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<mask> (born 9 December 1972) is a retired French tennis player from Tahiti. Successful in both singles and doubles, he had an unusually long professional career, with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career, and he is popular among spectators and other players alike for his winning demeanor and shot-making abilities; he is also one of a rare breed of player who plays two-handed on both the forehand and backhand sides. Owing to his longevity on the tour and consistent ranking, <mask> holds several ATP records: the most career wins over top ten opponents for a player who never reached the top ten (40), the most French Open appearances (20), tied with Feliciano López, and the third-most appearances in singles competition at Grand Slam events (70) behind Roger Federer (79) and Feliciano López (75). He also has the second-most losses in singles play behind López (444). In singles, <mask> won six titles, but reached the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam only once. His career-high ranking of world No. 17 belied his impressive record against top ten opposition.He had greater success in doubles competition, with two Grand Slam doubles titles, one mixed doubles title, and 25 doubles championships overall to his name. Since March 2019, <mask> has been the coach of Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic. Career overview

Juniors
After having lost in the early rounds of the 1988 Jr French Open and 1988 Jr US Open, <mask> won the 1989 Jr French Open. He also had a semifinal appearance in the 1989 Jr US Open. He reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 3. Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:

Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: W (1989)
Wimbledon: 3R (1989)
US Open: SF (1989)

Pro tour

When <mask> successfully defended his 2007 title by winning the 2008 Newport tournament at the age of 35, he became the oldest tennis player to win back-to-back championships at an ATP singles event.In addition, <mask> won what was, at the time, the longest singles match in the open era: at the 2004 French Open, he beat fellow Frenchman Arnaud Clément in a 6-hour 33 minute first-round match (6–4, 6–3, 6–7(5), 3–6, 16–14). The record stood until John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010, but still remains the French Open record. As a singles tennis player, the 2006 Australian Open was <mask>'s only Grand Slam quarterfinal appearance. In singles play, <mask> defeated 18 players who were ranked world no. 1 at some time during their careers: Novak Djokovic, Jimmy Connors, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Gustavo Kuerten, Carlos Moyá, Pat Rafter, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, and Roger Federer (against whom he has a 2–9 record). Against other former world no. 1 players, <mask> is 0–6 against Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 0–1 against Ivan Lendl, 0–1 against Rafael Nadal, and 0-2 against Andy Murray.<mask> is famous for his winning record against Marat Safin (7–2); Safin himself has said, "Being told I would play Santoro was being told I was to die." <mask> won the 2003 and 2004 Australian Opens doubles titles, partnering Michaël Llodra, a French compatriot, and was runner-up at the 2002 Australian Open, 2004 French Open and 2006 Wimbledon Championships. He also won the 2005 French Open mixed doubles title with Daniela Hantuchová. <mask> teamed with Michaël Llodra again to win the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, a competition that included the top eight doubles teams in the world. In addition to his doubles prowess, <mask> is noted for his cheery attitude on court and his vast arsenal of trick shots, making him a crowd favorite and gaining him the admiration of his peers. In recognition of <mask>'s varied and innovative style of play, Pete Sampras has nicknamed him The Magician. <mask> plays with two hands on forehand and backhand, and though he is right-handed, often slices his forehand with his left hand.He attributes this to having used racquets of the same weight throughout his career, which were too heavy for a six-year-old starting off a career to hold with one hand. <mask> was fast around the court and was a skilled defensive player. With his participation in the 2008 Australian Open, he broke Andre Agassi's record in Grand Slam appearances over his career with a total of 62. <mask> retired at the end of the 2009 season at his hometown tournament at the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters in Paris (Bercy), losing his final singles match against James Blake and final doubles match against Johan Brunström and Jean-Julien Rojer while partnering with compatriot Sébastien Grosjean. <mask> came out of retirement for one tournament at the 2010 Australian Open in order to obtain the record for having played in Grand Slam tournaments in four different decades, logging a total of 70 appearances in Grand Slam tournaments. At 37, he was the oldest player in the ATP top 100, being ranked 68 when he entered this last tournament. He lost in the first round of the tournament – to Marin Čilić – ending his professional tennis career.He was the first leader of the ATP Champions Race, winning the first tournament of the year in Doha in the year the race was introduced (2000). According to the ATP website, as of the 2019 Davis Cup Finals, Feliciano López has lost more singles matches (475) than any other professional player (active or not), surpassing the record previously held by <mask>. Overall, however, <mask> has won more than half of his matches, with a career record of 470–444. Personal life
<mask> is a big fan of the late French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche. <mask> has a daughter named Djenae. Since 2012, <mask> has featured as part of the television commentary and analysis team for British television channel ITV, at the French Open. Grand Slam finals

Men's doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Mixed doubles: 1 title

Career finals

Singles (6 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Doubles (24 titles, 18 runner-ups)

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<mask>  (19 March 1905 – 8 September 1984) was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent. Early life and work
<mask> was born in 1905, at Dulwich, London, the son of the Hungarian cartographer and founder of Geographia Ltd, <mask> (1880–1958), and suffragette Isabelle Crowley (1886-1938). His sister was the artist, writer and publisher Phyllis Pearsall. He attended Shrewsbury House School and later Repton School until 1922, and from the following year studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks. Later studies were at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London, the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the Academia de San Fernando, Madrid. In 1925 he studied within life classes and as an engraver at Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. Following study, <mask> painted and produced intaglio prints in Spain, painted in Brussels, and in 1928 returned to work in Paris, and other parts of France, working entirely from life.While in France he developed a working relationship with Józef Hecht and Stanley William Hayter. During the early 1930s he exhibited in Paris galleries, becoming a member of the La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, designed costumes and settings for ballet, and worked with composer Tibor Harsányi. He co-directed the short film La Joie de vivre with Hector Hoppin in 1934. Returning to Britain in 1934, <mask> worked on animated films, illustrated a 1929 edition of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles and became an art director for London Films. In 1937 he returned to work in Paris. <mask> had married Villeneuve fashion artist Marcelle Marguerite Florenty in 1930; their children were Mary (b. 1935) and Jean-Pierre (b.1937). In 1940 he brought his family from France to England, to live at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. Second World War
Through advocacy by Eric Kennington to the War Artists' Advisory Committee, <mask> was offered, and accepted, the role of an official war artist, and produced etchings and oil and watercolour paintings of English coastal defences and troop training. In 1941, with a temporary commission of captain, <mask> was attached to the 9th Army and painted within the Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Kurdistan, Lebanese, and Mesopotamian theatres of war, sometimes accompanied by other war artists Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden, and later documenting the 8th Army's North African Campaign. From 1943 he transferred to India and Burma to witness the front line battle against the Japanese; these works were the subject of a one-man exhibition at the National Gallery when he returned to England. Later, in 1944 and 1945, an exhibition of 51 of these drawings, entitled India in Action, toured Australia, New Zealand and the United States. <mask> accompanied the D-Day invasion of Northern France, wading ashore near Arromanches at 2pm on D-Day.He sketched the beachhead landings and spent the night in a slit trench on the beach before moving inland the next day. <mask> recorded the devastation of Bayeux and Caen, and followed the Allied armies to Paris and then into Germany. He witnessed the meeting of American and Russian forces at the River Elbe on 25 April 1945. <mask> was, at the time, one of the many war artists who painted a portrait of General Montgomery. Post war
Following the war, <mask> returned to working in London, in Chelsea, Greenwich and Blackheath, while in the mid-1950s working partly in Le Boulvé. He produced lithographs for J. Lyons and Co., and illustrated editions of Wuthering Heights and The Forsyte Saga. In 1954 he designed the dust jacket for the first edition of Lord of the Flies.From 1948 to 1954 he was a life drawing tutor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, afterwards becoming Head of Printing at the Slade School of Fine Art. From 1948 to 1971 <mask>'s work was exhibited in London and New York in one-man shows and as part of The London Group. In 1965 he became the first president of the Printmakers Council. He became an honorary member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1979, the same year being elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy; becoming a Senior Academician in 1981, and receiving an CBE in 1982. In 1965-66 <mask> was a Minneapolis School of Art visiting professor. Public collections
<mask>'s works held in public collections include the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, University of Leeds, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Scarborough Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery, London, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;
the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna;
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand;
the South African National Gallery, Cape Town;
the Kunstmuseum, Basel;
the National Gallery of Norway, Oslo;
the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm;
the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;
the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec;
the Cabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome;
the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam;
the Louvre and the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris;
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.Bibliography
 Mayne, Jonathan, <mask> (1949. Art & Technics)
 Mayne, Jonathan, 'The Graphic Work of <mask>', in Image; 4 (1950 Spring), pp. 31–48
 Erskin, Robert, <mask> 8 Etchings (1956. St Georges Gallery Prints)
 <mask>, <mask>, Etching, Engraving and Intaglio Printing (1970. Oxford U.P.) <mask>, <mask>, Battle Lines (1981. Imperial War Museum)
 Graham, Rigby, <mask> (1988.Goldmark Gallery)
 Lee, Jane, <mask>: Paintings, Drawings and Prints (1989. Ashmolean)
 Herdman, Robin, The Prints of <mask>: Catalogue Raisonne (1991. Scolar Press; illustrated.) Colescot, Warrington, Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance (1999. University of Wisconsin Press; illustrated)
 Ramkalawon, Jennifer, <mask> RA 1905-1984 - Early Paintings and Prints, A Centenary Exhibition (2005. Redfern Gallery, London)
 Windsor, Alan; Flemming, Rhiannon, <mask> RA 1905-1984: Paintings and Prints from the 1950s (2010. Redfern Gallery, London)

References

External links

 Works by <mask> in the Imperial War Museum (345 images at 3 June 2016)

 ; animated film by <mask> and Hector Hoppin (1934)

1905 births
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<mask> Schmidt, Crossballs, The Hotwives of Orlando, Carpoolers, Community, Lucky Louie, and Dr. Ken. Life and career
<mask> was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Flint, Michigan. <mask> was raised as a Jehovah's Witness during most of his youth. Later in life, after rejecting his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, <mask> was shunned by some members of his family. He began doing stand-up comedy and writing/performing with sketch comedy groups in Detroit before eventually joining the Second City Detroit's mainstage improv troupe. After writing and performing in three revues, he joined the Second City Chicago for two shows and then one revue at the Second City Toronto. At the time he was the only performer to have belonged to all three of the Second City's touring companies.<mask> was hired as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live for one season in 2000–2001. He was let go from the show over the summer hiatus, before the start of the 2001–2002 season, because Lorne Michaels wanted to hire four new cast members, but did not want to go over budget. <mask>'s best known work at SNL included the recurring sketch Rap Street (which he performed with Horatio Sanz) and his appearances on Weekend Update as Al Sharpton. In addition to SNL, <mask> has appeared regularly on a number of other sketch comedy programs, including HBO's Mr. Show, where he was a cast member during its final season. He was briefly a correspondent on The Daily Show in early 2000, had a recurring role as Officer Carter on Arrested Development and was one of the main cast members of Comedy Central's debate show parody Crossballs in 2004. He worked briefly as a writer and occasional performer on the short-lived FOX sketch series Cedric the Entertainer Presents. In 2006, <mask> was part of the main cast of the HBO series Lucky Louie, on which he played Louis C.K.'s neighbor, Walter. <mask> was praised for his Lucky Louie role in a 2006 issue of TV Guide, where he was given a "Cheers" in the magazine's Cheers and Jeers section. He was part of the cast of the 2008 ABC sitcom Carpoolers, playing the role of Aubrey and was a featured comedian on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil on Comedy Central. <mask> has also gained attention online in 2010, for his memorable appearances as "Cyber Thug" on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, which was briefly spun off into its own podcast titled Cyber Thug Radio on the Earwolf network. For a number of years <mask> and comedian Craig Robinson had a comedy act where they performed as musical duo "L. Witherspoon & Chucky", with <mask> as smooth singing "L. Witherspoon" and Robinson as "Chucky", the keyboard player and back-up singer. They performed the act on several stand-up shows on Comedy Central as well as on Real Time with Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. <mask> has appeared in films such as I Love You, Man, Drillbit Taylor and Beer League, and had a small part in the 2003 movie Melvin Goes to Dinner directed by Bob Odenkirk.<mask> has made guest appearances on shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Funny or Die Presents, Drunk History, The League, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Key & Peele, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Last Man Standing, How I Met Your Mother, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. In 2010, he co-starred as "Mighty Joe Jon the Black Blonde" in the second season of the Adult Swim series Delocated. <mask> has also had recurring appearances on comedy programs such as The Office as Brandon, Eastbound & Down as Jamie Laing, Community as <mask> the Janitor, The Hotwives as Rodney, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Chris, and in the animated series Bob's Burgers as the voice of Officer Julia. He also co-starred as the voice of Denzel in the Comedy Central animated series Brickleberry. <mask> is now the co-host of The Cult Awareness Podcast that discusses Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other subjects. He stars as the lead in the satirical musical For the Love of a Glove, which portrays Michael Jackson's glove as a sentient being and the true cause of his many misfortunes. Characters on SNL
Grand Master Rap, co-host of the old-school rap music program Rap Street on BET.Terrell, the catty and effeminate security guard who works with conceited deskclerk Jackie (Maya Rudolph)
Willy Sluggs, a magician who performs less-than-spectacular magic tricks on his show Willy Sluggs' Eye Poppers

Celebrity impressions
Cuba Gooding Jr. (on SNL)
Jimi Hendrix (on SNL)
Al Sharpton (on SNL)
Miss Cleo (on SNL - cut sketch)
Nipsey Russell (on SNL - cut sketch: shown in 2001 SNL Halloween Special)
Puff Daddy (on VH1 Divas Live Aretha Franklin special)
Billy Dee Williams (on Mr. Show DVD audio commentary')
Bill Cosby (on Lucky Louie)
Ja Rule (on Jimmy Kimmel Live!) Chris Tucker (on Primetime Glick and The Martin Short Show)
Michael Winslow (on Showtime's The Offensive Show pilot)
Joseph Kony (on PoliPopTV viral video)
Boyd Tinsley (at UCB's The Midnight Show)
Steve Harvey (at UCB's Comedy Death-Ray)
Kanye West (at UCB's Comedy Death-Ray)
Ben Carson (at UCB's Decision Election 2016 All-Star Clusterfuck)

References

External links

<mask> on YouTube
In depth interview from November 12, 2007

1969 births
Living people
African-American male actors
American comedy musicians
American male film actors
American stand-up comedians
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<mask> (born 23 February 1988) is a Polish volleyball player, member of the Poland men's national volleyball team and Japanese team, Panasonic Panthers, participant at the Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016), two–time World Champion (2014, 2018), 2012 World League winner, silver medallist at the 2011 World Cup. Personal life
<mask> was born in Wałcz, Poland. He has an older brother Błażej, who is also a volleyball player. He is married to Monika. On 23 February 2014 (Kubiak's 26th birthday) their daughter Pola was born. They also have a second child. Career
Before his career as an indoor volleyball player, <mask> played beach volleyball with Zbigniew Bartman.They won a gold medal at the European U18 Championship in 2004 and a silver medal at the World U18 Championship, also in 2004. Both <mask> and Bartman gave up playing beach volleyball. Clubs
<mask> made his debut in the Polish volleyball league during the 2005/2006 season. He played for three Polish clubs before moving to foreign leagues. In the 2008/2009 season, he played for Israeli club Hapoel Kiryat Ata. His career accelerated after good performances in the B squad of the Polish national team. After that he moved to Italian Serie A2 Volley Padwa.In the 2010/2011 season, he returned to the PlusLiga, specifically to AZS Politechnika Warszawska, where he played with Zbigniew Bartman again. He wanted to leave the Warsaw club in 2011, but the club stated that their contract was still valid and filed a lawsuit. Finally, Kubiak moved to Jastrzębski Węgiel. With this club, he won a silver medal in the World Club Championship 2011. In 2012/2013 season he won a bronze medal in the Polish Championships. In 2013/2014 the club advanced to the Final Four of the Champions League in Ankara and after defeating Zenit Kazan won the bronze medal. His team beat ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the last matches in the fight for a medal.Jastrzębski Węgiel, including <mask>, ended the season with a second bronze in the Polish Championships. In July 2014, a year before his contract was due to end, <mask> requested an early termination. The club agreed, and Kubiak was able to play for the Turkish club Halkbank Ankara for the season 2014/2015. Kubiak agreed with Jastrzębski Węgiel that after the end of the contract in Turkey, he would return to the Polish club. On 29 March 2015 he won the Turkish Cup with his team Halkbank Ankara. In the final match, his team beat Arkas Izmir 3-0 and Kubiak scored 11 points. After one season in Japan with the Panasonic Panthers, he renewed his contract until the end of the 2018/2019 season.National team
<mask> was first selected to represent the Polish national team by coach Andrea Anastasi in 2011. With the Polish team, he won three medals in 2011 - silver at the World Cup and two bronzes at the World League and the European Championship. He was a gold medalist at the World League 2012 in Sofia, Bulgary. On 16 August 2014 he was selected to the Polish squad at the World Championship held in Poland. On 21 September 2014 Poland won the title of World Champion 2014. On 27 October 2014 he received a state award granted by the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, the Gold Cross of Merit for outstanding sports achievements and promoting Poland in the world. In November 2015 he was nominated for Polish Sports Personality of the Year by the Plebiscite of Przegląd Sportowy.He took 5th place in the list of 2015 Polish Sports Personality of the Year. On 30 September 2018 Poland achieved title of the 2018 World Champion. Poland beat Brazil in the final 3-0 and defended the title from 2014. Kubiak received an individual award for the Best Outside Spiker and he was one of the main players in the team. Controversies
In 2019, he made a comment against the Iranian people that led to his suspension by FIVB for six games. He said referring to the people of Iran: "The Iranians think they are great and the best and we are the worst. But I believe that they are fatal, malicious and damned people.For me, this nation doesn’t exist, even though they proudly call themselves Persians, not Arabs. Sometimes we have to play with them, but for me, they don’t exist." In response, Iran national volleyball team head coach, Igor Kolakovic addressed kubiak in an instagram post: “Dear Michal <mask>, you are the great volleyball player, but you have the right to make a mistake.

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<mask> (, <mask>, , Ihor Borysovych Markevych; 27 July 1912 – 7 March 1983) was an avant-garde Russian Empire-born composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. <mask> settled in Italy during World War II. After the war, he moved to Switzerland. He had an international conducting career from there. He was married twice and had three sons and two daughters. Origin
He was born in Kiev, now the capital of Ukraine but at that time part of imperial Russia, to an old family of Cossacks starshyna who were ennobled in the 18th century.His great-grandfather Andrey <mask> was a Secretary of State at the time of Alexander II of Russia, Actual Privy Councilor in St. Petersburg and co-founder of the Russian Musical Society. <mask> was the son of pianist <mask> and Zoia Pokhitonova (daughter of painter Ivan Pokhitonov). The family moved to Paris in 1914 when he was two years old. They moved again to Switzerland in 1916 during World War I because of his father's failing health (he later died of tuberculosis). Pianist Alfred Cortot, perhaps the greatest French pianist of his time, recognized the boy's talent. He advised him at age 14 in 1926 to go to Paris for training in both composition and piano at the École Normale, where he studied piano under Cortot and composition under Nadia Boulanger. Career
Markevitch gained important recognition in 1929 when choreographer-impresario Serge Diaghilev discovered him and commissioned a piano concerto from him.In addition, Diaghilev invited him to collaborate on a ballet with Boris Kochno, a dancer and librettist. In a letter to the London Times, Diaghilev hailed <mask> as the composer who would put an end to 'a scandalous period of music ... of cynical-sentimental simplicity'. The ballet project came to an end with Diaghilev's death on 19 August 1929, but <mask>'s compositions were accepted by the publisher Schott. He produced at least one major work per year during the 1930s. He was rated among the leading contemporary composers of the time, even to the extent of being hailed as "the second <mask>", after <mask>. <mask> collaborated on the ballet score Rébus with Leonid Massine in 1931; and L'envol d'Icare in 1932 with Serge Lifar. Neither was staged, but both scores were performed in concert.L'envol d'Icare, based on the legend of the fall of Icarus, which <mask> recorded in 1938 conducting the Belgian National Orchestra, was especially radical, introducing quarter-tones in both woodwinds and strings. (In 1943 he revised the work under the title Icare, eliminating the quarter tones and simplifying the rhythms and orchestration.) Béla Bartók once described <mask> as "...the most striking personality in contemporary music..." and claimed him as an influence on his own creative work. An independent version of L'envol d'Icare for two pianos and percussion, which Bartók heard, is believed to have influenced the latter's own Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion. <mask> continued composing as war approached, but in October 1941, not long after completing his last original work, the Variations, Fugue and Envoi on a Theme of Handel for piano, he fell seriously ill. After recovering, he decided to give up the composition and focus exclusively on conducting. His last compositional projects were the revision of L'envol d'Icare and arrangements of other composers' music. His version of J. S. Bach's Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) is especially notable.He had débuted as a conductor at age 18 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. After presiding at the Dutch premiere of Rébus, Markevitch had studied conducting with Pierre Monteux and Hermann Scherchen. As a conductor, he was much admired for his interpretations of the French, Russian and Austro-German repertory, and of twentieth-century music in general. He settled in Italy, and during the Second World War was active in the partisan movement. He married and settled in Switzerland in 1947 following the war. He pursued his conducting career worldwide. He became permanent conductor of the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris in the 1950s, conducted the Spanish RTVE Orchestra in 1965, the London Symphony Orchestra in 1966 and was also permanent conductor of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.In 1970, after ignoring his own compositions for nearly 30 years, <mask> began to conduct his own music frequently, triggering its slow revival. His last concert was in Kiev, his birthplace. He died suddenly from a heart attack in Antibes on 7 March 1983, after a concert tour in Japan and Russia. Family
A great-great-grandfather, Mykola Markevych, was a Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, composer and poet. A great-grandfather, Andriy <mask>, was an activist, ethnographer, lawyer, philanthropist, and musician. His maternal grandfather was well-known painter Ivan Pokhitonov (1850-1923). His brother Dimitry <mask> became a noted musicologist and cellist.The Ukrainian <mask> (also spelled in Polish as Markiewicz) family is believed to have originated 300 years ago from a common paternal ancestor and his wife. Their ethnicity is disputed as Polish, Ukrainian, or Serbian, as the patronymic name is widespread among central European peoples. <mask> married Kyra Nijinsky (1913-1998), daughter of the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife Romola de Pulszky. they had a son Vaslav <mask> (b. 1936) before they divorced. Secondly, <mask> married Donna Topazia Caetani (1921-1990), the only child of Don Michelangelo Caetani dei Duchi di Sermoneta and his wife, the former Cora Antinori. Cora Caetani ran the boutique of Jansen, the Paris decorating firm.Their son, Oleg Caetani <mask>, became chief conductor and artistic director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia. They also had two daughters together: Allegra (b. 1950) and Nathalie (b. 1951), and another son, Timour <mask> (1960-1962). Works

Compositions
Noces, suite for piano (1925)
Sinfonietta in F major (1928-9)
Piano Concerto (1929)
Cantate for soprano, male chorus & orchestra (1929–30) (text by Jean Cocteau)
Concerto Grosso (1930)
Partita for piano and small orchestra (1930–31)
Serenade for violin, clarinet and bassoon (1931)
Rébus, ballet (1931)
Cinéma-Ouverture (1931)
Galop for 8 or 9 players (1932)
L'envol d'Icare, ballet (1932); recomposed as Icare (1943)
Hymnes for orchestra (1932–33) (revised version 1980 with ad lib contralto and extra movement orchestrated from No. Birth centenary exhibition "<mask>itch compositeur et chef d'orchestre 1912/2012" Château de Chillon, Switzerland. Catalogue.References

External links

<mask> biography at Boosey & Hawkes
<mask> biography at Classical Composers Database
František Sláma (musician) Archive. More on the history of the Czech Philharmonic between the 1940s and the 1980s: Conductors

1912 births
1983 deaths

20th-century classical composers
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians
École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni
French classical composers
French male classical composers
French male conductors (music)
French conductors (music)
Italian classical composers
Italian male conductors (music)
Mozarteum University Salzburg faculty
Naturalised citizens of Italy
Naturalized citizens of France
Male conductors (music)
20th-century Italian composers
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
French emigrants to Italy
20th-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians

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Igor Stravinsky
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<mask> (born December 22, 1960), is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist. Early life
<mask> was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a librarian and her father, David Gloeckner, was a commercial illustrator. Her father's family was Quaker and she attended Quaker schools when she was young. She has a younger sister. Gloeckner's parents divorced when she was 4 years old. In 1972, when she was 11 or 12 years old, her mother remarried and the family moved to San Francisco.She attended several Bay Area schools, including The Urban School of San Francisco and Lick-Wilmerding High School. She was a boarding student at Castilleja (in Palo Alto) for a year, but returned to San Francisco to live with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her sister, when she was 14. Gloeckner began cartooning at the age of 12. Because her mother was dating Robert Armstrong, a cartoonist in Robert Crumb's band Cheap Suit Serenaders, she met many San Francisco underground comics figures who had a profound influence upon her, including Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Bill Griffith, Terry Zwigoff, and Diane Noomin. Gloeckner attended San Francisco State University from 1980 to 1985, where she was a pre-med student and studied French and art. She spent the 1983–1984 academic year in Université d’Aix-Marseille studying art, French, and biology, and from 1984 to 1985 spent about six months studying Czech and literature at Charles University in Prague. She has an M.A.in Biomedical Communications from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which she received in 1988. The degree was in medical illustration. Her 1987 dissertation was on the "Semiotic Analysis of Medical Illustration," in which she studies narrative devices used in medical and surgical illustration. Gloeckner became interested in medical illustration through her maternal grandfather, an antique dealer who collected and sold old books, and her paternal grandmother, Dr. Louise Carpenter <mask>, who was a physician in Philadelphia and was the first woman to be elected vice president of the American Medical Association. Career
Gloeckner worked prolifically as a medical illustrator since 1988, and her training is evident in her paintings and comics art, which are highly detailed and often prominently feature the human body. Her first prominent work in fiction publishing, a series of illustrations for the RE/Search edition of J. G. Ballard's novel The Atrocity Exhibition, used clinical images of internal anatomy, sex, and physical trauma in ambiguous and evocative combinations. Her early comics work, in the form of short stories published in a variety of underground anthologies including Wimmen's Comix, Weirdo, Young Lust, and Twisted Sisters, and in the tabloid zine, RE/Search (numbered volumes), was sporadic and rarely seen until the 1998 release of the collection A Child's Life and Other Stories.This was followed by her 2002 graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, which revisited the troubled life of the young character (usually referred to as "Minnie Goetze") previously featured in some of her comics, this time in an unusual combination of prose, illustration, and short comics scenes. Her novel and many of her short stories are semi-autobiographical, a frequent cause of comment due to their depiction of sex, drug use, and childhood traumas; however, Gloeckner has stated that she regards them as fiction. Sexual content led to A Child's Life and Other Stories being banned from the public library in Stockton, California, after it was checked out by an 11-year-old reader. The mayor of Stockton called the book "a how-to book for pedophiles." The graphic novel was also classified as pornography and refused entry by customs officials in both France and England. Less controversial, and actually intended for children, is the book Weird Things You Can Grow, published by Random House, and books in the series beginning with Tales Too Funny to be True published by HarperCollins, for which she did the illustrations. A film version of The Diary of a Teenage Girl premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.The film was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics at the festival. Adapted and directed by Marielle Heller, it is based on Heller's earlier stage adaptation. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård as Monroe, Kristen Wiig as Charlotte, and Bel Powley as the main character, Minnie Goetze. Heller developed the script at the Sundance Institute's Sundance Feature Film Program Lab. The film won "Best First Feature" at the 2016 Spirit Awards. Gloeckner briefly taught courses at Suffolk Community College and Stony Brook University. Gloeckner is an associate professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, a position she has held since 2010.In recognition of her contributions to the comic art form, Comics Alliance listed Gloeckner as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Personal life
In 1986, Gloeckner married Czech artist Jakub Kalousek. They later divorced. She has two daughters, Audrey "Fina" <mask>-Kalousek and Persephone <mask>-Kalousek. Awards
 2000: Inkpot Award
 2008: Guggenheim fellowship working on research for a graphic novel about families living in Ciudad Juárez; project inspired by experiences in Ciudad Juarez while researching her story in the 2008 book, I Live Here
 2015-2016: Faculty Fellow in the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities working on “The Return of Maldoror”

Works and publications

Monographs
 <mask>, <mask>, and Robert Crumb (introduction). A Child's Life and Other Stories. Berkeley, CA: Frog (imprint of North Atlantic Books), 1998.Revised edition, 2000. <mask>, <mask>. The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures. Berkeley, Calif: Frog (imprint of North Atlantic Books), 2002. Revised edition, 2015. As contributing author/artist
 "RE/Search" tabloid zine #2 and #3. San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 1980–81.Kirshner, Mia, Mike Simons, and Paul Shoebridge. "I Live Here." NY: Pantheon Graphic Novels, 2008. Journals
 <mask>, <mask>. "Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term." Chaney, Michael A. Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.<mask>, <mask>, Justin Green, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Carol Tyler. 2014. "Panel: Comics and Autobiography". Critical Inquiry. 40, no. 3: Comics & Media. The University of Chicago Press.Edited by Hillary Chute and Patrick Jagoda: Spring 2014. pp. 86–103.   ] <mask>, <mask>. 2014. "Valiente and Arpía". Critical Inquiry. 40, no.3: Comics & Media. The University of Chicago Press. Edited by Hillary Chute and Patrick Jagoda: Spring 2014. pp. 182–186. <mask>, <mask>. Author Guillermo Paxton: An Interview with "El Guëro de Juárez". 2015.Children's books
 Goldenberg, Janet, and <mask>ner. Weird Things You Can Grow. New York: Random House, 1994. Goldenberg, Janet, and <mask>. Weird But True: A Cartoon Encyclopedia of Incredibly Strange Things. New York: HarperTrophy, 1997. Daly-Weir, Catherine, and <mask>.The Exploding Toilet and Other Tales Too Funny to Be True. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Busby, Cylin, and <mask>. The Chicken-Fried Rat: Tales Too Gross to Be True. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Gilson, Kristin, and <mask>. The Baby-Sitter's Nightmare: Tales Too Scary to Be True.New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Illustration work
 Ballard, J. G. The Atrocity Exhibition. San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 1990. Juno, Andrea, and V. Vale, editors. Angry Women. San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 1991. 13.Revised edition. New York, NY: Juno Books, 1999. Spinrad, Paul. The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids. San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 1999. Winks, Cathy, Anne Semans, and Cathy Winks. The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written.San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2002. See also
 The Diary of a Teenage Girl
 The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
 Wimmen's Comix
 Weirdo
 Autobiographical comics

References

Further reading
 Pekar, Harvey, and <mask>. Graphic Novels A Conversation : a Panel Discussion with Harvey Pekar and <mask>. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University, 2007. Recorded on February 22, 2007, at the Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library and Paterno Library, Penn State University. Lealess, Jacqueline. Making a Spectacle The Comics of Debbie Drechsler, <mask>, Diane DiMassa, and Julie Doucet.Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2007. Thesis/dissertation. Chute, Hillary L. Graphic Women Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Michael, Olga, Monica Pearl, and Michael Bibler. Pastiche and Family Strife in Contemporary American Women's Graphic Memoirs: <mask>, Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel. University of Manchester, 2014.Thesis/dissertation. Poharec, Lauranne. Showing the Unsayable: Trauma and Juxtaposition in Persepolis and A Child's Life and Other Stories. University of New Mexico. Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2014. Thesis/dissertation.Schwartzwald, Robert, Carney, Sean, and Køhlert, Frederik Byrn. Drawing in the Margins: Identity and Subjectivity in Contemporary Autobiographical Comics. Université de Montréal, 2015. Thesis/dissertation. External links
 Ravenblond official website

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20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women cartoonists
American comics writers
American women novelists
Living people
Medical illustrators
Underground cartoonists
University of Michigan faculty
Female comics writers
American female comics artists
Artists from Philadelphia
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from Michigan
Inkpot Award winners
American cartoonists
American women academics
Castilleja School alumni

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<mask> (born November 20, 1990) is an American football offensive guard for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted 16th overall by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He has made seven Pro Bowls and been selected to seven All-Pro teams. <mask> is considered one of the best guards in the NFL. Early years

<mask> and his brother Nick, spent their entire elementary years from kindergarten through eighth grade at Saint Matthew Catholic School, in Indianapolis, Indiana, according to their then principal, Dr. <mask>. The Martins are products of Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) sports in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. <mask> and Nick each enrolled their freshman year at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis, Indiana.<mask> tallied 114 pancake blocks during his senior campaign, and was named a first-team all-state selection as a senior and junior. He was a member of the Indiana Class 3A State Championship team as
a sophomore with a 12–3 record, and helped lead his high school team to a 14–1 record and second consecutive Indiana Class 3A state championship as a junior in 2007. He started both ways as a sophomore on the offensive and defensive lines, and recorded 73 tackles, including five tackles for loss as a defensive tackle during his sophomore season in 2006. He also starred in basketball during his sophomore and junior years at Bishop Chatard. His style of play earned him the nickname "The Butcher", given to him by opposing fans. He was selected to play in the 2009 Under Armour All-America Game in Orlando, Florida. He also competed in track & field as a shot putter and discus thrower.He played for legendary coach Andrew Slome. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was rated the 22nd best offensive tackle in the nation. He accepted a scholarship from Notre Dame over offers from Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan. College career
After redshirting in 2009, he became the starting left tackle for the Irish in 2010. He saw action in all 13 games in 2010, and was one of 11 players to start all 13 games for the Irish that season. As a junior in 2011, he started all 13 games at left offensive tackle, and was part of a unit that only allowed 17 sacks during the season. He helped pave the way for a running game that averaged 4.8 yards a carry, the best by a Notre Dame team since 1996.In 2012, he was named one of four team captains for the Irish. He started all 13 games and helped lead the team to a 12–0 regular season record and a trip to the 2013 BCS National Championship Game against the Alabama Crimson Tide, but lost 42–14. He announced he would return to the Irish for the 2013–2014 season. In his final season, he was named team captain for the second time, becoming only the 18th player in school history to earn such an honor. <mask> would start all 13 games, setting a new school record for career starts by an offensive lineman with 52. He was leader of a unit that allowed only 8 sacks, tied for second best in the FBS. He was named MVP of the 2013 Pinstripe Bowl after a 29–16 win over Rutgers, becoming the first offensive lineman since 1959 (Jay Huffman) to receive that distinction in a college bowl game.Professional career

2014 season
In the 2014 NFL Draft, there was speculation that the Dallas Cowboys would select quarterback Johnny Manziel if he was available. Instead, the team had targeted linebacker Ryan Shazier, who ended up going to the Pittsburgh Steelers. With the 16th pick of the first round the Cowboys drafted <mask> with the intention of converting him to an offensive guard. He was named the starter at right guard from the first day of Organized Team Activities in the preseason, replacing Mackenzy Bernadeau, who had been the starter in the previous two years. His addition contributed to the offensive line becoming arguably the best in the league. On December 23, <mask> became one of four rookies selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl. On January 2, 2014 he was voted to the AP 2014 All-Pro Team, the only rookie to make the team, and was the first Cowboys rookie since running back Calvin Hill was named to the team in 1969.Also, he was the first rookie offensive lineman to be named first-team AP All-Pro since Dick Huffman in 1947. 2015 season
<mask> had a second All-Pro caliber season in as many years despite losing DeMarco Murray to the division rivals Philadelphia Eagles in free agency. <mask> and company led the NFL's ninth best rushing attack as teammate Darren McFadden finished fourth in rushing with 1,089 yards. <mask> played for Team Irvin along with each of his elected teammates in the 2016 Pro Bowl and was named second team All-Pro by the Associated Press. 2016 season
<mask> was named to his third straight Pro Bowl and was named First-team All-Pro, both honors being shared with fellow Cowboy offensive linemen Travis Frederick and Tyron Smith. He was also ranked 58th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017. 2017 season

On April 18, 2017, the Cowboys picked up the fifth-year option on <mask>'s rookie contract.He was named to his fourth straight Pro Bowl alongside tackle Tyron Smith and center Travis Frederick for the fourth straight year. He was ranked 71st by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018. 2018 season
On June 13, 2018, <mask> signed a six-year, $84 million contract extension with the Cowboys with $40 million guaranteed, making him the highest paid guard in the NFL. He suffered a knee injury in Week 14 and missed the following week, the first time in his career that he had missed a game. 2019 season
In 2019 <mask> become one of five offensive linemen ever to secure a Pro Bowl invitation in each of their first six seasons, joining Lou Creekmur (1950–57), Jon Morris (1964–70), Joe Thomas (2007–16) and Richmond Webb (1990–96). 2020 season
In Week 11, <mask> made his first career start at right tackle due to injuries across the offensive line. On December 7, 2020, <mask> was placed on injured reserve with a calf strain.He was activated on January 2, 2021. 2021 season
On September 5, 2021, it was announced that <mask> was ruled out for the 2021 season opener due to testing positive for COVID-19. Personal life
<mask> married his wife Morgan in July 2016 and has a son and a daughter. His wife is the sister of former NFL tight end, Tyler Eifert. Before becoming brothers-in-law, <mask> and Eifert were teammates and roommates at the University of Notre Dame. <mask>'s brother <mask> (Nicholas Jacob <mask>) is an American football center who plays for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He also played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted 50th overall by the Houston Texans in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.References

External links
Notre Dame Fighting Irish bio
Dallas Cowboys bio

1990 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
American football offensive tackles
Dallas Cowboys players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Players of American football from Indianapolis
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
Under Armour All-American football players

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<mask> (31 May 1834 – 1 July 1917) was a Euro-African-born pioneer historian, teacher, farmer, trader, physician and pastor who worked with the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast. He wrote The History of the Gold Coast and Asante in the Ga language; scholars consider the book a “culturally important” work and an increasingly important source for Ghanaian history. The work was later translated into English and published in 1895 in Switzerland. He used written sources and oral tradition, interviewing more than 200 people in the course of assembling his history. Biography

Early life and education

<mask> was born in Prampram, Gold Coast, a palm oil trading port He was the only son of <mask> (1806–1865), a soldier of half-Danish heritage, and <mask> (1811-1902), an ethnic Ga from Kinka, Dutch Accra. <mask>'s father worked as a soldier at the Osu Danish garrison before he became a local agent for an English merchant, Joshua Ridley who eventually married the older <mask>'s sister, Anna. <mask>'s grandfather, Augustus Frederick Hackenburg was a Danish merchant who came to the Gold Coast in 1739 and later became the colonial Governor, leaving the position in 1748.As a little child, he lived in ritual servitude at a fetish shrine, Digbla of Gbugla of his mother's Ga-Dangme traditional religion. After fleeing the shrine, he received his early education at the Danish language school at the Christiansborg Castle from 1842 to 1847. His schoolmates were the Hesse sisters: Pauline Hesse, a trader and missionary-wife, married to the Jamaican Moravian educator, Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820-1906), in addition to Regina Hesse (1832-1898), a pioneer educator and school principal who married Hermann Ludwig Rottmann, the first Basel missionary-trader and founder of the Basel Mission Trading Company in Christiansborg, Gold Coast. He then continued his education at the Basel Mission School at Osu between 1847 and 1855. He was baptised in 1844. Unhappy with the school curriculum, he quit school halfway through his education and worked for his uncle as a trader for two years from 1850 to 1852. During this period, he often crossed the Volta River to trade with the Ewe people.One of his tutors in catechism was the German philologist, Johannes Zimmermann (1825-1876) who had a strong influence on him in the areas of source criticism and historiography. Christian mission

<mask> was a mission assistant to the Basel missionary, August Steinhauser and ran administrative errands for him in Odumase-Krobo to meet the paramount chief, Odonkor Azu, whose sons, including Sir Emmanuel Mate Kole, were educated by the Basel Mission. <mask> succeeded Steinhauser at Abokobi as a missionary, following the 1854 bombardment of Christiansborg by the British naval ship H. M. S. Scourge, after the poll tax riots, compelling the mission to move from Osu to Abokobi. The local Abokobi shaman, Akoto Badu of Agbowo, converted to Christianity while he was stationed there. He was transferred to Krobo in 1859 to deputise Johannes Zimmermann. He was also missionary at Teshie but was unable to win any Christian converts. <mask> was consecrated a full-time catechist in 1857.In 1869, he was elected a presbyter and assistant superintendent of the Christiansborg Church, now the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu. On 13 October 1872 he was ordained a minister of the Basel mission. Role as a physician and farmer

Given his knowledge of traditional healing through herbal medicine, gleaned from travels around the Gold Coast, <mask> acted as the physician and surgeon to the wounded soldiers during an 1870 local war between the Ga and Akwamu peoples. Four years earlier, he had performed a similar medical role in 1866 local war between the Dangmes of Ada and the Awuna Ewe people. In appreciation of his medical services in treating the wounded after the Ga-Akwamu war, he was the recipient of a citation of commendation from the Administrator (1867–1872) and later Governor (1879 -1880), H. T. Ussher during the welcome ceremonies for a visiting contingent from Lagos, Nigeria. He also engaged in large-scale coffee farming at a place he named "Hebron" near the hamlet of Adenkrebi close to Aburi. Teaching and writing

<mask> taught as an assistant teacher of history at the Basel Mission Seminary at Akropong from November 1860 to April 1862.Other courses at the seminary included English, Biblical exegesis, theology, geography and classical languages. He was the headmaster of the all boys' middle boarding school, the Salem School at Osu in 1873. As principal, he mentored several students such as <mask>, Peter M. Anteson and William A. Quartey, who all became teachers and catechists of the Basel mission. <mask> taught literacy in the Ga language and composed church hymns in Ga in 1856 and 1857. He established a boarding school at Mayera with a dozen Ga boys from Accra. He lived and worked in Mayera for a decade before returning to Christiansborg, Osu. In 1903, he was part of the committee at Abokobi that revised the Ga Bible, including Ludwig Richter, Jakob Wilhelm Werz, <mask> and Daniel Sabah (1854-07).The revision committee completed its work in 1912. He finished work on his notable book, A History of the Gold Coast and Asante in 1889. This literary piece was originally written in the Ga language. The English translation of the book was published in Basel in 1895. The inspiration or impetus for his magnum opus came from a strong sense of nationalism and the linguistic work that had been carried out on Twi oral traditions by the German philologist and fellow Basel missionary, Johann Gottlieb Christaller (1827–1895). Reindorf was also likely influenced by <mask> Protten (1715–1769), a fellow Ga-Danish mulatto or Gold Coast Euro-African and an 18th-century Moravian missionary and educator in Christiansborg who wrote the first recorded grammatical pamphlet in the Ga and Fante languages, which was published in Copenhagen in 1764. Personal life
In 1856, <mask> married Juliana Ayikai Mansah Djebi from a notable household in Asere.Djebi had received a European-type education, living with Marie Locher, a missionary-wife in Christiansborg. The couple had eleven children including a prominent Gold Coast physician and a 1910 medical graduate of the Durham University, Dr. Charles Elias <mask>, who died in 1968. <mask>, <mask> (1895, 1966), The History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Basel

Death and legacy
<mask> died of natural causes on 1 July 1917. The chiefs and people of Osu accorded him a "full state funeral" with "the attendance reported as being the largest seen in Accra for many years" At the church service, six Basel Mission pastors, including his fellow native Ga ministers, Jeremias Engmann (1840–20), W. A. Quartey who was later elected the third Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1925 to 1929 as well as Ludwig L. Richter and Samuel Wuta Ofei (1850–22) delivered eulogies. His remains were buried at the Basel Mission Cemetery in Accra and his epitaph reads, "native pastor and historian". A commemorative plaque in the sanctuary of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu was dedicated in his memory. The church also renamed its chapel extension, the <mask> <mask> Auditorium in recognition of his contributions to church, history and country.<mask>'s name also appears on a tablet in the chapel listing pioneering missionaries of Osu origin, in recognition of their contributions to formal education and the growth of the Presbyterian faith in Ghana. The <mask> Park, a football park in Dansoman which is the home grounds of Ghanaian football club Liberty Professionals is named in his honour. Footnotes

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1917 deaths
Ga-Adangbe people
Ghanaian Presbyterian missionaries
Ghanaian people of Danish descent
Ghanaian clergy
Ghanaian educators
Ghanaian historians
Ghanaian theologians
Heads of schools in Ghana
People from Accra
19th-century Presbyterian ministers
20th-century Presbyterian ministers
Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong faculty
Osu Salem School alumni
Osu Salem School teaching staff
Presbyterian missionaries in Ghana

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<mask> (; January 11, 1950 – July 20, 2016) was a Hungarian biochemist, professor and Doctor of Biological Sciences (D.Sc.). His major field of research was signal transduction therapy and he participated in the development of novel drug discovery technologies and drug candidates that entered the clinical development process. Biography
He studied chemistry at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), where he graduated in 1973 and received a PhD in biochemistry in 1976. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco in 1978-1979. As a visiting scientist he returned to the United States 19 times for various time periods on the bases of a National Science Foundation grant and joint research programs with University of California, San Francisco and Sugen. From the Hungarian Academy of Sciences he received Candidatus of Biological Sciences (C.Sc.) in 1982 and Doctor of Biological Sciences (D.Sc.)in 1994. In 1997 he became Dr. Med. Habil. of the Semmelweis University. He was married to Mária Kenéz, has two children (Csaba 1976 and Júlia 1980) and a granddaughter Luca (2008). History
 1979-1988: Research scientist and Senior research scientist of First Institute of Biochemistry, Semmelweis University Medical School and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 1988-1994: Head of Peptide Research Laboratory, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Joint Research Organization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis University Medical School, The First Institute of Biochemistry
 1994-2008: Head of Peptide Biochemistry Research Group and Rational Drug Design Laboratory, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Semmelweis Medical University
 1992-1999: Scientific advisor of Sugen
 1999-2005: Scientific advisor of Axxima Pharmaceuticals
 1999–present: CEO and CSO of Vichem Chemie Research Ltd.
 2001-2012: Chairman of Rational Drug Design Laboratories Co-operation Research Center, Semmelweis University
 2002-2008: Curator of Office for Subsidised Research Units of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 2008-2012: Head of Signal Transduction Therapy Laboratory at Semmelweis University
 2012–present: Head of Pathobiochemistry Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Semmelweis University, Department of Medical Chemistry

Research
<mask> <mask> was an internationally recognized expert on signal transduction therapy and personalized therapy. His pioneering work focused on the utilization of signal transduction therapy approach in the pharmaceutical research.He achieved outstanding results in the research and development of peptide hormone derivatives and kinase inhibitors as antitumor agents. He was involved in the development of a signal-inhibiting somatostatin peptide compound (TT-232), which reached Phase II clinical trials, and SU101, which reached Phase III clinical trials. Vichem – the company he co-founded in 1999 – developed a kinase inhibitor library, and a hit finding technology called Nested Chemical Library™ technology and an allosteric library for inhibiting protein-protein interactions. He has developed at Vichem the DriverHit Library™ for inhibiting the signaling pathways activated by cancer driver genes or mutated tumor suppressor genes. He also participated with German researchers in the development of a new proteomic technology (Target Fishing technology) which makes it possible to identify unknown targets in the signal transduction network or the interacting enzymes of the metabolom. Over a hundred international patents or patent applications can be linked to his name, while he is a co-author of more than 250 publications in international scientific journals and several book chapters. Membership of scientific organizations
 Hungarian Chemical Society
 Hungarian Biochemical Society
 Committee of Peptide Research of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 Society of Hungarian Oncologists
 Member of the Council of Res.Institutes of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 European Peptide Society
 American Peptide Society
 International Society of Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine
 European Association for Cancer Research
 Executive Committee of EC European Biotechnology Consortium
 President of the Curatorium of the Szekerke Mária Cancer Research Foundation
 Vice President of the European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association (2009–2011)
 Member of the Healthcare Council of EuropaBio

Editorial board memberships
 Current Signal Transduction Therapy (Bentham Sci.BIOPHYS. RES. COM. 1950 births
2016 deaths
Hungarian biochemists
Scientists from Budapest

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<mask> (born November 20, 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is an American former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer. His prime competitive years were from 1980 to 1988. His nickname was "The Human Dragster", so named for his adeptness at getting the "Holeshot", or getting out in front literally at the drop of the starting gate and leading the other competitors down the first straight and into the first turn. The moniker was coined by Bob Hunt, an NBL announcer at the 1982 NBL Grand Nationals that <mask> raced in. Many racers received their monikers from the pithy play by play race announcers. <mask> was a former motorcycle motocross (MX) racer that made the switch to BMX in 1977 (he would return to MX after his BMX career). Quiet, shy and highly likable he was believed to have all the talents to be truly a top level racer.If Mr. <mask> was likable he had a strong desire to be liked. One of his goals was to be voted as the fan favorite among kids as their favorite racer; "...to be the people's favorite is my goal." he said. That goal was fulfilled in 1987 When he won BMX Action's Number One Racer Award (NORA) Cup for that year. Unfortunately his inconsistency prevented him from winning a national number one plate for any association amateur or professional. The closest was a National No. 2 with the NBL in 1986.He failed to transfer out of his semi (crashed) while only a few points behind the eventual No.1 for that year, Pete Loncarevich (who was not doing well himself at the time and barely qualified for the main). However, he did win the 1986 IBMXF World Championship. 1986 was a good year by any measure. Racing career milestones

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated. *In the ABA "A" Pro; in the NBL "B" Pro/Superclass/"A" Pro depending on the era. **In the ABA it was "AA" Pro, in the NBL "A" Pro (Elite Men). However, the NBA did not have a Junior Pro division.The NBA would merge with the NBL after the 1981 season before it had a chance to create a junior pro class. Therefore, any win in the Pro class of the NBA counts as his first Senior pro win. Career factory and major bicycle shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever-changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. Amateur
The Pedal Shop: Early 1980-Mid-1980
Jag BMX: Mid-1980-December 1980. Would turn pro and be briefly with this sponsor as a pro.Left under bad circumstances. Jag wanted <mask> to stay an amateur for one more year, but <mask> wanted to be a pro immediately. Professional
Jag BMX: Mid-1980 – December 1980. Powerlite Racing: April 18, 1981 – September 1983. Left because by September 1983 he was the only member of the Powerlite team and he needed the security of being on a true team. Otherwise he left Powerlite on good terms. Torker BMX Products: October 1, 1983 – November 1984 Torker literally went out of business while the racing team was racing on the East Coast.He didn't have a clue until people came up to him with the news. GT (Gary Turner) Racing: November 1984 – December 31, 1986 On the return flight west after Torker folded Richard Long, the owner of GT, offered <mask> a spot on his team, which he accepted. At the end of his contract he turned down an offer from GT to stay on a pared-down team because his salary would have been reduced. GT offered to compensate by increasing contingency awards (a contingency is a monetary award for coming in first place at any given race as an incentive). Brackens did not accept. According to the September 1999 issue of Snap magazine, it didn't sit well and it left a "bad taste" that freestylers Eddie Fiola and racer Gary Ellis were being paid more and he was offered less than they were being paid. Teammate Gary Ellis remained under those terms.KHS (Kung Hsue She): May 1987 – August 1987. World Class Racing/KHS: August 1987 – July 1988. World Class Products, Inc. is the product of the merger between Jag BMX and DG Performance Bicycles in the spring of 1982. KHS was still a co-sponsor when World Class Products was <mask>rackens's main sponsor. Brackens Racing: July 1988 – 1990 – This was a <mask>rackens-owned BMX company that made frames and forks. It was prosperous enough to factory-sponsor Eric Carter at the beginning of his pro career. Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics.Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Only sanctioning bodies active during the racer's career are listed. Amateur
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
1980 winner of the amateur Race of Champions (ROC) at the 1980 Grand Nationals winning a $3,000 Fisher stereo system Amateurs can win expensive prizes without jeopardizing their amateur status as they would be if they won the cash equivalent. National Bicycle League (NBL)
1980 16 Expert Grandnational Champion
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
None

Professional
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
None
National Bicycle League (NBL)
1984 National No.3 Pro
1986 National No.2 Pro
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
None
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
1986 "A" Pro and Pro Open Race of Champions Champion (Double)
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
1986 Pro European Champion
1986 Pro World Champion
Pro Series Championships and Invitationals
1984 European Challenge Cup Champion

The 1984 European Challenge Cup was a comparatively small race (130 motos) that drew a select portion of racers, professionals and amateurs, Europeans and Americans held on June 10, 1984, in Slagharen, the Netherlands. Though small, it was well received. 1985 Kellog's Frosties BMX Champion. The Kellogg's Frosties BMX Championship held in Birmingham, England was a series of six races held on three days total (but stretched out over a week including off days) that was centered on the invited 12 top pros of the United States and 12 British pros and tailored for British television broadcast.There were also eight amateurs class races held but the race focus was meant for the pros. Bicross de Paris 1985 Challenge Yoplait Champion (King of Bercy 2)

The 1985 Paris Yoplait BMX Challenge was an invitational race sponsored and promoted by the Yoplait Yogurt company in which American and English pros as well as French pros were brought together to compete in a single race. As is typical in Europe, the public had greater enthusiasm for BMX than the American public, in part because bicycle racing of any type was and is much more popular in Europe (and in Asia and South America as well) than in the United States. A staggering (by American standards) 18,000 spectators attended the sell out event and it was covered live on French television. 1986 Scorpion International Spring Classic Champion. The Scorpion International Spring Classic was an invitational race held at Lowestoft, a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England on May 4, 1986. Four American pros were invited: Eddy King, Scott Clark Travis Chipres and <mask>.They raced at least four respected English pros in the main including Tim March, Geth Shooter, Garry Llewellyn Jamie Vince and Charlie Reynolds. Other nationalities were invited but did not make the pro main. <mask> was pro champion. Notable accolades
Winner of the National Bicycle Association's "Most Improved Rider" Award in 1981. Winner of BMX Action's 1987 Number One Racer Award (NORA) Cup with 17.91% of the vote (total cast unknown)
He is a 1991 ABA BMX Hall of Fame Inductee. Miscellaneous

He was the 1986 winner of the "King of the Mountain" outlaw Gravity Powered Vehicle (GPV) Championship. * This win was the beginning of a career in GPV racings.His enthusiasm was reflected in this quote:"That, by far...and I'm serious, meant more to me than winning ANY BMX race I've ever won! THAT was intense." ----BMX Action March 1987

GPV racing had been around since the late 1970s but achieved wide notoriety among BMXers beginning in early 1985. Many BMXers both retired and active, participated like Jeff Bottema, and Scot Breithaupt among the retirees and Eddy King, Harry Leary, Kevin Hull the active racers. Freestylist as well participated in the discipline like Dave Vanderspek, Eddie Fiola, Ceppie Maes and Rich Sigur. There were racers who participated which their specialty was downhill road racing like Dan Hanabrink as well. Most racers used converted pedalless BMX or Freestyle bicycles, often with the handlebars turned almost completely down.Often so was the bicycle frame with the bottom bracket pointing toward the racer's chest to lower the profile of the bike for greater stability. In later, fairings were added and also bicycles built specifically for downhill runs. They raced down courses (which were public roads) that were from 1.3 to seven miles long, hitting speeds of 50 to 90 mph. The outlaw aspect was that during the early days they would race down open to traffic roads which, while not illegal, was not sanctioned by a formal sanctioning body either, like the NBL sanctioning BMX races. At the beginning of the 1988 GPV season they started getting highway department permission to block off roads, therefore removing the outlaw characteristic of the activity. The sport is still around but the initial faddish aspect of it lasted from mid-1985 to approximately late 1989. In mid-2000 he qualified for an ESPN X Games GPV race in Saint George, Utah event on a bike he purchased from a Target discount store, beating custom bikes costing US$2,000 to $3,000.It was his very first GPV race since a 1990 race in Palm Springs, California where he set the course record of 90 mph. Scott E. Burdick who made a fairing out of cardboard, and still was able to reach speeds of more than 100 mph in the final straight away of the palm springs California tramway hill. You can find the race as seen on ESPN or on VHS video. *The table of contents page has it mislabled No.1

BMX related product lines
1988 KHS "Tommy Terminator" signature frame & fork set which was released in January 1988. <mask> started his own BMX frame and fork company like Greg Hill did in 1983 with Greg Hill Products (GHP) bearing his name: Brackens Racing Products. It was started in 1988 and sponsored during its short life raciers like Eric Carter and Kevin Hull. Brackens Racing Products was sold to Power Source/Roost in late 1994.Significant injuries
Sprained wrist in Pompano Beach national in May 1983. Laid up for approximately one month. Injured leg when his handle bars stabbed him in a leg muscle in a crash during practice before the Friday Pre Race at the NBL, Lemoore, California Nationals in August 1987. He sat out the rest of the weekend missing both the Saturday and Sunday nationals. Racing habits and traits
Variables like track condition or delays could do psychological havoc to him at a race. Was said to lack the "killer instinct" that was necessary to truly dominate the top pro BMX class due to his easy going good natured personality. Like his friend and fellow racer Anthony Sewell, he was a power racer who lagged in the technical aspects of racing with his difficulties in negotiating turns (which made him relatively easy to pass if he wasn't too far ahead of the competition) and conversely lacking the skill to set someone up for a pass in those turns if he was behind; and speed jumping multiple moguls called whoop-de-doos inefficiently which made him easier to pass (again if the competition wasn't to far behind to pass).In contrast racers like Richie Anderson, Mike King, Steve Veltman and even Stu Thomsen were known for their smooth speed jumping abilities. One of Richie Anderson's nicknames was "Mr. Smooth" due to this. The otherwise nicknameless Mike King was also occasionally referred to as "Mr. Smooth". This weakness in technique very likely hindered Brackens's ability to win a national title. Post BMX career
He started his own BMX bicycle company Brackens Racing Products.This is ironic given the answer to a question in a BMX Plus! interview about owning his own company one day:

BMXP! : What are your ambitions after racing? Have your own company, maybe? <mask>: No! It's too much hassle having your own company! ----BMX Plus!April 1983 page 60. The company lasted two years from 1988 to 1990 sponsoring racers including Eric Carter along the way. The company went out of business due to competition from overseas. He worked for Huffy Service First a division of Huffy that assembled bicycles for department chain stores. He worked there from his time as part timer while he ran his own bicycle business. When his business folded in 1990, he worked at Huffy Service First full-time up through the early 2000s. <mask> returned to his Motorcycle Motocross racing roots for a time, which he was involved in prior to his BMX career.Proving that BMXers typically like almost all type of racing, during his BMX career (and fittingly in light of his nickname) he has also dabbled in Outlaw Drag Racing, in which participants participate in illegal urban street racing. This was in addition to his GPV racing (as outlined above) which he still participated in through the first decade of the 2000s. BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles
"Powerlite's <mask>ens: The Human Dragster Himself" Super BMX February 1983 Vol.10 No.2 pg.26
"<mask>" BMX Action June 1983 Vol.8 No.6 pg.50
"The New Torker" Super BMX November 1984 Vol.11 No.11 pg.22 Mini Bio along with other Torker teammates. Mini interview during North Park NBL National BMX Action November 1984 Vol.9 No.11 pg.25
"Four Taco Lunch And Conversation With <mask>" BMX Action May 1985 Vol.10 No.5 pg.86
"How I won that Race" Super BMX & Freestyle May 1985 Vol.12 No.5 pg.59 Story written by <mask>rackens
Mini-interview BMX Action August 1985 Vol.10 No.8 pg.44 Gives play by play account of Pro Mains. "GT's Human Dragster" Super BMX & Freestyle September 1986 Vol.13 No.9 pg.62
"A New World Champion" Super BMX & Freestyle December 1986 Vol.13 No.12 pg.32
"<mask>: All In The Name Of Fun" BMX Action July 1986 Vol. No.7 pg.20
"The 1986 IBMXF World Championship: I don't feel any different" BMX Plus! December 1986 Vol.9 No.12 pg.46 Story written by <mask> Brackens of how he won the 1986 World Championship."Tom and Gary: Not to be confused with the cat and mouse" BMX Action February 1987 Vol.12 No.2 pg.64 Joint interview with Gary Ellis. "Tommy & Tuni: Ready for '88" BMX Action January 1988 Vol.13 No.1 pg.34 Joint article with Turnell Henry. "Flashback: <mask>" Snap BMX Magazine September 1999 Vol.7 Iss.6 No.35 pg.80 Retrospective of the racer. BMX magazine covers

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career(s) are listed unless specifically noted. Bicycle Motocross News:
None
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
July 1982 Vol.9 No.7 (SBMX)
November 1984 Vol.11 No.11 (SBMX)
October 1985 Vol.12 No.10. In insert freestyler Scotty Freeman. (SBMX&F)
December 1986 Vo.13 No.12 (SBMX&F)
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
None
BMX Plus!:
April 1983 Vol.6 No.4
May 1985 Vol.8 No.5 in insert with Pete Loncarevich (1), Gary Ellis (2), Ronnie Anderson (13) & Eddy King (67); Scott Clark in circular insert; freestyler Martin Aparijo insert; and freestyler Chris Meier as main image. December 1985 Vol.8 No.12 with Pete Loncarevich (16) and Gary Ellis (9). Also Dizz Hicks and Brian Scura (building quarter pipe) in separate inserts. September 1986 Vol.13 No.9 in photo composite behind Greg Hill, Eric Rupe, Gary Ellis (1) and unidentified (15). Freestyler Eddie Fiola "above" them. July 1987 Vol.10 No.7 In rectangle insert (2) leading Shawn Texas (5) Pete Loncarevich (15) Charles Townsend (9) and two unidentifieds (11) and (6). In triangle insert Harry Leary (1) ahead of Scott Towne (70) and Robby Rupe.In top circle insert freestyler Mike Dominguez. Main image: freestyler Matt Hoffman. Total BMX:

Bicycles and Dirt:
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Bicross Magazine (French Publication):
Juin (June) 1983 Numéro 10 (No.10) (9) in fourth place behind Stu Thomsen (1) and ahead of Bob Woods (12) in fifth and behind two unidentifies in second and third. NBA World & NBmxA World )The NBA/NBmxA official publication):

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (the NBL official publication under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (the ABA official publication under two name changes):

USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):

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External links
 The American Bicycle Association (ABA) Website. The National Bicycle League (NBL) Website. GravityBike.com a site dedicated to the sport of high speed downhill bicycle racing. 1960 births
BMX riders
American male cyclists
Living people
Cyclists from Los Angeles

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<mask> (8 July 1874 – 3 September 1927) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented New Zealand—known as the All Blacks—between 1901 and 1908. Most notably he toured with the Original All Blacks on their 1905–06 tour of the British Isles, France and North America. They were the first New Zealand representative team to visit the British Isles, and of their 32 matches there <mask> played in 23. He played mainly at lock, and was added to the touring party due to his strong scrummaging ability. He played in three Test matches during the trip: against Scotland, Ireland and France, but did not play in the loss to Wales due to injury, the All Blacks' only defeat on tour. Born near Te Awamutu, <mask> originally played club rugby in Waihi, in the Coromandel region. Lying within the Auckland Rugby Football Union's boundaries, he was selected to play for Auckland province in 1899 and continued to represent the side until his retirement in 1913.He was first picked for New Zealand in 1901, and played against New South Wales that year, but was not selected again until the 1905 Originals' tour. After the tour he continued to represent New Zealand in both 1907 and 1908. Affiliating to Rongowhakaata, he was a member of the first ever New Zealand Māori team in 1910, and played for them again in 1912. On retirement in 1913 he had appeared for Auckland 45 times, and for New Zealand 39—both large numbers for the time. Early life and family
Born at Rangiaowhia, near Te Awamutu, on 8 July 1874, <mask> was the son of Hera (Sarah) Ngaihika Halbert and her second husband, <mask>. Hera was the daughter of Thomas Halbert, a whaler and trader who landed in Poverty Bay in about 1832, and his fifth wife, Keita Kaikiri, who belonged to the Rongowhakaata iwi. Hera later remarried Paratene Tatae, a cousin of Te Kooti: their daughters included Reremoana Hakiwai, and Keita Kaikiri Paratene, who married Rēweti Kōhere.<mask> married Ethel Minnie Dance of Waihi on 23 September 1907. The same year, Ethel gave birth to their son, William Henry <mask>, however he died at only a day old. This was the only child the couple had. Early career
<mask> first played representative rugby union for Auckland province in 1899. He was selected from his club Waihi West (a club in Waihi on the Coromandel Peninsula), which was affiliated to the Goldfield subunion. At the time the Goldfields Rugby Union was a subunion of the Auckland Rugby Football Union, but its constituent clubs are now affiliated to the Thames Valley Rugby Football Union. He was first selected to play for New Zealand in 1901, and played against Wellington and the New South Wales team that was touring New Zealand at the time.Both matches were comfortably won, with the tourists defeated 20–3. <mask> played his first of four matches for Auckland against international opposition, against the same New South Wales side a week later, with his Auckland team winning 24–3. <mask> moved to Auckland in 1902, and played his club rugby for City, before joining Ponsonby the following season. He had been displaced from the national team by this time, with Cantabrian Bernard Fanning preferred at lock. The New Zealanders used a different scrum formation than seen today, and only one lock was ever required. Despite not being selected for New Zealand in 1904, <mask> continued to appear for Auckland, and played in two particularly notable matches that season. In 1904 the first Ranfurly Shield match was played.The shield, a provincial challenge trophy won by defeating the holder, was to become the most prestigious trophy in domestic New Zealand rugby. Due to their unmatched provincial record at the time Auckland were awarded the shield. The first shield challenge was played against Wellington, who were not expected to pose much of a threat. Auckland had not lost at home in six years, but, with <mask> in the side, Auckland lost 6–3. The second notable match that season was against the touring British Isles who were conducting a tour of Australia and New Zealand. The Aucklanders defeated the British Isles side 13–0, with <mask> scoring a try and contributing significantly to the dominance of his team's forwards. Original All Blacks

The first ever tour of a New Zealand representative team to the British Isles was planned for 1905, and a preliminary tour of Australia and New Zealand was undertaken to help fund the tour.<mask> was not in the original touring squad, and so played for Auckland against New Zealand. According to Winston McCarthy, New Zealand's forwards were at "sixes and sevens mainly through want of a good lock." Following the conclusion of the preliminary tour of Australia and New Zealand it was clear that a specialist lock forward needed to be added to the side. Fanning, who had kept <mask> out of the New Zealand side in 1903 and 1904, had retired following the 1904 season and consequently <mask> did enough to earn selection as the team's only specialist lock. The team departed aboard the Rimutaka and during the voyage conducted training drills on the ship's deck; for this the forwards were coached by the team's captain, Dave Gallaher, with help from <mask>. Vice-captain and first five-eighth <mask> was in charge of the backs, and consequently the services of the New Zealand Rugby Union-appointed coach Jimmy Duncan were not used. After a six-week voyage, the team arrived in Plymouth, England on 8 September 1905.After finally arriving in England, the side opened their tour against Devon. <mask> played in the match which was won easily by the New Zealanders 55–4. Devon were expected to pose a serious challenge, but were overwhelmed and only managed to score a drop-kick. A series of large victories followed against domestic opposition throughout England, and by the time the All Blacks played their first Test match against Scotland, the team had played and won nineteen matches, and scored 612 points while conceding only 15. When time for the Scotland Test did arrive, it was discovered that as the ground had not been covered for protection from the elements, and had frozen over. The Scotland Football Union wanted to abandon the match, but Gallaher and the tour manager George Dixon contended that the weather would improve enough for the pitch to thaw, and the match was eventually allowed to proceed. The Test was closely contested, with Scotland leading 7–6 at half-time, but the All Blacks scored two late tries, including one to <mask>, to win 12–7; despite the close score-line, the New Zealanders were clearly the better of the two sides.<mask> was selected for the Ireland match a week later. The fixture was won 15–0 by New Zealand in front of 12,000 people at Landsdowne Road. The tourists then returned to England, where they defeated England 15–0 at Crystal Palace, but <mask> was not selected due to injury. He was still injured for the Wales Test, and this may have contributed to New Zealand's defeat. The 3–0 loss, the New Zealander's first of the tour, was narrow and controversial, and according to team manager Dixon, "New Zealand suffered by the absence from the team of G. W. [George] Smith, W<mask>, and J. W. [<mask>] Stead." <mask> recovered to play the team's final Test, against France in Paris, where he played as "breakaway" (flanker) rather than his usual position of lock. His last two tour matches were against British Columbia during the American leg of the tour, after which the side returned to New Zealand.The "Original All Blacks"—as the team is now known—had played 35 games and lost only once. Over their 32 matches in the British Isles, of which Cunninghham had played 23, New Zealand scored 830 points and conceded 39; overall they scored 976 points and conceded only 59. On their arrival back in New Zealand on 6March 1906, the All Blacks were welcomed by a crowd of 10,000 before being hosted at a civic reception in Auckland. The 1905–06 Originals are remembered as perhaps the greatest of All Black sides, and set the standard for all their successors. They introduced a number of innovations to Britain and Ireland, including specialised forward positions and unfamiliar variations in attacking plays. Later career

<mask> continued to play for Auckland on his return from the Originals' tour. They had regained the Ranfurly Shield in 1905, and he played in a number of shield defences over the subsequent seasons.He was selected for the New Zealand team that toured Australia in 1907 where he played seven matches, including all three Tests against Australia. He was again selected for the All Blacks in 1908, this time to play the touring Anglo-Welsh team, and played in all three Tests. This was his last appearance for New Zealand, which gave him 39 appearances for his national team, including 9 Test matches. He was later selected for the inaugural New Zealand Māori team (now called the Māori All Blacks) on their 1910 tour of Australia, and again for another tour in 1912. He continued to play for Auckland until 1913. This period included two more matches against international opposition: a victory over the 1908 Anglo-Welsh side 11–0, and a defeat of Australia in 1913. Auckland had held the Ranfurly Shield throughout this time, and had endured a number of close shield challenges during their reign.They had 23 successful shield defenses before they faced Taranaki on 16 August 1913. In the match Taranaki scored a converted try (worth five points at the time) four minutes from full-time to end Auckland's shield reign. <mask> had played in 16 of Auckland's 24 shield matches during their tenure. He retired from provincial rugby at the end of that season. Personal life and playing style
<mask> was very physically fit and strong, and was "remarkably agile" according to writer Matt Elliott. He was very popular with his teammates and possessed a good sense of humour. Like <mask>, the other Māori in the 1905–06 All Black side, <mask> was able to speak the language.Outside of rugby he spent his early working-life as an axeman, and spent some time as a miner before later working for the Auckland Harbour Board. At the time of his death he was working at an Auckland freezing works. Death and legacy
<mask> died suddenly from acute meningitis at Auckland in September 1927, and his funeral was attended by a number of dignitaries, including representatives of the New Zealand, Auckland, New South Wales and Thames Rugby Unions. His pallbearers were all former All Blacks, and included fellow Original All Blacks George Tyler, George Nicholson and George Gillett. After his casket had been lowered into its grave at Hillsborough Cemetery, an Auckland representative jersey was thrown on top. Notes

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New Zealand international rugby union players
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Auckland rugby union players
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Māori All Blacks players
People from Te Awamutu
Rongowhakaata
Burials at Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland
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<mask><mask> (born 20 April 1944 in Rome) is a scholar and professor of Russian literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Biography
He is also an authority on the notorious plagiarism, hoax, and literary forgery known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. According to <mask>, "twenty-odd editions had appeared in Russia between 1903 and 1912". He gives the text the acronymous name, "PSM", from its Russian title (romanized) Protocoly sionskikh mudretsov (Cyrillic: Протоколы сионских мудрецов). He also informs us that in 1919 PSM entered the "world at large" in "German, Swedish, Polish, English, Hungarian, and French editions." The first edition in Italian appeared in 1921. Arguably this is the most important English language work on the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion since the publication of Norman Cohn's Warrant for Genocide in 1967/1970.Work
Pages 183-395 are a reconstruction of the original Russian manuscript as it hypothetically existed. The transliterated three-word title of the tract is Protocols [of the] Zionist Elders (the source of the acronym "PSM"). The rest of the book (pages 1–182 and 396-419) is the scholarly textual, philological, and bibliographical study of the antisemitic text. The author claims that he has identified and authenticated nine distinct printings of five editions of this single text, which may be reduced to three redactions. K: original; an apparent work in progress. X: second redaction. Y: third redaction.The full list of printings and editions are as follows. Q: hypothetical source proposed by <mask>, providing the basis for K and Y.
 M: Mikhail Osipovich Menshikov (1902) - The first textual reference to the Protocols, in a far-right newspaper article; claims that they were stolen by a "French journalist" in Nice, and quotes a line. K:    Krusevan, P.               (1903) - <mask> demonstrates that this is the earliest version, but it was published in a tiny, poor-quality paper, vanished from historical record until the 1934 Berne Trial, and has never been translated. Untitled, in 22 unnumbered chapters. Many marks of Ukrainian origin. L:     Hippolytus Lutostansky    (1904) - A direct quote of K; no revision, but useful chronological evidence. (p. 9)
 Z: hypothetical redaction after K but before X or Y.
 X: 27 Protocols, arising out of Z.
    A1:    Anonymous                         (1905) - Published anonymously by a White Russian government press, and based on K.
   B:   Butmi                                (1906a) - Based on A1, but cross-contaminated with Y.
 Y: 24 Protocols, re-edited, but not derived directly from Z -- implying the existence of a Q.
   A2    Anonymous                          (1905) - Resembles A1, but with some new material.N     Nilus                                (1905) - Significant re-editing, seemingly using A2 as a basis, but introducing a large amount of material taken from Maurice Joly. Basis of most translations. I:   Anonymous                            [1917]/[1996] - A concise abridgment on N. Attributes the text to Theodor Herzl. B3    Butmi                                (1906a) - Butmi revises his own text to include material from Y. D     <mask>                             (1906)
 R: A much shorter document, sharing a source with K and X but not Y.
   R1:    G. Skalon;                             Unknown original date [1996] - Published in 1996 by Yuri Begunov, who demonstrated the existence of the R branch through philology, claiming that it dated to the 19th century and proved a "Jewish" origin. R2:    N. Mordvinov                                (1905) - Abridgment using similar sources as R1. R3:   Anonymous                                  (1906)  - Close copy of R2.R4:    Anonymous                                 (1906)  - Copy of R2 with additional material. <mask> was able to get his hands on a rare 1903 edition of the daily newspaper Znamya (Banner). He does not explain where he found this newspaper which does not appear in Russian library catalogs. He writes that the paper published the forgery as an authentic reproduction of a document, under the headline "Programa zavoevanija mira evrejami", which he translates into English as "The Jewish Programme for the Conquest of the World". According to <mask>, the actual title of the purported authentic document is given to it by the translator. In Russian, the title of the document published by the newspaper is as follows: Protokoly zasedanij "vsemirnogo sojuza franmasonov i sionskix mudrecov." This <mask> translates into English as "The protocols of the sessions of the 'World Alliance of Freemasons and of the Sages of Zion'".<mask>' work also may be said to present us with the definitive Russian language edition of the complete restored text. The question remains as to whether or not the alleged original French language edition of the late nineteenth century ever existed. <mask> shows that the "French original" is an extremely shadowy and mysterious document; its existence is supposed by almost everyone, and some claim it is still extant, but very few claim to have actually seen it. <mask>, while acknowledging this, points to extensive circumstantial evidence that there were individuals in France who may have wished to produce such a document and had Joly's source text. Publications

 L'avanguardia trasversale - Il futurismo tra Italia e Russia,  ed., Venezia 2009
The Non-Existent Manuscript: a Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, Studies in Antisemitism Series. University of Nebraska Press, 2004. .
 <mask> G<mask> <mask> (1944–2004). I giorni e le opere.Lineamenti biografici e  scientifici 1944/2004, Voland ed., Roma 2004
 Pasternak, La Nuova Italia, ed. Firenze 1968
 Le illusioni e i simboli (K.M. Fofanov),  ed., Venezia 1973
 Il futurismo italiano in Russia, <mask> ed., Bari 1973
 Il tredicesimo apostolo, Claudiana ed., Torino 1975
 I nomi dell'Avversario, Meynier ed., Torino 1989
 La Valdesia di Novgorod. «Giudaizzanti» e prima riforma (sec. XV), Claudiana ed., Torino, 1993
 Il manoscritto inesistente. "I Protocolli dei savi di Sion: un apocrifo del XX secolo",  ed., Venezia 1998 (2ª ed. 2004)
 trad.rus. «Protokoly sionskich mudrecov» nesušestvujuščij manuskript, ili podlog veka,Met-Kovčeg, Minsk-Moscow 2006
 La giudeofobia in Russia, Bollati Boringhieri ed., Torino 2001

See also
Hadassa Ben-Itto
Michael Hagemeister
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Velikoe v malom

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1944 births
Living people
Writers from Rome
Scholars of antisemitism
Italian male writers
Christian Peace Conference members
University of Rome Tor Vergata faculty

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