texts: the St. Louis Blues on November 17, 2007. <mask> was sidelined again shortly after, injuring his leg and missing another 11 games before he returned during a January 15, 2008, game against the Calgary Flames. <mask> finished the season with 20 points in 54 games. He received a single fifth-place vote to tie for 17th with seven other players in James Norris Memorial Trophy voting as the NHL's best defenceman. On June 23, 2008, <mask> signed a three-year, $13.5 million contract extension with the Predators, avoiding restricted free agency. During his first year of the new contract, <mask> established himself as one of the top defenceman in the NHL.At the mid-way point of the season, he was among the defencemen statistical leaders, was considered a favourite to win the Norris Trophy and was named to the Western Conference roster for the 2009 National Hockey League All-Star Game in Montreal. <mask> finished the season with career-highs in all major statistical categories, including games played (81), goals (23), assists (30), points (53) and penalty minutes (80). His 23 goals set a new Predators franchise record for goals by a defenceman in a single season. Although he received no first-place votes, <mask> finished fourth in the Norris Trophy voting with 186 voting points, behind winner Zdeno Chára (1,034 points) and runners-up Mike Green (982 points) and Nicklas Lidström (733 points). <mask> narrowly missed being named to the NHL Second All-Star Team after receiving four-first place votes and 172 voting points, a single voting point behind Dan Boyle, the final defenceman selected. Entering his fifth season with the


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texts: appearance, <mask> recorded his 200th career NHL point—an assist—in a game against the Detroit Red Wings on February 9, 2011. During his sixth season with the Predators, <mask> averaged 25:19 in ice time and set career-highs in games played (82), assists (32) and shots on goal (25). <mask> also contributed 3 goals and 5 points in 12 playoff games as the Predators lost to the Vancouver Canucks after advancing to the Western Conference Semifinals for the first time in their history. At the conclusion of the regular season, <mask> was named one of three finalists—along with Zdeno Chára and Nicklas Lidström—for the Norris Trophy, the first finalist nomination of his career. He finished second in Norris Trophy voting, losing with 727 voting points to Lidström's 736.<mask> also finished 25th in Hart Memorial Trophy voting with two fifth-place votes. For the first time in his career, <mask> was voted to the NHL First All-Star Team after receiving 445 voting points, second among defencemen to Lidström's 464. On July 1, 2011, <mask> became a restricted free agent. However, he said he wanted to remain with the Predators. To prevent the possibility of other teams signing him to an offer sheet, the Predators filed for salary arbitration with <mask>, giving the team and <mask> until their hearing to negotiate a new contract. Failing to come to terms on a new contract by their hearing, <mask>'s case went to arbitration on August 2, the first time in NHL history a team-elected arbitration candidate had reached a hearing. The following day, he was awarded a one-year, $7.5 million contract from which the Predators could not walk

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texts: away, as the team had opted for arbitration.In the first month of the 2011–12 season, <mask> hit forward Jannik Hansen from behind in a game against Vancouver on October 20, 2011. While Hansen was uninjured on the play, <mask> was fined $2,500 – the maximum allowable financial penalty – by the NHL the following day. In Nashville's first game of the 2012 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, against Detroit, <mask> slammed centre Henrik Zetterberg's head into the glass boards during the closing seconds of the game after being hit by Zetterberg. The force of the blow cracked Zetterberg's helmet but he suffered no injury and would play in the next game. As punishment, the NHL imposed a $2,500 fine (the maximum allowable under the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement [CBA] at the time) on <mask> for retaliatory action. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in attendance at this game. <mask> finished the regular season leading all defencemen in shorthanded goals scored, with two.In the 2012 off-season, with the Predators unable to take <mask> to arbitration again (a player can only be subjected to team-elected arbitration once in his career), <mask> signed a front-loaded $110 million, 14-year offer sheet ($68 million of it as a signing bonus) from the Philadelphia Flyers on July 19. The offer sheet was the richest in NHL history in terms of total money, money per season, and length; surpassing the previous offer sheet record set by Thomas Vanek. Already having lost <mask>'s defensive partner Ryan Suter to unrestricted free agency, the Predators matched the offer sheet five days later. Following the 2012–13 NHL lockout, the CBA was

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On June 29, 2016, <mask> was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenceman P. K. Subban. The trade surprised many ice hockey fans because the details to this trade were kept strictly confidential until the deal was already made.<mask>'s first season with the Canadiens was rather successful offensively, recording 17 goals and 42 points in 78 games. In six post-season games, <mask> recorded three points during the team's first-round elimination to the New York Rangers. <mask> only

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 managed to skate in 26 games for Montreal the following season after suffering a tendon tear in his left foot. During the 2018–19 off-season, it was announced he was expected to be out of the Canadiens lineup until mid-December. On October 1, 2018, <mask> was named the 30th captain of the Canadiens, replacing Max Pacioretty after he was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on September 10, 2018. However, <mask> did not join the Canadiens lineup until November 27 due to an injury during the offseason that required surgery. In his second game back, he scored two goals in a 5–2 win against the New York Rangers.On February 2, 2021, <mask> played his 1,000th game in a 5–3 win against the Vancouver Canucks. The rest of <mask>'s 2020–21 season was plagued by lingering injuries. Montreal reached the playoffs, where <mask> played injured. Even in those circumstances, he led the team top defensive line and on-ice time, guiding them to a surprisingly deep playoff run that took them all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals. Montreal would end up losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games. After the end of the season, Montreal's front office announced that the physical toll of <mask>'s injuries was too significant for him to overcome, and that he would not be playing in 2021–22 season, with the possibility of early retirement despite five years remaining on his contract. International play

Throughout his career, <mask> has represented Canada at several international ice hockey tournaments.His first experience with Hockey Canada came for the national junior team, when, on December 22, 2004, he was named to the roster for the

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texts: 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Grand Forks, North Dakota. There, his play with Dion Phaneuf formed the team's top defensive pair, helping Canada win its first junior gold medal since the 1997 tournament. Despite being held pointless throughout the tournament, <mask> finished tied for third among plus-minus leaders with a rating of +10. <mask> debuted with the national senior team on April 22, 2007, accepting an invitation to join the club for the 2007 IIHF World Championship in Russia. However, his experience in this tournament was interrupted by an incident for which he was suspended three games. One minute into Canada's preliminary round game against Germany, <mask> hit Yannic Seidenberg in the chin with his elbow, giving the German a concussion and sidelining him for the remainder of the tournament. After serving his suspension, <mask> continued with the tournament, finishing with two points in six games, including a goal in Canada's 5–1 quarter-final victory over Switzerland.Canada went on to win the gold medal in the tournament, defeating Finland 4–2 in the final. On April 14, 2009, <mask> was named to the national senior team for the 2009 IIHF World Championship in Switzerland, as one of four alternate captains. In Canada's final preliminary round game, <mask> was named Canada's VIP after scoring one goal and three assists as Canada defeated Slovakia 7–3. <mask> finished the tournament with four goals and eight assists for 12 points in nine games played, leading all defencemen in tournament scoring and finishing tied for third overall among all skaters. Despite being defeated by Russia 2–1 in


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<mask> has a brother, Brandon, who is two years younger than him. Brandon grew up playing hockey with <mask>'s former Predators teammate Cody Franson. When <mask> was 14, his mother was diagnosed with

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 brain cancer, which surgery mostly removed. However, she later began suffering from similar symptoms, and in early 2010, had a series of seizures. <mask>'s mother was placed in an induced coma and died on August 11, 2010. On July 20, 2013, <mask> married high school sweetheart, Bailey Munro, whom he had met while playing junior hockey in Kelowna. The couple have three children together.Career statistics

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<mask> is an Italian-born American tenor. He has released ten albums and has toured internationally. Early life and education
<mask> is originally from Naples, Italy. He has four sisters, and is the youngest out of the five siblings. At home, his family played the music of Enrico Caruso, who was also from Naples. He started singing when he was six and by age seven he was performing at church. In 1998, he visited California and decided to move to America.His family was not supportive of his goal to relocate, after which he received a green card through an immigration lottery. After enrolling in ESL classes at Foothill College, <mask> started studying music at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He graduated from the music program, with a degree in vocal performance, in 2009. While at San Jose State, he studied under Professor Joseph Frank. Musical career

Performances

<mask> is a lyric tenor, whose work focuses on operatic pop with occasional forays into traditional opera. Musically, <mask> is inspired by the work of Claudio Baglioni, Enrico Caruso, Pavarotti, and Giuseppe Di Stefano. He performs in multiple languages, including Italian, Neapolitan, Spanish, and English.Between 2005 and 2006, <mask> toured both Italy and the United States in support of his album Naples... That's Amore! In 2007 he then toured with Gigi D'Alessio and Anna Tatangelo on the US leg of their world tour. After this he toured his own show of original compositions called Simply Pasquale! In 2009 he performed Volare at a San Francisco Giants game. Between that year and 2010, he toured internationally in support of his album A Brand New Me. He has also performed for the San Francisco Opera, the Mission San Carlos

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 Borromeo de Carmelo, the Fort Smith Symphony, the National Steinbeck Center, and the Folsom Symphony, for which he performed a Christmas program entitled Bianco Natale. PBS Specials
In 2015 Esposito starred in Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso for PBS.This was his first PBS special, described as a "docuconcert" in which <mask> paid tribute to the work of Enrico Caruso. The concert section of the special was filmed at the historic Castello Giusso in Vico Equense on the Amalfi Coast and the documentary portions were filmed in both Italy and the United States. The special also featured Dino Natali as co-host and an interview with opera singer Placido Domingo. The special premiered on March 10, 2015. Part of the documentary contains <mask> reflecting on his experience growing up in the same neighborhood that Caruso lived in while in Italy. A CD and DVD version of the docu-concert entitled Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso was also released for sale through PBS and is available on line. In the Spring of 2018, <mask> <mask> released his 2nd Public Television Special, titled Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Italian Piazzas on PBS.For the special, <mask> visited — and performed at — the central squares of several Italian cities, including Rome, Venice, Palermo, Amalfi and his hometown, Naples. He also brought along one of his young music students, Victoria McDowell to perform alongside him. The live concert was filmed in the prestigious Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Italy on September 3, 2016. Special guests that evening included legendary actress and singer Lina Sastri and Grammy nominated Lebanese-American soprano Mayssa Karaa. <mask> was accompanied on stage by the Orchestra Talenti

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 Napoletani conducted by Adriano Pennino.The non-profit organization Notable Music and Arts Organization financed the project. Pasquale <mask> released his 3rd PBS Special: "IL TEMPO" in November 2020 nationally on PBS stations. The release of his 4th PBS Christmas Special: "In the Spirit of Christmas" is set for release August 2021 followed by a North American Tour in November and December 2021.Opera Debut - San Francisco Opera
In 2015, <mask> <mask> made his successful Opera debut with San Francisco Opera in the world premiere of Marco Tutino's Two Women. The opera was based on a 1958 Alberto Moravia novel that Vittorio De Sica turned into a film vehicle for Sophia Loren. <mask> performed the principal role of Ragazzo del Popolo. The first scene of “Two Women” benefits from evocative settings of three traditional Roman songs, and near the end, the tenor <mask> <mask> sings the World War II-era pop hit “La Strada nel Bosco” with airy charm. During the peace celebration at the end, tenor <mask> <mask>, a popular Italian crooner in real life, hopped atop a box, sang a song, and made effective his SFO debut. Albums
<mask>'s album Naples... That's Amore! represented an Italian musical revue, which he had also directed and produced.His 2009 album A Brand New Me includes singing in both English and Italian, focusing on a pop music theme. Each of the tracks on the album were an original composition. His 2011 album Il Tempo was a double-CD that contains both Italian and Neapolitan standards and an original composition. In 2015, he released the companion album Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso. In 2018, Esposito released the companion album Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Italian Piazzas. Pasquale recorded

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 My Passion (2000)
 My Destiny (2004)
 Naples...That's Amore! (2005)
 Il Fornaio: Authentic Italy, Vol. 1 (2008)
 A Brand New Me (2009)
 Il Tempo (2011)
 Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso (2015)
 Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Italian Piazzas (2018)
 In the Spirit of Christmas (2019)
 Il Tempo 10th Anniversary Edition (2020)
 In the Spirit of Christmas - Television Special Edition with Bonus Tracks (2021)

Personal life
He lives in San Jose, California and Naples, Italy. He is an American citizen and serves on the advisory board of directors for the Little Italy San Jose Foundation. When not performing, he teaches voice lessons from his recording studio. He also founded Notable Music and Arts Organization in 2012, a music education non-profit. He is married and has three children.References

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R.K<mask> (born 21 October 1965) is an Indian film director. He was known to make films in the police or whodunit genres. Career
Born in Chengalpattu, R. K<mask>, an assistant of Manivannan, narrated a story line to Vijayakanth who then insisted <mask> narrate the story to his friend, film producer <mask>. After being told that the actor was busy, <mask> with the help of his friend Jothi decided to narrate the story through drawn pictures by having Hollywood films as reference and was given the opportunity to make the film. The action thriller Pulan Visaranai (1990) was partly based on a real life confession by criminal Auto Shankar that he had kidnapped many girls at the behest of some political bigwigs and featured Vijayakanth alongside <mask>, Anandaraj, <mask> and Sarathkumar in his first major role. R.K<mask> initially imposed many rules and conditions which led to the cancelling of shooting for 6 months after the actor became displeased, but with the help of Manivannan, shooting was continued. The film was released in January 1990 and became successful film at the box-office, also going on to win critical acclaim by reviewers.The success of the film prompted <mask> to offer the actor and director another venture, with <mask> making Captain Prabhakaran (1991). The title of the film was an homage to Prabhakaran, the LTTE leader, while the plotline was based on the forest brigand Veerappan. It marked the hundredth project of Vijayakanth and featured <mask> and Sarath <mask> again in pivotal roles. The film also became a large commercial success and <mask> began to gain plaudits for his ability as a film director in the action genre. <mask> agreed to work on a film produced by <mask>v with music scored by Ilaiyaraaja, having late Prime Minister <mask> Gandhi's assassination and the Sri Lankan civil war as its backdrop. Production work for the film, <mask>ttrapathirikai began in 1991 and it would feature <mask>, <mask>, <mask> <mask>n and <mask>, in her second film, in the leading roles. The film

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texts: hitches." <mask> next worked on a political film titled Makkal Aatchi with Mammootty in the lead, which won critical and commercial acclaim after release in October 1995.The film's dialogues by Liaquat <mask>, won rave reviews. He then collaborated with another film maker Velu Prabhakaran, writing the script for two of his films, Asuran (1995) and Rajali (1996). He then produced and directed Athiradi Padai, film was flopped and <mask> incurred huge losses. He then made a quick action film Adimai Changili (1997) with Arjun, <mask> and <mask> in the leading roles. During the making of the film, it was reported that <mask> fell out with the director due to his excessive promotion of the film's other heroine <mask> over her. The story was taken in forest areas and is based on a true story where a small community fights against majority rule. The film released to poor reviews and became a disaster at the box office.The success of Makkal Aatchi, prompted the actor and director to come together in another political film titled Arasiyal (1997). The director, prior to release, played down any potential controversial story plots and indicated it would be more about a politician's personal life rather than his work. The team shot across North India in 1997 with scenes also filmed at the Harmandir Sahib, Punjab. The film fared less well critically than the previous collaboration, with a reviewer noting "the director is caught in a cross-fire between, coming out with a realistic movie, and at the same time, one with the hero running around the trees, and the heroine." It, however, went on to win the third plaze award in the category for Best Film at the Tamil Nadu State Awards. <mask> once again launched another political drama venture titled Indian Express in 1997, which would narrate the happenings of an event which had occurred in Trivandrum. However, despite signing up Sarath <mask> to play the lead role as well as <mask>, <mask> and Anupam <mask>, the film became stalled and was discontinued after the

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texts: launch.He instead went on to make a big budget Telugu action film, Rajasthan with Sarathkumar and Vijayashanti. The film was later dubbed and released in Tamil with a few re-shot scenes and a reworked storyline to relate to Tamil Nadu instead of Andhra Pradesh. A critic noted the director was "losing his touch", criticising that aspects were almost "cartoonish" but praised his ability to maintain the viewer's suspense. A further film titled Operation Veerappa, based on the kidnapping of actor <mask> by dacoit Veerappan, was announced in 2001 but later dropped. He returned briefly to direct his partner <mask>'s 100th film, Durga, a Telugu language devotional subject. The film opened in 2001 to poor reviews, with a critic noting it "lacks the distinctive touch" of the director, the film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as Pottu Amman with his brother being credited as the director for Tamil version. Another film which he launched during the project, Police Commissioner featuring Sathyaraj, was shelved shortly after production began.<mask> became the managing director of a channel named "Thamizh Thirai" in 2003, working to form a new cable television channel, which would be run by film producers and help assist them financially, bypassing network channels. He was engaged in a series of legal tussles before the channel was finally launched to air in May 2005. The project ran into troubles shortly after, with <mask> opting out of his role to re-begin work as a director. He was also involved in his wife <mask>'s election campaign in 2005, taking charge of her promotional activities and trying to ensure maximum publicity. <mask> began working on Pulan Visaranai 2 in November 2005, a sequel to his 1990 film, and cast Prashanth in the leading role of the investigative cop. He revealed that the idea had come to him in the early 2000s and Vijayakanth's unavailability had meant the film only materialised after a delay. Prashanth underwent strength training for the venture, while beauty pageant winner Medha

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<mask> married actress <mask> on 10 August 2002. The couple have a daughter and a son. Filmography

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Vaigai Express (2017)

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<mask> (born 19 May 1998) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for  club Walsall. He spent his youth at the academies at Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday, before signing with Hartlepool United in January 2017. He made his senior debut four months later and established himself in the first-team in the 2017–18 season. He was sold on to Salford City in June 2018, though spent the second half of the 2018–19 season on loan at National League rivals FC Halifax Town, before returning to Salford to help the club to win promotion into the English Football League with victory in the 2019 play-off final. He spent much of the 2019–20 season out on loan at Stockport County and FC Halifax Town. He signed with Port Vale in July 2020 and finished as top-scorer for the 2020–21 campaign, before joining Walsall for an undisclosed fee in January 2022. Career

Youth career
<mask> began his career in the youth team of Manchester City at the age of nine.He remained in Manchester for six years before joining the academy of Sheffield Wednesday. Hartlepool United
On 6 January 2017, <mask> joined EFL League Two side Hartlepool United. He was reportedly not one of manager Craig Hignett's main targets and was assigned squad number 38 and sent to play for Sam Collins's reserve team. The club already had an established strike force in Pádraig Amond and Billy Paynter. New manager Dave Jones handed <mask> his professional debut on 1 April, in a 2–0 defeat to Portsmouth at Victoria Park. He scored two goals against Doncaster Rovers on the final day of the 2016–17 season as Hartlepool fought relegation, his goals were almost enough to keep the club up until Mark O'Brien scored a late winner for Newport County against Notts County to send Hartlepool down to the

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On 15 June 2018, <mask> signed for newly-promoted National League team Salford City for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £20,000. In February 2019, he joined league rivals FC Halifax Town on loan for a month. He formed a successful strike partnership with fellow loanee Manny Duku and his loan deal was extended until the end of the 2018–19 season on 30 March.He scored seven goals in twelve games for Jamie Fullarton's "Shaymen". He returned to Moor Lane at the end of the loan period and came on as an extra-time substitute in the National League play-off semi-final victory over Eastleigh. He also featured in the play-off final at Wembley Stadium, coming on as a 55th-minute substitute for Gus Mafuta as the "Ammies" beat AFC Fylde 3–0 to secure promotion into the English Football League. On 8 October 2019, <mask> was loaned back to the National League with Stockport County until January 2020; he had tried to rejoin Halifax but had to instead go to Edgeley Park as a deal could not be arranged. He returned to Salford in January 2020 on the expiry of his loan

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 period, having scored three goals in 14 matches playing on the right-wing for Jim Gannon's "Hatters". The following day he went out on loan again, returning to FC Halifax Town; manager Pete Wild said that he was "absolutely ecstatic" to secure the player's services ahead of strong competition from other clubs. He enjoyed another successful loan spell at The Shay, scoring five goals in eight games.<mask> was released from his contract at Salford after manager Graham Alexander confirmed he would not be offered a new deal on 17 May. Halifax qualified for the play-offs, due to take place two months late in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, but Wild confirmed that <mask> would not be featuring as he was in negotiations to sign for another club. Port Vale
On 7 July 2020, <mask> signed a three-year contract with League Two side Port Vale; manager John Askey brought him to the club to compete with Tom Pope, Mark Cullen and fellow new signing Theo Robinson. He scored his first goal for the "Valiants" on 19 September, in a 2–0 win at Exeter City. Speaking in November, coach Dave Kevan said that <mask> had been "a little bit stop start" and that "he just needs to be consistent and believe in the abilities and the strengths and qualities he has as a player and recognise he can do damage at this level". Kevan said that <mask> gave his best performance yet in a 6–3 win at Bolton Wanderers on 5 December despite him not getting on the scoresheet as he "was a real outlet for us and he really occupied their back three". He began the 2020–21 season playing out wide, before spending time out with COVID-19 and then establishing himself as the club's central striker in December.He was nominated for the EFL League Two Player of the Month award after scoring four

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On 28 January 2022, <mask> signed for fellow League Two side Walsall for an undisclosed fee (with add-on fees), signing a two-and-a-half year contract. <mask> said that he had spoken with head coach Matthew Taylor and technical director Jamie Fullarton – who he had worked with Halifax, and felt that the "Saddlers" playing style and ambitions were a good match for him. Style of play
<mask> is a forward with pace, energy and a high work-rate.Speaking in July 2020, Port Vale manager John Askey said that: "he is strong and quick and he has decent ability as well. There are things in his game he needs to improve, his hold up play and his heading. But his main asset is his pace and strength." Career statistics

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<mask> (14 October 1894 – 21 November 1970) was a German historian who specialized in art history and medieval history. <mask> was a Chair and Professor of History at the University of Göttingen from 1929 to 1963. Early life and education
<mask> was born to a wealthy and cosmopolitan family in Hamburg, that belonged to the class of Hanseatic families. His father, <mask>, was a lawyer, senator and second mayor (i.e. deputy mayor) from 1925 to 1928. His grandfather <mask> (1812–1882) had been a major sugar merchant in Hamburg and Brazil. His mother Olga O'Swald, grandniece of William Henry O'Swald, also belonged to a prominent Hanseatic family.The young <mask> served in the German Army during World War I and went on to study history and art history at several of Germany's elite universities, including Hamburg, Munich and Heidelberg. In 1922, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg under the medieval historian Karl Hampe. He remained at Heidelberg for two more years to write his Habilitationsschrift on the topic of German imperial ideology in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and in particular, how the Holy Roman emperors of the medieval period appropriated the imagery and history of the ancient Roman Empire for their own rule. Published in 1929 as Kaiser, Rom und Renovatio: Studien und Texte zur Geschichte des römischen Erneuerungsgedankens vom Ende des karolingischen Reiches biz zum Investiturstreit ("Emperor, Rome and Renovatio: Studies and Texts on the History of Roman Ideologies of Renewal from the End of the Carolingian Empire to the Investiture Controversy"), <mask>'s thesis was a landmark piece of highly original, interdisciplinary scholarship that

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 transformed the way medieval historians approached the subject of political ideology. He demonstrated that art history, a field of study which at the time fell mostly to dilettantes and gentleman scholars, deserved a place in serious academic inquiry alongside history and philology. <mask>'s work also emphasized the centrality of symbols and ritual in articulating and defining political ideologies. In a rite of passage required of most German medievalists at the time, <mask> worked for two years at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica before being offered a professorship.In 1929, he was awarded a chair in history at the University of Göttingen, one of Germany's most prestigious universities. His students at Göttingen included Berent Schwineköper; the American professor of German History, Donald Detwiler; and the Hungarian medievalist, János Bak. <mask> remained there until his retirement in 1963. In Spring 1932, <mask> spoke publicly in Thalburg on behalf of the re-election of Paul von Hindenburg, who was running against Adolf Hitler for the Presidency of the Weimar Republic. Speaking fluent English, <mask> received an invitation to teach at Princeton University during the 1933 academic year; he returned to Göttingen in that same year, after Hindenburg had appointed Hitler to be Chancellor of Germany. Second World War
During World War II, <mask> volunteered again for service in the Wehrmacht and, given the rank of major, served in various staff positions until he was selected as the official staff historian, or diarist, for the German High Command Operational Staff (Wehrmachtführungsstab), replacing Helmuth Greiner, whose removal was orchestrated by Martin Bormann, the head of the

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texts: Nazi Party chancellery. <mask>'s duties involved keeping detailed records about the day-to-day activities and decisions of the General Staff, which included the top military field commanders in the German Army.This allowed <mask> unprecedented access to the highest echelons of the German military and its inner workings. In 1944, <mask>'s sister-in-law was executed because of her active opposition to the Nazi regime, and accusations against <mask> himself, doubting his reliability, became known to Hitler's headquarters. However, these were ignored by General Alfred Jodl, <mask>'s superior, and the historian was able to continue in his role as war diarist. Because of his knowledge of the High Command, <mask> was called as a key witness at the Nuremberg Trials after the war, where he testified on behalf of Jodl. <mask> maintained that Jodl, while a loyal soldier, was not an ideological Nazi and did not participate in any war crimes. Nonetheless, Jodl was convicted and hanged in 1946. In the years after the war, <mask> authored a number of books on the history of the German military, as well as in-depth accounts of the desperate last days of the Third Reich as seen from inside the military command.<mask>'s work in this field, particularly his multi-volume edition of the official diaries of the High Command, is still highly valued by military historians. <mask> was able, along with three of his former students, then professors themselves, to re-assemble the diary from copies he had saved in defiance of Hitler's scorched earth orders, combined with copies of diaries of earlier years which had been saved by Greiner, his predecessor as war diarist. In 1962, <mask> published to some

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 controversy a study of Adolf Hitler as a military commander (Hitler als militärischer Führer). <mask> was able to observe Hitler during the course of his duties, and he contrasted the patriotism and professionalism of the generals he served under with Hitler's irrationality and growing paranoia as the war took a turn for the worse. <mask> also published, in 1963, an introduction to Henry Picker's Hitlers Tischgespräche (Hitler's Table Talk) entitled "The Anatomy of a Dictator", which was later published in English together with the earlier essay on Hitler's as a military leader as Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader

Whatever the merits of his other work, the essay on Hitler's personality provoked some criticism in the German press at the time, where <mask> was accused of being an apologist for National Socialism. In a series of lectures one year later at the University of Munich, during the summer term of 1964, the political philosopher and philosopher of history Eric Voegelin dismissed these charges; the lectures were later translated and published under the title of Hitler and the Germans. Voegelin argued at length, based on a close reading of <mask>'s text and comparing it unfavourably with Alan Bullock's analysis, that Schramm gave no insight into 'the problem of Hitler', and that this was in any case an 'alibi' for the real problem.The real problem, Voegelin stated, drawing on classical thinkers from Plato to Schelling, as well as from contemporary German writers such as Carl Amery Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism and Robert Musil On Stupidity) was the way that German Anstand bourgeois morality had rendered many, but not all, of the German population

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Because he had been a member of the Nazi Party and served in a relatively high position in the army during the war, <mask> was removed from his university post. As denazification waned in the late 1940s, however, he was rehabilitated and returned to his professorship in Göttingen. Between 1954 and 1956, he produced what was perhaps his second most significant work, after Kaiser Rom und Renovatio, titled Herrschaftszeichen und Staatssymbolik (Signs of Authority and the Symbolism of the State). Herrschaftszeichen was a major survey of the representative art of medieval rulers or symbols of their power, including their regalia, seals, coinage, armaments, clothing, and other objects. These objects and their history were catalogued in more detail in a book <mask> authored together with the eminent art historian Florentine Mütherich, Denkmale der deutschen Könige und Kaiser ("Monuments of the German Kings and Emperors", 1962).The enduring legacy of <mask>'s work in these and numerous other studies and articles, was to demonstrate the importance of symbols, liturgical ceremony, gestures and images as critical sources for political history. Along with his contemporaries, <mask>. Kantorowicz and Carl Erdmann, <mask> introduced an important element of cultural history to a field which (especially in Germany) tended to focus largely on institutions and their texts. In 1958, <mask> was inducted into the Order Pour le Mérite, an award recognizing his contributions to the arts and

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1928. Die zeitgenössischen Bildnisse Karls des Grossen.Leipzig. 1928. Die deutschen Kaiser und Könige in Bildern ihrer Zeit, 751–1190. Berlin. 1930. Kaiser, Rom und Renovatio. Leipzig.1937. Geschichte des englischen Königtums im Lichte der Krönung. Weimar. Translated into English as:
1937. A History of the English Coronation, tr. Leopold G. Wickham Legg. Oxford.1939. Der König von Frankreich: das Wesen der Monarchie vom 9. zum 16. Jahrhundert. Darmstadt. 1949. Kaufleute zu Haus und über See. Hamburgische Zeugnisse des 17., 18. und 19.Jahrhunderts. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe. 1954–1978. With others. Herrschaftszeichen und Staatssymbolik: Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte vom dritten bis zum sechzehnten Jahrhundert. Stuttgart. 1962.Hitler als militärischer Führer. Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht. Frankfurt am Main / Bonn. 1962–1978. With Florentine Mütherich. Denkmale der deutschen Könige und Kaiser: ein Beitrag zur Herrschergeschichte. Munich.1963/4. Neun Generationen: Dreihundert Jahre deutscher "Kulturgeschichte" im Lichte der Schicksale einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie (1648–1948). Göttingen. Two volumes, 1148 pages. 1968–71. Kaiser, Könige und Päpste: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte des Mittelalters. 4 vols.in 5. Stuttgart. Decorations and awards
1958: Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences, Chancellor of the Order from 1963 until his death
 Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art
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Amery, Carl (1967) Capitulation: The Lesson of German Catholicism, translated by Edward Quinn. New York: Herder and Herder. Originally published in German, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1963
Bak, Janos (1955) "<mask> Schramm," in Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, ed. Helen Damico & Joseph B. Zavadil.New York & London: Garland Press. pp. 247–62. Bullock, Alan (1971) Hitler: A Study in Tyranny Harmondsworth: Penguin. Cantor, Norman F. (1991) "The Nazi Twins: <mask> <mask> and <mask> Kantorowicz" in Inventing the Middle Ages. New York: Quill. pp.79–117. Historicum.net, "<mask> Schramm" (includes an extensive bibliography of <mask>'s work and articles about him). Kamp, Norbert (1987) "<mask> <mask> und die Mittelalterforschung" in Geschichtswissenschaft in Göttingen, ed. Hartmut Boockmann & Herman Wellenreuther. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 344–63.Musil, Robert (1990) "On Stupidity" in Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses, trans. and ed. Burton Pike and David Luft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally given as a lecture in Vienna in 1937. Picker, Henry (1963) Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1942, edited and with an introduction by P<mask>. Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag.Originally published 1951 edited by G. Ritter. First English translation, edited by Trevor, Rober, H. R. (1953) Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Ritter, Annelies (1960) Veröffentlichungen von Professor Dr phil <mask> <mask>, Göttingen. Mimeographed. Göttingen. Voegelin, Eric (1999) Collected Works vol.31 Hitler and the

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<mask> (born December 23, 1964) is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the High Point Panthers. He was one of the best players of the high school class of 1983, and committed to play college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins. After three seasons, <mask> sat out one year during the 1986–87 season for academic reasons; he came back for his senior year in 1987–88. His 649 assists rank 3rd all-time for Maryland. After graduating from college, he went on to play professional basketball for 13 years, mainly in Europe: he led the German Bundesliga in scoring in the 1997–98 season and was named an All-Star both in Germany and France. After a 9-year experience as head coach of Wesleyan Christian Academy he was named assistant coach at High Point University. High school career
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<mask> was heavily recruited during his high school career, and received offers from 210 colleges; he committed to Maryland in October 1982, choosing to major in radio and television. He chose to wear jersey number 3 and in his freshman year he started 9 games out of the 32 he played, averaging 6.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists in 23.7 minutes per game: he recorded a season-high 19 points vs. Georgia Tech and 10 assists in the ACC championship final versus Duke, during which Maryland won the 1984 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. He ranked 6th in the ACC in assists, leading all freshmen in the conference. In his sophomore season <mask> was named a starter by coach Lefty Driesell, and he improved in all statistical categories: in 30.6 minutes per game he averaged 8.3 points, 1.9 rebounds and 6.0 assists. His 221 assists for the

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texts: Kenny Smith, got the ball back and scored a layup, bringing the final score to 77–72. After the death of Len Bias, which happened after the end of the 1985–86 season, the Maryland program was in turmoil and several players were suspended for skipping class and having poor grades: <mask> was one of them. He was suspended for academic issues and missed the entire 1986–87 season, which was supposed to be his senior year in college basketball. He came back to the team the following year, even though he had a smaller role: he became more of a scorer but his overall playing time decreased, and he started only 10 of 21 games.He averaged 12.2 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 0.9 steals in 27 minutes per game. He was significantly efficient from the 3-point line, making 56 of his 113 attempts for a 49.6% shooting percentage. In his 4 years at Maryland he averaged 8.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists, with totals of 1,087 points and 649 assists. His 649 assists were an


texts: season with the Tulsa Fast Breakers and the Quad City Thunder: for Quad City he played 13 regular season games averaging 7.0 points, 2.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists and in 6 playoff games he averaged 7.7 points, 2.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 20.8 minutes per game.He also joined the Worcester Counts in the World Basketball League; he then returned to the CBA and played again for the Quad City Thunder: in 5 games of the 1989–90 season he averaged 6.6 points, 1.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists He then finished the season with the Pensacola Tornados, and in 4 playoff games he posted averages of 8.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 19.3 minutes per game. In 1990 he joined the New Haven Skyhawks of the United States Basketball League, and he was free throw percentage leader with .899 in 1991. He then transferred to the Greensboro City Gaters of the Global Basketball Association for the 1991–92 season. In 1993 he moved to Europe and joined German club Brandt Hagen, where he


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After retiring from professional basketball Gatlin started coaching, first as assistant coach at Greensboro Day School in Greensboro, North Carolina and in 2008 he was appointed as the head coach of Veritas Academy in Kernersville, North Carolina. He then transferred to Wesleyan Christian Academy in July 2009. During his time at Wesleyan he won two back-to-back NCISAA championships in 2013 and 2014; in July 2018 Tubby Smith chose him for the assistant coach position at High Point University.Bibliography

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Profile at RealGM.com
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<mask> (April 13, 1941 – September 14, 2002), also known as <mask> "Bad News" <mask>, was an American basketball player, who was an Olympic Gold Medalist and the No. 1 overall pick of the 1964 NBA draft. He played college basketball Texas Western College. Early life
As a child, <mask> picked and chopped cotton, growing up in Tuckerman, Arkansas. He played basketball wearing socks, as his family was too poor to afford basketball shoes. At age 13, <mask> had grown to 6'6" and his grandfather was said to have been 7'0" tall. <mask> attended the all black W.F.Branch High School in Newport, Arkansas after they promised to provide him basketball shoes. The team finished 3rd in the 1957 State Black Basketball Championships. <mask> then moved to Poplar Bluff High School (Mo. ), where he was ruled ineligible due to residency issues. He returned to Branch where, playing in socks, as his feet had grown to size 17, he scored 68 points and had 38 rebounds against Vanndale. <mask>' family was influenced, moved and he then enrolled at Stillwater High School in Stillwater, Oklahoma. There, he gained further notoriety when Stillwater defeated a state title Pampa, Texas team 94–40.However, <mask> was ruled ineligible after one season, after recruiting allegations surfaced and the team had to forfeit 22 games. He later returned to the team, after a suspension, that had won just a handful of games all season. He proceeded to lead them to 10 consecutive victories and the state championship. He was chosen as the Oklahoma High School Player of the Year, the first black player to receive the award. College career
A  forward/center, <mask> then began his college career at Cameron College (at the time, a junior college) in Lawton, Oklahoma.

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The Miners beat Texas A&M (68–62) and lost to Kansas State (64–60) before knocking off Creighton 63–52, behind <mask>' 15 points and 10 rebounds, in the Midwest Region third-place game. "It was a special, special team" Haskins said years later, "and believe me, if <mask>' hadn't fouled out against Kansas state, that team would have won the title." <mask> still holds UTEP single-game records for points, rebounds and field goals made. His career with 48 double-doubles, are also still the most in Miner history. The Miners program went on to win the 1966 NCAA Championship, defeating the University of Kentucky in the NCAA final. Professional career
<mask> was selected by the New York Knicks with the first overall pick of the 1964 NBA draft.<mask> was named to the 1965 NBA All-Rookie Team, after averaging 15.5 points and 9.7 rebounds as a rookie for the Knicks in 1964–1965. Then, on November 2, 1965, <mask> was averaging 15.7 points and 10.3 rebounds in 41 games, when he was traded by the Knicks with Johnny Egan, Johnny Green to the Baltimore Bullets for fellow former No. 1 pick (1961 NBA draft), Walt Bellamy. <mask> was very productive in his early career, averaging a double-double, before numerous knee and achilles injuries slowed him and eventually ended his career. After averaging 15.5 points and 9.7 rebounds for the Knicks/Bullets in 1964–1965, he averaged 12.4 points and 10.3 rebounds for the Bullets in 1965–1966. After that, he played less minutes due to injuries and became an effective reserve player. <mask> won an NBA Championship with the Celtics in 1968–1969, serving at the backup to Bill Russell, although hampered by injury, he did not appear in the playoffs.<mask>' career then ended in


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 1971 after 11 games with Baltimore and brief stints with the Allentown Jets and Trenton Pat Pavers of the Eastern Professional Basketball League. Overall, <mask> appeared in 454 games and played seven seasons (1964–71) in the NBA. He played for the Knicks (1964–1965), Baltimore Bullets (1965–1966 and 1970–1971), Los Angeles Lakers (1967–1968), Chicago Bulls (1968) and Boston Celtics (1968–1970), and he scored 3,997 points for an 8.8 points per average. National team career
<mask> was then selected a member of the 1964 United States men's Olympic basketball team. The USA team, coached by Henry Iba won the Gold Medal in the Tokyo Games when they defeated USSR, 73–59. Of his Olympic experience, <mask> recalled, "Mr. Iba didn't want me practicing with the team because he was afraid I might hurt someone, I was kind of rough and tough. But Mr. Iba did a great job of bringing all that talent together.Nobody was expecting this team to win the Olympics." <mask> was the top field-goal shooter (53 percent) on the Olympic squad, averaging 8.5 points in the teams' nine games. <mask> roomed with Bill Bradley and had Walt Hazzard and Larry Brown among his teammates

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Celtics' coach and general manager, Red Auerbach, said of <mask>: "<mask>'s many friends and associates affectionately called him 'Bad News' [for the damage he did to opposing teams and players], but he was always 'Good News' to me. His tenure with the Celtics was short, but I enjoyed every moment he was there. <mask> was a tremendous talent who never reached his full potential as an athlete. But <mask> took it one better he was a great human being." College teammate at UTEP Steve Tendennick said of <mask>, "He had a fantastic disposition,he was a gentle

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 saying: "After 32 years, I was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in my home state, but I couldn't see myself carrying it the whole mile, so three-quarters of the way through I gave it to a 14-year-old girl named Sarah and let her finish. Hopefully she'll go on and do something positive for someone someday." UTEP retired <mask>' #45 jersey. His number, along with #14 of Bobby Joe Hill, #14 of Tiny Archibald and #42 of Nolan Richardson are the only UTEP numbers retired. They are displayed in the Don Haskins Center, the UTEP arena.<mask> was selected as a member of the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2009, <mask> was inducted into the Cameron College Athletics Hall of Fame. <mask> was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. See also
 List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 30 or more rebounds in a game

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<mask> (22 October 1885 – 30 May 1935) was a German composer as well as long-standing literary editor and publisher at Schott. Life and career
Born in Ampfing, Windsperger, son of a well-known organist and school teacher, received his first basic musical education from his father, who he lost at the age of five. Windsperger nevertheless remained true to music, even when he first began his training as a primary school teacher in Rosenheim, where he had moved with his mother in 1898, at a . In 1900 he finally changed to the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. There he was taught composition and harmony by Josef Rheinberger and Rudolf Louis, among others, and piano by August Schmid-Lindner. Later he continued his studies with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and work weeks with Hermann Abendroth at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. In February 1905 Windsperger appeared in Munich with an orchestral concert in which he performed his one-hour, one-movement "Sinfonie der Sehnsucht".According to the judgement of H. Teibler in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung of 24 February 1905 (p. 151), however, he thereby "only provoked the unwillingness of all well-meaning people; this concert was an assassination of the good will of the audience". In 1913 he accepted an offer to start as a lector at the music publisher B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz. This enabled him to influence the clarification of special questions in the context of the publication of various works as well as the structure, structure and technique of the


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 to the creative power and individuality of a serious, internalized artistic personality. Like the greater ones, M. Reger, H. Pfitzner and H. Kaminski, standing between the times, he strove to move from his epochally conditioned late-Romantic starting point to a penetration of traditional forms with new means of expression.His tonal language is often harsh, hardly ever persuasive through external effects, but rich in fine expressive-poetic traits. A strong ethical will of confession speaks from his main works. His violin concerto is often called by Hans Engel:  Bruckner consecration and religiousness fulfilled, even more by the sage G. Mahlers. His two great choral works Missa Symphonica and Requiem, published in 1926 and 1930 respectively, were perceived as very important contributions to contemporary music and were acknowledged as testimonies to an outstanding creative power. Characteristic examples of his gift for saying memorable things even in the smallest forms, and at the same time of his way of dealing with new musical language (for example the bitonality), are offered by the Piano Pieces op. 37. Compositions
 Was die deutschen Kinder singen – eine Blütenlese der heimatlichen Kinderlieder, compiled by a German mother.Set for piano by L<mask>. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1914. Deutsche Kinder-Lieder. Mit Spielregeln für die Spiellieder, for piano set by L<mask>. Based on the original by H. Willebeek Le Maire. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1916. Das Buch der Motive aus sämtlichen Opern und Musikdramen Richard Wagners,

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 for piano with superimposed text edited by <mask> <mask>.B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1920. Verdi-Album. Ausgewählte Stücke aus den beliebtesten Opern von Giuseppe Verdi, compiled and arranged for piano for 2 hands by <mask> <mask>. Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne 1920. Ode in C minor for viola solo op. 13.2. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1919.15 Improvisationen für Violine solo. [B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1920. String quartet in G minor. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1920. Prélude, aria et final for piano by César Franck. Arrangement by <mask> Windsperger. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1921.Der mythische Brunnen, cycle of 7 piano pieces op. 27. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1921. 21 Lieder mit Klavierbegleitung op. 25. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1922. Rhapsodie-Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier op.20. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1924. Fantasietten-Suite für Klavier op. 35. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1926. Missa symphonica für gemischten Chor, Soli, Orchester und Orgel op. 36.B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1926. Kleine Klavier-Stücke op. 37. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1926. Requiem. A symphonic funeral mass for mixed choir, 4 solo voices, orchestra and organl op. 47.B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1929. Sketchbook for the Album für die Jugend by Robert Schumann. B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz. Catalogue of works (in extracts) at B. Schott's Söhne. Publications
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<mask> (born 1 September 1983) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who is suspended from all competition until 2024. He was previously ejected from the 2008 Tour de France for doping violations and suspended. <mask> returned to competition in late 2010, but in February 2011 he was fired by his team, , after he became seriously ill allegedly through a self-administered autologous blood transfusion. He then signed to UCI Continental team . On 19 April 2012 it was announced that he had been suspended for 12 years effectively ending his career. Career
Born in Formigine, <mask> joined UCI ProTeam  in 2006 after two successful seasons as an amateur rider, during which he won the Settimana Bergamasca. Prior to joining the team he tried to become a professional with  in 2005 but was not allowed because several blood tests revealed his hematocrit levels exceeded those acceptable.Saunier Duval's sportif director, Mauro Gianetti, suggested he spend a week in the UCI laboratory in Lausanne to prove that his blood values were natural. Further exhaustive tests by the UCI confirmed that <mask>'s hematocrit level was naturally over 50%. This has since been questioned however when, on 17 July 2008, it was revealed that <mask> had a non negative test for EPO, the hematocrit boosting drug, following the Tour de France stage 4 time trial at Cholet. It has since been suggested by fellow professional rider Jérôme Pineau that <mask> openly doped even as a junior rider. Saunier Duval (2006–2008)
<mask>'s breakthrough came during the 2007 Tirreno–Adriatico, when he won two consecutive stages and the points classification. He also won a stage and finished second in Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali. He then finished ninth in Amstel Gold Race and sixth in La Flèche Wallonne in his first ever appearance in the Ardennes Classics.He rode the Giro d'Italia as a domestique of team leader Gilberto Simoni and in the

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 process he took the 15th stage at Tre Cime di Lavaredo ahead of his teammate Leonardo Piepoli. He would finish sixth overall, seven minutes behind eventual winner Danilo Di Luca. In the season finale Giro di Lombardia, he finished second after losing a two-man sprint with Damiano Cunego. In 2008, <mask> rode the Giro d'Italia as team leader, and impressed in the mountains, taking two stage victories, the young rider's classification, and was 2nd overall in the general classification, 1:57 behind winner Alberto Contador. It was suspected that <mask>'s performance was not clean. Doping expert Michel Audran has stated that CERA was in use by some riders in the 2008 Giro CERA is the supposedly untraceable third generation EPO used by <mask> in the Tour de France weeks later. On 10 July 2008, <mask> won stage 6 of the Tour de France with a hilltop finish at Super-Besse giving him his first Tour de France stage win.There were, however, some rumors saying that test results revealed abnormalities in his blood level. The team and the athlete claimed there were no doping issues, however, since <mask> claims to have a naturally high haematocrit level. He reportedly has a UCI certificate attesting to an hematocrit of 51%, 50% being considered the accepted upper limit since 1997. Three days later he achieved his second win at stage 9 of the Tour de France with a break away climb of the Col d'Aspin. Doping

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On 17 July 2008, <mask> tested positive for the banned blood booster Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator (or CERA, a variant of Erythropoietin), from a sample taken following the fourth stage, making him the third rider to test positive for this substance in the 2008 Tour de France after Moisés Dueñas of Barloworld and Manuel Beltrán of Liquigas. He was immediately ejected from the Tour and his team Saunier Duval withdrew of their own volition. Saunier Duval announced the next day that

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The prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, testified that medical supplies including syringes and equipment for intravenous drips were found in his hotel room, but were unused. According to AFP, the prosecutor said in the first searches, "there were no doping substances as such" found. It was later revealed that <mask> had attempted to escape doping control officials after stage 4 of the Tour, but had been caught in traffic. As a result of this, officials decided that he was to be tested after every stage. It was also revealed that CERA's manufacturer Roche Pharmaceuticals had secretly worked closely with the World Anti-Doping Agency to develop a test for the drug, and this was how <mask> had been caught. In the week following the race, <mask> admitted to the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) that, independent of the team, he had been taking EPO in preparation for the 2008 Tour de France, and he accepted responsibility for his actions and apologized to his teammates and fans. <mask> told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that it was the banned doping doctor Carlo Santuccione who supplied the new form of EPO.Following <mask>'s admission of guilt in the affair, his advisors had hoped for a 20-month ban to be handed to the rider, but on 2 October 2008, he was handed a 2-year ban by the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), which <mask> found disappointing; "I'm very disappointed and bitter. I expected better understanding. But I made a mistake and it's fair that I pay." However, on 17 March 2009, the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the ban to 20 months because of his cooperation; he resumed racing in March 2010 on the  team. <mask> also faced criminal

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 prosecution in both Italy and France for the doping affair. He was convicted by a criminal court in Padua and given a fine of €3,040. In June 2010, <mask> was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a Toulouse court, which was upheld on appeal in November 2011.In August 2010, <mask> terminated his contract for , and signed a two-year contract with Dutch Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team. 2011 blood transfusion incident
On 6 February 2011 <mask> was admitted to a hospital in critical condition, with sepsis and kidney failure, allegedly due to a blood transfusion he performed on himself with 25-day-old blood. <mask> admitted to the doctor treating him that he had performed the transfusion in the presence of his girlfriend Vania Rossi. The doctor reported this information to authorities leading to an investigation being opened against the professional cyclist by police and the Italian Olympic committee (CONI). <mask> was released from the hospital within two weeks, and was subsequently sacked by his team . <mask> later denied blood doping, but also stated that he was finished with the sport and that he wanted to train to become a barista. He later changed his mind and said he would indeed like to race again.In October 2011, it was reported that <mask> confessed to the blood transfusion to CONI although his lawyer later denied these reports. On 19 April 2012, Italy's National Anti-doping Court (TNA – Tribunale Nazionale Antidoping) banned <mask> from any professional cycling activity for 12 years, effectively ending his career. <mask> appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The CAS upheld the ban. 2014 accusations
On 1 May 2014 <mask> was accused of purchasing EPO and testosterone, after being caught by Italian police in the car park of a McDonald's restaurant in Livorno. <mask> later claimed to be "in the wrong place at the wrong time" and his lawyer stated that he was not in the car park to purchase

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<mask> (or Hilary) was the bishop of Rome from 19 November 461 to his death on 29 February 468. In 449, Hilarius served as a legate for Pope Leo I at the Second Council of Ephesus. His opposition to the condemnation of Flavian of Constantinople incurred the enmity of Dioscurus of Alexandria, who attempted to prevent him from leaving the city. <mask> was able to make his escape and returned to Rome by an indirect route. He later erected an oratory at the Lateran in honor of John the Evangelist, to whom he attributed his safe passage. Much of his pontificate was spent in maintaining ecclesiastical discipline in conformity with canon law, and in settling jurisdictional disputes among the bishops of both Gaul and Spain. Early career
<mask> was born in Sardinia.As archdeacon under Pope Leo I, he fought vigorously for the rights of the Roman See. In 449, <mask> and Bishop Julius of Puteoli served as papal legates to the Second Council of Ephesus. Pope Leo had sent a letter with the legates to be read at the council. However, the head notary declared that the emperor's letter should be read first and as the Council proceeded, Leo's letter ended up not being read at all. <mask> vigorously opposed the condemnation of Flavian of Constantinople, pronouncing the single word in Latin, "Contradicitur", annulling the sentence in Leo's name. For this he incurred the displeasure of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, who presided over the synod. Flavian died shortly afterwards, on 11 August 449, from injuries incurred from a physical assault by the followers of Dioscurus.According to a letter to Empress Pulcheria collected among the letters of Leo I, <mask> apologized for not delivering to her the pope's letter after the synod, but owing to Dioscurus of Alexandria, who tried to hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had

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As pope, he continued the policy of his predecessor, Leo I, who, in his contest with Hilary of Arles, had obtained from Emperor Valentinian III a famous rescript of 444 (called Novel 17) confirming the supremacy of the bishop of Rome. Hilarius continued to strengthen ecclesiastical government in Gaul and Spain. In Rome, Hilarius worked zealously to counter the new emperor's 467 edict of toleration for schismatic sects, which had been inspired, according to a letter of Pope Gelasius I, by a favourite of Emperor Anthemius named Philotheus, who espoused the Macedonian heresy. On one of the emperor's visits to St Peter's Basilica, the pope openly called him to account for his favourite's conduct, exhorting him by the grave of St Peter to promise that he would allow no schismatical assemblies in Rome. Ecclesiastical disputes
Hermes, a former archdeacon of Narbonne, had illegally acquired the bishopric of that town.Two Gallican prelates were dispatched to Rome to lay before the pope this and other matters concerning the Church in Gaul. A Roman synod held on 19 November, 462, passed judgment upon these matters. <mask> sent an Encyclical advising the provincial bishops of Vienne, Lyons, Narbonne, and the Alps that Hermes was to remain titular bishop of Narbonne, but his episcopal faculties were withheld. Other decisions expressed in an encyclical were in the interests of increased discipline. A synod was to be convened yearly by the bishop of Arles, but all important matters were to be submitted to the Apostolic See. No bishop could leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan,


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 Holy See for an entirely different matter. Before his death, Nundinarius, Bishop of Barcelona, expressed a wish that Irenaeus might be chosen his successor, and he himself had made Irenaeus bishop of another See. The request was granted and the Synod of Tarragona confirmed the nomination of Irenaeus, after which the bishops sought the pope's approval.The Roman synod of 19 November 465, held in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, which decided that Irenaeus, the nominated bishop, should quit the see of Barcelona and return to his former one, while the Spanish bishops were directed to condone the acts of Silvanus. This is the oldest Roman synod whose original records have survived. Construction projects
<mask> erected several churches and other buildings in Rome, for which the Liber Pontificalis, the main source for information about <mask>, praises him. He also erected a chapel of the Holy Cross in the baptistery, convents, two public baths, and libraries near the Basilica of St. Lawrence outside the Walls. He built two oratories in the baptistery of the Lateran, one in honor of John the Baptist, the other of John the Apostle, to whom he attributed his safe escape from the Council of Ephesus, thus satisfying the question as to which saints the Lateran had been dedicated. Death
<mask> died on 29 February 468 and was buried in Basilica of St. Lawrence outside the Walls. His feast day is celebrated on 17 November.See also

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<mask> (; born 18 January 1988) is a German professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 and winner of three Grand Slam tournaments, she made her professional debut in 2003 and began her rise to prominence upon reaching the semifinals of the 2011 US Open as the No. 92-ranked player in the world. An accomplished left-handed player of her time, <mask>'s ranking cracked the top 5 in 2012, and she would eventually reach the top of the rankings on 12 September 2016, thus becoming the 22nd and oldest player to achieve the world No. 1 ranking for the first time. She has won 13 career singles titles – across all surfaces – including multiple Grand Slam titles: the 2016 Australian Open, the 2016 US Open and the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.She has also won a silver medal while representing Germany at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Early life
<mask> was born on 18 January 1988 in Bremen to Polish parents Sławomir <mask>, from Poznań, and Beata (née Rzeźnik), who is also her manager. She has one sister, Jessica. She grew up in Kiel, where her family stayed in an apartment in a training academy where her parents work, and started playing tennis at age three, eventually joining the junior circuit. Although born right-handed, Kerber plays left-handed. Career

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<mask> made her first attempt to qualify for a WTA tournament in January 2005, at the Auckland Open, falling to Janette Husárová in the final round. She then recorded her Grand Slam main draw debut year in 2007, at the French Open where she lost to Elena Dementieva in the opening round.Shortly after, she appeared in

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texts: the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time, in Birmingham, where she made the third round, losing to fifth seed Marion Bartoli, who was the eventual runner-up at Wimbledon that year. The week after Birmingham, she reached her first main draw quarterfinal at the Rosmalen Open where she was beaten by eventual champion Anna Chakvetadze, and then fell to Chakvetadze once more, in the first round of Wimbledon. At the US Open, <mask> drew Serena Williams in the first round and lost in straight sets. <mask> achieved her first top-100 season finish in 2007, at world No. 84. She also won eight titles on the ITF circuit from 2004 to 2007. <mask> attained her first Grand Slam victory in 2008 at the Australian Open by defeating Maret Ani, before losing to 25th seed Francesca Schiavone.She also made the third round at Indian Wells where she lost to sixth seed Bartoli. <mask> did not progress much that year after that, besides winning a further two ITF titles. Her struggles would continue in 2009 as she managed just three wins in WTA main draws. She did qualify for the US Open that year, where she made the second round. She also won her 11th and final ITF title that year. She finished 2008 and 2009 respectively ranked barely outside the top 100, at No. 108 and No.106, respectively. In 2010, <mask> qualified for the Australian Open where she reached her third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, losing to third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in a close three-setter, from a set up. She then reached her maiden WTA final, in Bogota, finishing runner-up to home star Mariana Duque Mariño, having upset top-seed Gisela Dulko in the

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texts: semifinals. <mask> proceeded to reach two other quarterfinals that year, in Fes and Copenhagen, and then  made the third round of Wimbledon, after defeating Sania Mirza and upsetting 13th seed Shahar Pe'er before losing to Jarmila Groth. At the end of the year, she made the third round in Beijing where she lost to Li Na, and capped off her season with a semifinal run in Luxembourg. She ended the year ranked No. 47.Kerber did not win back-to-back matches in the first seven months of 2011 except once, at her first tournament of the year, in Hobart. At Wimbledon, she lost to youngster Laura Robson in the first round. In Dallas, the week before the US Open, she recorded a semifinal run, where she lost to Aravane Rezaï. <mask> entered the US Open ranked world No. 92, and passed the first hurdle with a win in three sets over Lauren Davis in three sets. Next, she faced 12th seed Agnieszka Radwańska and pulled off a shock three-set victory before going on to beat both Alla Kudryavtseva and Monica Niculescu to reach her maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal. There, Kerber surprised multiple-time quarterfinalist here Flavia Pennetta in three sets to advance to the semifinal, where she lost to ninth seed and eventual champion Samantha Stosur in three sets.<mask> reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 34 after the tournament. She then qualified for the Pan Pacific Open and reached the second round, losing to eventual champion Radwańska from a set up. After that, she reached the semifinals in Osaka where she lost to eventual champion Bartoli. She finished the year as world No. 32, her second finish in a row in the top 50. 2012:

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