. in 1976. Influenced at an early age by his grandfather (a professional musician), his father (a barroom pianist), and his opera-singing nanny. Deutsch began taking Suzuki piano lessons at Vanderbilt University. After his family relocated to Nashville he studied piano with Tom Koester.In 1985 <mask> won a school song writing contest that led to his first gig at the Country Music Hall of Fame. While attending High School in Potomac, MD, Deutsch frequented the jazz clubs of Washington D.C. Upon arriving at the University of Colorado Boulder in the fall 1995 he began lessons with pianists Art Lande and joined Fat Mama, a modern jazz/rock/fusion ensemble. Career

2000s
After completing his degree from CU in piano performance, Deutsch stayed in Boulder developing a busy career as a performer and teacher. County Road X, a cinematic Americana ensemble, released two records during this period, County Road X (2002) and From Seed to Stone (2004). Triangle, a piano trio led by <mask>'s musical mentor Art Lande (on drums), released Three Sides to a Question in 2004. He taught and accompanied students frequently and was an adjunct faculty member at the Naropa University.In the summer of 2005 <mask> moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked at the Queens College, City University of New York Saturday jazz program and in The Bronx public school as a dance accompanist. In 2007 he joined the Charlie Hunter Trio. His tenure with Hunter lasted 3 years, involving extensive touring all over Europe, Asia, and Africa. They recorded Mistico with drummer Simon Lott and Baboon Strength with drummer Tony Mason. Deutsch released his first two records as a leader towards the end of the decade. 2007's Fingerprint features fellow Coloradans

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 Ron Miles, Jenny Scheinman, Todd Sickafoose, Allison Miller, Janet Feder and Ross Martin. In a review of 2009's Hush Money The Boston Globe makes mention of the "unmistakable traces of the Alpine air and sweeping CinemaScope views" within Deutsch's music.These efforts also earn him his first feature in Downbeat Magazine. 2010s
In 2011 <mask> collaborated with long-time associate Shooter Jennings for two records, Family Man and The Other Life. Inevitably other similar collaborations ensued including work with Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal, Shelby Lynne, Allison Moorer, Norah Jones, Bob DiPiero and Jim Campilongo. 2012 marked the release of <mask>’s third release as a leader, Demonio Teclado revealing a new psychedelic soul jazz sound. In 2014, Deutsch released Outlaw Jazz a critically acclaimed record fusing his brand of jazz with elements of country. In 2016, Deutsch joined Colorado based jam band Leftover Salmon. His four-year stint as a full-time member included over 400 shows and the release of three records.<mask> released his first solo piano album Creatures in 2016. Downbeat Magazine critic Allan Drouot wrote, "<mask>'s pieces are imbued with the same mournfulness and simplicity that inhabits Satie's piano music." In 2018 <mask> released another large group project entitled Falling Flowers. 2020s and Mexico
Since 2015, <mask> has hosted a weekly bi-lingual radio show called the Sounds of Brooklyn and Beyond with co-host Sara Valenzuela. The program airs on Jalisco Radio in Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, and Ciudad Guzman and is available as a podcast on iTunes and Spotify. In 2019 <mask> relocated to Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City. In 2020, <mask> joined The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks) as the full-time touring keyboardist.Deutsch released Live at LunÁticoand an improvised solo 7” LP on Piquinique Recordings entitled Chrysanthemum as well as a new project with banjoist Andy Thorn entitled Tangled Sea. Awards and honors
<mask> has been nominated consecutively in Downbeat Magazine Critic's Poll Rising Star organ category since

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<mask> (born 18 December 1945 in Florence) is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and politician. In 2008 she was elected to the Italian Parliament for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party and she served as Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies for the length of the legislature, ending in March 2013. On 26 May 2013 she went to Israel (made Aliyah). In 2015, <mask> was nominated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the future ambassador to Italy, but subsequently withdrew for what she stated were personal reasons. She is Senior Fellow of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and currently works there, at the Israeli-based think-tank of JPCA. She is moreover a leading columnist for the Italian daily Il Giornale and contributes articles in English to the Jewish News Syndicate. She is also on the Board of ISGAP and of the WJC.She lives now in Jerusalem with frequent visits to Italy. Background
<mask>'s father, <mask>, came to Italy as part of the Jewish brigade. There he met his future wife Wanda Lattes, who was a partisan in the resistance. Nirenstein's parents, as distinguished journalists, were remembered in Italy with the title of the Borgo Allegri garden in Florence which in 2019 was called "Giardino Wanda Lattes and Alberto Nirenstein". She grew up in a Florentine Jewish family with different political views. She began to alter her views after the Six Day War, when Israel conquered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and she found herself in disagreement with her communist friends, who considered that Israel had become an occupying power. During the Six Day War, she was in Kibbutz Neot Mordechai, in northern Israel.Though he signed a protest against Israel's war in Lebanon, her views have since changed since, she suggests, Israel has gained nothing from its withdrawal from that country. In 1993 and 1994 <mask> directed the Cultural Institute of the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv. Political career

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Silvio Berlusconi and his ally, Gianfranco Fini, the former leader of Alleanza Nazionale, Italy's conservative party, invited Nirenstein to become a candidate for their joint list Il Partito della Liberta ("The Party of Liberty") for the April 2008 national elections. During her campaign for a seat in Liguria, she did not talk at rallies about local issues, but rather concentrated on expounding her belief that Israel was in the vanguard of Western democracies in the battle against Islamic terrorism. In her view, the most important thing for Italians in grasping their national identity was to stand by the side of Israel. In general, through her political career, Nirenstein aimed to contribute to an anti-terrorist, pro-Israeli and Atlantic Alliance, which advocated the values of the culture of human rights. Elected Member of the Italian Parliament, she served as Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies for the entire XVIth legislature, ending in March 2013.She was also a member of the Italian delegation to the Council of Europe, where she represented Italy in the Network for the fight against violence on children. Nirenstein also established and chaired the Committee for the Inquiry into Antisemitism of the Italian Parliament. During her parliamentary activity, she had a particular focus on Israel, human rights, international controversies, democratization in the Middle East and awareness of Iran's nuclear capabilities. Among the most significant activities during her parliamentary activity there are the letter to the Ambassador of Syria in Italy, Khaddur Hasan, to stop the repression of the Assad regime, signed by 50 parliamentarians belonging to all political groups and various parliamentary questions including the question to the Foreign Affairs Committee of May 4, 2011 on the ongoing repression in Syria. Professional career as journalist and writer
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 anti-Semitism, human rights and her activities deals with the great changes that are taking place within the Middle East democratization process. The pivotal focus and underlying idea that runs through all <mask> <mask>'s work is the fight against totalitarianism and terrorism as connected to antisemitism and hate for Israel. Journalism
<mask> is a leading columnist for the conservative Italian daily "Il Giornale".From 1991 to 2006, she has been correspondent from Israel for "La Stampa" daily and the Berlusconi-owned "Panorama" weekly. She also wrote for the newspaper Grazia and was the founder of the monthly Rosa. She is the author of thirteen books in Italian and seven in English. In Italy, Nirenstein has introduced and prefaced Bernard Lewis, Natan Sharansky and Ruthie Blum. She has been granted over twenty awards for her literary and journalistic activity. Nirenstein started her career in 1977 and has been a columnist and correspondent for all major Italian magazines (Panorama; l'Espresso; Epoca). Nirenstein contributed to The New York Sun, to the Commentary magazine and has written for the Moment magazine.Since 1998, she predicted the first terrorist threats in bin Laden's speeches and the suicide bombings of Islamic extremist. Some of <mask>'s work has been published in four American anthologies. Bernard Goldberg's  book "Bias" (Regency Publishing, 2002, pp. 200–206) quotes her extensively for the  view she writes well about the phenomenon of terrorism. A piece she wrote on the 9/11 disaster for Commentary magazine the day after the attack to explain the mentality of terrorists was subsequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal. <mask> <mask> has produced many documentaries for the Italian TV, the last by the title of "Settlers", about the disengagement from  Gaza seen from the perspective of the settlers themselves. In 2006 she conceived and conducted a program on foreign affairs, "Ore diciotto/Mondo", on channel RAI 2.Radio Radicale has interviewed here

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 for its "Il medio Oriente visto da Gerusalemme" program. She has interviewed Rajiv Gandhi and met Deng Xiaoping, protagonists of the anti-communist regimes revolutions of the '80s, and in the area of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, Arafat, Sharon and Netanyahu. Work at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)
<mask> <mask> began a working relationship with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an Israeli-based think-tank, in the late-2000s. Nirenstein's interests largely focus on European-Israeli relations, anti-Semitism, and sociological studies of terrorism. <mask> served both as an editor and contributor for her most recent publication, Lessons from Israel's Response to Terrorism. Within the publication, Nirenstein authored an article entitled "Resilience, the Israeli People's Weapon against Terror". In the essay, <mask> argues that Israelis have a unique culture built upon resilience which makes the country particularly strong in responding to terrorism.In 2016, Nirenstein participated in an interview at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs on the subject of European Anti-Semitism. Among the subjects discussed include the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and its contemporary manifestations, particularly in what Nirenstein terms "Israelphobia". One of her works produced while at the Israeli think-tank was Israel is Us: A Journalist's Odyssey in Understanding the Middle East. According to the organization's website, Nirenstein confesses the publication's premise is 'very simple': "Israel, contrary to commonly accepted propaganda, is a positive model, a case study for anyone who finds himself living in a democratic society that must eventually confront a defensive war- one that encompasses the entire universe of Western democracy today.”

<mask> continues to work at the think-tank. Other publications
Nirenstein's writings have also appeared, among other websites, on the Times of Israel and the Gatestone Institute. Since 2007, she has also

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 maintained her own personal website on which she publishes material in English and Italian. Today she is columnist for the Jewish News Syndicate.Later political career

In August 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu designated Nirenstein to become Israel's ambassador to Italy. The initial reaction by the Jewish community of Rome was uneven, in fact after some negative reactions that emerged among the Italian Jewish community after the nomination, numerous reactions and declarations in favor of Nirenstein arrived from both Italy and Israel. Subsequently, Nirenstein withdrew from the offer for what she stated were personal reasons. Some press sources said the decision was related to her having called Sara Netanyahu a 'babau' in 1996, but other news sources confirmed that the decision to withdraw was for personal reasons. Internationally

On June 29, 2011, <mask> was unanimously elected chairperson of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP), an organization that brings together Jewish legislators, parliamentarians and government ministers from around the world. In the same year, she established a center on Foreign Policy, "SUMMIT - for the dialogue between Europe and Middle East, human rights and democracy", with which she organized tens of events and conferences. Nirenstein is a Selection Committee Member of the Genesis Prize, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and of the Gatestone Institute, as well as a member of the advisory board of Ngo-Monitor and a board member of the European Friends of Israel (EFI).She is also one of the six founding members of the steering committee of the Interparliamentary Coalition on Combating Antisemitism (ICCA), and in the Board of the Friends of Israel Initiative, established on 2010 by former Prime Minister of Spain José María Aznar. She is also a Board member of the "Talmud Project", a major initiative, sponsored by the Italian government, to translate the Babylonian Talmud into Italian. <mask> has been

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 dedicating a great effort in voicing for Muslim dissidents. In December 2007 she promoted and organized in Rome the international conference "Fighting for Democracy in the Islamic World", which was the continuation of the great Prague conference on dissidents, promoted by Natan Sharansky, Václav Havel and José María Aznar in June the same year. Fight against Antisemitism and anti-Zionism

<mask> <mask> has discussed antisemitism, anti-Zionism and the left. She has been official speaker in a variety of conferences on antisemitism, among them, the world forum of OCSE in Berlin about antisemitism, the Boston Conference on "antisemitism, the press and Europe" (2004), "Multiculturalism, the left and antisemitism" during the 2006 international symposium of the Vidal Sassoon Center (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the 2014 SICSA international symposium, she raised the issue of fighting what she deemed to be "Israelophobia" as a means of beating contemporary antisemitism.Political awards
 On 16 December 2009 <mask>, together with the other members of the ICCA steering committee, was awarded by the Israeli Knesset for her commitment in the fight against Antisemitism. In April 2011, she was awarded in New York by CAMERA, together with José Maria Aznar and John Bolton, for her activity as "Friend of Israel". In June 2011, Nirenstein was included in the Jerusalem Post list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world, headed by Mark Zuckerberg. In an interview with Haaretz, Nirenstein stated that her country of origin, Italy, had much to learn about democracy from Israel. She also made the following assertions:-
"Every Jew in the world is an Israeli even if he's not aware of it. Anyone who doesn't know it is making a big mistake." "...morally speaking, there mustn't be negotiations with Hamas, which thinks that Jews are the sons of monkeys and pigs.You can't negotiate with cannibals, who eat human beings." "I'm not saying that all Muslims are terrorists, or

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 that all Muslims are criminals. But Hamas has announced that it wants to conquer Rome, to make it the outpost from which it will conquer all of Europe.". Bibliography
In Israele (2018), Il Giornale. Le 12 bugie su Israele, (2016) Il Giornale. Il Califfo e l'Ayatollah, (2015) Mondadori. A Gerusalemme (2012)Rizzoli.The history of Jerusalem through the eyes of twenty years of journalistic work
Israele Siamo Noi (2007) Rizzoli. On the State of Israel as archetype for a liberal democracy at war with terror. - Translated into English: Israel is us - a personal odyssey to a journalist's understanding of the Middle East, JCPA ed., 2009
La Sabbia di Gaza (2006) Rubbettino editore. On the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. Terror: The New Anti-Semitism and the War Against the West (2005) Smith and Kraus, Hannover, Usa. An English-language selection of various articles. Gli Antisemiti Progressisti (2004), Rizzoli.A look at the new anti-Semitism. Islam, la guerra e la speranza (2003)  An interview with Bernard Lewis, Rizzoli. L'Abbandono, come l'Occidente ha tradito gli ebrei (2002) Rizzoli. A book that argues the West has betrayed the Jewish people. Un solo Dio, tre verità (2001) Mondadori . (One god, three truths) written with Giorgio Montefoschi. Come le cinque dita di una mano – una famiglia di ebrei da Firenze a Gerusalemme (1998), Rizzoli.Written with her family. Israele: una pace in guerra (1996), Il Mulino. (Israel, at peace in war)
Il Razzista Democratico (1990), Modadori. (The Democratic racist)

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Official website
Articles written on il Giornale
Most recent articles by <mask> Nirenstein from New York Sun

1945 births
Living people
20th-century Italian Jews
Italian magazine editors
Italian women editors
Politicians from Florence
Italian emigrants to Israel
Journalists from Florence
Italian women journalists
21st-century Italian Jews
Jewish women writers
Jewish journalists
Jewish women politicians
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texts: <mask> (born February 26, 1973) is an American former competition swimmer and anesthesiologist. She is one of the most decorated Olympians in history: twelve medals, including eight gold medals, in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics. <mask>, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her hometown, began swimming at age 7 at a summer country club called Cedardale in Groveland, Massachusetts. During the indoor season, she swam at the Danvers YMCA from ages 8 to 10, and then at the Andover-North Andover YMCA from the ages of 10 to 12. At age 12 she began swimming for Seacoast Swimming Association under coaches Amy and Mike Parratto, and moved to Dover at age 13. She first appeared on the international scene as a 14-year-old in 1987, when she won the 50-meter freestyle and placed third in the 100-meter freestyle at the Pan American Games. She won her first world championship in 1991, as part of the USA's winning 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, and held the world record in the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle when she participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.<mask> attended Stanford University, and swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. She was the recipient of the 1994–95 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year. In 2006, <mask> received a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and then a fellowship in

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1992 Olympics
Thought to be at the height of her competitive career at the time, <mask> was expected to win up to five gold medals at those Olympics. However, she failed to qualify for the final in the 200-meter freestyle, finished a disappointing fifth in the 50-meter, and finished second in the 100-meter, where she was beaten by Zhuang Yong of China. <mask> won two gold medals as part of the 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley teams. Considerable controversy was raised after the 100-meter freestyle when the U.S. team speculated on the loose doping policy standards in Barcelona—at that time the event winner did not have a mandatory doping test—only the second and fourth-place finishers were tested, based on a random draw.<mask> and her teammates believed that the Olympic champion should be tested and that rule was changed a few months later when nine members of the Chinese swimming team tested positive for steroid use. University years
<mask> continued her career as a member of the U.S. national team and a member of the Stanford University swimming team, and continued to rank among the world's best swimmers for the next four years. During <mask>'s four years at Stanford, she was a member of four NCAA championship teams, considered to be some of the most dominant collegiate teams in NCAA history. During that time, <mask> amassed nineteen individual and relay NCAA titles. She competed as a member of the USA Finswimming Team at the 8th World Championship held in Hungary during August 1996. <mask> had a poor performance at the 1996 Olympic Trials which kept

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<mask> won Gold medals on three relay teams at the Olympics; the 4×100-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley, and 4×200-meter freestyle.Between 1997 and 1999, <mask> won eight more world championship titles, including three in a row in the 100-meter freestyle. 2000 Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia she won a bronze in the 100-meter freestyle and was fifth in the 100-meter butterfly. But in the relay events, she swam the anchor leg in helping the USA defend its titles in the 4×100-meter freestyle and the 4×200-meter freestyle relays. She also swam the butterfly leg in the winning 4×100-meter relays. The 4×100-meter freestyle and medley teams set new world records in the process. 2000 through 2004
At the World Championships that year, she broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly for the fourth time, winning a qualifying heat in a time of 56.56 en route to a gold medal in the event. <mask> seemingly retired from competition after the 2000 season with 10 Olympic medals, eight gold, one silver and one bronze, and 12 gold medals at World Championships.In 2001, <mask> moved to New York City to begin studying at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, while attending medical school, she made a return to competition at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Yokohama, Japan. <mask> won five medals in two days, setting a career-best time in winning the 50-meter freestyle. At the 2003 World Championships, she would win five medals, including two gold medals. 2004 Olympics
At age 31, <mask> was the oldest member of the 2004 U.S. Swimming

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 and Diving team, competing in her fourth Olympics in Athens, Greece. She was the anchor member of the 400-meter freestyle relay, where she contributed to a national record of 3:36.39 and a silver medal.She earned another silver medal as a member of the 4×100-meter medley relay. During her Olympic career, <mask> won twelve medals, eight of which were relay gold; the most for any female Olympic swimmer in history. Recent life and work
In 2006, <mask> received a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She did her internship at the New York City Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and residency anesthesiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In June 2010 she was assaulted when two men attempted to steal her scooter, however she was able to fight off both of her attackers. <mask> married Daniel Richard Cumpelik on September 5, 2010. She currently works as an anesthesiologist for the Spectrum medical group at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.<mask> has volunteered as a celebrity swimmer for Swim Across America, a charitable organization that raises money for cancer research, since 1995. Accolades and other recognition
She was the 1993 and 1998 USA Swimming Swimmer of the Year, and ranked as the 62nd greatest female athlete of all time in a 1999 poll conducted by Sports Illustrated. She was named by Swimming World Magazine as the Female World Swimmer of the Year in 1998, and as Female American Swimmer of the Year in 1993, 1998 and 1999. She was the Women's Sports Foundation's Athlete of the Year in 2000. Her adopted hometown of Dover, New Hampshire has a public swimming pool named in her

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<mask> (born <mask>; March 22, 1924 – April 30, 2003) was an American voice actor, reader of audiobooks, stage actor, and author of children's books. He was known for his roles from Tom Terrific through to his last role, voicing Eustace Bagge on the Cartoon Network's Courage the Cowardly Dog. Career

As stage actor
<mask>'s interest in acting on the stage began at an early age—his first professional stage performance was in 1936 at the age of twelve. A few years later, he was selected for the 1942 Barter Theatre Scholarship, which included summer in a kind of boot camp for aspiring thespians. Over the course of his career he played in at least 25 professional stage productions, including four on Broadway:
Dodsworth, as bellboy and as a lost boy. 1936. Macbeth, as a witch and as a messenger.1940. The Merry Widow, as Nish. 1942, 1955, and 1958. Janie, as Scooper Nolan (replacement), and Deadpan Hackett (replacement). Broadway, 1943–44. The Male Animal, as Wally Meyers. 1944.Good Morning Corporal, as Alvin Stacey. Broadway, 1944. Kiss and Tell, as Dexter Franklin (replacement). Broadway, 1945–46. My Sister Eileen, as Frank Lippincott. 1945–46. Tenting Tonight, as Elliott Smollens.1947. Joan of Lorraine, as one of Joan's brothers. 1947. John Loves Mary, as Fred Taylor. 1948. Waltz me Around Again, as Rick. 1948.The Intruder, as Tommy. 1952–53. High Button Shoes, as Mr. Pontdue. 1954. Fragile Fox, as Corporal Jackson. Broadway, 1954. Rio Rita, as Chick Bean.1955. Wonderful Town, as Valenti. 1955. Harvey, as Elwood P. Dowd. 1956. Girl Crazy, as Slick Fothergill. 1956.Once in a Lifetime, as Rudolph Kammerling. 1964. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as Bud Frump. 1965–66 and 1968
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 Oscar Lindquist. 1968.Cactus Flower, as Harvey Greenfield. 1969. A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Francis Flute playing Thisbe. 1973. The Soldier's Tale, as the devil. 1984. As TV actor
Although his primary interest continued to be the stage, he also undertook supporting roles in several TV series.Since supporting roles are sometimes uncredited, the following list may be incomplete:

 Martin Kane, Private Eye, unidentified episode, 1949. NBC TV. The Silver Theatre, as a snooper in “Till Death Do Us Part”, 1949. CBS TV. Armstrong Circle Theatre, as a clerk in “The Jackpot”, season 1, episode 2, 13 June 1950. NBC TV. The Magic Cottage, as Father Time, 28 December 1950 and an unidentified 1954 episode.Unfortunately, most episodes have apparently been lost, along with the credits. DuMont TV. The Aldrich Family, as George Bigelow, occasional unidentified episodes, 1952–53. NBC TV. Broadway Television Theatre, as Kiwi in The Hasty Heart, season 3 episode 4, November 1953; as Scooper in Janie, season 3 episode 5, November 1953; as Leo Davis in Room Service, season 3 episode 14, January 1954. WOR-TV (New York City). Valiant Lady, unidentified episodes, 1953–1957.CBS TV. The Ed Sullivan Show, scene from Fragile Fox, November 7, 1954. CBS TV. Search for Tomorrow unidentified episodes. CBS TV. As voice actor
<mask> majored in Radio Production at New York University and an early venture in voiceover performance was in 1950, in the NBC radio show Top Secret. To provide an income more stable than that from stage acting he took on more voiceover work in the 1950s with television commercials.In 1957 Gene Deitch invited him to work at Terrytoons, voicing all the characters for the innovative cliffhanger cartoon series Tom Terrific, including Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog


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 and memorable baddie Crabby Appleton. He continued to be involved in Terrytoon cartoons and cartoon series and he also took on projects with other studios. In 1999, at the age of 75, <mask> landed the role of Eustace Bagge, the main antagonist on the Cartoon Network animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog, and he reprised that role in the Cartoon Network's Staylongers series in the summer of 2000. In 2001, having completed 33 Courage episodes, <mask> retired because of illness and was replaced by Arthur Anderson. Here is a more comprehensive list of <mask>'s voiceover credits:

 Top Secret (NBC Radio, 1950), voicing Admiral Strassner voicing Karen Gaza in “The Admiral's Strange Identity”. Tom Terrific series (Terrytoons, 1957) voicing all characters. The series consisted of 26 storylines, each of which had five 5-minute episodes.John Doormat series  of four episodes (Terrytoons, 1957–58), voicing John Doormat and his wife. A Bum Steer (Terrytoons, 1957) voicing unidentified characters. Clint Clobber Theatrical Series (Terrytoons, 1957–59) voicing Miss O'Leery, radio announcer, and dog in the episodes Clint Clobber's Cat,  Springtime for Clobber, and The Flamboyant Arms. Gaston le Crayon (Terrytoons, 1959) voicing unidentified characters in "Gaston's Baby". Sidney the Elephant series of 19 episodes (Terrytoons, 1958–63), one of which, Sidney's Family Tree, was nominated for an Academy Award as best short subject in 1958. Deputy Dawg (Terrytoons, 1959–1972) as voice of Vincent Van Gopher and Possible Possum in unidentified episodes. Many Moons (Rembrandt Films, 1962), voicing Jester, Royal Mathematician, and Royal Wizard.This animated cartoon was later used as one segment of the 1965 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris. The Hector Heathcote Show

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 others. The Season of Our Joy (Board of Jewish Education, 1982), script by <mask>, narration not credited. Braingames, ((HBO, 1983–1985) narrating Odd Card Out / Safari Solitaire and Mysteriosos / The Riddler in the six episodes. Star Blazers (Claster Television, 1984), the English adaptation of the Japanese anime series Space Battleship Yamato, dubbing the voice of Jason Jetter in episodes 53-77. The Secret of Mulan (United American Video, 1998) feature cartoon, voicing unidentified characters.Courage the Cowardly Dog (Cartoon Network, 1999–2001), voicing Eustace Bagge  in 33 episodes, each comprising two segments. Staylongers series (Cartoon Network, summer 2000), voicing Eustace Bagge. A Filmography in International Movie Database (at ) as of 26 October 2018 lists a few additional voiceover credits but does not indicate the source of the information. As audiobook narrator
In between his other activities, he narrated or helped narrate over 100 children's audiobooks. As author
<mask> wrote a dozen books for children, the scripts for several of his audiobooks such as the Clifford series, and authored or co-authored the plays Pocket Full O'Rye (with Stanley Schacter), Simon Says (with Fred Ebb),  Oh Where Have You Been, Billy Boy (with Lawrence N. Kasha), Come And Be Killed, and The Mischief on Merry Mountain. Death
<mask> died of pneumonia on April 30, 2003, at the age of 79. Citations

General references

 (<mask>'s autobiography, completed in 1999 and published posthumously)

External links

<mask> at Behind the Voice Actors
<mask> at Voice Chasers

1924 births
2003 deaths
American male voice actors
20th-century American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Writers from New York City
Audiobook narrators
Deaths from pneumonia in New York

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was the 62nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. <mask>'s reign spanned the years from 946 to his death in 967. Biography
Before he ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (imina) was Nariakira-shinnō (成明親王). Nariakira-shinnō was the 14th son of Emperor Daigo, and the younger brother of Emperor Suzaku by another mother. <mask> had ten Empresses and Imperial consorts and 19 Imperial sons and daughters. Events of  <mask>'s reign
In 944, he was appointed crown prince and ascended the throne two years later. 16 May 946 (Tengyō 9, 13th day of the 4th month):  In the 16th year of the reign of Emperor Suzaku (朱雀天皇十六年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (the senso) was received by his younger brother, Nariakira-shinnō.31 May 946 (Tengyō 9, 28th day of the 4th month): Shortly thereafter, Emperor <mask>, who was 21 years old, acceded to the throne (the sokui). <mask>'s maternal uncle Fujiwara no Tadahira remained as the Sessho regent until 949. After the death of Tadahira, there was no regent and although contemporaries praised Murakami as the emperor who governed the state directly, in reality the Fujiwara clan seized power and ruled Japan. The brothers Fujiwara no Saneyori and Fujiwara no Morosuke became the de facto rulers of Japan. 23 October 949 (Tenryaku 3, 29th day of the 9th month):  The

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 is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During <mask>'s reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:
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 Tadahira (藤原忠平), 880–949. Daijō-daijin, Fujiwara no Tadahira (藤原忠平). Sadaijin, Ono-no Miya Fujiwara no Saneyori (藤原実頼), 900–970. Udaijin, Fujiwara no Saneyori (藤原実頼).Udaijin, Fujiwara no Morosuke (藤原師輔), 908–960. Udaijin, Fujiwara no Akitada　(藤原顕忠). Udaijin, Minamoto no Taka-akira　(源高明). Nadaijin
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Eras of <mask>'s reign
The years of murakami's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
 Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou,  Annales des empereurs du Japon.Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. See also
 Emperor of Japan
 List of Emperors of Japan
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<mask> (; born 1 December 1985) is a Polish professional tennis player. On 9 June 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 636. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 23 in the doubles rankings. <mask> has won nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour in her career (in Cachantún with Līga Dekmeijere, in Marbella with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, in Budapest with Anabel Medina Garrigues, in Monterrey with Gabriela Dabrowski, in Bastad with Andreea Mitu, in St. Petersburg with Jeļena Ostapenko, again in Monterrey with Nao Hibino, in Nottingham with Abigail Spears and in Charleston with Anna-Lena Grönefeld), as well as 14 doubles titles on the Circuit. She represented Poland at Fed Cup and both 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, in the women's doubles again with Jans-Ignacik.Personal life
Her sister, Aleksandra <mask>, is also a tennis player. Professional career

2004–07: First WTA doubles final, Grand Slam debut
In August 2004, she played her first WTA final in doubles event at the Orange Warsaw Open in Sopot. Alongside Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, she lost to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Marta Marrero. During the season of 2005, she played two WTA finals but failed to win the trophy in both of them. First, she played final of the Tier II Warsaw Open in April 2005. She then, in July, played at the Palermo Open. She lost both finals alongside Jans.At the 2005 Zurich Open, she made her Tier I debut but lost in the first round. At the 2007 Australian Open, she made her Grand Slam debut. Partnering with Vasilisa Bardina, she lost in the second round. Later, she reached second round

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 of the French Open and US Open as well. 2008–09: First WTA doubles title, Olympics debut
In February 2008, she won her first WTA doubles title at the Cachantún Cup. It was her first final that she not played alongside Jans. Alongside Līga Dekmeijere, she defeated Mariya Koryttseva and Julia Schruff in the straight-sets.In August, she made her debut at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. She played only in doubles event, where alongside Jans, she lost in the first round to Lindsay Davenport and Liezel Huber. At the 2008 US Open, she reached Grand Slam third round for the first time. Start of the season of 2009 was promising due to final in the first week at the Brisbane International. She returned to play alongside Jans but she lost to Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Vania King. In April, she won title at the Andalucia Tennis Experience as her first title with Jans. In October, she reached another WTA final at the Linz Open but finished as a runner-up.2010–11: Three Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinals, second WTA doubles title
In the first four months of 2010, <mask> advanced to three semifinal. Right after that she reached her first Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal at the Italian Open. By the end of the year, she reached four more semifinals. <mask> was successful during the first two weeks in 2011. She started season with the final of the Brisbane International (her second there), followed up then with semifinal of the Sydney International. In March, she reached her second career Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal, this time at the Indian Wells Open. Prior to French Open, she

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 played final of the Brussels Open alongside Jans but lost after three set match against Andrea Hlaváčková and Galina Voskoboeva.Right after Wimbledon, she won title at the Budapest Grand Prix, partnering with Anabel Medina Garrigues. Later, at the Canadian Open, she played another Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal. 2012–14: New Premier 5/Mandatory QF, completing Grand Slam 3R

At the 2012 Australian Open, she played her first third round there. That was her second one at the Grand Slams. Two weeks later, she reached semifinal of the Premier Open GdF Suez but then withdraw alongside Monica Niculescu. Week before French Open, she advanced to final of the Premier Brussels Open. For the second time in-a-row she failed to lift the trophy.In August, she played at the London Olympics. Partnering with Jans, she lost to Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova. At the Tournoi de Quebec carpet tournament, she played final but lost after three sets. At the China Open, she reached another Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal. First half ot the 2013 was marks with a lost of losing in the either first or second rounds. In late May, she reached semifinal of the Premier Brussels Open, for the third year in-a-row. At the French Open, she reached third round as her first one there and third Grand Slam in total.At the Canadian Open, she advanced to the another Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal. She finished year with the Linz Open final and semifinal of the Premier Kremlin Cup. Despite the weak performances in 2014, <mask> reached the third round of the US Open, completing third round of all


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 four Grand Slam events. Another big result during that year was the semifinal of the Linz Open. 2015–17: Four more WTA doubles titles, Elite Trophy debut
In March 2015, she won title at the Monterrey Open alongside Gabriela Dabrowski. She continued with reaching quarterfinals of the Premier 5/Mandatory tournaments at the Italian Open and later at the Wuhan Open. For the first time, she played at the WTA Elite Trophy alongside Dabrowski.However, they lost both round-robin matches. In late July 2016, she won title at the Bastad Open, partnering with Andreea Mitu. At the 2017 St. Petersburg Trophy, she won her first Premier-level title alongside Jeļena Ostapenko. In April, she won another WTA title at the Monterrey Open alongside Nao Hibino. At the Wuhan Open, she reached new Premier 5/Mandatory quarterfinal. For the second time, she qualified for the WTA Elite Trophy. This time she played alongside Anna Smith, but lost again both round-robin matches.2018–19: Wimbledon SF, first win at the Elite Trophy
In 2018, her first significant performance was at the Premier Dubai Championships where she reached semifinal. Two weeks later, she reached semifinal of the Ladies Open Lugano. At the Madrid Open, she reached quarterfinals. Her grass-court season was successful. She started with the title at the Nottingham Open as her first grass title. At Wimbledon, she reached her first significant Grand Slam result, reaching semifinals. Partnering with Abigail Spears, she lost to eventual champions Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková.She also reached semifinals at the


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 Premier Connecticut Open and quarterfinal of the Premier Mandatory China Open. At the WTA Elite Trophy, she played alongside Mihaela Buzărnescu and won first match in the round-robin stage but then lost to the following one. In January 2019, she advanced to the final of the Premier Sydney International. In April, she won the title of the green clay Premier Charleston Open. On her way to the trophy, alongside Grönefeld, she won all matches in the straight-sets. At the WTA Elite Trophy, she lost both matches in the round-robin stage alongside Darija Jurak. 2020–22: Weeker performances
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19, <mask> lost in the first round alongside Magda Linette to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jessica Pegula.In January 2022, she reached the semifinals of the Adelaide International 2. Performance timeline

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records. Doubles
Current after the 2022 Qatar Total Open. Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles: 1 runner-up

WTA career finals

Doubles: 22 (9 titles, 13 runner-ups)

ITF finals

Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner–ups)

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<mask>. (born March 10, 1947) is an American journalist and author. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was a columnist. <mask> has written books on subjects including Michael Jordan, Alice Cooper, and U.S. presidents. His book Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller. Early life
Originally from Bexley, Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), <mask> attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and became a reporter and feature writer for the Chicago Sun-Times upon graduating in 1969, receiving a regular column in the paper within two years. <mask> first drew significant national attention with his book Billion Dollar Baby (1974), a diary of his experiences while touring with rock musician Alice Cooper and portraying Santa Claus during the show. Newspaper column
<mask>'s primary focus remained his newspaper column, for which he won the National Headliner Award for best column in 1977 from an American journalism group.Shortly afterward, <mask> was hired by Chicago Tribune and began making occasional guest appearances on local television, eventually landing a commentary slot on the ABC news program Nightline. He also wrote the "American Beat" column in Esquire. In January 1980, <mask> assisted Los Angeles Police in apprehending a man who had allegedly written letters to <mask> as well as to police threatening to go on a killing spree. At that time <mask>'s column appeared in approximately 120 newspapers, including one in the Los Angeles community of Huntington Park where the letter writer lived. In the first week of January, <mask> traveled to Los Angeles at the request of police. Through the use of his column, <mask> gave out a phone number to his hotel room that the letter writer, who identified himself in letters as

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In September 2002 <mask> was forced to resign from his newspaper column after admitting to an unconsummated extramarital sexual relationship 14 years earlier with a high school student.The student had visited <mask> at work for a school project and became the subject of one of his columns. Admission of the affair attracted considerable attention. Reports at the time stated that the woman had reached out to <mask> and that he was alarmed enough by whatever she said to contact the FBI, which looked into the matter at a pre-investigative level and did not take any action afterwards. When the news broke, <mask> had meetings with his bosses at the Tribune (he said later he was ordered not to bring a lawyer to one of them, with the Tribune stating they never said that) and offered to resign. He was surprised when the Tribune told him his resignation was accepted, and the paper publicly stated that he had been dismissed for "abusing his position for his own benefit" but did not provide details at that point. The full story, that he was basically told to leave and did so on non-criminal grounds, did not emerge fully until months later. The woman with whom <mask> had a relationship was 17, legal age in Illinois, and had graduated from high school in the months between their first meeting and his invitation to take her out to dinner.Their sole hotel tryst was described in the Chicago Tribune as a "sexual encounter that stopped short of intercourse," and <mask> told Esquire that he demurred at going further, telling

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<mask> did not return to newspaper or magazine journalism. He continues to write books and is a contributing writer to CNN.com. His 2006 book, And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship, is a personal account of the illness and death of his lifelong friend Jack Roth at age 57. Publishers Weekly reviewed it as follows:

Bestselling author <mask>... looks back on his youth in Bexley, Ohio (pop. 13,000), where he and his four pals grew up together, calling themselves ABCDJ (for Allen, <mask>, Chuck, Dan and Jack)... <mask> met Jack in kindergarten, and they remained best friends for life.Remembering people and places they shared, the two revisit old haunts, discovering that their beloved Toddle House, where they once went for late-night chocolate pie, is now a Pizza Plus. <mask>'s repetitive, rambling free associations recall everything from his Halloween costume and old songs to ice cream parlors, state fairs and clothing fads. Unfortunately, the author's dusty attic of lost Americana is cluttered with clichés, nostalgia and overly sentimental yearnings. His next book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, was released on May 13, 2008. It is a chronicle of a 15-year period when he intermittently toured with surf-rock musicians Jan and Dean, singing backup and playing guitar. His latest book, Late Edition: A Love Story was released on July 7, 2009. In it, he wistfully chronicles  his days as a copyboy and other apprentice positions at the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the

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In 1977, <mask> won the National Headliner Award for writing the previous year's best column. In 1995, <mask> was named Illinois Journalist of the Year. In the same year he was awarded the Peter Lisagor Award for Public Service Journalism for his reporting on courts failing children in need. Personal life

<mask> has two children with Susan Koebel <mask>. Bibliography
Late Edition: A Love Story (St. Martin's Press, 2009)
When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams (St. Martin's Press, 2008)
And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship (William Morrow, 2006)
Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents (Crown, 2004) (interviews with ex-presidents)
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen (William Morrow, 2002)
Duty: A Father, His Son, And The Man Who Won The War (William Morrow, 2000) (half about his relationship with his father, half on Paul W. Tibbets)
Notes on the Kitchen Table: Families Offer Messages of Hope for Generations to Come (Doubleday, 1998) (co-authored with his sister, D.G. Fulford)
The 50-Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles, and Fears of Being Half-a-Century Old (Doubleday, 1997)
Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights (Viking, 1997) (collection of columns)
Rebound: The Odyssey of Michael Jordan (Viking, 1995)
To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come (Doubleday, 1993) (co-authored with his sister, D.G. ", CNN Reliable Sources, September 21, 2002

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<mask> (9 April 1832 – 22 October 1916), was a 19th-century Australian breeder and jockey of Thoroughbred racehorses, De Mestre, was Australia's first outstanding racehorse trainer and racing identity. In his 30-year career he experienced all the highs and the lows of the turf in a career which ended with him dependent on donations from racing friends. With the five wins <mask>re achieved in the Cup's first 18 years, he held the record for training the most Melbourne Cup winners for nearly 100 years. De Mestre won the first two Melbourne Cups with Archer in 1861 and 1862, and later trained a further three winners: Tim Whiffler (1867); Chester (1877); and Calamia (1878). He set a training record for Melbourne Cup winners which was finally broken by Bart Cummings in 1977. De Mestre also trained many other feature race winners including two AJC and two VRC Derbies and an Epsom Handicap. In recognition of his outstanding achievements, <mask> was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame part of the Australian Racing Museum on 12 September 1992.In the racing industry one could best describe <mask> <mask> as the "Bart Cummings" (the greatest of all Australian Racehorse trainers) of the 19th century. Early life
<mask> was born in George Street, Sydney on 9 April 1832 in his parents' home, on the same block of land backing onto the Tank Stream that his mother had been born 30 years earlier. He was the third and youngest son of the Frenchman Prosper <mask>, a Sydney merchant, and Sydney-born Mary Ann Black and grandson of privateer John Black. His career was a series of triumphs with a long succession of champion horses passing through his hands. Many of these he bred himself, and many others such as Archer, Tim Whiffler, Chester, Yattendon, Plant and "Veno" he trained, and even sometimes rode. De Mestre's association with George Taylor Rowe (1822–1859) of Liverpool, England, the owner of the celebrated Veno, and the father of the little girl who was to grow up and one day to be his wife; and with his good

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 school-friend Thomas John "Tom" Roberts (1831–1899) of Jembaicumbene near Braidwood, one of the owners of many champion horses including Mariner, Sailor, Archer, and Tim Whiffler, was at the forefront of a wonderful career of thirty years. He occupied a leading place among the racing celebrities of Australia and was the first national sportsman to represent the Shoalhaven district where he lived.As a school boy <mask> loved thoroughbred horse racing, and developed into an excellent horseman, amateur jockey, and trainer. De Mestre spent his school holidays racing and working with the thoroughbred horses on his school-friend Thomas John "Tom" Roberts' "Exeter Farm" at Jembaicumbene. It has been said that in 1847, at the age of 15, and just three years after his father's death, he won the main event at Bathurst on his favourite Roberts' horse Sweetheart. There is no newspaper support to sustain this story. It is possible that he was at the Goulburn races as a spectator after having ridden there with Tom. De Mestre later leased and trained Nancy, a foal of Sweetheart. He raced Nancy at Numba in 1856 and 1857.Family
In about 1850 <mask>'s first child Helen "Ellen<mask> <mask> (c.1850-1934) was born in the vicinity of Jembaicumbene near Braidwood when he was only about 18. Ellen's mother was the Aboriginal girl <mask>. One of Ellen's grandchildren Guboo Ted Thomas (1909–2002), who was born under a gum-tree at Jembaicumbene, became a prominent Aboriginal leader, and the last initiated tribal elder on the South Coast of New South Wales; and one of her great grand children <mask> Hornsby (1947- ) was born in Brisbane to "Ellen" <mask>re's grand daughter Gladys. <mask> Hornsby came to prominence as an urbanized contemporary Aboriginal artist combining Aboriginal dot painting with visions of contemporary Australian life and landscapes. Early career
In the early 1850s <mask>re went into partnership with his elder brother Andre Cotteral <mask> (1823–1917) and leased a section of the "Terara" (near the mouth of the

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 Shoalhaven River) from their mother. There they established a horse stud, stable and racecourse where unofficial races were held and which was said to be the finest training track in the colony. After inheriting "Terara" on their mother's death in 1861 they converted the rest of the farm into the best training and breeding establishment outside Sydney.In 1857 <mask> <mask>re rode George Taylor Rowe's horse Plant to victory in the Liverpool Club's Members Plate. George Taylor Rowe's horse Veno had already been sent from Sydney to Melbourne by steamship. After the Liverpool meeting <mask>re steamed to Melbourne with George Taylor Rowe to assist in the training preparation of Veno for the first inter-colonial Champion Challenge race between the champions of New South Wales and Victoria at Flemington. Veno won against the Victorian champion in front of 20,000 spectators. <mask> became recognised as a master trainer, coming to prominence after leasing, training, and successfully racing Rowland Hassall & Tom Roberts' "Exeter Farm" bred colts Mariner and Sailor from 1857 to 1859. This made him an overnight success as a trainer, with owners throughout the area keen to send him their best horses. Melbourne Cup
In 1861 De Mestre first sent horses of his own from Sydney to Melbourne by steamship.He sent three horses to run in the inaugural Melbourne Cup. His prowess as a trainer was significantly boosted by winning the Cup with one of these horses, Archer, a horse that he leased from Hassall & Roberts and raced in his own name. Archer raced again the next day to win another 2-mile long distance race, the Melbourne Town Plate. The next year, after Archer had won the 1862 AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Randwick, Sydney, <mask>re again shipped horses including Archer to Melbourne to race in the Melbourne Cup. Archer won his second Melbourne Cup by 10 lengths. Winning the Melbourne Cup twice was a feat not repeated until more than seventy years later when Peter Pan won the race in 1932 and 1934, and winning the

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On 27 December 1873, aged 41, <mask> <mask>re married 21-year-old Clara Eliza Rowe (1852–1934), daughter of George Taylor Rowe (1822–1859), at St Matthias's Church, Paddington. Twenty years older than Clara, Etienne had known her since she was a young child and watched her grow up. Together they had eleven children, 10 of whom survived infancy.Their youngest son, <mask> Maistre (1894–1968),

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 from a carnival. In 1882, the first year bookmakers were licensed at Flemington, he tried to recoup some of his gambling losses by betting on two of his horses for a VRC Derby-Melbourne Cup double in what is reputed to be the largest single bet ever placed in the Colonies up to that time.After winning the first leg of the bet with Navigator, he scratched this same horse from the Cup as he felt that his other horse Sweet William would be the winner. Injury prior to the race placed Sweet William in 5th place, and <mask>re lost his gamble. Later years
De Mestre encountered many financial and health problems in the early 1880s and at the age of 51, in 1883, his inherited property of "Terara" was auctioned off to pay his debts, and the all-black livery of the Terara stable disappeared from the colonial racing world. Although most successful as owner and trainer, De Mestre had been persuaded to invest heavily in Queensland property and it was here that he ran into trouble. A severe drought in Queensland, and also on the Shoalhaven, broke him financially. Finally he sold up, and when his health began to fail, friends organised a benefit race meeting for him. It was extremely successful and the proceeds enabled him to live quietly yet comfortably until his death.Death
He died at "Garryowen" at Moss Vale on 22 October 1916 at the age of 84, and was buried in the Church of England cemetery at Bong Bong, New South Wales. Sporting Achievements

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References
 The Masters Touch, Racing with <mask> <mask>, Winner of 5 Melbourne Cups by Keith W. Paterson, Published by Keith W. Paterson [Nowra] (2008) ()
D. R. Hainsworth, '<mask>, <mask> <mask>e (1832 - 1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1967, pp 42–43. Australian Racing Museum - E de Mestre
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<mask> (born September 2, 1954) is an American playwright and Professor (Adjunct) of English and Theater & Performance Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends. Background and education
<mask> attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Purchase College where he received a BFA in Visual Arts. <mask> lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a professor of English and Theatre & Performance Studies at Yale University. <mask>' notable works include The Country House (2014), Time Stands Still (2009) and Brooklyn Boy (2004). Sight Unseen and Collected Stories were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1992, and 1997, respectively; Dinner with Friends was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.<mask> said of Sight Unseen, "It's about loss, like most of my plays, and about identity." Ben Brantley noted themes in his works: "The central motifs in Brooklyn Boy have always been visible in Mr. <mask>'s work, from the willed amnesia of the self-invented artist (Sight Unseen) to the hazy lines between fiction and reality (Collected Stories). And Eric's fractious, divided family, summoned in recollection in Brooklyn Boy, has been anticipated in The Loman Family Picnic and What's Wrong With This Picture? Long Lost
The play was developed in connection with the Nashville Repertory Theatre Ingram New Works Festival. The unfinished play was given a reading in May 2015 at the Festival. The play focuses on a "long-overdue reunion between two

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The play takes place in the Berkshires, where Anna, an actress, is appearing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is entertaining her son, a failed actor, Elliot; a handsome famous actor, Michael; her son-in-law, Walter, who was married to her deceased daughter, and his girlfriend/fiancé, Nell and his daughter Susie. The Country House opened on Broadway on October 2, 2014, at the Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It was a co-production with the Geffen Playhouse, where it had its world premiere on June 11, 2014, directed by Daniel Sullivan and starred Blythe Danner ("Anna"), Eric Lange, David Rasche and Sarah Steele; Scott Foley and Emily Swallow originated roles played on Broadway by Daniel Sunjata and Kate Jennings Grant. It won the 2014 L.A. Ovation Award for Best Play (Large Theatre) and was selected an Applause Books Best Play of 2013–14. Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still opened on Broadway on January 28, 2010, at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman Theatre for a limited engagement.It resumed performances on September 23, 2010, at the Cort Theatre, where it ran until January 30, 2011; between its two runs, it played a total of 24 previews and 193 performances. It starred Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone (later succeeded at


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 the Cort by Christina Ricci), and was directed by Daniel Sullivan. The play was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Play and was a Burns Mantle Best Play of 2009–2010. Linney was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Time Stands Still had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles) in February 2009 which had commissioned it. Directed by Sullivan, the Geffen premiere featured Silverstone, Anna Gunn, David Harbour and Robin Thomas. Its European premiere took place in Stockholm in 2009.Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
The play, set in the 19th Century, focuses on "Louis de Rougemont" who was shipwrecked on a Coral Sea Island and lived with Australian aborigines, or so he tells his listeners in England. The play made its world premiere in the September 2007 Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, where it starred Gregory Itzin and was directed by Bart DeLorenzo. The play went on to productions at the Geffen Playhouse, where it again was directed by DeLorenzo and starred Itzin and Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, directed by Evan Cabnet in February 2008. The play opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages, directed by Lisa Peterson, running from February 8, 2009 to March 7, 2009. Michael Countryman appeared in the Long Wharf and Off-Broadway productions. It received the 2009 Outer Critics' Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Play.Brooklyn Boy
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Dinner with Friends, which received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville (Kentucky), where it had its world premiere at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays. A revised version was produced in October 1998 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. The play opened Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theatre in November 1999, where it played 654 performances. In addition to the Pulitzer, Dinner with Friends received an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Citation, The Dramatists' Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Play and was selected a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1999–2000.It went on to have a long run in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Élysées, and productions in  London, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Tokyo, Mumbai, Seoul, Tel Aviv and Istanbul. In 2002 it was an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO. Collected Stories

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 the play's Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theatre, running from May 6, 2004 (previews) to July 25, 2004. The cast featured  Ben Shenkman, Byron Jennings and Ana Reeder, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Linney received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.The play was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Loman Family Picnic
The Loman Family Picnic was first produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) at City Center Stage II, from June 6, 1989 to July 2, 1989, with Marcia Jean Kurtz and Larry Block, directed by Barnet Kellman.<ref>[http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=1763 "The Loman Family Picnic' 1989" ]  lortel.org, accessed November 3, 2015</ref> The MTC revival ran from October 28, 1993 to January 9, 1994 at New York City Center Stage I. Directed by Lynne Meadow, the cast featured  Christine Baranski and Peter Friedman, The play was nominated for the 1994-95 Drama Desk Award, Best Revival of a Play and was a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1988–1989. The Model Apartment
Lola and Max are in their 60s and are Holocaust survivors. They have moved from Brooklyn to a condominium in Florida. Debby is their overweight and messy daughter, late 30s. Neil is 15, a black young man who is Debby's boyfriend.The Model Apartment premiered at Los Angeles Theatre Center in November 1988, directed by Roberta Levitow featuring Chloe Webb as "Debby", Milton Selzer and Erica Yohn as her parents and Zero Hubbard.The play opened Off-Broadway at Primary Stages, running from October 11, 1995 to November 12, 1995. Directed by Lisa Peterson, the


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 cast featured Lynn Cohen (Lola), Akili Prince, Paul Stolarsky and Roberta Wallach. <mask> won the 1995-96 OBIE Award for Playwriting, and the play was a 1995-96 Drama Desk nominee for Best Play and a Dramatists' Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist. The play was revived Off-Broadway by Primary Stages, from September 24, 2013 (previews), officially on October 15. Directed by Evan Cabnet, the cast featured Mark Blum, Diane Davis and Kathryn Grody. It was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play, Diane Davis and Outstanding Revival) and for two 2014 Drama Desk Awards (Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Diane Davis). What's Wrong with This Picture?Shirley, a Jewish housewife and mother from Brooklyn, returns from the dead to reconcile with her family. Her husband Mort is grieving and teen son Artie can't forgive her for leaving him.What's Wrong with This Picture? was first produced Off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club Stage 73, from January 29, 1985
to February 23, 1985, directed by Claudia Weill and starring Madeline Kahn as Shirley. It was next produced Off-Broadway by the Jewish Repertory Theatre from June 9, 1990 to August 5, 1990, directed by Larry Arrick. The play ran on Broadway at the  Brooks Atkinson Theatre from November 15, 1994 in previews, officially on December 8, 1994 and closed on December 18, 1994. Directed by Joe Mantello, the cast featured Faith Prince, Alan Rosenberg, Jerry Stiller, and David Moscow. Found a Peanut Found a Peanut was first produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival