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In early-1997, McDevitt began wrestling for Philadelphia's Extreme Championship Wrestling.He made his debut for the promotion wrestling Spike Dudley in back-to-back appearances in Hamburg and Downingtown, Pennsylvania from February 8–9, 1997. On March 1, at an ECW house show held in Scranton, McDevitt wrestled Sabu at the Catholic Youth Center in front of 1,590 fans. The following night, this time for an MEWF event, he faced Big Stevie Cool of The Blue World Order in Baltimore. He similarly faced Chris Candido in his home promotion several days later and, a few years afterwards met Candido again in Doug


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McDevitt continued to face ECW stars even after his eventual return to the MEWF. In March 1997, Miss Patricia became McDevitt's manager.On June 1, 1997, he wrestled a four-way match in Dundalk, Maryland against Axl Rotten, New Jack, and The Sandman. He soon began tagging with Mark "The Shark" Shrader and, on July 17, 1997, they defeated MEWF Tag Team Champions The Wiseguys (Steve Corino and Jimmy Cicero) for the titles but lost them back to The Wiseguys the next month. The team made one more attempt to recapture the tag team titles, in a three-way dance with the champions on October 23, 1997, but both teams ended up losing to the Badstreet Boys (Joey Matthews and Christian York). Weeks later, McDevitt wrestled Salvatore Sincere for the vacant MEWF Heavyweight Championship in Keyser, West Virginia but failed to defeat the WWF superstar; the match was not billed as a heavyweight title bout. By the late-1990s, McDevitt had established himself as a "rough and tough rulebreaker" on East Coast independents, and later, throughout the continental United States. His in-ring persona, as the facepaint-clad "Corporal


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In the spring of 1998, McDevitt and then partner Mark Shrader decided to leave the MEWF following unresolved creative control and salary disagreements with the promotion's management. He and Shrader had started their own wrestling school, the "Bone Breakers Pro Wrestling Training Center" in Halethorpe, Maryland, the previous year and, with the encouragement of other indy wrestlers, decided open Maryland Championship Wrestling as an extension of the "Bone Breakers" facility. Among its most prominent students were Orlando Jordan and Florida Championship Wrestling star Calvin Raines; WWE's Mickie James and Lita would also train at the facility. Over half the active MEWF roster jumped to


texts: their new promotion, including its then booker Axl Rotten, and, on July 19, 1998, MCW's first show was held at Baltimore's Patapsco Arena and attended by nearly 1,200 fans. The event featured manager Jim Cornette, Little Guido, Balls Mahoney, Jerry Lynn, Crowbar, and The Headbangers.The show's success and broke the longstanding monopoly over Maryland pro wrestling by the MEWF and would eventually lead to MCW becoming the top promotion in the region. As "Corporal Punishment", McDevitt was involved in two major events in the promotions history. On August 16, he and Axl Rotten joined The Headbangers (Mosh & Thrasher) in an 8-man tag team match against Jimmy Cicero, Julio Sanchez and The Pitbulls (Pitbull #1 and Pitbull #2) to crown the first MCW Tag Team Champions, which The Headbangers won. Two months later, he entered a championship tournament for the MCW Heavyweight Championship and advanced to the finals where he lost to Romeo Valentino. Near the end of the year, while competing for Unified Championship Wrestling in Alabama and Louisiana, he beat Stevie Richards for the promotion's heavyweight title in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. This would set off a short-lived but intense feud between the two men which would continue in MCW. McDevitt and Shrader used their connections to continue bringing in then current stars from World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation, such as McDevitt's long-time friendship with Cornette, as well as ECW talent, via Axl Rotten, which had formerly appeared for the MEWF.Over the next year, veterans such


texts: as Ricky Steamboat, Ricky Morton, Bobby Eaton, Tito Santana, The Iron Sheik, Sherri Martel, The Road Warriors, King Kong Bundy, and Jerry "The King" Lawler appeared on MCW shows. One of their most successful shows, however, was headlined by TV celebrity Steve Wilkos of the Jerry Springer Show set a new attendance record for MCW's home arena, Michael's Eighth Avenue ballroom, with nearly 2,000 fans. MCW would go on to produce over 100 events featuring some of the top independent wrestlers in the country during the next five years. By 1999, he had switched from a primarily singles competitor to a tag team wrestler. During the year, he would form notable teams with Terry Funk, The Iron Sheik, Axl Rotten, and the Headbangers. The running of MCW, particularly during its first few years, took up much of McDevitt's time and saw far less of him as an active wrestler. Despite this, he was voted "Most Hated Wrestler of the Year" by its fans that year.On July 19, 2000, he entered the 2nd annual Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup but was eliminated by Chip Bowman in the opening rounds. In October 2000, McDevitt appeared before the Maryland State Athletic Commission, then attempting to shut down backyard wrestling in the state, claimed to be aware of "at least 20 unsanctioned backyard-type federations statewide". On July 18, 2001, at MCW's 3rd annual Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup, McDevitt joined Jimmy Cicero and Kelly Bell in a 6-man tag team match against Brian Christopher, Adam Flash, and The Bruiser. He later faced The Bruiser in an "I Quit" match at the Ft.


texts: Meade Army Base on September 15, 2001. A later meeting between the two was featured by RF Video's "Best of the Bloody Indy Matches, Vol. 1". When MEWF veteran Dave Casanova died following a heart attack on March 1, 2002, then MEWF promoter Donna Burke began organizing a memorial show in his honor.Out of friendship for their late friend, McDevitt and Shrader agreed to the MCW's participation as an interpromotional event. The Casanova memorial show marked was the first time that wrestlers from either promotion appeared in the same ring together since the 1997 split. It was around this time that former "Bone Breakers" student Derek Wayne began heavily investing in the MEWF and became a third co-owner. Wayne was able to broker a deal between McDevitt and MEWF owner Tim Burke to begin working together. Starting in October 2002, a storyline invasion took place between the two companies for the next seven months. It received a somewhat mixed reaction from fans and was brought to an end with MCW's close the following summer. The promotion held its final show, "The Last Dance: Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup", on July 16, 2003 at Michael's Eighth Avenue ballroom, in which over 1,000 fans were in attendance.At the event, it was announced that MCW would be "merging" the MEWF. He and Jeff Jones subsequently served as bookers for the promotion, however, McDevitt left after only a few months. On October 16, 2003, shortly after MCW's close, McDevitt appeared for Ring of Honor's debut show at Michael's Eighth Avenue where he endorsed the promotion and announced ROH


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Following the close of MCW, McDevitt decided to limit his involvement in pro wrestling to concentrate on starting his career as a real estate agent. His decision was partially motivated by his then recent engagement to Kimerly, better known as MCW valet "Candie". He did, however, continue to hold occasional events at Fort Meade under the "Fort Meade Wrestling" banner. It was at one of these events, in October 2005, that McDevitt had Adam Flash removed from the facility by military police.McDevitt would often use this venue during the MCW years as the Maryland State Athletic Commission, which issued heavy fines for hardcore wrestling, had no jurisdiction on federal property. In April 2005, after a three-year engagement, McDevitt and Payne were married at the old MCW Arena, Michael's Eighth Avenue, in Glen Burnie, Maryland. It was a wrestling-themed wedding with the ceremony taking place inside of a wrestling ring and the priest dressed as a referee. The wedding gained particular notoriety for the appearance of The Iron Sheik, who was among the many wrestling personalities in attendance, by causing a disruption during the Best man's speech to the couple. McDevitt described the incident years later in an interview with Christopher Porter of ExpressNightOut.com:

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After a two-year absence, McDevitt publicly announced his decision to reopen Maryland Championship Wrestling.MCW's return show, "The Resurrection", took place on February 26, 2006, at the "new" MCW Arena at Northpoint in Dundalk, Maryland. McDevitt did not wrestle on the card but instead appeared as himself in the role of MCW's owner and formerly introduced Tara as the new MCW Commissioner. Return of Cpl. Punishment
Within a month, however, McDevitt would return to the ring in a long-running feud between himself and Adam Flash. It began at MCW's second show when a "fan" jumped the guardrail while McDevitt was informing the audience of the promotion's upcoming shows. This fan was later revealed to be Flash and was escorted from the building by security while McDevitt had to be carried to the back. Their confrontations referenced alleged real-life animosity between the two in what was essentially a "worked shoot".Flash returned to MCW at Shamrock Cup VI and provoked McDevitt into a fight after attacking his then wife Kim McDevitt. The brawl ended up having the entire MCW locker room enter the ring to pull the two men apart and was eventually stopped by the State Athletic Commission for excessive violence. Flash defeated Julio Dinero later on in the event and used a loophole


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During the first few months of MCW's revival, Dan and Kim McDevitt began to experience trouble in their marriage, amid rumors of an extramarital affair with a fellow wrestler, with the two separating during the summer of 2006 and ultimately divorcing after only 10 months as a married couple. McDevitt later released a lengthy "shoot" video on


texts: YouTube discussing the circumstances of his divorce and Kim's confession to an affair with Zachary Shane. Both Kim and Shane would subsequently leave the promotion. McDevitt also withdrew from the day-to-day running of the company for a time.It was during this period that the "heel" stable Creative Control (Tom Brandi, The Bruiser, and Jimmy Cicero) gained a degree of creative control over the promotion, its leader Tom Brandi being allowed to dictate his own matches, would often be a source of trouble for the MCW promoter. At "Aggravated Assault", on April 21, 2007, McDevitt ordered Adam Flash to defend his title against Test due to Creative Control's interference at an MCW show a month earlier. On the May 7 "Xtreme Measures II" supercard, Creative Control continually disrupted the show. They overturned Danny Doring's title victory over Adam Flash and introduced McDevitt's ex-wife Kim Payne and Zachary Shane in their official return to MCW. Their appearance caused McDevitt to "leave the building in disgust". That spring, McDevitt also made an appearance as "Corporal Punishment" at a fundraiser for the American Wrestling Federation in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. He and his manager Judd The Stud "stole" the fundraiser money earlier in the show but were forced to return the donations after wrestling WWF legend King Kong Bundy.<mask> also appeared for a National Wrestling League show at South Hagerstown High School where he wrestled former amateur wrestler "Cocky" Rocky DiCola in his first professional wrestling match. DiCola scored a pinfall


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Another confrontation with Creative Control on April 5, 2008, at "MCW Breaking Balls & Besting Heads". A match between Adam Flash and Christian York, initially ending in a disqualification, turned into a 10-man brawl involving McDevitt and several others who came to help Flash, who has since left Creative Control, against his former stablemates. Sabu was also scheduled to headline the card, however, McDevitt claimed that the former ECW star was "having problems with his personal demons". McDevitt spent the rest of 2008 teaming with former enemy Adam Flash. MCW's "Xtreme Measures III" saw the two in an 8-man tag team match with Danny Doring and Balls Mahoney against The Bruiser,


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Since 2009, McDevitt has mainly been involved with MCW as a full-time promoter though he continues to make on-camera appearances as MCW's co-owner. He has also been employed in executive positions within the wrestling industry.In 2011, he was hired by the Urban Wrestling Federation as an agent and associate producer


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<mask> (born 18 September 1958) is a West Indian former cricketer. Domestic career
<mask> gradually established himself as a bowler, taking 5–42 against Trinidad and Tobago in the 1981/82 Shell Shield, and he was signed by Glamorgan for the 1982 English season to replace the injured Ezra Moseley. Despite sending down rather too many no-balls at times, <mask> finished the season with 42 first-class wickets and was retained for the following season. Returning to Glamorgan after World Cup, <mask> had another successful season, taking 52 wickets at 26.71 from 15 first-class matches, including three five-wicket innings hauls. 1984 was a successful season for <mask>: he took 62 first-class wickets at 27.82 apiece and was unlucky not to be retained by Glamorgan for the following season; they decided instead to employ a certain Javed Miandad. In 1985/86 <mask> played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia for Tasmania with moderate success. In 1987 he returned to English county cricket with Northamptonshire.For three years he found considerable success, taking a total of 195 wickets at 25.46; his career-best first-class bowling figures of 7-52 came in 1988 in the first innings of the County Championship game against Sussex – noteworthy also for the fact that <mask> and David Capel (3-59) bowled unchanged throughout the 32.5 overs of that innings. <mask> endured a final, less than happy, season with Northamptonshire in 1990: he averaged above 60 with the ball in both first-class and one-day cricket, and went for more than five an over in the latter form of the game. His final bowling spell for his county, in the Championship game against Essex, was a disastrous 5-0-37-0 as Graham Gooch and John Stephenson ran riot. With that, <mask> bowed out of county cricket for good, and in 1990/91 he went to play for Wellington in New Zealand. It proved a shrewd choice as <mask> took 20 first-class wickets at 19.50 in just five matches. After that, there were a couple of exhibition matches against his old county of Glamorgan in 1991, and 54 not out for a

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Early days
<mask> played his first representative match for West Indies Young Cricketers against their English counterparts at Port-of-Spain in August 1976, making an immediate impact by taking 4–35 in his first innings, including the wickets of future Test cricketers David Gower, Mike Gatting and Paul Downton. In 1978 he went to England for the return matches, but it was not until 1979/80 that he made his first-class debut, for Windward Islands against Leeward Islands at St John's. In the meantime in 1982, he had made his Test and One Day International debuts for in the 1982/83 series against India, his first wicket in Test cricket being that of Mohinder Amarnath. Success
In 1983 <mask> was selected for West Indies' World Cup squad, and when brought into the side for the second group match against Australia at Headingley, immediately hit the headlines by taking 7-51, at the time a world record return in ODIs. He was retained for the other four group matches, but took only one more wicket in total and was not selected for the semi-final or final – perhaps unsurprising when one considers that players of the calibre of Marshall, Garner, Holding and Roberts were all in West Indies' squad for the tournament. He played in all six Tests in India that winter, taking 14 wickets, but when Australia visited the West Indies in the spring of 1984, <mask> was selected for only one Test and one ODI, and despite his experience of English conditions he was at first left out of the party to play England that summer, although when Milton Small was ruled out by a knee injury part-way through the series <mask> was drafted into the squad. He played in the fourth Test at Old Trafford, and though he was not particularly effectual with the ball beyond managing to fracture Paul Terry's ulna he did score 77, his highest first-class innings, coming in as

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In 1986, <mask> had fallen away from the Test side as West Indies' fast-bowling production line continued to churn out high-quality pacemen. During success in 1987 county tournament, he was recalled to international duties for one last time in India in 1987/88, taking 13 wickets at exactly 30 in four Tests but only three in his three ODIs, and captained the Windward Islands team in the same season. Beyond cricket
In 1998 <mask>, a committed Christian, was left a tetraplegic after suffering spinal injuries as a result of a fall from a tree in St Vincent suffered whilst helping clear land for a new church. He was flown to England for treatment unavailable on the island, and now lives in Worcestershire, England. He has appeared in a film, Because of You, made by Worcestershire County Council's Social Services department; he said of this film, "People with a disability can often be seen as just takers and so for me, starring in this film gave me the opportunity to give something back to the community". Several benefit matches have been held with the object of raising money to help him live a more comfortable life, and have featured a number of high-profile cricketers: in 2005 a Lashings Cricket Club side beat a <mask> XI by 87 runs in a match graced by such names as Chris Cairns, V. V. S. Laxman and Alvin Kallicharran.References

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 A glittering affair – Because of you..

1958 births
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines cricketers
Glamorgan cricketers
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He was born in the shtetl of Delyatichi (Dzialiacičy), Minsk province, Belarus, to Rabbi Aharon Aryeh Leib and Maita Kalmanowitz.His father was a Talmid Chacham and Rav of several European Jewish communities. His father exerted a major influence on his education. He studied at the Telshe yeshiva in Lithuania, and at age 16 entered the Eishishok yeshiva headed by Rabbi Zundel Hutner. At age 18, he progressed to the Slabodka yeshiva, where the Alter of Slabodka, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, arranged for him to learn in chavrusa with his own son, Rabbi Moshe Finkel. Kalmanowitz received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein of Slabodka, Rabbi Raphael Shapiro of Volozhin, Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz


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In 1913, Kalmanowitz married Rochel the granddaughter of Rabbi Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna and author of the Talmudic commentary Mareh Kohen, which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud. His wife's other grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Moshe, was a former Rav of the town of Rakaŭ on the Polish-Russian border; that community asked Kalmanowitz to serve as its Rav in 1913.In 1916 Kalmanowitz founded a Talmud Torah in Rakaŭ and, in 1918, a yeshiva. Kalmanowitz became a central rabbinic figure and communal leader, working on behalf of refugees and Jews in difficult straits. In 1914, when Rakaŭ was flooded with thousands of refugees fleeing Russia with the outbreak of World War I, <mask> founded a rescue organization that furnished food and clothing. During the Bolshevik Revolution, he aided Jews arrested by the Bolsheviks and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned in Minsk. Later he assisted Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in the running of the latter's Vaad Hayeshivos, which provided financial aid and support to European yeshivas and their students. In 1928 <mask> helped Grodzinski found a kollel in Vilna called Ateret Zvi, and served as rosh kollel (dean) for its first year of operation. Afterwards he helped move it to Otvosk, where it operated until 1934.In 1926, <mask> was elected honorary president of the Mir yeshiva and began fund-raising for this institution in the United States. During the 1930s, he applied for and received U.S. citizenship and a passport. In 1929, he accepted the position of Rav and av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Tykocin (Tiktin), and

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 established a yeshiva in that town. He was also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages) of the World Agudath Israel. He was forced to flee Tiktin for Bialystok after stopping a pogrom planned by local anti-Semitic elements, who slandered him to the local authorities. Holocaust activism
With the outbreak of World War II, Kalmanowitz fled to Vilna along with thousands of other rabbis and yeshiva students. With the blessing of Rabbi Grodzinski, he used his U.S. passport to travel to New York via Sweden, arriving in April 1940.He immediately plunged into rescue work on behalf of the rabbis, rosh yeshivas, and yeshiva students still in Europe, calling on rabbinical and political contacts which he had established previously. In the winter of 1940 Kalmanowitz joined the Vaad Hatzalah (Rescue Committee) headed by Rabbi Eliezer Silver, and became a key figure in that organization. He was known as a tireless agent for rescue, bombarding government officials with letters and telegrams pleading for help for all Jews trapped in Nazi Europe as well as for those stranded in the Soviet Union. Even before the U.S. government approved the legality of sending "free currency" (i.e., Swiss francs) into enemy-occupied territory for the purpose of supporting penniless refugees, Kalmanowitz sent money overseas, "ignoring illegalities and FBI threats of arrest". Kalmanowitz openly worked on the Shabbat on several occasions in the name of pikuach nefesh (the Jewish principle of saving lives) by fund-raising in synagogues, filling out forms, and riding in taxis to government and institutional offices on Shabbat to obtain approvals and funds. The tall, regal-looking rabbi often broke down


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 in tears and even fainted from emotion in front of government officials as he pleaded his cause. He successfully gained the support of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. after crying uncontrollably in Morgenthau's office; Morgenthau helped him gain access to State Department officials.As Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of the Joint's European Executive Council, told an interviewer, "There was a rabbi [Kalmanowitz] with a long white beard, who, when he cried, even the State Department listened". Kalmanowitz was one of the 350 rabbis who participated in the 1943 Rabbis March on Washington. In the years following the war, Rabbi Kalmanowitz joined Simon Wiesenthal and others in an effort to try and track down Nazi official Adolf Eichman, who was hiding in South America. Saving the Mir yeshiva

Kalmanowitz is credited with securing the funds and papers to transfer the entire Mir yeshiva – consisting of 250 students, faculty members, and the yeshiva's entire library of sefarim – to Kobe, Japan in 1941 and from there to Shanghai, and providing for its upkeep for five years. Thanks to the money Kalmanowitz sent, Mir students were able to board with Jewish families and eat a nourishing Shabbat meal most of the time – privileges that other refugee students in Shanghai did not enjoy. In addition to money, Kalmanowitz sent matzos and wine for Passover, and hundreds of copies of Talmudic tractates so the students could continue studying without interruption. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the U.S. declared war on Japan, the Joint was prohibited from sending money to the yeshiva students in Shanghai.But Kalmanowitz established new contacts and influenced


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In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kalmanowitz inundated government, United Nations, and church officials with appeals to stop persecutions and pogroms against Jews in Egypt and Syria that eventually resulted in the dissolution of those communities. His efforts led to the passage of a bill according "endangered refugee status" to Jews in Arab lands, paving the way for their immigration to the United States. Kalmanowitz worked onsite to strengthen traditional Torah education among North African Jewish youth.Together with the leaders of Jewish communities in Morocco and Tunisia, he helped found the Otzar HaTorah educational network, which established 28 yeshivas and 20 Talmud Torahs, as well as girls schools, in those countries in 1947 and 1948. <mask> also devised and pushed through a plan granting student visas to the Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn for North African Jewish teens and opened special sections in the yeshiva for them, even though the yeshiva's financial situation was dire. A group of 13 boys arrived from Morocco in 1948,


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 but most left the yeshivah to find jobs. One of those who remained was <mask> Portal, a native of Marrakech, who returned to Morocco in 1953 so he could apply for permanent residency status in the United States and in the meantime became the educational supervisor for the Otzar HaTorah network in the French region of Morocco. Portal returned to the Mir in 1956 with a hand-picked group of 15 boys and taught them in a separate program that became the Mir's first high school class. Another beneficiary of Kalmanowitz's largesse was Rabbi David Rebibo, a Moroccan-born student in France who used the student visa Kalmanowitz sent him to come study at the Mir in 1953. Afterwards Kalmanowitz helped Rebibo find his first teaching job.Rebibo has been dean of the Phoenix Hebrew Academy and senior rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation in Phoenix, Arizona, since 1965. Death and legacy

During a fund-raising trip to Florida in 1964, Kalmanowitz suffered a heart attack and died in Miami Beach on 15 February 1964 (2 Adar 5724) at the age of 73. He was eulogized in large funerals in front of the Mir yeshivas in New York and Jerusalem, and afterwards buried in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem near the grave of his father, who had died in 1948. His eldest son, Rabbi Shraga Moshe <mask> (1918-1998), and his sons-in-law, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, and Rabbi <mask> Yaakov Nelkenbaum succeeded him as roshei yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn. References

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Dame <mask> DBE (28 July 190830 August 1986) was an Australian politician and diplomat. She was the first woman from Queensland elected to parliament, the first woman federal departmental minister, and the first Australian woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission. <mask> was born in Brisbane, the daughter of state MP <mask>. A member of the Liberal Party, she was elected to the Senate at the 1946 federal election, taking her seat the following year. She was the second woman elected to the Senate, after Dorothy Tangney. Rankin was the Liberal Party's chief whip from 1947 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1966; she remains the longest-serving whip in the party's history, in either chamber of parliament. In 1966, she was made Minister for Housing in the Holt Government, becoming the first woman to hold a ministerial portfolio.She held that position until her retirement from politics in 1971. As High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1971 to 1974, she was the first woman to head an Australian mission overseas. Early life

<mask> was born on 28 July 1908 in South Brisbane, Queensland. She was the older of two daughters born to <mask> <mask> (née Thomson) and Colin Dunlop <mask>. Her father, born in Scotland, was a sugar grower and Boer War veteran who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1905–1918). Rankin grew up on her father's sugarcane farm on the Isis River near the small town of Childers. In 1919, her father replaced his deceased brother as managing director of Queensland Collieries Company, necessitating a move to Howard.The family lived in Brooklyn House, which is now heritage-listed. Rankin attended the local state schools in Childers and Howard before completing her education as a boarder at the Glennie

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 Memorial School in Toowoomba. As an unmarried woman from a wealthy family, Rankin was not expected to enter the workforce. She involved herself in various community organisations, teaching Sunday school and founding a local unit of the Girl Guides. She was encouraged by her father to travel overseas, visiting China and Japan soon after leaving school. She visited Europe in 1936, working in the slums of London and with refugees from the Spanish Civil War; while in Gibraltar she witnessed the bombing of La Línea de la Concepción. After her father's death in 1940, Rankin began working as a clerk for the Union Trustee Company of Australia.She was the commandant of a Brisbane-based Voluntary Aid Detachment during the war. She was also state secretary of the Girl Guides in 1942 and assistant state commissioner of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) the following year. She was responsible for the organisation's work around the welfare of servicewomen, in which capacity she travelled to military bases in North Queensland. In 1946, she was offered a position in Greece with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, but declined in order to enter politics in Australia. Politics

In July 1946, Rankin won preselection for the Senate on the ticket of the Queensland People's Party, the contemporary state affiliate of the Liberal Party. Her selection ended the political career of Senate veteran Harry Foll. Rankin's first campaign speech in Maryborough reportedly "attracted one of the largest crowds ever to attend a political meeting in that town, the number including almost twice as many women as men".At the 1946 federal election she was elected to a term beginning in July 1947. She was the first Queensland


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 woman elected to federal parliament, the second woman elected to the Senate after Dorothy Tangney, and the second woman from the Liberal Party elected to federal parliament after Enid Lyons. Due to consecutive landslide defeats and the block voting system in use at the time, the Coalition between the Liberal Party and Country Party was left with only three senators after the 1946 election, all from Queensland. <mask> became the Opposition Whip, the first woman to serve as a whip in federal parliament, while her colleague Walter Cooper became Leader of the Opposition in the Senate with Neil O'Sullivan as his deputy. As Opposition Senate Whip, Senator <mask> did not perform the task of this position as the Senate Whip is responsible for ensuring that Senators from her ranks toe the party line. This responsibility was non-existent to her as there were only three Opposition Senators at the time with these Senators comprising her, Opposition Senate leader Senator Cooper and his deputy Senator O'Sullivan. This led to one commentator remarking:
"Senator Rankin should have an easy job, unless the Leader and Deputy-Leader fall down on theirs".<mask> was a prominent member of the Australian Women's Movement Against Socialisation (AWMAS), formed by Millicent Preston-Stanley to oppose the Chifley Government's proposed nationalisation of the banks. On 26 January 1966, Prime Minister Harold Holt appointed her Minister for Housing in his first ministry, responsible for the Department of Housing. She was the second woman to reach ministerial rank in the Federal Parliament. After 1968 she was the equal longest-serving senator, alongside Bert Hendrickson and Justin O'Byrne. She resigned from the Senate in 1971 and was made High

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 Commissioner to New Zealand, a post she held to 1974. Following her retirement she returned to Brisbane where she continued to be involved in voluntary organisations. Rankin is the only woman to be Mother of the Senate, an informal title given to the senator with the longest continuous service.She held the title from 1968 to her retirement in 1971, together with Fathers of the Senate Justin O’Byrne and Bert Hendrickson. <mask> died in Brisbane aged 78, on 30 August 1986. She was cremated following a State funeral at St John's Anglican Cathedral in Brisbane. Honours
<mask> was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 13 June 1957 for political and public services. In 1977 Rankin was made a Life Member of the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia. Legacy
The Electoral Division of Rankin, which came into effect at the 1984 election, is named in her honour. The Dame <mask> Award was inaugurated by the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia in her memory.See also
List of the first women holders of political offices in Oceania

Notes

External links
<mask>, <mask> Mary in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

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<mask> (1746 – 1818) was an important British figure in the early feminist movement. Life
She was born <mask> in Nottingham, the elder daughter of a successful Anglican merchant James Clayton and his Catholic wife Sarah Blatherwick and christened at St Nicholas Nottingham on 18 June 1746. James Clayton was already 70 at the time of <mask>'s birth and died when she was four. <mask>'s sister Sarah predeceased him leaving <mask> as his heiress. <mask> was raised as a Catholic by her mother and educated at the Bar Convent in York. <mask> eloped to marry <mask> of Coxwold, Yorkshire at age 15. Initially they were married in private by a Catholic priest, but <mask>'s guardians insisted that she be married in the Anglican Church and the marriage was conducted at St Nicholas' in Nottingham on 2 May 1762.<mask> seems to have been  descended from the <mask> family of Ugthorpe Old Hall, however <mask> <mask> insists in her memoirs that he is related to the Earl of Derwentwater, a statement confirmed by a reference from Lord Traquair who states that they were "distantly related to the Derwentwater family." <mask>'s parents are described in Letter III of the memoirsof the Memoir (Edinburgh, 1810) as living in Yorkshire, and a 'good old couple' who were 'quite overjoyed' 'at seeing their only surviving son so comfortably provided for.' <mask>'s first mention of her husband's Derwentwater  ancestry occurs when she lists her sons:
“and next Joseph, so named after his father, James, in memory of my father, and the unfortunate Earl of Derwentwater, who forfeited his life in the rebellion of 1715, and Charles after the brother of the Earl of D--, who fell martyr to the same cause, in 1745, from which family I was always told, my husband was a descendent”

The couple had eight children in quick succession, <mask>, <mask>, Joseph, James, Charles,

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 to last until his death in 1802. Geddes encouraged her to follow her conscience, leading to her abandonment of Catholicism. This led to further estrangement from her friends and supporters and increased her difficulties in finding employment. Her Memoirs, commenced in 1807, were written to raise money after her final business venture, a pastry shop near Portobello in Scotland failed due to <mask>'s rheumatism and failing health. By the time of the publications of her Memoirs in 1810 she was living on the charity of her friend, Mrs Ferrier of St John's Hill in Edinburgh.Ferrier and Watersons Wax Chandlers of High Street, Edinburgh were the point of sale for the book. <mask> <mask> is often listed as having died in 1810, the date of the publication of her memoirs, however her death certificate lists her of having died of 'a decline' in 1818 in Edinburgh. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Old Calton Cemetery. Works

<mask> is most famous for her book,The Female Advocate; or, An Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (1799). This book discussed how men working in millinery and other occupations took jobs away from women forcing them to prostitution. <mask>'s argument was framed in Christianity. She stressed  how respectable women are turning to prostitution because of poverty and lack of respectable work.She argued that lack of education, societal prejudices of what a genteel woman should or should not do, hampered women from obtaining  a job in a respectable establishment. There is disagreement as to whether <mask> <mask> is the author of several Gothic novels attributed to her. Manfroné was one of the most popular Gothic novels of the early nineteenth century and was remembered warmly by William Makepeace Thackeray. “The Memoirs of Mrs <mask> <mask>; in Familiar Letters to Her Female Friend” complicates

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 matters by making no reference to <mask> as a Gothic novelist. Other novels attributed to <mask> <mask> are Radzivil and The Fate of Velina de Guidova, both published in 1790 by William Lane at the Minerva Press. Radclife’s (sic) New Novelist’s Pocket Magazine appeared in 1802, a collection of fictions compiled “by Mrs <mask> Radclife, of Wimbledon in Surrey.” Certainly <mask> was living in Surrey around this time. <mask> <mask> states in her memoirs that it was her intention to publish all of her books anonymously however she was coerced by her publisher into publishing under her name to benefit by the similarities of her name with that of the more famous Gothic novelist <mask>.Her later published book, The Memoirs of Mrs. <mask> <mask>; in Familiar Letters to her Female Friend in 1810, made apparent the strong influence of her life's circumstances on her first book. The memoirs are written in a deliberately cryptic style, using initials instead of names for both places and people, however many can be identified using clues provided by <mask> in the text. For example while working as a companion to an elderly gentleman at R___, she mentions the house as being opposite the place where the Magna Carta was signed, identifying the place as Runnymede. The diaries of Lady Traquair are useful in providing other details of <mask>'s life including her involvement with Alexander Geddes. Publications

 The female advocate or an attempt to recover the rights of women from male usurpation. By <mask> <mask>. London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, NO.31, Poultry, 1799
 The memoirs of Mrs. <mask> <mask> in familiar letters to her female friend. Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by Manners & Miller, 1810

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British women's rights activists
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<mask> (born May 2, 1988), more frequently known as <mask> (Chinese:), is a mixed Taiwanese singer and celebrity. Her mother is Taiwanese and her father is Russian American. Career

Nan Quan <mask> was born in California, United States in 1988, and she moved back to Taipei, Taiwan with her older sister, <mask>, and her parents in 2001, where she graduated from Taipei American School in 2006. Having participated in music performances and music groups from a young age, Veronin was discovered in 2005 by Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou and became the female frontman in Chou's second iteration of his band project: "Nan Quan Mama". That same year, <mask> also skyrocketed to fame when she released a duet with Jay Chou titled "Coral Sea" (Chinese:珊瑚海|p=Shān Hú Hăi). In Nan Quan Mama, Veronin acted not only as performer but often also as songwriter and/or lyricist, where she collaborated often with bandmate Chase Chang (Chinese:張傑|p=Zhāng Jíe) on creating tracks. During this time, Veronin also made her first forays into acting, having starred in 2006 Taiwanese drama series Engagement for Love (Chinese:《愛情經紀約》|s=《爱情经纪约》|p=àiqíng jīngjì yuē) with Alex To and Ambrose Hsu.She also was lead actress in 2012 Taiwanese drama series "Alice in Wonder City" (Chinese:《給愛麗絲的奇蹟》|p=gěi aìlìsī dė qíjī). JVR Music

In 2009, <mask> left Nan Quan Mama and started her solo career at Jay Chou's label, JVR Music. On December 6, 2010, she formally released her first solo album, "Hello Lara Liang" (Chinese:《Hello 梁心頤》). Of the eleven songs on the album, one of the songs was an original that her

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 father wrote when he was 19. On October 29, 2012, <mask> released her second solo album titled "Free Spirit" (Chinese:《自由靈魂》), where she started participating in musical and creative direction, composing, and producing as well as in the styling and marketing aspects of album release. Her second album also boasted 11 songs, and she even collaborated with former Nan Quan Mama bandmate Chase on one of the songs, "Fragments"(Chinese:《碎片》|p= suì piàn). Meimeiwawa Multimedia

After much deliberation, Veronin decided to leave JVR Music in 2013 and founded Meimeiwawa Multimedia (Chinese:妹妹娃娃多媒體|p=mèimèiwáwá dūoméitǐ; "Meiwa Media" for short) with her sister Esther Veronin.Meiwa Media, while simultaneously doubling as <mask>'s record label and talent agency, also operates as a creative platform putting out content in music, entertainment, and various other subjects. Over the years, the company has put out several visual ventures such as short films, vlogs, and an internet faux-reality web series, titled "Meiwa Diaries". Temporarily setting aside music, <mask> joined her sister in the ranks of film production and co-wrote a micro movie titled "TAWKI: Taipei As We Know It", where she also played Holly, the lead. Since then, the Veronin sisters have put out multiple short films and micro movies with <mask> as lead actress, including the 2014 production "Who Killed Joanna Wang?" starring Joanna Wang as well as the 2015 productions "Still Better Than Love" and "She Wore Red", which won the award for Best Cinematography in the Tainan 39-Hour Short Film Contestival. In

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 2015, <mask> released her first single under the Meimeiwawa Multimedia label, a song called "Dida". The accompanying music video was filmed in Taipei and directed by <mask>.The video was selected as the theme song to the "Fluid Sexuality International Film Festival" in 2015 due to the face that it touched upon LGBT themes, something both Veronin sisters have publicly expressed support for. The song was also released in collaboration with Red Cross Society of the Republic of China where a limited amount of physical albums were released for sale, and all profits went towards donations for the Red Cross. Over the next two years, three more of <mask>'s singles were released under Meiwa Media：
2016《Where Do We Go》
2017《Play/Turn》
2017《Sunshine》

In 2018, the Veronin sisters decided to challenge themselves by making <mask>'s third solo album, "Thousand-Faced Beast" into a feature-length film titled "Tomorrow's Star". While <mask> takes her debut on the silver screen, once again, as lead actress, she and Esther do not forget to focus on their imperative of empowering females in the independent art industry. Other actors include known Taiwanese celebrities such as Mathilde Lin, Johnny Lu, Denny Huang, Phoebe Yuan, and Stephen Rong. All eight songs and their music videos from the album were woven into the movie in a manner akin to musical films, and four of the songs ("Thousand-Faced Beast", "Watch Out", "Precious Pain", and "No Absolutes") were also released separately as digital singles. NSMG
Since 2021, <mask> has exclusively partnered with NSMG to release her

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 latest album “Dear You”, a tribute to Mandopop love ballads.Focused tracks "Quitting U" and "No More U" have achieved chart-topping success across streaming platforms. Personal life

Besides voice acting for Disney, Veronin has dabbled in hosting for television and radio, as well as contributed articles to magazines. She stated that one of her first passions was, and is, writing and she hopes to pursue this in various ways in the future. On May 29, 2015, Veronin's mother died after collapsing from a cardiac stress test due to complaints of chest pain. Solo concerts
Since the release of her first album "《HELLO 梁心頤》" in 2010, <mask> has been active in live performances. In 2015 she also took up a residency at Brown Sugar Jazz Club with sister Esther Veronin. While sometimes she performs with a backing track out of convenience, she tries to perform with a live band whenever possible.<mask> also performs frequently at schools and commercial events around Taiwan, as well as in Malaysia, Australia, and North America. Oftentimes during her solo performances, she also invites friends to join her onstage. Some performers that she's collaborated with in live gigs include, but are not limited to: Joanna Wang, Dawen, Maxine Chi, Alex Ni, DJ Noodles, and Haor. Work in Music
While she was with Nan Quan Mama, <mask> took part in the creation and performance of four albums, all distributed by Alfa Music and Sony Music. After leaving Nan Quan Mama, <mask> released two solo albums under JVR Music, and then one more solo albums under Meimeiwawa Multimedia after she left JVR


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 in 2013. She has also received some accolades from competitions or general outstanding musicianship. Albums

Non-Album Music
Apart from releasing music in albums, <mask> also has physical and digital singles, both released and unreleased.Three unreleased singles were written as spokesperson brand theme songs. Awards and Accolades

Songwriting
<mask> has taken on the bulk of her own songwriting as well as occasionally writing for other musicians on their works. Filmography
Apart from being a singer and songwriter, <mask> has also participated in many cinematic projects ranging from music videos to TV series and musicals before even starting her multimedia company. Naturally once she established Meimeiwawa Multimedia, she started taking on the role of writer as well as producer on certain ventures. In her 2018 joint project with her sister of the 《Thousand-Faced Beast》and《Tomorrow's Star》 double feature, she also took up the role of lead actress in her first feature-length film. Musicals and Music Videos

Behind the Scenes

Brand Collaborations

Spokesperson Advertising

References

External links

Profile of <mask> at JVR music
Alice in Wonder City review
Helloasia article about Meiwa Diaries
Helloasia Interview

1988 births
Living people
American musicians of Taiwanese descent
American women musicians of Chinese descent
American people of Russian descent
Taiwanese Mandopop singers
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<mask> (1880–1971) was an Italian publisher, anarchist, and prolific author. Early life

<mask> was born on July 4, 1880, in Pistoia, Italy. After finishing elementary school, she became an apprentice at a local printing press, where she became acquainted with the publishing world, and anarchist/socialist ideas. In 1897, she published Pensieri, a book of poems, with her brother. Around the turn of the century, her experience living briefly in Alexandria, Egypt, cemented her interest in Eastern ideas and led to her studying the Arabic language and converting to Islam. Her commitments to anarchism and Islam were lifelong. Career

<mask> moved to Florence and married Luigi Polli, an anarchist bookseller whom she met in the Chamber of Labor, in May 1902.They founded Rafanelli Polli, a publisher of anti-military, anti-clerical, feminist pamphlets authored by Carlo Cafiero, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and <mask> herself. <mask> Polli also published the anarchist periodical La Blouse (1906–1910). She published her first novel () in 1905. Her connection with Polli dissipated, though they remained friendly until his death in 1922. In the early 1900s, <mask> helped to co-found a committee to aid political victims from 1890s revolts and was targeted for distributing revolutionary and anti-military propaganda in Fusignano. She entered a relationship with Giuseppe Monanni, an Arezzo printer who published Vir: novissima rivista di alte questioni sociali on anarcho-futurist ideas influenced by the individualism of Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche. They moved to

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 his military interventionist stance became readily apparent. She later published their correspondence in Una donna e Mussolini (1946) and privately admitted her error in judging his personality. In the interwar period, she republished Bozzetti sociali and the short stories Donne e femmine (1922).<mask> published two novels under pseudonyms: Incantamento (1921) as Sahra and L’oasi: romanzo arabo (1929) as Étienne Gamalier. Her relationship with Monanni dissipated in the 1930s, as did her militant activism. She worked as a fortune teller, a teacher of Arabic, and editorial work. <mask> continued to write for the anarchist periodical Umanità Nova. She moved to Genoa in the 1940s, where she died on September 13, 1971. Personal life

<mask> and Monanni had a son, Elio Marsillo (1910–1944), whom they called Aini (Arabic for "my eyes"). Selected works

  Una donna e Mussolini: la corrispondenza amorosa, 1975 Rizzoli.Leda <mask>-Carlo Carrà: un romanzo: arte e politica di un incontro, 2005 Centro internazionale della grafica. L'eroe della folla, 1925 Casa Editrice sociale. La caserma... scuola della nazione. Alle madri italiane, Nerbini. Lavoratori, 1959. Bozzetti sociali 1921 Casa editrice sociale. La "castità" clericale Società Ed.Milanese. Valida braccia: opuscolo di propaganda contro la costruzione di nuove carceri, 1907 <mask>-Polli. Per l'idea nostra. Raccolta di articoli e bozzetti di propaganda <mask>-Polli. Amando e combattendo. Racconto sociale, 1906 Serantoni. Un'anarchica femminista e rivoluzionaria eccezionale, 1995 Archivio Famiglia

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 Berneri.Società presente e società avvenire, 1907 Libr. editrice <mask>-Polli. La corona e la blouse: confronto sociale Biblioteca della rivista di letteratura operaia "La blouse". Seme nuovo, 1912 Società editoriale milanese. La bastarda del principe. Madre coronata e madre plebea, 1904 Nerbini. Contro la scuola, 1907 Tip.Polli. La scuola borghese Libreria editrice sociale. Una tragedia <mask>-Polli. Verso la Siberia. Scene della rivoluzione russa. Incantamento. La signora mia nonna.Donne e femmine. L'oasi. Nada. Le memorie di una chiromante. References

Further reading

  Anarchia e romanziera: <mask> <mask>, C. Cusin, 1995, Archivio Famiglia Camillo Berneri. <mask> <mask> - Carlo Carrà : un romanzo: arte e politica in un incontro, Alberto Ciampi, 2005 Centro Internazionale della Grafica. I Belong Only to Myself: The Life and Writings of <mask> <mask>, Andrea Pakieser and <mask> <mask>, 2014 AK Press.Anarcha-feminists
Anti–World War I activists
Converts to Islam
Italian anarchists
Italian anti-fascists
Italian feminists
Italian Muslims
Italian socialist feminists
Futurist writers
Individualist anarchists
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1971 deaths
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<mask> (born September 9, 1991) is an American multi-genre singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is proficient at more than 30 instruments. <mask> released his self-titled debut album in 2011. It reached number seven on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top Country Albums, and sold over 1.1 million copies. Its most successful single, "Wanted", sold over 3.5 million copies and made <mask> the youngest male act to ever top the Billboard Hot Country Songs. <mask>' commercial success and his talent both as a songwriter and instrumentalist prompted Billboard to call him the leader of "Country Music's Youth Revolution" in 2014. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards including Best New Artist, and won the 2012 CMA Award for New Artist of the Year and three BMI Awards.Life and career
<mask> was born on September 9, 1991, at Larniurg Hospital in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; he is an only child. His parents both have Cajun ancestry, along with English, Scots-Irish, and German. He grew up singing songs in both English and French. <mask> started performing when he was 2. At 4, he began making appearances locally and on national television, including Maury, Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the Nickelodeon game show Figure It Out, where he performed "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)". American Songwriter writes that "<mask> received his first guitar from actor Robert Duvall at age 6" At age 7, he was invited to perform for President Bill Clinton for a White House lawn party. At 13, he appeared on America's Most Talented Kids, a show hosted by Dave Coulier; he performed the hit Hank Williams song, "Hey Good Lookin'".At age 9, <mask> released his debut independent studio album "Through My Eyes" on October 8, 2000, under Suagartown Records and Louisiana Red Hot Records. He released several more

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 recognized by the Martin family." On September 7, 2012, he was inducted at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. 2011–2014: <mask> and Storyline

<mask>'s debut single, "Storm Warning", released to radio on May 16, 2011. His self-titled major-label debut album was released on October 11, 2011. He co-wrote every song, played every instrument, and along with Dann Huff, produced the album."Wanted", the second single, was released to radio on March 5, 2012. On July 24, 2012, he appeared on the CBS's The Talk, where he was then given an RIAA Gold Certification plaque for "Wanted". Just shy of two months since "Wanted" went gold, the song was certified Platinum by RIAA on August 23, 2012. "Wanted" became his first No. 1 single, making him the youngest solo male act to top Hot Country Songs, breaking the record set in 1973 by Johnny Rodriguez. Twenty weeks after first appearing in the top spot and under a new chart format, "Wanted" returned to the top spot. "Somebody's Heartbreak", the album's third single, went to No.1 on the Country Airplay chart. Starting September 14, 2012, <mask> began appearing as the opening act on 90+ dates for Carrie Underwood's Blown Away Tour. He was also nominated for three Grammys including Best New Artist at the 2013 Grammy Awards; he is the youngest male country artist to be nominated in all three categories for which he was nominated. The album's fourth single, "I Want Crazy", which is from the deluxe Encore edition, was released to country radio on April 7, 2013. It peaked at number two on the Country Airplay chart in August 2013. Following it was "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me", a re-recording of a song from the original press of the album. The re-recorded version features guest vocals from Jason Mraz.<mask> was one

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 of five country singers who won a CMT Artist of the Year award in 2013. This award is awarded every year to a group of country musicians who have had an outstanding year. <mask> performed "Invisible", the lead single from his second album, at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Storyline was released on May 6, 2014. In an effort to promote his album and to raise awareness to end child hunger, <mask> broke the Guinness World Record for the most concerts played in multiple cities in 24 hours, previously held by The Flaming Lips. The album's second single, "Tattoo" released to country radio on June 16, 2014. On July 20, 2014, <mask>'s self-titled debut album was certified double platinum by the RIAA.Following that was "Light Me Up", another single from the deluxe version of his debut album, in 2015. 2015–2018: The 21 Project and cancelled album
On May 21, 2015, <mask> released "21", which was the title track for both his EP and third studio album, The 21 Project. He also appeared on the track "I Can Play Guitar" on Brett Kissel's album Pick Me Up. On November 2, 2016, <mask> performed with four holograms of himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live's after the CMA show. In March 2017, <mask> performed as part of the C2C: Country to Country festival in the UK where he played alongside Dan + Shay and Darius Rucker supporting Reba McEntire and will return in 2019 with Carly Pearce and Dustin Lynch in support of Lady A. Following "21," <mask> released several songs including “Yesterday’s Song” which were slated to be part of a studio album set to be released in February 2018. <mask> then cancelled the project citing ‘shifted priorities’.<mask> also appeared as a guest in a Nickelodeon show, Bella and the Bulldogs. 2018–present: Wild Blue and Red Sky
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 Christmas. He also recorded a duet with Irish singer Catherine McGrath for her debut album Talk of This Town. In January 2019, <mask> released his first radio single in three years titled "Heartbreak" which was the lead single for an upcoming album to be released by Warner Music Nashville. <mask> headlined the Closer to You Tour in 2019 with Levi Hummon and Tegan Marie as supporting acts. In August 2019, <mask> made a surprise announcement on NBC's Today Show revealing his album Wild Blue (Part I) would be released on August 16, 2019. The album is the first part of a three-part ‘trilogy’ of albums.In April 2020, <mask> competed in the third season of The Masked Singer as "Astronaut". In June 2020, the Saskatchewan-based Hunter Brothers released their single "Hard Dirt", co-written and produced by <mask>. He also co-wrote and produced their 2021 single "Been a Minute". In October 2021, <mask> released the album Wild Blue Complete an extension of the album Wild Blue (Part I). Discography

 Through My Eyes (2000)
 Make a Wish (2001)
 Holidays with <mask> (2003)
 Honoring Our French Heritage (2006)
 Songs About Nothing (2008)
 <mask> (2011)
 Storyline (2014)
 The 21 Project (2015)
 Wild Blue (Part I)  (2019)
 Red Sky (Part II) (TBA)

Tours
Headlining
 Most Wanted Tour (2011)
 Let's Be Crazy Tour, with Ashley Monroe (2013)
 We're Not Invisible Tour, with Danielle Bradbery and Dan + Shay (2014)
 24 Hour Road Race to End Child Hunger (2014)
 Tattoo (Your Name) Tour, with Dan + Shay and The Railers (2014)
 Let's Be Crazy / Crazier UK Tour (2015)
 21 Tour, with Ryan Lafferty and Kelsea Ballerini (2015)
 Closer to You Tour, with Levi Hummon and Tegan Marie (2019)

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 Speak Now World Tour – Taylor Swift (2011)
 Blown Away Tour – Carrie Underwood (2012)
 Wheels Up Tour – Lady Antebellum  (2015)
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Filmography

Awards and nominations

Academy of Country Music Awards
The Academy of Country Music Awards, also known as the ACM Awards, were first held in 1966, honoring the industry's accomplishments during the previous year. It was the first country music awards program held by a major organization. The academy's signature "hat" trophy was created in 1968.The awards were first televised in 1972 on ABC. American Country Awards
The American Country Awards is a country music awards show, entirely voted on by fans. Created by the Fox Network, the awards honor country music artists in music, video, and touring categories. <mask> has won two awards from five nominations. Grammy Awards
A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. Other awards

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<mask> (, 10 December 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Russian-born Israeli actor whose stage, film, and television career in Israel and West Germany spanned six decades. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 and studied drama at the Eretz Israel Theatre in Tel Aviv. After performing with several theatre companies between 1928 and 1948, he joined Habima Theatre in 1949 and became one of its principal players. He was known as "the Israeli Laurence Olivier". In 1968 <mask> traveled to Hamburg to join the German-language production of Fiddler on the Roof (titled Anatevka), playing the lead role of Tevye the Dairyman. He performed this role more than 1,400 times throughout West Germany and Switzerland. His notable film roles include the lead in the 1968 Israeli film Tevye and His Seven Daughters, Simon Wiesenthal in the 1974 Anglo-German film The Odessa File, and Jethro in the 1974 BBC television miniseries Moses the Lawgiver.He was the recipient of numerous honors in both Israel and West Germany, including the Federal Service Cross from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Israel Prize. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born in Smorgon, Russian Empire,  in 1902. During World War I he fled to Ukraine, but was expelled from the country during the Russian Revolution. He then traveled to Poland, entered Hamburg, Germany, on a forged Polish passport, and finally immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. Stage career

In his early years in Mandatory Palestine, <mask> was employed in draining swamps, field work, and construction. He studied at the studio of drama at the Eretz Israel Theatre in Tel Aviv and performed with a number of theatre companies between 1928 and 1948, including the Eretz Israel Theatre, Hakumkum (The Kettle), and Hamatate (The Broom). In 1949 he responded to a

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 newspaper advertisement seeking new performers at the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv and became one of that theatre's principal players.He was known as "the Israeli Laurence Olivier". At Habima, <mask> performed a wide variety of dramatic roles, including Iago in Othello and the cardinal in The Deputy. He also performed satire, as in Ephraim Kishon's 1953 play Yiddishpiel. <mask> formed several artistic partnerships. He and another Habima actor named <mask>, <mask> Segal, created a Yiddish-speaking comedic team called The Shmuliks; they were later joined by a third Habima actor, <mask> Atzmon. The Three Shmuliks performed in Israel and abroad. In 1985, The Three Shmuliks were part of the Israeli delegation of actors, writers, and public figures invited by the Polish government to the 35th-anniversary celebration of the Yiddish State Theater in Warsaw.With Segal and another Habima actor named Goldenberg, <mask> was also a member of Die Kleine Mentshalach ("The Little People"), a Yiddish-language trio that performed dramatic readings of works by Sholem Aleichem. <mask> formed a third, satirical trio with Jacob Timen and Esther Gamlielit of Hamatate (The Broom Theater). Tevye the Dairyman
In 1965, <mask> replaced Bomba Tzur in the role of Tevye the Dairyman in the second year of the Israeli production of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, staged at the Godik Theater. <mask> went on to appear in 350 performances in Israel. During a 10–week absence due to illness, <mask> was replaced by Chaim Topol, launching Topol's own career as Tevye on stage and screen. <mask> briefly acted in a Yiddish-language production of the musical which was not as successful as the Hebrew-language ones. <mask> reprised the role of Tevye on screen in the 1968 Israeli film Tevye and His Seven Daughters.In 1968

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 <mask> traveled to Hamburg to join the German-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, titled Anatevka, which premiered on February 1. <mask> became popular throughout West Germany for his portrayal of Tevye, performing the role more than 1,400 times. He also toured with a production in Switzerland. He appeared on the German-language recording of the Hamburg premiere. On September 4, 1972, the evening before a Palestinian terrorist group infiltrated the Israeli Olympic athletes' quarters during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Israeli team attended a German-language performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Deutsches Theater in Munich as guests of <mask>, the lead actor. The Israelis received glasses of wine during the intermission and posed for pictures with <mask>. The last play in which <mask> acted was "The Spine", which premiered on January 10, 1988 at the Habima Theatre.He played the role of Dr. Willy. The production ran for only seven performances and then was closed in deference to <mask>'s illness. <mask> died the following year. Film and television
<mask> first appeared on screen in the 1935 Israeli film Zot Hi Ha'aretz (This is the Land). He was cast as Reb Pinchas in the Israeli film Shnei Kuni Lemel (The Flying Matchmaker), which was the Israeli entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1966. Other notable roles included Tevye in the 1968 Israeli film Tevye and His Seven Daughters, Simon Wiesenthal in the 1974 Anglo-German film The Odessa File, and Jethro in the BBC television miniseries Moses the Lawgiver. <mask> appeared in other film and television roles in West Germany and Switzerland.Honors and awards
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<mask> met his wife, stage actress Raya Nura Shein, when both were studying at the Eretz Israel Theatre. They married in 1928.<mask> died of a heart attack in Tel Aviv on 16 July 1989. Notwithstanding his fame, he died impoverished. In 2001-2002 the Tel Aviv Municipality affixed a memorial plaque to <mask>'s home at 1 Rachel Street as part of its effort to honor artists and intellectuals who had resided in the city. Filmography

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Albums
<mask> <mask> Singt Lieder Seiner Heimat In Deutscher Sprache [<mask> <mask> Sings Songs of His Homeland in German Language] (1968)
Anatevka (Deutsche Originalaufnahme) (Anatevka original German-language recording) (1968)
 <mask> Rodensky Liest Satiren Von Ephraim Kishon (Shmuel Rodensky Reads Satires by Ephraim Kishon) (1974)

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Wenn Ich Einmal Reich Wär / Zum Wohl ["If I Were a Rich Man"] (1968)

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<mask> of Burgundy, also known as <mask> of Dunwich (died 8 March 647 or 648), was a saint and the first bishop of the East Angles. He is widely credited as the man who introduced Christianity to the kingdom of East Anglia. Almost all that is known about the saint originates from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed by Bede in about 731, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Bede praised <mask> for delivering "all the province of East Anglia from long-standing unrighteousness and unhappiness". <mask>, who originated from the Frankish kingdom of Burgundy, may have been a priest at one of the monasteries in Francia founded by the Irish missionary Columbanus: the existence of a Bishop of Châlons with the same name may not be a coincidence. <mask> travelled from his homeland of Burgundy to Canterbury before being sent by Honorius to Sigeberht of East Anglia's kingdom in about 630, (by sea to Babingley in Norfolk, according to local legend). On arrival in East Anglia, Sigeberht gave him a see at Dommoc (possibly Walton,  Suffolk near Felixstowe or Dunwich in Suffolk).According to Bede, <mask> helped Sigeberht to establish a school in his kingdom "where boys could be taught letters". He died on 8 March 647 or 648, having been bishop for seventeen years. His relics were translated from Dommoc to Soham Abbey and then to the abbey at Ramsey. After his death, <mask> was venerated as a saint: several English churches are dedicated to him. <mask>'s feast date is 8 March. Background and early life

<mask> came from the Frankish kingdom of Burgundy, although his name prevents historians from conclusively identifying his nationality. According to Bede, he was ordained in Burgundy.It is possible that <mask> was associated with Irish missionary activity in Francia, which was centred in Burgundy and was particularly associated with Columbanus and Luxeuil

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 Abbey. Columbanus had arrived in Francia in about 590, after leaving Bangor along with twelve companions and going into voluntary exile. Upon Columbanus's arrival, he was encouraged to stay, and in about 592 settled at Annegay, but was then forced to find an alternative site for a monastery at Luxeuil, when lay people and the sick continually sought the counsel of himself and his fellow monks. The connection between the Wuffingas ruling dynasty and the abbess Burgundofara at Faremoutiers Abbey was an example of the associations that existed at the time between the Church in East Anglia and religious establishments in Francia. Such associations were partly due to the work of Columbanus and his disciples at Luxeuil: together with Eustasius, his successor, Columbanus inspired Burgundofara to found the abbey at Faremoutiers. It has been suggested that a connection between the disciples of Columbanus, (who strongly influenced the Christians of Northern Burgundy) and <mask>, helps to explain how the Wuffingas dynasty established its links with Faremoutiers. Higham notes various suggestions for where <mask> may have originated, including Luxeuil, Châlons or the area around Autun.Other historians have made connections between <mask> and Dagobert I, who had contact with both King Sigeberht of East Anglia and Amandus, a disciple of Columbanus. McLure and Collins note that there was a bishop named <mask> who held the see of Châlons in 626 or 627. They suggest the possibility that <mask> may have become a political fugitive as a result of losing his see at Châlons after the death of Chlothar II in 629. Arrival in the kingdom of the East Angles

<mask> is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals that was compiled in the late ninth century. The annal for 633 in 'Manuscript A' of the Chronicle, states that <mask> "preached the faith of Christ to the

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 East Angles". Another version of the Chronicle, 'Manuscript F', written in the eleventh century in both Old English and Latin, elaborates  upon the short statement contained in the Manuscript A annal:
"Here there came from the region of Burgundy a bishop who was called <mask>, who preached the faith to the people of East Anglia; called here by King Sigeberht; he received a bishopric in Dommoc, in which he remained for seventeen years." Bede describes how the exertions of King Sigeberht of East Anglia "were nobly promoted by Bishop <mask>, who, coming to Honorius, the archbishop, from the parts of Burgundy, where he had been born and, ordained, and having told him what he desired, was sent by him to preach the Word of life to the aforesaid nation of the Angles".Later sources tend to differ from the version of events described by Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Liber Eliensis, an English chronicle and history written at Ely Abbey in the 12th century, states that <mask> came with Sigeberht from Francia and was then made Bishop of East Anglia. According to another version of the story, <mask> travelled from Gaul and reached the hamlet of Babingley, via the River Babingley. He then made his way to Canterbury. He was ordained as a bishop in about 630 or 631 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Honorius. <mask>'s arrival in East Anglia seems to have coincided with the start of a new period of order established by Sigeberht, that had followed the assassination of Eorpwald and the three years of apostasy that followed Eorpwald's murder. Sigeberht had become a devout Christian before returning from exile in Francia to become king.His accession may have been decisive in bringing <mask> to East Anglia. Peter Hunter challenges the assertion by mediaeval sources that spoke of <mask> and Sigeberht travelling together  from Francia to England, as in his view Bede's


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Soon after his arrival at Sigeberht's court, <mask> established a church at Dommoc, his episcopal see, which is widely taken to mean Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast. Dunwich has since been almost totally destroyed by the effects of coastal erosion. Other historians have suggested as an alternative site for <mask>'s see the coastal Walton, Suffolk near Felixstowe, where there was once a Roman fort, Walton Castle, since washed away by the sea. A church and priory were dedicated to him there by Roger Bigod in 1105. Bede related that <mask> started a school, "where boys could be taught letters", to provide Sigeberht with teachers.There is no evidence that <mask>'s school was at Soham, as is maintained by later sources. Bede is unclear as to the origin of the teachers at the school that was established, who may have been from Kent itself or similar to those who were to be found in Kent. The Liber Eliensis mentioned that he also founded the abbey at Soham, in Cambridgeshire and a church at Reedham in Norfolk: "Indeed, one reads in an English source that St <mask> was the original founder of the old monastery of Sehem and of the church at Redham". According to Margaret Gallyon, the large size of the East Anglian diocese would have made the foundation of a second religious establishment at Soham "appear very probable". During his years as bishop, the East Anglian Church was made still stronger when Fursey arrived from Ireland and founded a monastery, at Cnobheresburg, probably located at Burgh Castle, in Norfolk. Death and veneration
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<mask> as a patron saint of the St. Felix Orthodox Educational Center. Under the blessing of the Rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, an Eastern Orthodox Educational Center, dedicated to St. <mask>, has been operating in Russia since 2014. Numerous academic disciplines are taught there free of charge. References

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<mask><mask> (, Warren; pen name, Probus; May 21, 1825 – April 27, 1902) was a 19th-century American art lecturer, art educator, and writer. A graduate of Ingham University, she contributed for half a century to art literature. Adsit was the first woman to enter the insurance field in the United States, and, as far as is known, in the world. She was possessed of an unusual combination: great literary ability and excellent business sense. At the age of 13, she assumed charge of her own affairs and her future education. Some of her early writings aroused great antagonism, and her identity was withheld by her editor. It was not until many years later that she acknowledged their authorship.On the death of her husband, Charles Davenport <mask>, of Buffalo, New York in 1873, she assumed the entire charge of his business and general insurance agency. After a very successful career in this line, she sold the business and resumed her writing. She contributed to the London Art Journal, writing an interesting series of articles for them on "The Black and White in Art" or "Etching and Engraving". This brought demands for lectures and parlor talks on art, and she began a course of classes for study. For many years, she delivered these lectures in the principal cities of the U.S., and her name was prominently connected with art education both in the U.S. and abroad. <mask> died in 1902. Early life and education
<mask>. Warren was born in Palermo, New York, May 21, 1825.She was of New England Puritan lineage, and was descended from the Mayflower Robinsons on her mother's side, and from the patriotic Warrens of Massachusetts on her father's side, her father being a clergyman and missionary. Her early life was a discipline in self-dependence, which aided and stimulated the development of an inherited force of character, enabling her to combat and conquer adverse conditions, overcome obstacles and from childhood mark out for herself and pursue steadily a career that achieved success. At the age of 13, she assumed entire charge of herself and her

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 fortunes. The expenses of her collegiate study at Ingham University were met by teaching and journalism. Career
Adsit was a regular contributor to the columns of the New York City Baptist Register, the Boston Recorder, the New-York Tribune and the Western Literary Messenger. Her earlier work was mostly in the line of poetic effusions and several series of "lay sermons" under the signature of "Probus." These sermons aroused intense antagonism in clerical circles, on account of their latitudinarianism on theologic questions.Heated and prolonged discussions followed each publication. "Probus," the unknown, was adjudged by a general council "guilty of heresy," and the sermons were denounced and condemned. The series was completed, however, and her identity was held between herself and the editor, and not until many years later, by her own voluntary confession, was the writer identified. Meanwhile, the thought of the clergy, along with the world at large, had broadened, and the sermons were no longer under proscription. She married Charles Davenport <mask>, of Buffalo, December 13, 1862. Her home during the next three years was at 11 North Division Street, in that city. Alternating literary, charitable and church work with her domestic duties, she developed an ideal home.They moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1865, where her husband died in 1873, leaving his widow charged with large responsibilities. Adsit immediately assumed the entire charge and management of a general insurance agency. Protests from family friends and jealous antagonisms on the part of business competitors met her at the threshold of the work, but she won public favor as she gave assurance of ability until the work was crowned with such success as to leave no cause for its further prosecution. Accordingly, Adsit sold the business, with her good will, and resumed writing. Her range of work reached from the political questions of the day to science and art. Her contributions to the London Art Journal for many years brought a request for a series of articles on the