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When the Gunpowder Plot was discovered, Oldcorne was at Hindlip Hall, his base for fourteen years. In December, he was joined there by Nicholas Owen, Henry Garnet and Ralph Ashley who were hiding because they were under suspicion of involvement. Hindlip was searched in January but the four were not discovered: Garnet and Oldcorne were in one hiding place while the two lay brothers were in another. Their conditions were poor, and after eight days they surrendered. Oldcorne was arrested with Garnet by Sir Henry Bromley and held briefly at the castle at Holt in Worcestershire before being taken to the Tower of London. It has been said that Bromley would have abandoned his search much earlier but he had information from Humphrey Littleton that Oldcorne and possibly Garnet were hiding there. Trial and execution
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<mask> <mask> was born in Severn, Maryland on October 7, 1967. Her father, Michael Conrad <mask> Sr., was a Methodist clergyman and power company worker, and her mother, Evelyn Jackson, a native of South Carolina, was a former opera singer and cosmetologist, as well as a pastor. Braxton's maternal grandfather was also a pastor.Braxton is the eldest of six siblings. She has a younger brother Michael Jr. (born 1968) and four younger sisters Traci Renee (born 1971), Towanda Chloe (born 1973), Trina Evette (born 1974), and Tamar Estine (born 1977). They were raised in a strict religious household, and Braxton's first performing experience was singing in her church choir. Braxton attended Bowie State University to obtain a teaching degree, but decided to sing professionally after she was discovered by William E. Pettaway Jr., who reportedly heard her singing to herself while pumping gas. On her appearance May 24, 2014 broadcast of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, she stated that she was not

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1989–1995: The Braxtons, <mask> and breakthrough

<mask> and her four sisters Traci, Towanda, Trina, and Tamar began performing as The Braxtons in the late 1980s and were signed to Arista Records in 1989. Their first single, "Good Life", was released in 1990. Though the song was not successful, it attracted the attention of record executive Antonio "L.A." Reid and record producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. Reid and Babyface recruited her to record a demo of "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", a song that they had written for Anita Baker for the soundtrack of Eddie Murphy's film, Boomerang. Baker, who was pregnant at the time, did not record the song but suggested that Braxton record it. Her recording was later included on the soundtrack along with "Give U My Heart", a duet by <mask> and Babyface. <mask>, meanwhile, was signed to Reid and Edmonds' Arista-distributed imprint, LaFace Records, and immediately began recording her solo debut album.In July 1993, LaFace released <mask>'s self-titled debut album. Primarily produced by Reid, Babyface, and Daryl Simmons, it peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 and entered the top ten of the albums chart in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The first single, "Another Sad Love Song", peaked at number seven and number

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 two on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B Singles charts respectively. The album's second single, "Breathe Again", peaked in the top five of both the Hot 100 and R&B singles charts and no 2 in the UK. More singles from <mask> were released in 1994, including "You Mean the World to Me", "Seven Whole Days", and "I Belong to You/How Many Ways". <mask>'s debut album won her several awards, including three Grammy Awards (for Best New Artist and two consecutive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 1994 and 1995). She won two American Music Awards (for Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist and Favorite New Adult Contemporary Artist) in 1994 and another one in 1995 (for Favorite Soul/R&B Album).<mask> was certified 8x platinum in USA and has sales of over 10 million worldwide. 1996–1999: Secrets and financial issues
In June 1996, <mask> released her second album Secrets. Motivated "to include a little bit of everything," <mask> reteamed with Babyface, but also worked with R. Kelly, Tony Rich, and David Foster on the album, which she co-produced. A major success, it peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and reached the top ten on most international charts. After 92 weeks in the charts, Secrets was certified 8x platinum, becoming <mask>'s second straight 8 million-seller. Internationally, Secrets sold more than 15 million copies, further cementing <mask>'s superstar status. The album's first single, "You're Makin' Me High", marked <mask>'s first number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, while follow-up "Un-Break My Heart", a ballad written and composed by Diane Warren, became the biggest hit of Braxton's

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After her three-year-long dispute with LaFace and Arista had been settled, <mask> signed a new $20 million contract. In April 2000, her third studio album, The Heat was released.<mask> took a more hands-on approach, co-writing and co-producing a handful of the tracks which saw her adapting a more urban sound. It opened at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 199,000 copies sold in its first week, eventually going double platinum in the United States, while selling over 4 million copies worldwide. Additionally, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards, while uptempo lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough," a worldwide top ten hit, won for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated for Best R&B Song. In 2001, <mask> made her movie acting debut in director Doug McHenry's comedy film Kingdom Come opposite an ensemble also starring LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Whoopi Goldberg A modest box-office success, it grossed $23.4 million worldwide. The same year, Braxton recorded and released the Christmas album Snowflakes which consisted R&B–led original songs co-penned with Keri Lewis and Babyface as well as several remixes and cover versions of Christmas standards and carols. It received a mixed reception by critics, many of whom compared its nature to <mask>'s other work but found the stylized production and original material too contemporary to conjure images of Christmas, and failed to reach the upper half of the Billboard 200, eventually going gold in the United States. In 2002,

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 while gearing up for the release of her fourth studio album, <mask> discovered she was pregnant with her second child.Knowing that she would be unable to promote the album properly, she unsuccessfully lobbied Arista Records to get the label to postpone its release until after she was to give birth. In November 2002,  More Than a Woman was released. Opening to an instant commercial disappointment, the album peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, but was less successful internationally. First single "Hit the Freeway" failed to impact, resulting in lackluster sales in general and the release of no further singles. More Than a Woman was eventually certified gold in the United States and sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide. 2003–2007: Libra and Las Vegas residency
In April 2003, <mask> abruptly left Arista Records, having been there for 14 years, and immediately signed with Blackground Records, headed by Barry Hankerson, her manager at the time. She then starred in Aida as Aida beginning June 30, 2003 when she replaced actress Simone, until she left the cast on November 16, 2003.In April 2005, <mask>'s new label, Blackground/Universal, released "Please", the first single from her fifth album, Libra. The album was originally planned for a June release, but it was pushed back several times and was finally issued on September 27. Libra peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200, selling 114,593 copies in the first week, and peaked at number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album was certified gold in late 2005 and has since sold 679,000 copies worldwide. In May 2005, <mask> made an appearance


texts: on the season finale of American Idol 5, where she performed Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto" with soon-to-be winner Taylor Hicks. A month later, "The Time of Our Lives", a duet with classical crossover vocal group Il Divo, was released as a single, serving as the official 2006 FIFA World Cup anthem. <mask> performed the song, which entered the top ten in Switzerland, at the opening ceremony in Berlin on June 9, 2005.In August 2006, <mask> replaced singer Wayne Newton as the Flamingo Las Vegas's new headlining act. The show, entitled <mask>: Revealed, was to be performed six nights a week and was scheduled to run through to March 2007. <mask> later confirmed that she was extending her show through to August 2007. Due to its success, it was reported that <mask> would extend her show through to August 2008, though the show was later cancelled in order for <mask> to focus on her health after being diagnosed with microvascular angina. On January 12, 2007, <mask> filed a $10 million lawsuit against her former manager Barry Hankerson, alleging "fraud, deception and double dealing", in addition to mismanaging her relationship with Arista Records. According to <mask>'s lawsuit, Hankerson placed his personal financial interests ahead of hers by using 'double-talk' to compromise the relationship between <mask> and her former label, with Hankerson allegedly telling Arista that "Braxton no longer wanted to record for Arista," and telling <mask> that "Arista was not interested in working with her anymore". The suit was settled with <mask> being forced to return a $375,000 advance to Hankerson, who would also receive

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 a percentage of the sales of her next album, and Hankerson releasing <mask> from her contract with him.The settlement also temporarily limited the companies with which Braxton could sign. Hankerson claimed that the problems initially arose due to a number of disputes with <mask> and her wish to include her husband in her music. 2008–2012: Pulse and television
Following the abrupt cancellation of her Toni Braxton: Revealed show, <mask> experienced financial difficulties when insurance agency Lloyd's of London refused to honor her policy that she purchased for upwards of $70,000 that included financial compensations for financial losses. Lloyd's responded with a counter-suit seeking damages against her because of an unrelated heart condition that the company was not made aware of at the time the application was filed. While <mask> acknowledged that she did disclose her full medical history at the time, she got on the hook for all damages because of the cancelled shows, being sued by multiple companies, and had to once again file for bankruptcy. In September 2008, <mask> appeared on the seventh season of American dance competition series Dancing with the Stars; her partner was Alec Mazo. They were voted off in the fifth week of the competition.In 2009, <mask> signed to Atlantic Records and began work on her next studio album. In February 2010, she was part of the supergroup Artists for Haiti who recorded "We Are the World 25 for Haiti," a remake of the 1985 hit "We Are the World," to help benefit the people of Haiti hollowing the magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake. Three months later, Pulse, her seventh studio

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texts: album, was released. A collection of up-tempo songs and R&B ballads with production varying from smooth to dance-based styles, it debuted at number nine on the US Billboard 200, selling 54,000 copies in its first week, and topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming <mask>'s fifth US top-ten album. A moderate chart success elsewhere, it reached the top ten in Switzerland, and the top 20 in Germany and Greece. While critical reception of Pulse was generally positive, its singles "Yesterday", "Hands Tied" and "Make My Heart" achieved moderate chart success. In 2011, <mask> signed with WE tv for a reality series, Braxton Family Values.Chronicling the lives of <mask> and her sisters Tamar, Traci, Towanda, and Trina, plus their mother Evelyn, the series debuted on April 12, 2011. It received favorable reviews from critics who recognized it as a "guilty pleasure" and spawned several seasons and spin-offs. In September 2011, <mask> parted ways with her long-time manager Vincent Herbert, husband of sister Tamar, and signed a new management deal with Los Angeles-based entertainment/production company The Collective. In March 2012, she released  the standalone single "I Heart You," a dance-pop, EDM and house song that peaked at number one on the US Dance Club Songs. Also that year, <mask> played Rosalie Rosebud, a singer with an over-the-top personality, in the children's musical adventure comedy film The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure alongside Jaime Pressly and Cloris Leachman, and began filming a lead role in the Lifetime Movie Network film Twist of Faith which premiered the following year. 2013–2014:


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In 2013, <mask> and longtime creative music partner Babyface began work on their collaborative studio album Love, Marriage & Divorce which was released in February 2014 under Motown Records. It received favorable reviews from music critics, who labeled it as "high-quality R&B," and debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 and the top of the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with first-week sales of 67,000 copies.Love, Marriage & Divorce was nominated for World's Best Album at the 2014 World Music Awards and won for Best R&B Album at the 57th Grammy Awards. Lead single "Hurt You" reached number one on the US Adult R&B Songs, becoming <mask>'s first song to do so since her 2000 release "Just Be a Man About It." The song also hit number 16 on Billboard Hot R&B/ Hip Hop Airplay chart. In March 2014, <mask>, alongside Babyface, made her return to Broadway in the musical After Midnight. The third in rotation in the role of "Special Guest Star" following Fantasia Barrino and KD Lang, they performed from March 18 to 31, 2014 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. In May 2014, Braxton published a memoir, Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir, through Harper Collins Publishers. In it, Braxton discusses her career success and struggles and the self-healing she took charge of after her own diagnosis with the auto-immune disease lupus and her son's diagnosis with autism.In October 2015, <mask> along with The Braxtons released the holiday album Braxton Family Christmas on Def Jam Recordings. Compromsing cover versions of Christmas standards and carols as well as several original

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In January 2018, <mask> starred in the Lifetime film Faith Under Fire. In March, her eighth studio album Sex & Cigarettes, her first solo album in eight years, was released on Def Jam Recordings. An adult contemporary R&B album with production from Fred Ball, Babyface, Dapo Torimiro, and Tricky Stewart, it debuted at number 22 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Sex & Cigarettes received mainly positive reviews from music critics, and was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Second single "Long as I Live" topped the US Adult R&B Songs, becoming <mask>'s eighth chart topper, while breaking a tie with singers Maxwell and R. Kelly to give her sole possession of the

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In April 2020, it was announced that <mask> had signed with Island Records.She released the single, "Do It", her first song under the new deal on April 6, 2020. In May, <mask> released a remix EP for her second single "Dance". On June 26, 2020, Missy Elliott appeared on the official remix to the single "Do It". Elliott co-produced the track alongside Hannon Lane. On August 4, 2020, Braxton released the music video for "Dance", directed by Mike Ho. On August 27, 2020, <mask> released the song "Nothin'." <mask>'s tenth studio Spell My Name was released on August 28, 2020.On October 23, 2020, <mask> released a video for her song "Gotta Move On." In 2021, <mask> competed on season six of The Masked Singer as "Pufferfish". She was the third to be eliminated during the two-night premiere alongside Dwight Howard as "Octopus"

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 and Vivica A. Fox as "Mother Nature". Despite being unmasked, <mask> kept on a glittered KN95 cloth face mask over her mouth due to her lupus condition. <mask> has been confirmed to be starring in the upcoming 2022 Lifetime film The Fallen Angels Book Club. Artistry
<mask> has been recognized for her distinctive contralto voice.Her voice has been called "husky, sultry, elegant and sexy." Due to the huskiness of her voice, Braxton often used male singers such as Michael McDonald, Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder as vocal style models. Chaka Khan and Anita Baker were two of the few female singers that she could stylize. Steve Huey of AllMusic cites a key to Braxton's success is the versatility of her voice, which he states as being "soulful enough for R&B audiences, but smooth enough for adult contemporary; sophisticated enough for adults, but sultry enough for younger listeners; strong enough in the face of heartbreak to appeal to women, but ravishing enough to nab the fellas." Braxton began her career singing traditional R&B and soft rock ballads and love songs on her debut and second albums. However, hip-hop soul and dance music elements begun to get spun into her sound on The Heat, More Than a Woman, and Pulse. She also showcased her classical training while performing in Broadway plays Beauty and the Beast and Aida as well as her duet with Il Divo, "The Time of Our Lives".Legacy
<mask> became an R&B superstar after the release of her first album. LA Reid stated during an interview with VH1: "We called her the first lady of LaFace. She was our Diva. Clive had Whitney, Tommy had Mariah and we had

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<mask> met musician Keri Lewis when his group, Mint Condition, opened for her on tour; they married on April 21, 2001. In December 2001, she gave birth to their first child, a son named Denim <mask>-Lewis. In 2002, while gearing up for the release of her fourth studio album, <mask> discovered she was pregnant with her second child; the complicated pregnancy confined her to bed rest. The couple's second son, Diezel Ky <mask>-Lewis, was born in March 2003. As Diezel has been diagnosed with autism, Braxton has become involved with Autism Speaks, serving as

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<mask> (December 25, 1864 – May 22, 1944) was an American track coach, athletic trainer, professor of physical training and gymnasium director for 42 years at Yale University (1890–1891, 1896–1898), the University of Michigan (1894–1895, 1898–1910), and Princeton University (1910–1932). He was considered "one of the pioneers of intercollegiate sport." Early years
<mask> was born in either 1864 or 1865 in Massachusetts. His father was born in Ireland. As a young man in the 1880s, Fitzpatrick was a sprinter with the national champion Natick Hook and Ladder Company team. As a coach, he is credited with inventing a new pole-vaulting technique and with coaching numerous Olympic gold medalists, including Archie Hahn, Ralph Rose, Charles Dvorak and Ralph Craig. He was also the trainer for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1894 to 1895 and 1898–1909, including Fielding H. Yost's legendary "point-a-minute" teams from 1901 to 1905.<mask> was born in Natick, Massachusetts in 1864. He died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 79 in 1944. Natick Hook and Ladder Company
In the late 1870s and 1880s, New England was "the home of the professional athlete." Teams of professional sprinters formed in New England. For a decade, the sport thrived, and <mask> was one of the leading sprinters. Sprinters took up residence in small towns and competed with the local fire companies that engaged in hose races with other companies. <mask> "was one of the first to organize the famous hose, hook and ladder teams, when racing of this kind was so popular and the rivalry between Massachusetts towns was keen."The "Natick Hook and Ladder Company" was the most

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 successful of the New England teams, becoming "the world's championship organization." The Natick team in the 1880s included <mask> and some of the leading sprinters of the era, including Mike Murphy, William F. Donovan, Sid Peet, Johnny Mack, Steve Farrell, and world champion Piper Donovan. In 1885, the only sweepstake race to determine the national champion of American professional sprinters was held and won by Natick's Piper Donovan. Several members of the Natick Hook and Ladder Company went on to become leading trainers at American universities, leading to Massachusetts being called the "mother of athletic mentors." Professional career

Yale University
In 1890 and 1891, <mask> was an athletic trainer at Yale University. Legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg was a pupil of <mask> at Yale in 1890. Time magazine wrote in its obituary of <mask>: "When he was just beginning his coaching career, at Yale, he gave later-famed coach Amos Alonzo Stagg a primer course in the art of the fast breakaway."Detroit Athletic Club
In 1892, <mask>'s former Natick teammate, Mike Murphy, left his job as trainer at the Detroit Athletic Club to become the trainer at Yale. On Murphy's recommendation, <mask> was hired to replace him in Detroit, a position which he held until 1894. While <mask> was the trainer in Detroit, the club's leading sprinter, Harry S. Jewett, was the champion sprinter of the United States and Canada. In 1892, Jewett won the American 100-yard and one-furlong championships. Jewett also set an American record in the 220-yard dash in 1893. University of Michigan: 1894–1896

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 Michigan as the trainer for the school's football team. During <mask>'s first stint as Michigan's trainer, the football teams had two of the best seasons in the school's history.The team lost only one game each year and outscored opponents 510-98. During these two seasons, Michigan also proved that a Western football team could compete with the major Eastern schools that dominated the game to that time. In 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell, 12-4, and in 1895, the team beat Harvard, 4-0. The victory over Cornell in 1894 marked the first time that a Western school defeated an established power from the East. Prior to 1894, Michigan had never beaten one of the Eastern powers, losing to Yale, 46-0 in 1883, and to Cornell, 56-0 in 1889, 58-12 in 1891, and 44-0 in 1892. The team's record in 1894 and 1895 is set forth below. After two seasons at Michigan, <mask> had proven his value as an "expert trainer of football squads" and was recruited by Yale.When <mask> accepted the job at Yale, The Philadelphia Inquirer described the impact of his departure on the Michigan football team:"The greatest loss, however, is <mask> <mask>, the popular and efficient trainer, who has just accepted an offer from Yale, and will henceforth fill 'Mike' Murphy's place there. This loss is irreparable in the opinion of the Michigan men, for 'Fitz' has always been the prime factor in building up the teams for the past years, and had the confidence and esteem of every student." Return to Yale: 1896–1898
<mask> returned to Yale from 1896 to 1897 as the trainer of the school's track and football teams. For the second time, <mask> was hired to replace his old

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 Natick teammate Mike Murphy, this time as Yale's trainer. In September 1896, one newspaper describe his hiring this way:"<mask> <mask> ... has just signed a contract to train Yale's track team for one year. ... In his younger days he won fame as a sprinter of great ability.He is a personal friend of Murphy and one of his pupils. ... <mask> will have charge of the other teams also, and will report Sept. 18, when the football squad will begin active training at the Yale field. ... It is reported that the salary will be the same as that paid to Murphy, $1,500." <mask> was described elsewhere as "a thoroughly good man who knows all about track and field athletics", but also "energetically devoted" to football—unlike many trainers who are "jealous of football" due to its damaging impact on "finely tempered men." Invention of new pole-vaulting technique
While at Yale, <mask> proved himself to be an innovator in track and field by inventing a new pole-vaulting technique. Dr. R.G.Clapp, who later spent 40 years as an athletic trainer and coach at the University of Nebraska, trained as a pole vaulter under <mask> in 1897. Clapp recalled that <mask> came to Yale with a "new idea on gripping the pole." <mask> "advocated sliding the lower hand up the pole to meet the upper hand at the takeoff instead of the prevailing system of taking off with the hands spread." Clapp was the first pole-vaulter to take up <mask>'s suggestion, and the two worked together on coordinating the other essentials of the vault with the hand slide. In 1898, after perfecting the technique, Clapp set a world record in the pole-vault (11 feet, 10½ inches) that stood

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 for six years. Clapp later wrote:"Credit should be given where credit is due and, while it is true that <mask> <mask> and I were jointly responsible for this development which revolutionized valuting, the major credit should go to that polished Irish gentleman, who was one of the finest sportsmen I have ever known and who was so highly regarded at University of Michigan, Yale, and Princeton universities and by all of the track coaches and athletes of yesteryears." University of Michigan

Return to Michigan in 1898
During the two seasons that <mask> was at Yale, Michigan lost both games to its then rival University of Chicago.When Charles A. Baird was hired as Michigan's first athletic director in 1898, his first act was to recruit <mask> to return to Michigan. <mask> agreed to re-join Baird, who had been the manager of the 1894 and 1895 teams trained by <mask>. On September 15, 1898, one week before moving to Ann Arbor, <mask> was married to Mary Quinlan in Natick, Massachusetts. In <mask>'s first season back at Michigan, the football team went 10-0 and won the school's first Western Conference (now known as the Big Ten Conference) championship. The team outscored its opponents 205 to 26, and closed the season with a 12-11 win over Chicago. <mask> was credited for the team's turn-around in 1898. One writer recalled how "sadly out of condition" the Michigan team had been in 1897 when it lost to Chicago and earlier in 1898 when it narrowly beat Northwestern."Then after <mask> worked with these men they approached the Thanksgiving day contest with Chicago strong and fit to beat any team in the west. Physical condition improved

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In 1901, Michigan hired Fielding H. Yost as its football coach, and <mask> worked closely with Yost as trainer of the football team over the next nine years. In Yost's first four seasons at Michigan, the team was 44-0-1, outscoring opponents 2,331-40.The Michigan teams from 1901 to 1905, known as the "Point-a-Minute" teams, played 56 consecutive games without a loss and outscored their opponents 2,821 to 42. Michigan football drew widespread press attention, and though the lion's share of the credit went to Yost, much praise was also paid to <mask> for his role in training Michigan's players. In 1903, <mask> was recognized as a trainer "without peers in the country" and was paid a salary of $3,000 per year. The Los Angeles Times reported that Michigan's athletic director (Baird), football coach (Yost) and trainer (<mask>) were collectively paid $10,250, an amount "over double that of United States Senators", but noted that each was "conceded to be worth all he gets." The Times said the following about <mask>:"Trainer <mask> <mask>, the 'Professor of Athletics,' is also recognized as without a

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texts: superior in his line, which is the education of the young idea in the cinder path of track athletics, jumping, pole vaulting, and work with the weights. In all these branches Michigan ranked high last year, and to Fitzpatrick was given most of the credit." <mask>'s training was often credited as the reason why so few Michigan football players were injured during his years as trainer.Michigan's legendary football coach Fielding H. Yost held a high opinion of <mask> and praised his role in the success of Michigan's football teams:"Fitz and I worked together for nine years. We were like brothers during that association at Michigan. There is no one person who contributed so much to the University of Michigan as this great trainer. His wonderful personality, his expert assistance and that great optimism of his stood out as his leading qualifications. My association with him is one of the pleasantest recollections of my life. He put men in shape, trained them and developed them. They were 'usable' all the time.He is a trainer who has his men in the finest mental condition possible. I don't think there was ever a trainer who kept men more fit, physically and mentally, than <mask> <mask>." During the 1903 season, <mask> also played a central role in the birth of the Little Brown Jug trophy that is still awarded to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota football game. The student manager of the 1903 Michigan team, Tommy Roberts, recalled the origin of the jug as follows: "Trainer <mask> <mask> was afraid Minnesota would try to dope Michigan's water supply, and bought the jug for about 30 cents in a Minneapolis store." Track success at

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Western Conference championships

Fitzpatrick was Michigan's track coach from 1900 to 1910, and during those years, Fitzpatrick's teams compiled a 24-2-1 record in dual meets and won Western Conference track championships in 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1906. <mask>'s athletes also excelled in Olympic competition. Over the course of four Olympic Games held during his tenure as track coach, Michigan track and field athletes won 15 medals, including 7 gold medals.1900 Paris Olympics
In 1900, funds were solicited from faculty, students, alumni and Ann Arbor businessmen to send <mask> and four Michigan track athletes to the Olympics in Paris. Michigan's John McLean won a silver medal in the high hurdles, and Michigan's champion pole-vaulter, Charles Dvorak, became involved in the Sabbath controversy. When finals of some events were scheduled for Sunday, several American university teams agreed they could not violate the Sabbath. Among the finals scheduled for Sunday was the pole vault, in which Dvorak was a favorite. Dvorak was reportedly told that the final had been rescheduled, but the event was held after Dvorak and another American left. Several special competitions were conducted later to accommodate the Americans, which allowed Dvorak to win a silver medal. On his return from Paris, <mask> praised the American athletes and criticized Paris officials for holding key event finals on a Sunday:"The Americans showed themselves superior in every kind of track athletics.They won practically everything. We felt keenly the breach of faith in holding the Paris games on Sunday, but we could do nothing more than make a

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One of the highlights for Michigan athletics during the Fitzpatrick years came at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, which have sometimes been referred to as the "Michigan Olympics." Five University of Michigan track and field athletes won 9 medals: six gold, two silver, and one bronze. The Michigan medal winners at the 1904 Olympics were:
 Archie Hahn – gold medals in the 60 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters;
 Ralph Rose – gold medal in the shot put, silver medal in the discus, and bronze medal in the hammer throw;
 Charles Dvorak – gold medal in the pole vault;
 Fred Schule – gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles; and
 Wesley Coe – silver medal in the shot put. Archie Hahn became a major star, and <mask> was credited with inventing his unusual running style. Shortly before the 1904 Olympics, a Wisconsin sports writer described the Fitzpatrick-invented style this way:"Hahn has a new style of running.Nobody at Michigan understands the style, except that <mask> <mask> invented it, and that Hahn steps differently than ever before. Even to see Hahn's new stride is not to analyze how he manages to lift his feet so high in front. The new stride suggests that he is trying to climb a hill. The little man has toughened every muscle in his body and trained it to be a spring." With three medals, Ralph Rose also became a star. In December 1904, the New York Evening Sun wrote that Rose was "the first perfect physique ever seen at the University of Michigan" as measured by Fitzpatrick's anthropometric charts. Before Rose, Michigan never had an athlete who did not fall short of either

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 size or symmetry requirements to draw "an uncurving line on the cart at the 100 mark."At 6 foot, 3 inches, 246 pounds, a 29.9 inch right thigh, and a 47.6 inch expanded chest, he was the school's first "perfect physique." 1906 and 1909 Olympics

At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, Archie Hahn repeated as the 100-meter champion, winning his fourth gold medal. And at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, Michigan athlete Ralph Rose repeated as the gold medalist in the shot put, and John Garrels won a silver medal in the 110-meter hurdles and a bronze in the shot put. Ralph Craig
<mask> also coached Ralph Craig at Michigan. Following <mask>'s departure from Michigan, Craig went on to win gold medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. In 1932, <mask> said that Craig was the best sprinter he ever turned out, though Johnny Garrels was the best all-around athlete he ever handled. <mask>'s pupils, Hahn and Craig, were the only Olympic double sprint winners prior to another Michigan athlete, Eddie Tolan, accomplishing the feat at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Gymnasium director and advocate for "physical culture"
In addition to serving as the trainer for the football team and coach of the track team, <mask> also served as a professor of physical training and the director of the school's Waterman Gymnasium. He was first hired at Michigan in 1894, the same year the Waterman Gymnasium was opened. Gymnasium training was compulsory for Michigan students at the time, and it was <mask> who oversaw the training. The gymnasium training included "muscular strengthening and improvement", exercises (known as

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 how to step and helped him with my hands to take steps. The first two steps he took alone were followed by tears of joy.Of course, he'll never be able to walk as an able-bodied man, but he learned to discard his shuffle. ... This is but an instance of gymnasium work's benefits. If people realized the value of physical culture, we would be a splendidly developed race of men and women." Those who knew <mask> described his "magnetic personality", his ability to rouse men "out of the gloom of despair and defeat", and noted that "he knew men and how to get the best out of them." <mask>'s accomplishments draw fame and offers from Eastern universities
By 1905, the success of Michigan's athletic programs had brought fame to <mask> and to the school. <mask> had "turned out more championship teams than any other man in the West", and the school's "athletic reputation had spread so far" that requests were received from all over the country from school's seeking to hire Michigan graduates to teach athletics.<mask> noted that the demand was so great that a Michigan athlete could command $400 to $500 more a year in salary than students from other schools, and an All-Western player from Michigan's football team could command a salary of $1,500 for three months' work. In what one newspaper called "Fitzpatrick's call to the book worms", <mask> extended an offer even to students without the ability to make the big teams that he would "teach them all the tricks by which they can show other men to success on the cinder path and gridiron." In 1905, Yale sought to recruit <mask> to return once again to that school. At the time, one paper wrote: "It

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texts: is no exaggeration to say that today <mask> stands head and shoulders over every trainer in the country, just as Yost outshines rival football coaches. And without <mask>, Yost could not produce the winning football teams he does." A team from Yale visited Fitzpatrick in June 1905 but left Ann Arbor with the report that it was "impossible to get Keene away from Michigan." It was said: "Keene is located there, with everything pleasant and just as he wants it, and they say they won't let him go and he says he can't come.So Yale must give up hoping for him." <mask> declined to comment on the offers and said, "Ann Arbor is a good place to live in and I like the Michigan spirit." <mask>'s reputation as one of the greatest trainers and conditioners continued to grow as his four-mile-relay team won the event at the Penn relays for seven consecutive years. And in January 1910 a Minnesota newspaper wrote a lengthy profile on <mask> describing him as the "great little man" responsible for molding Michigan's teams:"A great asset to Michigan is <mask> <mask>. He knows athletics from A to Z. As a trainer of track men he is beyond a peer; for keeping football players in condition he is unbeatable and in the capacity of a football coach he ranks high. He works over an unconscious player, binds up a nasty hurt or squeezes a soaked sponge down the neck of a perspiring husky with the same calmness that he looks for dangerous stones in the training lot at Whitmore Lake."<mask>'s conditioning was credited with the success of the Michigan football team in his two games at the team's trainer. On November 13, 1900, Michigan beat Penn, 12-6, after a

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 long train ride to Philadelphia. On a hot day in Philadelphia, Penn's coach was forced to make nine substitutions, but Michigan made only one. Seven days later, after long train rides to Ann Arbor, and then to Minnesota, the Michigan football team beat Minnesota, 15-6, in the bitter cold. One writer of the victories: "It was a test that is seldom paralleled in football, but <mask> had the men in shape to stand it -- and then a whole lot." <mask> accepts an $8,000 a year offer from Princeton

In 1910, <mask> was offered the position of athletic trainer and track coach by Princeton University. <mask> stated that he was content in Michigan, but Princeton representative persisted and asked him to name the salary that would cause him to leave Michigan.<mask> did not want to leave Michigan so he gave the figure "in the neighborhood of $8,000 per year"—an amount he assumed would be prohibitive. Princeton agreed to the amount, and <mask>, "having made the terms himself felt in honor bound to leave Michigan and come East." <mask>'s impact on the student body was such that, when he left for Princeton in 1910, the following tribute was paid to him:"He made men better, not alone physically, but morally. His work has been uplifting along all lines of university activities. In character and example he is as great and untiring as in his teaching and precept. ... Next to President Angell, no man of the University of Michigan, in the last ten years, has exerted a more wholesome influence upon the students than <mask> <mask>. His work brought him in close touch with the students and his influence over them for good has been wonderful.He is a

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<mask> was hired by Princeton in 1910 and remained the track coach and athletic trainer there for 22 years. Four of his Princeton track teams placed second in the intercollegiates–1920, 1922, 1923, and 1925.Fifteen of his track athletes from Princeton won individual intercollegiate championships, including two double champions, Charles R. Erdman and Randolph E. Brown, and two repeat champions, J. Coard Taylor and Ralph G. Hills. After his first year at Princeton, the Daily Princetonian published an editorial in November 1911 proclaiming <mask> as "the best trainer Princeton has ever had", and concluded, "if we were asked to name the man who had done most for Princeton athletics in general during the past year, we should name <mask> <mask>, the trainer of a championship football team, the trainer of a championship baseball team and the coach of the first Princeton track team that has beaten Yale in fifteen years." In 1918, collegiate track coaches formed the Association of College Track Coaches of American and elected <mask> as their first president. By 1919, <mask> had been a

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 certainly wasn't devoted to keeping in condition." As a tribute to his years of service, Princeton named an athletic field and fieldhouse after him. Later years and death
<mask> continued to live in Princeton, New Jersey after his retirement. He died at his home in Princeton in 1944 after a long illness. Head coaching record

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See also
 <mask> (name)
 List of Michigan Wolverines football trainers

References

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<mask>mi (1486May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting. Biography
<mask> was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist. In 1509 he traveled to Rome, where he learned from the artists who had just done their first work in the Vatican, but soon returned to Siena. However, while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school.There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters. Pavement of Duomo di Siena
In addition to painting, he also directed the celebrated pavement of the cathedral of Siena from 1517 to 1544, a task that took over a century and a half. The pavement shows vast designs in commesso work—white marble, that is, engraved with the outlines of the subject in black, and having borders inlaid with rich patterns in many colours. From the year Beccafumi was engaged in continuing this pavement, he made very ingenious improvements in the technical processes employed, and laid down scenes from the stories of Ahab and Elijah, of Melchisedec, of Abraham and of Moses. He made a triumphal arch and an immense mechanical horse for

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Compared to the equilibrated, geometric, and self-assured Florentine style, the Sienese style of painting edges into a more irrational and emotionally unbalanced world. Buildings are often transected, and perspectives awkward.The setting is often hallucinogenic; the colors, discordant. For example, in the Nativity (Church of San Martino) hovering angels form an architectural hoop, and figures enter from the shadows of a ruined arch. In his Annunciation, the Virgin resides in a world neither in day or dusk, she and the Angel Gabriel shine while the house is in shadows. In Christ in Limbo (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena), an atypically represented topic, Christ sways in contrapposto as he enters a netherworld of ruins and souls. S.J. Freedberg compares his vibrant eccentric figures to those of the Florentine mannerist contemporary Rosso Fiorentino, yet more "optical and fluid". While all the elements of the expected religious scenes are here, it is like a play in which all the actors have taken atypical costumes, and forgotten some of their lines.In Medieval Italy, Siena had been an artistic, economic, and political rival of Florence; but wars and natural disasters caused a decline by the 15th century. Stylistically, Beccafumi is among the last in a line of Sienese artists, a medieval believer of miracles awaking in Renaissance reality. Drawing of Abraham
 St. Peter - -Woodcut, Cleveland Museum of Art
 Angels drawing (1524–25) -San Francisco

Gallery

References
Painting in Italy 1500–1600, S.J. Freedberg, (Penguin History of Art, 2nd Edition, 1983). Notes

External links

 <mask> in the "A World History of Art"
 <mask> Pace Beccafumi. paintings

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<mask> (, ; October 23, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists. His winning the gold medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, along with the silver win of fellow Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, prompted a celebration which was a major highlight in the memoirs of members of the Propaganda Movement, with the fellow Ilustrados toasting to the two painters' good health and to the brotherhood between Spain and the Philippines. Regarded for work done in the manner of European academies of his time, <mask> painted literary and historical scenes, some with an underscore of political commentary. His allegorical works were inspired with classical balance, and often showed figures in theatrical poses. Biography

Early life
Born in the town of Badoc, Ilocos Norte in the northern Philippines, <mask> was the third among the seven children of <mask> Pedro y Posadas and Laureana Novicio y Ancheta. In 1861, the <mask> family moved to Manila and he went to Ateneo Municipal de Manila where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree.He excelled in painting and drawing, and was influenced by his brother, Manuel N<mask>, who, according to Filipino patriot José Rizal, was a better painter than <mask> himself. <mask> enrolled at Escuela Nautica de Manila (now Philippine Merchant Marine Academy) and became a sailor. He took drawing lessons under the illustrious painting teacher Lorenzo Guerrero of Ermita, Manila. He also enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (Academia de Dibujo y Pintura) in Manila where he was influenced and taught how to draw by the Spanish artist Agustin Saez. However, <mask>'s vigorous brush strokes displeased his teacher and <mask> was discharged from the academy. However, Guerrero was impressed by his skill and urged <mask> to travel to Madrid to further pursue his work. Travel abroad
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In 1883 <mask> started the painting demanded of him by the Ayuntamiento. In May 1884, he shipped the large canvas of the Spoliarium to Madrid for the year's Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. He was the first recipient of the three gold medals awarded in the exhibition and <mask> gained recognition among the connoisseurs and art critics present. On June 25, 1884, Filipino and Spanish nobles organized an event celebrating <mask>'s win in the exhibition. That evening, Rizal prepared a speech for his friend, addressing the two significant things of his art work, which included the glorification of genius and the grandeur of his artistic skills. <mask> developed a friendly relationship with King Alfonso XII and was later commissioned by the Spanish Senate to paint a large canvas which

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 was called the La Batalla de Lepanto (The Battle of Lepanto).He moved to Paris in 1885 where he opened his own studio and befriended Hidalgo. A year after, he finished the piece El pacto de sangre (The Blood Compact) in accordance with the agreement he had with the Manila City Council. Depicted in this piece was the blood compact ceremony between the Datu Sikatuna, one of the lords in Bohol island, and the Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi. It is now displayed in the Malacañan Palace. He also sent two other paintings in addition to the one required; the second canvas sent to Manila was a portrait of López de Legazpi reconstructed by <mask> from his recollection of a similar portrait he saw in the hall of the Cabildo, and the third was of Governor-general Ramón Blanco y Erenas. In 1887, <mask> traveled back to Spain to enter in that year's Exposition two of his pieces, the La Batalla de Lepanto and Rendición de Granada (Surrender of Granada), which both won in the exhibition. He celebrated his triumph with his friends in Madrid with Graciano López-Jaena delivering the congratulatory speech.<mask>'s paintings are generally described as being vigorous and dramatic. With its elements of Romanticism, his style shows the influence of Delacroix, Rembrandt, and Daumier. In 2015, a <mask> masterpiece called ¿A Do...Va la Nave? sold for P46.8M at a Makati auction. Marriage
On December 4, 1886, <mask> married María de la Paz Pardo de Tavera, a sister of his friends Félix and Trinidad Pardo de Tavera. The couple traveled to Venice and Rome and settled in Paris. They had one son, whom they named Andrés, and a daughter, María de la Paz, nicknamed Bibi, who died when she was three years old.<mask> was fond of his wife. However, the jealous <mask> frequently accused Paz of having an affair with a certain Monsieur Dussaq. Finally in a fit of jealousy, he shot the door wherein his wife was behind. Killing his wife and mother-in-law and wounded his brother-in-law Félix

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 in the process, on September 22, 1892. He was arrested and murder charges were filed against him. <mask> was acquitted of charges on February 8, 1893, on the grounds of a crime of passion. Temporary insanity; the "unwritten law" at the time forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.He was ordered to pay the Pardo de Taveras a sum of one thousand six hundred fifty one francs and eighty three cents, and an additional twenty five francs for postage, in addition to the one franc of claims for damages ("dommages-intérêts"). Five days later, <mask> went to Madrid with his brother, <mask>, and his son, Andrés. Murcia

A few years later, in October 1889, the artist travelled to southeast Spain, Murcia, as contained in the news release at the time, was provisionally installed in Moratalla where he made a portrait of the daughter of <mask>, an eminent man in this town. Passing through Murcia gave two portraits of the Queen Regent had made to the Provincial and City Council, respectively, and one of these was acquired by the provincial body for five hundred seventy-five pesetas installed on top of the Hall of Sessions of the Provincial Palace and then going to the presidential office in April 1932, one year after the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, enters as a deposit Museum of Murcia along with several official portraits of royal iconography, being included in the different inventories and catalogs without sufficient data or references, just a terse "DJ.LUNA" as artistic attribution. Final years

In 1894 <mask> moved back to the Philippines and traveled to Japan in 1896, returning during the Philippine Revolution of the Cry of Balintawak. On September 16, 1896, he and his brother <mask> were arrested by Spanish authorities for being involved with the Katipunan rebel army. Despite his imprisonment, <mask> was still able to produce a work of art which he gave to a visiting priest.He was pardoned by the Spanish courts on May 27, 1897, and was released from prison

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 and he traveled back to Spain in July. He returned to Manila in November 1898. In 1898, he was appointed by the executive board of the Philippine revolutionary government as a member of the Paris delegation which was working for the diplomatic recognition of the República Filipina (Philippine Republic). In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1898), <mask> was named a member of the delegation to Washington, D.C. to press for the recognition of the Philippine government. He traveled back to the Philippines in December 1899 upon hearing of the murder of his brother Antonio by the Kawit Battalion in Cabanatuan. Death
He traveled to Hong Kong and died there on December 7, 1899, from a heart attack. His remains were buried in Hong Kong and in 1920 were exhumed and kept in <mask>'s house, to be later transferred to a niche at the Crypt of San Agustin Church in the Philippines.Five years later, <mask> would be reinstated as a world-renowned artist and Peuple et Rois, his last major work, was acclaimed as the best entry to the Saint Louis World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Some of his paintings were destroyed by fire in World War II. Media portrayal
Portrayed by Bryan Benedict in the 2014 TV series Ilustrado. See also
Spoliarium
The Blood Compact
España y Filipinas
Antonio <mask> Rizal
José Honorato Lozano
Damián Domingo
Fernando Amorsolo
Fabián de la Rosa
Justiniano Asuncion
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo

References

External links
INQUIRER.net: <mask>'s work
López Memorial Museum: <mask>

1857 births
1899 deaths
19th-century Filipino painters
Filipino portrait painters
Impressionist painters
Orientalist painters
Filipino sculptors
People of the Philippine Revolution
Filipino exiles
Filipinos imprisoned abroad
Filipino murderers
Filipino people of Spanish descent
Ilocano people
People from Ilocos Norte
People of Spanish colonial Philippines
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni
Burials at San Agustin Church

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 playing three seasons there before being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. After three years with the Clippers, he was traded to the Wizards in June 2018. In December 2018, he joined the Houston Rockets. On January 16, 2015, <mask> became the first player in NBA history to play for his father, coach <mask>, then-head coach of the Clippers. High school career
In 2010, <mask> led Winter Park High School to the school's first state title in a 76–57 win against Dr. Phillips High School in the 6A state championship. <mask> scored 23 points in the game. In June 2010, <mask> was a part of the gold medal winning team at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship where he set a Team USA record for an U18 event with 35 points against

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texts: Canada.On August 5, 2010, <mask> was named to the fifth annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 game, where he was named co-MVP after he had 25 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. On September 30, 2010, <mask> committed to Duke University. His commitment was widely covered by ESPN and various other sports networks given his status as the Class of 2011's top recruit. He officially signed with the program on November 16, 2010. On March 5, 2011, <mask> led Winter Park to back to back Florida 6A state championships with a 52–44 victory over Dr. Phillips High School, in which he had 25 points, 11 rebounds and 4 steals. <mask> was named the 2011 Naismith Prep Player of the Year on March 10, 2011. He was also an All-American and All-State

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 honoree, and played in the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit for Team USA.College career

As a freshman, <mask> played in Duke's exhibition games in China and Dubai during an international tour in August 2011. In the first game against the China men's national basketball team, <mask> scored 18 points on 8–19 shooting and led Duke to a 77–64 victory. In the second game (also against the Chinese national team), <mask> scored 12 points in a 78–66 victory, making several dunks during the first half. In the final game played in Beijing, <mask> chipped in 11 points as Duke topped the Chinese, 93–78. In his team's 86–66 victory over the Dubai national team, he scored 16 points, including 10 in the second quarter, on an array of impressive


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 drives. On February 8, 2012, his three-point basket as time expired allowed Duke to overcome an 82–72 deficit with two minutes to play in an 85–84 victory over the University of North Carolina. The victory ended North Carolina's 31 game winning streak at the Dean Smith Center.On March 16, 2012, <mask>' college career ended in the "Round of 64" of the NCAA tournament, when Duke lost to Lehigh University. <mask> shot 5-14 from the field, while playing 34 minutes. Lehigh led for most of the game, earning their first NCAA Tournament victory. On March 26, 2012, <mask> declared for the NBA draft, foregoing his final three years of college eligibility. Professional career

New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans (2012–2015)

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texts: selected by the New Orleans Hornets with the 10th overall pick the 2012 NBA draft. <mask> chose to wear the #25 jersey, the same number his father wore when he was in the NBA. The night before <mask> said, "I want to be like my dad, only better."Joining him as a rookie on the Hornets was Anthony Davis, the first overall pick of the draft. On July 24, 2012, <mask> signed his rookie scale contract with the Hornets. Three days later, <mask> underwent successful surgery to clean up bone spurs in his right ankle. On October 31, 2012, <mask> made his NBA debut in the Hornets' season opener against the San Antonio Spurs. In 24 minutes as a starter, he scored 7 points on 1-of-9 shooting in a 99–95 loss. On December 14, he scored a

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texts: then career-high 27 points in a 113–102 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. On March 6, 2013, he broke his hand and subsequently required surgery that forced him to miss the remainder of the season.For his rookie season, he averaged 6.2 points on 37% shooting from the field and 33% from three-point range. In April 2013, the Hornets changed their name to the Pelicans. On October 16, 2013, the Pelicans exercised their third-year team option on <mask>' rookie scale contract, extending the contract through the 2014–15 season. On April 12, 2014, <mask> recorded season-highs in points and rebounds with 20 and 10 respectively in the Pelicans' 111–104 loss to the Houston Rockets. On October 24, 2014, the Pelicans declined to

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 exercise their fourth-year team option on <mask>' rookie scale contract, thereby not extending the contract through the 2015–16 season. On December 20, 2014, he scored a season-high 21 points in a 114–88 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. Los Angeles Clippers (2015–2018)

On January 12, 2015, <mask> was traded to the Boston Celtics in a three-team trade involving the Pelicans and the Memphis Grizzlies.Three days later, he joined his father on the Los Angeles Clippers after he was traded in a three-team trade involving the Celtics and the Phoenix Suns. On January 16, <mask> made his debut for the Clippers and became the first son to play for his father in an NBA game. On February 21, <mask> scored a then career-high 28


texts: points in a 129–98 win over the Sacramento Kings. On May 8, he scored a playoff career-high 25 points in the Clippers' 124–99 victory that gave them a 2–1 lead in the Western Conference semi-finals against the Houston Rockets. On July 13, 2015, <mask> re-signed with the Clippers. On February 6, 2016, he was ruled out for four to six weeks with a broken left hand. On March 31, he scored a career-high 32 points in a 119–117 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.On April 29, <mask> recorded 21 points and eight assists against the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series. However, with a 106–103 loss, the Clippers were eliminated from the playoffs. In the game, <mask> required 11 stitches above his left

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texts: eye from a collision in the first quarter. On July 8, 2016, <mask> again re-signed with the Clippers. On December 14, 2016, he scored a season-high 25 points on 7-of-10 from three-point range and 9-of-12 from the field in a 113–108 win over the Orlando Magic. On January 4, 2017, he set a new season high with 28 points in a 115–106 win over the Memphis Grizzlies. He averaged career highs of 12.0 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists during the 2016–17 regular season, but due to a strained left hamstring, <mask> missed the last six games of the regular season and the first four games of the playoffs before returning in Game 5 of the Clippers' first-round playoff series against the Utah Jazz.On December 3, 2017, <mask> scored a


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 season-high 30 points in a 112–106 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. On December 22, 2017, he scored 30 of his career-high 36 points in the second half of the Clippers' 128–118 win over the Houston Rockets. The following night, he set a new career high with 38 points in a 115–112 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. <mask> missed 18 games between late December and early February with a heel bruise. Washington Wizards (2018)
On June 26, 2018, <mask> was traded to the Washington Wizards in exchange for Marcin Gortat. On December 17, 2018, <mask> was traded with Kelly Oubre Jr. to the Phoenix Suns for Trevor Ariza. <mask> was waived by the Suns the following day.Houston Rockets (2018–2020)
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texts: the Houston Rockets. On January 5, 2019, he scored a season-high 21 points in a 110–101 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. On April 7, in a 149–113 blowout win against the Phoenix Suns, <mask> made the 27th three-pointer of the game with 1:09 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, beating the Rockets’ own previous record of most made threes by one team in a game (26). He appeared in 47 games while averaging 8.7 points, 2.3 assists and 1.9 rebounds in 28.6 minutes per game. The Rockets won 72% of their games after signing <mask>. He started 13 straight games as a Rocket from Dec. 31 through Jan. 25, averaging 11.6 points, 3.8 assists and 2.7 rebounds in 38.1 minutes per game. Houston was 15–5 when <mask> scored in


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On November 27, 2020, <mask> was acquired by the New York Knicks via a sign-and-trade deal. On March 25, 2021, <mask> was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in a three team trade


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 and was waived three days later. Denver Nuggets (2021–present)
On April 20, 2021, the Denver Nuggets signed <mask> to a 10-day contract following a season ending injury sustained by Jamal Murray. Ten days later, he was signed for the rest of the season.On September 1, 2021, <mask> re-signed with the Nuggets. Career statistics

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| style="text-align:left;"|L.A.His older brother, Jeremiah, played basketball for Georgetown and Indiana and later joined the Maine Red Claws, while his older sister Callie played volleyball for the University of Florida and is married to his former Duke teammate Seth Curry. His younger brother, Spencer, is a guard who currently plays for UC Irvine. He was named <mask> after former Cleveland Cavaliers guard <mask>, while his middle name, James, is in honor of his great-uncle Jim Brewer. His first child with Brittany Hotard, Kayden, was born in 2018. <mask>' second child, a son with Audreyana Michelle, was born in March 2021.

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External links

 Duke Blue Devils bio
 NBADraft.net profile
 Scout.com profile
 Rivals.com profile

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All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Orlando, Florida
Denver Nuggets players
Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players
Houston Rockets players
Los Angeles Clippers players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
New Orleans Hornets draft picks
New Orleans Hornets players
New Orleans Pelicans players
New York Knicks players
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<mask> (Ge’ez: አብርሃ) (also spelled Abreha, died after CE 570; r. 525–at least 553), also known as <mask> (), was an  Aksumite army general, then the viceroy of South Arabia for the Kingdom of Aksum, and later declared himself an independent King of Himyar. <mask> ruled much of present-day Arabia and Yemen from at least 531–547 CE to 555–570 CE. Life
Dhu Nuwas, the Jewish Himyarite ruler of Yemen, in the period c. 523–525 or c. 518–20 launched military operations against the Aksumite Christians and their local Arab Christian allies. The Aksumites in Zafar were killed, their fortresses in the Yemeni highlands destroyed, and Najran sacked. Najran fell in 518 or 523 and many members of the Himyarite Christian community were put to death. This incident also mentioned in the Quran in Sura #85-Al-Burooj evoking great sympathy throughout the Christian regions of the Orient and prompting an intercontinental Aksumite military intervention using the massive Aksumite fleet aided by a small extra Byzantine fleet first made in 518/523. Procopius identifies Abraha as the former slave of a Roman merchant who did business in Adulis.Later, <mask> was either one of the commanders or a member of one of the armies led by King Kaleb of Axum against Dhu Nuwas. In al-Tabari's history, '<mask> is said to have been the commander of the second army sent by Kaléb after the first failed, led by 'Ariat. <mask> was reported to have led his army of 100,000 men with hundreds of elephants to successfully crush all resistance of the Yemeni army and then, following the suicide of Dhu Nuwas, seized power and established himself at

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 Sanaa. He aroused the wrath of Kaléb, however, by withholding tribute who then sent his general 'Ariat to take over the governorship of Yemen. '<mask> rid himself of the latter by a subterfuge in a duel resulting in 'Ariat being killed and 'Abraha suffering the injury which earned him the sobriquet of al-Asräm, "scar-face." <mask>'s nose had either been lost in battle or had fallen in owing to some disease. According to Procopius, 'Abraha seized control of Yemen from Esimiphaios (Sumuafa' Ashawa'), the Christian Himyarite viceroy appointed by Kaléb, with the support of dissident elements within the Aksum occupation force who were eager to settle in the Yemen, then a rich and fertile land.Stuart Munro-Hay, who proposes a 518 date for the rise of Dhu Nuwas, dates this event to 525, while by the later chronology (in which Dhu Nuwas comes to power in 523), this event would have happened about 530, although a date as late as 543 has been postulated by Jacques Ryckmans. An army sent by Kaléb to subdue '<mask> joined his ranks and killed the ruler sent to replace him (this is perhaps a reference to 'Ariat) and a second army was defeated. After this Kaléb had to accord him de facto recognition before earning recognition under Kaleb's successor for a nominal tribute. Rule

<mask> is seen as then becoming a prominent figure in Yemen's history, promoting the cause of Christianity in the face of the prevalent Judaism and the paganism of Central Arabia. A zealous Christian himself, he is said to have built a great church at San'a' (in competition of the Kaaba located in Mecca which was the most prominent

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 religious site in all of Arabia) and to have repaired the principal irrigation dam at the Sabaean capital of Marib. Epigraphic sources chronicling '<mask>'s career include an inscription on the Marib Dam recording the quelling of an insurrection backed by a son of the deposed ruler, Esimiphaios, in the year 657 of the Sabaean era, i.e. between 540–550; vital repairs effected to the dam later in the same year; the reception of envoys from the Negus, from Byzantium, from Persia and from Al-Harith ibn Jabalah, the phylarch of Arabia; and the completion of repairs to the dam in the following year, followed by a great feast of rejoicing.The royal title adopted by '<mask> "King of Saba' and dhü-Raydän and Hadhramaut and Yamanat and of their Arabs on the plateau and the lowland." was of the Himyarites

National Museum of Saudi Arabia
According to the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, <mask> built Al-Qullays in Sana'a. He also built a similar one in Najran for Bani Al-Harith, the House of Allat in Taif for the tribe of Thaqeef, the House of Yareem and the House of Ghamdan in Yemen. The traditions also say that <mask> is said to have built a cathedral at San'a' known as al-Qullays (from the Greek Ekklesia) to rival the Kaaba at Mecca and specifically came with his forces of elephants to destroy the Kaaba. Death

Munro-Hay dates his death to some time after 553 based on the inscription at Murayghän. Islamic tradition places it immediately after his expedition to Mecca. He was succeeded on the throne by two of his sons, Yaksum and Masruq, born to him by Raihäna, a Yemenite noblewoman whom


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 'Abraha had abducted from her husband.Between 570 and 575 the pro-Persian group in Yemen made contact with the Sassanid king through the Lakhmid princes in Al-Hirah. The Persians then sent troops under the command of Wahriz, who helped the semi-legendary Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan drive the Aksumites from Yemen and Southern Arabia became a Persian dominion under a Yemenite vassal within the sphere of influence of the Sassanian empire. Islamic tradition

Islamic tradition credits Abraha with a military expedition against the Quraysh of Mecca in an invasion of the Hejaz in 570, known as the Year of the Elephant. According to these Islamic traditions, Abraha was building a cathedral in the city of Sanaa to act as a centre for pilgrimage. Realizing that the Kaaba was already in use for such a purpose, <mask> set out to destroy the Kaaba in order for all the pilgrims to direct themselves to his new cathedral and maximize his profits. Abraha had an army of elephants in the expeditionary forces. Muhammad's paternal grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, put the favour in God's hands, realizing that he could not take on the forces of Abraha.As Abraha's forces approached the city, the story goes:

The next day, as they prepared for battle, they discovered that their elephant (called Mahmud, a good Islamic name) refused to approach Mecca. Even worse, birds came from the sea, each of which brought three small stones, which they dropped on the soldiers of Abraha. Everyone hit by these stones was killed. <mask> himself was hit repeatedly and slowly dismembered. By the time he reached Sanua, he had nothing but a miserable

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 stump of a body. His heart burst from his chest, and he died. So the year of the War of the Elephant was a year of death.But it was also a year of life, for in that same year Muhammad was born. Outside of later Islamic tradition, there is no mention of <mask>'s expedition, including from <mask>'s own inscriptions. Historical-critical scholars see the story as a later Islamic tradition designed to explain the "Men of the Elephant" in Qur'an 105:1-5. However, recent findings of Himyaritic inscriptions describe an hitherto unknown expedition of <mask>, which subsequently led Gajda et al to identify this expedition as the failed conquest of Mecca. In addition, scholar Christian Julien Robin notes that the historicity of a failed expedition is completely plausible, given that the Quraysh, despite their small number and poverty, quickly rose to prominence in the following years, evidenced by the great fair of Quraysh, held in al-ʿUkāẓ, as well as the ḥums cultural association, which associated members of tribes of Western Arabia with the Mecca sanctuary. On the other hand, Daniel Beck notes several issues with the story. For one, African war elephants hadn't been used in the region for over 600 years.It is also difficult to explain how Abraha would have gotten a hold on African war elephants in Arabia. Furthermore, Qur'an 105 appears to be appealing to traditions from 2 Maccabees, and not referencing any expedition on Abraha's part. See also
Kingdom of Aksum
Shaiba ibn Hashim

References

Aksumite Empire people
6th-century soldiers
6th-century viceregal rulers
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Yemeni

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