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 "explain" the nonsensical storyline. On April 22, 1945, he guest starred on the Blue Network's (soon to be ABC) top-rated radio series The Andrews Sisters Show, sponsored by Nash motor cars & Kelvinator home appliances.Death
Though <mask> had been a teetotaler in his youth, in later life he drank with increasing frequency, and eventually he was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. While he completed his year's work, his condition continued to deteriorate, and he died in a New York hospital on November 21, 1945. His funeral was private, and his body was cremated and interred in a family plot on the island of Nantucket. In 1960, <mask> was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 1724 Vine Street. Algonquin Round Table

The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers and actors who met regularly between 1919 and 1929 at the Algonquin Hotel. Initially consisting of <mask>, Dorothy Parker, and Alexander Woollcott during their time at Vanity Fair, the group eventually expanded to over a dozen regular members of the New York media and entertainment, such as playwrights George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly and journalist/critic Heywood Broun, who gained prominence due to his positions during the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. The table gained prominence due to the media attention the members drew as well as their collective contributions to their respective areas.Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 American film that depicts the Round Table from the perspective of Dorothy Parker. Campbell Scott portrays <mask>. Humor style
<mask>'s humor was molded during his time at Harvard. While his

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texts: and acting roles. This character was apparent in <mask>'s Ivy Oration during his Harvard graduation ceremonies, and would appear throughout his career, such as during "The Treasurer's Report" in the 1920s and his work in feature films in the 1930s. Topical, current-event style pieces written for Vanity Fair during the war did not lose their levity, either.He was not afraid to poke fun at the establishment (one piece he wrote was titled "Have You a Little German Agent in Your Home? "), and his common man observations often veered into angry rants, such as his piece "The Average Voter," where the namesake of the piece "[F]orgets what the paper said...so votes straight Republicrat ticket." His lighter fare did not hesitate to touch upon topical issues, drawing analogies between a football game and patriotism, or chewing gum and diplomacy and economic relations with Mexico. In his films, the common man exaggerations continued. Much of his time in the films was spent spoofing himself, whether it was the affected nervousness of the treasurer in The Treasurer's Report or the discomfort in explaining The Sex Life of the Polyp to a women's club. The longer, plot-driven shorts, such as Lesson Number One, Furnace Trouble, and Stewed, Fried and Boiled, likewise show a <mask> character overmatched by seemingly mundane tasks. Even the more stereotypical characters held these qualities, such as the incapable sportscaster <mask> played in The Sport Parade.<mask>'s humor inspired a number of later humorists and filmmakers. Dave Barry, author, onetime humor writer for the Miami Herald, and judge of the 2006 and 2007 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor, has

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 called <mask> his "idol" and he "always wanted to write like [<mask>]." Horace Digby claimed that, "[M]ore than anyone else, <mask> influenced [his] early writing style." Outsider filmmaker Sidney N. Laverents lists <mask> as an influence as well, and James Thurber used <mask> as a reference point, citing <mask>'s penchant for presenting "the commonplace as remarkable" in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In 1944, <mask> starred as Mitty in an adaptation of the story for the radio anthology series, This Is My Best. Works

Benchley produced over 600 essays, which were initially compiled in twelve volumes, during his writing career. He also appeared in a number of films, including 48 short treatments that he mostly wrote or co-wrote and numerous feature films.Posthumously, <mask>'s works continue to be released in books such as the 1983 Random House compilation The Best of <mask>ley, and the 2005 collection of short films <mask> and the Knights of the Algonquin, which compiled many of <mask>'s popular short films from his years at Paramount with other works from fellow humorists and writers Alexander Woollcott and Donald Ogden Stewart. Works cited
 Billy Altman, Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of <mask>. (New York City: W. W. Norton, 1997. ). Amazon.com: The Best of <mask>ley product listing. Published by Wings (January 30, 1996) . URL accessed May 19, 2007.Amazon.com: <mask>, a biography product listing. URL accessed May 21, 2007. Amazon.com: <mask> and the Knights of the Algonquin product listing. URL accessed May 19, 2007. <mask>, <mask>, a biography. (New York City, McGraw-Hill, 1955). The Blue Pencil: Interview with Horace J. Digby, January

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 19, 2007.URL accessed May 21, 2007. Jeff Chu, "10 Questions for Dave Barry." Time Magazine, January 8, 2006. James R. Gaines, Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table. (New York City: Harcourt Brace, 1977. ). Dolores Gregory, "'Benchley': Seeing a Famous Forebear Whole."The Washington Post, February 18, 2003. Also hosted at the American Century Theater. URLs accessed June 6, 2007. Matt Haber, "A One-Man Band Who Created an Oeuvre." The New York Times, January 25, 2004. URL accessed May 21, 2007. The Paris Review: "The Art of Fiction No.10: James Thurber." 2004. URL accessed May 21, 2007. The Robert Benchley Society. URL accessed May 6, 2007. Babette Rosmond, <mask>: His Life and Good Times. (New York City: Athena Books, 1989.). The Writer: Dave Barry. May 2003. URL accessed May 21, 2007. Norris W. Yates, <mask>. (New York City, Twayne Publishers, 1968. ).References

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 Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen:  Recording of "Trouble Hearing the Show" from November 1, 1942. From Archive.org. URL accessed May 21, 2007. National Review: "The work of <mask> is as funny as it was 80 years ago." S. T. Karnick, June 16, 2005. URL accessed May 21, 2007. The Robert Benchley Society
 Literary 'Sconset, the Benchleys, and John Steinbeck from the Nantucket Historical Association Digital Exhibition: 'Sconset 02564
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<mask> (born July 2, 1967) is a medically retired United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who gained fame as the "Cigar Marine", recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart. He ran unsuccessfully as the 2010 Republican candidate for California's 51st congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Bob Filner. He ran again in 2012 in the 53rd congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Susan Davis. Military career
<mask> was born in East Chicago, Indiana and was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. After choosing not to take up a college scholarship, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1986, served as a tank commander, and eventually rose to the rank of gunnery sergeant. He saw action in the first Gulf War in 1991 and was honorably discharged in 1992. In 1995, he rejoined the Corps and served with the 1st Tank Battalion at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and later became a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.During the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant <mask> was assigned as a tank commander and platoon sergeant. Participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, his unit gained fame when it helped topple the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square on April 9, 2003. Associated Press photographer Laurent Rebours photographed <mask> in his tank's cupola, smoking a cigar with the statue of Saddam looming in the background. The image, which earned him the nickname "The Cigar Marine," appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world to describe the Battle of Baghdad. He would later reveal that his smoking was a celebration of his and his wife's twelfth wedding anniversary as well as victory. Following his return to the United States, he was promoted

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 to gunnery sergeant and volunteered to return to Iraq in 2004. During his second deployment, Popaditch commanded tanks again in the First Battle of Fallujah in April 2004.During the battle on April 7, supported dismounted infantry with a pair of M1A1 Abrams, and turning onto a narrow street, he opened his hatch for better visibility despite the constant RPG-7 attacks. He was wounded in action in an ambush when a rocket propelled grenade struck him in the head. Blinded and deafened, he struggled to maintain consciousness until his tank was moved out of danger, then was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. After a prolonged stay, he was sent back to the United States, ultimately losing his right eye (due to damage to the optic nerve) and hearing in his right ear. At Naval Medical Center San Diego, some of the vision in his remaining left eye was restored by the hospital's medical professionals, while his ocular prosthesis features the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor instead of a pupil. On November 10, 2005, he was awarded the Silver Star for actions in combat. and medically retired at the rank of Gunnery Sergeant on April 22.Civilian career
After a brief recovery period living in Monterey, California, <mask> became an active advocate of veteran's issues. In addition to advising and consulting, he serves on the boards of multiple organizations advancing the care of wounded veterans and their families, such as the Purple Heart Advisory board of the Freedom is Not Free organization, the Vet Foundation, the US Department of Veterans Affair's Patient-Centered Care Steering Committee, and speaks for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation of the Desert


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 Cities, and the Independence Fund. Popaditch was profiled by MTV when he was trained by the Wounded Marine Career Foundation in sound production, and later graduated magna cum laude earning a Bachelor of Arts in education from San Diego State University. In 2008, Popaditch authored, with Mike Steere, the memoir Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery, (Savas Beatie LLC, 2008), which detailed his combat experiences, recovery, and difficulties with disability and Veterans Administration. It received favorable reviews, was featured on the Commandant of the Marine Corps' recommended professional reading list for all ranks, won The Military-Writers Book of the Year for 2009, and was a national book club selection. In 2012, <mask> was residing in Chula Vista, and was married, and has two sons. In 2013, <mask> authored a 178-page book The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook, a book for potential Marine recruits.In 2014, <mask> was studying to become a math teacher. Political campaigns

2010

On November 10, 2009, <mask> announced his campaign for California's 51st congressional district as a Republican. The incumbent, Democrat Bob Filner, has held the seat since 1992. It is viewed by most as a Democratic district, though George W. Bush earned 46% of the vote there in 2004. <mask> was endorsed by former presidential candidate and Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee and former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter; he cited his "love of country" for why he was running for political office. There was also a controversy within the Veterans of Foreign Wars when members disagreed over endorsement, another when the Imperial Valley Press published an

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In January 2012, <mask> announced his intention to seek the congressional seat in the newly redistricted 53rd Congressional District against incumbent Democrat Susan Davis, after receiving 42% of the vote during the June primary. Endorsed by the San Diego Union Tribune, he lost to Davis in the general election, receiving 39.6% of the vote. Awards
<mask> is the recipient of the following awards:

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Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
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<mask> (née Janus; born 2 November 1972) is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack made her name in the mid-1990s with her role as Mandy Wilkins in Game On leading onto roles in the BBC One drama Pie in the Sky (1995–1996) and the sitcom Babes in the Wood (1998). She has since been best known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders (2007–2011, 2013–2017). Her portrayal as Ronnie has gained her more prominence and acting roles after being out of the limelight for numerous years. She also played Tanya Porter in Sky One comedy-drama Mount Pleasant from 2013 until the final episode in 2017. Womack has also toured across the United Kingdom playing Morticia in the stage musical The Addams Family. Womack initially planned a career in singing and she represented the United Kingdom in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest.Her song for the contest, "A Message to Your Heart", was released as her first (and only) single in April 1991 and reached No. 30 in the UK Singles Chart. The song placed 10th in the contest with a total of 47 points. Early life
Womack was born in Brighton. Her singer-songwriter father, Noel Janus (born Janes), left the family when she was six, and soon after, her model-actress mother, Diana O'Hanlon, married a doctor and the family moved to Edinburgh. Womack lived on the QE2 with her choreographer grandmother, Sheila Holt (a former actress and choreographer to magician David Nixon for a short time). Womack has a younger half-sister, Zoe.During an appearance on Big Star's Little Star in 2014, it was revealed that she attended the same school as members of All Saints, sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton. before going to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. At the age of 15, as a self-confessed ‘wild child’, she left home for a life squatting, drinking, smoking and taking drugs. Womack is the niece of Angie


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Eurovision and early career
The actress first came to prominence in March 1991 aged 18, when she won the annual A Song for Europe competition to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. She finished joint tenth and the song, "A Message to Your Heart", peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite her achievements, her entry into the Eurovision is frequently remarked upon. She has said regarding the experience that her failure in the contest devastated her at the time and thought it would spell the end of her career. She has also called her appearance 'ridiculous', in that she was dressed in a pink mini-dress while singing about starving children and says the lyrics of the song are burned into her memory forever. Womack developed her first love of acting, appearing in episodes of The Bill and Press Gang; in 1993 she appeared in Demob with Griff Rhys Jones and Martin Clunes; and took to the West End stage, replacing Debbie Gibson as Sandy in Grease. From 1994 to 1998 Womack played Mandy in the BBC Two sitcom Game On opposite Ben Chaplin (later replaced by Neil Stuke).She remained on the show until its end in 1998. In between series of Game On, she had a part in the BBC One drama Pie in the Sky from 1995 to 1996 as Nicola Dooley, a waitress. Womack then appeared in the pilot for The Grimleys with Jack Dee, and the film Up 'n' Under with Neil Morrissey. In 1998 she starred in the ITV1 series Liverpool 1 with her future husband <mask>. She then returned to comedy in the sitcom Babes in the Wood co-starring another Sylvia Young Theatre School student, Denise van Outen, it was


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 critically panned despite respectable ratings, and Womack left after the first series. In 1999 Womack starred as Cinderella in the ITV Christmas pantomime alongside Harry Hill, Alexander Armstrong, Frank Skinner, Paul Merton, Ronnie Corbett and many more. A popular choice for photo shoots in men's magazines such as FHM, she came 21st in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll in 1998 and 41st in 1999.Smaller roles
In 1990, she appeared as a guest in two episodes of the CITV comedy sitcom Spatz; Series 1 Episode 2 and 3. It is rumoured that a possible falling out may have occurred leading to her swift exit from the show after such a brief stint. This is fuelled by her reluctance to admit for many years that she was part of the show. In 2002 she returned to TV in BBC One drama Strange and she appeared in films The Baby Juice Express, Lighthouse Hill and Dead Man's Cards. In January 2005 she narrated Jordan & Peter: Laid Bare for ITV2. She later directed an anti-bullying music video for Liverpool band Just 3, entitled Stand Tall. The video starred her and Liverpool F.C.footballer Jamie Carragher. The video was heavily backed by Childline ambassador Esther Rantzen. In 2006, <mask> starred in the BBC One comedy Home Again as Ingrid, and as Miss Adelaide in the West End production of the musical Guys and Dolls at London's Piccadilly Theatre, initially with Patrick Swayze and then Miami Vice star Don Johnson. She reprised the role at the Sunderland Empire opposite Alex Ferns in 2007. EastEnders
On 11 May 2007 it was announced that she would be joining EastEnders as Ronnie Mitchell, a cousin of the well known Mitchell brothers. She had previously appeared in the soap in a minor role as a girlfriend of Simon Wicks. During her first stint, <mask>'s character Ronnie was central to many storylines including the controversial baby-swap story which was aired during 2011.It was reported that this is

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 the reason why <mask> quit the soap, although this has never been confirmed. <mask> made her final appearance as Ronnie on 7 July 2011 when the character was sent to prison. Since appearing on EastEnders she has made regular television appearances on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, The Paul O'Grady Show, Richard & Judy and Loose Women. In November 2007, she sang with EastEnders co-stars in the 2007 Children in Need charity appeal. In May 2013, it was confirmed that <mask> would return to EastEnders as Ronnie Mitchell. <mask>'s character Ronnie Mitchell was later killed off on the episode broadcast 1 January 2017 when she was trying to save Roxy Mitchell from drowning and drowned herself. Her last appearance was on the episode broadcast 19 January 2017 when Ronnie was shown as a corpse lying in her coffin.Theatre and continued success
In 2011 Womack played the lead role, Ensign Nellie Forbush, a US Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre in London. In March 2013, Womack starred opposite her husband on stage in the world premiere of Hope at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. From September 2013, Womack played the regular role of Tanya in series three of Sky Living's Mount Pleasant. She continued in this role until the final episode in 2017. Altogether, Womack appeared in 25 episodes as Tanya Dawson (later Porter when the character married). In 2015, she appeared in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service as lead actor Taron Egerton's character's mother. This was Womack's first main role in such a high-profile film.<mask> appeared as Michelle once again for Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017 but in a more cameo role as opposed to the larger role she had in Kingsman: The Secret Service. In 2017, Womack toured as Morticia Adams in the musical-comedy Addams Family as Morticia around the

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 UK and Ireland. She was announced to reprise the role in 2021 for a tour around  UK  and Ireland, however she did not reprise the role on tour for unknown reasons. The role of Morticia Addams was instead played by Strictly Come Dancing champion Joanne Clifton

In September 2018, it was announced that she would be playing Fairy Bow Bells in the pantomime Dick Whittington. Womack appeared in Silent Witness in early 2019. On an episode of Loose Women in February 2019, Womack confirmed that offers had been made to her about a project with co-star and best friend Rita Simons. In response to this, they both said that they would wait for the right one to come along.Other ventures
In January 2011 she appeared as one of the celebrity contestants on the BBC show The Magicians, working with magician Chris Korn. For her "celebrity's choice" trick, she chose being sawn in half by Korn in an illusion called Clearly Impossible. In March 2011 she appeared with Lenny Henry, Angela Rippon and Reggie Yates in the BBC fundraising documentary for Comic Relief called Famous, Rich and in the Slums, where the four celebrities were sent to Kibera in Kenya, Africa's largest slum. In November 2011, it was reported that <mask> was in the running, alongside Dannii Minogue to become a judge on the 2012 series of Britain's Got Talent. However, it was later confirmed that the judging panel for series six would be Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and David Walliams. Womack has since confirmed that she was offered a place on the judging panel and that she had a meeting with Cowell in Los Angeles. She has said that although she was grateful, she rejected the offer as "it’s just not me".In 2012 Womack appeared in series nine of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? The episode revealed her descent on her father's side from two musicians, her great grandfather Alexander Cunningham Ryan, his partner's father Pierre


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 François Odilon Garraud, & Pierre's partner, an actress, Jessie Ryder. In February 2013, she took part in All Star Family Fortunes, donating money to Comic Relief and ActionAid. Womack was interviewed on John Bishop: In Conversation With... in November 2017. This episode titled John Bishop: In Conversation With...<mask>ck included an in depth conversation about her life and career. In February 2020, it was announced that Womack would be taking part in the challenge for Sport Relief. Personal life
Janus married an Italian citizen Junfan Mantovani in 1997 after a long relationship.The relationship broke down and the couple divorced in 1998. In 2007 Womack won "substantial" damages from the Sunday Sport newspaper over a story headlined "Sam's sex and drugs shame". She sued the Sport over an article published on 22 July, which claimed she had "coke fuelled threesomes" and took part in a "three-hour drug fuelled lesbian orgy". Womack began a relationship with Liverpool 1 co-star <mask>. They married in 2009 after ten years together. The couple have two children: son Benjamin Thomas <mask> (born 2001) and daughter Lili-<mask> (born 2005). <mask> also has a son, <mask>, from a previous marriage.In 2009, <mask> took her husband's surname and began to use it professionally. In August 2020, Womack announced that she and Mark had quietly separated in 2018, but that they are still living together in the same house with their children. <mask> and her husband Mark are best friends with Scott Maslen and his wife Estelle Rubio. They have known each other since they were teenagers. Maslen is godfather to Womack's two children and she is godmother to Maslen's son, Zak. They often go on holiday together with their children, which Womack revealed during an appearance on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in January 2008. In late 2007 Maslen joined the cast of EastEnders as Jack Branning, who has a relationship

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 with Womack's character, Ronnie.This was something that both Maslen and Womack were initially uncomfortable with when they read the scripts, with Maslen commenting in various interviews that having to kiss Womack was like having to kiss his sister. Womack is also best friends with her former EastEnders co-star Rita Simons, who played her sister Roxy Mitchell. In April 2008, several future scenes featuring Ronnie had to be scrapped after Womack broke her shoulder when she tripped and fell down the stairs at her home while rushing to get ready for work. In September 2015, it was reported that she was "living in fear" and had alerted the police that she was being stalked. The stalker was given a suspended-sentence in December, the same year. Awards and nominations

(*) There were two main rounds of nominations for asterisked categories. The "Result" indicates Womack's progress: if shown as "Nominated", she only achieved the first round of the nominations; if "Shortlisted", she advanced to the second and final round of nominations, the outcome to be decided by either a public vote or by a judging panel.Roles

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May 1991 "A Message to Your Heart" / "Heaven is a Place for Heroes"  (Hollywood Records), UK Singles Chart No. 30

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<mask> (born 23 June 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Leicester City and the Senegal national team. Due to his small stature, simple distribution, and reliable style of play, <mask> has been compared to former French international, Claude Makélélé. Monaco club scout Didier Christophe, for example, referred to <mask> as a "carbon copy" of Makélélé. Mendy featured in the 2021 AFCON final match against Egypt. Club career

Early career
After leaving Sporting Toulon in June 2007, Mendy went on trial with the football section of RC Toulon. According to Monaco scout Didier Christophe, the Toulon coaches stated that Mendy was there to "make up the numbers". However, while observing Mendy in training, Christophe noticed the player's intelligence and understanding of the game and recommended him to Dominique Bijotat, who was serving as head of the Monaco youth academy.Monaco
On 27 April 2010, <mask> signed his first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal with Monaco until June 2013. In July 2010, he was called up to the first team by manager Guy Lacombe for pre-season training, again to make up the numbers with Lacombe missing several players such as Diego Pérez, Nicolas Nkoulou, Park Chu-young, and Lukman Haruna, who had all participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. On 7 August 2010, <mask> made his professional debut in the club's opening league match against Lyon. He played the entire 90 minutes, receiving a yellow card in the second half. Mendy picked up his first ever red card on 19 August 2011 against Amiens SC, sent off at the 70th minute mark in a 1–1 draw. During the 2012–13 season, Mendy played a key role in Monaco's promotion back to Ligue 1. Despite the successful season, <mask> decided to leave Monaco at the end of

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Mendy was linked to teams such as Manchester United and Arsenal. Despite calling Manchester United his "dream club", Mendy rejected the move to the English side because he wanted to stay in France. After some positive talks with Nice's manager, Claude Puel, Mendy decided to join OGC Nice on a free transfer. Mendy made his debut on 17 August 2013, in a 2–1 win against Stade Rennais. After club captain Didier Digard left for Real Betis on a free transfer at the end of 2014–15 season, and new captain Mathieu Bodmer was injured, Mendy was named captain. Mendy made 110 appearances in three seasons for Nice and helped them to a fourth-place finish in Ligue 1 in 2015–16. He had the second highest number of passes behind Thiago Motta (2950), the most passes per game (78), and a passing accuracy of (92%), best of any player not a member of Paris Saint-Germain.Leicester City

On 3 July 2016, <mask> moved to English Premier League champions Leicester City, managed by his former boss at Monaco, Claudio Ranieri, signing a four-year deal for £13 million, a club record at the time. The transfer record was broken again when Ahmed Musa joined Leicester for £16 million five days later, and yet again less than two months later when Islam Slimani joined Leicester for £29 million. Mendy played his first competitive game for Leicester in a 2–1 defeat to Manchester United in the 2016 FA Community Shield on 7 August, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute for Andy King. He suffered an ankle injury on his league debut at home against Arsenal on 20 August 2016 and was substituted in the 53rd minute. Mendy was sidelined for more than three months, and did not make his return until 7 December 2016 in a Champions League group stage match away to Porto, playing the entire game in


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 a 5–0 defeat. He ultimately made only four league appearances for the season. On 31 July 2017, Mendy rejoined Nice on loan.On 24 August 2020, <mask> signed a two-year contract extension with the club. On 10 September 2021, <mask> was left out of Leicester's final 25-man Premier League squad for the 2021–22 season. However he was then included again when the squad was updated after the January 2022 transfer window. International career
<mask> was born in France, and is of Senegalese descent. <mask> is a former French youth international having earned caps at the under-17, under-18, and under-19 levels. With the under-17 team, he went unnoticed by coach Philippe Bergeroo until the 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship when he was finally called up to the team. Mendy appeared in all three group stage matches as France were eliminated without winning a match.With the under-18 team, he made his debut on 29 October 2009 in a friendly match against the Denmark. <mask> was initially called up to the under-19 team in August 2010 only to play in the Sendai Cup in Japan, but due to his consistent performances domestically, Monaco coach Guy Lacombe convinced Bergeroo to make him a permanent part of the squad. He was officially called up to the under-19 team for qualification matches for the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. <mask> made his debut with the team in a 3–0 victory over San Marino and appeared as a starter in the next two qualification matches against Montenegro and Austria, as France won both matches to finish the round undefeated. On 9 November 2010, while still eligible to represent the under-19 and under-20 teams, Mendy was called up to the under-21 team for a friendly match against Russia. In March 2021, <mask> received a first call-up to the Senegal national team, making his

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 debut in a goalless draw with Congo. Personal life
<mask> is the cousin of fellow footballers Bafétimbi Gomis and <mask>.Style of play
<mask> is a defensive midfielder known for his resilience, intelligence, and good distribution of the ball. Despite his age and size, <mask> has been praised for his mature and robust play, inviting comparison with former France international Claude Makélélé. Career statistics

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International

Honours
Monaco
Ligue 2: 2012–13

Leicester City
FA Cup: 2020–21

Senegal
Africa Cup of Nations: 2021

Individual
Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 2021

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<mask>  (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States-China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of China studies in the United States after World War II with his organizational ability, his mentorship of students, support of fellow scholars, and formulation of basic concepts to be tested. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard is named after him. Among his most widely read books are The United States and China, first published in 1948 and revised editions in 1958, 1979, and 1983; East Asia: The Great Tradition (1960) and East Asia The Great Transformation (1965), co-authored with Edwin O. Reischauer; and his co-edited series, The Cambridge History of China. Early life
<mask> was born in Huron, South Dakota, in 1907. His father was <mask> (1873-1936), a lawyer, and his mother was <mask> (1874-1979), who campaigned for women's suffrage.His paternal grandfather, <mask> <mask>, was "from the long 'J.B.' line, mainly of Congregational ministers, which stemmed from the <mask> family that came to Massachusetts in 1633 [and] graduated... from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1860." <mask><mask> was educated at Sioux Falls High School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard College, and Oxford University (Balliol). As an undergraduate, he was advised by <mask> Webster, the distinguished British diplomatic historian who was then teaching at Harvard, to choose a

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texts: relatively-undeveloped field of study. Webster suggested that since the Qing dynasty's archives were then being opened, China's foreign relations would be a prudent choice. <mask> later admitted that he then knew nothing about China itself. In 1929, when he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.At Oxford, Fairbank began his study of the Chinese language and sought the counsel of H.B. Morse, retired from the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. On Webster's advice, he had read Morse's three-volume study of the Qing dynasty's foreign relations on the ship that was coming to England. Morse became his mentor. The ambitious young scholar decided to go to Beijing to do research in December 1931 and arrived in China in January 1932. In Beijing, he studied at Tsinghua University under the direction of the prominent historian Tsiang Tingfu, who introduced him to the study of newly-available diplomatic sources and the perspectives of Chinese scholarship, which balanced the British approaches he saw at Oxford. Wilma Denio Cannon, a daughter of Walter Bradford Cannon and sister of Marian Cannon Schlesinger, came to China in 1932 to join Fairbank.They were married on June 29, 1932. Wilma had studied fine arts at Radcliffe College and had been an apprentice to the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera before she traveled to China. She began a career of her own in Chinese art history. <mask> and Wilma came to know a number of Chinese intellectuals. They became especially warm friends with Liang Sicheng, the son of the

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 distinguished Chinese reformer Liang Qichao, and his wife, Lin Huiyin, whom they called Phyllis. The Lins introduced them to Jin Yuelin, a philosopher and originally a political scientist trained at Columbia University. Fairbank wrote later that he and Wilma began to sense through them that the Chinese problem was the "necessity to winnow the past and discriminate among things foreign, what to preserve and what to borrow...."

In 1936, Oxford awarded him a D.Phil.for his thesis, which he revised using further research and eventually published as Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854 in 1953. Early career
<mask> returned to Harvard in 1936 to take up a position teaching Chinese history and was its first full-time specialist at Harvard. In 1941 he and Edwin O. Reischauer worked out a year-long introductory survey covering China and Japan, later adding Korea and Southeast Asia. The course was known as "Rice Paddies," and it became the basis for two influential texts: East Asia: The Great Tradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) and East Asia: The Modern Transformation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965). Following the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, <mask> was enlisted for service in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and the Office of War Information in Chongqing, the temporary capital of Nationalist China. Chinese studies

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 the United States to do so. That approach at Harvard was multi-disciplinary and aimed to train journalists, government officials, and others who did not want careers in academia.That broad approach, combined with <mask>'s experience in China during the war, shaped his United States and China (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Foreign Policy Library, 1948). That survey went through new editions in 1958 and 1970, each synthesizing scholarship in the field for both students and the general public. In 1972, in preparation for Nixon's visit, the book was read by leaders on both sides. Scholarship and influence
<mask> taught at Harvard until he retired in 1977. He published a number of both academic and non-academic works on China, many of which would reach a wide audience outside academia. He also published an expanded revision of his doctoral dissertation as Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast in 1953. One of his students, Paul Cohen, noted that the approaches or stages in the development of China studies of the 1950s are sometimes referred to as "the Harvard 'school' of China studies."<mask> played a major role in developing Harvard as a leading American center for East Asian studies, including establishing the Center for East Asian Research, which was renamed the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies after his retirement. He was its director from 1955 to 1973. Fairbank raised money to support fellowships for graduate students, trained influential China historians at Harvard, and placed them widely in universities and colleges


texts: in the US and overseas. He welcomed and funded researchers from all over the world to spend time in Cambridge and hosted a series of conferences, which brought scholars together and yielded publications, many of which <mask> edited himself. He established the Harvard East Asian Series, which published monographs to enable students to publish dissertations, which was essential for achieving tenure. <mask> and his colleagues at Harvard, Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert Craig, wrote a textbook on China and Japan, A History of East Asian Civilization. <mask> established links to figures in government both by training journalists, government officials, and foundation executives and by giving his thoughts to the government on policy on China.In 1966, Fairbank and the Sinologist Denis C. Twitchett, then at Cambridge University, set in motion plans for The Cambridge History of China. Originally intended to cover the entire history of China in six volumes, the project grew until it reached a projected 15 volumes. Twitchett and Fairbank divided the history, with Fairbank editing volumes on modern (post-1800) China, and Twitchett and others took responsibility for the period from the Qin to the early Qing dynasties. <mask> edited and wrote parts of Volumes 10 to 15, the last of which appeared in the year after his death. Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard Smith completed and published Fairbank's biography of H.B. Morse. Among his students were Albert Feuerwerker, Merle Goldman, Joseph Levenson, Immanuel C.Y.Hsu, Akira Iriye, Philip A. Kuhn, Kwang-ching

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 Liu, Roderick MacFarquhar, Rhoads Murphey, David S. Nivison, Andrew Nathan, David Tod Roy, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Franz Schurmann, Teng Ssu-yu, James C. Thomson, Jr., Theodore White, <mask>. Wills, Jr., Alexander Woodside, Guy S. Alitto, Mary C. Wright. Reception

Accusations of communist sympathies
In the late 1940s, Fairbank was among the so-called China Hands, who predicted the victory of Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and advocated the establishment of relations with the new government. Although Fairbank argued that relations with the new China would be in the American national interest, the China Lobby and many other Americans accused the China Hands of selling out an ally, promoting the spread of communism, and being under Soviet influence. During an intensification of the Cold War in 1949, Fairbank was targeted for being "soft" on communism and was denied a visa to visit Japan. In 1952, he testified before the McCarran Committee, but his secure position at Harvard protected him. Ironically, many of Fairbank's Chinese friends and colleagues who returned to China after 1949, such as Fei Xiaotong, Ch'ien Tuan-sheng, and Chen Han-seng, would later be attacked for being "pro-American," as the Chinese Communist Party took on a stance that was increasingly anti-Western in the 1950s and the 1960s. Critics in Taiwan charged that Fairbank was a communist tool.According to Chen Lifu, former Republic of China minister of education, <mask> and his wife "spread rumors, attacked Chinese government officials, and provided false information to the

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 United States government, which helped to produce incorrect policies that eventually benefited the communist forces". Accusations of US imperialism
During the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, <mask>, who had earlier been criticized as being pro-communist, came under fire from younger scholars and graduate students in the new Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, which he had helped form but then soon ended his participation. The younger scholars charged that <mask> and other leaders of the area studies movement had helped to justify American imperialism in Asia. By his grounding the study of Asia in modernization theory, <mask> and other liberal scholars presented China as an irrational country, which needed American tutelage. Since <mask> rejected revolution, he condoned imperialism. A further charge was that scholars of the Harvard School had put forth a "radical new version" of China's modern history that argued imperialism "was largely beneficial in China." In December 1969, Howard Zinn and other members of the Radical Historians' Caucus attempted to persuade the American Historical Association to pass an anti-Vietnam War resolution.A later report said a "debacle unfolded as Harvard historian (and AHA president in 1968) <mask> literally wrestled the microphone from Zinn's hands", in what <mask> called "our briefly-famous Struggle for the Mike." <mask> finished the manuscript of his final book, China: A New History in the summer of 1991. On September 14, 1991 he delivered the manuscript to Harvard University Press, then returned home and

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 suffered a fatal heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Wilma, and their two daughters, <mask> Haynes and <mask> Tuck. Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about <mask> <mask>, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 600+ works in 1,500+ publications in 15 languages and 43,000+ library holdings. -- The origin of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1850-58. University of Oxford DPhil thesis, 1936.-- The United States and China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1st ed 1948; 4th, enl. ed. 1983. online 4th edition
 -- Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953. online
 -- "Patterns Behind the Tientsin Massacre." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 20, no.3/4 (1957): 480–511. -- Ch'ing Administration: Three Studies. (with Têng Ssu-yü) Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, V. 19. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. -- China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A (Cambridge,MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  1967). -- China Perceived; Images and Policies in Chinese-American Relations (New York: Knopf, 1974). -- Chinese-American Interactions : A Historical Summary (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,  1975).-- Chinabound: a fifty-year memoir. New York : Harper & Row, 1982. online
 --  The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800–1985 (New York: Harper & Row, 1986). online
 -- China Watch (Harvard University Press, 1987) online
 -- China: A New History. Cambridge,

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 Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Enlarged Edition, with Merle Goldman, 1998; Second Enlarged Edition, 2006. Translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Czech; OCLC 490612305 online

Collaborative works
 <mask><mask>, Kwang-Ching Liu, Modern China; a Bibliographical Guide to Chinese Works, 1898–1937 (Cambridge,: Harvard University Press,  1950). Conrad Brandt, Benjamin Schwartz, <mask><mask>, eds., A Documentary History of Chinese Communism  (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,  1952).online
 Ssu-yü Têng, <mask><mask> Chaoying Fang and others. [Prepared in coöperation with the International Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations] with E-tu Zen Sun, eds., China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923  (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1954). online
 <mask> <mask>, Masataka Banno, Japanese Studies of Modern China; a Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the 19th and 20th Centuries (Rutland, Vt.,: Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute by C. E. Tuttle Co.,  1955). online
 Edwin O. Reischauer, <mask>. Fairbank Albert M. Craig, A History of East Asian Civilization (Boston,: Houghton Mifflin,  1960). revised as East Asia: Tradition and Transformation (1989) online
 Noriko Kamachi, Ichiko Chuzo & <mask> <mask>, Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953: A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : Supplementary Volume for 1953–1969 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: East

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 Asian Research Center, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press,  1975). Denis Twitchett & <mask><mask> (eds), The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press,  1978-). <mask> <mask>, Martha Henderson Coolidge & Richard J. Smith, H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,  1995).Conference volumes
 <mask> <mask>, ed.,Chinese Thought and Institutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,  1957). <mask> <mask>, The Chinese World Order; Traditional China's Foreign Relations (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1968). Frank Algerton Kierman,<mask> <mask>, eds., Chinese Ways in Warfare (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,  1974). <mask> <mask>, ed., The Missionary Enterprise in China and America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,  1974). online
 Suzanne Wilson <mask> <mask>, ed., Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Committee on American-East Asian Relations of the Dept. of History in collaboration with the Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University : Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1985). Ernest R. May, <mask> <mask>, eds, America's China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Committee on American-East Asian Relations of the Department of History in collaboration with Council on East Asian Studies distributed by Harvard University Press,  1986).Edited letters

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 <mask> <mask>, Katherine Frost Bruner, et al., The I. G. In Peking Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  1975). Katherine Frost Bruner, <mask> <mask>, et al., Entering China's Service: Robert Hart's Journals, 1854–1863 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Council on East Asian Studies Distributed by the Harvard University Press,  1986). Richard J. Smith, <mask> <mask>, et al., Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863–1866 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Council on East Asian Studies Distributed by the Harvard University Press,  1991). References
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 Alesevich, Christopher. "<mask> <mask>: Present at the Creation," US-China Today, November 9, 2007. Brief reminiscences by students, colleagues, friends, and family. Reins, Thomas."Fairbank, <mask>", in Kelly Boyd (ed. ),  Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing  (London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999). pp. 375–377. Spence, Jonathan D. "China on My Mind"  New York Review'' (Feb. 18, 1988)   online
 Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955–2005.Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 64140358

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<mask><mask>. (September 19, 1935 – June 21, 2005), better known as <mask>, was an African-American abstract expressionist painter. His work is known for hard-edge abstraction, fabric constructions, and large paper collages, all exploring complicated color relationships. Biography

<mask>. was born on September 19, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan. <mask> earned a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963 and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His mentor at the University of Michigan was Al Mullen, who helped him get involved with the Once Group organization. In 1968 <mask> moved to New York City,  where he moved into the infamous Hotel Chelsea. Within a year of moving to New York City, <mask> had his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.He received National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in 1970, 1974, and 1984. In 1986 <mask> was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. <mask> created large-scale commissioned public works throughout his career; a 208' x 80' mural painting A Message to <mask> and Lauri (1972) on The First National Bank Building in Detroit, MI (removed 1989), a 54' x 7' painting New Morning 1 (1973) for the Empire State Collection in Albany, NY,  a ceramic mural Detroit New Morning (1987) in one of Detroit's People Mover stations and another Life, Growth, Continuity (1998) in the <mask>any Library at Wayne State University. In 1996, he created a collage painting Sacramento New Morning for the Sacramento Convention Center, and in 2001 he designed 70 stained-glass windows and mosaic walls for the Broadway Junction subway station in Brooklyn. <mask> exhibited steadily throughout his life in solo and group exhibitions at numerous venues, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Studio

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Hard-Edge Abstraction
In the 1960s, <mask> grew increasingly interested in Josef Albers's paintings of squares within squares.In an interview, he explained: "For me at the time, it was about painting the square until it was 'enough,' and that meant until it obtained form. The square that I started with would always be gone; only I knew it was a square, that that reference was there. That freed me to just paint and let things evolve...[The square] was pure energy and focus.” These geometric abstractions conveyed the brilliance of refracted light; they were not just experiments in color. <mask> would often make polyhedrons of the same size, with different colors, and hang them together in different arrangements on the wall. The result was sometimes dozens of canvases stretching out over several feet; to view an entire composition would take time, more than just a glance, making his paintings a powerful expression of time, too. <mask>'s geometric paintings were featured in his first solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. <mask> later abandoned hard-edged abstraction painting.Fabric Constructions
Inspired by a visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts, in the early 1970s, <mask> began to experiment with fabric constructions. He started hanging strips of canvas from the walls and ceilings, playing with our perception of pictorial and sculptural ideals. Then, he reattached the fragments together with a sewing machine, creating large flowing fabric

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 constructions. At first he painted the pieces of canvas, but later switched to dying the fabric. Other artists, including Sam Gilliam, Alan Shields, and Richard Moch, were also using the sewing machine at this time to create fabric constructions. In fact, <mask> considered himself within the context of abstract expressionism at this phase in his career; though he was not a painter but a material abstractionist. Large Paper Collages
In the 1980s, <mask> began to integrate other materials into his constructions, such as corrugated cardboard and rag paper.<mask> quickly took a liking to the casualness of tearing cardboard and gluing it onto other pieces; in fact, he considered this practice abstract expressionist as well. Unlike the fabric constructions, the large paper collages gave him a sense of freedom because he was trekking through uncharted territory (although this work has been likened to Frank Stella's curvilinear metal reliefs and Elizabeth Murray's shaped canvases). <mask> integrated circles and spirals into these collages as a nod to his African roots and as an expression of growth and continued life. In the piece, Perpetual Motion (1994)(DASNY), <mask> integrated materials such as cardboard and print. The cardboard is cut and overlapped to form a series of spirals. Each spiral has been carefully painted and placed to create dynamic color relationships. They do not have conventional matting under them, glass to cover them or frames to surround them: instead they cling flatly to the wall.Sandra Yolles, reviewing an exhibition in 1990, explained "<mask>’s work is about earth, wind, fire, and water: some pieces might be considered atmospheric maps of life at full blast—stretching the possibilities of the human spirit by delineating its


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Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions
<mask> has had several solo exhibitions throughout his life. <mask> at the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit (June 15 - July 7, 1969), <mask>: Paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (December 19, 1969 - January 25, 1970), <mask> at William Zierler, Inc. in New York (March 11 - April 1, 1973), at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977), <mask>: Departures at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (February 23 - June 9, 1986), <mask>: Maker of Art at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. (April 10 - June 15, 1991), <mask>: Material Abstraction at June Kelly Gallery in New York (November 5 – December 1, 1992), <mask> in the Nineties: The Collaged Wallworks at the Fine Arts Center Galleries of the University of Rhode Island (January 21 – March 8, 1997), <mask>: <mask>willer Visiting Artist at the Art Gallery of the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (February 6 – March 1, 1998), <mask>: Color Constructs at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College in New York, (September 27, 1998 – January 24, 1999), <mask>: Elegant Ideas at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Michigan (April 30 – June 4, 1999), <mask>: Lighter Than Air at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago (September 9 – October 29, 2004), Al Loving: Affirmations of Life at the Kenkeleba House in New York (December 6, 2005 – January 11, 2006), Al Loving: Torn Canvas at the Gary Snyder Gallery in New York (November 8 - December 29, 2012), Al Loving at the Garth Greenan Gallery in New York (May 21—June 27, 2015), Spiral Play: Loving in the '80s at Art+Practice in Los Angeles (April 22 – July 29, 2017) and at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 18, 2017 –

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<mask> (born May 15, 1957) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, <mask>. A member of the <mask> Family, <mask> is best known for his appearances with his father's World Class Championship Wrestling promotion. He is a one-time world champion, having held the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship. Football career
Adkisson played football at North Texas State University as a fullback, second string to Garry Smith, until an injury ended his football career and dream of playing in the National Football League. Professional wrestling career

World Class Championship Wrestling (1976-1990)

Early career (1976-1981)
Adkisson started wrestling as <mask> in 1976. He spent most of his career wrestling for his father's promotion, World Class Championship Wrestling. <mask>'s natural athletic ability and good looks made him one of the promotion's biggest stars.He achieved great success in the company both as a singles and tag team wrestler, often participating in many of the company's high-profile feuds. <mask> was also known for wrestling barefoot, highly unusual in a sport where almost all wrestlers wear high-topped boots. World Class announcers often jokingly referred to him as "The Barefoot Boy" on WCCW broadcasts. <mask> later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before one of his matches someone hid his boots as a joke, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark. Contrary to popular belief, he wore boots in matches in his early career, including his debut match against Paul Perschmann aka Playboy Buddy Rose and in a match against Superfly Jimmy Snuka. <mask> was a big fan of Snuka's, who also wrestled barefoot, and <mask> often performed a moved similar to Snuka's flying body splash from the top rope, which Snuka called The Superfly. During the late 70s, <mask> established himself in the Dallas territory.His first major success came in 1978 while wrestling as

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 a tag team with his younger brother David. During the year, they captured the NWA Texas Tag Team Championship on two occasions as well as the NWA American Tag Team Championship. On Christmas Day 1978, he established himself firmly in the singles ranks of the promotion by defeating Bruiser Brody for the NWA American Heavyweight Championship. In 1980, <mask> <mask> made his only wrestling appearance in the WWF on January 21 against Johnny Rodz, in a match he won. As the 1980s dawned, <mask> became one of the promotion's most viable performers and continued to win numerous championships in both singles and tag team competition with a variety of different partners. However, his highest profile partners would always be his brothers Kerry and David. As the early-1980s progressed, <mask> would appear often at other NWA-promoted territories, including St. Louis, Georgia Championship Wrestling and briefly Florida Championship Wrestling.<mask> also competed in a few matches for the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Freebird-<mask> Erich Feud (1982-1984)
In early 1982, the Fabulous Freebirds, consisting of Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts, left Georgia Championship Wrestling after meeting WCCW booker Gary Hart at a show. Appearing in World Class, the trio instantly became fan favorites due to a combination of their unique talents and chemistry as well as their close friendship with the <mask>s. All three rose quickly through the ranks and in late November 1982, Hayes and Gordy defeated the team of King Kong Bundy and Wild Bill Irwin for the NWA American Tag Team Championship. A feud between the <mask>s and Freebirds developed roughly a month later. During WCCW's annual Christmas show in 1982, <mask> <mask> faced Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship inside of a steel cage with Michael Hayes acting as a special referee. As explained in The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling DVD, the storyline, developed by Gary Hart, was written as Hayes having been selected by fans to

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 the symmetry of the wrestling rivalry, though eventually the remaining brothers went on to wrestle individually, with varying degrees of success. Feuds with Chris Adams and Ric Flair (1985-1990)
<mask> also had a long feud with Chris Adams that lasted for months and had many violent matches, including two well-known chair shots on each other that required hospitalization for both men. <mask> would also tag-team with Adams on numerous occasions before and after their feud. Away from the ring, <mask> and Chris were close friends; <mask> served as a pallbearer during Adams' funeral in 2001 and traveled to England to visit Adams' family afterwards. In recent interviews, <mask> stated that Adams was the toughest wrestler he's ever wrestled in his career and he showed a great amount of respect for the British-born wrestler. <mask> Flair, including the main event of the 2nd David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions at Texas Stadium, but never won the title. Folding of WCCW and United States Wrestling Association (1989-1990)
After the failure of SuperClash III, in 1989, <mask> became very despondent over his father's decision to sell the promotion to Jerry Jarrett, who owned the Memphis-based CWA, despite his brother Kerry welcoming Jarrett into the mix; the merged promotions became the USWA.However, because of disputes, including suing Jarrett himself, he pulled WCCW out of the USWA in 1990, but he couldn't resurrect the promotion his father built and had no choice but shut down World Class that November. <mask> did manage to draw crowds to the Sportatorium in the early going, but with the absence of his brother, manager/booker Gary Hart, and the lack of televised matches, World Class' survival was very thin. During that time, <mask> competed very little; other than wrestling in other independent cards promoted by either himself, Chris Adams or Gary Hart. <mask> did not participate at all in the August 4, 1989 card in which World Class formally became USWA Texas, while brother Kerry, who competed on the

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 card earlier, reportedly left the Sportatorium shortly after his match. <mask> however did help out a young Steve Austin increase his abilities in the ring during this time, and considers Austin as one of his friends to this day. World Wrestling Federation (1991)
Sixteen months after his brother joined the World Wrestling Federation, <mask> wrestled a dark match on December 2, 1991 at a Wrestling Challenge taping in Corpus Christi, TX where he faced and defeated Brian Lee. Later career (1991–1995)
<mask> competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in 1991.On April 2, 1993 he teamed up with Chris Adams to defeat Fabulous Freebirds' Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts at Global Wrestling Federation's Adkisson Benefit Show at the Sportatorium. <mask>'s last round of glory occurred on January 7, 1995 while competing for Jim Crockett, Jr.'s NWA promotion based at the Sportatorium; where he won the North American heavyweight title defeating Greg Valentine. A week later he dropped the title to John Hawk. He then formed a very brief alliance with manager Skandor Akbar. <mask> eventually cut back on his ring appearances and formally retired by the end of 1995. Retirement
On October 3, 2005, <mask> made an appearance on the WWE Raw Homecoming show alongside other WWE Hall of Famers. Later that night, as Dusty Rhodes and the WWE Hall of Famers were gathered in the ring, Rob Conway came out and interrupted Rhodes.This eventually led to Conway's beatdown by several Hall of Famers, in which <mask> used the legendary Iron Claw on Conway, to the raves of the partisan Dallas, Texas crowd. Jim Ross said afterwards that he never thought he would live to see the Iron Claw again. On January 20, 2006, <mask> and his son Ross Adkisson (billed as <mask> <mask>) appeared on a local wrestling card in Longview, Texas as guests of Roddy Piper's Piper's Pit. During the segment, in which <mask> and Piper talked about going to the Sportatorium as teenagers, Skandor Akbar interrupted the interview to berate both <mask> and Ross.

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 At one point, Akbar pushed Ross, which prompted <mask> to apply the iron claw on Akbar. Greg Valentine then pulled Akbar away, with <mask>, Ross, Piper and The Grappler taking in the cheers of the crowd. In 2006, <mask>, and a number of others from World Class Championship Wrestling's heyday, participated in Heroes of World Class Wrestling, an independently produced retrospective documentary about the promotion and the <mask> family.The documentary featured comments from Adkisson, Gary Hart, Skandor Akbar, Bill Mercer, Mickey Grant, David Manning, Marc Lowrance and via earlier interviews, Chris Adams. Later that October he sold the rights to the (pre-1988) WCCW name and tape archives to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). WWE subsequently began broadcasting WCCW's syndicated programming on their subscription video on demand service WWE Classics On Demand with <mask> and Michael "P.S." Hayes acting as hosts and later included WCCW footage on the WWE Network. WWE produced The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class, their own documentary on the territory in 2007. <mask> was also featured in the 2007 WWE produced DVD The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling in a segment on the <mask> family. On April 4, 2009, <mask> represented the <mask> family as they were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Michael Hayes.On June 15, 2014, at Slammiversary, <mask> accompanied his sons Ross and Marshall to the ring for a tag-team match. On April 2, 2016 <mask> appeared at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony to discuss his relationship with The Fabulous Freebirds. Brief comeback (2017)
At 60 years of age, <mask> returned to wrestling for the first time in 22 years on July 9, 2017. He teamed with his sons Ross and Marshall as they defeated Marty Jannetty, Jumping Lee and Gery Roif at Los Angeles Wrestling in Tel Aviv, Israel. Personal life
He has been married since August 1, 1980 to Pam Adkisson. They currently live in Hawaii and run a family investment business together. <mask> also dabbles in commercial real estate, and owns the

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Adkisson, as <mask> <mask>, appears in the video games Legends of Wrestling, Legends of Wrestling II, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, WWE 2K17 and WWE 2K18. 78 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
 Ranked No. 85 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
 Ranked No. 23 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with David, Mike, and <mask> <mask> in 2003
 St. Louis Wrestling Club
 NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame
Class of 2016
 Western States Sports
 NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with <mask> <mask>
 WWE
 WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009) as a member of the <mask> family
 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 Match of the Year (1984) with Mike and <mask> <mask> vs. the Fabulous Freebirds (Buddy Roberts, Michael Hayes, and Terry Gordy) in an Anything Goes match on July 4

See also
 <mask> Family

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<mask> (May 20, 1861 – June 26, 1939) was Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Texas (1913–1914), a newspaperman who published the Brownwood Bulletin and founder of the University of Texas journalism school. Early life
Born in Mayfield, Kentucky, <mask> was educated at Norton's English and Classical School in Tennessee, Paducah District Methodist College in Kentucky and Vanderbilt University, class of 1881, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He practiced law in Kentucky in 1881 as a partner in the law firm Park and Mayes and in Texas from 1882 to 1886, serving as county attorney of Brown County, Texas from 1882 to 1883. He received an honorary doctorate of laws from Daniel Baker College in 1914. <mask> purchased weekly newspapers in Brownwood, Texas in the 1880s and began the daily Brownwood Bulletin newspaper in 1900, which he published until 1914. He and his brother, H.F. <mask>, founded one of the earliest newspaper chains, owning Texas papers in Brady, Stephenville, Santa Anna, May, Ballinger and Dalhart. The Brownwood Bulletin was the first newspaper in Texas to not be officially linked to the state Democratic party, instead opting to be independently Democratic (supportive of the party in general, but critical when warranted).Politics
<mask> was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1912 despite not campaigning for the position. While Lt. Governor, <mask> played a notable role in the controversy surrounding the Daughters of the Republic of Texas' custodianship of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, siding with Clara Driscoll over Adina De Zavala to demolish most of the remaining portions of the site's long barracks. He made this decision while governor Oscar Colquitt had left the state on business. This event became known as the "Second Battle of the Alamo." In September 1913, the University of Texas offered him a position as chair of an as-yet created School of Journalism. However, <mask> declined, and immediately thereafter announced he was running for the office of Governor on a platform of statewide prohibition and local option.He was initially considered to be a favorite, but withdrew after Thomas Ball consolidated

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 prohibitionist support, who in turn lost the nomination to James E. Ferguson. Later in life he also served as executive vice president of the Texas Centennial Committee of 1936. After failing to gain the Democratic nomination for Governor, <mask> resigned from office, founded, and became dean of the University of Texas School of Journalism at the insistence of University President and friend Sidney Edward Mezes. Journalism
<mask> founded the University of Texas School of Journalism in 1914 and was its dean until 1926. As dean, he founded The Texas Journalist, a student run newspaper. In 1916, he was one of seven faculty members targeted for firing by Texas governor James E. Ferguson, who found them objectionable. The complaints against <mask>, who had been one of Ferguson's chief rivals for the 1914 Democratic gubernatorial nomination (along with prohibitionist congressman Thomas Henry Ball), stemmed from negative editorials against Ferguson that the Brownwood Bulletin published while Mayes still owned half of the company.Ferguson was quoted saying that the Bulletin had "skinned me from hell to breakfast." However, <mask> maintained that he was out of the state when these editorials - editorials that were widely reprinted throughout the state in the ensuing controversy - were written and approved by others and that he no longer had a financial stake in the business dealings of the Bulletin. Although <mask> was exonerated by the board of regents, he was later dismissed by the university in 1917 in a 4-3 vote. However, the dismissal was reversed and he was fully reinstated as dean and Ferguson was eventually impeached by the Texas Legislature. Later, Governor Ma Ferguson succeeded where her husband had not, and was able to remove funding for the School of Journalism entirely, effectively abolishing its programs. He served as president of the Texas Press Association in 1899–90 and was elected without opposition president of the National Editorial Association in 1908. He was elected vice-president of the American Association of Journalism Teachers in 1916 and president of the Association of American Schools and Departments of Journalism in

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 1920–21.After retiring from the school and from public life, he published a book entitled "Texas Empire Builders of 1936." In 1940, shortly after his death, the University of Texas acquired his 80-volume library on the history of journalism in Texas. Personal life
<mask> had seven children: four from Jessie Ware, whom he married in 1886, and three from his second wife, Anna Marshall, whom he married in 1900 after his first wife's death the year before. <mask> is buried in Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood. His son <mask> <mask> Jr. was a print journalist who worked for the Brownwood Bulletin, was editor of the Ranger Times and Harlingen, Texas's The Valley Morning Star. His son Wendell Wise <mask> was initially a print journalist, working for the Parlier Progress in Parlier, California and later for the Fresno Bee. He was later elected mayor of the Texas cities of Center (1925–1928) and Brownwood (1939–1951), where he owned and ran the KBWD radio station as part of a larger broadcasting chain.In 1939, he was appointed by Governor James V. Allred to serve on the executive committee of the Texas Big Bend Park Association, which created Big Bend National Park. He later served as chairman of the Texas State Parks Board, as a member of the Brown County Hospital Authority, and chairman of the board of regents of Texas Women's University. Dorothy Evans <mask>, wife of Wendell Wise <mask>, was a noted Texan artist. Howard Payne University's Department of Art's gallery is named in their memory. Their son, Wendell Wise <mask> Jr., is a prominent diabetes philanthropist and radio journalist. His daughter from his second marriage, <mask> Hale, was a noted Texas artist. His son from his second marriage, Robert Chappell <mask>, was also a notable Texas journalist working in Edinburg, Texas at the Edinburg Review and served as news editor of the San Antonio Express News until his retirement in 1977.Anna Elizabeth <mask>, wife of Robert, was also a Texas journalist, working in Gonzales, Texas, Houston, and San Antonio. References

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<mask> (born 30 May 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. His career highlights as an Australian Football League (AFL) player include three premierships with Brisbane, All-Australian selection, captain of the Australian International Rules team and inclusion in the Indigenous Team of the Century. <mask> was one of eight players to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions and became the last Fitzroy Lion to play in the AFL. After retiring from playing professionally, <mask> started coaching and played and coached Essendon District Football League team Avondale Heights Football Club between 2010 and 2012. His son <mask> was drafted to the Essendon Football Club in the 2019 rookie draft. He now plays for his junior club, Jacana. Early life
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<mask> began his professional AFL career with Fitzroy in 1994. He was awarded a nomination in the 1994 AFL Rising Star award in round 21. He was one of eight players allowed to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. His career highlights include three premierships with Brisbane, All-Australian selection and inclusion in the Indigenous Team of the Century. <mask> is renowned for his creative play and composure running out of defence. Nevertheless, his 2007 preseason saw him playing as regularly in the forward line and the midfield as a defender, signalling the club's intention to use him as an impact player.<mask> was appointed co-captain of the Lions in 2007,

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 alongside Simon Black, Luke Power, Jonathan Brown, and Nigel Lappin. On 31 August 2007, <mask> announced that he would retire from football at the end of the season. He was the last former Fitzroy Lion still playing in the AFL. International rules series 2005
In the 2005 International Rules series, <mask> was named co-captain along with Andrew McLeod. In the second game of the series, <mask> started a brawl by clothes line tackling (or "coat hanger") Philip Jordan and striking Mattie Forde. He was suspended for five matches after pleading guilty to striking, ruling him out until the second Test in 2008. Coaching career
Following his AFL career, he remained involved in the game.He became a runner for the Brisbane Lions, appearing in Round 11 against Fremantle Dockers. Then he shifted into coaching. On Friday 14 September 2007, <mask> signed on with the club as a full-time development

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<mask> (8 June 1968 – 8 April 2009) was a Romanian Swedish mathematician. His scientific work included vertex operator algebra and zero distribution of polynomials and entire functions, via correlation inequalities and statistical mechanics. Biography
Born in Bacău, Romania, by a math teacher who instilled in her son's intellect the beauty of mathematics, he studied in 1982-1984 at the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, and he completed his Baccalaureat at the Lycée Français Prins Henrik of Copenhagen. In 1987–1989 he attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 1998, at Lund University, under the direction of Arne Meurman. After defending his PhD thesis in 1998, he embarked in postdoctoral studies at the Mittag-Leffler Institute for six months and at the University of Strasbourg for two years. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2001, and Lecturer in 2005 at Stockholm University.A year later he was granted the Swedish Mathematical Society's Wallenberg Prize. Promoted to Full Professor in 2008, he was awarded a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellowship, in 2009, and the Crafoord prize research grant diploma. Professional profile
<mask>'s scientific work ranged from vertex operator theory to zero distribution of polynomials and entire functions, via correlation inequalities and statistical mechanics. His thesis consists of two seemingly independent parts: one in vertex operator theory and the other

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 devoted to the geometry of zeros of complex polynomials in one variable. In vertex operator theory, <mask> generalized results of Mirko Primc and Arne Meurman and gave a classification of annihilated fields. As concerns complex polynomials, he tackled Sendov’s conjecture on zeros and critical points of complex polynomials in one variable. Using
novel techniques, he proved the conjecture for polynomials of degree not exceeding 7.Earlier (1969) the conjecture had been proven for polynomials of degree not exceeding 5. At Stockholm University, <mask> had a steady collaboration with Rikard Bøgvad and Boris Shapiro. They worked on rational approximations of algebraic equations, piecewise harmonic functions and positive Cauchy transforms, and the geometry of zeros of polynomials in one variable. <mask> and Petter Brändén collaborated on a project on the geometry of zeros of polynomials and entire functions. They characterized all linear operators on polynomials
preserving the property of having only real zeros, a problem that goes back to Edmond Laguerre and to George Pólya and Issai Schur. These results were subsequently extended to several variables, and a connection to the Lee–Yang theorem on phase-transitions in statistical physics was made. Together with Tom Liggett (UCLA) they applied their methods to problems in probability theory and were able to prove an important conjecture about the preservation of negative dependence properties in the

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 symmetric exclusion process.Borcea had a comprehensive project on the distribution of positive charges and the Hausdorff geometry of complex polynomials. One of the motivations for the project was to bring Sendov’s conjecture into a larger and more natural context. He formulated several interesting conjectures, and in the summer of 2008 he was the driving force of two meetings, one at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, California and the other at the Banff International Research Station together with Dmitry Khavinson, Rajesh Pereira, Mihai Putinar, Edward B. Saff, and Serguei Shimorin. These two encounters were focused on structuring and expanding Julius’ program. His continuous and vivid interest in the Hausdorff geometry of polynomials was triggered by an École normale supérieure (Paris) exam he took in 1989. Publications

 <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Hyperbolicity preservers and majorization. C. R. Math.Acad. Sci. Paris 348 (2010), no. 15-16, 843–846. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, The Lee-Yang and Pólya-Schur programs. II. Theory of stable polynomials and applications.Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 62 (2009), no. 12, 1595–1631. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, The Lee-Yang and Pólya-Schur programs. I.Linear operators preserving stability. Inventiones Mathematicae 177 (2009), no. 3, 541–569. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Pólya-Schur master theorems for circular domains and their boundaries. Annals of Mathematics (2) 170

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texts: (2009), no. 1, 465–492. <mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard; Shapiro, Boris, Homogenized spectral problems for exactly solvable operators: asymptotics of polynomial eigenfunctions.Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 45 (2009), no. 2, 525–568.<mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard, Piecewise harmonic subharmonic functions and positive Cauchy transforms. Pacific J. Math. 240 (2009), no. 2, 231–265. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter; Liggett, Thomas M., Negative dependence and the geometry of polynomials. J. Amer.Math. Soc. 22 (2009), no. 2, 521–567. <mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Lee-Yang problems and the geometry of multivariate polynomials. Lett. Math.Phys. 86 (2008), no. 1, 53–61. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Root asymptotics of spectral polynomials for the Lamé operator. Comm. Math. Phys.282 (2008), no. 2, 323–337. <mask>, <mask>, Convexity properties of twisted root maps. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 38 (2008), no. 3, 809–833.<mask>, <mask>; Brändén, Petter, Applications of stable polynomials to mixed determinants: Johnson's conjectures, unimodality, and symmetrized Fischer products. Duke Math. J. 143 (2008), no. 2, 205–223. <mask>, <mask>, Choquet order for spectra of higher Lamé operators and orthogonal polynomials. J. Approx.Theory 151 (2008), no. 2, 164–180. <mask>, <mask>, Equilibrium points of logarithmic potentials induced by positive charge distributions. I. Generalized de Bruijn-Springer relations. Trans. Amer. Math.Soc. 359 (2007), no. 7, 3209–3237

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 (electronic). <mask>, <mask>, Spectral order and isotonic differential operators of Laguerre-Pólya type. Ark. Mat. 44 (2006), no.2, 211–240. <mask>, <mask>, Maximal and linearly inextensible polynomials. Math. Scand. 99 (2006), no. 1, 53–75. <mask>, <mask>; Bøgvad, Rikard; Shapiro, Boris, On rational approximation of algebraic functions.Advances in Mathematics 204 (2006), no. 2, 448–480. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Classifying real polynomial pencils. Int. Math. Res. Not.2004, no. 69, 3689–3708. <mask>, <mask>; Shapiro, Boris, Hyperbolic polynomials and spectral order. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 337 (2003), no.11, 693–698. <mask>, <mask>, Dualities and vertex operator algebras of affine type. J. Algebra 258 (2002), no. 2, 389–441. <mask>, <mask>, Annihilating fields of standard modules for affine Lie algebras. Math. Z.237 (2001), no. 2, 301–319. <mask>, <mask>, Two approaches to Sendov's conjecture. Arch. Math. (Basel) 71 (1998), no. 1, 46–54.<mask>, Iulius, The Sendov conjecture for polynomials with at most seven distinct zeros. Analysis 16 (1996), no. 2, 137–159. <mask>, Iulius, On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with at most six distinct roots. J. Math. Anal.Appl. 200 (1996), no. 1, 182–206. References

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<mask> (born September 12, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is known for his work in television on such programs as Mr. Show with Bob and David, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Best Week Ever, later renamed Best Week Ever with <mask><mask>. He is known for his numerous appearances on podcasts, including his 200-plus appearances on Comedy Bang! Bang! He has also been the host of the Fusion Channel talk show No, You Shut Up!, The Dead Authors Podcast, the online Made Man interview series Speakeasy with <mask>. <mask>, the Earwolf podcast Spontaneanation with <mask><mask>, and The Pod F. Tompkast, which was ranked #1 by Rolling Stone on their list of "The 10 Best Comedy Podcasts of the Moment" in 2011. He is also a main cast member of the Superego podcast and was a regular player on Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, which ended in 2015. <mask> was the voice of Mr. Peanutbutter, an anthropomorphic yellow , on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman from 2014 to 2020.He has also appeared in drama films like There Will Be Blood and The Informant!. In 2021, he had a recurring role on the sitcom Rutherford Falls. In December 2014, Paste named his Twitter one of "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014", ranking it at #70. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born September 12, 1968, in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has two brothers (one older, one younger) and three sisters (all older). Career

Early work
In 1986, <mask> first performed comedy at 17 years of age at The Comedy Works in Philadelphia (a club now located in Bristol, Pennsylvania), where he performed as half of a sketch comedy duo with Rick Roman. <mask> attended Temple University; however, he dropped out and left for Los Angeles, California, in 1994.<mask> met actor Jay Johnston in L.A. through their mutual friend, actor and director Adam McKay. McKay and <mask> had become friends in Philadelphia, where they had both started to perform stand-up at

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