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In 1952 he was hired by D. C. Thomson & Co. as an illustrator for boys' story papers like Hotspur, Adventure and The Wizard under editor R. D. Low. <mask> was now married with a child and no longer wanted to live in bomb-damaged London, so Thomsons bought him a house outside Dundee, where they had their headquarters, paid for from deductions from his wages. He also drew for their girls' comics Bunty and Judy. In 1963 he was sent to South Africa by The Scotsman newspaper to find Jeannie Stewart of the anti-apartheid group Black Sash, who had been sending the paper material but had been stopped by the South African authorities.Because his passport gave his profession as "artist", rather than "journalist", it was felt he would arouse less suspicion. He found her and, after going on safari in the Kruger National Park to maintain his cover as a tourist, was able to bring some material back for the paper. In 1972 he left D. C. Thomson's staff and went freelance, moving to Surrey, although he continued to draw for Thomsons' comics, primarily Hotspur. Strips he drew included "The Cowboy Cricketer", and "Nick Jolly", a fantasy story about an eighteenth-century highwayman brought forward in time by well-meaning aliens to fight the sinister


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 arch-villain Simon Death on his robotic, jet-powered horse Bess. He pushed for Thomsons to publish superhero strips, and was eventually given the go-ahead to create "King Cobra", who first appeared in Hotspur in 1976 and ran until 1980. Other titles he drew for include humour titles The Topper, The Dandy and The Beezer, and boys' adventure titles The Victor and Warlord, for which he drew "Drake of E-Boat Alley" and "Codename Warlord". He also did some uncredited work for Marvel Comics in the USA.2000 AD
In 1979 he began drawing "Judge Dredd" for IPC's 2000 AD, and during the early to mid-1980s, <mask> was by far the most prolific artist working on the character. Along with Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon he contributed to two of the character's most popular epic-length stories, "The Day the Law Died" and "The Judge Child". Amongst the more grotesque characters created by <mask> was Otto Sump, Mega-City One's ugliest man, with <mask> excelling himself in "The Otto Sump Ugly Clinic" depicting the horrific length citizens of the metropolis go to in making themselves look as physically repulsive as possible. <mask> was responsible for the majority of ugly-spin-off stories including "Gunge", "Who Killed Pug Ugly?" about an ugly pop star and "The League of Fatties" about

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 over-eaters gone to extremes (although the first Fatty story was actually drawn by McMahon in a previous Annual). The "Get Ugly!" 2000AD cover has been used at least twice as a T-shirt design.Other Dredd stories which featured <mask> at the peak of his powers were the Pat Mills scripted "Blood of Satanus" where he more than effectively depicted a man's transformation into a blood-thirsty Tyrannosaurus rex, "The Hot-Dog Run" featuring a group of cadet Judges on a training mission in the Cursed Earth and "The Graveyard Shift", an extended narrative covering one typically crime-filled night in Mega-City One. <mask> also co-created the anti-hero Chopper in "Unamerican Graffiti" and Dave the orang-utan who became Mayor of Mega-City One. <mask> also created some of the most memorable 2000 AD cover images, and produced a number of other strips produced for the comic, including "Rogue Trooper" and "Chronos Carnival". <mask> went on to draw for other IPC titles, including M.A.S.K., Eagle, Wildcat and Toxic Crusaders before retiring in the 1990s. Daily Star
<mask> also helped bring Judge Dredd and his world to a whole new audience each weekend when he was chosen to illustrate a weekly Dredd strip for the Daily Star newspaper, each story a complete vignette offering a bizarre

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<mask> (born August 17, 1989), professionally known as <mask> and as his alter ego The BasedGod, is an American rapper. <mask> has recorded both solo and with Bay Area group The Pack. His solo work spans several genres, including hip hop, new age, indie rock and choral music. He describes his work as "based", a term which denotes a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance; and is noted for his extensive use of social media to build an online cult following. Music career

1989–2007: Early life and career beginnings
McCartney grew up in Berkeley, California, and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name <mask>, and began rapping at age 15 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes, at the peak of the Bay Area's hyphy movement, the group's song "Vans" became a surprise hit.The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine. The strength of "Vans" led the group to release the Skateboards 2 Scrapers EP, featuring a "Vans" remix with Bay Area rappers Too $hort and Mistah F.A.B. In 2007, Lil <mask> and The Pack released their first album, Based Boys. 2009–10: Solo success, collaborations and  Rain in England

On September 24, 2009 <mask> released his first digital album, I'm Thraxx, via independent label Permanent Marks. On December 22, 2009, <mask> released his second digital album, 6 Kiss, to critical reception. On March 25, 2010 <mask> released his debut mixtape Dior Paint. On April 3, 2010 <mask> officially signed to fellow artist Soulja Boy's label

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 SODMG Entertainment.On May 7, 2010 <mask> released a mixtape entitled Base World Pt. 1. On July 5, 2010 <mask> released a collaboration mixtape with Soulja <mask> entitled Pretty Boy Millionaires. <mask> had recorded over 1,500 tracks as of July 2010, including hits "Like A Martian", "Wonton Soup", "Pretty Bitch", "I'm God", all of which were released for free. On September 21, 2010 <mask> released his debut studio album, Rain in England, through Weird Forest Records; it was described by  The Guardian as "a beatless, Beat poetry-style set where <mask>, voice a-quiver with earnestness, ponders love, beauty and all the bad things in the world over naïf new-age synth washes". 2010–present: Mixtapes

On December 29, 2010, it was announced and confirmed that <mask> apparently signed an album deal with Amalgam Digital. On July 10, 2011 <mask> released the EP Paint, through his label BasedWorld Records.On January 18, 2011, <mask> released his fourth digital album entitled Angels Exodus, through Amalgam Digital. On April 14, 2011, <mask> announced that his next album would be entitled I'm Gay, which caused a degree of controversy. On June 29, 2011 <mask> released his fifth digital album, I'm Gay (I'm Happy), through Amalgam Digital; the album entered the  Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at number 56 and the Heatseekers Albums chart at number 20 for the week of July 16, 2011. On May 17, 2012, <mask> released his first instrumental album, Choices and Flowers, under the alias "The Basedgod". On September 16, 2012, <mask> released a rock single entitled

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 "California Boy". On December 30, 2012, <mask> released his second instrumental album entitled Tears 4 God, also under the alias "The Basedgod". On December 24, 2013, <mask> released the mixtape 05 Fuck Em, which contained 101 songs.On June 1, 2014, <mask> released a mixtape entitled Hoop Life, which would be known for containing a track entitled "Fuck KD" that called out NBA player Kevin Durant. On October 14, 2014, <mask> released the Ultimate Bitch mixtape, featuring the song "No Black Person Is Ugly." On July 19, 2015, <mask> and Chance the Rapper announced that they recorded a new collaborative mixtape. <mask> was featured in Terror Jr's remix of their song "Come First" released, in 2017. On August 17, 2017, <mask> released Black Ken, describing it as his "first official mixtape." The mixtape reached number 24 on the Top Heatseekers chart and number 44 on the Independent Albums chart for the week of September 2, 2017. Artistry

<mask> and music critics refer to his rapping style as "based", a word that <mask> also uses to describe a positive, tolerant lifestyle."Based" is a reclaimed word, as described by <mask> in Complex:

On the internet, the alt-right has appropriated the term "based" as a general term of praise, as if it were "un-woke." Rapping technique

Slate columnist Jonah Weiner labeled him as one of a "growing number of weird-o emcees", calling him a "brilliantly warped, post-<mask> deconstructionist from the Bay Area". Musical critic Willy Staley described <mask>'s work as "variegated", because it ranges from critical parodies

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 of the hip-hop genre to "half new age, half spoken word". He further notes that <mask> draws from a large variety of genres, especially those not commonly used by other rappers. In an interview with Staley, <mask> agrees with this analysis, saying, "I can do 'Swag OD' but then my favorite musical artist right now could be Antony and the Johnsons. That's the difference between me and these other rappers, and other musical artists in general." Other ventures

Author

Takin' Over by Imposing the Positive!is a book written by McCartney and published through Kele Publishing in 2009. The book is a collection of and written in the form of e-mails and text messages, and is written in such a way that the author is e-mailing the reader. Subjects include positivity, optimism, and living what he calls a "Based Lifestyle". The book was passed out in an unscripted NYU lecture in March 2012. On March 30, 2013 McCartney announced that he was in the process of writing his second book. Motivational speaker

<mask> has given motivational lectures at several colleges, including MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. They are generally focused around his personal experience in life and current events.On May 28, 2015, the rapper gave a lecture at UCLA, where he touched on subjects like money, the media, technology, space, awareness, and love. Basedmoji and vegEMOJI apps

<mask> launched the "Basedmoji" app on January 16, 2015. On January 17, 2015, <mask> released "vegEMOJI", in cooperation with vegan company "Follow Your Heart", despite the fact that <mask> is not yet

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 a vegan, he has stated that he is cutting down on his consumption of processed foods, and that he is "ashamed of eating meat". Personal life

On January 16, 2015 <mask>'s apartment building in Contra Costa County, California, caught on fire early in the morning on Thursday after an electrical fire spread through the building. <mask> and six other people were saved by 15-year-old Mateo Ysmael, who ran through the building to wake everyone up. For the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he endorsed Vermont Senator <mask>, citing his civil rights record. Controversies and feuds

I'm Gay

When <mask> released his fifth album, titled I'm Gay, he received several death threats.Although he is heterosexual, he says the title is a message of support to the LGBT community. Referring to the original definition of gay, he says he is gay because he is happy, and subsequently changed the title to I'm Gay (I'm Happy). <mask>den

In 2010, a number of exchanges between <mask> and <mask> were had over Twitter. <mask>den had been seeming to speak mockingly about <mask>'s "Based" movement and his tweets, to which <mask> responded, initially friendly but then with insults. <mask> went on to release a diss track called "T Shirts & Buddens", which was then featured on his "Everything Based" mixtape. <mask> later apologized for his insults and noted his respect for <mask>den, calling him a "legend". The Game

In 2011, after hearing a verse from <mask> on the <mask> mixtape Sorry 4 the Wait, Compton rapper Game referred to <mask> as the "wackest rapper of all

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 time."<mask> responded by calling Game "irrelevant," to which Game then threatened to knockout <mask>. Game targeted <mask> in his verse in his track "Martians vs Goblins" featuring <mask> and Tyler the Creator, with the line "Tie <mask> B up to a tank full of propane, swag, now watch him cook". <mask> addressed this on his track "Tank of Propaine" on his "White Flame" mixtape. Several weeks later, the two settled their differences through Twitter after which <mask> urged fans to purchase Game's The R.E.D. Album. <mask>a$$

<mask> took offense to the lyrics in the song "Survival Tactics" by late rapper Capital STEEZ, a founding member of the group Pro Era. In this, he raps, "They say hard work pays off / Well, tell the BasedGod don't quit his day job."<mask> responded with a song titled "I'm The Bada$$". <mask>a$$ then responded with a song titled "Don't Quit Your Day Job!" When the feud became public on Twitter, Joey became a target of a lot of attacks from <mask>'s fans, which ended up with Joey deleting his Twitter account, though restoring it later. In an interview with WWPR-FM, <mask> denied that he deleted his Twitter account because of <mask>'s fans. Later, in an interview with VladTV, Joey admitted the feud was created for publicity, and admitted he's a fan of <mask>'s more serious work. Kevin Durant

In 2011, NBA superstar Kevin Durant tweeted his befuddlement with <mask>'s popularity, and <mask> responded by "cursing" Durant that he would never win the NBA championship. The curse had been rescinded in 2012 but then reinstated in

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 2014.The feud between the two has simmered since then, resulting in <mask> releasing the diss track "Fuck KD" in 2014 and a commercial on NBA TV, where <mask> calls out Kevin Durant. <mask> has claimed the "curse of the Based God" to be responsible for Durant and his Oklahoma City Thunder team's loss to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals of the 2016 NBA Playoffs. The Thunder had been up 3 games to 1 in a best-of-7 series, but then went on to lose the series in stunning fashion after losing the next 3 games in a row. On July 4, 2016, following the announcement of Durant leaving the Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, <mask> rescinded the curse again. James Harden

During the Western Conference Finals of the 2015 NBA Playoffs, <mask> began questioning NBA superstar James Harden's "cooking dance", a dance allegedly coined by <mask> which he had been doing all season long, and tweeted that if he doesn't receive an answer from Harden regarding that dance then Harden will receive the "Based God curse" similar to Kevin Durant. <mask> attributed the Houston Rockets loss to the Golden State Warriors with the score of 99–98 in Game 2, and again in Game 3 with the score of 115–80, to the curse. On May 24, 2015, <mask> announced on TMZ Sports that he has placed Harden under the "Based God curse" for the remainder of the playoffs and until further notice.On May 27, 2015, <mask> was present at Oracle Arena for Game 5 where the Warriors ultimately defeated the Rockets with the score of 104–90, becoming the Western Conference

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 champions. Additionally, during this same game Harden set an NBA Playoff record with 13 turnovers, prompting <mask> to publicly consider lifting the curse. On June 4, 2017, <mask> announced on a live taping of First Take that he has lifted the curse from Harden. A Boogie wit da Hoodie and PnB Rock
At the 2017 Rolling Loud Bay Area festival, <mask> was forced to cancel his set due to an alleged altercation with <mask> wit da Hoodie backstage. Upon taking the stage to announce the cancellation of his set, he told the crowd he was attacked by "A Boogie and his whole crew" and that his equipment was also stolen, attributing the event to his criticism of New York hip hop in a recent Tweet. Footage of the altercation subsequently surfaced, and <mask> fans immediately expressed outrage on social media. Witnesses backstage also accused PnB Rock of being involved in the attack.Despite the incident, <mask> maintained a positive stance and even urged his supporters to forgive <mask> later that day on Twitter. The incident led to an immediate wave of support of <mask> from fans and other figures in the music industry. Schoolboy Q and Travis Scott, fellow performers at the festival, expressed their support for the rapper upon taking the stage for their respective sets. Other artists including <mask>, Skepta, G-Eazy, 6lack, Kreayshawn, A-Trak, Alison Wonderland, SpaceGhostPurrp, Lupe Fiasco, Kaytranada, and Mike Dean also expressed their support of the rapper on social media. Amidst the fallout of the incident, PnB Rock was pulled from the festival's lineup

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 and replaced by Kreayshawn. <mask> and <mask> officially ended the feud two days later, through a phone call initiated by Kilo Curt of the late Mac Dre's Thizz Entertainment. Both artists took to Twitter to announce the end of the feud.Selected Discography

 Rain in England (2010)
 Angels Exodus (2011)
 I'm Gay (I'm Happy) (2011)
 Choices and Flowers (2012)
 Hoop Life (2014)
 Black Ken (2017)

References

External links

 <mask>'s mixtapes at DatPiff.com

1989 births
Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area
African-American male rappers
African-American writers
American male non-fiction writers
American Internet celebrities
American motivational writers
American motivational speakers
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Musicians from Berkeley, California
Rappers from the San Francisco Bay Area
West Coast hip hop musicians
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
African-American record producers
American hip hop record producers
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21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
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<mask> (born May 30, 1937) is a Cuban-American poet, diplomat and human rights activist. In 1960, he was arrested by the Cuban government for conflicting reasons; the Cuban government alleged that he had been complicit in anti-Castro terrorism, while foreign sources regarded his arrest as being due to his protesting communism, leading Amnesty International to name him a prisoner of conscience. Following his release in 1982, he wrote a book detailing his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Cuban government, and was appointed in 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Arrest and imprisonment
<mask> is from Pinar del Rio, Cuba. By his own account, he was initially a supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, later becoming an employee of the Office of the Ministry of Communications for the Revolutionary Government, for which he worked at a post office. In 1960, at the age of 23, he reportedly refused to put an "I'm with Fidel" sign on his desk at work. He was subsequently given a thirty-year prison sentence.The Cuban government stated that his arrest was on charges of terrorism, and that he had previously worked for the secret police of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship. The international human rights organizations Oslo Freedom Forum, PEN International, and Amnesty International, in contrast, stated their belief that <mask> had been imprisoned solely for his anti-Castro stance, and the latter organization named him a prisoner of conscience. <mask> states that he was offered "political rehabilitation" early in his prison term, but refused. According to <mask>, this led to imprisonment in cramped "drawer cells" in which multiple prisoners were confined in a space too small to lie down, without being allowed toilet access. However, the Cuban government contested <mask>' claims. According to Castro, "Only a few hundred political prisoners were held captive" as of 1960. When <mask> was "liberated" by the French, the Cuban government provided <mask>' identification card from the Batista Police

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 force and video that revealed how when the night arrived the "paralytic" got up from the wheelchair and performed stretching exercises to counteract the numbness caused by the wheelchair, and a healthy Valladares walking out of the prison as evidence that <mask>' claims are disingenuous.The recordings were shown to Regis Debray, when he visited Havana on behalf of François Mitterrand. The Cuban government decided in 1982 that <mask> would be released and could leave the country, on condition that he got on and off the plane at his own feet and in the sight of everyone, which he did effortlessly demonstrating his falsehood. In 1987, Reagan drafted a UN resolution accusing Cuba of human rights abuses based on <mask> claims of "140,000 political prisoners being tortured and executed in Cuban prisons and concentration camps." The Human Rights Council went to Cuba to investigate these claims, but the organization found no evidence to substantiate <mask> accusations. Writing and release
During his time in prison, <mask> went on multiple hunger strikes. The longest, a 49-day hunger strike in 1974, left him using a wheelchair several years with an attack of polyneuritis. <mask> subsequently appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, stating that he was being denied important medical care, including a functioning wheelchair.The IACHR found that Cuba had violated a number of <mask>'s rights, including the right to a fair trial, the right to protection against arbitrary arrest and the right to humane treatment during the time the individual is in custody, and the right to due process and protection from cruel, infamous, or unusual punishment. Believing that "poetry is a weapon," <mask> also began smuggling his poems out of jail, which brought him a measure of international attention. His first published collection, From My Wheelchair, detailed prison abuses and was released in 1974. After the book's publication, PEN France awarded him its Freedom Prize. In 1981, <mask>'s wife Marta – who had met and married him while he was imprisoned –

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 traveled to Europe to meet with government officials regarding her husband's case, and in 1982, 83 U.S. Congressmen joined a call for <mask>'s release. <mask> was released that year after 22 years' imprisonment after a direct appeal by French President François Mitterrand.The Cuban government has made unconfirmed, unsubstantiated claims that <mask> was a CIA agent prior to his arrest and after his release from prison. Against All Hope and ambassadorship
After his release, <mask> resettled in the U.S. In 1986, Alfred A. Knopf released <mask>'s memoir Against All Hope, in which he detailed his prison experiences. One year later, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed <mask> to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The move was widely seen as an attempt to dramatize and draw new attention to Cuban human rights abuses. The Cuban government reacted by calling <mask> a "traitor and a fake," including stating that he had faked his paralysis while imprisoned. The U.S. State Department responded by accusing Cuba of "mounting a massive defamation campaign against <mask> <mask>" to deflect attention from its human rights record.In 1985, he signs a petition in support for the far-right paramilitary Contras (Nicaragua). <mask> served as the ambassador from 1988 to 1990. He vigorously argued for UN attention to Cuban human rights abuses during his tenure, leading Human Rights Watch to criticize him for appearing to have "little interest in pursuing other violators, particularly of the non-Communist sort," such as US allies Iraq or Guatemala. Other activities
<mask> is a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Books
 Desde mi Silla de Ruedas (1976)
El Corazon Con Que Vivo (1980) - a book of poetry in Spanish
 Cavernas del Silencio (1983)
Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag (1985) - an autobiographical work
 El Alma de un Poeta (1988)

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<mask> (1605–1665) was an English Quaker controversialist. Early life
<mask> was the son of <mask>, a hatter in Northampton, where <mask> was born. After attending a local school he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1623 and graduated B.A. in 1627. Of Puritan views, he moved to New Inn Hall, where he proceeded M.A. in 1630. Gerard Croese states that he was chaplain to a nobleman for a short time, and became a confirmed Puritan.In 1632 he was presented to the lectureship of Lydd, Kent. He was known as a powerful preacher, and became a leader among the Puritans of the district. In his 'Baby-Baptism', <mask> states that he was later given a presbyterian ordination. While at Lydd <mask> associated with some Anabaptists, attending their meetings and offering them the use of his pulpit, in which he was stopped by the churchwardens. About 1643 he returned his licence to the bishop and joined the Baptists, supporting himself by farming. He was rebaptised, and after taking an active part in the Baptist community became minister to a congregation at Ashford, Kent, by 1649, in which year he engaged in controversy on infant baptism with several ministers in the presence of over two thousand people. He also disputed with Francis Cheynell at Petworth, Sussex, in 1651, and was engaged in at least eight other disputes within three years.He wrote Tracts in

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 defence of his principles, and Baby-Baptism meer Babism. Quaker convert
In 1654 William Coton and John Stubbs, while on a visit to Lydd, stayed at <mask>'s house, and convinced him of the truth of quakerism. Shortly afterwards he joined the Society of Friends, among whom he became a minister, probably before his meeting with George Fox at Romney in 1655. On 17 September 1656 <mask> attended the meeting of Parliament, and when Oliver Cromwell stated that to his knowledge no man in England had suffered imprisonment unjustly, he attempted a reply. He was prevented from completing his speech, which he afterwards published. He subsequently attempted to address the Members of Parliament at a fast-day service in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. He was active in Kent, where according to Joseph Besse he was roughly handled in 1658, and in 1659 he was pulled out of a meeting at Westminster by his hair and beaten.In May 1659 he went to Dunkirk with Edward Burrough; when the authorities ordered them to leave the town, they declined, and were then directed to be moderate. After unsuccessful encounters with the monks and nuns for a few days they returned to England. During the following year <mask> and Stubbs made a journey to Rome, travelling over the Alps on foot, where they testified to several of the cardinals, and distributed copies of Quaker literature. They

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 apparently were not molested or warned. Anthony Wood states that when <mask> returned, he was well dressed; suspected of being a Jesuit and in receipt of a pension from the Pope, he was imprisoned and he seems to have undergone some further persecution. Later life
In 1660 <mask> held a dispute with Thomas Danson at Sandwich, Kent, and later that year was in Newgate Prison. The rest of his life was mainly spent around London, where he was a successful preacher.In 1661 he was imprisoned and treated badly in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster. In 1662 he was arrested and sent to Bridewell Prison for being present at an illegal meeting. He was again sent to Newgate for refusing to take oaths, and was detained for upwards of a year, during which time he occupied himself in writing 'The Bishop busied beside the Business.' During part of this imprisonment he was confined with other prisoners in a room so small that they were unable to lie down at the same time. Shortly after his discharge he was again arrested at Charlwood, Surrey, and committed to the White Lion Prison, Southwark, where he was confined for about two years. During the Great Plague of London he was temporarily released, and went to the house of Ann Travers, a Quaker at Dalston, near London, where he died of the plague on 31 August 1665. <mask>'s works were Quaker text-books for more than a


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 century.William Sewel called him 'dextrous and well skilled in the ancient poets and Hebrew'; and William Penn, a close associate, praised his even temper and humility. Works
<mask> used an "alliterative popular style" which "has something of Rabelais and something of Martin Marprelate in it". <mask>'s Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor. The Rusticks Alarm to the Rabbies, or the Country correcting the University and Clergy (1660) is, according to Christopher Hill, "a remarkable work of popular Biblical criticism, based on real scholarship", in which <mask> "virtually abandoned any hope of unity of interpretation, and so of any external unity [of the church]." <mask>'s works include:

 Baby-Baptism meer Babism, or an Answer to Nobody in Five Words, to Everybody who finds himself concerned in it. (1) Anti-Diabolism, or a True Account of a Dispute at Ashford proved a True Counterfeit ; (2) Anti-Babism, or the Babish Disputings of the Priests for Baby-Baptism Disproved; (3) Anti-Rantism, or Christ'ndome Unchrist'nd; (4) Anti-Ranterism, or Christ'ndome New Christ'nd; (5) Anti-Sacerdotism the deep dotage of the D.D. Divines Discovered, or the Antichristian C.C.Clergy cleared to be that themselves which they have ever charged Christ's Clergy to be, 1653. Christianismus Redivivus, Christ'ndom both unchrist'ned and

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 new-christ'ned, 1655. The Scorned Quaker's True and Honest Account, both why and what he should have spoken (as to the sum and substance thereof) by commission from God, but that he had not permission from Men, 1656. The Burden of the Word of the Lord, as it was declared in part, and as it lay upon me from the Lord on the 19th day of the 4th mo. 1656, to declare it more fully, 1656. Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor. The Rusticks Alarm to the Rabbies, or the Country correcting the University and Clergy, 1660.An Additional Appendix to the book entitled "Rusticus ad Academicos" 1660. Lux Christi emergens, oriens, effulgens, ac seipsam expandens per universum, 1660. One Antidote more against that provoking Sin of Swearing, 1661. Ἀπόκρυπτα ἀποκάλυπτα, Velata Quædam Revelata, 1661. Ἐπίσκοπος ἀπόσκοπος; the Bishop Busied beside the Businesse, 1662. These works, with others, were reprinted in 1679 under the title of The Testimony of Truth Exalted, folio. References

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Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
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English chaplains
English Quakers
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is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo known for writing the theme songs for several anime, movies and commercial ads. His name in kanji is . He uses katakana as his professional name. Prior to career
<mask> went to Kosei Gakuen Male High School  in Suginami, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Keizai University in 1989, he worked as a "salaryman" for four years in the advertisement industry. Beginning and major debut
By 1993, at 27, he had set his mind on becoming a musician. He already had a number of lyrics written.He made his first indie single, "0101", which he released using his birth name in kanji. After 2 years struggling to have a major recording label, by age 30, he was signed up by Office Augusta. His debut single ("Hit Chart o Kakenukero") opened up a world of possibilities. His EP album Clover, released in 1997, shows his J-Pop music has jazz, funk and soul influence. His work in Office Augusta began displaying his name as スガシカオ, in katakana, which continues today. Growth to International artist
"Yozora no Mukō", the song he wrote the lyrics to, and was sung by SMAP, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. Both SMAP's "Yozora no Mukō" (1998) and KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (2006) either debuted at or reached quickly the top spot in the Oricon charts, and sold over 1 million units each.Several of his songs have been used in anime and live action dramas and movies adapted from manga. Honey and Clover included songs from his album "Clover",


texts: like "Hachigatsu no Serenade", "Tsuki to Knife" and "Yubikiri". The song "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" appeared in the first Death Note live action movie as an insert song. His song "Yūdachi" was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others, and as the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom. "Hajimari no Hi" was used as the first opening theme to Letter Bee, and after a year and three months, he released "Yakusoku", which would be the opening for the "Letter Bee" sequel, Letter Bee Reverse. In 2019's live action adaptation of the manga "Yotsuba ginkō Harashima Hiromi ga mono mōsu!~ Kono hito (on'na) ni kakero ~", his song "Tōi yoake" would be the first song he's written as a theme song for a TV Tokyo dorama. He also did the theme songs to the XXXHOLiC anime series from CLAMP, including its movie xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~), its first TV series season (Jūkyū-sai), and from "XXXHOLiC Kei", its second season (Nobody Knows)."Sofa" was the song used in the OVA "xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki" on February 17, 2009. In February 2013, XXXHOLiC live action drama started on Wowow, and Suga's "Aitai" was used as its opening theme song. In 2015, CLAMP made the drawings for the music video for "あなたひとりだけ 幸せになることは 許されないのよ" (Anata hitori dake shiawase ni naru koto wa yurusarenai no you, also known as "Anayuru"), including in it images of characters from "XXXHOLiC", to celebrate his debut anniversary. <mask>'s 2013 album


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 "Aitai" cover and artist photos were made by Photographer and Film Director Mika Ninagawa

His songs have also been included in non-manga movies, like Dark Water ("Aozora") and Sweet Little Lies ("Ame agari no asa ni"). Other programs, like NTV's news program News Zero ("Shunkashuutou", October 6, 2006, to December 27, 2007) have also used Sugs's songs. They have appeared as well in countless of TV ads, like those of insurance agency Sony Sompo, and some car brands and housing businesses. For Chica Umino's seinen manga series, March Comes in Like a Lion, his song "Kizashi" was used in the commercial ad for the manga, and has appeared in it, as requested by Umino herself.His name and songs have also been mentioned in other anime, series and books. In Gintama, his name has been mentioned on episode 115, and his song "Progress" has been included in a parody in the series' "Shirogane no Tamashii" arc 2nd season's episode 9. "Progress" has also been included in a parody in episode 69 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Animation. In Arashi's program "Arashi ni Shiyagare" of June 30, 2018, a parody of "Professional Shigoto no Ryuugi" was made in the section "Sakurai Sho no asakatsu", headed by member Sho Sakurai, including <mask>'s song "Progress". His name has also been included in Haruki Murakami's novel After dark, with reference to his song "Bakudan juice". In 2019, director Makoto Shinkai twitted about his admiration for <mask>, and that he "borrowed" the last name

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 for the character Keisuke <mask> from his newest anime movie, Weathering with You. Tours at home and abroad
<mask> started appearing at concert venues in 1997 as part of a caravan of artists that either were mostly invited by radio station events, like "Akasaka Live" (TBS Radio) or "Meet the World Beat" (FM802), or were self promoted by the agency to which he belonged, like in all the "Augusta Camp" series, as part of Fukumimi, up until 2012, in which he appeared as guest, since he had retired from Office Augusta in 2011.His first live tour as a solo artist was in 1998, in the "Shikao & The Family Sugar Tour '98". "Family Sugar" was the name given to the support band he had from 1997 to 2007. From 2007 on, <mask> has had the support of other groups of musicians. One under the "Funk Fire" name, which was the name also of a concert series in larger venues. Another group (with no name) has been supporting him from 2015 on, both for his live tours as well as other events and festival concerts. He has also had tours playing the guitar by himself. Most of the concerts in this series are called "Hitori Sugar".The first one of the series was on October 22, 2006. For the 2020 Hitori Sugar Tour, <mask> posted on his official site a series of recommendations about coronavirus health-related information for people planning to go to live concerts, mainly because of the concerns of the spread of the virus throughout Asia. In 2009 he made his first trip overseas, to London. It was to

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 be the first time he appeared before a non-Japanese audience. In September 2017 he made his official first appearance in the American Continent, participating in the Greenroom Festival in Hawaii, which he repeated the following year
In December 2017 he made his first trip within Asia, visiting Singapore on the 8th and Taiwan on the 17th, under the tour named "Suga Shikao Asia Circuit 2017". On the December 26 he ended the tour in the city of Tokyo. Other activities
<mask> is also a music producer, DJ, and radio personality.His radio stint began shortly after his debut. In 1997 he headed FM NORTHWAVE's "スガシカオのヒットチャートをかけぬけろ" (Suga Shikao no Hitto Chaato wo Kakenukero"). From October 3, 2005, until March 27, 2006, he was hosting a radio program called Night Stories Monday on J-Wave radio station, which was downloadable as a podcast. Other stations where he worked at are BayFM and FM802. He often appears as special navigator. On April 5, 2020, <mask> began a new weekly radio program on J-Wave, called "Mercedes Benz the Experience". In 2012, <mask> translated the lyrics for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which started performances September 28, at Zepp DiverCity Tokyo, with Mirai Moriyama in the lead.In 2017 he celebrates 20 years of career with a musical festival that he has named "Sugafes", which had the participation of renowned artists like Dohatsuten, Pornografitti and Mr. Children and others. Sugafes was made in collaboration with Atsushi Shikano, from Viva la Rock

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 Festival, as an added special. On August 12, 2017, he makes his acting debut on the WOWOW drama Plage (プラージュ (小説)) He also had a cameo in the last episode of the TV Tokyo drama "Yotsuba ginkou...", appearing as himself. Collaborations

As a songwriter for other artist
He has provided work to other artists:
 Kyoko: Ijimete Mitai (music, lyrics), Happy Birthday (music, lyrics)
 Smap: Koko ni Iru Koto (music, lyrics, arrangement), Yozora no Mukō (lyrics), Ringo Juice (lyrics)
 Chisato Moritaka: Tanpopo no Tane (music, arrangement), Mahiru no Hoshi (music)
 KAT-TUN: Real Face, Real Face #2 (lyrics), Kimi no yume  boku no yume (lyrics and music)
 Arashi: Aozora Pedal (music, lyrics)
 Kamenashi Kazuya: Ai ni Tsuite (music, lyrics)
 JUJU: Hoshizukiyo (music, lyrics)
 Sayaka Yamamoto: Melody (music, lyrics)
 Little Glee Monster: Hikaru kakera (music, lyrics)
 Akihito Okano (Pornografitti) Sono saki no hikari e (lyrics). Theme song for The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Cursed by Light

As member of groups and special units
He was a member of Fukumimi, a band formed by artists from the same label (Office Augusta); it consisted of Shikao Suga, Masayoshi Yamazaki, Kyoko (杏子), and later on Chitose Hajime, COIL, Araki Yuko (mi-gu), Sukima Switch and others. During his years at Office Augusta, he toured around the country with a back up band called Shikao and the Family Sugar. The members were Suga Shikao (Vocal & Rhythm Guitar, Lyrics & Composition), Mori Toshiyuki (Keyboard & Band


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 Master, Arrangement), Numazawa Takashi (Drums), Matsubara Hideki (Bass), Mamiya Takumi (Lead Guitar), Otaki Yuko and Saito Kumi (chorus).Activities stopped in 2007 , just after the celebration of his 10th debut anniversary. In 2006 he was part of a group of singers all born in 1966. The unit was called Roots 66. And they had a special event called [ROOTS 66 DON'T TRUST OVER 40] on April 2. Ten years later, in 2016, they reunited again for an event called [ROOTS 66 -Naughty50-]. In 2017, they lent their voices for the ending theme of the second season of the anime Osomatsu san, called レッツゴー!ムッツゴー!～6色の虹～ ("Let's go! Muttsu go!~ Rokushoku no niji"). In 2006 he was involved in another group, Kokua, for which he has served as vocalist and songwriter. Their first involvement was for the theme song Progress for NHK's program プロフェッショナル_仕事の流儀 (Professional Shigoto no Ryūgi, known overseas as The Professionals). In 2016, the members reunited for their 1st official album and tour. With other singers and singer-songwriters for radio, TV, and other commercial campaigns
In 2009 he was part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of radio station FM802. He was involved in the FM802 x Docomo campaign collaboration song Oh! Radio, written by Kiyoshiro Imawano (which was to be his last), as part of the special unit called Radio Soul 20.The group consisted of musicians Mao Abe, HY, Shigeru Kishida (Quruli), <mask> <mask>, Bonnie Pink, Daisuke Yamamori (Rock'A'Trench), Sho Wada (Triceratops).

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 The song aired April that year. In 2015 he was part of the FM802 X Tsutaya Access! spring campaign, writing the song that was to be the campaign song, 「Music Train 春の魔術師」(Music Train ~ Haru no Majutsushi). Sugar & The Radio Fire is the special unit made to sing the song, and it consists of musicians <mask> <mask>, Sakurako Ohara, Yohei Kawakami (Alexandros), Kosuke Saito (Unison Square Garden), Maguro Taniguchi (Kana-Boon), Haruna (Scandal), Tatsuya Mitsumura (Nico Touches the Walls), Ryota Yamamura (Flumpool). Song aired in March 1 to May 31 that year. In 2018, he returns as part of the FM802 x Tsutaya Access!Spring campaign as a singer, this time as part of the special unit Radio Bestsellers, with the song 「栞」(Shiori), written by Ozaki Sekaikan (CreepHyp). Radio Bestsellers is made up by musicians Aimyon, Sekaikan Ozaki (CreepHyp), Kenta Kataoka (Sumika), Gen (04 Limited Sazabys), Kosuke Saito (Unison Square Garden), <mask> Suga. In 2019 he collaborated with Takeshi Kobayashi for Tokyo Metro's "Find my Tokyo" campaign in writing the song  for its  version. He also appears in a cameo in the video for the ad. 7 . 1st week sales – 14,639 . Total sales – 17,326
 Hajimari no Hi ~ feat.Mummy-D (はじまりの日 feat. Mummy-D) (November 25, 2009)
 Ame Agari no Asa ni (雨あがりの朝に) (March 17, 2010) Digital single
 Sayonara Homerun (サヨナラホームラン) (April 28, 2010)
 Yakusoku (約束) (February 23, 2011)
 Re:you (June 27, 2012)
 Festival (October 25, 2012)
 Aitai (アイタイ) (April 10, 2013)
 Miagete

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 goran yoru no hoshi wo ~ feat. Daniel Ho (見上げてごらん夜の星を feat. 20th Anniversary Edition (November 28, 2018)

Other songs
 Anata e (April 29, 2020, YouTube), with guest vocalists Kazutoshi Sakurai (Mr. Children) and Akihito Okano (Porno Graffitti), in acknowledgement to those working in the medical field during the coronavirus crisis

Collaboration with other artists in their albums or singles
 Physical (BRADBERRY ORCHESTRA feat. <mask> Shikao, Crystal Kay and Salyu; song single) (July 27, 2012)
 Dance dance (Yoshito Tanaka, feat. <mask> Shikao; album "The 12 Year Experiment") (February 13, 2013)
 Fireball (Fire Horns feat Suga Shikao; album "Primal Ignition") (June 4, 2014)
 AsianLover (Duran feat. <mask> Shikao; album "Face") (July 11, 2018)
 Smells (Yoshito Tanaka feat.Suga Shikao; album "Smells like 44 Spirit") (Self-promotion) (August 4, 2018)

Demos
 Demo Tracks'' (1997)

References

External links

Official sites
 Shikao Suga official website
 Shikao Suga official website  (Speedstar Records)

1966 births
Living people
Japanese male singer-songwriters
Japanese singer-songwriters
Singers from Tokyo
Kokua


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<mask> (born Ronola Rone in 1936) is an author, essayist, international museum consultant, and former senior executive at The Art Institute of Chicago and Executive Director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education. She has been a co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Education Council and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and at Claremont Graduate University School of Religion. In 2004, <mask> published Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family to critical acclaim. <mask> has served on the board of directors at the American Writers Museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Scottsdale, Arizona, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. She is an internationally recognized expert in arts education and multicultural education. <mask>'s husband is <mask>, a mathematician at the University of Chicago, with whom she has four daughters. Early life and education

<mask> was born on March 17, 1936 to parents John Drayton Rone Sr and Thelma (Day) Shepherd, a factory-worker and a homemaker.Her parents emigrated separately from Louisiana to Chicago during the “first wave” of the Great Migration, between 1918 and 1920. <mask> and her four siblings all attended the landmark Wendell Phillips High School and local universities. Ronne attended the University of Chicago for both her undergraduate and master's degree. While obtaining her BA in History (1955), Ronne worked with Honors preceptorial advisor Charles G. Bell. Advisors for her M.A. in Theology and Literature included Langdon Gilkey, Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Yu. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by DePaul University in 2006.Early career
From 1974 to 1981, <mask> served as the Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of the Comparative Literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During this time, <mask> developed national and international exchange study opportunities and

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 fellowships for SAIC students. In 1981, <mask> became the Executive Director for Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education, a Chicago-based, not-for-profit, arts and education organization which was at the time the largest in the country. Urban Gateways won the coveted Presidential Medal for the Arts, as well as the Governor's Award for the most outstanding arts organization in Illinois. In 1991, <mask> became the Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at The Art Institute of Chicago where she was responsible for all facets of interpretation in the museum, including lectures, film, videos and services to schools and families. <mask> was instrumental in forming the Leadership Advisory Committee (1994). The LAC continues to promote and sustain diversity within the AIC, and provides counsel, new perspectives and support to the museum for the advancement and engagement of African Americans in the life of the institution.From 1999 to the present, <mask> has been an independent consultant in museum education and planning. Her clients have included: The Fetzer Institute, where she convenes an international Arts Advisory Council; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Rubin Museum of Art, New York City; Museum of Biblical Art, New York City; Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School; National Endowment for the Arts;  Newberry Library; as well as museums in São Paulo, London and Kyoto. Author
<mask>'s full-length memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family (University of Chicago Press, 2004) was a seminal book in the literature of race in America. A biographical memoir, Another Way Home traces the story of <mask>'s mother, Day Shepherd, through her migration to the city of Chicago and her experiences as a mixed-race American. <mask> draws on her mother's recollections and genealogical research to trace her family roots from a deep-South plantation to a close-knit urban middle-class family. <mask>'s book chronicles crucial moments in

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 African American history, from the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and the Great Depression to the murder of Emmett Till and the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement. Named by the Chicago Tribune as one of the ten best non-fiction books of 2004, Another Way Home has met with critical acclaim, including praise from Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman, Yale Professor Robert B. Stepto, Harvard's Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, and poet Nikki Giovanni.<mask> is currently completing a new manuscript, which traces the wide-ranging visual depictions of home by African American artists. In this work, <mask> examines images of direct experience of the American South in contrast with memories of longing for Africa as primordial homeland. Selected service on boards and committees
 American Writers Museum, Chicago, Vice Chair, Board of Directors,
 Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI,  Convener, Arts Advisory Council
 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ
 Harvard University Graduate Division of Arts Education, Co-Chair Board of Directors
 University of Chicago Women's Board, Steering Committee
 University of Chicago, Interlocutor, International Enhancing Life Project
 Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago
 Rhode Island School of Design, Honorary Life Trustee
 Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago
 The Chicago Network
 Columbia College Chicago
 International Sculpture Center, New York City
 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Illinois Chapter

Selected publications
 2019 - Essay in The Horn Book Magazine,v. XCV No. 4, American Library Association,  Selected publications==
 2016 - The Arts Enhance Life in Excelsis: Essay, websites of The University of Chicago Enhancing Life Project and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
 2014 - Essay in Conference Publication, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Claremont, California
 2013 - Manifest Grace: Art, Presence, and Healing: Catalogue Essay in Body and Soul, Museum of Art and Design: New York City
 2012 - Visual Echoes and Evocations:

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 Essay in Eranos Yearbook v.70. Daimon Verlag, Einsiedein, Ticino, Italy. 2010 - Foreword: Catalogue for SAIC/SSCAC exhibition, RECESSION.2007 - Architects of Culture. Interview with Tim Gilfoyle in Chicago History, the Magazine of the Chicago History Museum. Summer issue
 2006 - Laying Coping Stones in Zion: Art, the Imagination, and the Flourishing of Common Life. Essay in Criterion (University of Chicago Divinity School v.45 No. 1)
 2004 - Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Biographical Memoir (University of Chicago Press)
 2004 - Musings on Barbarous Beauty. Fellowship conference proceedings (Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions)
 2004 - Seeing and Silence: Sacred Encounter in Museum Exhibition.Essay in Stewards of the Sacred (American Association of Museums)
 2004 - The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (University of Chicago Press). Two entries
 2001 - Encountering Art/Different Facets of the Esthetic Experience. Miho Museum, Kyoto. Essay (Overlook Press NY)
 2001 - A Permanence of Stone and Language in America's Courtyard. Catalog essay: Perez and Milan. (Ripasa, São Paulo)
 1998 - The New Jersey State Museum, African American Fine Arts Collection Catalog, Trenton. Five essays
 1996 - The Chicago Years: Gathering Light in the Gray City.Essay in Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green (University of South Carolina Press)
 1995 - The Artist in Society: Afterword. Essay in New Art Examiner, Summer
 1995 - Turning the Museum Inside Out. Essay in The Journal of Arts Education, September
 1995 - Birmingham Museum of Art, Fall Catalog. Essay for museum installation by sculptor Lorenzo Pace
 1994 - Challenging the Context: Perception, Polity and Power. Essay in Curator: The Museum Journal, v. 37 No. 1
 1993 - Teaching Theater. Keynote Speech.The Journal of the American Educational Theater Association, New York
 1988 - An Unquiet Revolution. Essay in The Journal of Arts Management, Spring
 1985 - Gifts of Power/The Writings of Rebecca Jackson. Book Review in The Journal of Religion,


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|image_size    = 200px
|caption       = Cruel Lag's memorial at the Old Kirk of Dunscore burial ground, erected in 1897 by his descendant Sir Alexander Grierson. |birth_date    = 1655
|birth_place   = Barquhar, Lochrutton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire
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|death_place   = Dumfries
|resting_place = Dunscore Old Kirk
|nationality   = Scottish
|other_names   = Cruel Lag, Auld Lag
|occupation    = Justice of the Peace, Member of Parliament
|title         = 1st Baronet, of Lag and Rockhall
|alma_mater    =
|party         =
|religion      = Episcopalian
|spouse        = Lady Henrietta Douglas
|children      = Sir William Grierson, 2nd Baronet, 8 others
|parents       = William Grierson, Margaret Douglas
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Sir <mask>, 1st Baronet, of Lag (1655/56 – 31 December 1733) was a Scottish baronet. He is best remembered as a notorious persecutor of the Covenanters, particularly among the people of Galloway, and is still referred to as Cruel Lag. The character of Sir <mask> of Wandering Willie's tale in Sir Walter Scott's Redgauntlet is based on Grierson. Life

<mask> was born at the farm of Barquhar, the son of the 1st Tutor of Lag, William Grierson (c. 1626-after 6 December 1665), the Laird of Barquhar, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and his wife, Margaret Douglas (b. c. 1633), the daughter of Sir James Douglas, of Mouswald, Dumfriesshire. Contrary to

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texts: the tree produced by Gracie, the Griersons proclaimed descent from Malcolm MacGregor of Glenorchy, has been shown to be pure myth with no evidence to support it and with the advent of dna to have been genetically impossible. The Lag Charters show that Gilbert Grierson had been granted the lands of Lag in Dumfriesshire in 1408 by Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney.In 1666, <mask> succeeded his cousin as Laird of Lag and he was for some years Steward of Kirkcudbright. In 1676 he married Henrietta Douglas, the daughter of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry; the couple had five children: William, James, John, Gilbert, and Henrietta. Grierson sat as a Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire between 1678 and 1686. Between the 1660s and 1680s the Stuart king Charles II acted to suppress dissent among the militant Presbyterians of Galloway, who refused to conform to the king's authority and in several cases broke out into armed rebellion. The local heritors were charged with enforcing this policy, and Lag, a Stuart loyalist and Episcopalian, proved a particularly energetic supporter. In 1678 he made his own tenants sign a bond in which they agreed not to attend illegal conventicles or to commune with "vagrant preachers". He subsequently assisted John Graham of Claverhouse in policing the south-west of the country.As a commissioner for Galloway he was given control of one of the military courts set up to try rebellious Covenanters, and in this capacity was responsible for


texts: several executions of those refusing to take the oaths of loyalty to the monarch; he also gained a reputation, at least among subsequent martyrologists, of having a particularly contemptuous attitude towards those before the courts, and of invariably denying his victims' requests for a prayer before punishment. Most traditions make Grierson the presiding officer at the court that condemned the "Wigtown Martyrs", Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan, in May 1685. A Cloud of Witnesses, the principal martyrology of the time, charged him with command of the troop of dragoons that shot John Bell of Whiteside along with four others in Tongland Parish in February 1685, and David Halliday and George Short in Twynholm later in the year. In 1685, after the accession of King James II and VII, Grierson was created a Baronet, of Lag, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and awarded a pension. Subsequent to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, Lag was arrested in May 1689 as a supporter of the old Stuart regime. Although he obtained his release on a substantial bail, and continued to receive his pension from William III, he remained under suspicion as a potential Jacobite rebel and was imprisoned again several times during the 1690s. In 1696 he was charged with being involved with the coining of false money at his mansion, Rockhall, but it was eventually discovered that the house was merely being used for experiments in stamping linen with decorative patterns.For much of the remainder of


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 his life Lag's fortunes were seriously impacted by fines, and he took no further part in the politics of the period. He continued to serve as a Justice of the peace and permitted his sons to become involved in the 1715 Jacobite Rising. However, the family's status never came under real threat as their connections with the influential Duke of Queensberry, both by blood and by marriage, probably served to protect them to some extent. Although Lag lived on unmolested in semi-retirement he remained feared and reviled by Covenanters: the writer Patrick Walker (c.1666-1745) in his Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, described him as "a great persecutor, a great swearer, a great whorer, blasphemer, drunkard, liar and cheat, and yet out of hell". In 1713 Lag handed over his estates to his eldest son, William, in return for a life rent. The two subsequently fell out over Lag's request to sell some of the property, though the resulting legal cases had the unintended effect of protecting the estates from forfeiture after William became involved in the 1715 rebellion. It was noted that father and son had been "thoroughly reunited by the common cause of retrieving their property", and Lag was eventually able to transfer the estates back to William in 1725.Death and posthumous legends

Grierson of Lag was a byword for evil among the common Presbyterian folk in Annandale, who gravely asserted that he, like the other persecutors of the Covenanters, had


texts: intimate dealings with the devil, and that he was "partly in hell" before his death, in evidence of which they told that his saliva burnt holes where it fell, and his feet put into cold water made it boil. Lag died, aged 77, at his town house in Dumfries on 31 December 1733. He was buried two days later in the Grierson family burial plot in Old Dunscore Churchyard, the cost of the funeral being £240 Scots. A story was told that on the night he died a chariot surrounded by thunder clouds swept his soul away to hell. Another described how the horses pulling his hearse to Dunscore churchyard died of exhaustion on the way and a black raven flew down and settled on the coffin, flying away only at the moment of burial. The antiquary Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe claimed that the story regarding the horses was in fact true, and that his grand-uncle Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, a nephew of Lag's, had both attended the funeral and supplied the horses which subsequently died. Whereas the Presbyterian martyrologists had listed the names of those shot at the hands of Lag's men, the tales that grew up after his death became more lurid, and in later years locals pointed out a spot on Halliday Hill, near Lag Tower, where the Laird was said to have rolled Covenanters downhill in a barrel filled with spikes.Such stories may not be the stuff of scholarly history, but they vividly demonstrate the loathing and fear in which this man was held by those who were loyal to the National Covenant


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 (1638) and the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) and who hoped, sometimes schemed and even at times took up arms against the Stuart monarchy to achieve religious freedom. A satirical chapbook poem known as Lag's Elegy, in which the Devil lamented the death of Lag, his "champion brave", was extremely popular in southern Scotland for around fifty years after his death. Grierson eventually entered folk memory, and was the subject of a strange custom recorded in Galloway and Dumfriesshire in the 19th century. Alexander Fergusson, who published a biographical sketch of him in 1886, recalled that as late as the 1840s some families, including Fergusson's own, used to commemorate Lag's deeds yearly in November by getting someone to dress as the "Laird of Lag", a "beast as hideous as the ingenuity of the performer intrusted with the part could make it" and which was used to frighten the children of the household. The conventional "beast" walked on all fours and had a long snout made from a large wooden kitchen pestle, with which the performer would "smell out Covenanters under the sideboard and other likely places": Fergusson said that anything "more striking, not to say appalling, to young minds can hardly be imagined". Arms

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition).New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

<mask>, First Baronet (1655/6 – 1733)

External links
Video and narration on Lag Tower and the Griersons
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Video and narration of Cruel Lag and the Wigtown Martyrs
Video and narration - Dunscore Churchyard and Sir <mask>

1655 births
1733 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1678
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1681–1682
Members of the Parliament of Scotland

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<mask> (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) was a twelve-year-old Roman Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Louisiana, () in the United States. She has become the focus of a popular belief that she is a saint—a person who is in heaven—who has performed a number of miracles. Local Catholic
clergy and diocesan officials permitted, promoted, and participated in the popular veneration of <mask> for years prior to her being named a Servant of God, the first step in the canonization process. Life and final illness

<mask> was the second-oldest of ten children born to Joseph Elvin and <mask>. Adults and children who knew her considered her to be smart but otherwise unremarkable. She was a devout Catholic but no more so than was customary in the local Cajun community. <mask>'s mother said, "She liked sports and was always busy with something.She went to church and said her rosary, but she was just a normal little girl." In May 1959, after reading a book about Therese of Lisieux Richard asked her grandmother whether she, too, could become a saint by praying like Therese. After reporting appearances of a tall woman in black who vanishes, and her teacher recommending that she was not herself, her mother took her to a physician. As a result, only two weeks before her death she was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia and hospitalized at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. At the request of her family, she was informed by the hospital chaplain, Joseph Brennan, a newly ordained Catholic priest, that she was going to die. Though the illness was painful, she remained cheerful, meekly accepted her fate, and offered up her suffering to God. Brennan was deeply impressed by her faith and visited her daily.While dying, <mask> prayed for other individuals to be healed or to be converted to Catholicism. The Director of Pediatrics at the hospital, Theresita Crowley, a nun, also witnessed her calm acceptance of suffering and prayers for others. Brennan and Crowley claimed that those for whom <mask> prayed recovered from their illnesses or became Catholic. <mask>

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 died on 11 August 1959 and was buried in Richard, Louisiana. Belief in <mask> as saint

Before her death Brennan and Crowley began telling people about <mask> and <mask>'s family became aware that there was a belief that she was "special." Floyd Calais, a Catholic priest who was at the time the chaplain of Charity Hospital in Lafayette, was a close friend of Brennan. In 1961, Calais began praying to <mask> to be assigned to a parish.He was assigned to St. Edwards parish in Richard, Louisiana—<mask>'s burial place—that same year. Once there, he discovered the need to raise money to build a new church there. Calais says that he was "invited to retreats and recollections, and began speaking about <mask>, how she achieved grace before she died" and about the need for money to build a new church in the parish. "People started going to her grave," he said, "and began sending checks to build the church. What I thought would take 8–10 years took 2 1/2." As early as the late 1960s and by 1972 at the latest, prayer cards marked "For Private Devotion only" with a photograph of <mask>, a prayer to her, and a prayer for her canonization were in circulation and xerographic copies were frequently being sent to individuals in need of help. A 1975 series of articles about <mask> in the newspaper of the Lafayette diocese spread the cult and were republished in a booklet, "<mask>, A Saint from Southwest Louisiana", in 1979.Testimonials by individuals who believed that they had benefited by prayer to <mask> were added and the booklet was again republished in 1988. A widespread belief formed in the area that <mask> would intercede in heaven for people's prayers to be answered. By 1989, the belief had spread outside the Cajun area. Hundreds of people were visiting <mask>'s grave each week, which had been illuminated so visits could occur in the evening and a box had been provided in which to leave written petitions to <mask>. On the thirtieth anniversary of her death that year, an outdoor Mass was held there which was attended by four thousand people and which was covered by

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 Louisiana television stations and the Cable News Network, and was reported in newspapers in Louisiana, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, Albany, and Seattle. The media coverage resulted in knowledge of <mask> spreading world-wide, with interest in her expressed in Yugoslavia, Croatia, Australia, and Africa. Approximately a thousand people attended anniversary Masses there in both 1991 and 1999, with about 400 attending in 2007, and thousands come to her grave each year, including chartered buses from New Orleans.Church position

Though no official canonization procedures had begun for <mask>, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette began collecting in 1991 testimonials about reputed help obtained through her. Unlike the traditional support for canonization of a saint, which begins with popular devotion and is only later recognized by the church, support for <mask> began outside her immediate home area and was first promoted by the clergy, beginning with Brennan, Crowley, and Calais. The bishop of the Lafayette diocese at the time of her death, Maurice Schexnayder, visited her grave multiple times and referred to her as a saint. Another bishop of the diocese, Harry Flynn, presided at the thirtieth anniversary Mass in 1989, along with sixteen other priests. The diocese also approved the creation of a private organization, the Friends of Charlene, to spread her story. In January 2020, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette officially opened the cause of <mask>’s sainthood during a Saturday Mass at the Immaculata Center in Lafayette, along with Arnaudville teacher and evangelist Auguste Nonco Pelafigue. Following the Mass, <mask> and Pelafigue were officially named “Servant of God”, the first step in sainthood.On 17 November 2021, the USCCB meeting in Baltimore, Maryland voted to advance the cause of <mask>'s beatification and canonization. baltimore, Maryland

See also
Folk saint

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References

1947 births
1959 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Folk saints
Christian child saints
Cajun people
People from St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
American Servants

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<mask> (born 18 April 1977) is an Australian musician from Hornsby, New South Wales. He is a founding member and singer-guitarist for the rock band Grinspoon. Early life and education
<mask><mask> was born on 18 April 1977 in Hornsby, New South Wales, while his parents were on the road. His father was the singer of a Christian rock 'n' roll band, Good Grief, while his mother was a keyboard player in the support act. The pair toured beach missions on a Baptist church initiative on the east coast of the state. In 1983 they moved to Bourke to the Christian community, Cornerstone. Jamieson has three sisters.In the late 1980s, Jamieson became "quite obsessed" with pop music and the top ten hits on the charts. He admits to being a big fan of Bros and says the band's When Will I Be Famous? tour was the first concert he ever attended. Jamieson was also a fan of musicians such as Bon Jovi, Michael Bolton, Richard Marx, George Michael and "just anything that was particularly bad". Jamieson attended Wauchope High School, where he co-acted the lead in the school's 1994 production of Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat, sharing the role with Matthew William Joyce. During his school years, Jamieson started a band with Fiona, titled Dancing with Daisies in a Meadow of Corruption, which won the Hastings Battle of the Bands competition. Jamieson was also the guitarist in Mescaline, singer in Crabapple and drummed in a punk band, Stiffy.Music career
<mask> is best known as the front man of alternative rock band Grinspoon. In July 1995, <mask>, on lead vocals and guitar, formed the group with Pat Davern on lead guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar, and Kristian Hopes on drums. Their debut gig was at a Lismore hotel, The Gollan. Greg Lawrence of WHAMMO website described Lismore's late 1980s music scene as a "collection of manic and unpredictable bands that played the - even more - unpredictable venues

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texts: at the time". He opined that it was no surprise that Grinspoon were "a young troop of riff-masters balancing on the thin line between hard and punk rock". He praised the "strengths of the band" including Jamieson's "casual charisma". In 1995 the group won the inaugural Unearthed talent contest by national youth radio network, Triple J.Their winning track became the band's first single, "Sickfest", which also appeared on their six-track self-titled extended play that year. The single was co-written by <mask> with Davern – their first effort at song writing together. Their debut album, Guide to Better Living, was issued in September 1997 with its 16 tracks written by <mask>, or co-written by <mask> and Hansen, or <mask> and Davern. It peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart and remained in the top 50 for 36 weeks. The group followed with six more studio albums, Easy (September 1999), New Detention (June 2002), Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills (September 2004), Alibis & Other Lies (July 2007), Six to Midnight (September 2009), and Black Rabbits (September 2012). All six peaked in the top 10 with both New Detention and Alibis & Other Lies reaching No.2. Their highest point on the related ARIA Singles Chart was actually achieved by two of their extended plays, Pushing Buttons (September 1998) and Panic Attack (March 2003) – each peaked at No. 13. In 2005 <mask> won Best Male Performer in the second annual Jack Awards, while Grinspoon won their first ARIA Award for Best Rock Album for Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills. Grinspoon remained together for over 18-years and from December 2013 they have been in an indefinite hiatus. In total the band had received 13 ARIA Award nominations. Jamieson showcased the sounds of Grinspoon to millions of viewers in March 2006, playing live at Melbourne Cricket Ground as part of the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.The band also had a track

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 used on the Gran Turismo 3 video game. In addition to his work with Grinspoon, <mask> co-wrote tracks for United States group Unwritten Law including "Elva" and "Nick and Phil" on Elva (January 2002) and "She Says" and "Because of You" on Here's to the Mourning (February 2005). Late in 2004 <mask> was the lead vocalist for "Evie" part three, "I'm Losing You", by super group, The Wrights, which performed a cover version of Stevie Wright's 1974 hit. They issued it as a single which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart in March the following year. In early 2005 <mask> performed guest vocals on the track, "Sayonara", for the film Deck Dogz. In August 2009, <mask> teamed with Chris Cheney (of The Living End); Josh Pyke; and Tim Rogers (of You Am I) to perform The Beatles' White Album in its entirety in celebration of that album's 40th anniversary.They were supported by an ensemble of 17 musicians. In May 2014, <mask> and Russo performed acoustic shows in Sydney and Melbourne. In July 2014, <mask>, Cheney, Pyke and Rogers once again performed the White Album on an Australian tour, with a 17-piece orchestra. <mask> also DJs under the name "2ManyPJs" and supported the Living End in 2012 during the Sydney leg of their 'Retrospective Tour'. In March 2017 <mask> starred as St Jimmy in the Australian premiere of the Broadway musical 'American Idiot' in Brisbane. He is due to reprise his role for the national tour of the production in 2018. Personal life
In March 2002, Jamieson met Julie, his partner, at a Grinspoon performance in Brisbane.Julie had been a runway model and appeared in ads and TV commercials—by 2007, the couple had two children, Eight and Lyla  and by January 2014, the couple had been married for seven years. As of February 2014, Jamieson resides in Sydney, Australia, is an avid South Sydney Rabbitohs supporter and is the team's number-two ticket holder. In February

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 2007, Jamieson attended the Odyssey House drug detoxification unit in Sydney, to overcome his addiction to crystal methamphetamine, also known as "ice". Jamieson claimed the information had been leaked to the media a week later by a nurse, and said that he felt "My confidence, or my confidentiality, was completely raped". In July 2007, he went public in an interview with Andrew Denton on the TV program Enough Rope, and spoke of stealing from his bandmates to fuel his drug use and becoming estranged from his wife. Jamieson continued his rehabilitation at a private clinic with the support of Julie, his family and bandmates. <mask> and Julie embarked on the 'Rock N Ride' tour in January 2013 for Headspace, the National Youth and Mental Health Foundation.<mask> founded the tour with Adam Zammit, the CEO of the Big Day Out festivals. Together with 10 other Australian musician and media personalities, Jamieson completed a five-day motorbike tour from the Gold Coast Big Day Out to the Adelaide Big Day Out. The tour aimed to engage local communities and raise awareness about youth mental health issues and ice. They repeated the tour in 2014, but rode from the Gold Coast to Melbourne in error. Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). |-
| 2003 || "Chemical Heart" – Patrick Davern, <mask> || Song of the Year ||
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| 2013 || "Passerby" – Davern, <mask> || Rock Work of the Year ||

Jack Awards

The annual Jack Awards ran from 2004 to 2007, they were sponsored by Jack Daniel's, the US-based whiskey company. Jamieson won Best Male Performer in 2005.References

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1977 births
Living people
Australian musicians
People from the Mid North Coast
Australian multi-instrumentalists
The Wrights (Australian band) members
21st-century Australian singers
21st-century Australian male

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<mask> (born 23 June 1989) is an Australian professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where she is one half of the current Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion with Cassie Lee in their first reign. She is best known for her time in WWE, where she performed under the ring name <mask>. She was one-half of the tag team The IIconics alongside Peyton Royce. In June 2007, <mask> made her professional wrestling debut at Pro Wrestling Alliance (PWA), and she debuted one-year later for the Pro Wrestling Women's Alliance promotion, where she became a two-time PWWA Champion. She later started competing on the independent circuit for multiple promotions in the United States for several years, most notably and commonly for Shimmer Women Athletes. Early life
<mask> began watching wrestling at the age of 10 along with her brother, and started her professional wrestling career first attending to the Australian promotion based in Sydney, Pro Wrestling Australia. Prior to becoming a wrestler, <mask> excelled in basketball.She attended the same high school (Westfields Sports) as fellow wrestler Cassie Lee. Professional wrestling career

Pro Wrestling Alliance Australia (2007–2015)
<mask> was trained by Madison Eagles. She debuted on 23 June 2007, on her eighteenth birthday, at PWA Australia with a win over Eagles and Aurora, wrestling under her birth name as <mask>. On 2 August 2008, <mask> defeated defending champion Kellie Skater to win the PWWA Championship for the first time. She had one successful title defence on 8 November against Tenille Tayla. On 22 November, she lost her title to Penni Lane. After Lane vacated her title due to injury, <mask> won the PWWA Championship for the second time in a four-way match against Kellie Skater, Sway, and

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<mask> began wrestling for the American all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes in October 2008, making her debut at Volume 21 along with Madison Eagles as the Pink Ladies, participating in a tag team gauntlet match to determine the inaugural Shimmer Tag Team Champions, but were the first team eliminated. <mask> made her singles debut in Shimmer with a loss to Kellie Skater at Volume 24. At Volume 33 in September 2010, <mask> defeated Nicole Matthews, after losing to Matthews earlier that year in April at Volume 30. She followed up with an upset victory over Ayako Hamada and Sara Del Rey in a three-way match by pinning former Shimmer Champion Del Rey at Volume 34.As a result, later in September 2010, <mask> was granted a title match against her trainer and former tag partner, Shimmer Champion Madison Eagles at Volume 35, but failed to win. After her failed title challenge, <mask> continued her feud with Nicole Matthews. At Volume 36, she teamed up with Tenille, challenging The Canadian NINJAs (Matthews and Portia Perez) for the Shimmer Tag Team Championship, but were defeated. However, she gained a victory over the Canadian NINJAs at Volume 38 while teaming with Serena. <mask> concluded her feud with Matthews with a loss in a two-out-of-three falls match at Volume 39 in March 2011. In March 2012,

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 victories over Mia Yim at Volume 45 and former Shimmer Champion MsChif at Volume 46 led to <mask> receiving another shot at the Shimmer Championship, but lost to defending champion Cheerleader Melissa at Volume 47. At Volume 53 in April 2013, <mask> was defeated by Madison Eagles in Eagles' return match.At Volume 57, <mask> defeated Mercedes Martinez. Other promotions (2008–2015)
Other than wrestling for Shimmer, <mask> has also wrestled for other American promotions, including Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2008, and Chikara in 2011. She also wrestled for the Canadian promotion NCW Femmes Fatales in 2012. <mask> debuted for the American promotion Shine Wrestling at Shine 9 in April 2014, with a victory in a six-person tag team match, teaming with Kellie Skater and Shazza McKenzie to defeat Nikki Roxx, Santana and Mia Yim. WWE (2015–2021)

NXT (2015–2018)

<mask> received a tryout with WWE during their tour of Australia in August 2014 and became an NXT trainee on 13 April 2015. <mask> made her televised in-ring debut on the 10 June episode of NXT, where she competed in a losing effort against Becky Lynch under the ring name Jessie. On 7 August, she was given the new ring name <mask>.After competing in most of her matches at NXT as a face, <mask> competed on her first match as a heel on the 21 October episode of NXT, losing to Asuka. Through the end of 2015, <mask> started being managed by fellow wrestler, Sylvester Lefort, during multiple NXT live events, however, it did not last for long after Lefort was released from his contract in February 2016. On the 13 January 2016 episode of NXT, <mask> competed in a number one contender's battle royal for Bayley's NXT Women's Championship, which was won by Carmella. <mask> made her

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 first appearance on the main roster on the 30 June episode of SmackDown, where she worked as a jobber losing to Dana Brooke. <mask> finally made her return to NXT television on 27 July, where she achieved her first live victory in the company by defeating Santana Garrett. After asking NXT's general manager William Regal for a match at TakeOver: Brooklyn II on the 17 August episode of NXT, she was granted one against the debutant Ember Moon. At the event on 20 August, <mask> was defeated by Moon.Following a brief hiatus, <mask> returned on the 21 September episode of NXT, where she defeated Aliyah. In October, <mask> started an alliance with Peyton Royce, later dubbed The Iconic Duo, and later entered a feud with Liv Morgan with the duo attacking and defeating Morgan in singles matches. This ultimately led to a six-women tag team match at TakeOver: Toronto, which was taped and aired for the 23 November episode of NXT, in which Aliyah, Ember Moon, and Morgan defeated <mask>, Royce, and their partner Daria Berenato. In the end of December, <mask> and Royce were placed in a brief feud with the NXT Women's Champion Asuka after the latter stated there is no competition for her. This resulted in a fatal four-way match, which also involved Nikki Cross, at the TakeOver: San Antonio event on 28 January 2017, in which both <mask> and Royce failed to capture the NXT Women's Championship. The IIconics (2018–2020)

<mask> and Royce, now dubbed The IIconics, made their main roster debut on the 10 April 2018 episode of SmackDown Live attacking then SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair, whilst she was cutting a promo about her match at WrestleMania 34. Week later, <mask> lost to Flair.In their first match together as part of the main roster, The IIconics racked up

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texts: their first victory against Asuka and Becky Lynch. Throughout the next few months, <mask> competed in various singles and tag team matches but ended up on the losing end. In August, The IIconics started their first feud on the main roster, with Naomi, and the two were able to defeat her in singles matches. Eventually, Naomi teamed up with Asuka but lost to the IIconics at the Super Show-Down on 6 October, held in the latter's homeland of Australia. Three weeks later, both <mask> and Royce took part in WWE's first all-women's pay-per-view, Evolution; they were the first two eliminated from a battle royal for a future women's championship match. On 27 January 2019, both <mask> and Royce entered their first Royal Rumble match at number 7 and number 9, respectively, and they managed to eliminate Nikki Cross, before they both were eliminated by Lacey Evans. On 17 February, at the Elimination Chamber event, The IIconics competed in a tag team Elimination Chamber match for the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, which was won by The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks).In March, The IIconics started a feud with Banks and Bayley, whom they defeated in a non-title match. Because of their win, they (and two other teams) challenged Banks and Bayley for the championship at WrestleMania 35 in a fatal four-way match. At the event, which took place on 7 April, The IIconics won the match after <mask> pinned Bayley to win the Women's Tag Team Championship for the first time. On the 5 August episode of Raw, The IIconics lost the titles to Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross in a fatal four-way match also involving the teams of The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) and Fire and Desire (Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville). On 16 October, it was announced that

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 The IIconics had been drafted to the Raw brand as supplemental picks of the 2019 WWE Draft. After a brief hiatus, <mask> and Royce made their return on the 11 May 2020 episode of Raw, interrupting WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross. They later defeated the champions in a non-title match.They would unsuccessfully challenge for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships multiple times throughout the summer. They would begin a feud with Ruby Riott mocking her backstage for not having any friends. They would go on to trade victories as <mask> and Royce defeated Riott while Riott defeated <mask>. At Payback, The IIconics were defeated by Riott and her newly reunited tag partner Liv Morgan. The following night on Raw, The IIconics were forced to disband after losing to The Riott Squad per stipulation. The Resume (2020–2021)
As part of the 2020 Draft in October, <mask> went undrafted and was subsequently signed as a free agent to the SmackDown brand. <mask> would then begin a storyline on SmackDown where she would offer Superstars such as Street Profits and Big E to look at her resume only to be rejected by them.On the 1 January 2021 episode of SmackDown, she helped The Riott Squad defeat Natalya and Tamina, much to their dismay. Over the next few weeks, <mask> would try to persuade The Riott Squad to add her to their group as she accompanied them to the ring during their matches and attempted to interfere in matches on their behalf, seemingly turning face for the first time since October 2015. However, <mask> resumed as a heel when she teamed with Carmella for a tag team turmoil match on Night 1 of WrestleMania 37, which was won by Natalya and Tamina. This would in turn be <mask>'s final appearance in WWE as she (along with her former

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 partner Peyton Royce) were released from their WWE contracts on 15 April 2021. Impact Wrestling (2021–present)
At Knockouts Knockdown on 9 October 2021, it was announced that The IIconics, now known as The IInspiration, would be making their debut for Impact Wrestling at Bound for Glory. At Bound for Glory, they defeated Decay (Havok and Rosemary) to win the Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship. On November 20, at Turning Point, The IInspiration had their first successful title defense, when they defeated Decay once again.Other media

<mask> as <mask> made her WWE video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K18, having since appeared in both WWE 2K19 and WWE 2K20. On 19 August 2020, <mask> launched her own YouTube channel. On 16 May 2021, <mask> alongside Cassie Lee launched a comedy and variety podcast titled Off Her Chops. Championships and accomplishments
Impact Wrestling
Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Cassie Lee
 Pro Wrestling Women's Alliance
 PWWA Championship (2 times)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No. 34 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2012
 Ranked No. 50 of the top 50 tag teams in the PWI Tag Team 50 in 2020 – with Peyton Royce
 Sports Illustrated
 Ranked No. 25 in the top 30 female wrestlers in 2018
 WWE
 WWE Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Peyton Royce
 NXT Year-End Award (1 time)
 Breakout of the Year (2016) – with Peyton Royce

References

External links

 The IInspiration's Impact Wrestling profile

1989 births
Australian female professional wrestlers
Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestling managers and valets
Sportswomen from New South

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Theodore "<mask>" <mask> () was an Indonesian-Dutch businessman who was instrumental in developing Macau as a tourist destination and who was a Formula One team owner in the 1970s. Early life and business career
<mask>, an ethnic Indonesian Chinese of Hakka ancestry from Meixian, Guangdong, China was born as Jap Tek Lie in Medan, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia in 1907. At that time Indonesia was the Dutch East Indies, a colony of the Netherlands. <mask>p studied in the Netherlands and took Dutch nationality. He moved to Hong Kong in the 1940s and began to build up his business empire which included travel agencies, hotels, casinos and trading companies. Yip spoke many languages including six Chinese variants (most notably Hakka being his native tongue, Mandarin and Cantonese due to his residence in Hong Kong and Macau), Dutch (through his life experience during the Dutch colonial rule and the owning of his Dutch citizenship), English, French, German, Malay (Indonesian) (since he was born and spent his childhood in Indonesia prior his move to the Netherlands for his studies) and Thai which helped him expand his businesses into property and finance. Yip started racing cars for fun in the 1950s at the wheel of a Toyopet Model SA.In 1962 he and several partners, including his brother-in-law Stanley Ho, formed the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau with a monopoly to run all casino operations and many other leisure activities in Macau, including lotteries, ferries and hotels. <mask>p established the Casino Lisboa along with Stanley Ho (the brother of his wife Susie Ho) and their two other partners (<mask> Hon and Henry Fok). The Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau transformed Macau into a major tourist destination. Yip was the force behind the Macau Grand Prix, a prestigious annual motor racing event in the streets of Macau often won by drivers who would go on to great success in Formula One. Motor racing
In the early 1970s Yip met Sid Taylor, a racing team manager and former racing driver from

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texts: Ireland. In 1974 <mask>p sponsored Australian driver Vern Schuppan in a Formula 5000 team managed by Taylor and in Formula One with Team Ensign. In 1975 he continued to sponsor Schuppan in races in America and for 1976 supported Alan Jones in the US Formula 5000 series, also establishing his Theodore Racing, run by Sid Taylor, who entered an Ensign in F1 with Patrick Tambay as the driver.After a difficult year in 1977, <mask> commissioned Ron Tauranac to build him a Formula One car. The car was difficult to drive and Eddie Cheever failed to qualify in both Brazil and Argentina but Keke Rosberg took the car to a shock victory at the 1978 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, a non-championship race that was held in extremely wet conditions that year. Rosberg qualified for only one Grand Prix that year, in South Africa. The car was abandoned in mid-season. In America, Yip financially supported Dan Gurney's Eagle team. In 1979, Yip helped to fund Ensign but the car was not a success. The car was driven by Derek Daly, Patrick Gaillard, and Marc Surer but there were no points scored.At the end of 1978 and through 1979 <mask> also funded a British F1 programme with Walter Wolf Racing WR3, WR4 and WR6 for David Kennedy who finished runner up in the series. His British F1 programme also ran Desiré Wilson in Wolf WR4 to a famous win at Brands Hatch in 1980. Kennedy moved to Shadow in 1980 with, initially, Stefan Johansson and later Geoff Lees as team mate but the team was chronically underfunded and using a very poorly engineered DN11 chassis. After a few races Yip took over ownership from founder Don Nichols and introduced a DN12 chassis which also proved a failure. After both cars failed to qualify for the French Grand Prix in June Yip closed down the Shadow team. Yip rethought his involvement in racing and ended most of his other activities in order to concentrate on F1. With Sid Taylor and Julian Randles he established Theodore Racing Ltd. and recruited designer Tony Southgate and team manager Jo Ramírez.The new

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 car was dubbed the TY01 and was driven by Tambay at the start of 1981. In the mid-season Tambay was lured away by Ligier and <mask> gave the drive to Marc Surer. The same car was developed in 1982 and it became obvious that small teams could not easily survive in the turbo era. Yip merged Theodore with Ensign and used the Nigel Bennett-designed Ensign N183 design as a Theodore. The team hired drivers Johnny Cecotto and Roberto Guerrero but at the end of that season the team shut down and Mo Nunn moved to America, where he enjoyed great success as a race engineer through the 1980s and into the 1990s and eventually set up a successful team of his own in Champ Car. Yip had long run a team each year at the Macau GP and in 1983 was behind the switch from Formula Pacific rules to Formula Three rules. The result was a huge success and Theodore Racing has won the event many times, notably with Ayrton Senna in 1983.Yip reduced his involvement in motor racing sponsorship in the late 1980s and finally sold his share of his company in Macau to his brother-in-law. His son <mask> Jr. revived the Theodore Racing brand in various single seater racing formulae. Death
<mask> died at the age of 96 in 2003. News of his death and the subsequent funeral received extensive coverage in television, radio and print media in Southeast Asia. Family
In December 2018, <mask>, the oldest son of <mask>, died in a school bus crash at North Point, Hong Kong that killed four other people on 10 December 2018. He succumbed to his injuries from the accident at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan. Footnotes

References

Sources
Profile at www.grandprix.com

1907 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Dutch businesspeople
Businesspeople in financial services sector
Businesspeople in real estate
Dutch chief executives
Dutch motorsport people
Dutch people of Chinese descent
Formula One team owners
Indonesian chief executives
Indonesian emigrants to the Netherlands
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
People from Medan
People from Meixian

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<mask> (1877–1916) was an Irish activist & revolutionary. Early life and family (1877–1906)

<mask> was born 24 November 1877. His parents were Michael and Mary (née Sinnott), they were married 20 January 1877. Michael died at age 37 (about 1887). Mary, born 22 May 1858, to Hugh Synnott [sic] and Margaret Doyle, was 29-years-old when her husband died. <mask> grew up with his younger brothers Hugh, John and Michael and sister Margaret in a place known as 'The Spot’ in Lisdornan near Julianstown, Stamullen and Bellewstown, in Co. Meath, Ireland. He resided there until the close of 1900 when his family moved to a second home, also in Lisdornan, and where he continued to live until his departure for Dublin.In 1904 he moved to Baldoyle, Co. Dublin, to begin employment at the Metropolitan Baldoyle Race Company Limited. There, he worked as a Senior Groundskeeper and Steward of the Turf Club, skilled in the construction and maintenance of 'the turf' and grounds, as well as creation of a new five-furlong gallop which would become renowned as one of the best in north-west Europe. He had previously been employed in the same endeavours at The Bellewstown Racecourse, the oldest racecourse in Europe.. It was in the rich countryside of Meath, that as a young man, <mask> developed his hunting (grouse, geese, ducks and deer) and weaponry skill and knowledge, which proved of great benefit to the men and women trained, and drilled, under him in the Irish Citizen's Army, at Liberty Hall, and Croydon Park, Fairview, working alongside Captain Jack White. <mask> married Ann Rooney from the Portmarnock-Malahide area in 1908 and they went on to have three sons, Michael born in 1909, Joseph born in 1911 and <mask>, who was

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