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<mask> (born 1960 in Svitavy) is one of the most significant personalities in Czech abstract painting. At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s he became a pioneer in discovering and promoting ornament as a unique individual phenomenon. He also significantly contributed to the acceptance of aesthetic qualities of visual art. Since 1995 he has undertaken commissions for architecture-related projects in which he has collaborated with a number of leading architects both from the Czech Republic and abroad. He has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, where he is in charge of a painting studio, since 1994. His works are represented in public and private collections. Life

<mask> was born in Svitavy in 1960.A serious interest in fine arts he developed during his studies at the Secondary Technical School of Chemistry, led to the attempt to transfer to a school with an artistic focus, that he was denied. A major impulse of Kvíčala’s artistic development came in the course of his compulsory military service in Janovice nad Úhlavou, where he met graduates of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and began to draw portraits of other soldiers. After finishing his military service, Kvíčala started Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno, where he received a number of recommendations for his further study at the Academy. However, he was not permitted to enrol for ideological reasons. At the same time in 1982 he started working as a stoker (what he did until 1990) and began to engage in the underground movement. A milestone in his artistic career was his participation in an exhibition in The Youth Gallery in 1985. There started author’s closer co-operation with <mask> Veselý and Vladimir Kokolia, which subsequently led to creation of an art group called Tovaryšstvo malířske (Society of Painting).Since the second half of the 1980s Kvíčala’s work was supported by theoreticians <mask> Nedoma and Jiří Valoch and he started to be repeatedly invited to participate in exhibitions of professional artists. In 1986 Kvíčala entered the underground music scene with his band called Květen (May), working on the basis of minimalism and musical and political irony, what are themes which correlate with author’s painterly work of that time. In 1989 he became a member of the art group Měkkohlaví, which was formed in response to the emergence of various artistic groups, lacking a common program, whose main objective was to promote commercially. In 1989 Kvíčala founded, along with Marian Palla and Milan Magni, a musically-performative group called Florián – Group of Haze and Kine. After 1989 <mask> Kvíčala started to be represented in state and public collections and his work was regularly reflected in professional journals. Since 1994 he has been working on the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, initially in the studios of conceptual tendencies and intermedia, and later as a head of one of the painting studios (his students were e.g. Jindřich Chalupecký prize laureate Barbora Klímová, Pavel Ryška, Matěj Smetana, Anežka Hošková, <mask> Dub, Jana Babincová or Václav Kočí).In 2001 he received a Degree of an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 1995 Kvíčala made his first painterly intervention into architecture (in the apartment of architect Ivan Koleček in Lausanne) and so started a long series of art projects in architecture, which has been one of the main themes of his work until now. Painting

<mask> Kvíčala has been dealing with ornament since the mid 1980s. Both through his work and as a creative artist he confirmed the significance and importance of painting in the era when new media were violently trying to replace other forms of visual art. He works with the simplest ornament, consisting of wavy lines, broken arches or loops. His source of inspiration- landscape – was transformed into an extremely reduced visual vernacular, the basic elements of which are ornamental lines. His beginnings were punctuated by attempts to express nature’s principles using the medium of visual art but it the second half of the 1980s the artistic means employed became extremely unorthodox.His creative aspirations from that period were typified by the limitless merging of various disciplines: he created texts inspired by what he had experienced in the landscape and drew simple sketches of fields. At the same time, he was a member of several ensembles dabbing in minimalist music and musique concrète whose productions crossed the boundary between theatrical and performance and animated sculptural installation. At the turn of 1980s and 1990s, <mask> Kvíčala’s work seemed to display an affinity with the broad stream of post-modernist Czech painting as hinted at by the clear colours of the paintings, which enclosed colour surfaces within boundaries and used archetypal-geometric elements. Today, such a general classification is less justifiable. Obviously, rather than making post-modernist quotations and providing a symbolic content to the paintings, so characteristic for the painters from the circle of the Tvrdohlaví group, Kvíčala was more interested in probing the possibilities of the painting medium itself. The orderly inner arrangements of Kvíčala’s work is determined by employing lines approached as ornaments. Of these, the undulating line – a rhythmic painterly gesture in time – if featured most often.The lines are combined and composed according to clear pre-determined rules of algorithms which nevertheless may produce unexpected results. Attention was drawn to the similarities between his works and ornamental paintings in folk architecture (the Waves 1991) or to the affinity to the abstract cave paintings. Kvíčala indicates his inspiration from „low“ culture by using elements from artistic crafts or industrial manufacturing. In the Wallpapers (1987–1988) and Festive Tablecloths for Everyday (1992–1994) cycles he balanced on the hard-to-define line between ornaments on utility objects and artistic expression. He also emphasized manual, and therefore imperfect, reproduction of the ornamental rhythm. However, at the initial level, Kvíčala is not concerned with a post-modern game of aligning various languages, but rather he wishes to rehabilitate ornament as such. He values its visual effectiveness, rational order and its possibility of continuous variation.Kvíčala showed great invention and desire to experiment within his intentionally abridged vocabulary. Among his works we can find procedural paintings, where the surface of the painting can be looked upon as a relic of the time spent on the execution (60 Days of Red, Blue and Yellow, 1996, Monochromes). In Memory cycle (2001–2003) Kvíčala works with a negative definition of lines, delineating them with a surrounding red surface, a memory of lines and fragments of ornaments, their imprint in the mind. Working with broad lines led author to an opposite extreme: using white paint he reduced ornamental lines to the very extreme of technical possibilities of traditional painting (Fine Stripes – Coded Ornaments 2008). The recent works by <mask> Kvíčala implement the artist’s accustomed repertoire of line ornaments, combining waves, broken lines and loops. The special optical effect is achieved by a multiple repetition of thin parallel lines of the two basic ornaments and an intentionally limited colour palette, relying on a simple rhythm of two to three colours. Special prominence is given to minuscule deviations and “flaws” in the applied order.These serve as another, improvised, level of rhythmicizing the paintings although they can also be perceived as a generalization of the natural and human responses to environmental changes (cycles Dogon 2007, Pacific 2008, Flow 2009). Installation

Since 1993 <mask> <mask> has created a number of ephemeral installations – mostly on the floors of galleries and in public space. Major installations are e.g. send lines in Plasy convent (1993), the red pigment installation in Behémot gallery in Prague (1994) or contemporary Zig Zag street art in Brno (2009). Architectonic Interventions

Since the second half of 1990s painterly interventions into architecture are one of the main topics of Kvíčala’s work. He uses principles and themes from his paintings, which he strives to transfer to the specific architectural space. Kvíčala is also a coordinator of international educational and research project 2B2A, dealing with cooperation between art and architecture, its theoretical reflection and practical implementation.The very first painterly intervention into architecture Kvíčala made, was in the apartment of architect Ivan Koleček in Lausanne. „Southern part of the apartment, with windows facing the lake, contains the living space and the adjoining studies, while the northern part faces the town. I noticed that the southern exterior „pervades“ the house to such an extend that any change in weather and the continual play of light are reflected, by the great mirror of the lake surface, in the living space and becomes ts integral component. As a result, I decided to underline the opposing role of the dividing role relative to the view.“

Major international project Kvíčala worked on in 2004, was new Deutsche Bundesbank building in Chemnitz (architect Josep Luís Mateo), where he realized the ceiling painting „Watermelon Cut – Ceiling Dance“. The painting on the entrance hall ceiling (exceeding 150 m² in area) is both a counterpoint and to the overall logic of the building and its complement. The paint application technique left the brush strokes visible as a sign of a human, yet artificial intervention in stark contrast to the abstraction of the organic construction materials, free of any trace of craftsmanship. Retaining the brushwork proved to be of importance in integrating the work within the architectural space, both as a nod to the process of making the painting and an element evoking the organic nature of the painting – a cut through the living tissue of a solid architectural form.In numerous sketches prepared for the painting I first examined the rhythm of the division relative to the format as well as the harmonization of colours with regards to the materials within the space. I continued by producing two cardboard paintings at the actual scale in order to be able to precisely determine the density of the network of lines, the magnitude of the waves and their thickness. While working on the cardboards I concluded that waves of this magnitude cannot be drawn using a standard method, as their dimensions surpass the physical capability of human being. I resorted to attaching the charcoal that I used for drawing on a long pole and, by standing on tip-toe and gyrating the whole body including carefully thought-out legwork, I negotiated smooth curves. I performed something short of a dance during which the body movement is transmitted into the lines drawn. In 2005 <mask> <mask> cooperated, with architects A. Novák and P. Valenta, on the reconstruction of the historical building of Reduta theatre in Brno. He is author of the mural „40 Days of Red“ in Reduta ballroom hall, atrium floor and ceiling arches of the theatre café.The mural consists of layers of red undulating lines laid next to one another. on a red background. In each of the superimposed layer the undulating lines have a different direction. The monochrome effect of the red paint, together with the colour of the parquet flooring arranged into historical patterns conjures up a solemn ambience nurtured by the rare occurrence of the colour red in the nature patterns, and even more so by its endorsement of the cultural and historical tradition. „ The regular layers of repeatedly painted undulating lines impregnates the walls with aspects of time, exertion and sumptuousness. No celebration can take place without show and splendor as, in essence, a „purposeless“ celebration is the most natural human response to the mystery of life.“

The motive of Memory cycle was used for wall paintings in Rischart building in Munich (2007). The target to achieve was to create environment which is not only positive but also outstanding and which makes it possible for the employees to identify with.Those paintings are repeated in the areas of central communications: in the corridors of the cloakrooms located in the basement, in the high lit part of the staircase leading from the second to the fifth floor, as well as in the central area in front of the offices of the owners and in the meeting room of the fifth floor, around the staircase leading to the café for the employees on the sixth floor.. „ Restricting the lines by surrounding red areas, the memory of the line and fragments of the ornaments is a sort of an imprint on one's mind. I thought of the ancient concept of Crete in which unlike in the Greek one everything is floating, everything is shown in non-existence and does not manifest its achievement and the drama of the fight. It is a world of gardens determined for solitary confinement, for rest and meditation, for the world I sometimes long for and which I can relate to.“

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Since 1980s Kvíčala has also created number of painted objects, since 1990s he has been applying his motives to utility items, especially to textiles (e.g. his cooperation with Denisa Nová, DNB) or China. References

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<mask> (June 1, 1866 – February 18, 1944) was a prominent biologist and eugenicist. He was influential in the American eugenics movement. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to <mask>, an abolitionist of Puritan ancestry, and his wife Jane Joralemon Dimon (of English, Dutch and Italian ancestry). His father had eleven children by two wives, and <mask> grew up with his family on Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights. His mother's strong beliefs tended to rub off onto <mask> and he followed the example of his mother. During the summer months, <mask> and his family spent their time on a family farm near Stamford. Due to <mask>'s father's strong belief in Protestantism, as a young boy <mask> was tutored at home.This came about in order for <mask> to learn the values of hard work and education. When he was not studying, <mask> worked as a janitor and errand boy for his father's business. His father had a significant influence on his early career, as he encouraged <mask> to become an engineer. However, this was not his primary interest, and after working for a few years to save up money, <mask> enrolled in Harvard College to pursue his genuine interest of becoming a scientist. He graduated with a Bachelor's after two years, and earned a Ph.D in biology in 1892. He married Gertrude Crotty, a zoology graduate of Harvard, in 1894. He had two daughters with Gertrude, Millia Crotty and <mask> Harris di Tomasi.Career
Later on, <mask> became a professor of zoology at Harvard. He became one of the most prominent American biologists of his time, pioneering new quantitative standards of taxonomy. <mask> had a tremendous respect for the biometric approach to evolution pioneered by Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, and was involved in Pearson's journal, Biometrika. However, after the re-discovery of Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, he moved on to become a prominent supporter of Mendelian inheritance. From 1899 to 1904 <mask> worked in Chicago. He was curator of the Zoological Museum of the University of Chicago from 1901 to 1904. In 1904, <mask> became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1910.During his time at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, <mask> began a series of investigations into aspects of the inheritance of human personality and mental traits, and over the years he generated hundreds of papers and several books on the genetics of alcoholism, pellagra (later shown to be due to a vitamin deficiency), criminality, feeblemindedness, seafaringness, bad temper, intelligence, manic depression, and the biological effects of race crossing. Additionally, <mask> mentored many people while working at the Laboratory, such as Massachusetts suffragist, Claiborne Catlin Elliman. Before <mask> came across eugenics, he studied math. He came to know these subjects through Professors Karl Pearson and gentleman amateur Francis Galton. He met them in London. Upon meeting them, he fell in love with the subject matter. In 1901, Biometrika, a journal of which <mask> was a co editor, gave him the opportunity to use the skills that he had learned.<mask> became an advocate of the biometrical approach for the rest of his life. He began to study human heredity, and much of his effort was later turned to promoting eugenics. His 1911 book, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, was used as a college textbook for many years. The year after it was published <mask> was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. <mask>'s work with eugenics caused much controversy among many other eugenicists and scientists. Although his writings were about eugenics, their findings were very simplistic and out of touch with the findings from genetics. This caused much racial and class bias.Only his most ardent admirers regarded it as truly scientific work. During <mask>'s tenure at Cold Spring Harbor, several reorganizations took place there. In 1918 the Carnegie Institution of Washington took over funding of the ERO with an additional handsome endowment from Mary Harriman. <mask> was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1907. In 1921 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. <mask> founded the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations (IFEO) in 1925, with Eugen Fischer as chairman of the Commission on Bastardization and Miscegenation (1927). <mask> aspired to found a World Institute for Miscegenations, and "was working on a 'world map' of the 'mixed-race areas, which he introduced for the first time at a meeting of the IFEO in Munich in 1928."Together with his assistant Morris Steggerda, <mask> attempted to develop a comprehensive quantitative approach to human miscegenation. The results of their research was presented in the book Race Crossing in Jamaica (1929), which attempted to provide statistical evidence for biological and cultural degradation following interbreeding between white and black populations. Today it is considered a work of scientific racism, and was criticized in its time for drawing conclusions which stretched far beyond (and sometimes counter to) the data it presented. Particularly caustic was the review of the book published by Karl Pearson at Nature, where he considered that "the only thing that is apparent in the whole of this lengthy treatise is that the samples are too small and drawn from too heterogeneous a population to provide any trustworthy conclusions at all". The entire eugenics movement was criticized for being supposedly based on racist and classist assumptions set out to prove the unfitness of wide sections of the American population which <mask> and his followers considered "degenerate", using methods criticized even by British eugenicists as unscientific. In 1907 and 1910 <mask> and his wife wrote four essays that pertained to human hereditary genes. These essays included hair color, eye color, and skin pigmentation.These essays helped pave the way for eugenics to be taught in class. Many of the topics and discussions belonged to Dr. and Mrs. <mask> but the information for one essay in particular came from friends of theirs involved in the same topic. Many problems occurred when they started to use other information. As <mask> and other eugenicist professors and experts began to and continued to study more in-depth eugenics, they had to start to come up with original ideas so as not to conflict with past ideas. Influence on immigration policy in the United States
Another way <mask>'s work manifested in the public sphere is regarding the topic of immigration. He believed that race determined behavior, and that many mental and behavioral traits were hereditary. He drew these conclusions by studying family pedigrees, and was criticized by some of his peers for making unfounded conclusions.Regardless, <mask> believed that the biological differences between the races justified a strict immigration policy, and that people of races deemed “undesirable” should not be allowed into the country. His support of Mendelian genetics fueled this belief, as he believed allowing certain groups of people to enter the country would negatively impact the nation's genetic pool. Domestically, he also supported the prevention of "negative eugenics" through sterilization and sexual segregation of people who were considered genetically inferior. Sharing the racist views of many scientists during this time, those that <mask> considered to be genetically inferior included Black people and Southeastern Europeans. In addition to supporting these beliefs through his scientific work, he was actively involved in lobbying members of Congress. <mask> spoke regularly with Congressman Albert Johnson, who was a cosponsor of the 1924 immigration bill, and encouraged him to restrict immigration in that legislation. <mask> was not alone in this effort to influence policy, as Harry Laughlin, the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office, appeared before Congress on multiple occasions to promote strict immigration laws and the belief that immigration was a "biological problem".In all, <mask>’s efforts served to provide scientific justification to social policies he supported, and immigration was one way this manifested in the beginning of the 20th century. End of career and impact
After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, <mask> maintained connections with various Nazi institutions and publications, both before and during World War II. He held editorial positions at two influential German journals, both of which were founded in 1935, and in 1939 he wrote a contribution to the Festschrift for Otto Reche, who became an important figure in the plan to "remove" those populations considered "inferior" in eastern Germany. In a 1938 Letter to the Editor of Life magazine, he included both Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Goebbels as examples of crippled statesmen who, motivated by their physical defects, have "led revolutions and aspired to dictatorships while burdening their country with heavy taxes and reducing its finances to chaos." Although many other scientists had stopped supporting eugenics due to the rise of Nazism in Germany, <mask> remained a fervent supporter until the end of his life. Six years after he retired in 1934, <mask> held firm to these beliefs even after the Carnegie Institute pulled funding from the eugenics program at Cold Spring Harbor in 1940. While <mask> is remembered primarily for his role in the eugenics movement, he also had a significant influence in increasing funding for genetics research.His success in organizing the financial support for scientific endeavors fueled his success throughout his career, while also allowing for the study of other scientists. Indeed, Cold Spring Harbor saw many prominent geneticists go through its doors while he was its director. He died of pneumonia in 1944 at the age of 77. He is buried in Laurel Hollow, New York. Eugenics creed
As quoted in the National Academy of Sciences' "Biographical Memoir of <mask> <mask>" by Oscar Riddle, <mask>'s Eugenics creed was as follows:
 "I believe in striving to raise the human race to the highest plane of social organization, of cooperative work and of effective endeavor." "I believe that I am the trustee of the germ plasm that I carry; that this has been passed on to me through thousands of generations before me; and that I betray the trust if (that germ plasm being good) I so act as to jeopardize it, with its excellent possibilities, or, from motives of personal convenience, to unduly limit offspring." "I believe that, having made our choice in marriage carefully, we, the married pair, should seek to have 4 to 6 children in order that our carefully selected germ plasm shall be reproduced in adequate degree and that this preferred stock shall not be swamped by that less carefully selected.""I believe in such a selection of immigrants as shall not tend to adulterate our national germ plasm with socially unfit traits." "I believe in repressing my instincts when to follow them would injure the next generation." References

Further reading

 Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, (New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)
 Elof Axel Carlson, "Times of triumph, Times of Doubt, science and the battle for the public trust", (Cold Spring Harbor; Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2006)

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 "Biographical Memoir of <mask> <mask>" by Oscar Riddle via this page on the website of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
 A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: <mask> at www.pbs.org
 International Eugenics

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<mask> (born November 10, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Al Shorta SC of the Iraqi Basketball League. He served as the starting shooting guard for the University of Maryland, where he played college basketball for two seasons. Early life
<mask> was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. The hometown team being the Arizona Wildcats, he did not have much exposure to the Maryland basketball program while growing up. He said, "The only thing I knew about Maryland was that Steve Francis went there." The Washington Post described him as the city's best eighth grade basketball player. Stoglin attended Santa Rita High School in Tucson, where he earned a spot on the varsity basketball team as a freshman.His high school coach, Jim Ferguson, described Stoglin as confident without being arrogant. During his sophomore year, he scored 35 points during a tournament against DeMar DeRozan. As a junior, he recorded an average 27 points, seven assists, and two steals per game. During his senior year, he compiled an average of 29.4 points, 6.4 assists, and 2.6 steals per game. Stoglin helped lead Santa Rita to a 4-A state championship, and The Arizona Republic named him to its All-Arizona team. Stoglin received scholarship offers from Maryland, Texas A&M, Penn State, and San Diego, while he also received interest from Arizona, Arizona State, California, Georgetown, Loyola Marymount, UCLA, Georgia Tech, and Southern California. He chose the University of Maryland because of its great sports tradition.College career
As a college prospect, Stoglin garnered early interest from the staff of Maryland coach Gary Williams. Assistant coach Rob Ehsan first observed Stoglin during the summer of 2008 at the Nike Hoop Jamboree in St. Louis, Missouri. Maryland's recruitment progressed throughout the following year. Stoglin declined to wait for the University of Arizona to hire its next basketball coach, and committed to attend Maryland in April 2009. He said, "I was weighing my options, and as a matter of fact, I was going to wait until the summer [to commit] ... my family sat down at the dinner table and discussed it. I like the D.C. area, and I like the climate. I like the way Coach Williams coaches and I like the program overall.Maryland has a great guard history and I just thought I'd pull the trigger." Williams said he expected Stoglin to contribute immediately as a freshman. 2010–11 season

During the 2010–11 season, Stoglin averaged 11.6 points per game, including at least 20 points in each of Maryland's last four games. Against Temple, Stoglin came off the bench with 16 points, 12 of which came in the second half, sparking a comeback from a 15-point halftime deficit that fell just short in the 64–61 loss. His first collegiate start came against , where he scored 12 points on 4–8 shooting. Late in the season, Stoglin emerged as a prolific scorer. In Maryland's 91–83 loss at Virginia Tech, Stoglin tallied 25 points, including 10–10 from the free-throw line, and six assists in 28 minutes of playing time.In the 87–80 victory over NC State, he recorded 25 points, 8–14 from the floor and 9–10 from the free-throw line, and a team season high of nine assists. For his effort in those two games, Stolgin was named the ACC Rookie of the Week. After the game, head coach Gary Williams compared him to the previous season's senior point guard and Bob Cousy Award winner, Greivis Vasquez: "It's the great competitor that thinks he can score against anybody." The Washington Post noted that Stoglin "put the offense on his shoulders in the second half." <mask> repeated the feat by earning a second consecutive ACC Rookie of the Week recognition after his performance against Florida State and No. 19 North Carolina. In the 87–76 loss to North Carolina, he recorded a season-high 28 points on 11–20 shooting.It was the most points for a Maryland freshman in a single game since Joe Smith scored 29 points against Saint Louis in the 1994 NCAA tournament. In the 78–62 win against Florida State, he tallied 17 points and five assists. The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association named him to the ACC All-Freshman Team. 2011–12 season
<mask> emerged as one of the nation's most prolific scorers in the 2011–12 season. While not a complete surprise, his scoring, almost double the next highest scorer on the Terps' roster, has been a welcome asset to a rebuilding Maryland Terrapins squad. On February 11, 2012, Stoglin posted derogatory comments about Terps head coach Mark Turgeon, following a game against the Duke Blue Devils in which Stoglin missed 10 of 14 shots, including all six three-point shots attempted. During the game, Turgeon removed Stoglin from the lineup in light of his poor shooting performance and disruption of the game's tempo.On April 30, 2012, the University of Maryland announced that Stoglin was suspended from the school for a year due to a violation of student-athlete code of conduct. Stoglin declared for the 2012 NBA Draft and went undrafted. Professional career
In November 2012, Stoglin signed a one-year deal with the Greek Basket League club Ilysiakos. On July 22, 2013, Stoglin signed with Cholet Basket of France. On January 23, 2014, he was released by Cholet. Seven days later, he signed with Azovmash Mariupol of Ukraine. On March 3, 2014, he parted ways with Azovmash.Two days later, he signed with Stelmet Zielona Góra of Poland. The next month, he left Zielona Gora and signed with Pallacanestro Varese of Italy for the rest of the 2013–14 Lega Basket Serie A season. On October 6, 2014, Stoglin signed with Club Sagesse of the Lebanese Basketball League. On January 30, 2015, he scored 74 points for Sagesse in a game against Champville. On April 15, 2015, he parted ways with Sagesse. In July 2015, he signed with Adanaspor of the Turkish Basketball First League. On February 7, 2016, he left Adanaspor and returned to his former club Sagesse.On February 1, 2018, Stoglin signed with Al Rayyan Doha of the Qatari Basketball League. He spent much of the 2018 season with Trotamundos de Carabobo of the Venezuelan LPB, averaging 22.1 points and 4.3 assists per game. In Game 7 of the LPB Grand Final, after being ejected, Stoglin kicked the ball into the stands, removed his jersey, and made a middle finger gesture to the crowd before exiting the court. On September 11, 2018, he signed with Zamalek of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. In February 2020, Stoglin signed in Morocco with AS Salé, member of the Division Excellence and the Basketball Africa League (BAL). On November 18, 2020, he signed with Al-Ahli Jeddah of the Saudi Premier League. In May 2021, Stoglin returned to AS Salé to play in the 2021 BAL season.On May 21, Stoglin became the first player ever to score 40 points in a BAL game after helping Salé defeat AS Police. He averaged a league-high 30.1 points and was given the Scoring Champion Award. On July 27, 2021, Stoglin won the Division Excellence championship with Salé. On September 26, he signed with Al Shorta SC of the Iraqi Basketball League. players
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<mask> (also <mask><mask>, born <mask>) (1906–1995) was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy (NKVD code name "Hare"). Biography

<mask> was born on March 3, 1906, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1927, he received an A.B. from Harvard College, in 1939 an MA from the University of Oklahoma, and in 1931 a doctorate from the Sorbonne. Career

Academics

In 1930, <mask> lectured at the Sorbonne while studying there. In 1935, Halperin traveled to Cuba with the League of American Writers to investigate possible human rights abuses. Sometime during this period, <mask> joined the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA).Halperin taught at the University of Oklahoma, with summer 1941 as visiting professor at the University of Florida. Government

In late summer 1941, Halperin began working for the US federal government as a Latin American specialist. From 1941 to 1945, served as division chief (Latin America) in the Office of the Coordinator of Information, soon the Research Division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and served as special assistant to Duncan Chapin Lee. During this period, he may have become an espionage agent and agreed to provide intelligence for the Joseph Stalin-era Soviet intelligence service, the NKVD. Halperin's alleged NKVD codename was "Hare." He became a member of the Golos spy network (operated by the NKVD's chief of American operations Gaik Ovakimian). With access to the OSS cable room, Halperin could secure copies of secret U.S. reports from any part of the world.Through the Golos spy network, Halperin provided Soviet intelligence with a large quantity of sensitive U.S. diplomatic dispatches, including reports from Ambassador John Gilbert Winant in London on the position of the Polish government-in-exile towards negotiations with Stalin, Turkey's foreign policy toward Romania, the State Department's instructions to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, the U.S. embassy in Morocco's reports on that country's government, reports on the U.S. government's relationship with Vichy and Free French factions and persons in exile, reports of peace feelers from dissident Germans passed to the Vatican, U.S. attitudes towards Josip Broz Tito's Communist Front activities in Yugoslavia, and discussions between the Greek government and the United States regarding Soviet ambitions in the Balkans. Halperin also distorted OSS reports with false information in order to reflect the views of Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of the United States. After the OSS was dissolved in 1945, Halperin transferred to the State Department and worked as an adviser to United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson, again on Latin American affairs. Halperin was an advisor to the United Nations at the first conference in San Francisco (with Alger Hiss serving as acting secretary general). He helped establish a Hebrew language service for the UN, beamed to Palestine. In 1946 (or 1949), <mask> resigned from the State Department to take the position of chair of Latin American studies at Boston University.HUAC investigation (1948)

On July 31, 1948, ex-Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee and related details which she first shared with the FBI in 1945. In 1945, Bentley, who had inherited the Golos network, defected from the Soviet underground and sought out the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During questioning, Bentley told FBI agents that from 1942 to 1944, Halperin at OSS had delivered "to Mary Price and later to myself mimeographed bulletins and reports prepared by OSS on a variety of topics and also supplied excerpts from State Department cables to which he evidently had access." Bentley added that "some time early in 1945 'JACK', [Soviet agent Joseph Katz] the Russian contact at that time, told me that Halperin had been accused by General William J. Donovan, the head of OSS, of being a Soviet agent..."  The next day, the FBI notified Harry S. Truman's White House that "according to a "highly confidential source," among those "employed by the government of the United States" who "have been furnishing data and information to persons outside the Federal government, who are in turn transmitting this information to espionage agents of the Soviet government," was "<mask>, Office of Strategic Services." Subsequent surveillance of Halperin disclosed that he was in contact with Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Lauchlin Currie, Philip and Mary Jane Keeney, and others. SISS investigation (1953)

In 1953, after Soviet cables were secretly decrypted by U.S. counter-intelligence, <mask> was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage, at which time he lost his teaching position at Boston University. Halperin denied the charges, but nevertheless fled to Mexico and taught at the National University of Mexico.To avoid extradition from Mexico, Halperin moved to the Soviet Union, where he studied and taught. Among the friends he made there was the British defector, Donald Maclean as well as Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Remaining years

Disenchanted with communism in the Soviet Union, Halperin accepted Guevara's invitation to come to Havana in 1962. There, he consulted to the Ministry of Trade in the Fidel Castro government for five years and taught at the University of Havana. Political tensions forced him to leave for Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In Vancouver, he became a political science professor at Simon Fraser University, and wrote several books critical of Castro's government and the socio-political situation in Cuba. Personal life and death

Halperin married and had two surviving children.<mask> died age 88 on February 9, 1995, of a stroke at the Royal Columbia Hospital just outside Vancouver, Canada. Legacy

After <mask>'s death, the release of the Venona project decryptions of coded Soviet cables, as well as information gleaned from Soviet KGB archives, revealed that Halperin was involved in espionage activities on behalf of the Soviet Union while serving in an official capacity with the United States government. Works

Aside from an early literary study, Halperin published three books critical of Castro:
 Roman de Tristan et Iseut dans la littérature anglo-américaine au XIXe et au XXe siècles (1931)
 Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro:  An Essay in Contemporary History (1972)
 The Taming of Fidel Castro (1981)
 Return to Havana (1994)

See also

NKVD
 Elizabeth Bentley
 Silvermaster Group
 Perlo Group
 Venona project

References

External links

Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB Archival Records
Haynes, John E. and Klehr, Harvey, In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage, Encounter Press (2003)
Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 2000. .
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Peake, Hayden B., OSS and the Venona Decrypts. Intelligence and National Security (Great Britain) 12, no. 3 (July 1997): 14–34. CIA Publications, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency, no date.Kirschner, Don S.,Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of <mask>in Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995
Schecter, Jerrold and Leona, Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History, Potomac Press, 2002
CIA Publications, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency, no date. The Peak obituary
Warner, Michael, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency Chapter: X-2. Central Intelligence Agency Publications (2000). "Research & Analysis Latin America specialist <mask>, nevertheless passed information to Moscow." Chairman's Forward, Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy (1997)
 Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War (1997)
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 FBI Venona FOIA, p. 53

1906 births
1995 deaths
Members of the Communist Party USA
American spies for the Soviet Union
World War II spies for the Soviet Union
American male writers
American diplomats
Latin Americanists
Boston University faculty
Simon Fraser University faculty
American people in the Venona papers
People of the Office of Strategic Services
20th-century American writers
American expatriates in Cuba
University of Oklahoma alumni
Harvard College alumni

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Maurice Halperin
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Maurice Hyman Halperin
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<mask> (, ; born 22 March 1961 in Kyiv) is a Soviet and Russian musician, actor, radio and TV host. Founder of production company Sreda, he is active in television since 1986. <mask> is a TV host in Minute of Fame and Big Difference. Biography
<mask> was born on March 22, 1961 in Kyiv, in the family of thermal engineers <mask> (March 11, 1931 - May 2007), who was Ukrainian, and Elena Leonidovna Volkova (March 24, 1933 – 2000), who was Jewish. He learned to play the piano and the guitar and already at school tried himself in stage performance activity, creating the band "ONO". He participated in amateur performances and theatrical productions. After graduating from the Kyiv School No.89 in 1978, Tsekalo entered the correspondence department of the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry; at the same time he worked in Kyiv as a fitter and adjuster and also played in amateur theater. In 1979 he created the quartet "Shlyapa". Later, by the invitation of the Kyiv Variety and Circus School, along with other members of the quartet entered the second year. In 1982 he graduated externally from the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry, worked in the chemical laboratory, as a locksmith, later at the Kyiv stage theater as a stage installer, and as a lighting technician. After graduating from college in 1985, he began working at the Odessa Philharmonic Theater, then with his first wife Alyona Shyferman at the Odessa Variety Theater "Sharzh" from Ilya Noyabryov. In 1985, together with Lolita Milyavskaya, <mask> formed the cabaret-duet "Akademiya", and in 1989 they arrived in Moscow. The duo performed on the stage, in clubs and restaurants, and by the mid-1990s, "Akademiya" became one of the most popular actor ensembles.By his own admission, in parallel with the variety career in the 1990s he was engaged in political campaign managing, in particular, in 1991 he was engaged in the elections of the mayor of the French city, as a result of which the candidate whom Tsekalo supported won. In 1996, together with Lolita Milyavskaya began to conduct the program "Good morning, country!". After the collapse of the cabaret duet "Akademiya" in 2000, Tsekalo participated in a number of television projects, including the popular series of musical films "Old Songs on the Main" (played in the third and fourth parts, and also directed and scripted a live version of the television project), voiced the film "Private Chronicles. Monologue". In 2000, <mask> played the main role in Tigran Keosayan's film "Silver Lily of the Valley", for which he wrote and performed the song "Istoriya". In 2007, this song was performed by Filipp Kirkorov and was included in his album For You. Until February 2003 he was the executive producer of the musical Nord-Ost, and then became the general producer of the company "Russian Musical", the director of the musical "12 chairs".From September 2002 to 2005 he held the post of executive producer of entertainment programs of the department of own production of the STS channel. From 2005 to 2006 - the general producer of STS. From August 1, 2006 to June 1, 2007 - Director of the department of entertainment programs of the STS. He was fired after the conflict with the general director of the channel, Alexander Rodnyansky: the latter was dissatisfied with the fact that <mask>, as a staff member of the STS, worked as a leading music contest "Two Stars" on Channel One, while <mask> himself did not accept the financial terms proposed to him. From 2006 to 2014 and from 2017 - the presenter of the Channel One ("Two Stars", Minute of Fame, Big Difference, Prozhektorperiskhilton). From June 25, 2007 to July 30, 2008 - Deputy General Director, Director of the Directorate of Special Projects "Channel One". In 2008 he founded Sreda, which since its inception has become one of the most significant television production companies in Russia.In 2014, he made his debut as a journalist, interviewing the director of the directorate of the cinema channel "Channel One" Sergei Titinkov and the general producer of TNT Alexander Dulerain for the magazine GQ and with his sister-in-law Vera Brezhneva for the magazine Interview. <mask> appeared as the director of creative evenings of Igor Krutoy (also a screenwriter and presenter), the Kinotavr festival (также являлся сценаристом и ведущим (also the host), the Silver Galosh prize (also a host), solo concerts by Angelica Varum (also made a video for the song "Whistle Man") and Alsou (also took part in preparing Alsou for the Eurovision Song Contest, where the singer took the second place), in addition, he was the artistic director of the award ceremony of the TEFI 2006 award, as a model and participated in the avant-garde exhibition of artists Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva "Orgy of Humanism", in addition, he was the host of the concert version of the CTC "Leningrad Stand-Up Club", the award of the magazine "Sobaka.ru" "TOP 50. The most famous people of Petersburg" and the weddings of ballerina Anastasia Volochkova and businessman Igor Vdovin. Together with Ivan Urgant, Tsekalo owns the restaurant "The Sad" in Moscow on the Yakimanskaya Embankment, and also in late 2010, together with Alexei Bokov and Alexander Orlov, opened the restaurant "Chichibio". Selected filmography

Host
2006: Ty - supermodel
2008: Minuta slavy
2008–present: Prozhektorperiskhilton
2008-2014: Big Difference

Producer
2012: Cinderella''
2012: The Dark Side of the Moon
2014–present: Silver Spoon
2015: The Method
2017–present: Prozhektorperiskhilton
2017: Gogol. The Beginning
2017: Trotsky
2018: Gogol. Viy
2018: Gogol.Terrible Revenge
2020: The Last Minister
2020: Just Imagine Things We Know

References

External links

<mask> at the Forbes

1961 births
Living people
Musicians from Kyiv
Television presenters from Kyiv
Russian male actors
Russian radio personalities
Ukrainian radio presenters
Russian male voice actors
Soviet male singers
Russian male comedians
Actors from Kyiv
Jewish Russian actors
20th-century Russian male singers

masks:
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo
Tsekalo
Aleksandr Tsekalo
Yevgeny Borisovich Tsekalo
Tsekalo
Alexander Tsekalo
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<mask> (died 106 BC), courtesy name Zhongqing, born <mask> in Linfen, Shanxi, was a Chinese military general and politician of the Western Han dynasty who was acclaimed for his campaigns against the Xiongnu, and his rags to riches life. He was a consort kin of Emperor Wu of Han as the younger half-brother of Emperor Wu's wife Empress <mask>u, and later the third husband of Emperor Wu's older sister Eldest Princess Yangxin. He was also the maternal uncle of Huo Qubing, another decorated Han general who participated in the war against the Xiongnu. Early life
<mask> was born from humble means as a bastard child from a serf family. His father Zheng Ji (鄭季) was a low-level official for Pingyang County (平陽縣, in modern Linfen, Shanxi) and was commissioned to serve at the estate of Cao Shou (曹壽), the Marquess of Pingyang (平陽侯), and his wife Princess Pingyang (平陽公主, Emperor Wu's older sister). There, Zheng met and had an extramarital affair with a lowly female servant known as <mask> (衛媪, literally means "the Wei woman"), and their relationship produced a son named <mask>. The child was initially sent to live in his father's household as his serf mother (who was already raising four other children) could not afford to raise him in poverty, but due to the illegitimacy of his birth, the young boy was detested and mistreated by his father and step-family, and was made to live as a lowly sheepherder.Unable to tolerate the abuse, <mask> eventually ran away back to his mother's side during his early teenage years, and served as a stableboy in the marquess's estate of Pingyang. He then severed his paternal bond by adopting the surname "<mask>" of his mother's family. Early career

Legend says that <mask> once followed his master on a visit to Ganquan Palace (甘泉宮) and encountered a cangued prisoner, who foretold that it would be <mask>'s fate to achieve nobility and marquisate, a prediction <mask> offered the singer <mask>u to Emperor Wu as a concubine c. 139 BC, <mask> followed as an accompanying gift and served as a horseman at Jianzhang Camp (建章營, Emperor Wu's Royal Guards). However, as his sister gained the Emperor's love and fell pregnant, near-disaster would befall <mask>. The powerful Grand Princess Guantao (館陶長公主) Liu Piao (劉嫖), the mother of Empress Chen Jiao, angry that <mask> had siphoned off the imperial favor from her daughter, kidnapped <mask> and wanted to kill him privately as retaliation. However, <mask> was rescued at the last moment by his friends, a group of fellow palace guards led by Gongsun Ao (公孫敖).In response to the incident and as a sign of annoyance towards Empress Chen and her mother, Emperor Wu appointed <mask> the triple role of Chief of Jianzhang Camp (建章監, equivalent to a chief security officer), Chief of Staff (侍中) and Chief Councillor (太中大夫), effectively making him one of Emperor Wu's closest lieutenants. He also publicly made <mask>ifu a consort (夫人, a concubine position lower only to the Empress), and rewarded other members of her family. This marked the beginning of the rise of one of the most influential clan in the political history of Western Han – the <mask>o family. Great wealth would not be all <mask> would have. Emperor Wu saw qualities in him – brilliant horsemanship, archery, bravery, outstanding tactical intuition as well as excellent leadership skills. Over the next several years, <mask> would be entrusted as Emperor Wu's most loyal consul, as his sister also monopolized the Emperor's love for the next decade. Military campaigns

In 129 BC, Xiongnu attacked the Shanggu Commandery (上谷郡, roughly modern-day Zhangjiakou, Hebei).Emperor Wu promoted <mask> as the General of Chariots and Cavalry (車騎將軍) and dispatched him with Gongsun Ao, Gongsun He (公孫賀), and Li Guang in four separate columns against Xiongnu, each leading 10,000 cavalry. Li Guang (the most seasoned commander out of the four) and Gongsun Ao suffered major losses at the Xiongnus' hand, while Gongsun He failed to encounter and engage any enemy. <mask>, the least experienced out of the four, distinguished himself with a successful long-distance raid of the Xiongnu's holy site Longcheng (龍城), killing over 700 Xiongnu soldiers in the process. As a reward for the victory (the first proper victory against Xiongnu in Han history), <mask> was promoted to a higher command and created an acting Marquess of Guannei (關內侯), with a march of several hundred households. In 128 BC, Consort <mask>ifu gave birth to Emperor Wu's first son, Liu Ju, and was created Empress very soon after. Later that year, <mask>, who was now officially a trusted member of Emperor's extended family, led 30,000 cavalry from Shanwu (near present-day Youyuxian, Shanxi) in Yanmen Commandery, killing thousands of Xiongnu soldiers. In 127 BC, <mask> led a 40,000-strong cavalry from Yunzhong Commandery (雲中郡, modern-day Togtoh County, Inner Mongolia), then maneuver to Gaoque (高闕, modern-day Urad Rear Banner) to Longxi region (modern-day Gansu), and totally outflanking and surrounding the forces of Xiongnu's Princes of Loufan (樓煩王) and Baiyang (白羊王), killing 2,300 and capturing 3,017 Xiongnu soldiers as well as over a million cattle.According to record from Shiji and Hanshu, the battle was so swift and one-sided that the Han forces "returned with all warriors intact" (全甲兵而還), implying a near-zero casualty rate. This earned <mask> a further promotion to the Marquess of Changping (長平侯), with a march of 3,800 households. His subordinates Su Jian (蘇建, father of the great Han patriot Su Wu) and Zhang Cigong (張次公) were also created marquesses. The Han recapture of this territory forced the two Xiongnu tribes to withdraw from the fertile Hetao region (the Ordos steppe), and dealt devastating blow to their economy. The city of Shuofang (朔方城) was built, and later became a key stronghold for offensive and defensive campaigns against Xiongnu. In 124 BC, <mask> Qing would be the vital part of the greatest Han victory over Xiongnu to date. When Xiongnu's Right Worthy Prince (右賢王) made harassing raids against outskirts of Shuofang, <mask> launched a crushing long-distance night assault from Gaoque with 30,000 cavalrymen, completely surprising and surrounding the Worthy Prince's main camp.Not only did the Han forces send the Worthy Prince running for his life from his drunken slumber (with only his own concubine following), they also took about 15,000 captives, among them a dozen Xiongnu nobles, and millions of cattle. For this victory, <mask> was made the "Grand General" (大將軍) of All Armed Forces, and his march was enlarged by 8,700 households. His three young sons <mask> (衛伉), <mask> (衛不疑), and <mask> (衛登) were also made marquesses (an offer later refused by <mask>), as well as seven generals under his command. In 123 BC, <mask> set off from Dingxiang (定襄) and returned with several thousand enemy kills. A month later, <mask> again launched from Dingxiang, but would fight a relatively inconclusive battle. Although he was able to kill/capture more than 10,000 Xiongnu soldiers, part of his vanguard forces, a 3,000-strong regiment commanded by generals Su Jian and Zhao Xin (a surrendered Xiongnu prince), encountered a Xiongnu force led by Chanyu Yizhixie (伊稚斜單于), and was outnumbered and annihilated. Zhao Xin defected on the field with his 800 ethnic Xiongnu subordinates, while Su Jian escaped after losing all his men in the desperate fighting.Showing compassion on Su Jian, <mask> spared him even though some advocates advised him to execute Su on the spot after court martial to enforce his commanding authority. Due to the loss of Su's detachment, <mask> troops did not earn any promotion, even though they scored more gains than losses. At this campaign, his nephew Huo Qubing distinguished himself in battle and was given his own command. The Battle of Mobei

After Huo Qubing's successful campaigns in the Hexi Corridor, Xiongnu strategically retreated to north of the Gobi Desert, as the barren lands would serve as a natural barrier that was very difficult to overcome for the Han forces. However, in 119 BC, Emperor Wu decided to defy the odds and launched a massive expeditionary campaign across the desert. In this engagement, Emperor Wu broke the normal pattern of reaction against Xiongnu attacks by making a major excursion against Xiongnu's headquarters in the north of the Gobi Desert. This is known to history as the Mobei Campaign ("campaign of the desert's north").<mask> and Huo Qubing were in command of the two main corps, each with 50,000 cavalrymen and 100,000 infantrymen/charioteers. Under <mask>'s command were four other generals, namely Gongsun He, Zhao Yiji (趙食其), Cao Xiang (曹襄) and an elderly but very enthusiastic Li Guang. Contrary to the arrangements promised to Li Guang by Emperor Wu (where he would command the vanguard), Emperor Wu secretly told <mask> not to assign Li Guang to crucial missions due to Li's infamous history of "bad lucks". <mask>, after the army had already departed, merged Li Guang's forces with Zhao Yiji's and ordered them to take an eastern flanking route through a barren region. According to the historian Sima Qian, <mask> had done this to give his old friend Gongsun Ao, who had recently been stripped of his title, a chance to win a major battle and be re-promoted. However, sending Generals of Front (前將軍, namely Li Guang) and Right (右將軍, namely Zhao Yiji) on flanking maneuvers was one of <mask>'s typical tactical arrangements. This was evidenced by his previous deployment of Zhao Xin and Su Jian, who were Generals of Front and Right respectively, during the less successful 123 BC campaign.After crossing the desert, <mask>'s army unexpectedly encountered Chanyu Yizhixie's main forces, who was waiting in anticipation of ambushing the Han army. Despite being significantly outnumbered as well as fatigued after the long journey, <mask> was able to counter Xiongnu's cavalry charge with archery defense created by heavy-armored chariots arranged in ring formations, which was reinforced with cavalry counteroffensives. (This defense would be evaluated as one of the most effective against cavalry by many later Chinese tacticians, including Yue Fei.) The Han forces successfully enforced a stalemate that lasted until dusk, when a sandstorm descended upon the battlefield. Seizing the moment of poor visibility provided by the dust, <mask> broke the stalemate and launched bilateral flanking attacks with his cavalries. Already exhausted after a day of unsuccessful attacks against Han positions, the sudden sight of incoming Han soldiers in the darkness further broke the Xiongnu's morale, routing them. This decisive pincer attack shattered the Chanyu's line, nearly capturing him and completely overrunning his forces, killing over 10,000 Xiongnu soldiers in the process.The Han army pursued all the way to the modern Ulan Bator region, destroying the Xiongnu stronghold Zhao Xin Castle (趙信城) before returning in triumph with a total of about 19,000 enemy kills. Chanyu Yizhixie was forced to escape with very few men, lost communication with his tribe for days, and did not return until his clan presumed his death and installed a new Chanyu. This was a narrow but critically significant victory for the Han empire. Xiongnu was greatly weakened to the point that they would huddle up into the barren northern Gobi desert (leading to decline of their population), and unable to raid south for the next decade. The next major Xiongnu invasion did not occur until after the Han dynasty collapsed, some 400 years later during the Jin Dynasty. Li Gan incident
While <mask>'s main force was engaging Yizhixie Chanyu, the flanking division led by Li Guang and Zhao Yiji got lost in the desert and failed to reach the battlefield in time, despite meeting little Xiongnu resistance. They only rendezvous with <mask>'s troops after the latter already returned from Zhao Xin Castle.Both men were later summoned for court martial to explain the failure to accomplish orders and thus jeopardize the whole campaign. Feeling humiliated over the charges against him and frustrated over missing his final chance at martial glory, Li Guang committed honor suicide rather than to face the court. Many people, including the historian Sima Qian, thus blamed <mask> for causing Li Guang's death. Li's youngest son Li Gan (李敢), who was a subordinate of Huo Qubing at the time, later went to <mask>'s home and assaulted him. Although <mask> decided to cool the heat and mercifully let the matter slide, Huo Qubing was greatly angered that his subordinate had the temerity to insult his uncle. He personally shot dead Li Gan during a hunting trip. Late career and death

After the 119 BC campaign, <mask> would see little combat action himself, largely remaining in the capital Chang'an to advise on military and sometimes political matters as the dual-role of Chief Defense Minister/Generalissimo (大司馬大將軍).He also assisted his nephew, Crown prince-regent Liu Ju, when Emperor Wu was away on official tours. Despite his great honor and power, <mask> remained humble in many ways. Because of the great favor Emperor Wu showed him, all of the other officials at court flattered him, except for Ji An (汲黯), who treated him as an equal. <mask> was impressed by Ji's integrity in face of pressure and respected Ji greatly, often requesting Ji's opinion on important matters. Throughout his career, he refused to hire scholars to praise him and create favorable public opinions, and tried to maintain a relatively low profile. Despite his humble way of life, <mask>'s status in the Han army made him a distinguished figure in the country, attracting admiration, jealousy and hostility alike. Emperor Wu's uncle, the Prince of Huainan Liu An, who had been conspiring a military coup for a long time, saw <mask> as his prime political obstacle that must be removed.<mask> died in 106 BC and was buried in a large tomb built to the model of Mount Lu (盧山, a mountain previously in Xiongnu-occupied territory). The tomb was connected to that of his nephew Huo Qubing, who had died in 117 BC, and the future tomb for Emperor Wu. <mask> would not live to see the destruction of his clan – nobody survived except his youngest son <mask> (衛登) and his great grandnephew Liu Bingyi, as well as the tragic fate of his sister Empress <mask> and nephew Liu Ju, during the political turmoil in 91 BC. Chapters 4–6. AuthorHouse (2009)

106 BC deaths
Year of birth unknown
Han dynasty generals from Shanxi
Han dynasty politicians from Shanxi
Politicians from Linfen

masks:
Wei Qing
Zheng Qing
Wei Zif
Wei Qing
Wei Ao
Zheng Qing
Zheng Qing
Wei
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Qingyang
Wei Zif
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Zifu
Wei Qing
Wei
Wei Qing
Wei Z
Wei Hu
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Z
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei
Wei Qing
Wei Qing
Wei Kang
Wei Buyi
Wei Deng
Wei Qing
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Wei Qing
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Wei Qing
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<mask> (June 6, 1850 – September 29, 1921) was an American lawyer, politician, school administrator, and banker in West Virginia. Gilkeson was born in Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia), the eldest child of a dry goods merchant, and was raised in Romney. Following his graduation from Hampden–Sydney College, Gilkeson became a schoolteacher and served as superintendent of the Hampshire County Schools district from 1877 to 1879. Gilkeson later studied law and started a law practice in Romney. Following the death of John Collins Covell in 1887, Gilkeson served as the principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind until 1888. Gilkeson served in the West Virginia Legislature as a state senator representing the 12th District in the West Virginia Senate (1890–93) and as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1883–85 and 1909–11). Gilkeson served as the mayor of Romney beginning in 1885, and the first president of the Bank of Romney (1888–1913).Early life and education
<mask> <mask> was born in Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia) on June 6, 1850. He was the eldest child of Robert B<mask> and his wife, Sarah E<mask>, both of Scottish ancestry. His father was a prominent dry goods merchant in Romney, where <mask> and his brother, Edward, were raised. <mask> graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, in 1872. While a student, he was inducted as a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Gilkeson completed a special course in engineering at Yale University. He also received further education in Germany.Academic career
Following his graduation from Hampden–Sydney College, Gilkeson became a schoolteacher and later served as superintendent of the Hampshire County Schools district from 1877 to 1879. Before 1886, <mask> was elected a member of the Romney Literary Society together with his brother. West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind
From 1876 to 1888, Gilkeson served as a member and secretary of the fourth, fifth, and sixth Board of Regents of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind, a position that enabled him to become familiar with the school's efforts to educate its deaf and blind students. In 1887, upon the death of the schools' principal, John Collins Covell, Gilkeson was selected by the Board of Regents to serve as principal of the institution. The Board of Regents had reservations about selecting an immediate successor to Covell and requested that Gilkeson fill the position temporarily until the board could find a permanent replacement. Gilkeson left his lucrative law practice and accepted the position under the condition that he serve as interim principal while the Board of Regents sought a more suitable candidate to build upon Covell's initiatives and reforms. Gilkeson believed that only administrators and educators fluent in sign language should be appointed to serve in the School for the Deaf, and during his tenure as principal he found that personnel who relied on interpreters did not receive "satisfactory results".After he had spent a few weeks as acting principal, the Board of Regents reconvened and appointed him to stay on permanently. During his tenure, the position of principal included the roles of clerk, bookkeeper, steward, and final arbiter of matters in the classroom. While Gilkeson lacked special training for the position, his business experience allowed him to run the schools in an economically efficient manner, which pleased the schools' Board of Regents. In the summer of 1888, <mask> was delegated by the Board to Regents to attend the Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Schools for the Deaf in New York City and select the most fitting candidate present at the conference or recommended someone to replace him as principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Gilkeson tendered an offer to C. H. Hill, then an instructor at the Maryland School for the Deaf, and upon Gilkeson's return to Romney he recommended Hill and resigned from his post as principal. Hill was subsequently appointed by the Board to fill the position. While the Board of Regents was pleased with Gilkeson's performance as principal and wished for him to stay on in the position, but he preferred to return to his professional law and political career in the end.Gilkeson resumed the practice of law and pursued a political career, but he continued his involvement with, and advocacy for, the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind, especially through his influence as a prominent lawyer and state legislator. Gilkeson used his position as a state legislator to condemn and hold accountable the officials responsible for the mismanagement of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind, and often interceded on the schools' behalf following Hill's retirement due to political reasons. Gilkeson was displeased with the state's political interference in the schools, and the "multiplication" of positions within the institution that were filled with personnel who had political or business ties but lacked prior knowledge or experience with deaf and blind education. Law and political careers

Following his tenure as superintendent of Hampshire County Schools, Gilkeson undertook the study of law and started a law practice in Romney; he subsequently became a prominent lawyer in the community. His law office was located on Main Street in Romney, two blocks from the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Due to his preeminence in the legal field and high standing in the community, Gilkeson served as dean of the Hampshire County Bar Association. Gilkeson was twice elected to represent Hampshire County as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 1883–85 and 1909–11 legislative sessions.As the leadership of the House of Delegates was being determined at the 1884 Democratic Party State Convention in Wheeling, <mask> was a leading contender for a speaker candidacy, but fellow Romney native Robert White was selected as the party's candidate instead. On August 13, 1890, the Twelfth Senatorial District Democratic Convention nominated <mask> to fill the vacant West Virginia State Senate seat of Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy. <mask> was elected to fill the seat during the general election of 1890 and served the remainder of Flournoy's senate term until 1893. At the time of his appointment, the Twelfth Senatorial District consisted of Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton counties. In 1892, <mask> was appointed to the Committees on the Judiciary, Public Buildings and Humane Institutions, Federal Relations, Forfeited, Delinquent, and Unappropriated Lands, and Clerks Office. In addition to serving in the state senate, <mask> also held the position of mayor of Romney, West Virginia, beginning in 1885. Banking and business career

<mask> served on the board of directors as the first president of the Bank of Romney after it was granted its charter by the West Virginia Legislature on September 3, 1888, and was opened later on December 20, 1888.During <mask>'s tenure as president, the Bank of Romney occupied two rooms on the ground floor of the Wirgman Building, where the city's previous bank, the Bank of the Valley of Virginia, was located prior to the American Civil War. <mask> served as the president of the Bank of Romney until his retirement in 1913, when he was succeeded by John J. Cornwell, 15th Governor of West Virginia. In November 1906, <mask>, R. W. Dailey, Jr., P. J. Ruckman, and Joshua Soule Zimmerman were incorporators of the Mill Mountain Orchard Company, which operated orchards along the top of Mill Creek Mountain west of Romney. Later life and death
<mask> resided in Romney for the majority of his life and was involved in most of the community's organizations as either a leader, officer, or stockholder. Gilkeson's son <mask> <mask>, Jr., died on November 16, 1901, from injuries sustained by falling against a piece of sharp iron, which penetrated his stomach. Gilkeson's wife, Mary Katherine, predeceased him in February 1910 following the effects of a surgical procedure she had undergone in Cumberland, Maryland. In his later years, Gilkeson suffered from allergic rhinitis and experienced a "physical breakdown" following the death of his son, Robert William <mask>, on October 2, 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I and shortly before the Armistice with Germany.Robert William <mask> was a second lieutenant in Company C of the 316 Engineers, and was interred in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial near Romagne-sous-Montfaucon. Robert William <mask> was a 1907 graduate of his father's alma mater, Hampden–Sydney College. On account of his increasingly failing health, Gilkeson spent the summer of 1921 in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, to recuperate. About a week before his death, <mask> fell down a flight of porch steps at his vacation residence, fracturing a number of bones. He died on September 29, 1921, in Mountain Lake Park, and his funeral was held on the anniversary of his son's death on October 2, 1921. <mask> is interred with his wife Mary Katherine and son <mask>, Jr., at Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia. In recounting <mask>'s achievements to the Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Schools for the Deaf following his death, West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind instructor Charles D. Seaton said of Gilkeson:

In 1980, <mask>'s son-in-law George Sloan Arnold bequeathed the $1.5-million George S. Arnold Trust to Hampden–Sydney College, his shared alma mater with his father-in-law and brother-in-law Robert William <mask>.At the time, it was the largest amount given by a living person and the institution's second-largest gift in its 204-year history. Arnold gave the trust in honor of the <mask> family. Religious activities
Gilkeson was active in the Presbyterian Church in Hampshire County and served as a trustee for the Presbytery of Winchester along with Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy. In 1881, <mask> and his fellow trustees were instrumental in securing from Amos L. and Allie G. Pugh a house and a large, partially wooded land lot in Capon Bridge for use by the Presbytery as a centrally located manse in Hampshire County. <mask> remained a trustee of the Presbytery from 1876 until his death in 1921. He was also a commissioner of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States representing the Presbytery of Winchester, and attended the assembly's meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, May 15–25, 1902. Marriage and family
<mask> was married on November 19, 1884, to Mary Katherine Paxton (1853–1910), daughter of Jordan J. and E. J. Paxton of Iron Gate, Virginia.Their wedding ceremony was officiated by Reverend George W. Finley of Romney at the residence of Mary Ann Lipscomb at 1537 I Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C. Mary Katherine had been employed as a teacher under Lipscomb at Waverly Seminary. Following the ceremony, <mask> and his wife embarked upon a tour of the Northern United States. <mask> and his wife Mary Katherine had three children together:
 Laura Paxton <mask> Arnold (August 18, 1885 – 1973), married Romney lawyer George Sloan Arnold (1885–1986)
 Robert William <mask> (July 25, 1887 – October 2, 1918)
 <mask> <mask>, Jr. (February 8, 1890 – November 16, 1901)

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<mask> (born 12 July 1969; formerly known by the stage name Lady Saw) is a Jamaican singer and songwriter whose career has spanned over two decades. Formerly known as the Queen of Dancehall, she is the first female deejay to be certified as a triple-platinum and Grammy Award-winning artist. Early life
<mask> was born in Galina, Saint Mary, Jamaica. As a child, she attended Galina Primary School. During her teen years, she had a sewing job at The Free Zone in Kingston, Jamaica. At the age of fifteen, she began performing with local sound systems. She went on to work with the Stereo One system in Kingston.Career

1987–1995: Lover Girl
In 1987, <mask> took the name "Lady Saw" after the famous Jamaican singer Tenor Saw, who inspired her music. Her performances brought her to the attention of record producers and she recorded her first single for producer Piper, and "Love Me or Lef Me", produced by Olive Shaw received significant airplay. She had her first hit with "If Him Lef" and she topped the Jamaican charts with "Find a Good Man". After her music success on Jamaican radio, she began recording her first studio album. In August 1994, Saw released her first album entitled Lover Girl. The album spawned the hit "Stab Up De Meat". 1996–1997: Give Me the Reason and Passion
In 1996, Saw released her second album Give Me the Reason.The album became known for its explicit sexual lyrics which was showcased on songs "Life Without Dick" and "Name Nuh Stand Fi Sex". The album spawned the singles "Give Me the Reason", "Good Wuk", and "Condom". In June 1997, Saw released Passion. The album charted at number 8 on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart, becoming her first album to chart. The album spawned the singles: "Healing" and "Sycamore Tree". 1998–2003: 99 Ways
In February 1998, Saw released her first greatest hits album entitled Raw, the Best of Lady Saw. In December 1998, Saw released her fourth album 99 Ways, which charted at number 10 on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart.In 1999 she had a major hit in the United States with "Smile", recorded with Vitamin C, which peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, also a major hit in New Zealand and Canada, and certified gold with over 500,000 sales. In 2002, her collaboration with No Doubt, "Underneath It All", which reached number three in the US and sold more than three million copies, reaching triple platinum certification. The track won a Grammy Award for 'Best Performance by a Duo or Group'. 2004–2007: Strip Tease and Walk Out
In August 2004, Lady Saw released her fifth album Strip Tease. The album charted at number 84 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 14 Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart. The lead single "I've Got Your Man" garnered much worldwide success and charted at number 58 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The album also spawn the singles: "Man is the Least", "Move Your Body", and "Loser".In 2006, she was featured on the Steven Seagal song Strut, which she also co-wrote. It has achieved internet fame under the incorrect name Me Want The Punani, a repeated lyric from the song. In March 2007, Saw released the single "No Less Than a Woman (Infertility)". The song addressed the many problems that women have involving infertility. In April 2007, Saw released her sixth album Walk Out, which peaked at number 8 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Saw released two more singles: "Chat to Mi Back" and "Me and My Crew (The Rae)". Later that year, she performed on the main stage at Jamaica's annual Reggae Sumfest.2009–2015: My Way and Alter Ego
In 2009, Saw released her second greatest hits album entitled Extra Raw: The First Lady of Dancehall. She launched her own record label, Divas Records, in January 2010. In August 2010, Saw released the lead single "Party Till December" from her forthcoming album. In December 2010, she released My Way, which failed to chart. In the same year, Lady Saw was also featured along with Nicki Minaj on rapper Trina's song "Dang A Lang" from her album Amazin'. In May 2011, she released a single "When Mi Left a Man". In 2012, she released an extended play entitled "Two Man".In October 2012, Saw released a single "Heels On". In November 2012 she announced that she was turning her back on dancehall and would be concentrating on Gospel music in the future. In August 2013, Saw released a single "Nuh Tek Mi Man". In 2014, she released her album Alter Ego, which features guest appearances from Beres Hammond, Flo Rida, and Ali Campbell. The album charted at number 6 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. In the same year, she established The Lady Saw Foundation; which aims to help abused and needy women. In March 2015, she released a single "Scammer".In May 2015, Saw released the single "Incline Thine Ears". In June 2015, she released a two singles "Last Night" and "The Devil Have a Way". In August 2015, Saw released a single "The Day Will Never Come". In September 2015, she released the single "Likkle Bit". In November 2015, Singing Melody released the single "Beneath Your Beautiful", which featured Lady Saw. On 6 November 2015, she released her second extended play entitled, Lady Saw: Special Edition. In December 2015, she released a single "Lay On Your Body".2016–present: Conversion to Christianity and retirement from Dancehall music
On 15 December 2015, Saw underwent a Christian baptism. She later stated she will no longer identify herself as "Lady Saw", but instead as Minister <mask> or simply <mask>. She also stated that she will not perform dancehall music, but instead she will begin a new music career in gospel music. She has released a few gospel songs; "Jesus In The End", "Cup of Blessings", "God Almighty", and "Heaven" which appear on several mixtapes. In July 2016, she released her first gospel album When God Speaks. In June 2018, <mask> released the lead single "I'm Gonna Fast" from her album "His Grace". The album was released on 20 July 2018.In April 2020, <mask> stated that she believed she was denied a United States O-1 visa because she no longer identified as "Lady Saw". Style
Lady Saw became known for slack performance style. The style also prompted her to record "What is Slackness? "; a song in which she defines 'slackness' in many ways. Slackness often refers to vulgarity in Jamaican culture, behavior and the music. It always sums up the explicit sexual lyrics used in reggae and dancehall music. Because of this, several of her performances were banned in some parts of Jamaica, though equally lewd male performances were not.The double standard inspired her to record the song "Freedom of Speech" in protest. She also became known for her "conscious" lyrics. She recorded "Condom"; warning girls of the dangers of unprotected heterosexual sex. Discography

 Lover Girl (1994)
 Give Me the Reason (1996)
 Passion (1997)
 99 Ways (1998)
 Strip Tease (2004)
 Walk Out (2007)
 My Way (2010)
 Alter Ego (2014)
 When God Speaks (2016)
 His Grace (2018)

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<mask> (1935 – 1 February 1992) was an Indian film actor who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. The name <mask> came from a fictional character of the same name from the 1957 film Musafir, in which he plays a tea shop delivery boy who sports a "choti" or traditional lock of hair on the top of his head. Biography
<mask> was born as <mask> to Constable Atmaram Rakshakar in 1933 at Amravati, Amravati District Maharashtra. He produced and directed two films — "Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty" and "Hunterwali 77". He also opened a restaurant which was called "Sawal roti ka; Dhaba choti ka". He also started Atta distribution unit called "Choti Walla Atta". He died on 1 February 1992 at the age of 57.Filmography
<mask> acted in nearly 280 films from 1954 to 1994. 203
 1972 Tangewala
 1972 Shehzada
 1972 Anokhi Pehchan
 1972 Achha Bura
 1972 Raaste Kaa Patthar
 1972 Double Cross
 1972 Parchhaiyan
 1972 Do Chor
 1972 Bees Saal Pehle
 1972 Ek Khiladi Bawan Pattey
 1972 Amar Prem
 1971 Mera Gaon Mera Desh
 1971 Aisa Bhi Hota Hai
 1971 Amar Prem
 1971 Albela
 1971 Haseenon Ka Devata
 1971 Pyar Ki Kahani
 1971 Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari
 1971 Lakhon Me Ek
 1971 Preet Ki Dori
 1971 Sansar
 1971 Ek Din Aadhi Raat
 1971 Maata Vaishno Devi
 1970 Yaadgaar
 1970 Bhai-Bhai
 1970 Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? 1970 Sharafat
 1970 Gunah Aur Kanoon
 1970 Pagla Kahin Ka
 1970 Truck Driver
 1970 Tum Haseen Main Jawan
 1970 Raate Ke Andhere Mein
 1969 Anjaana
 1969 Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati
 1969 Patthar Ke Khwab
 1969 Do Raaste
 1969 Anjan Hai Koyee
 1969 Chanda Aur Bijli
 1969 Tumse Achha Kaun Hai
 1969 Jiyo Aur Jeene Do
 1969 Sapna
 1968 Kahin Din Kahin Raat
 1968 Raja Aur Runk
 1968 Abhilasha
 1968 Aadmi
 1968 Brahmachari
 1968 Jung Aur Aman
 1968 Aanchal Ke Phool
 1968 Lutera Aur Jadugar
 1967 Upkar as Mangal
 1967 Aurat
 1967 Farz
 1967 Aag
 1967 Raat Andheri Thi
 1966 Love in Tokyo
 1966 Sawan Ki Ghata
 1966 Aakhri Khat
 1966 Do Badan
 1966 Daadi Maa
 1966 Dada
 1966 Lal Bangla
 1966 Shankar Khan
 1965 Bhoot Bungla
 1965 Khandaan
 1965 Shreeman Funtoosh
 1965 Rustom-E-Hind
 1965 Ek Saal Pehle
 1965 Bekhabar
 1965 Jahan Sati Wahan Bhagwan
 1965 Gopal - Krishna
 1964 Mr. X in Bombay
 1964 Mera Qasoor Kya Hai
 1964 Ziddi
 1964 Woh Kaun Thi? 1964 Sati Savitri
 1964 Samson
 1964 Pooja Ke Phool
 1964 Mama Ji (1964) Punjabi Movie
 1964 Daal Me Kala-Hajjam
 1964 Darasingh: Ironman
 1964 Ek Din Ka Badshah
 1964 Shabnam
 1964 Tarzan Aur Jalpari
 1964 Maain Bhi Ladki Hun
 1963 Bluff Master
 1963 Taj Mahal
 1963 Jab Se Tumhe Dekha Hai
 1963 Mujhe Jeene Do
 1963 Been Ka Jadoo
 1962 Man-Mauji
 1962 Main Chup Rahungi
 1962 Burmah Road
 1962 Jhoola
 1962 Apna Banake Dekho
 1962 Shaadi
 1962 Anpadh
 1962 Rakhi
 1962 Raaz Ki Baat
 1962 Private Secretary
 1962 Dil Tera Diwana
 1962 Pyar Ki Jeet
 1961 Chhaya
 1961 Umar Qaid
 1961 Pyaar Ka Saagar
 1961 Boy Friend
 1961 Guddi as Batura (1961) Punjabi Movie
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 1960 Ek Phool Char Kaante
 1960 Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere
 1960 Patang
 1959 Barkha
 1959 Kaagaz Ke Phool
 1959 Duniya Na Mane
 1959 Nai Raahen
 1959 Dhool Ka Phool
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 1958 Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
 1957 Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke
 1957 Ab Dilli Door Nahin
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 1957 Ek Gaon Ki Kahani
 1956 Parivar
 1955 Devdas
 1954 Jagriti

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<mask> (Born 8 February 1989) is an English actress, television personality, acting coach, and former singer. She is best known for her lead role as Tracy Beaker in the CBBC series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2006), Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), for which she won a BAFTA in 2010, The Tracy Beaker Survival Files (2011–2012), My Mum Tracy Beaker, and The Beaker Girls (both 2021). Harmer played the role of Molly Louise Venables in the BBC One comedy series After You've Gone (2007), and starred in her own CBBC sitcom Dani's House (2008–2012) and its spin-off Dani's Castle (2013–2014). In 2008, Harmer branched into the music industry and signed a £3m record deal with Universal Group. She recorded her debut studio album, Superheroes, in September 2009, and released the single and theme from <mask>'s House, "Free", but the album was never released and it was later confirmed she had abandoned her music career indefinitely. In 2012, Harmer competed in the fourth series of Let's Dance for Sport Relief alongside Tyger Drew-Honey, in which they both finished as joint runners-up. Later that year, she competed in the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Vincent Simone, reaching the final and finishing in fourth place.Early life
<mask> <mask> was born and raised in her hometown Bracknell, Berkshire, England, to parents Jill, a former legal worker and children's casting agent, and <mask>, a mechanic and chauffeur. Her parents are now divorced. She has a younger sister named Betsy, who works as a hairdresser. From the age of five, Harmer attended Stagecoach drama lessons. Harmer won a scholarship to attend Redroofs Theatre School at the age of seven, and left with three GCSEs. Harmer’s educational achievements beyond GCSEs are unknown. Career
Harmer made her stage debut at the age of six in the musical The Who's Tommy in the West End.She has appeared in a number of pantomimes: Dolly Mixture in Snow White (2004), the title character in Peter Pan (2005, Alban Arena, 2006 in Worthing and 2010 in High Wycombe), Dick Whittington (2007, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre) and the title role in Cinderella alongside Joe Tracini (2011, York Barbican). She appeared as an extra in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; she was sitting in the Great Hall when the new students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry took turns to visit the Sorting Hat. Her big break arrived when she landed the title role in CBBC's dramedy series The Story of Tracy Beaker, in which she starred for five series, and in the accompanying feature-length film Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me. Her other TV credits include the ITV drama series Trial & Retribution, My Family, Pie in the Sky, The 10th Kingdom, Beast, Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor, "Beep Beep" in the British television series The Beeps, and the pilot for Coming of Age. She was one of the presenters known as "packers" in the 2006 series of the Saturday morning show Mighty Truck of Stuff. In November 2008, The Guardian reported that After You've Gone was to be cancelled by the BBC, due to ITV moving Coronation Street to the same slot on ITV1. The BBC had announced a fourth series of the show in January of that year to be aired in 2009; however, the series ended with a Christmas special in 2008.In 2008, Harmer signed a record deal with record label Universal/Decca worth £3 million, under the management of <mask>, some time before beginning work on her debut album. The album was recorded and written in 2008 with the help of producer and songwriter Tom Nichols, and entitled Superheroes. The album's lead and only single "Free" was released on 25 May 2009, after becoming the theme song of the TV show <mask>'s House, in which Harmer plays the lead role. The song reached number 117 on the Official Chart. "Free" was featured on the compilation album Pop Princesses 2009. The scheduled release date of Superheroes was October 2009, which was later pushed back to early 2010. Rumours circulated that the album had been cancelled by Harmer's record company due to poor sales of the lead single, she responded that "they are just waiting for the right time to release it".No further comment was made until mid-2012, when Harmer stated via Twitter that she had given up music because she wanted to focus on her acting career. The album never surfaced, but the artwork and 30-second previews of each track were released in early 2010, along with the track list. <mask> returned to the role of Tracy Beaker in early 2010 in the 13-episode BBC series Tracy Beaker Returns, in which her character had developed into a care worker and had written an autobiography about what life is like for children in care. Three series aired of Tracy Beaker Returns. It concluded on 23 March 2012, due to <mask> deciding to quit her role as Tracy. A spin-off was created called The Dumping Ground but did not feature her, though she did return for two episodes at the end of series 6. She then starred in another TV show called Dani's Castle, a spin-off from Dani's House.This aired at the start of 2013. Harmer was due to star as Jane in Disco Inferno, which was planned to tour across the UK in autumn 2012. However, it was announced on 5 September 2012, after an investor pulled out, that the musical had been cancelled. Harmer confirmed via her Twitter account on the same day that she would be a contestant on the upcoming tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. She portrayed Janet in the 2013 UK tour of the stage production The Rocky Horror Show. In 2018, Harmer joined 26 other celebrities and performed an original Christmas song called Rock With Rudolph, written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn. The song was recorded in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and was released digitally on independent record label Saga Entertainment on 30 November 2018 under the artist name The Celebs.The music video debuted exclusively with The Sun on 29 November 2018, and had its first TV showing on Good Morning Britain on 30 November 2018. The song peaked at number two on the iTunes pop chart. In 2020, it was announced that <mask> would be reprising the role of Tracy Beaker in the 2021 CBBC series, My Mum Tracy Beaker. It follows Tracy as a single mother and is based around her relationship with her 12 year-old daughter Jess (Emma Davies). The Dani Harmer Academy
The Dani Harmer Academy is a performing arts academy founded and run by Harmer in Berkshire. The academy offers educational classes such as drama, dance and singing, for children and young people. Harmer is also an acting coach at the academy.Personal life
On 28 June 2016, Harmer gave birth to her daughter, Avarie-Belle Betsy Rachel Brough. In August 2021, Harmer and her partner Simon Brough announced that she is pregnant with their second child. On 7 February 2022, Harmer gave birth to her son, Rowan León James Brough. Harmer made a political remark in 2019 after filming a video where she adapted her Tracy Beaker line into "Bog off Tories!" She expressed her support for the Labour Party through a tweet stating: "Off to vote Labour." Filmography

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Strictly Come Dancing

Harmer competed in the tenth series of the BBC ballroom dancing show Strictly Come Dancing, in 2012. She was paired up with Vincent Simone and the couple succeeded in reaching the grand final and finished in fourth place.Awards and nominations
Winner of the 2010 Children's BAFTA for Best Drama, <mask> was nominated for her performance as Tracy Beaker in its various incarnations, with the programme attracting a nomination in the Children's Drama Category at the 2011 RTS Awards. <mask> was nominated for a BAFTA Cymru for Best Actress for her performance in Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me. <mask>'s House, her own hit CBBC show received a 2009 Children's BAFTA nomination. In 2009, Harmer received a Gold Blue Peter Badge for her role in Tracy Beaker. References

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