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 Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, and soon began exhibiting her artwork. The artist's 1997 painting Monna Lisa (Be Back in Five Minutes) initiated art world interest which furthered her career. In the painting, <mask> replicated the background setting of Leonardo da Vinci's original, but omitted the eponymous subject Mona Lisa from the scene. It was the first of what became her signature Be Back in 5 Minutes series. The Be Back in Five Minutes series gave <mask> her first widespread exposure as an artist, in her own right, and informed her work for years thereafter. In those paintings, <mask> reproduced the recognizable settings of famous paintings, always omitting the figures; as if the models had "stepped out for the moment".Famous works of Vermeer also figured prominently in other early entries to the series; Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, The Art of Painting, and Girl with a Pearl Earring  were all reinterpreted by <mask> in the late 1990s, minus the figures portrayed by Vermeer. Exhibitions
Although she had previously participated in group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, <mask>'s first solo exhibition opened in January 2002, at the gallery which continued to represent her in New York, Francis Naumann Fine Art. It was the gallery's first exhibition of Contemporary art. <mask>'s Monna Lisa (Be Back in Five Minutes) was featured in this first exhibition along with over twenty others of the artist's absentee paintings. Among American artworks from which <mask> "removed" the occupants are Grant Wood's American Gothic, in which the pitchfork is left standing alone in the foreground, and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, in which the diner is replicated devoid of customers and staff. Both of these were painted in 2001. The artwork of <mask> is also among those reinterpreted.Goldfish reproduces the scene as originally portrayed by

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In 2003, <mask> added Pablo Picasso's Guernica to the number of paintings she reinterpreted. This time, <mask> opted to "colorize" Picasso's monochromatic "anti-war testament" — a painting to which she had never actually stood "face to face". Despite her great-grandfather and Picasso's "rocky relationship". <mask> followed her own color sensibilities, as opposed to mimicking those of her great-grandfather.<mask> used Guerra Paint acrylics and painted on canvas, testing color combinations by first painting many small sketches. She kept true to the impact of Picasso's original by painting it large-scale, approximately . Her efforts yielded several paintings and various drawings, which culminated in her Sophie Matisse Does Guernica exhibition, early in 2003 in New York. One piece, 911 Guernica, uses Guernica as the motif to convey her own first hand experiences witnessing the terrorist attack on New York's Twin Towers from her neighborhood near the site. <mask>'s Guernica exhibition was scheduled to coincide with the Museum of Modern Art's dual survey exhibiting the works of both Picasso and <mask>. The artist and her "Be Back in 5 minutes" series faced as much opposition as they did praise, with some critics deriding her "coloring-in" of Picasso by comparing it with the colorization of black and white movies. Art critic Arthur Danto said <mask>'s work "demonstrates why Picasso was right to use black and white and gray, and why <mask> was exactly right never to have attempted to depict violence".<mask> in 2003 also participated in a project coordinated by Dodie Kazanjian

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 for Vogue magazine. "Self Portraits: A Vogue Portfolio" appeared in print as a ten-page feature in the December 2003, issue of the magazine. As the title suggests, each artist submitted a "self-portrait". <mask> was featured among other female artists of her generation such as Kiki Smith. <mask>'s contribution was a "Be Back in 5 Minutes" interpretation of Gustave Courbet's erotic painting The Origin of the World, this time removing the 19th century French painter's graphically portrayed nude model, leaving only the rumpled bedsheets. The completed artworks were exhibited at Deitch Projects SoHo gallery space at the time of publication. Zebra stripe paintings
<mask> began a new series of paintings in the Spring of 2004, which culminated in her third solo exhibition, the Zebra Stripe Paintings, debuting in New York in the latter months of 2005.<mask> once again appropriated historically significant artworks, this time superimposing her own imagery in the form of zebra stripes overlapping the originals. In these paintings, all acrylics and oil on canvas, the appropriated originals are somewhat obscured by the stripes, rendering them less readily identifiable, and the artist herself has joked that her dyslexia may have been helpful in creating these works. The series was compared to James Rosenquist's later works, juxtaposing and overlapping seemingly unrelated imagery. <mask> again appropriated one of her great-grandfather's artworks, this time overlaying his Blue Nude with her zebra stripes. Special projects
<mask> has provided artwork in collaboration with business interests and also in support of charitable causes. In 2008, She collaborated with Kilian Hennessy, heir to the Hennessy lineage of cognac makers, providing artwork for a line of fragrances. <mask> added her personal touch to fifty bottles of Kilian perfumes, hand-painting,

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 signing and numbering every bottle and its box.Each of the limited edition creations bore a design different from the others. Additionally, <mask> collaborated with @byKilian in December 2009 on 15 hand-painted, Special Edition (Gold) perfume bottles, which were sold to key By Kilian clients. For an exhibition titled The Art of the Game coinciding with San Diego's Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair of 2009, <mask> created five chess sets of her own design. She considered her participation "a tribute" to the game's presence within her family in general, and her upbringing personally. In 2010, <mask> participated in the New York installment of an international campaign produced by the non-profit group Sing For Hope. The project called for 60 pianos to be placed in specifically chosen public places around a chosen city, in this case New York City, each first hand-painted by participating artists and amateurs alike. The decorated pianos remained at their specified locations for two weeks in July 2010, with the instructions "Play me, I'm yours" clearly marked, and an attendant present to oversee and invite passersby.<mask> hand-painted four Kimball pianos, all of which had been donated for the cause, even painting the piano keys. Some, if not all, of <mask>'s four were displayed in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall and Lincoln Center promenade. All 60 pianos were auctioned that fall. Matisse was represented by Francis Naumann Fine Art, LLC, in New York City. from 2003 to 2020. Matisse is now represented by the Baahng Gallery in New York City. Personal life
In 1992, when she was 27, Matisse married Pop artist Alain Jacquet, whom she had met during her years at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.Jacquet similarly reworked classic artworks into his own creations, which have been described as "Pop subterfuge". The marriage

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<mask>'s father is the sculptor and inventor <mask>, a Harvard graduate. Her grandfather, Paul's father, was Modern art dealer <mask>, who had moved to America in the 1920s. Pierre was the youngest child of 20th century painter <mask>, <mask>'s great-grandfather.<mask> died in 1954, aged 85, eleven years before <mask>'s birth. Family members expressed concern for <mask>'s future as an artist in her own right, and suggested she use her great grandmother, Amelie Pareyre as her family name to avoid constant comparison to <mask>. Only by incidentally noticing her family name on museum walls did <mask>, as a young child, come to consider that her great-grandfather may have been someone "exceptional". <mask>'s step-grandfather was the artist Marcel Duchamp, who reinterpreted Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in his L.H.O.O.Q. by adding a mustache. Duchamp married <mask>'s grandmother Alexina "Teeny" <mask>, an American, in 1954 after she and <mask> had divorced. <mask> has cited Duchamp as an influence, once saying "his presence stopped me from getting too serious".Art writers have pointed to the "visual jokes" sometimes apparent in <mask>'s own work as a sign of Duchamp's influence. References

External links
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American contemporary painters
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Sir <mask>  (born 22 February 1944) is a British former diplomat who served as the Ambassador to the United States (1997–2003), Ambassador to Germany (1997) and the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (2003–2009). He is married to <mask>, Baroness <mask>, founder of the charity Parents & Abducted Children Together, and an active board member of the Transatlantic Forum for Education and Diplomacy. Early life and education

<mask> was born in 1944 to <mask> and his wife Eve. Reginald was a flight lieutenant in Coastal Command of the RAF who was killed in action over the Greek island of Icaria 13 days before his son was born (in 2011 <mask> visited the island and met witnesses of the shooting-down and burial of his father). <mask> was educated at Lancing College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), near the village of Lancing in West Sussex, the Lycee Henri IV in Paris and Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in History (he has been an honorary fellow of Peterhouse since 2002). After graduating, he attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at Bologna. Diplomatic career
He began his career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1966 in the West and Central African Department as desk officer for French-speaking African countries.Following a year's training in the Russian language, his first posting, at the age of 24, was as third secretary to the British embassy in Moscow in 1968, where for his first year he was the ambassador's private secretary. From 1970 to 1973 he was second secretary at the British embassy in Madrid. This was followed by five years in London, firstly, as the head of the Soviet section in the East European and Soviet Department; and, secondly, as speech-writer to three successive Foreign Secretaries: James Callaghan, Anthony Crosland and David (now Lord) Owen. <mask> was then sent from 1978 to '82 to the UK permanent representation to the European Communities in Brussels, followed by two years as political

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 counsellor in the British embassy in Moscow. He returned to London in 1984 to become press secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, a position which he occupied until 1988, when he went for a year to Harvard University's Centre for International Affairs as a Visiting Fellow. This was followed by five years at the British embassy in Washington as minister-commercial and deputy head of mission. He returned to London in 1994 to become Prime Minister John Major's press secretary and government spokesman.He was posted briefly to Germany as ambassador in 1997, but was transferred in the same year to Washington as Britain's ambassador to the United States. HM Ambassador to the United States

His final posting was as British Ambassador to the United States from 1997 until his retirement in 2003. <mask> gave evidence about his time in the role to the Iraq Inquiry in November 2009. The Press Complaints Commission (PCC)
<mask> was appointed chairman of the UK press's self-regulating body in March 2003. During his tenure from 2003 to 2009, <mask> introduced a number of reforms to enhance the profile, independence and credibility of the Commission. These included increasing the majority of independent Commissioners, introducing independent scrutiny of the PCC's internal processes and decision-making, instituting PCC "away-days" twice a year in the cities and towns of the UK and extending the PCC's remit to online editions of newspapers, including audio-visual material. This led to a significant increase in public use of the PCC, with complaints about the press rising from 2,630 in 2002 to 4,698 by the time <mask> retired as chairman.He was also responsible for developing the PCC's pre-publication activity, including its anti-harassment service, which proved highly effective in protecting people from the unwanted attention of media scrums. <mask>'s tenure coincided with the gaoling in 2007 of the News of the World reporter, Clive Goodman, and the enquiry agent, Glenn Mulcaire, for phone-hacking offences under

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 the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. This prompted the resignation of the News of the World's editor, Andy Coulson. Later, as the phone-hacking scandal spread, the PCC, and <mask> himself, were criticised for not having brought those responsible to account. But the Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, pointed out in a lecture to the Human Rights Law Conference on 19 October 2011 that "To criticise the PCC for failing to exercise powers it does not have is rather like criticising a judge who passes what appears to be a lenient sentence, when his power to pass a longer sentence is curtailed." <mask> had himself reminded the Leveson Inquiry in his witness statement, submitted on 14 September 2011, and at his appearance before the Inquiry on 31 January 2012 that phone-hacking was a crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and that it was not in the remit of the PCC either to apply the criminal law or to carry out investigations that rightfully belonged to the police. Honours
In 1998, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).<mask> is a non-executive director of the Arbuthnot Banking Group. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Pagefield and an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspapermakers and a Freeman of the City of London. On 3 April 2012 he was appointed Court Assistant honoris causa by the Company. Since 2013 <mask> has been a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. <mask> was named in 2010 the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina. Writing
He published his memoirs, DC Confidential, in November 2005, with extracts serialised in The Guardian and the Daily Mail.The book gave rise to considerable controversy. It was attacked by members of the Labour government (Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott called <mask> a "red-socked fop"),, while a

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 group of MPs urged him to "publish and be damned". <mask> gave a detailed rebuttal of his critics in written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration. In 2005, the memoirs were included in his books of the year by Jim Hoagland, The Washington Posts commentator on foreign affairs, who described them as "thorough" and "credible". In 2009 he published a second book, Getting Our Way, a 500-year history of British diplomacy that accompanied a BBC 4 television series of the same name. He was again in the news with this book, serialised this time in The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph, and again openly critical of the Labour Government under which he served. In November 2013 <mask> published a third book, the Amazon Kindle Single, Only Child, a personal memoir of his childhood interwoven with the story of how his father was shot down and killed in the Second World War.It includes interviews with still surviving witnesses of his father's crash and burial. <mask> writes regularly on international affairs for a variety of newspapers and publications. Broadcasting
<mask> has presented several television and radio documentaries on diplomacy for the BBC, including Mortgaged to the Yanks (BBC Two/BBC Four 2006), Corridors of Power, How to Succeed at Summits, and Lying Abroad, all for BBC Radio 4 in 2006 and 2007. These were followed in 2009 by a BBC Radio 4 documentary series on the press called The Watchdog and the Feral Beast. 2009 also saw him present a BBC television series Getting Our Way, which chronicled episodes from British diplomatic history over the last 500 years and was later turned into a book (see below). In 2012 he fronted a 6-part international documentary series for Sky Atlantic called "Networks of Power", which examined the power-brokers of Mumbai, Rome, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and London. The Guardian found the series "immensely watchable" and described <mask> as "Paxmanesque – quizzical, authoritative, faintly mischievous".He frequently appears on


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Personal life
He is married to <mask>, Baroness <mask> and has two sons from a previous marriage. He sits on the board of the charity his wife founded, PACT (Parents and Abducted Children Together). Sir <mask> was admitted to hospital on the afternoon of 11 July 2018 after an alleged attack by two youths at London Victoria station.He was 74 at the time, and had been doing a lot of television work regarding US President Donald Trump's UK visit. A 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, but were released under investigation while enquiries into the incident continued. However a witness later came forward to claim that Sir <mask> was not attacked and that he was injured after accidentally falling over. The boy pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm without intent to Sir <mask> on 11 July 2018. Books
 <mask> (2005), DC Confidential, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ()
 <mask> (2009), Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson ()
 <mask> (2013), "Only Child", Amazon Kindle Single,

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The Guardian, Sir <mask>'s memoirs
JLA, speaker profile
Press Complaints Commission

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<mask> (; born January 24, 1916 – October 20, 2010) was a Polish-Israeli visual artist, a decorated leader of partisans during World War II, a key player in 20th century Yiddish culture, and one of the trailblazers for art education and Artists' associations in the emerging state of Israel. Biography
<mask> was born in Tartu, Estonia and brought up in Wilno. As a young boy he adhered to the values of the Yiddish culture of Yung Vilne, as well as to the modern Polish culture. After completing his studies at the gymnasium, he was accepted to the Stefan Batory art academy affiliated with the Wilno University, where he studied painting and sculpture. His parents were physicians. His father came from a secular family and his mother was the daughter of Rabbi Tuvia Lobitzki, the rabbi of Wołkowysk, Poland. His studies were interrupted by World War II.<mask> joined the partisans and became a commander of the Jewish partisan unit in the Narocz Forests. He buried many of the drawings he made at this time near Lake Narocz. He returned to the ghetto in September 1943 and helped to facilitate the rescue of members of the United Partisan Organization (FPO), a Jewish underground movement active in the ghetto and lead by poet Abba Kovner, Bogen's school friend. When the Vilna Ghetto was about to be destroyed, Bogen and his partisans tried to rescue some key people, one of whom was Abraham Sutzkever. With the help of the soviet partisans, they managed to finally smuggle him into Moscow along with some of Bogen's drawings, which were eventually exhibited in Moscow

According to the  "Russian State Archive of literature and art” (RGALI), he was head of the Department of Arts of the Lithuanian SSR from: 05 September 1944 - February 1945. After the war Bogen returned to his studies, finished his academic degree and was mastered as an artist of monumental painting at the USB Academy of Art

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 in Vilna. In 1947, he taught as a professor at The Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź and became a well-known artist, set designer and book illustrator.Alongside his recognition as a Polish Artist and war hero, receiving several accolades and awards as well as a large retrospective exhibition (Łódź State Museum, 1950) - <mask> was also very active in the resuscitation of the cultural life of the Jewish Community in post war Poland. In 1951, <mask> and his wife immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. During his time in Israel, Bogen continued his cultural and educational activities in the arts. In 1957 he initiated the art program in WIZO France - Ironi Yud-Dalet high school in Tel Aviv and lead it for 22 years. Bogen completed his academic studies of art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and was an art lecturer in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Bogen continued painting, drawing and sculpting until his death at the age of 94 in Tel Aviv on October 20, 2010. In July 2018, Mayor Ron Huldai, on behalf of the city of Tel Aviv, has inaugurated a Memorial plaque in Bogen's honor on the house where he lived and worked.Resistance through art

<mask> continued to draw during the war, documenting what he saw: "We saw abandoned children. We saw people being led to the slaughter. I did not lay down my pencil for a moment. An artist condemned to death portraying people condemned to extermination... I sketched the forest, my brothers-in-arms, the battle itself. There was no table. There were no paints.There was no paper. I found packing paper. I made ink from blueberries, fixer out of pulverized milk and burnt dry branches for charcoal for my sketches. I asked myself why I was drawing, when I was fighting day and night…

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people facing brutal danger, facing death, react in their own different way. the artist's reaction is artistic.This is his weapon." His drawings, especially those that survived from his partisan days, offer a gallery of characters and document the history of a people fighting for its life during the Holocaust. Among the drawings on show were illustrations for poems by two Yiddish poets: Gebirtig and Abraham Sutzkever. Monuments & murals

 “Revolt” – Partisan Museum, Tel Aviv
 “Holocaust” – Partisan Museum, Tel Aviv
 Vitrage, Jabotinsky Institute, Tel Aviv
 Vitrage, 14th Vocational High School, Kiryal Hachinuch, Tel Aviv
 Memorial Monument, Commemorating the Holocaust and the Revolt,  Latroun Museum, Jerusalem

Awards

 1951	State Prize, Polish Government Prize
 1961	The Histadrut Prize, Israel
 1962	The Israel Ministry of Education & Culture Prize
 1980	Prize of the Sea League of Israel
 1982	The Negev Prize
 1993	Medal of the City of Vesoul, France
 1995	Shalom Aleichem Prize, Israel

See also
Official Website
Visual arts in Israel
 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Alexander Bogen Collection  at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
"the Pen and the Sword" - online exhibition from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. References

External links

Alexander Bogen Foundation

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Israeli illustrators
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<mask> (born 2 February 1950 in Larga village, Briceni rayon) is a Moldovan politician. He held the position of general mayor of Chișinău municipality (1994–2005) and interim prime minister of the Republic of Moldova (5 – 17 February 1999). He was the chairman of the party Our Moldova Alliance (2003–2011), first deputy chairman of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (2009–2010) and president of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova (2011–2016). Biography
<mask> was born on February 2, 1950 at Larga, Briceni, in the Moldovan SSR,   in a peasant's family. Education and career
After graduation of the Middle School in his native village, he continued his education at the Polytechnic Institute in Chișinău, at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering (1969–1974), which he graduated from in 1974, obtaining the qualification of construction engineer. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the same year, the compulsory military service began in the Soviet army, during which, for two years, he participated, directly, in the construction of the famous car plant in Tolyatti, Russia (1974–1976).After demobilization, in 1976, he continued his professional activity in the native district – Briceni as an engineer within the Constructions Enterprise Briceni (1976–1978). In this capacity, he works on the construction sites of the Briceni district. He led construction works on several social-economic sites. In 1978 he was co-opted within the political structures of Briceni district. He held the position of Head of Department for Industrial and Constructions Development, Second Secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova in Briceni (1978–1983). In 1983–1985, he studied at the  Higher Party School of Leningrad, Russia. Returning to the Republic of Moldova, he worked at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova.He holds, for a

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texts: candidate for the position of prime minister, but he did not get the support of the parliament, he withdrew his candidacy. On December 21, 1999, by the Decree no.1263 (art. 3) of the President of the Republic of Moldova, Petru Lucinschi, was declared that <mask> <mask>, in his capacity as general mayor of Chișinău municipality, would become a member of the ex officio Government. He held the position of member of the government by the time of adoption of the Law no. 806-XV of February 5, 2002 for amending and completing the Statute of Chișinău municipality, when he was suspended of being a member of the Government of the Republic of Moldova. <mask> <mask> was very proactive in the political life. In 2001 he became the President of the Social-Political Movement Independents' Alliance of Moldova, in 2003 he became the co-president of the Party Our Moldova Alliance (in 2005 – 2011 he became the president), and in 2004 – 2005 he was the leader of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova. At the parliamentary elections of March 6, 2005, Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova, led by the Chișinău mayor <mask> <mask>, accumulated 28.53% of the votes of the participants and got 34 mandates out of 101.In accordance with article 70 of the Constitution of Moldova, "the MP position is not compliant with the any other remunerated function, except the didactic and scientific activity". On April 18, 2005, in the last day of the one-month term given for the validation of the mandate, provided to decide whether to accept or reject the position for which was elected, <mask> <mask> decided to resign as mayor of Chișinău in favour of the deputy in the Parliament of the Republic Moldova. On April 21, 2011, he was appointed for the position of the chairman of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova. At the local elections in Chișinău held in 2015, <mask> <mask> was a candidate for the position of mayor from the

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After the July 2009 parliamentary election, alongside Vlad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, and Marian Lupu, <mask> <mask> signed the Alliance For European Integration in a press conference on August 8, 2009. Personal life
He is married to Tatiana Marcenco and has two children. Distinctions
He is decorated with the Order of the Republic of Moldova (2000), [4] the Order "Shield of Honor", the Order "For the development of science and education", the Orders "Saint Dumitru" of the second grade, "Sergii Radonezhsky" and "Saint Stanislav", granted by the Russian Orthodox Church by the Russian Patriarch, Patriarch Alexy II. In April 2015 he was awarded the honorary title of "Emeritus".External links
 Alianţa Moldova Noastră
 Serafim URECHEAN

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Prime Ministers of Moldova
Mayors of Chișinău
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Moldovan MPs 1990–1994
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<mask> (January 17, 1867 – February 22, 1929) was an American artist and art activist known principally for her landscapes and marine scenes. Her paintings won praise from the critics and art collectors of her time. Writing at the height of her career, a newspaper critic praised her "firmness of character, quick vision, and directness of purpose." She said these traits "proved a solid rock upon which to build up an independent art expression which soon showed to men painters that they had a formidable rival." As art activist, she supported and led organizations devoted to supporting the work of under-appreciated painters, particularly women. Early life

On finishing high school in the late 1880s, <mask> first looked to a career in music, but soon turned her attention to painting. Her desire to become a professional artist may have been influenced by stories she had heard about her great uncle, William Page, a highly regarded artist who had held the office of president of the National Academy of Design in the early 1870s.She undertook formal study at the age of 33 when she attended William Merritt Chase's school for plein air painting held in the summer months at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. She subsequently studied for a short time at Chase's New York School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but principally developed her personal style through close study of the work of other artists both in New York and during travels within the United States. In 1923 she told an interviewer that she sought formal instruction only to learn good technique, believing that the best art showed the artist's individuality and skill of self-expression. She said painting such art cannot be learned in

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 schools. "The great ones," she said, "won't teach their secrets, and the little ones have none to teach". In pursuing her career, she obtained the unswerving support of her husband, whose success in the law permitted him to retire at an early age. This support gave her freedom to develop her talent unimpeded by financial need.Her own "firmness of character, quick vision, and directness of purpose" assured that she would apply herself intensely, with courage and originality in making paintings that would quickly be recognized for their "clear, forceful rendering, good drawing, and fine color work". Mature style
Having no need for the money that art sales would provide, <mask> rarely exhibited her paintings in private galleries and never competed for prizes. She preferred group shows to solo ones, and chose for the most part to participate in exhibitions held by clubs, societies, and other institutions of which she was a member, or exhibitions held by museums and other public institutions. The first show of her professional career was a group exhibition held in 1902 at the Art Club in Kansas City, Missouri, where she and her husband made their home. The two landscapes she contributed displayed her skill in creating atmospheric effects. The subject of the first, a peach orchard, was described as "rich with the hues of blossom time and bathed in a bright spring atmosphere", while the other, a forest scene called The Beeches, was seen to possess "the same luminous atmospheric effects". In the early years of the twentieth century, she traveled frequently to New York City, and in 1905 she provided a painting called Moonrise to a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design.Over the next fifteen


texts: years, she would exhibit another ten times at the National Academy. About 1909 <mask> began spending most cooler months of the year in Manhattan and the warmer months in the seaside resort and artists' colony in Gloucester, Massachusetts. <mask> at first rented studio space in both locations but, while continuing to rent in New York, in 1912 she and her husband bought land and built a house in East Gloucester which they called the "House on the Hill". That year, she showed three landscapes at the Twenty-third Annual Exhibition of the New York Watercolor Club. She also contributed a picture, called Little Red Boat, to a group show of contemporary American painting at the Corcoran Gallery. The critic for a local paper called her work "sincere, frank and sympathetic", and said <mask>, although "by no means well known", was "rapidly gaining recognition". The following year, her work appeared in one of her few solo appearances in a New York gallery when she contributed 29 landscapes and marines to a show at the Folsom Galleries.In 1914, after a decade of few appearances, <mask> began to place her paintings in group, duo, and solo exhibitions. That year, she showed at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as another Corcoran show; a solo show at the Fine Arts Institute, Kansas City, and a dual-show with M. Bradish Titcomb at the Copley Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. The trend continued during the next few years, with a solo show at the Petrus Stuyvesant Club, New York, in 1916 and group shows over the next three years: (1) in 1915 at the National Academy of Design, Macbeth Galleries in New York, the Association of Women Painters and Sculptors exhibition at Arlington

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 of the complementary colors". With the exception of some floral arrangements, <mask> did not paint interiors or urban scenes. Working out of doors in rural settings, she sought to capture the subjective feeling of a scene, its "mood of nature," as she put it, however much time and effort it might take to achieve that goal. While praising the "strong, clean palette and vigorous handling" in her landscapes and marines, one critic noted that her success derived from knowing what to leave out of a picture as well as what to put in it. In 1927, when <mask> turned 60, her skill and her appetite for hard work remained undiminished. The art reporter for the New York Evening Post praised a solo exhibition of that year for the subtlety and rhythm of the flower paintings and landscapes in oil and watercolor that it contained, and the reporter for the Times drew attention to the painting Gloucester in Winter in this show for its success in evoking a mood: the charm of a coastal resort that "flees with the opening of the Summer hotels".Art activist

As an artist, <mask> was viewed as energetic, forceful, virile, and direct. Deploying these character traits as an activist, she became a strong advocate for artists and of democratic principles within the art world. In 1922 she became president of a new society of artists—The Gloucester Society of Artists—devoted to exhibiting work without prior selection by juries. She believed that juries unfairly prevented good art from being seen, particularly art made by women, and, that, by skewing public taste, they inhibited young artists from developing their creative potential. That year she also opened a gallery in her New York apartment both to show her own work, on

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 occasion, and to show the work of other artists who she believed deserved greater exposure. In 1925 she became a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists and participated in its annual shows up to the time of her death. Like the Gloucester society, this one believed in exhibiting with no jury.It also decided that each member should get same amount of space to display her work and that the membership would be limited to 30 painters and sculptors. Exhibitions

<mask> exhibited her work in private galleries, shows of the societies of which she was a member, and public institutions such as the National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy, Albright Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Newark Museum, and the Museum of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Omaha, Nebraska. She also showed at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco in 1915. She participated in a large number of group and solo exhibitions. Solo exhibitions included shows at the Folson Gallery (1913, New York), Fine Arts Institute (1914, Kansas City, Mo. ), Petrus Stuyvesant Club (1916, New York), Albright Art Gallery (1920, Buffalo, N.Y.), Woman's City Club (1922, Kansas City, Mo. ), Art Institute of Chicago (1921), Memorial Art Gallery (1921, Rochester, N.Y.), Knoedler Galleries (1921, New York), Mrs. Sterner's Gallery (1922, New York), Painters and Sculptors Gallery (1926, New York), Marie Sterner's Art Patrons of America (1927, New York).Her participation in group shows included repeated appearances with the Art Institute of Chicago, Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Gallery on the Moors (Gloucester, Mass. ), Gloucester Society of


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<mask> belonged to the American Federation of Arts, Art Association of Gloucester, Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, New York), National Arts Club, National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York Society of Women Artists, Pen and Brush Club, Salons of America, and Society of Independent Artists. Personal life

<mask> became a painter after her marriage in 1891 and consistently used <mask> <mask> as her professional name. Her married name, Mrs. <mask>, appeared only in newspapers' society notices. Various truncations and misspellings of her name appeared from time to time. The most common was the rendering her last name as "Brumbach" as in "<mask> Brumbach" or, on one case, "L.M.Brumbach." She was born in Rochester, New York, on January 17. There is disagreement about the year of her birth. Although references published since 1900 give 1872, sources from earlier years give 1867. Census reports for 1870, 1875, and 1880 give her birth year as 1867; her gravestone gives that year; and a genealogy published in 1900 gives it as well. The earliest source giving a later birth date is the United States Census of 1900 which lists her age as 29 with presumptive birth year of 1871 or 1872. Parents

<mask>'s parents were Charles E<mask> and <mask> <mask>.They were sufficiently prominent that the large house in which they lived stood on the corner of a street, Upton Park, named after them. <mask>'s siblings included an older sister, <mask> (born 1860), a

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At an early age <mask> and her twin sister Alice were sent to Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School, a boarding school in New York City which had a curriculum of sufficient rigor that graduates could pass the examinations for entrance to Columbia College. Established in 1864 the school was run by Caroline Gallup Reed, widow of the Rev. Sylvanus Reed. Upon leaving it, <mask> enrolled in one of New York's conservatories of music. Move to Kansas City and marriage
In 1889 <mask> <mask> <mask> and her two daughters moved from New York to Kansas City and on June 11, 1891, <mask> married Frank Fullerton <mask>, a prominent attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, and author. The couple had one child, <mask> <mask>.He was born on June 9, 1892, in Kansas City and died on December 3, 1918, in Springfield, Ohio. He was killed in flight while serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Service. In 1921 <mask> donated a painting called Fair and Cooler to the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester in memory of

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<mask> (1887–1972) (also known as "Rav Ha-Nazir," the Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, kabbalist, and a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. A noted Jewish ascetic, he took a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of World War I. Education
<mask> was born in Maišiagala, near Vilna (in modern Lithuania), the scion of a distinguished rabbinic family. In his youth he studied at the Raduń Yeshiva under Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, at the Volozhin yeshiva, and at the yeshiva in Slabodka. Even at that time, his restless and inquiring mind led him to extend his studies beyond the traditional subjects taught in the yeshivot. Thus he turned to Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the early writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. He also studied Russian to prepare himself for entrance to the university.During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was twice arrested but was not detained. His spiritual unrest and the desire to widen his intellectual horizon led him to enroll in the Academy for Jewish Studies established by Baron <mask>, where one of his close fellow students was Zalman Shazar, later president of Israel. From there he proceeded to Germany to study at the University of Freiburg. At the outbreak of World War I he was interned as an enemy alien, but was released and made his way to Basel, Switzerland, where he became involved in the Jewish Community while continuing studying Torah and also studying philosophy, classical literature, and Roman law at the University of Basel. He was for a time chairman of the Jewish Students' Society there and delivered lectures on Jewish philosophy. It

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The turning point in his life came with his meeting, on 29 Av, with Rabbi Kook, who was then in St. Gallen in Switzerland (1915)."My life then stood in the balance," he noted. "I listened to him and was turned into a new man. ... I had found a master." He decided to abandon his secular studies and devote himself entirely to Jewish thought. In 1922 he received an invitation from Rabbi Kook, who had returned to the Land of Israel, to become a tutor in the yeshiva which he had established. He helped draw up the curriculum, which was also to include history, philosophy, ethics, Hebrew grammar, and Bible.He was appointed lecturer in Talmud, ethics, and philosophy. The two used to meet daily, and Rabbi Kook entrusted him with the editing of his philosophical works, to which, along with disseminating Kook's ideas, he dedicated his life, hardly publishing any of his own works, although he left over 30 works in manuscript. The principal exception was the Kol Nevu'ah, of which the first volume appeared shortly before his death. It is the fruit of his life's work and is in two parts, "The Foundations of Jewish Religious Philosophy" and "The Foundations of Inner Wisdom." The work is based on the premise that there is an original Jewish philosophy and a spiritual Jewish system of logic which is not intuitive speculative but spiritual-acoustic: "Sound and light are the two angels of thought which accompany man everywhere" but "hearing is greater than seeing." The prophetic power is the beginning of Jewish wisdom, and he was convinced that the renewal of Jewish life in Israel


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 would produce a new generation to which would even be vouchsafed the return of the spirit of prophecy. A passionate adherent of Rabbi Kook's doctrine that the return to Zion and its various stages, of which the establishment of the State of Israel was the latest, was itself only a stage in the fulfillment of the Divine Promise that would bring about the complete Redemption and the Messianic Age, he did not hesitate to reprove those rabbis who did not accept this belief.He saw in Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto the harbinger of this redemption, pointing out that the three significant movements, Hasidism, Musar, and Haskalah, had each made certain of Luzzatto's works their classics, and he claimed that both Rabbi Kook and he himself followed his doctrines. <mask> was married to his cousin, <mask> (Etkin) and had a daughter and a son: – Zfia Goren, the wife of Rabbi Shlomo Goren Zt"l, the first Chief Rabbi of the IDF  and Major General (Res), then the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and finally the Chief Rabbi of Israel; and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv <mask>t"l – Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa. <mask>, his wife and his children were vegetarian. <mask>'s Yahrzeit is on the 28th of Av. In 1977, a three-volume Festschrift entitled Nezir Ehav was published in his memory. See also
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<mask> (born 3 June 1954) is a British Catholic layman, author and commentator; a former priest of the Church of England, and a former continuing Anglican bishop. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 3 June 1954 in London, England, the son of <mask> and <mask> (née Simpson, now Salmon). He was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School and as a music scholar at The King's School, Canterbury. He graduated from the University of Bristol, with a degree in law. He trained for the Anglican priesthood at Oak Hill Theological College, where he read for a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology. Whilst at Oak Hill he was also sent as part of his training to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, where he came under the influence of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov).<mask> did postgraduate work at Heythrop College at the University of London with a Master of Theology degree on the psychology of religion. Whilst a chaplain and member of faculty at the University of Sussex, he completed a doctorate on the life and work of Charles Williams (1999). He published Alchemy and Integration, a study of Williams' work in 2007, which was reviewed by the Archbishop Rowan Williams in the Times Literary Supplement. Ministry and other positions

<mask> was ordained at Southwark Cathedral in 1980 and served as a parish priest for 10 years in the Diocese of Southwark, firstly at St James's Bermondsey and then as vicar of Hamsey Green in Sanderstead. In Sanderstead he worked alongside Thomas Smail who had been director of the Fountain Trust. In 1989 he was appointed to the post of university chaplain and senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sussex where he lectured in

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 literature and the psychology of religion. He was appointed a senior officer of the university in 1994.He convened and taught the MA programme "Monotheism and Mysticism in Critical Theology". From 1995 to 2003 he also lectured in systematic theology at the University of Brighton. He was appointed as a canon of Chichester Cathedral in 2003, and then to a further theological canonry (Bursalis Prebendary) in 2006. He was an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chichester and Diocesan Adviser on New Age Religions. In 1998 he was a Church of England delegate to the 8th Council of the World Council of Churches held in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for from 1995 to 2012. He has lectured in the United States, most recently as a visiting theologian for the Lutheran Church in Oregon.In 2012 he took early retirement and moved to a house for duty post as vicar of St Martin de Gouray in Gorey, Jersey. He was vice-chairman of the Keston Institute during the 1980s, and a director of Aid to Russian Christians, in which role he engaged in smuggling Bibles and medicine to the "Underground Church" in the Soviet Union during that decade. He was a member of the Society of the Holy Cross and previously a member of the Little Brothers of Jesus. He was a member of Forward in Faith. He combined the experience of and allegiance to the Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical and Charismatic strands of the Church of England. In 2016, <mask> was appointed to the board of reference for the Global Anglican Future Conference He also joined Anglican TV Ministries as their UK correspondent. Resignation from Church of England positions

In early 2017, <mask> resigned from his position as Chaplain to the Queen after speaking out against a service at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, at which a Muslim law student read (in

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 Arabic) a passage from the Koran that explicitly declared that Jesus is not the Son of God and because of his views on Islam and orthodox Christianity.Ashenden concluded that being a member of the Ecclesiastical Household meant he could not speak out on matters he felt strongly about and that it was his duty and calling to speak on issues relating to the integrity of the Christian faith. One of the consequences of his resignation was a variety of media engagements in several countries, including Fox News in the United States, The Bolt Report in Australia, and James Delingpole's Delingpole Podcast in the UK. On 17 March 2017, <mask> lodged a deed in the High Court of London under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870, to relinquish his orders within the Church of England. Christian Episcopal Church

In September 2017 Archbishop Theodore Casimes of the Christian Episcopal Church announced that Ashenden had been consecrated as a missionary bishop for the United Kingdom and Europe. Ashenden left the Christian Episcopal Church in December 2019. Catholic Church
On 22 December 2019, Ashenden was received into the Catholic Church by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Mark Davies, at Shrewsbury Cathedral. Bishop Davies commented that it was "very humbling to be able to receive a bishop of the Anglican tradition into full communion in the year of the canonization of Saint John Henry Newman."Ashenden may become a priest of the Catholic Church or stay a lay theologian, depending upon the determination of the Holy See. In the media
In 2008, <mask> was appointed to be the presenter of the Faith and Ethics programme for BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey, until 2012. From 2009 to 2012, he also presented the BBC podcast Faith in England. In 2013, he began a weekly column in the Jersey Evening Post, where his defence of orthodox Christianity and its critique


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 of modern culture caused both strong support and opposition. He was a contributor to both Anglican Ink and Anglican TV before creating a new internet programme 'Catholic Unscripted.' He has been interviewed in the media, including by Rod Liddle for The Sunday Times over the controversy surrounding Bishop Curry's sermon following the Royal Wedding in 2018. BBC 2's Newsnight took up the issue when the Archbishop of Canterbury raised questions about God and gender.John Anderson, formerly deputy prime minister of Australia, conducted an interview on the dangers to freedom of speech in his series "conversations", and he has become a regular guest on GBNews. <mask> has contributed Op Ed pieces in both The Times and The Daily Telegraph. He has featured inThe Spectators religious affairs podcast 'Holy Smoke;'   and has written also for Christian Today. He is a regular columnist for the Catholic Herald and an occasional contributor to The Tablet. He maintains a website for the publication of  homilies, articles and commentary at ashenden.org. <mask> has written on Russian Orthodox spirituality in A Guidebook to the Spiritual Life (ed. Peter Toon).He also wrote The Oxford Inklings
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<mask> () (November 22, 1947 – June 20, 2006) was a Bulgarian physicist, mathematician, union leader and parliamentarian. He contributed particularly to the application of Chaos theory to mechanical and radiophysical systems as well as to space exploration and space studies. Biography
<mask> was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, the son of a lawyer and of a French language teacher. He received his early schooling in Sofia and at the Georgi Benkovski Gymnasium at Teteven, a mountain town in the Balkan Range, in the District of Lovech. He studied at Moscow Technical University, from which he graduated in 1971 with a degree in Informatics and Engineering Physics. He went on to study at M. V. Lomonossov University (Moscow State University). There, he wanted to change his major to Philosophy, in order to study Bertrand Russell, but was forbidden to do so by the Bulgarian authorities.He shone at chess, earned a degree in radiophysics (1977) and, the same year, received a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. He collaborated at some of the most advanced space programs at the Russian Academy of Science. <mask> became a Doctor of Science at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS, Sofia) in 1992. He was a professor at the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he headed the Department of Nonlinear Space Dynamics. He was a visiting professor at University of Kyoto, University of Leeds, Université de Montréal a o. His colleagues voted him Scientist of Year 2001–2002. He has 17 patents and over 250

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Book
 Nonlinear and Parametric Phenomena - Theory and Applications in Radiophysical and Mechanical Systems - World Scientific (Series on Nonlinear Science) - New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing - (2004). Patents
 Methods and Devices for Implementation of Low-Noise Wide-Band Negative Resistances, Negative Capacitances and Negative Inductances (Patents of Republic of Bulgaria, No 25959, No 25960, No 25961, No 25971, No 29260 and No 30008). Method and Device for Measuring Biological Membranes (Patent of Republic of Bulgaria, No 29993).Multielectrode Modulation Device for Measuring the Interplanetary Plasma (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45821). Short-Range Autodyne System (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45520). Short-Range Radar (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 47466). One-Band Modulator (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 35731), with D.V. Stoyanov. Linear Reciprocating Electric Motor (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 44194), with Y.B. Douboshinsky and M.I.Kozakov. Microwave Emitter (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 44197), with D.B. Douboshinsky and Y.B. Douboshinsky. Inductive Sensor - Spectrum Analyser (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 30009). Main Articles in English
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 Advances in Space Research, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, (1991). Earth, Moon, and Planets, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1992) with D. B. Douboshinsky, (1993).Aerospace Research in Bulgaria, (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999). Dynamical Systems and


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<mask> is a Singaporean author and artist. He is best known for his two part graphic novel adaption of New York Times bestselling Larry Niven's sci-fi novel Ringworld and a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic where 300,000 copies were distributed for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. He is also the creator of the graphic novel Geungsi. Biography
<mask> was born in Singapore. As a young adolescent, he was fascinated with drawing. In the 1980s, he was exposed to the various art from a diverse range of graphic novels ranging from Western comics to Japanese manga and Chinese manhua, which led him to gain a strong interest in this form of art and storytelling. He graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and specialise in traditional and digital art, graphic novel and story writing.Aside from his art career, he is also known to be an avid mixed martial arts and Tai Chi practitioner. Graphic novel career

 Early 2009-2014 Early work and breakthrough
His first foray into the comic industry was the release of It Takes a Wizard, a 480-page single volume manga, written by German writer Thomas R. Hart, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment, an American publisher of original manga-style comics in 2009. Two years later

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 Macmillan Publishers published his two-part graphic novel adaption of the sci-fi novel Ringworld by Larry Niven, namely Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One and Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two. He then went on to develop several bible-themed graphic novels with American publisher Manga Hero, which includes Paul: Tarsus to Redemption, Judith: Captive to Conqueror, Many Are Called, and Habemus Papam! manga. He released a 32-page Pope Benedict manga comic which was distributed in August during World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid. This was followed by an expanded version of the graphic novel which went deeper into the life of Pope Benedict XVI.In 2012 he won an award for his bible themed graphic novel, Judith: Captive to Conqueror at Angoulême Christian Comics Festival in France. A 48-page paperback, Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy,, was later created to celebrate the appointment of Pope Francis. 2015-2019
In 2015 he collaborated with the Four Lords from San Diego as the main comic artist for The Curseborn Saga manga, and together held a book signing at the Los Angeles Anime Expo for the launch of the first volume, followed by another at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2018, where his team got an exclusive interview by ABC 10 News. They are currently in works on the second volume of the comic and an art book with a consolidation of all his current concept arts and character designs for the story planned for release sometimes towards end of 2018 or early 2019. 2020 to present
Throughout the 20s to present, he has always work closely with his chief editor Junzi (also known as kingB, a contemporary artist and author ) over many past works, including his two new original comic series namely the Red Dot(later renamed


texts: Geungsi) and Goddess Punch, both which were introduced exclusively on his social media platform Instagram. Both works aim to appeal to both local Singaporeans as well as the international audience. Apart from working on graphic novels, <mask> has held in-house art gallery showcasing his popular online series of Red Dot and Silent Night series artworks which he has also shared on his Instagram.In early 2021, in a NAFA news article, he shared more updates of his new long running graphic novel series Geungsi, which was slated to be launched later part of the year and also the first time his book is launched in Singapore ahead of its international release. In June 2021, he shared with Asia Contemporary Art platform Artitute some insights of his journey in pursuing his passion as a graphic novelist, and how he came about with the creation of Geungsi being his first written story that sets in Singapore, where he blends social commentary and detailed cultural settings with strong elements of Asian horror, myth and fantasy. American online publishing platform Medium followed up with an article on the book ahead of its launch in Sep, with sneak previews of the book production and a take on his new approach in the art style of Geungsi. In Oct 2021 he officially held a three day launch of his book Geungsi at the Singapore National Library in Singapore with a series of talks where he shares about writing and creating graphic novels. During the talks, he revealed that Geungsi is going to be a long running series with the apocalyptic story spanning across Asia to other parts of the world. He held a solo exhibition called Geungsi Art Exhibition 2021 in November to celebrate the launch of his first work in Singapore and was featured


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 in Singapore's arts and culture guide Alist. In an interview with pop-culture Red Dot Diva on his Geungsi, he shared about how the title Geungsi derived from his love for Jiangshi films back in the 90s.He also quoted inspirations from music in the course of his work whenever he's drawing. In Jan 2022 he did an exclusive interview with The Singapore Straits Times and had Geungsi featured in The Sunday Times line up of hot-off-the-press home-grown books in Singapore. Adam Symchuk of The Grimoire of Horror and Asian Movie Pulse gave the book 4 out of 5 and praised the series being perfectly poised, which touches on a few different genres in an impressive manner and deserved, to bring further recognition to the region – particularly for fans of horror manga. New York City-based literary arts Singapore Unbound puts Geungsi as one of the must-read books in SP Blog’s 8th Annual Books Round-up 2021. In Jan 2022 Yuan magazine of Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations released a full length Chinese interview on him, for the first time sharing deeper insights about his thoughts and life journey through the years abroad in pursue of his passion in graphic novel career. Technique and materials
<mask> is known to use Japanese nib G-pen and Sumi Ink over his pencils for his graphic novel works, and is also versed in using Wacom graphics tablets. He also specializes in using charcoal on large canvas and Chinese and Japanese Ink wash painting.In talking about the artist's work ethic, <mask> has said, "I hope artists strike a balance in using traditional and digital medium. When one uses traditional art medium, they gain a deeper understanding of the materials and fundamentals as opposed to the over-reliance on undoing

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 mistakes using digital, which on the other hand, do offer an increase in productivity on time. Music and fashion
In early 2018 he collaborated with American DJ and record producer Slushii with a anime rendition of him on a limited edition poster of his There X2 Tour, for the first time introducing Slushii clashing with new 'dark Slushii' donned in a black alternate version of his signature T-shirt. In 2020 he collaborated with Japanese brand Maker's Watch Knot to launch a Limited time collection series of the 12 Zodiac Characters artworks together with their Artisan Watches, with each pair of Zodiac inspired male and female characters featured monthly. ‘Knot X SEANLAM Limited Postcard Collection’ consists of character designs which are loosely based on one of his manga story collections '''Moment For Love 愛の瞬間 ‘. Through this collaboration, he expresses that "art is a timeless expression that bonds together the love and people of diversity". He was also the judge for the manga art competition held by Knot in Singapore in April 2020.In Dec 2021, <mask> launched THE YUREI X SEANLAM, a clothing line featuring his new series of artworks introducing a collection of mythical creatures from Asian folklore beyond those of Japanese folklore to the west. This marks his first collaboration with the UK Asian Horror media The Yurei and their collaboration was featured on Arttitute. The clothing line was launched on the same day in UK and Singapore under UK time zone. THE YUREI X SEANLAM made a first appearance at the SG Toycon 2021 in Singapore where <mask> held an exclusive three day autograph session for the launch of the first series of the limited edition T-shirts and bandannas. Words of hope and encouragement
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 COVID-19 pandemic, he extended support to his homeland Singapore through art therapies and free art workshops for children sharing his latest children's illustrated storybook series Growing Up with you, a series of heart-warming local stories. In December 2020 he was commissioned by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)  and REACH to produce a mural to celebrate REACH Singapore 35th Anniversary, to show support to their 35 years of relentless efforts to hear the voices of the public as well as engaging in conversations with all walks of life. The mural aims to start off on an emerging stronger conversation to reach out to different communities in Singapore such as clan associations and youths, to enable participants to share their hopes for what Singapore could look like as the country emerge from COVID-19.In an interview back in 2011, he talked about hopes to bring changes to the art scene in Singapore and to hopefully attract and trigger the creativity in children in comic and manga art, saying “Manga can deliver emotions faithfully and carry a vivid message to readers, evoking a sense of reality in the story. Young children are usually fascinated by the art when they pick up the book. I hope that my artwork can help them understand the emotional background of the set and characters, and bring them into that world to learn about the wonderful stories of faith and goodwill.”

Awards

 2012 Angoulême Christian Comics Festival 2nd award for Judith: Captive to Conqueror

Publications

 Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Many Are Called (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Habemus Papam-Pope Benedict XVI (Manga Hero, 2017)
 Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two (Tor/Seven Seas, 2015)
 Ringworld: The Graphic Novel,


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 Part One (Tor/Seven Seas, 2014)
 Judith: Captive to Conqueror (Manga Hero, 2013)
 Paul: Tarsus to Redemption (Manga Hero, 2012)
 It Takes a Wizard (Seven Seas, 2009)
 Geungsi (<mask>, 2021)

References

External links

<mask> Author Page from Macmillan Publishers

<mask> on Amazon Author Page
<mask> on Goodreads Author Page

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Singaporean comics

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<mask> (1610–1682), sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" <mask>, was an English fur trader, militia officer, politician and explorer of 17th century colonial Virginia. <mask> helped build and maintained Fort Henry at the falls of the Appomattox in present-day Petersburg. He also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council. Early and family life
<mask> emigrated from England as a 10-year-old boy in 1620. The English ship "Margaret and John", on which he sailed as an indentured servant or cabin boy was attacked by two Spanish vessels in the West Indies; <mask> was one of the few survivors; the attack led the vessel to turn to the Virginia colonies. Career

By 1625, <mask> worked for Captain Samuel Mathews and lived at Jamestown. He also filed land claims for areas on the lower Appomattox River in the 1630s, and in 1638. by which time he had turned to exploring the colony's interior, and traded for the beaver and deerskin with the native tribes.Upon being expelled from their villages at Bermuda Hundred and Swift Creek, natives had established a village near the falls of the Appomattox River, which would much later would become part of Petersburg. Natives revolted in 1644. Virginia colonists responded in part by building Fort Henry in 1646 at the falls of the Appomatox River. It supposedly marked the legal frontier between the white settlers and the Native Americans, as well as defended both the settler on the south side of the James River (about 20 miles north of the Appomattox River) and the native Appomattoc tribe which had grain fields and fished in the Appomattox River near the falls, and with whom <mask> traded. From 1646 until around

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texts: 1691, it became the only point in Virginia where Native Americans could legally cross eastward into white territory, or whites westward into Native American territory. Soon after its construction, <mask> commanded a garrison of 3 soldiers from Henrico County, 12 from Charles City County and 15 each from James City County and Isle of Wight County. Not long after, other colonists thought the tax burden too great, so the government allowed the fort and 600 acres of land sold to <mask>, who agreed to keep 10 armed men at the fort for three years.Thus <mask>, who both commanded the fort and privately owned the adjoining land and trading post, a considerable advantage over his competitors in the "Indian trade". <mask> represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1646, then Charles City County from 1652 and 1656. He was a justice of Charles City County in 1655. Also in 1655, he was appointed to a committee to review Virginia's laws. He was elected to the Virginia Governor's Council on March 13, 1657–68 and actively served until at least 1671, and according to correspondence, kept his seat through at least 1676, probably 1680. <mask> dispatched several exploration parties from Fort Henry during these years, including one that he personally led in 1650, which explored the upper reaches of the James River and Roanoke River. In August 1650, <mask> and Edward Bland reached and traveled on the Great Indian Warpath, penetrating the Carolina region southwest of the Roanoke River and discovering westward flowing rivers.Daniel Coxe mentions that "Parts of this Country were discovered by the English long before the French had the least knowledge... <mask> of Virginia... from the years 1654 to

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texts: 1664 discovered at several times several branches of the great rivers Ohio and Mesechaceba." <mask> also dispatched the first English expeditions to reach the southern Appalachian Mountains. In 1671, explorers <mask>, Thomas Batts (Batte) and Robert Fallam reached the New River Valley and the New River. "Batts was a grandson of Robert Batts, vicar master of University College, Oxford, and possible relation to Nathaniel Batts, first permanent settler in North Carolina and Governor of Roanoke Island. Nathaniel by 1655 had a busy Indian trade from his home on Albemarle Sound. <mask> may have been <mask>'s son.Robert Fallam is a question mark. The journal he kept of their experience shows him to be a literate, educated man." The New River was named <mask>'s River after <mask>, although in time it became better known as the New River. Batts and Fallam are generally credited with being the first Europeans to enter within the present-day borders of West Virginia. In 1673 <mask> sent his friend James Needham and his indentured servant Gabriel Arthur on an expedition to find an outlet to the Pacific Ocean. Shortly after their departure Needham and Arthur encountered a group of Tomahitan Natice Americans, who offered to conduct the men to their town across the mountains . After reaching the Tomahitan town Needham returned to Fort Henry to report to <mask>.While en route back to the Tomahitan town Needham was killed by a member of the trading party with whom he was traveling . Shortly thereafter, Arthur was almost killed by a mob in the Tomahitan settlement, but was saved and then adopted by the town's headman. Arthur lived with the Tomahitans for almost a year, accompanying them on war and trading

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 expeditions as far south as Spanish Florida  and as far north as the Ohio River . <mask> was appointed colonel of a militia regiment in Henrico and Charles City counties in 1655. Later, he was appointed major general but lost this position in 1676 after Bacon's Rebellion either because of infirmity or political differences with Governor William Berkeley. Bacon's rebel forces attacked the Appomattoc Indians on both sides of the river, killed many and dispersed the rest, after burning their town. By 1670 <mask> had relinquished his trading post to his son-in-law, Peter Jones, for whom Petersburg, Virginia would eventually be named, and in 1675 Jones became commander of the reactivated fort.Jones had married <mask>'s daughter Margaret, and a map drafted in 1670 named what had been "Fort Henry" on earlier maps, simply "<mask>". In 1676, Governor Berkeley wrote that Maj. Gen. <mask> of the council kept to his house through infirmity. By March 1678–79, he was strong enough to negotiate with the Native Americans and to arrange for the chief men of hostile tribes to meet in Jamestown. <mask> retired to patent more plantation land in 1680 west of the fort, in what had been Appomattoc territory, notwithstanding it being disallowed by the House of Burgesses. Death and legacy
<mask> died some time between 1681 and 1686, possibly in 1682. Further westward explorations stalled until undertaken by Governor Spottswood. Notes

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 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed.Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. . Retrieved February 16, 2013. 1610 births
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<mask> (born 1956) is an American writer and researcher of megachurches. He has authored or co-authored 33 books on church leadership, including Emotionally Healthy Church and Prepare Your Church for the Future, which have both achieved the bestseller status of 100,000 or more units in print. He has also overseen more than 25 research reports on issues affecting large and growing churches. His research on megachurches is regularly cited in mainstream and religious media. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Research and Equipping for the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Life and Ministry
<mask> was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and lived there until his college years. His formal academic training comes from Wheaton College (BA, MA), Alliance Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fordham University (PhD).An ordained minister, he has served in several church roles including church planter and assistant pastor, including his longest tenure being for 10 years (1997-2006) on staff at Princeton Alliance Church. While pastoring, he also served as adjunct professor at Alliance Theological Seminary. He has been licensed for ministry under the Christian & Missionary Alliance. <mask> is married to his college sweetheart. He and his wife, Michelle, live in a suburb of New York City. Research and Writing

In his early years, <mask> served on Carl George’s senior management team of the Pasadena-based Charles E. Fuller Institute of Evangelism and Church Growth where he visited, interviewed, researched, and profiled many of the largest, fastest-growing, or newest churches in North America. In subsequent years, he did

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 similar research and development for the Canada-based Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada, and for the Asbury Theological Seminary-based Beeson Institute for Advanced Church Leadership (1996-2006).From 2006 to 2018 <mask> served as Director of Research and Intellectual Capital Development at Leadership Network. In 2018 he became Vice President of Research and Equipping at the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) ,  the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit accrediting agency designed to enhance trust and certify integrity in Christ-centered churches and ministries. He has compiled and maintained a sortable list of US and Global megachurches published by Leadership Network since 2010. Articles
<mask> has published more than 200 magazine articles on church leadership including two cover stories for Christianity Today   and the cover story for Evangelicals (the National Association of Evangelicals). He has also contributed collaborative chapters or sections to 7 other books. He has served on advisory boards for several magazines and several other book projects. He has also written guest columns on megachurch issues such as “Not a Baby Boomer Phenomenon—Megachurches Draw Twice as Many People Under 45” in Christian Post.Megachurch Research, US and Global
Bird’s research has focused mainly on megachurches (Protestant congregations with 2,000 or more weekly attenders). He has authored more than 25 published reports based on original research including a collection of reports on comparative trends in US megachurches. This includes a 2021 co-authored study that was the nation’s largest-ever study of megachurches,

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 “The Changing Reality in America’s Largest Churches: Megachurch Research Report.” Specialty studies include Canadian megachurches, internships/residencies in large churches, multisite megachurches, and salaries in megachurches. He also co-authored a scholarly chapter on the global megachurch phenomenon. He has contributed articles to Review of Religious Research and to the academic journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Books
<mask> has authored or co-authored 33 books (listed below). <mask> received the prestigious Gold Medallion Award, the top honor given by the international trade association for Christian publishers, for Emotionally Healthy Church (2004).Teams that Thrive was named Leadership Resource of the Year by Outreach magazine in 2019.Translations of his books include Burmese, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Korean, Portuguese,[31] Russian,  Spanish, and Indonesian. Books are listed in order of publication newest to oldest:

 Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work, expanded and updated edition, Jim Tomberlin and <mask>, foreword by Craig Groeschel ()
 Next: Pastoral Succession that Works, expanded and updated edition. William Vanderbloemen and <mask>, foreword by John Ortberg ()

 Liquid Church: 6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ, Tim Lucas and <mask> ()
 Hero Maker: Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders, Dave Ferguson and <mask> ()
 How To Break Growth Barriers: Revise Your Role, Release Your People and Capture Overlooked Opportunities For Your Church, Carl George and <mask> ()
 God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church’s

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 Future, Will Mancini and <mask> ()
 Teams that Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership, Ryan Hartwig and <mask>, foreword by Dave Ferguson ()
 Next: Pastoral Succession that Works, William Vanderbloemen and <mask> ()

 Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller: The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership, Lyle Schaller and <mask> ()
 Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work. Jim Tomberlin and <mask> ()
 The Other 80%: Turning Your Church’s Spectators into Active Disciples, Scott Thumma and <mask> ()
 Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers, Ed Stetzer and <mask> ()
 Unleashing the Word: Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture, Max McLean and Warren Bird (
 A Multi-site Church Roadtrip: Exploring the New Normal, Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird ()

 Innovative Transitions: How Change Can Take Your Church to the Next Level, Dale Galloway with Warren Bird ()
 Missing in America: Making an Eternal Difference in the World Next Door, Tom Clegg and Warren Bird ()
 Eleven Innovations in the Local Church: How Today’s Leaders Can Learn, Discern, and Move into the Future, Elmer Towns, Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird ()
 Innovation 2007: Connecting Innovators to Multiply. Available free. Leadership

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<mask> (May 14, 1916 – September 27, 2000) was a Jewish Canadian boxer. A former Canadian Welterweight Champion and highly ranked in the Welterweight class during his career, <mask> was forced to retire from the sport due to an eye injury. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. Early career

Luftspring was born to Jewish parents of Polish descent and raised in St. John's Ward, a low class residential area of Toronto that was home to both Jewish and Italian immigrants. His father attempted to make a living as a bootlegger prior to prohibition, and the family struggled to raise six children under difficult circumstances. Luftspring began his boxing career in 1932 out of Brunswick Talmud Torah, a local Toronto Jewish community and recreational centre. Throughout his career, he wore a Magen David on his trunks.Over the next four years, he fought 105 times (attaining a record of 100–5) and captured Golden Gloves Tournaments in various weight classes ranging from bantamweight to welterweight. By 1933, he was the Ontario amateur lightweight champion and regarded as one of the best amateur boxing talents. In 1933, he was involved in the infamous Toronto Christie Pits riot. A wild street brawl first broke out at Christie Pits Park following tensions that occurred during a series of amateur softball games between two rival teams. The riot continued for six hours, and eventually attracted 10,000 locals, mostly spectators. The initial antagonists were a group of young Jewish and Italian men on a local team who started a fight when a Gang unfurled a Swastika, a symbol that had been displayed the previous day and on other occasions by the local Swastika Club, a group of Canadian Nazi sympathizers. 1936 Berlin Olympics boycott

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